Francesco Feo - Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem

Francesco Feo - Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem
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Passacaille | Recorded: 2009 | Released: 2009
La Divina Armonia - Lorenzo Ghielmi

Note: Unfortunately I couldn't scan the booklet for 2 reasons: it is bound with the digipak cover in a book-like manner; even if it wasn't bound 84pages are way too many to be scanned. I hope you forgive me for this and if you like the music just buy the cd! For what it offers it's very cheap. Many colour illustrations depicting the various passages of the Passio, text translation in 4 languages + the original latin one, good paper, elegant packaging and what matters more a superb performance.
Edit 6/9/10:
The texts can be found here
http://unbound.biola.edu
compare the latin vulgata clementina of John chapters 18 and 19 with any bible translation you want.

As for the pictures accompanying the booklet you can find them all here
http://www.comunicare.it/sacromonte/frame-default.htm
after clicking one of the numbers a new frame will open, then click "interno" and it will show the works. 

Hyacinthe Jadin - String Trios Op.2

Hyacinthe Jadin - String Trios Op.2
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NCA | Recorded: 1999 | Released: 2000
Ensemble Les Adieux (on period instruments)

Hyacinthe Jadin (April 27, 1776, Versailles – September 27, 1800, Paris) was a French composer who came from a distinguished musical family. His uncle Georges Jadin was a composer in Versailles and Paris, along with his father Jean Jadin, who had also played bassoon for the French Royal Orchestra. He was one of five musically gifted brothers, the most famous of which was Louis-Emmanuel Jadin.
Jadin was a pupil of Nicolas Joseph Hüllmandel, who belonged to the famous École des Pianistes Parisiens (School of Pianists in Paris). Hüllmandel himself was a student of C.P.E. Bach, and was an excellent teacher who brought out Jadin's pianistic brilliance. At the age of 9, Jadin’s first composition, a Rondo for piano, was published in the Journal de Clavecin. By the age of thirteen, Jadin had premiered his first work with the Concert Spirituel.

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Missa Votiva ZWV18

Jan Dismas Zelenka - Missa Votiva ZWV18
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Carus | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2010
Kammerchor Stuttgart - Barockorchester Stuttgart (on period instruments) - Frieder Bernius

Extraordinarily well-written, prodigiously inventive, and relentlessly exciting--these aren't terms normally used to describe 18th-century Masses, but then there is nothing "normal" about this late work by Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. Simply put, if you aren't acquainted with Zelenka (or if you've experienced a previous aversion to Masses), when you hear this piece--a substantial and powerful conception, from the first note of the Kyrie to the final chord of the Dona nobis pacem--you will wonder why this composer does not enjoy much greater esteem and popularity with performers, particularly alongside J.S. Bach (his contemporary) and Mozart.

Georg Joseph Vogler (+F.J.Haydn) - Großes Requiem Es-Dur (+Te Deum HobXIIIc:2)

Georg Joseph Vogler (+F.J.Haydn) - Großes Requiem Es-Dur (+Te Deum HobXIIIc:2)
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Oehms Classics | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2009
Neue Hofkapelle München (on period instruments) - orpheus chor münchen - Gerd Guglhör

Georg Joseph Vogler, called Abbé Vogler, was born in Würzburg in 1749. He became famous as an expert in music theory, conductor and composer. In 1772, he accepted a position at the court of Prince Elector Karl Theodor in Mannheim and later followed his employer to Munich. From 1786 onwards, he worked at the court of the kings of Sweden as a conductor.
The orpheus chor münchen closely collaborates with the Bavarian Radio Broadcasting Company. The ensemble focuses on choir music from the modern era and on works from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Giovanni Battista Sammartini - The Late Symphonies Vol.1

Giovanni Battista Sammartini - The Late Symphonies Vol.1
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Brilliant Classics | Recorded: 2005 | Released: 2008
Accademia d’Arcadia (on period instruments) - Alessandra Rossi Lürig 

These are the first recordings of late symphonies by G.B. Sammartini, ‘the father of the classical style’.
Although Sammartini laid the foundations of the symphony his works are virtually unknown. In Italy the Arcadia Foundation seeks to correct this. The Sammartini project set out to publish and catalogue the composer’s works. Another aim is to perform and record previously unpublished works, including the late symphonies. There are 68 symphonies attributed to Sammartini with certainty. Another 74 might be by him as well.
Stylish performances by the Accademia d’Arcadia on period instruments under Alessandra Rossi Lürig. These first recordings offer a most enjoyable and interesting insight into this unjustly neglected composer.

