Daniel Isoir – César Franck: Triptyques [Piano Works / Œuvres pour piano] (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Isoir – César Franck: Triptyques [Piano Works / Œuvres pour piano] (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:45 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Muso

Daniel Isoir pays homage to his father André Isoir, one of the greatest French organists, by performing the works that marked his childhood: the three triptychs of Franck. In order to record this music with its contained lyricism, its fluid, subtle harmonies, illuminated by memories as fleeting as they are dazzling of high virtuosity, he has chosen an Erard piano of 1875 setting it off with magnificent luminosity and sumptuous colours.

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Daniel Hunter – Refuge (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Daniel Hunter – Refuge (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:17 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © jazz family

Daniel Hunter is an English born, Australian-raised Jazz-guitarist and educator now based in Paris, France. As a performer Daniel has appeared on stage throughout France, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Germany, Morocco and even Azerbaijan. Following on from his debut album in 2013, aptly named The Twentieth, alluding to his surrounds in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Refuge’s themes span the plight of refugees, the search for shelter, the emotional aftermath of terrorist attack, the snowfalls of European winter, and the French Alps.

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Daniel Humair, Stéphane Kerecki, Vincent Lê Quang – Modern Art (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Humair, Stéphane Kerecki, Vincent Lê Quang – Modern Art (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:24 minutes | 844 MB | