Johann Sebastian Bach – The Cantatas

Baroque Experience (Christopher Hogwood)

G.F.Handel – Arminio

Claudio Monteverdi – Arie E Lamenti Per Voce Sola

G.F.Handel – Arianna in Creta

Guide des Instruments Baroques

G.F.Handel – Joshua

Moving plan

I’m planning to move this blog somewhere else ’cause it’s not easy to update anymore. Hopefully I’ll be able to post the new link here in a few days. Stay tuned.

Update:

Let’s try this one:

Branle de Champaigne v3.0

 

Guide des Instruments de la Renaissance

G.F.Handel – Alexander Balus

Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel – Brockes Passion

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Kieler Nachrichten v. 2.4.98: “An almost breathtaking interpretation. A musical event.” Kulturspiegel 4 / 98: “A discovery, which is a small sensation.”
Scala 3 / 98: “Superior interpretation. Enchanting singing soloists.”
FonoForum 6 / 98: “A most extraordinary work in an extraordinary musical quality. Chorus and orchestra are flawless. Emotional upwelling interpretation. Breathtaking.”
Early Music Review 6 / 98: “Full of well-crafted, melodic arias and duets.”

Constanze Backes, soprano
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Henning Voss, counter-tenor
Andreas Post, tenor
Knut Schoch, tenor
Florian Mehltretter, bass
Klaus Mertens, bass

Kammerchor Michaelstein
Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein
dir. Ludger Remy

A warning!

Usually I prefer to buy the actual CD, even if second hand, but sometimes I buy digital music.
Amazon isn’t allowed to sell that in my country so I try to find other ways.

Passionato used to be OK, but not too much choice.

Some days ago I bought two CDs in MP3 format for around €20 from 7Digital. The download operation was fine and smooth and the MP3 sounded OK, but… no booklet, no cover, not a txt with notes… nothing.
In this section of their site they wrote:

All new and recently-added MP3 downloads will contain artwork but downloads from the older part of our catalogue may not. However, we are working to deliver artwork with all MP3 downloads.

The music I downloaded was released this year, I supposed this qualify it as new.

So I wrote to them asking an explanation. They answered, but they “tweaked” their infos telling that if artwork is provided it will be made clear in the product page.

No hope, still I felt it was not right and ask them to remove the misleading piece of info from their site. They answered something generic but as today their site is always presenting the same false info.

So, be warned: I’m sure there are safest and cleaner places to buy your digital music from.

Tracce della Tradizione Orale in Manoscritti Italiani del XIV, XV sec.

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Andrea Stefani – I senti’ matutino
Corsican Traditional – Culomba amata
Anonymous – Dolce lo mio drudo
Anonymous – Tribbiera
Anonymous – Donna fallante
Italian Traditional – Alla metitora
Anonymous – Con dogliosi martiri
Anonymous – Strençi li labri
Italian Traditional – Stabat mater
Anonymous – Ogn’om m’entenda (Venezia, Bibl. Naz. Marciana, IX, 145)
Anonymous – Alzando gli ochi (Venezia, Bibl. Naz. Marciana, I)
Anonymous – Misericordia altissimo dio, laude (Venezia I)
Corsican Traditional – Stabat mater
Anonymous – Non so qual’i mi voglia (Palatino 87)
Anonymous – Su la rivera
Piero – Chavalcando Con Un Giovine Accorto
Anonymous – E vatende segnor mio

Patrizia Bovi (voice, tambourine)
Gilberte Casabianca (voice)

Haydn – Symphonies

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contents:

VOL.1 (cds 1 to 3)
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 4
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 10
Symphony No. 11
Symphony No. 18
Symphony No. 27
Symphony No. 32
Symphony No. 37
Symphony No. 107

VOL.2 (cds 4 to 6)
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 14
Symphony No. 15
Symphony No. 17
Symphony No. 19
Symphony No. 20
Symphony No. 25
Symphony No. 33
Symphony No. 36
Symphony No. 108 (Partita)