Lotti, Zelenka, Bach - Messa, Miserere, Cantata

Lotti, Zelenka, Bach - Messa, Miserere, Cantata
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  DHM | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2009
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor - Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble - Thomas Hengelbrock 

Jan Dismas ZELENKA (1679 - 1745)
Miserere in c minor (ZWV 57) [14:39]
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 - 1750)
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, cantata (BWV 12) [24:25]
Antonio LOTTI (1667 - 1740)
Missa a tre cori [36:55]

Reviews

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/May10/Lotti_Zelenka_Bach_88697526842.htm

http://www.musica-dei-donum.org/cd_reviews/dhm_88697526842.html

Michael Haydn - Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl

Michael Haydn - Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl
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CPO | Recorded: 1997 & 1998 | Released: 1998
Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss - Johannes Goritzki

 

Michael Haydn, like his brother, was a chorister at St Stephen's in Vienna. Shortly after leaving the choir-school, he was appointed Kapellmeister at Großwardein and later, in 1762, at Salzburg. The latter office he held for forty-three years, during which time he wrote over 360 compositions for the church and much instrumental music. He was an intimate friend of Mozart, who had a high opinion of his work, and the teacher of Carl Maria von Weber.
Michael Haydn's sacred choral works are generally regarded as being his most important, including the Missa Hispanica (which he exchanged for his diploma at Stockholm), a Mass in D minor, a Lauda Sion, and a set of graduals, forty-two of which are reprinted in Anton Diabelli's Ecciesiaslicon. He was also a prolific composer of secular music, including forty symphonies, a number of concerti and chamber music including a string quintet in C major which was once thought to have been by his brother Joseph.

Johann Christian Bach - Sei Sinfonia Pour Deux Clarinettes, Deux Cors de Chasse et Basson

Johann Christian Bach - Sei Sinfonia Pour Deux Clarinettes, Deux Cors
de Chasse et Basson
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Glossa | Recorded: 2009 | Released: 2010
Nachtmusique (on period instruments) - Eric Hoeprich

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena, moved to London in 1762, where three operas were staged rapidly in succession with immediate success. With his reputation established, he settled for good in the British capital where he spent the remainder of his life; thus the epithet, “the English Bach”.
The works for wind sextet recorded here, his Sei Sinfonia, were published in London, posthumously, in 1782. The Sei Sinfonia adopt the structure of a Classical symphony with four movements in the usual order: opening allegros are in sonata form, followed by lovely, inventive adagios and either a minuet or a “march”, and ending with terse, quick movements, often in two. Stylistically we see Johann Christian Bach as a major proponent of the “galant” style, considered a move away from the contrapuntal restrictions of his father’s music and as a precursor to the Classical idiom of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. But every rule embodies an exception, and although this music is quite poised and indeed “galant”, it also seethes with expression of deeper emotion more readily associated with other artistic trends of the era, such as Empfindsamkeit and Sturm und Drang.

The instruments used in this recording would have been of exactly the type known to Johann Christian Bach. 

Dedicated to all the harmoniemusik lovers.

Georg Philipp Telemann - Cornett Cantatas

Georg Philipp Telemann - Cornett Cantatas
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CPO | Recorded: 1997 | Released: 1998
Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein - Ludger Remy

Francesco Pasquale Ricci - Six Sinfonias Opus II

Francesco Pasquale Ricci - Six Sinfonias Opus II
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Etcetera | Recorded: 2002 | Released: 2007
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra - Jan Willem De Vriend

Francesco Pasquale Ricci (1732-1817) was a regular guest at the court in The Hague. There he wrote several works for the Prince and other members of the court.
The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra was only founded as recently as 2005 but is already establishing a high reputation for its fine performances.
World Premiere Recordings.

Paul Wranitzky - Symphonies Op.31 & Op.52

Paul Wranitzky - Symphonies Op.31 & Op.52
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CPO | Recorded: 2004 | Released: 2006
NDR Radiophilharmonie - Howard Griffiths

A contemporary of Mozart, around 1800, the Moravian Paul Wranitzky was one of the most influential and popular composers in Vienna. An uncommonly productive composer, his works were known throughout Europe and his singspiel Oberon, King of the Elves is credited with being the first important ‘ghost opera’.
Wranitzky’s ‘Peace’ Symphony, ‘La Grande Sinfonie caractéristique pour la paix avec la Republique Française’ Op. 31 features a lavish spread of tone colours, battle painting and recurring march citations, creating an atmosphere of high suspense. The Symphony Op. 52, in contrast, has more of a bright and carefree character and a much more tightly woven motivic fabric.
Howard Griffiths here conducts the NDR Radiophilharmonie: “Howard Griffiths’s conducting is arguably more cogent than that of either Groves or Marriner” Gramophone

