Thüringer Bach Collegium & Gernot Süßmuth – Schweitzer: The Resurrection of Christ (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:39:07 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Only few testimonies provide us any details about this now little known but once esteemed composer. Born in Coburg, 1735, Anton Schweitzer died 1787 in Gotha, where he had settled following the Weimar palace fire in 1774. Regrettably, only relatively few manuscripts have survived. Some of the works recorded here (which comprise almost the entire existing church music) have been preserved in several copies, which were recently found in different archives in Thuringia. This recording shows us a colorful virtuoso music of an unjustly forgotten composer.
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Thüringer Bach Collegium – Virtuosi (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was a momentous encounter: around 1714, the Weimar court organist Johann Sebastian Bach came across Antonio Vivaldi’s opus 3 L’Estro armonico, hot off the press, and soon nothing would be the same for him musically. Bach eagerly appropriated the Venetian Red Priest’s modern concerto style. And true to the meaning of the word “concertare”, which in Italian means “to unite”, but in Latin means “to argue” or “to fight”, Bach rapidly entered into a competition, first with his Italian models and then with himself. At the outset, he arranged Vivaldi’s violin concertos for his (main) instrument, the organ. But then he transferred Vivaldi’s principles into his own instrumental concerto style. The results were his immortal K”othen concertos for one to three solo instruments and orchestra, blending the concerto principle of structural tutti ritornellos and interspersed imaginative solo episodes with Bach’s unique polyphonic style – highly virtuosic works in which all participating instruments connect with one another at eye level, and also enter into fierce competition with each other. All this can be heard on the third audite album of the Th”uringer Bach Collegium: a good 70 minutes of competition for the best musical arguments, presented with irresistibly sparkling virtuosity.
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Thüringer Bach Collegium – Johann Bernhard Bach: Orchestral Suites (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:20 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johann Bernhard Bach’s Orchestral Suites are amongst the most varied musical works of the high baroque period in Middle Germany – and they formed part of the core repertoire for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Leipzig Collegium Musicum. Sparkling virtuosic brilliance, as if written by a fiery Italian, whilst displaying the elegant taste of a noble Frenchman – in short, “mixed taste” at its finest. Continuation of the successful co-operation with the Thüringer Bach Collegium (Vol. 1 receives outstanding reviews in the press) Bon Appétit!
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Thüringer Bach Collegium – Prinz Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar: Concerti (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:35 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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This release is the debut recording of the Thüringer Bach Collegium and marks the beginning of its co-operation with audite. A second album (works by Johann Bernhard Bach) will be released in autumn 2019 and further projects are being planned.
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Thüringer Bach Collegium – Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium / Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:18:58 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Rondeau Production present the new recording of the well-known Christmas oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonically, the new double CD has some special features to offer. All vocal parts – both the choirs and the solo parts – are performed by the Ensemble Polyharmonique. In the professional world, the eight singers are highly praised for their impressive and stylistically appropriate interpretations of early music. The Thuringian Bach Collegium plays in a soloist line-up under the direction of its concertmaster Gernot Süßmuth. Outstanding among the historical instruments of this new recording is the Wender organ of the Bachkirche Arnstadt, on which Johann Sebastian Bach had once played himself: with the festive sound of a large church organ, right up to the cymbal star in the large choirs, the Arnstadt church musician Jörg Reddin enriches the continuo group with a brilliant timbre that the small chest organs customary today cannot offer.
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