VOL.3 (cds 7 to 9)
Symphony No. 6 in D major ‘Le matin’
Symphony No. 7 in C major ‘Le midi’
Symphony No. 8 in G major ‘Le soir’
Symphony No. 9 in C major
Symphony No. 12 in E major
Symphony No. 13 in D major
Symphony No. 16 in B flat major
Symphony No. 40 in F major
Symphony No. 72 in D major

VOL.4 (cds 10 to 12)
Symphony No.21 in A
Symphony No.22 in E flat “The Philosopher”
Symphony No.23 in G
Symphony No.24 in D
Symphony No.28 in A
Symphony No.29 in E
Symphony No.30 in C “Alleluja”
Symphony No.31 in D “Horn Signal”
Symphony No.34 in D minor

VOL.5 (cds 13 to 15)
Symphony No.35 in B flat
Symphony No.38 in C
Symphony No.39 in G minor
Symphony No.41 in C
Symphony No.58 in F
Symphony No.59 in A “Fire”
Symphony No.65 in A

VOL.6 (cds 16 to 18)
Symphony No.26 in D minor ‘Lamentatione’
Symphony No.42 in D major
Symphony No.43 in E flat major ‘Mercury’
Symphony No.44 in E minor ‘Trauer’
Symphony No.48 in C major ‘Maria Theresia’
Symphony No.49 in F minor ‘La passione’

VOL.7 (cds 19 to 21)
Symphony No.45 in F sharp minor ‘Farewell’
Symphony No.46 in B major
Symphony No.47 in G major ‘The Palindrome’
Symphony No.51 in B flat major
Symphony No.52 in C minor
Symphony No.64 in A major ‘Tempora Mutantur’

VOL.8 (cds 22 to 24)
Symphony No.50 in C
Symphony No.54 in G
Symphony No.55 in E flat ‘Der Schulmeister’
Symphony No.56 in C
Symphony No.57 in D
Symphony No.60 in C ‘Il Distratto’

VOL.9 (cds 25 to 27)
Symphony No.53 in D major
Symphony No.54 in G major (2nd Version)
Symphony No.61 in D major
Symphony No.66 in B flat major
Symphony No.69 in C major
Symphony No.67 in F major
Symphony No.68 in B flat major

VOL.10 (cds 28 to 30)
Symphony No. 62 in D major
Symphony No. 63 in C major ‘La Roxelane’
Symphony No. 70 in D major
Symphony No. 71 in B flat major
Symphony No. 73 in D major ‘La chasse’
Symphony No. 75 in D major
Symphony No. 74 in E flat major

The Academy of Ancient Music
dir. Christopher Hogwood

Eduardo Paniagua CD Collection [101 albums]

101 CD – MP3 192 Kbps – 101 RAR – 10.20 Gb

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Eduardo Paniagua (born 1952 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish architect and musician, specializing in medieval Spanish music.
Between 1966 and 1983, he was a member of the group Atrium Musicae de Madrid, led by his older brother Gregorio, playing wind instruments and percussion. More recently he has been a founding member of the groups Cálamus and Hoquetus which specialize in the music of Arabic Andalusia.
In 1994, he created the group Música Antigua to perform and record the Cantigas de Santa Maria. In the same year he also founded the group Ibn Báya Ensemble together with the oud player Omar Metioui, for the performance and recording of Andalusian music. Other regular collaborators include Moroccan singers Said Belcadi, Mohammed El-Arabi Serghini, and the Algerian oud player Salim Fergani.

Atrium Musicae de Madrid

Perhaps the group’s most famous recording is Musique de la Grèce Antique (Music of Ancient Greece), in which they performed ancient Greek music carefully taken down off scattered fragments of still existing papyrus. Performing the ancient compositions also meant the reconstruction of an arsenal of ancient instruments. This certainly was a fascinating aspect of the group’s life performances during a series of acclaimed international tours. The success of this 1978 recording is not the only feather in the group’s collective cap. The 1976 Musique Arabo-Andalouse delves into Hispanic-Moslem music, and is credited with creating a whole new interest in this fascinating genre of southern Spain. From the late 1970s into the early 1980s the group began a series of recordings dealing with 15th and 16th century popular Spanish songs, then sailed to the New World for the fascinating Las Indias de Espana, a recording of Pre-Columbian music collected from archives. The decision to dissolve the group was no doubt based on some of the younger brothers’ interest in beginning solo careers.