Wilfried Kratzschmar - Orchestral Works

Wilfried Kratzschmar - Orchestral Works
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Wergo | Recorded: 1980s | Released: 1996

Lyrical sensitivity, ironic exposé, ardent commitment and bitter sarcasm: these are motivation axioms which the Dresden composer Wilfried Krätzschmar discovered for his artistic work. Raised in a no-man's-land between nonconformist parents and doctrinaire teachers, he confronted the prevailing political and artistic pressures of the time with a creative urge of unflinching openness, uniting a fascinating and purposefully cultivated timbral imagination with a sharpness of metaphor that all-too often provoked extremely divergent reactions from his listeners. Krätzschmar's second symphony "Explosionen und Cantus" brought him at a stroke into the glare of widespread publicity. It was applauded by listeners and critics alike for its surprisingly accessible and yet emotionally rending synthesis of the familiar and the new. 

http://www.wergo.de/shop/en_UK/3/show,93595.html

NOTE: this is not related in any way to classical nor ancient music. I got this disc for free from a friend (who was about to trash it lol), ripped and shared on emule 3 years ago. But since it was still laying on my emule shared folder I decided to upload it. If you don't like contemporary music just ignore it and wait till the next classical upload :)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer
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CPO | Recorded: 2004 | Released: 2006
Rheinische Kantorei - Das Kleine Konzert - Hermann Max

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a native of Bratislava, numbers among Mozart’s few documented pupils and was the only one of them to go on to enjoy a professional international career as a composer and a performing musician or pianist. Already on a first hearing of his playing, Mozart is said to have exclaimed: “You have to leave the boy with me; I won’t let him go; he can become something!”
Hummel was employed at the Esterházy court and later became music director in Weimar. During his lifetime his many piano compositions and chamber works attracted special attention. The oratorio Der Durchzug durchs rote Meer (The Passage Through the Red Sea) at first went unnoticed and continued to be labelled as “no longer extant” even last year in the new article in MGG, though the autograph has been in the holdings of the British Library in London for more than a hundred years.
Der Durchzug durchs rote Meer shows the influence of Haydn’s Creation or the oratorios of Handel and C. P. E. Bach but is shorter and an entirely independent piece of work in its melodic invention and formal elaboration. As so often before, Hermann Max and his ensembles have done the musical world a huge favour in preserving this tremendous work for posterity and almost certainly rescuing it from musical oblivion.

Franz Joseph Haydn - Keyboard Concertos

Franz Joseph Haydn - Keyboard Concertos
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Capriccio | Recorded: 2008 | Released: 2009
Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik (on period instruments) - Christine Schornsheim (keyboards)

Schornsheim’s talents are hardly challenged by this music; her playing exhibits sparkling virtuosity and an exceptional sense of line. The outer movements exude typical Haydnesque vigor and the slow movements are appropriately lyrical, with nicely shaped melodic lines as well as fluent but never tedious ornamentation. Energetic, vibrant, and colorful, these comfortably paced performances are supported with sympathetic and precise, but never antiseptic playing from Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, their biting brass and potent timpani adding much ceremonial pomp to Hob XVIII:1 and 8. 

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=226991

Luigi Cherubini - Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn

Luigi Cherubini - Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn
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Phoenix Edition | Recorded: 1981 | Released: 2009
Cappella Coloniensis - Gabriele Ferro

A macabre picture: The press has announced the death of one of the most famous contemporary composers; another renowned composer writes a dirge – in honor of the deceased master – and then it was nothing but a newspaper hoax: The master is alive! That is exactly how it happened in 1804. The person that had been declared for dead was Joseph Haydn (who actually lived five more years after that), and the Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn was composed by Luigi Cherubini, who had felt particularly committed to Haydn since having been welcomed by him in Vienna.
A French Masonic Lodge commissioned Florence-born Paris resident Cherubini (1760-1842) to write a memorial cantata in honor of Haydn. Cherubini composed a score for lines written by author Louis Guillemain de Saint-Victor, who had written some essays on free masonry. These verses depict the touching singing of a dying swan “by the banks of the Danube River“. This recording has been completed with Cherubini‘s Symphony in D major. 

Baldassare Galuppi - La caduta di Adamo

Baldassare Galuppi - La caduta di Adamo
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Apex | Recorded: 1976 & 1985 | Re-Released: 2008
I Solisti Veneti - Claudio Scimone

 

Galuppi was a very accomplished composer and harpsichord player by the age of twenty with a reputation in both Venice and Florence. He was a pupil of Marcello and played for Vivaldi. He composed many serious and comic operas as well as much sacred and keyboard music. During his 79 years he travelled to St Petersburg and was well-known to the Tsar‘s family. He collaborated with the famous Italian playwright Goldoni in many projects. Goldoni‘s epigram on Galuppi: ‘What music! What style! What masterworks!’

