Frieder Bernius, Cappella Sagittariana Dresden, Kammerchor Stuttgart – Johann Adolf Hasse: L`Olimpiade (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:11:02 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Hasse’s Olimpiade premiered in Dresden as the last opera seria before the beginning of that fateful Seven Years’ War – with great success, as usual and as deserved. At the same time, it is the last opera festival in the last courtly carnival of the of the last glorious Polish-Saxon carnival. It can claim to be one of the most successful among the many acknowledged good works of its two creators.
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Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius – Mendelssohn: Te Deum à 8, MWV B 15 & Other Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:37 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout his life, Felix Mendelssohn harboured a strong love-hate relationship with the Berlin Sing-Akademie, where, as a singer and student of the director Carl Friedrich Zelter, he got to know important works of Italian vocal polyphony of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Kammerchor Stuttgart – Messiaen: Cinq rechants, O sacrum convivium & A-cappella-Werke von Debussy, Ravel und Mahler (Arr. Clytus Gottwald) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:15 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carus
With their latest recording, Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart reach a new pinnacle in the art of interpretation: The Cinq Rechants for 12 mixed voices by Olivier Messiaen, with their rhythmically striking onomatopoeias, pose an enormous challenge for the performers. Since the novel and extremely complex rhythms which are composed of small cellular units cannot be fitted into traditional schemes, the time signatures change constantly. Melodically, Messiaen draws not only from traditional Andean love songs, but also from the medieval Dawn Song, in which a night watchman warns the secret lovers of discovery. The production is complemented by 20th century French vocal music for soloist ensembles. Outstanding!
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