Karl Richter: Complete Recordings on Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon [Blu-ray]

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.

Karl Richter earnt himself a reputation as an interpreter of Bach’s early in his career. He impressed audiences around the world as a 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”.
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.

* 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

Треклист:
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
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

Blu-ray Audio 1
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)

Blu-ray Audio 2
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.)

Blu-ray Audio 3
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