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Karl Richter: Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon (97 CDs + 3 Blu-Rays)

Karl Richter: Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon (97 CDs + 3 Blu-Rays)

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100-disc Original Jackets Collection: The first complete edition comprising all of Richter's recordings on Archiv Produktion, Deutsche Grammophon and Decca on 97 CDs and 3 Blu-ray Audio discs. Presenting a wide-ranging portrait of the all-round musician Karl Richter, portraying him as an organist and harpsichordist, chamber musician and continuo player, and in his preeminent role as conductor of major orchestral and sacred choral works. Includes several first-CD and digital releases of works by Bach and Handel. Including all of Bach's cantatas and major sacred works.

Through his brilliant interpretation of Bach's music Karl Richter became a respected authority already early in his career. He impressed audiences around the world as virtuosic organist, but even more as conductor of the Munich-based Bach Ensemble he formed over the years. Karl Richter touched his listeners through pure emotion and expressivity and was referred to as “Thomaskantor of people’s hearts”.

Karl Richter complete recordings for Archiv Produktion, DG and Decca on 97 CDs and 3 Blu-ray Audio discs:

  • 97 CD & 3 Blu-ray Audio Original Jackets Collection
  • A wide-ranging portrait of the all-round musician Karl Richter, as an organist and harpsichordist, chamber musician, continuo player, and as conductor of major orchestral and sacred choral works.
  • All of Bach’s cantatas and major sacred works on Blu-ray Audio in audiophile resolution of 24bit / 192kHz.
  • 176pp booklet with:
    • New informative liner notes by Richter specialist and discographer Roland Wörner, and reprint of a personal homage by tenor and friend Peter Schreier.
    • Many session and artist photos

 Includes rare recordings of particular interest and many first releases

  • First CD release of two truly programmatic works, illustrating Richter’s connection to Bach:
    • Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the Name B–A–C–H, from Victoria Hall, Geneva
    • Reger: Fantasia and Fugue on the Name B–A–C–H from Ottobeuren
  • First international CD release of
    • Handel’s Flute Sonatas with Hans-Martin Linde
    • Bach’s Flute Sonatas (BWV 1033-35) with Aurèle Nicolet
    • Bach’s Double Concertos BWV 1043, 1060 (from 1963) and 1064R (from 1980)
  • Richter’s very first recording on Archiv Produktion, as continuo player in Handel’s Concerti Grossi Op. 6 with Bamberg Symphony and Fritz Lehmann
  • Richter’s first independent recording on Archiv Produktion: Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, featuring Munich’s Heinrich-Schütz-Kreis, renamed after 1954 as the Münchener Bach-Chor
  • Bach’s Violin Sonatas with Wolfgang Schneiderhan
  • The recording of Bach-Schemelli’s Songbook with Peter Schreier, made in the Freiberg cathedral with the famous Silbermann organ, featuring the Bach’s Dorian Toccata, Passacaglia in C minor and Partita BWV 768
  • A special and intimate Christmas Carol Recital with Maria Stader, featuring many instrumental soloists close to Richter

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KARL RICHTER, A UNIVERSAL MUSICIAN

Hardly any 20th century musician could come closer to the role model of a Saxon cantor, and so to the ideal of J. S. Bach himself as Karl Richter. The son of a Protestant clergyman, Richter had his first lessons with the organist of Dresden’s Kreuzkirche, he was able to practice at the world-famous Silbermann organ at Freiberg cathedral and also sang in Dresden’s Kreuzchor. Pupil of the legendary Thomaskantor Karl Straube, Richter traced a career largely dedicated to sacred music. He was appointed organist of St. Thomas in Leipzig in 1949 and after winning the international Bach competition, he transferred the focal point of this work to Munich, where he established not only a reputation as a brilliant organist but built up the Münchener Bachchor and brought many outstanding instrumentalists into his Munich orchestra.

Although steeped in tradition, Richter’s perspective showed no backward orientation – his merit in contrast was to establish “Bach for contemporaries” by sweeping away the mists of a bombastically monumental Romantic sound world, and he touched and convinced his listeners through his emotion and expressivity. Richter built a solid network in the European musical scene and soon came to the attention of Decca/Telefunken’s producers and Archiv Produktion, later Deutsche Grammophon, becoming one of the great and acknowledged Bach and Baroque music interpreters on disc. Richter’s interpretations consist of a special gravity and sincere profoundness, and generations of listeners have been attracted by them and drawn into them them up to this day.

