"Kristian Bezuidenhout plays Mozart on the fortepiano like no-one else. ... He performs...with all the sensitivity, expressivity, flair and stylistic integrity that has marked him out as a supreme master of the early keyboard. ...the tone is vibrant, the music thoroughly engaging, and the genius of Mozart is brilliantly and eloquently served." (The Scotsman, UK, review of Volume 3)
Official websites: www.kristianbezuidenhout.com and www.harmoniamundi.com
A film by Emanuel Altenburger for Harmonia Mundi USA
Gulrim Choï, Cello
Ensemble Diderot
This album marks the solo debut of Ensemble Diderot cellist Gulrim Choï. Faithful to the values of the ensemble, she looks at a facet of a repertoire that has been neglected over time. It is pre-classical music from northern Germany that she decides to highlight, through four chamber cello concertos – some of which have never been recorded before. This program aims to reveal the various attractions of a nascent aesthetic, sometimes retracing its steps, sometimes radically asserting itself. This program aims to reintegrate these works into the repertoire of the curious cellist, and to unveil other resonances of the pre-classical German landscape.
Johannes Pramsohler and his colleagues rummaged through Bach’s luggage and that of his contemporaries and found concertos that were probably conceived especially to be taken on journeys. Grouped around the first version of the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, these remarkable and brilliant pieces for up to five soloists are played with Ensemble Diderot’s trademark warmth and vitality.
Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729)
Concerto for violin, flute, oboe, theorbo, strings and basso continuo, S. 226
Texts inspired by the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter, set to music by some of the greatest Renaissance composers from England and the Continent. Included are two settings of the poem "Woefully arrayed": the first by William Cornysh (1465-1523), the second composed for Stile Antico in 2009 by John McCabe (b. 1939); this is its first recording. "What a sound: perfectly blended, carefully balanced, its sonorities reaching back effortlessly to conjure up a vanished age of devotion" (THE OBSERVER, UK)
Official Website: www.stileantico.co.uk
A Film by Emanuel Altenburger for Harmonia Mundi USA
David Bates leads La Nuova Musica in a pair of contrasting settings of Psalm 109. Handel's masterful and ambitious HWV 282 was penned in 1707 during a youthful visit to Italy. Vivaldi's vivid and economical RV 807 (his third "Dixit Dominus") was long mistakenly attributed to Baldassare Galuppi; it probably dates from the early 1730s. Rounding out the programme is Vivaldi's dazzling motet for solo voice, "In furore iustissimae irae," featuring soprano Lucy Crowe.
Official websites: www.lanuovamusica.co.uk and www.harmoniamundi.com
A Film by Emanuel Altenburger for Harmonia Mundi USA
The Summer of 2022 saw Ensemble Diderot returning to one of Spain's foremost festivals, the QUINCENA MUSICAL in San Sebastian, FESTIVAL DU PÉRIGORD NOIR in France and MONTEVERDI TUSCANY in Italy. The Ensemble also made its debuts at INNSBRUCKER FESTWOCHEN FÜR ALTE MUSIK as well as BAYREUTH BAROQUE and presented their groundbreaking version of Bach's "Musical Offering" at GUSTAV MAHLER HALL in Toblach in the South Tirolean alps.
Dass Kammermusik keineswegs eine verstaubte Angelegenheit für ein gesetztes Expertenpublikum ist, sondern durchaus frisch und lebendig erlebt werden kann, beweisen die OBERTÖNE Kammermusiktage im Stift Stams in Tirol.
Als Portrait des erstklassigen Musikevents in den Tiroler Alpen zeigt Regisseur Emanuel Altenburger in der 50-minütigen Doku „Chamber Music Wonderland“ zentrale musikalische Highlights der Konzerte und besondere Backstage-Momente.
world premiere recording for Harmonia Mundi USA
Libretto based on original by Rinnuccini
La Nuova Musica David Bates – Direction
A film by Emanuel Altenburger
Recorded in The Temple Church, London August 2010
Jean-Pierre Guignon (1702–1774)
"Les Sauvages"
Pièces à deux violons, Op. 8
Pièces de differens auteurs à deux violons amplifiés et augmentés, c1746
Ensemble Diderot
Johannes Pramsohler, violin 1
Roldán Bernabé, violin 2
Mariya Nesterovska - violin,
Bruno Delepelaire - cello,
Nenad Lečić - piano.
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15, JB 1:64
Opera in one prologue and three acts by Pietro Antonio Cesti
Festwochen der Alten Musik, Innsbruck, August 2014
La Nuova Musica
Musical director David Bates
Stage director Stefano Vizioli
A Film by Emanuel Altenburger
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Sonata in E Major, BWV 1016 - III. Adagio ma non tanto
Johannes Pramsohler, baroque violin
Philippe Grisvard, harpsichord
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