Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent – Bach: Missa in h-moll, BWV 232 (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent – Bach: Missa in h-moll, BWV 232 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:40:55 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Classical
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“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. Philippe Herreweghe’s longlasting interest in the works of the Cantor of Leipzig has turned him into a man whose views evolve as he delves deeper into his subject matter. The joy that he feels – combined with a very legitimate sense of pride – in having forged musical tools that have today reached maturity, has led him to come back on a Missa that has never ceased to intrigue him: the catholic Missa of the protestant composer Bach.

Last spring, theJesus-Christus Kirche in Berlin came alive with the splendid sounds of Bach’s score as preceding recordings of the Missa no longer met the radiant vision that the Flemish maestro had of it. Together with a handful of excellent soloists – included in the choir – and a Collegium vocally and instrumentally at its best, Philippe Herreweghe delivers a work that must be savoured like a sweet or a last supper where rigor and hedonism, inner depth and outer seduction tenderly offer themselves to the listener.
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Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe – Brahms: Symphony 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe - Brahms: Symphony 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe – Brahms: Symphony 4, Alt-Rhapsodie, Schicksalslied (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Classical
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“The four symphonies of Brahms form the kernel of our musical heritage, along with such works as the Monteverdi Vespers, the Bach Cello Suites and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and the half-century (!) of Collegium Vocale Gent, we conceived the project of recording them in tandem with major choral works by this composer whose instrumental and vocal worlds are in essence inextricable. Johannes Brahms was at heart a singer. His entire oeuvre is underpinned by poetry and text, indeed even by rhetoric, following on in organic succession from ‘early’ music, notably the music of Schütz and Bach, of which he had a profound knowledge and whose tradition he was bent on continuing, to the horror of the modernists of his day. In the twentieth century, the world of the orchestra and that of the voice often followed different paths. But, contrary to this tendency, the trajectories of the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Collegium Vocale Gent have always been closely linked.
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Philippe Herreweghe & Ton Koopman – Early Music Log: J.S Bach (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Philippe Herreweghe & Ton Koopman – Early Music Log: J.S Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:14 minutes | 803 MB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and The Well-Tempered Clavier; organ works such as the Schubler Chorales and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.

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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997, and the Ghent conductor regularly conducts and records with the Flanders orchestra. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies (LPH032), they are continuing their exploration of Schumann’s symphonies: ” The symphony has given me many hours of joy. I often give thanks to the beneficent spirit that enabled me to complete such an important work so easily and in such a short time ” says the tormented composer. He wrote his first symphony, “Spring”, in just four days and orchestrated it in three weeks. The third, known as the “Rhenish”, was inspired by a day Schumann spent with his wife Clara in the Rhineland.

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Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben – Sacred Cantatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Christus, der ist mein Leben – Sacred Cantatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:36 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although Bach had dreamt of establishing a ‘well-regulated church music’ since his early days, it was only between 1723 and 1750 that he finally had the chance to do so, as Kantor and Director Musices in Leipzig. Here he invented the ‘modern’ cantata, combining chorales and traditional biblical texts with arias and recitatives on freely composed texts. The four cantatas recorded by Philippe Herreweghe offer a magisterial demonstration of the transition from cantatas initially judged ‘too theatrical’ to a perfectly achieved form – as in the cantata BWV 84, among the very last to be written.

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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Christmas Cantatas (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:39 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Classical
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If there is one work that sheds light on all facets of festive music-making during the Christmas season, it is Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. This music transcends the ages and radiates throughout the world – starting in Leipzig, where the six-part cantata cycle was first heard in the two main churches of St. Nikolai and St. Thomas on the festive days between 25 December 1734 and 6 January 1735.

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Trinity (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:18 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Classical
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After his move to Leipzig in 1723, the years 1724 and 1725 were especially creative ones for the new Kantor of St Thomas’s. Bach had decided to write a complete cycle of chorale cantatas, thus producing a body of work that went far beyond the expectations of his employers. The target he had set himself now offered an unparalleled laboratory for musical experimentation. These three cantatas for the Sundays after Trinity, which begin the liturgical year, date from this period.

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Advent Cantatas (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 663 MB | Genre: Classical
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Waiting for the Lord…Surely one of the greatest gifts the Lutheran Church ever made to music was to have charged Bach with the duty of producing a cantata for every week of the year! He left us no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone, composed between 1714 (at Weimar) and 1724-31 (at Leipzig). They are inspired in very different ways by Luther’s original chorale: it is as if all of baroque Germany is contained between the sobriety of BWV 61 and the ambitious frescoes of BWV 36 and 62…

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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Leipzig Cantatas (Remastered) (2001/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:25 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Christmas cantatas have in common the use of a church chorale as their conceptual starting point, and their intimate performing forces. In Bach’s output they constitute a kind of meditation on the meaning of the feast of Christmas.

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered) (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:08 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Sound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets!” In his Leipzig years, Bach liked to remind people that he was not only Kantor of St Thomas’s, but also the city’s director of music. It was in this capacity that he wrote these sumptuous secular cantatas, in honour respectively of the university professor Kortte (BWV 207, 1726) and of Queen Maria Josepha (BWV 214, 1733). Allegorical figures such as Industry, Fortune, Honour and Gratitude take it in turns to sing of the learning and the merits of the recipients, borrowing material from one of the Brandenburg Concertos or ‘quoting’ some of the finest music from the Christmas Oratorio, not yet composed…

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Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:18 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Classical
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Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4, Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79, and Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80. Written at different moments in the composer’s life and based to a large extent on the works of Martin Luther, these cantatas reflect a marked taste for dramaturgy, vivid word painting and an invariably astonishing use of instruments and voices. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent give us an accomplished version of these masterpieces, confirming, if further proof were needed, their stature as ardent champions of Bach.

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La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe & Peter Kooy – Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe & Peter Kooy – Bach: Cantatas for Bass (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:19 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 1991, Philippe Herreweghe and La Chapelle Royale recorded three Bach cantatas on the themes of suffering and death – death viewed as a kindly comforter. The soloist was the prodigious bass Peter Kooy, a long-standing partner of the ensemble and a key figure in it’s magnificent survey of Bach’s cantatas, motets and Passions.

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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:29 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Classical
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Superbly constructed, the cantata “Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis” is incontestably of the material endows it with an emotional cohesion and a dramatic intensity worthy of the passions and mass in B minor.

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La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Oster-Oratorium, BWV 249 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Classical
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This double album assembles two oratorios and three cantatas for the feasts of Easter and Ascension. Often overshadowed by the Christmas Oratorio, the two oratorios presented here rely on a form of dramaturgy absent from the cantatas; whether directly portraying the protagonists of the Passion of Christ (Easter Oratorio) or having the Evangelist narrate events, Bach draws on the music of earlier cantatas to produce two works whose beauty and coherence Philippe Herreweghe has brought out more convincingly than any other interpreter.

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La Chapelle Royale & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Trauerode, BWV 198 (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

La Chapelle Royale & Philippe Herreweghe – Bach: Trauerode, BWV 198 (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:35 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Classical
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Two odes to death and the soul’s salvation: Whatever the occasions for which they were written (a tribute to a dead queen, or a chorale cantata), the two works on this recording have one subject in common: death and the soul’s salvation. Performed in 1727 in memory of the sorely mourned Christiane Eberhardine, Queen of Poland and Electress of Saxony, the Funeral Ode BWV 198 is particularly moving in its sincerity and spiritual grandeur.

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