Gester, Martin

G.P. Telemann: Ourertures pittoresques / Arte dei Suonatori Ens.

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2013-02-07

Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori Ensemble

Throughout a long and extremely productive career, Georg Philipp Telemann harbored a great affection for the overture-suite, consisting of a French overture followed by a...continue...

Porpora: Vespro per la Festivita Dell'Assunta / Martin Gester

1 CD / Ambronay / 2012-05-08

Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: La Maitrise de Bretagne; Le Parlement de Musique

Porpora's 1744 Vespro per la Festivita dell'Assunta was first performed in Venice at the Ospedaletto, one of four orphanages for girls that specialized in music....continue...

Le Retour de La Paix: Cantates et Concerts Royaux / Dorothée Leclair

1 CD / K617 / 2012-01-10

Works: Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: La Guerre, extraits du 5e "Concert pour la flûte traversière et autres instruments"; Le Retour de la Paix, cantata; La Paix, divertissement, extraits du ...
Performers: Gester, Martin; Leclair, Dorothee
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

The overarching themes of this interesting collection of French Baroque concerts royaux and cantatas are war and peace. Composers Montéclair and Clérambault evoke the sounds...continue...
Recording information: Church of Walbourg, France (03/27/2011-06/30/2011)....continue...

A Spiritual Concert in Rome, ca. 1650 / Carissimi, Colista, Frescobaldi

1 CD / Naïve / 2011-09-27

Works: Giacomo Carissimi: Turbabantur impii (Lamentatio damnatorum), motet for alto, tenor, bass & continuo; Jephte; Felicitas beatorum; Lelio Colista: Sinfonia in D minor for 2 violins, viola & continuo; S...
Performers: Dordolo, Luca; Dyck, Stephan Van; Fourquier, Marion; Franzetti, Elisa; Halimi, Emmanuelle; Hernandez, Mercedes; Imboden, Stephan
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

Following the success of the first 40 recordings in the 'Baroque voice' series, a further ten volumes have been added under the same, easyily identifiable...continue...
Recording information: Church of Walbourg, France (10/2000)....continue...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum

1 CD / Naïve / 2010-07-27

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum; In honorem S. Ludovici, motet for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo, H. 365; In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, o...
Performers: Chevigne, Brigitte; Dyck, Stephan Van; Geslot, Francois-Nicolas; Haller, Salome; Marzorati, Arnaud
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

The Charpentier Te Deum was made famous by television and rugby, its prelude is well known as the signature tune for the European Broadcasting Union...continue...

Les Musiques de Louis XIV Vol 1 - Du Salon à l'église

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-09-29

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum; Work(s); Mors Saülis et Jonathae, histoire sacrée, for 8 voices, chorus, 2 violins & continuo, H. 403; Menuet et Autre menuet, for 2 flutes & bass viol, H...
Performers: Pianca, Luca; Smith, Hopkinson
Conductors: Gester, Martin; Coin, Christophe; Gaillard, Héloïse; Lesne, Gérard; Pérès, Marcel
Ensemble: Ensemble Amarillis; Ensemble Baroque de Limoges; Ensemble Organum; Il Seminario Musicale; Le Parlement de Musique

Esprit - Baroque

1 CD / Naïve / 2009-05-26

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Concerto for Flute in F major, Op. 10 no 1/RV 433 "La tempesta di mare"; Griselda, RV 718; Orlando furioso, RV 728; Alessandro Marcello: Concerto for Oboe in D minor; Arcange...
Performers: Bayo, María; Cangemi, Veronica; Jaroussky, Philippe; Lesne, Gérard; Marq, Sébastien; Piau, Sandrine
Conductors: ; Rousset, Christophe; Biondi, Fabio; Gester, Martin; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Alessandrini, Rinaldo
Ensemble: ; Concerto Italiano; Ensemble Matheus; L'Europa Galante; Le Parlement de Musique; Les talens lyriques

Handel: Twelve Grand Concertos - Concerti Grossi / Gester, Arte dei Suonatori

3 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2008-09-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Concerti grossi (12), Op. 6
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori

Composed during a few hectic weeks in the autumn of 1739, the set was partly intended by Handel - renowned mainly as a writer for...continue...

Baroque Voices - Charpentier: Te Deum H 146, etc / Gester, Haller, Chevigné, Geslot, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2008-05-27

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum; In honorem S. Ludovici, motet for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo, H. 365; In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, o...
Performers: Dyck, Stephan Van; Geslot, Francois-Nicolas; Marzorati, Arnaud
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

Scarlatti: La Giuditta / Gester, Ricci, Cecchetti, et al

1 CD / Ambronay / 2006-06-13

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: La Giuditta (no 1), oratorio for soloists, 2 flutes, trumpet, trombones, strings & continuo
Performers: Donato, Vincenzo di; Fernandez, Adriana; Ricci, Celine; Rostand, Bruno
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

In the apocryphal Book of Judith, the Jewish heroine Judith enters the tent of the Assyrian general Holofernes, seduces him, gets him drunk and chops...continue...

Charpentier: Te Deum, Motets / Martin Gester, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2001-11-06

Works: Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum; In honorem S. Ludovici, motet for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra & continuo, H. 365; In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, o...
Performers: Chevigné, Brigitte; Dyck, Stephan Van; Geslot, François-Nicolas; Haller, Salome; Marzorati, Arnaud
Conductors: Gester, Martin
Ensemble: Le Parlement de Musique

"Martin Gester's performance is uniformly excellent. The Rondo Prelude has a relaxed, almost jazzy quality...Gester's performers offer...care and sincerity. The other two items...confirm that wherever...continue...