Domenico Cimarosa - Dixit Dominus

Domenico Cimarosa - Dixit Dominus
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CPO | Recorded: 2003 | Released: 2008
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano & Trento - Fabio Pirona

What we get is a work steeped in Cimarosa’s operatic experience, but conventionally ‘sacred’ in form. Thus we get to hear all the musical forces at beginning and end of the work, and in between soloists alternate with chorus. The music is, unsurprisingly, very well put together; there are plenty of enticing melodies and the whole has considerable charm. But compared to the great settings of the same Psalm it lacks both profundity and real grandeur of conception. Still, take it on its own terms and there is much to enjoy.

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 full review
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/July08/Cimarosa_Dixit_9999882.htm

ok folks along with reviving my old rips is time to start ripping & releasing my newly bought cds. I will (try to) release 1 new cd a week, at this pace I should be able to keep going till christmas and further. Let's start with something sacred and festive: a massive setting (almost 1 hour!) of the well known Psalm Dixit Dominus by Cimarosa. Don't expect to find real spiritual feelings, rather a very operistic approach (see for example the tenor aria: dominus a dextris tuis). Some choruses, instead, remember Haydn.

Franz Joseph Haydn - Works for natural horn

Franz Joseph Haydn - Works for natural horn
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Sony Classical | Recorded: 1995 | Released: 1996
L'Archibudelli - Ab Koster

 

- Cassatio in D major for 4 Horns & String Trio, Hob. deest.
- Divertimento in E-flat major for 2 Horns & String Quartet, Hob. II:21
- Concerto for Horn in D major, Hob. VIId:3
- Divertimento a tre in E-flat major, Hob. IV:5
- Divertimento in D major for 2 Horns & String Quartet, Hob.II:22

The md5/sfv file in the archive is an old one which will give you an incorrect result. Don't worry about that I just happened to correct typos (grammar mistakes) in the embedded cue.
The file is 100% integer of course and if you are interested these are the correct values

; Generated by QuickSFV v2.36 on 2010-08-03 at 10:03:08
; http://www.QuickSFV.org
;
; 323986259 14:36.42 2009-06-02 Franz Joseph Haydn - Haydn - The Natural Horn.wv
e7e60291a9afc71266a2d5b2d3e8d2ee *Franz Joseph Haydn - Haydn - The Natural Horn.wv

you can edit the existing md5 file with any text reader and replace the old values with the new ones.
Or just trust me and listen to the music :>

Joseph Eybler - Requiem in C minor (1803)

Joseph Eybler - Requiem in C minor (1803)
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CPO | Recorded: 1992 | Released: 1993
Alsfelder Vokalensemble - Steintor Barock Bremen - Wolfgang Helbich

On the request of the Empress Maria Theresa in 1803, he composed a Requiem in c minor. Although the compositional style of Eybler's requiem is clearly oriented toward Albrechtsberger, Haydn, and, of course, Mozart, its rich orchestration (double choir and lavish wind instrumentation) and highly original formal design attest to an individual expressive style clearly distinguishing it from the run-of-the-mill sacred works littering those times. The regard in which this work was held no doubt helped Eybler receive his appointment as deputy Hofkapellmeister under Salieri in 1804. 

Pietro Nardini - Sonatas for strings

Pietro Nardini - Sonatas for strings
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Brilliant Classics | Recorded: 2006 | Released: 2006
Ensemble "Ardi Cor Mio" (on period instruments)

Pietro Nardini (1722-1793) was one of those typical violinists /composers in the vein of Giuseppe Tartini whose pupil he had been. Most works in his oeuvre call for the violin, both in orchestral and chamber pieces.
Although he himself had a great aptitude for the violin his solo concertos as was his performance style are not ostentatiously showing off technical skills. Apparently his own playing was incredibly moving, but he felt best at home in smaller scale works such as the sonatas.
In these sonatas he followed the order of movements favoured by Tartini: slow – fast- fast. These 2 CD’s (note by me: this is an error on brilliant site, there is only 1 cd not 2) contain some examples of this now unusual order.
The excellent Ensemble Ardi Cor Mio has dedicated itself to rediscovering and performing music by 17th- and 18th-century Italian composers. This is a record long overdue to confront the world again with this music which has been virtually absent from the musical stage for several centuries. At the time the pre-Classicist Nardini quickly became old-fashioned.