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RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle, Angela Gassenhuber, Philip Mayers – Brahms Complete Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65, Hungarian Dances (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:04 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Classical
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In these love songs in waltz style for chorus or solo voices accompanied by piano four hands, Brahms freely indulged his taste for Viennese folk music. The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin instils a wonderful inner life in these musical landscapes, sometimes cheerful, sometimes melancholy, punctuated here by a selection from the Hungarian Dances – also eminently popular in their inspiration.
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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle – Handel: Coronation Anthems (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:17 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1727, having just become a naturalised British subject, Handel was commissioned to write a set of anthems for the coronation of George II. Since he could hardly have expected ever to see a more majestic occasion, the composer took full advantage of it to put on a musical firework display of unprecedented splendour. The RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin give thrilling accounts of these flamboyant works – some of which are still used today at each new coronation!
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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle – Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:04 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was in Rome, where he resided between 1707 and 1710, that the young Handel composed these three dazzling sacred works. The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and the RIAS Kammerchor give us an extremely lively and colourful reading of these pieces in which the composer showcased his talent: allegiance to the forms of the past, total mastery of counterpoint and, already, a unique feeling for storytelling. Everything here announces musical genius.
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RIAS Kammerchor & Justin Doyle – Britten: Choral Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:00 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Classical
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Having dazzled the critics (Choc de Classica, the German Record Critics’Award) some 16 years earlier with its label debut featuringbest-loved twentieth-century English a capella works, the members of RIASKammerchor revisitone of their favourite composers, Benjamin Britten –this time,under the direction of the choir’s new chief conductor, Justin Doyle. A perfect occasion to discover his new reading of the composer’s enchanting setting of poems written in honour of the patron saint of musicians by W. H.Auden (he would later rename them ‘Anthem for St. Cecilia’s Day [for Benjamin Britten]’), alongside other choral settings comprising this glorious album entirely devoted to Britain’s greatest twentieth-century composer.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor and Justin Doyle – Haydn: Missa Cellensis, Hob. XXII:5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:41 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Classical
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It was when the young Haydn was appointed Kapellmeister to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy that he composed his Missa Cellensis, a work of vast proportions, whose popularity is demonstrated by the many surviving copies.
In this interpretation full of vivid contrasts, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik confirm their extraordinary ability to reveal every subtlety of a composition that possesses almost operatic energy.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle – Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:14:25 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel’s Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Roderick Williams (bass). Messiah (1742) is not only Handel’s most famous work, but equally one of the cornerstones of British choral culture. Over the years, a tradition of mass performances full of pomp and circumstance took root, with the Hallelujah as a showstopper. This new period-instruments recording, however, aims to bring the piece back to the size and intimacy of the earliest performances.
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including Handel’s Concerti grossi Op. 6 and Op. 3, (released in 2019 and 2020), Telemann’s opera Miriways (2019) and CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018). The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle, Julia Doyle, Tim Mead, Thomas Hobbs and Roderick Williams all make their PENTATONE debut.
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