Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg – Duni: Le peintre amoureux de son modèle – Les deux chasseurs et la laitière (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg – Duni: Le peintre amoureux de son modèle – Les deux chasseurs et la laitière (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:46 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Do you know Duni? Martin Wåhlberg and Orkester Nord take you on a journey of discovery of the father of opéra-comique through two of his emblematic works: Les deux chasseurs et la laitière, and Le peintre amoureux de son modèle, recorded here for the first time.

Combining musical innovation and comic genius, these two ‘comédies mêlées d’ariettes’ were at the origin of the metamorphosis of the light genre, which led directly to Mozart and the singspiel.

Duni displayed a wealth of theatricality and an art of ‘quiproquo’ (misunderstanding), as in Alberti’s aria Chère Laurette (Le peintre amoureux de son modèle) or the superb final quartet Ainsi le sort from Les Deux chasseurs et la laitière.

Martin Wåhlberg and Orkester Nord, who had already highlighted Mozart’s debt to Grétry, continue their fascinating lyrical epic through the treasures of French opera, fully embracing its revolutionary spirit and dramatic force.

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Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg – Mozart & Grétry, 1773 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Orkester Nord, Martin Wåhlberg – Mozart & Grétry, 1773 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:38 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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1773 was a key year for orchestral music. Mozart composed his “little G minor Symphony”, no.25, and began work on the music for the play Thamos, König in Ägypten. In Paris, Grétry perfected the opéra-comique, a genre combining the light and the serious, and completely renewed the musical drama. Is it a mere coincidence that their compositions of that year show the same intensity and dramatic efficacy?
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Orkester Nord, Martin Wahlberg, Vox Nidrosiensis – Orpheus Uncut (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Orkester Nord, Martin Wahlberg, Vox Nidrosiensis – Orpheus Uncut (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:41 minutes | 540 MB | Genre: Classical
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Orpheus uncut is an imaginary web-opera conceived by the highly innovative conductor Martin Wahlberg and his Orkester Nord. Born out of the pandemic crisis, this six-part webseries focuses on the well-known Orpheus myth, that it undertakes to present in its full, uncut version. To do so, it draws on beautiful works by Haendel, Monteverdi, Telemann, Belli and Landi, as well as an intriguing and yet highly beautiful visual aesthetic. Its short form offers a completely new kind of musical experience, coupling its powerful and captivating images with a most attractive cast and a superb musical selection, and thus announces one of the most promising futures for the opera scene.

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Orkester Nord & Martin Wåhlberg – Grétry: Raoul Barbe-Bleue (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orkester Nord & Martin Wåhlberg – Grétry: Raoul Barbe-Bleue (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:25 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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We owe this very first recording of that score to the collaboration of the Norwegian Music Festival Barokkfest and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. Premiered just a few months before the French Revolution, and fallen into oblivion since, Raoul Barbe-bleue is an unclassifiable “opéra comique”, whose musical and dramatic implications are such remarkable that it even inspired Offenbach.

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Orkester Nord – Pfleger: The Life and Passion of the Christ (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orkester Nord – Pfleger: The Life and Passion of the Christ (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:27 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pfleger is unquestionably one of the most fascinating baroque masters of Northern Europe of the seventeenth-century. Embodiying the transition between Schütz and the heritage of Monteverdi on one side, and the music of Buxtehude and later Bach on the other, Pfleger’s music testifies to the musical culture of Northern Europe. Orkester Nord here proposes for the first time a full-length programme set up as one coherent dramatic work, connecting Pfleger’s key cantatas in order to form a continuous narrative, as told through the voices of its recurring protagonists. What emerges is the story of the life of Christ. A fascinating soundscape.

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