CDs list:

Colección Cantigas de Alfonso X

-PN-010 Cantigas de Toledo
-PN-020 Cantigas de Castilla y León
-PN-210 Cantigas de Castilla-La Mancha
-PN-220 Cantigas de Santa María del Puerto-1
-PN-240 Remedios Curativos-Cantigas
-PN-280 Virgen de Atocha-Cantigas De Madrid
-PN-340 Bestiario-Cantigas de Animales
-PN-400 Cantigas de Flauta y Tamboril
-PN-420 Cantigas de Extremadura
-PN-490 Caballeros-Cantigas
-PN-510 Cantigas de Italia
-PN-520 Cantigas de Francia
-PN-570 Cantigas de Jerez
-PN-590 Cantigas de Sevilla (doble)
-PN-610 La Vida de María (doble)
-PN-680 El Camino de Santiago-Cantigas (??????)
-PN-700 Rosa de Las Rosas-Cantigas
-PN-740 Cantigas para Viola de Rueda
-PN-820 Cantigas Celtas (Merlin)
-PN-860 Cantigas de Valencia
-PN-880 Cantigas de Bizancio (doble)
-PN-980 Cantigas de Catalunya
-PN-990 Cantigas de Inglaterra
-PN-1080 Cantigas de Burgos
-PN-1090 Cantigas de Alemania
-PN-1150 Cantigas de Flandes
-PN-1170 Cantigas del Mar Cantábrico
-PN-1230 Cantigas de Mujeres

Colección Al-Ándalus

-PN-050 Medieval Women’s songs
-PN-090 Luz de la Mediterranía
-PN-100 Tres Culturas
-PN-120 Jardín de Al-Ándalus
-PN-170 Alarifes Mudéjares
-PN-230 Poemas de la Alhambra
-PN-250 Nuba Al-Istihlal >>>——> Vedi EP-NAI.rar
-PN-290 La Felicidad Cumplida, Alcázar de Sevilla
-PN-320 Agua de La Alhambra
-PN-360 Ibn Arabi, El Intérprete de Los deseos
-PN-370 La Llamada de Al-Andalus
-PN-430 La Fuente del Amor Secreto
-PN-500 Wallada-Ibn Zaydún
-PN-530 Ritual Sufí Ándalusí
-PN-550 Aire de Al-Ándalus (compilation)
-PN-630 Nuba Al-Maya
-PN-640 Cantos de la Noche-Nuba Rasd D-Dail
-PN 650 Cantos Sufíes de Al-Ándalus
-PN-690 Latidos de Al-Ándalus
-PN-750 – Almuédano
-PN-800 Puentes sobre el Mediterráneo (compilation)
-PN-970 Cantos Místicos Devocionales
-PN-1050 Agua de Al-Ándalus (compilation)
-PN-1100 El Agua y los Arabes (compilation)
-PN-1110 Tesoros de Al-Ándalus
-PN-1120 Pasión Sufí
-PN-1140 Zambra de Moriscos
-PN-1200 Cantos de Mujeres en las Tres Culturas (compilation)

Colecciones Histórica y Tradición

-PN-060 Ecos del Espíritu
-PN-350 La Música de Pneuma (compilation)
-PN-450 El Cantar de la Conquista de Almería
-PN-470 El Crisol del Tiempo
-PN-660 La Conquista de Granada
-PN-710 Juana I de Castilla
-PN-900 España del Cid (compilation)
-PN-950 La Batalla de Alarcos
-PN-1010 Trovadores En Castilla. Alfonso VIII
-PN-1070 La Flauta de Hueso de Alarcos (******)
-PN-1160 La Rosa de La Alhambra. Washington Irving
-PN-1270 El Canto Visigótico-Mozárabe
-PN-1320 L’Amore mi fa Sollazar. Leonardo Da Vinci

