Die Blaue Blume
Martin Schmeding
Music has always been used throughout the ages to convey certain states, emotions. Especially in the music of the 19th century, it was important for composers to express inner states - landscapes of the soul - in their music. They seek nature as a counterpart to the human soul and in the expression of music nature serves as a background, to express the most diverse emotions.
Giuseppe Sammartini
Sonatas for recorder and basso continuo, Vol.2
Andreas Böhlen
Onward and upward! Andreas Böhlen's interpretation of Giuseppe Sammartini's rarely played recorder sonatas (Vol.1, released in 2020) was not only veritably celebrated in the early music scene, but he has now even been appointed professor at the world famous Schola Cantorum in Basel (Switzerland). Listeners can therefore expect the highest standards from this second and final volume of Sammartini's sonatas.
Good Taste
Spirit & Pleasure
Traditional music from Ireland, England and Scotland touches our hearts in a way that is very special and somehow magical. On this CD, "Spirit and Pleasure" presents excerpts from the musical world of the 17th & 18th centuries in Ireland, Scotland and England.
Hieronymus Praetorius
Organ Works
Léon Berben
After his award-winning Weckmann recording on the organs of Lübeck and Tangermünde released a year ago, Léon Berben chose the two historic organs of Langwarden (1650) and Lemgo (1613) for his new album "Hieronymus Praetorius: Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist" (When my hour is at hand) - two instruments ideally suited for 16th-century music, of which there are hardly any recordings so far.
L'Ange et le Diable
Rainer Zipperling
A famous historical quote provided the idea for this program: Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray, the outstanding French baroque viola da gamba virtuosos, were like “angel” and “devil” for their contemporaries – antithetical figures who produced greatly different sounds on their instruments.
FR2
Flanders Recorder Duo
Flanders Recorder Duo: The name of the ensemble rightly suggests that it emerged from the Flanders Recorder Quartet, which ended its incredibly successful international stage career in 2018. Already the FRQ amazed with the expressiveness of its "only" 4 recorders - the Flanders Recorder Duo now takes this to the extreme.
Felix Weingartner
Wallfahrt nach Kevelaer
René Perler
The German pilgrimage place of Kevelaer, close to the frontier with the Netherlands, is famous for its large basilica and the organ it houses built in 1907, which is one of the largest church organs in all Germany.
In this recording, this instrument magnificently replaces an entire orchestra.
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue
Samuel Kummer
The Art of Fugue is Bach's last great work for a keyboard instrument. There is no other organ that is so closely related to the Art of Fugue as the organ of the Stadtkirche St. Wenzel zu Naumburg by Zacharias Hildebrandt. It embodies Bach's ideal type of organ and it was created almost simultaneously with the Art of Fugue.
Romantic Christmas at Cologne Cathedral
Theresa Nelles - Winfried Bönig
Avaliable as from December 1, 2020
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Complete keyboard works
Léon Berben
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After having released a 19 SACD edition with the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in 2012, awarded the "Echo Klassik" in 2013 for the "audiophile multichannel production of the year" as well as the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik", AEOLUS now presents a brilliant recording of the complete keyboard music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck played by the recognized dutch organist and harpsichordist Léon Berben.
New digital only album "SYMPHONIE PASSION" released by AEOLUS: Cathedral organist Winfried Bönig plays works by Dupré, Barber, Messiaen, Howells on the Klais organs of Cologne Cathedral.
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In the second week of April this year, AEOLUS recording producer Christoph Martin Frommen travelled to the city of Lemgo (Germany) to record the historic Scherer organ (built in 1613) in the St.Mary's church.
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In the third week of March this year, AEOLUS recording producer Christoph Martin Frommen travelled to the village of Langwarden (northern Germany) to record the historic organ (built by Hermann Kröger and Berendt Huss in 1650) in the St.Laurentius church.
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The fourth volume of the Bach harpsichord concertos series has been awarded by French magazine Diapason with the most prestigious award "Diapason d'Or". Congratulations to Aapo Häkkinen, Miklós Spányi, Cristiano Holtz, Anna-Maaria Oramo, and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra!
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The 4th volume of the Louis Couperin Edition has been released: Vol.1-4 now cover Louis Couperin's complete harpsichord works. Bob van Asperen signed 50 CDs for our customers!
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Fantastic news for lovers of opulent baroque organ music: In October Aeolus has produced a recording of J.S.Bach's "Art of the Fugue" on the famous Hildebrandt organ in Naumburg played by Samuel Kummer, the organist of the Dresden Frauenkirche.
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Aeolus supports the First Virtual Organ Competition in Germany, which will take place next September as part of the Deidesheim Music Autumn.
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In the first week of June this year, AEOLUS recording producer Christoph Martin Frommen travelled to Lübeck to record the famous gothic organ (1467/1515, Friederich Stellwagen 1637) in the Jakobikirche.
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DER SPIEGEL, Germany's most importamt news magazine, reviews the AEOLUS CD "All Lust und Freud" with Bernhard Klapprott performing on a 400-year-old clavicytherium.
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Aeolus produces a new Super Audio CD with Peter Van de Velde. In November the titular organist of the monumental Pierre Schyven organ of the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp recorded transcriptions of César Franck's late works on his instrument.
Aeolus continues the successful collaboration with Peter Van de Velde and will release the artist's tenth album on our label in spring 2020.
This week AEOLUS' recording producer Christoph Martin Frommen has set up his equipment in front of the famous Hans Scherer organ (1624) at the St. Stephan church in Tangermuende (Germany).
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The jury of Germany's renowned award "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" is enthusiastic about the performance of Bob van Asperen on his "Art of Fugue" release.
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During a ceremony in the Maison de la Radio, Paris, Aapo Häkkinen and Pierre Hantaï received the prestigious "Diapason d'Or of the Year" award.
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During a recent recording of the famous Hamburg Zell harpsichord we had the chance to take a very special picture.
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AEOLUS has worked on a new design of the aeolus-music.com website. The new design provides better presentation on all modern internet devices.
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Amaryllis Dieltiens and Bart Naessens, who are the heart of the Belgian ensemble "Capriola Di Gioia", just released their new CD "Dolorosa Partenza" on AEOLUS, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ensemble. A video trailer shows some impressions from the recording session and the rare keyboard instrument used here, a two-manual claviorganum.
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Bob van Asperen - who just completed the Froberger edition at AEOLUS - played a concert at the Bach museum Leipzig on occasion of Froberger's 400th anniversary in May 2016. AEOLUS presented the Froberger edition.
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Again, a special AEOLUS recording project in a special location: Bob van Asperen performed at the original 1628 Ruckers harpsichord of Versailles palace.
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From now on Aeolus offers a set of five high-quality postcards with organ motives FOR FREE to each customer ordering a CD or SACD via our website while stocks last.
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The giant AEOLUS project "Bach Complete Organ Works" has been honoured by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie: It receives the "ECHO Klassik 2013" award.
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