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REPERTOIRE:

CD1-64     Johann Sebastian Bach

CD65         Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Orchestral Sinfonias

CD66         Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C major op. 86

CD67-68   Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

CD69-92   George Frideric Handel

CD93         Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 “Surprise” & 101 “The Clock”

CD94         Alessandro Scarlatti, J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn

CD95         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt

 

BONUS

CD96        Franz Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the Name B–A–C–H S 260

                 Max Reger: Fantasia and Fugue on the Name B–A–C–H op. 46

CD97       In Dulci Jubilo – 18 European Christmas Carols

 

BLURAY AUDIO DISCS

BRA1     Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 (Recording 1958)

St. John Passion BWV 245

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

Mass in B minor BWV 232 (Recording 1961)

 

BRA2     Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas For all the Sundays and Feast Days in the Church Calendar (Part 1)

Advent and Christmas

Easter

Ascension Day · Whitsun · Trinity (beg.)

 

BRA3     Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas For all the Sundays and Feastdays in the Church Calendar (Part 2)

Ascension Day · Whitsun · Trinity (cont.)

Sundays after Trinity I

Sundays after Trinity II

Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV13 'Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV28 'Gottlob, nun geht das Jahr zu Ende'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV58 'Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV61 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV64 'Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV65 'Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV81 'Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen?'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV82 'Ich habe genug'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV111 'Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV121 'Christum wir sollen loben schon'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV124 'Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV132 'Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV171 'Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV1 'Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (Easter Cantata)

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV6 'Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV12 'Weinen, Klagen, sorgen, Zagen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV23 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV67 'Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV87 'Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV92 'Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV104 'Du Hirte Israel, hore'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV108 'Es ist euch gut, das ich hingehe'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV126 'Erhalt uns Herr, bei deinem Wort'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV158 'Der Friede sei mit dir'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV182 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen'

Bach, J S: Ascension Oratorio 'Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen', BWV11

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV10 'Meine Seel erhebt den Herren'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV21 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV24 'Ein ungefärbt Gemüte'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV30 'Freue dich, erlöste Schar'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV34 'O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV39 'Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV44 'Sie werden euch in den Bann tun'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV68 'Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV76 'Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV93 'Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV129 'Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV135 'Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV175 'Er rufet seinen Schafen mit Namen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV8 'Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben?'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV9 'Es ist das Heil uns kommen her'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV17 'Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV27 'Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende?'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV33 'Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV45 'Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV78 'Jesu der du meine Seele'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV100 'Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV102 'Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV105 'Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV137 'Lobe den Herrn, den mächtigen König der Ehren'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV148 'Bringet dem Herrn Ehre seines Namens'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV178 'Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns halt'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV179 'Siehe zu, daß deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV187 'Es wartet alles auf dich'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV199 'Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV5 'Wo soll ich fliehen hin' 

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV26 'Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV38 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV55 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV56 'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV60 'O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV70a 'Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV80 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV96 'Herr Christ, der einige Gottessohn'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV106 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (Actus tragicus)

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV115 'Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV116 'Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV130 'Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV139 'Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV140 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV180 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele'

Bach, J S: Magnificat in D major, BWV243

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV26 'Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig'

Bach, J S: Cantata BWV189 'Meine Seele ruhmt und preist'

Bach, J S: Schemellis Gesangbuch

Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051

Bach, J S: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069

Bach, J S: Concerto for Flute, Violin & Harpsichord in A minor, BWV1044

Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Violins in C minor, BWV 1060

Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043

Bach, J S: Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Strings BWV1060R

Bach, J S: Concerto for 3 violins, strings & continuo in D major (reconstruction), BWV 1064R

Bach, J S: Oboe d'amore Concerto in A major, BWV1055

Bach, J S: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1-7 BWV1052-1058

Bach, J S: Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV1059

Bach, J S: Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C minor, BWV1060

Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BWV1061

Bach, J S: Concerto for Two Keyboards in C minor, BWV1062

Bach, J S: Concerto for Three Keyboards in D minor, BWV1063

Bach, J S: Concerto for Three Keyboards in C major, BWV1064

Bach, J S: Concerto for Four Keyboards in A minor (after Vivaldi), BWV1065

Bach, J S: Musical Offering, BWV1079

Bach, J S: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord Nos. 1-6, BWV1014-1019