Colección Histórica Judeo-Sefardí

-PN-270 Canciones de Sefarad
-PN-540 Morada del Corazón
-PN-580 Maimónides
-PN-780 Sefarad en Diáspora
-PN-810 Klezmer Sefardí

Other

-PN-260 – La Belleza Contemplada
-PN-560 – Cantoras de Tetuán – Cantos tradicionales del Norte de Marruecos
-PN-770 – Rumí · Ibn Arabí (Paniagua).rar
-PN-1040 – Cautivo de Amor
-EP-MAA – Musica Arabigo Andaluza s. XIII-XIV – Cantigas de Martin Codax s. XIII (Paniagua)
-EP-DME – Danzas Medievales Españolas.rar
-EP-OMMME – Obras Maestras de la Musica Medieval Espanola (E.Paniagua).rar
-EP-NAI . Nuba Al-Istihlal (Omar Metioui & Eduardo Paniagua)
-EP-SAA – The Splendour of Al-Andalus (Calamus).rar
-S2K-60580 – Obras Maestras de las Cantigas (Compilation)

Atrium Musicae de Madrid

-GP-AN – Ars Nova S. XIV
-GP-CAE – Canto Antiguo Espanol
-GP-CG – Codex Gluteo
-GP-CH – El Códice de las Huelgas
-GP-FA – Fandango
-GP-FO – La Folia
-GP-S – La Spagna
-GP-CHAX – Las Cantigas de Hita de Alfonso X, El Sabio (1230-1284)
-GP-IE – Las Indias de Espana
-GP-MI – Musica Iucunda (Paniagua)
-GP-MAA – Musique Arabo-Andalouse
-GP-MGA – Musique de la Grece Antique
-GP-TT – Tarentule-Tarentelle
-GP-TN – Thibaut de Navarre
-GP-V – Villancicos

Colecion de Musica Antigua Espanola:

-CdMAE-MC – La Música en Cataluña hasta el siglo XIV
-CdMAE-CSM – Las Cantigas de Santa Maria
-CdMAE-MCM – Monodia Cortesana Medieval – Música Arábigo-Andaluza

This compilation of records comes from different sources, some of the CDs are my own, some are made available from Avax (mainly Solaz, Yerbas…), some from Sonusantiqva, one from Abdel, some I don’t remember.
Most of the infos comes from www.medieval.org

Links above lead you to a folder containing RARred files. They are identified by a catalog number, sometime it is official, sometime it is not.
(i.e. PN-010 Cantigas de Toledo is PN-010.rar, GP-MGA – Musique de la Grece Antique is GP-MGA.rar)
I posted an index on Avax (Here it would have taken too much space)
By reading THIS index you should be able to find out what you want.
If for any reason you can’t or you won’t access to Avax you can find the same index in a TXT file HERE

Enjoy it.

A.Vivaldi – Gods, Emperors & Angels

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contents:

Concerto ‘Conca’ for strings & BC in B, RV 163
Concerto IX from ‘La Cetra’ for violins, strings & BC in Bb, RV 530
Concerto for bassoon, strings & BC in a minor, RV 500
Concerto for sopranino recorder, strings & BC in a, RV 445
Concerto VI from ‘La Cetra’ for 2 violins, strings & BC in Bb, RV 526
Sonata for recorder, bassoon & continuo in a minor, RV 86
Concerto fragment for bassoon, strings & BC in d, RV 482
Concerto fragment for sopranino recorder, strings & BC in G, RV 312
Concerto X ‘L’Amoroso’ for violin, strings & BC in E, RV 271

Adrian Chandler, violin
Pamela Thorby, recorder
Peter Whelan, bassoon
Sara Deborah Struntz, violin

