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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