Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Dijkstra, Harnisch, Vondung, Schmitt, etc. [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / BR Klassik / 2011-11-15

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), BWV 248
Performers: Harnisch, Rachel; Immler, Christian; Schmitt, Maximilian; Vondung, Anke
Conductors: Dijkstra, Peter
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; Bavarian Radio Chorus

Run Time: 157 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, DTS 5.0 Surround
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Handel: Belshazzar / Jacobs, Tarver, Joshua, Mehta [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-06-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61
Performers: Davies, Andrew; Davies, Neal [Bass Baritone]; Hammarstrom, Kristina; Joshua, Rosemary; Kirk, Vernon; Mehta, Bejun; Radley, Andrew; Sampson, Christina; Tarver, Kenneth; Taylor, Lucy; Wilberforce, Rich...
Conductors: Jacobs, René
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; Rias Chamber Chorus

René Jacobs is masterful leading a stellar cast of soloists, the RIASKammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik in a spectacular production of Handel's oratorio...continue...
Run Time: 166 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
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Handel: Belshazzar / Jacobs, Tarver, Joshua, Mehta [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-06-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61
Performers: Davies, Andrew; Davies, Neal [Bass Baritone]; Hammarstrom, Kristina; Joshua, Rosemary; Kirk, Vernon; Mehta, Bejun; Radley, Andrew; Sampson, Christina; Tarver, Kenneth; Taylor, Lucy; Wilberforce, Rich...
Conductors: Jacobs, René
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; RIAS Chamber Chorus

René Jacobs is masterful leading a stellar cast of soloists, the RIASKammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik in a spectacular production of Handel's oratorio...continue...
Run Time: 166 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS 5.1 Surround,
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Countertenors / Bowman, Chance, Scholl, Somerville [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2008-10-28

Works: Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten saile more willing bent to shore; John Dowland: Second Booke of Songes; Firste Booke of Songes; Thomas Ford: Musicke of Sundrie Kindes, Pt 1; Henry Purcell: Sound...
Performers: Bowman, James; Chance, Michael; Drake, Julius; Miller, David [lute/guitar]; Scholl, Andreas
Conductors:
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; Ensemble Sonnerie

With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male voice is today enjoying a huge resurgence in popularity. Heirs to the celebrated castrati of the sixteenth...continue...
Run Time: 123 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby 2.0,
Subtitles: English
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas - A Choreograph / Akademie fur Alte Music, Berlin, Awaltz, Cremonesi

1 DVD Video / Arthaus DVD / 2008-07-29

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626
Conductors: Cremonesi, Attilio
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; Vocalconsort Berlin

Henry Purcell's opera 'Dido & Aeneas', completed in 1689, was the subject of a memorable and breathtaking performance at the Staatsoper Berlin in 2005. In...continue...
Run Time: 98 min.
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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Die Welt der Kastraten / Kowalski, Köhler, Ragin, et al

1 CD / Capriccio / 2008-04-08

Works: George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo, HWV 7; The choice of Hercules, HWV 69; Serse, HWV 40; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice; Johann Adolf Hasse: La conversione di Sant'Agostino; Cleofide; Cl...
Performers: Cordier, David; Jacobs, René; Köhler, Axel; Kowalski, Jochen; Nirouët, Jean; Popken, Ralf; Ragin, Derek Lee; Van der Sluis, Mieke; Visse, Dominique; Wessel, Kai; Zaepffel, Alain
Conductors: Haenchen, Hartmut; Creed, Marcus; ; Christie, William; Max, Hermann; Pommer, Max; Linde, Hans-Martin
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin; C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra; Cappella Coloniensis; Das Kleine Konzert; Lautten Compagney; Leipzig New Bach Collegium Musicum

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...

Arias for Farinelli /Genaux, Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2008-04-08

Works: Nicola Porpora: Orfeo, opera; Polifemo, opera; Riccardo Broschi: Idaspe; Geminiano Giacomelli: Adriano in Siria, opera; Merope, opera; Baldassare Galuppi: Concerto a 4, for voice & chamber ensemble i...
Performers: Genaux, Vivica
Conductors: Jacobs, René
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

The Telegraph
The hair-raising roulades, trills and enormously wide leaps hold no terrors for her. The performances, directed by René Jacobs, are stylish and expressive, as...continue...

Haydn: Les sept dernières paroles / Equilbey, et al

1 CD / Naïve / 2006-05-16

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross), o
Performers: Getchell, Robert; Piau, Sandrine; Sandhoff, Ruth; van der Kamp, Harry
Conductors: Equilbey, Laurence
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

In 1786, Haydn composed a purely orchestral work, The Seven Last Words, to accompany Passion meditations. After further versions for quartet, then for piano of...continue...

SACD Collection - Bach: Orchestral Works

1 Super Audio CD / Capriccio / 2006-02-11

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no 5 in D major, BWV 1050; Concerto for 2 Harpsichords in C major, BWV 1061; Suite for Orchestra no 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Conductors:
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

Dreams and Fables - Gluck: Italian Opera Arias / Bartoli

1 CD / Decca Import / 2001-09-25

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: La clemenza di Tito; Il Parnaso confuso; Ezio, opera in 3 acts, Wq. 15; La Semiramide riconosciuta, opera in 3 acts, Wq. 13; La corona, opera in 1 act, Wq. 35; Antigono, op...
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia
Conductors: Forck, Bernhard
Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

"...This CD, in short, is a tour de force of dramatic singing, in the widest sense of the term: and it is also full of...continue...