Julie Roset, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Salve Regina (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Julie Roset, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón - Handel: Salve Regina (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Julie Roset, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Salve Regina (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:13:54 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Julie Roset, a young French soprano from Avignon, immediately attracted attention with her first recital for Ricercar (Nun danket alle Gott with Clematis) and went on to record a recital of works by Sigismondo d’India with Mariana Flores that met with great critical acclaim. In this new recording she tackles several of Handel’s masterpieces on religious themes: his Salve Regina , Gloria and the motet Silete venti were all composed at the time when the young Handel had been inspired to new heights by his discovery of Roman musical life.
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Millenium Orchestra, Jodie Devos, Sebastian Wienand & Leonardo Garcia Alarcon – Mozart: The Vienna Concert (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Millenium Orchestra, Jodie Devos, Sebastian Wienand & Leonardo Garcia Alarcon – Mozart: The Vienna Concert (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:45:27 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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On 23 March 1783, an important concert took place in Vienna, playing a considerable role for Mozart’s reputation in the imperial capital, where he had resided since 1781. It is obvious that Mozart wanted to be heard in both what he had composed prior to 1781, as well as in his more recent works. From the Salzburg repertoire, he borrowed the ‘Haffner’ Symphony. To this he added the long concertant movement for wind instruments from the ‘Posthorn’ Serenade. Here we also find two piano concertos (one from Salzburg, and the latest, doubtless composed for the occasion), several arias from earlier operas (Lucio Silla, Idomeneo) or again, recently written. Although he played his concertos, he also improvised keyboard variations and even a fugue (because the emperor was in attendance)… An historic concert to be rediscovered, as if you were there!

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Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra & Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Solomon (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra & Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Solomon (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:10 minutes | 2,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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Handel’s oratorio Solomon is now regarded by its performers and its listeners as one of his greatest compositions. This was not, however, always the case. Solomon was not performed outside of London during Handel’s lifetime, an unusual occurrence during his British career. The work had therefore enjoyed only a limited success, although we may well wonder why, when oratorios sung in English had been so successful until then. Could it have been the obvious lack of theatricality in the libretto, or the public’s growing indifference to the genre? Or was he afraid to alienate the Anglican church, given the rumours of lines with erotic connotations in the first and third acts? Here, Leonardo García Alarcón and his singers and instrumentalists offer us a flamboyant version of the work that would certainly have won over the most hesitant of London listeners in 1749!

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Evgeny Sviridov and Millenium Orchestra – Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Evgeny Sviridov and Millenium Orchestra – Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:11 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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After devoting an album to sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini, for this anniversary year of the illustrious Paduan virtuoso, Evgeny Sviridov offers us a recording of violin concertos. This is his first collaboration with Millenium Orchestra, the ensemble founded by Leonardo Garcia Alarcon in the framework of CAVEMA in Namur. Most of the concertos selected come from manuscript copies made in eighteenth century Germany, where Tartinis reputation was very high. Evgeny Sviridov has found in these scores cadenzas and ornaments which are very probably in the hand of Johann Georg Pisendel, the great virtuoso violinist of the Dresden court, a friend (and interpreter) of Johann Sebastian Bach! Following a practice that was becoming increasingly common in Germany at that time, one of the concertos has two horn parts in addition to the strings. Of the 130 or so surviving violin concertos, Evgeny Sviridov has selected five.

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Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Semele (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón – Handel: Semele (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:50:21 minutes | 2,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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Semele is a masterpiece. For what else can one call a drama in which the perfect symbiosis of text and music conjures up such suggestive power? “To hold the mind, the ears and the eyes equally spellbound”: this recommendation by La Bruyère (Les Caractères: Les ouvrages de l’esprit) refers to the “machine plays” so adored by the public in the Baroque period. But even without machinery or indeed without sets or real staging, Handel’s oratorio involves us in the tragic fate of his heroine with supreme skill.
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