La Serenissima
dir. Adrian Chandler

Sonatas & Trio Sonatas for Oboe & BC

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Vivaldi – Sonata C minor RV 53
Vivaldi – Trio Sonata in G minor RV 81
Handel – Sonata in C minor Op.1 n°8 HWV 366
Handel – Minuet in G minor (HWV 540b) for harpsichord
Handel – Sonata in B flat major n°2 (Fitzwilliam) HWV 357
Handel – Suite in D minor for harpsichord HWV 437
Handel – Sonata in F major Op.1 n°4a HWV 363a
Handel – Air in F major from ‘Water Music’ (HWV 464) for harpsichord
Handel – Trio Sonata in B flat major HWV 380

Marcel Ponseele, oboe
Ann Vanlancker, oboe (trio Sonatas)
Ewald Demeyere, hapsichord
Richte Van Der Meer, violoncello

W.A.Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro

3 CD – MP3 192 Kbps – RAR 251Mb

An enlightening period performance galvanised by a palpably sure sense of dramatic wherewithal. Indeed the casting can hardly be faulted: a dark, even menacing Figaro (Bryn Terfel), a vixenish, knowing Susanna (Alison Hagley), a suave yet incisive Count (Rodney Gilfry), a radiant but far from droopy Countess (Hillevi Martinpelto) and an ardent, hyper-sexed Cherubino (Pamela Helen Stephen). Excellent cameo support too. Perhaps this is the near-perfect Figaro we’ve all been waiting for…

Performance: 5 (out of 5), Sound: 5 (out of 5)

Antony Bye, BBC Music Magazine

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Le nozze di Figaro, K 492

Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Figaro
Alison Hagley (Soprano), Susanna
Rodney Gilfry (Baritone), Il conte di Almaviva
Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano), La contessa di Almaviva
Pamela Helen Stephen (Mezzo Soprano), Cherubino
Susan McCulloch (Soprano), Marcellina
Carlos Feller (Bass), Bartolo
Francis Egerton (Tenor), Basilio/Don Curzio
Julian Clarkson (Bass), Antonio
Constanze Backes (Soprano), Barbarina

English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
dir. John Eliot Gardiner

Dinastia Borgia

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contents:

Disc: 1

1. Billadi Askara Min adbi Llama, traditional mowachah
2. Le Ductia
3. Saltarello, for ensemble (after G. Dufay)
4. Da pacem Domine, antiphon for 3 voices, K. 34
5. Deserts d’amichs, de béns e de senyor (Recitation)
6. Ce jour de l’an, rondeau for 3 voices
7. Correno multi cani, strambotto-caccia, CM 140
8. Zappay lo campo, strambotto, CM20
9. Ave maris stella, hymn for 3 voices (2 versions)
10. Makam Muhayyer ‘Küme’ usules Düyek – A cemler, war march for ensemble
11. Exultet caelum laudibus, vespers hymn (66)
12. Adoramus te Domine, for 4 voices, CM 4
13. Viva el Gran Re Don Fernando
14. Miserere nostri / Vexilla Regis, for 4 voices, CM 106
15. Le gran dolor (Recitation)
16. El cervel mi fa
17. Patres nostri peccaverunt, for 4 voices
18. De tous biens plaine, chanson
19. Ottoman Tasim & Dance, for kaval & percussion
20. Viva el gran Re Don Fernando con la Reina Don Isabella
21. Lamento per la morte di Lorenzo Il Magnifico (Recitation)
22. La rosa enflorece, song

