Manuel Tomadin – Martini: Complete Organ Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 11:39:31 minutes | 11,59 GB | Genre: Classical
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A first-ever complete recording for the organ output by a pivotal figure in 18th-century music across Europe.
‘Upon so short an acquaintance I never liked any man more,’ wrote the English traveller Charles Burney, ‘and I felt as little reserve with him after a few hours conversation, as with an old friend or beloved brother.’ The young Mozart was also privileged to enjoy his friendship: ‘I never cease to grieve that I am far away from that one person in the world whom I love, revere and esteem most of all.’
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Manuel Tomadin – Martini: Complete Organ Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 11:39:31 minutes | 11,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
A first-ever complete recording for the organ output by a pivotal figure in 18th-century music across Europe.
‘Upon so short an acquaintance I never liked any man more,’ wrote the English traveller Charles Burney, ‘and I felt as little reserve with him after a few hours conversation, as with an old friend or beloved brother.’ The young Mozart was also privileged to enjoy his friendship: ‘I never cease to grieve that I am far away from that one person in the world whom I love, revere and esteem most of all.’
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Manuel Tomadin – J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:51 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Highpoints of virtuosity in Bach’s output and the Baroque organ repertoire, in new recordings by an organist with a rich catalogue of success on Brilliant Classics to his credit.
As well as a host of obscure composers, Manuel Tomadin has recorded many central figures in the organ repertoire, from Buxtehude to Rheinberger. His Bach discography includes the Leipziger Choräle, BWV 651-667 (94556) and an original ‘Harmonic Seasons’ album (95786) pairing preludes and fugues with chorales that tell a story of rebirth and quiescence through the four seasons.
Read moreManuel Tomadin & Manuel Staropoli – Telemann: Die Kleine Kammermusik (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Telemann published the Kleine Kammermusik in 1716 in Frankfurt: his second published collection, intended for performance equally with violin or flute. His preface indicates that these pieces share a light and cantabile style particularly tailored to amateur performers on their respective instruments, with relatively narrow intervals in the solo part. Nonetheless, their unfailingly stylish melodies invite performance by professionals such as this trio of Italian musicians, experienced in period-instrument performance and with a catalogue of distinguished albums on Brilliant Classics to their credit.
Read moreManuel Tomadin – Van Noordt: Complete Organ Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:20:11 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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The legacy of a notable successor to Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in new recordings on a historically significant organ.
Read moreManuel Tomadin – Erbach: Complete Organ Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 10:41:25 minutes | 10,96 GB | Genre: Classical
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First recordings galore on the most comprehensive collection ever issued of an overlooked master of the early German Baroque.
Read moreManuel Tomadin, Il Polifonico, Fabiana Noro – Rheinberger: Choral & Organ Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:24 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Classical
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In his own lifetime (1839–1901), Joseph Rheinberger was more sought after as a professor of organ and composition than he was recognized as a great composer. His roll call of students at the conservatoire in Munich was long and impressive, including Humperdinck, Wolf-Ferrari and Furtwängler. However, Rheinberger produced a significant catalogue of sacred music in particular, concentrated on choir and organ. Sometimes unfavourably compared to Brahms, he is more usefully regarded as a south-German Fauré – for the gentle contours of his melodies and the softly rounded quality of his choral writing. The principal work on this new album is the Mass for four-part men’s chorus which he composed in 1898, and which has become a staple of the male chorus repertoire around the world. By no means as staid or sober as its scoring might suggest, the Mass is a work of resonant beauty and sweetness, a concise and elegant demonstration of Rheinberger’s melodic gifts and his embodiment of Catholic values in the secular musical culture of late 19th-century Germany.
Read moreManuel Tomadin – From Venice to Leipzig (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:18:43 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Regardless of whether they actually traveled south of the Alps, as Handel did early in his career, all of the major German composers of the 18th century were influenced by the Italian vocal and instrumental styles of the period. Manuel Tomadin’s latest album for Brilliant Classics explores the connections between these seemingly disparate traditions, beginning with the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWWV564, one of the most impressive examples of JS Bach’s work during his years as Kapellmeister at the ducal court in Weimar (1710-1717).
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