Bach, J S: Flute Sonata No. 4 in C major, BWV1033

Bach, J S: Flute Sonata No. 5 in E minor, BWV1034

Bach, J S: Flute Sonata No. 6 in E major, BWV1035

Bach, J S: Flute Sonata in G minor, BWV1020

Bach, J S: Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV1013

Bach, J S: Goldberg Variations, BWV988

Bach, J S: Italian Concerto, BWV971

Bach, J S: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor, BWV903

Bach, J S: Toccata in G minor, BWV915

Bach, J S: Pastorale in F major, BWV590

Bach, J S: Fantasia in C minor, BWV906

Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 430 in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'

Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 435 (Chaconne) in G major

Bach, J S: Canzona in D minor, BWV588

Bach, J S: Chorale Partita BWV768 'Sei gegrusset, Jesu gütig'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV645 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV650 'Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter'

Bach, J S: Chorale Prelude BWV654 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele'

Bach, J S: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'

Bach, J S: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV543

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in B minor, BWV544

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in C minor, BWV546

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in D major, BWV532

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 'St Anne'

Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV548 'Wedge'

Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV538 'Dorian'

Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565

Bach, J S: Toccata & Fugue in F major, BWV540

Bach, J S: Trio Sonata No. 1 in E flat major, BWV525

Bach, J S: Trio Sonata No. 2 in C minor, BWV526

Bach, J S: Trio Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV529

Bach, J S: Organ Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV592-597

Bach, C P E: Symphony in D major, Wq. 183 / 1 (H663)

Bach, C P E: Symphony in E flat major, Wq. 183 / 2 (H664)

Bach, C P E: Symphony in F major, Wq. 183 / 3 (H665)

Bach, C P E: Symphony in G major, Wq. 183 / 4 (H666)

Beethoven: Mass in C major, Op. 86

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

Handel: Messiah

sung in German 

Handel: Messiah

Handel: Samson

Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Handel: Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries (from Alexander's Feast)

Handel: Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse)

Handel: Samson: Honour and arms scorn such a foe

Handel: To him ten thousands (from Saul)

Handel: Oh memory, still bitter to my soul (from Belshazzar)

Handel: Con gelosi sospetti (from Ottone)

Handel: Si, tra i ceppi (from Berenice)

Handel: Susanna: Down my old cheeks

Handel: Pur ritorno a rimirarvi (from Agrippina)

Handel: Prais'd be the Lord (from Solomon)

Handel: Va tacito e nascosto (from Giulio Cesare)

Handel: Dall'ondoso periglio (from Giulio Cesare)

Schütz: Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279-281 (Op. 7)

Handel: Alcina - Overture

Handel: Deidamia : Overture

Handel: Agrippina: Overture

Handel: Radamisto Overture

Handel: Rinaldo Overture

Handel: Jephtha: Overture

Handel: Rodelinda: Overture

Handel: Belshazzar: Overture

Handel: Susanna, HWV 66: Overture

Handel: Messiah: Overture

Handel: Samson - Overture

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351

Handel: Concerto a due cori in F major, HWV 333

Handel: Concerto a due cori in F major, HWV 334

Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317 

Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330

Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 'Alexander's Feast'

Handel: Oboe Concerto No. 3 in G minor, HWV 287

Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in C minor

Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in G major

Handel: Oboe Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, HWV 301

Handel: Trumpet Concerto in B flat major (trans. from Oboe Concerto No. 2, HWV 302a)

Handel: Flute Sonatas HWV 374-376 'Halle' Nos. 1, 2 & 3

Handel: Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, HWV363b, Op 1 No 5 

Handel: Flute Sonata in B minor, Op 1 No 9b, HWV367b

Handel: Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo, HWV379, Op. 1 No. 1a

Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330

1952 recording with Fritz Lehmann

Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G Major 'Surprise'

Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major 'The Clock'

Scarlatti, A: Cantata 'Su le sponde del Tebro'

Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245: Zerfliesse, mein Herze

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Ich will dir mein Herz schenken

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben

Handel: He shall feed His flock (from Messiah)

Handel: Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth

Handel: Oh! had I Jubal's lyre (from Joshua)

Haydn: Nun beut die Flur das frische Grün (from Die Schöpfung)

Haydn: Auf starkem Fittiche schwinget sich der Adler stol (from Die Schöpfung)

Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten: Welche Labung für die Sinne!

Mendelssohn: Hear ye, Israel

Handel: Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse)

Handel: Se bramate d’amar chi vi sdegna (from Serse)

Handel: Svegliatevi nel core (from Giulio Cesare)

Mozart: Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608

Brahms: Chorale Preludes (11), Op. 122

Liszt: Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H, S260

Reger: Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 46

 

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