Disc: 2

1. Salva regis Mater / Hic sacerdos, for vocal ensemble
2. Adonay malakh geout labech (Psalm 93) (Portugal)
3. Elogio de Lucrecia (Recitation)
4. Nymphes des bois/Requiem aeternam/Deploration de la Mort de Jehan Ockeghem, lament for 5 parts
5. Fortuna Desperata
6. Absalon, Fili Mi, motet for 4 parts (poss. spurious)
7. Un Cavalier Di Spagna, for consort
8. Torture and Execution of Savonarola, for drums & bells
9. Birth of Rodrigo, the son of Lucrezia and Alfonso (‘Une musique de Buscaye’), for ensemble (after Josquin Desprez)
10. Donna, questa è la mia voglia
11. Si abrá en estre baldrés, villancico
12. Amor la tua virtute, madrigal (doubtful)
13. Absolve quesumus/Requiem aeternam, motet for 6 parts
14. Pavana alla ferrarese, for lute
15. Éloge de la duchesse de Ferrara (Recitation)
16. Aquí yaze u poco tierra, epitaph for voice, soprano viol & bass viol
17. Castalios latices ploranda (Recitation)
18. Missa ‘Hercules Dux Ferrariae’, for 4 parts: Agnus Dei
19. The Trumpets of the Apocalypse, fanfare for ensemble
20. Sibil-la Valenciana (Valencia) (reconstructed by J. Savall after Alfonso de Mondéjar & Bartolomé Cárceres)

Disc: 3

1. Fantasia 1
2. La Battaglia, for lute
3. Proch Dolor / Pie Jhesu, for 7 voices (attributed)
4. Todos los buenos soldados (Fragmento de la Ensalada ‘La Guerra’)
5. Fantasia No. 2 for lute
6. Tau garcó la durundena
7. Meis olhos van por lo mare, song
8. Égloga IIII: Aquella voluntad honesta y pura (Recitation)
9. Jubilate Deo Omnis Terra, for 6 voices
10. O Voy
11. Credo
12. Kyrie No. 1 for lute
13. Alma, buscarte has en Mi, contrafacta of ‘Dama, mi grande querer’ (CMP)
14. Lachrimosa dies illa, motet
15. Mille regretz, song for 4 parts
16. The Turks Attack Malta, traditional Turkish improvisation & dance for ensemble
17. Fanfare
18. Psalm 35: Deba contre mes debateurs, for vocal ensemble
19. Requiem: Pie Jesu Domine
20. El Rey y por S.M. Don Luis Carrillo, page 34 (Valencia 1611) (Recitation)
21. Lament for the Expulsion of the Moors, improvisation for ensemble
22. Tiento XVII de ‘Pange lingua’ 5th tone punto alto

Hesperion XXI
dir. Jordi Savall

Hispania & Japan – Dialogues

19 tracks – MP3 192 Kbps – RAR 120Mb

In 2006 Road to the Orient was released by Alia Vox. This double album was a musical portrait of Francisco Javier and of his trip from Spain to Japan. On this occasion, Jordi Savall met Japanese musicians who soon became his friends and with whom he performed in many concerts around the world. Consequently, following the catastrophes in Japan, Jordi Savall decided to release this special tribute album in which the most significant pieces of the dialogue between Spain and Japan are gathered.

All profits will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross. (Think about it!)

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contents:

1. Improvisación sobre “O Gloriosa Domina”
2. O Gloriosa Domina (greg.)
3. Improvisación sobre “O Gloriosa Domina”
4. Quod Eva Tristis II
5. Improvisación sobre “O Gloriosa Domina”
6. Tu Regis Alti Ianua III
7. Improvisación sobre “O Gloriosa Domina”
8. Patri Sit Paraclito IV
9. DE NARVAEZ O Gloriosa Domina Diferencia II
10. O Gloriosa Domina – Amen La Capella Reial
11. DE HENESTROSA.Himno XX O Gloriosa Domina
12. Rangyoku
13. ANÓNIMO. Villancico: Senhora del Mundo
14. Anónimo. Alba&Rotundellus
15. Honnôj Yukio Tanaka, chant & biwa
16. O Gloriosa Domina Diferencia I
17. Shino no netori
18. ANÓNIMO (China). AveMaría (pentatónica)
19. Reibo

Hiroyuki Koinuma
Yukio Tanaka
Ichiro Seki
Masako Hirao
Ken Zuckerman
Prahbu Edouart

Hesperion XXI – La Capella Reial De Catalunya
Montserrat Figueras & Jordi Savall