Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Champagne! The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:11 minutes | 2,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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With the establishment of Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens in 1843, the Danish composer and conductor Hans Christian Lumbye (1810–1874) swiftly rose to fame as the city’s internationally acclaimed king of waltzes and galops, leading his orchestra from the violin. For this recording, Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Concerto Copenhagen – Scandinavia’s leading period instruments ensemble – studied Lumbye’s original scores and used instruments from the era to recreate an authentic sound. This collection showcases Lumbye’s enchanting music, along with popular pieces by his idols, Lanner and Strauss I.
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Concerto Copenhagen & Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Bach: St John Passion (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:51:19 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach’s St John Passion is like an eternal cry into the void, carrying the essence of western, protestant answers to the fundamental questions in Life, in music. Our wrongdoings on Earth contrasted with higher moral principles. Nowhere else does it crystallise into music more profoundly and more beautifully than in this immortal manifestation of Bach’s genius.
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Ronald Brautigam, Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Haydn: Piano Concertos (2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:54 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Classical
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Here is a jewel of a record. Fresh from his triumphant reading of Haydn’s entire output for the fortepiano Ronald Brautigam now brings us four concertos for piano and orchestra by the great composer. The piano concerto of this period naturally means Mozart. No one would dispute his pre-eminence in the genre. But when we actually listen to Haydn, as opposed to nodding at his technical ability, breadth of application and so on, we are always surprised; his music is not just brilliantly skilful but deeply impassioned and full of delightful surprises. Lars Ulrik Mortensen is also a musician to bring out these elements. Widely recognized as a harpsichord player of unusual insight and personality he directs the period ensemble Concerto Copenhagen from the continuo bench. Surely no one can fail to respond to this heart-warming disc?
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Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen – Per la notte di Natale: Italian Christmas Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:15 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Classical
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Five works make up this programme of Italian Baroque Christmas concertos from Concerto Copenhagen and Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and on paper it’s a temptingly multi-coloured bunch: opening with Corelli’s famous Op. 6 No. 8 masterpiece of 1690, concluding with Pietro Locatelli’s dramatic minor-keyed and undoubtedly Corelli-influenced Op. 1 No. 8, and in between a clutch of works whose composers equally owed stylistic debts to Corelli in varying degrees: Giuseppe Torelli, with his 1708 Concerto grosso in G minor; Torelli’s pupil Francesco Manfredini, with his 1718 Concerto grosso in C major; plus Vivaldi’s Concerto in E major RV 270, with its unusual directions that strings be played with mutes, and that there be no harpsichord continuo, perhaps to conjure up a peaceful stable scene.
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Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Muffat: Armonico Tributo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:25 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Georg Muffat (1653-1704) may have grown up in the French border region of Alsace at a time of conflict and war in Europe, but his music represented a harmonious meeting of multiple nations, feeding his native French forms and sensibility with Italian and German inspiration. Which in turn is very much what’s on offer from the five sonatas of his Armonico Tributo, published in Salzburg in 1682.
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Andreas Brantelid, Concerto Copenhagen & Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Times of Transition: Cello Concertos by C.P.E. Bach & Haydn (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:44 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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The three cello concertos on this recording illustrate that fertile period in the second half of the 18th century when features of the Baroque were gradually replaced by the so-called galant style. Foremost amongst the composers inaugurating this change was Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach whose Concerto in A major is a perfect example of the passionate and dramatic range that marked him out as a pivotal figure of his time. Haydn’s Concerto in C major modulates between older and newer styles, whereas his Concerto in D major is a Classical masterpiece, and a worthy companion to his greatest symphonies.
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