Singspiel in 3 Acts
Libretto by Christian Heinrich Postel

Brunswick edition (1728)
Recording in connection with the performances of the 26th Magdeburg Telemann Festtage 2024.

Together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the exceptional violinist Isabelle Faust has taken up several gems from the oeuvre of the Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

When Johann Adolph Hasse composed Piramo e Tisbe in 1768, he was probably the most frequently performed opera composer of the late Baroque. With this emotionally gripping intermezzo tragico, he ventured musically into a new operatic era.

Bach’s Roots: Highlights from the generation of German composers before Johann Sebastian Bach. Music by the great Bach family stands alongside outstanding works by lesser‑known composers of the era, including three world‑premiere recordings.

Symphonies No.s 29 & 33

with Christina Landshamer, Soprano

Symphonies “Haffner” and “Pariser”

with RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Akamus and Christina Landshamer present dazzling concert arias about love, longing, and loss.

with René Jacobs and RIAS Kammerchor.

On this album, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin turns its attention to one of the most influential composers of the Viennese Classical era: Paul Wranitzky.

or Die ungleiche Heirat TVWV 21:15
Comic Intermezzi

The internationally acclaimed viola virtuoso Antoine Tamestit is collaborating with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin for the first time. Together we present a true celebration of the viola!

“The uninhabited Island”
Azione per musica 
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio 

Under the direction of its concertmasters Georg Kallweit (Op. 3) and Bernhard Forck (Op. 6), the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin brings out all the brilliance of these captivating works.

with the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Continuation of the cycle “Beethoven’s Symphonies and their Models”

with René Jacobs

with Xenia Löffler

Part II | Concerti grossi Op. 6, Concertos 7–12, HWV 325–330

in honorem Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ, Hob. XXII:5

as well as other works with
the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Part I | Concerti grossi Op. 6, Concertos 1–6, HWV 319–324

with Isabelle Faust

with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

with Michael Volle & Sophie Karthäuser

with RIAS Kammerchor

with Michael Volle

Oratorio in three Parts for Soli, Chor and Orchestra

With this CD, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin turns its attention to a long‑standing companion - one whose works have accompanied the orchestra since its very beginnings. On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Telemann’s death (1681-1767), the ensemble celebrates its “composer‑in‑residence” of sorts with this brilliant and ever‑surprising concert programme.

For her first solo recital on harmonia mundi, Sunhae Im has chosen four cantatas dedicated to the myth of Orpheus. The Greek poet, who at the end of the Quattrocento played a decisive role in the birth of modern tragedy and, a century later, that of opera, also inspired late Baroque composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in Italy, as well as Clérambault and Rameau in France.

Composed at a time when neither oratorio nor opera yet existed, this Rappresentatione, first performed in February 1600, presents a masterful work of musical drama. The conflict between body and soul - a profoundly symbolic theme of the Counter‑Reformation - calls for soloists, choir, and a richly scored orchestra, whose varied timbres both accompany and characterize the singers. At the dawn of the musical revolution of the Baroque era, singing, stage action, dance, and instrumental music merge here in perfect harmony.

A reconstruction of a concert given on 9 April 1786, featuring works by C. P. E. Bach himself as well as compositions by his father Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel. The programme was compiled by C. P. E. Bach with the intention of presenting what were considered the greatest musical works of the time.

On 9 April 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a benefit concert in Hamburg.
The program featured three of his finest and most representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1 (1780); the Magnificat, composed in 1749 - presumably in the hope of succeeding his father as Thomaskantor in Leipzig; and, last but not least, the impressive Heilig (1776) for double choir. Of this work he wrote:

“It is intended to be my swan song of this kind, and to serve the purpose that I may not be forgotten too soon after my death.”

(harmonia mundi)

With Bejun Mehta

Arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tommaso Traetta, Johann Adolph Hasse and Johann Christian Bach

with Jean-Guihen Queyras

A production by Radialsystem V and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, in co-production with Sasha Waltz.

Passion oratorio for soloists, choir, and orchestra TWV 5:1

Choreographic Opera

with Annette Dasch

with Maurice Steger

Schürmann, Erlebach, Händel, Keiser, Schiefferdecker

Krieger, Hammerschmidt, Albert

Suites

with Vivica Genaux

Works of Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Reinhard Keiser; Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Nicola Antonio Porpora and Johann Gottfried Müthel

Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Gottfried Müthel

with Cecilia Bartoli

with Dorothea Röschmann

Works by Telemann, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Händel, Haydn and Boccherini

Tragicomic Suite

with Andreas Scholl

Oratorio in three acts

with Jochen Kowalski

with René Jacobs

with Siegfried Pank