I Love Classics - Vivaldi II

Excelent interpretations of some very famous Vivaldi's concertos. Camerata Bern, Wiener Akademie and the English Chamber Orchestra demonstrate how attractive and emotive is Vivaldi's music, attractive by itself and very colorful.

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La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo - Jommelli

Jommelli is without a doubt one of the finest composers between the transition Baroque-Classical. His stile is more classical,for example, he does not use frequently contrapuntal passages. But, his writing in sacred music is very operatic, more or less like verdi in his requiem.

There is a black story about Jommelli and Terradellas, it seems that Jommelli was jealous of him because he was more successful, so, Jommelli killed him. Of course it is just speculation because those rumors appeared about 20 years after Jommelli's death,more or less the case Mozart-Salieri.

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 4-5-6

Brandenburg concertos are regarded to be among the finest compositions in the baroque era. Other compositions considered in the same level are basicaly: The Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Haendel's Water Music  and Music for the royal fireworks. So, every baroque music lover ought to listen these jewels.

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Trauer Actus - Telemann

Telemann is the composer that in his life composed more than any other before or after, not only his instrumental repertory is vast, but also his vocal one. In the genre "cantata" he composed around 1500. Here are five of them, very dark and full of melancholy, but with the view of hope and faith.

One point that must be said about Cantus Colln is that they (the ensemble) have their own stile and what we listen is not what Telemann may have intended exactly, but Telemann along Cantus Colln and its leader Konrad Junghanel. But at any rate it's a pleasure listen to them, even though this is not their best album.

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 1 & 2

This Concertos leaded by Karel Brazda in 2001 are from my point of view, the best versions ever made. The sound is very clean and the playing is also clean and soft, that reveals the great dept in Bach's knowledge of the performers.

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La Calisto - Cavalli - René Jacobs

Cavalli's operas set the way in which the genre "opera" would be understood in the next generations during the baroque era. 

If you are very attached to the XIX century opera, that is, attached to composers like Donizzeti, Verdi, Bellini, Wagner,etc., you'll find these early operas quite strange and weird. Just have patience and be open mind and you'll find its sense and all its colours.

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México Barroco/Puebla VI

Well, of the cd's I intend to post, this is an exception since it is not baroque, but belongs to a set called Mexico Barroco/Puebla. The Mass here is in classical style, sometimes resembling Hydn or Mozart even though it was written in the European romanticism period. Better listen to it and judge by yourself.

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Chansons De Tavernes Et De Chapelles-Deller Consort

Songs of taverns and chapels is a cd released in 1979. Once again is shown the genious that is Henry Purcell.

From my point of view the recent baroque releases sounds better, due to to two factors mainly: One is because of this boom pointing to the baroque period (specially in music) that has been developing slowly since Harnoncourt in the 60's  until 90's when it started developing in a way much more complicated and faster. The second reason is the new tecnology for recording and storing the data. Even though, this recording has become a classic.

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L'Orchestre de Louis XIII

Ballet french music from a compilation done by Philidor in 1690 shows that the court dance was very popular in the Louis' XIII reign. Most of the music now from that period is lost, to our fortune, the few that remained to posteriority is here performed with the mastery that just Jordi Savall and few know how.

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El Gran Barroco del Perú

Latinamerica "classical" music is quite unknown all around the world, and even more unknown is the baroque era, musically speaking. The musicians held in the churches as chapel masters and others post first came from Europe (Spain and Italy mainly), so, the trend in the new compositions was Italianized  music, but with its special touch due to in part because of the musical culture by the natives and also because the new world was quite isolated.

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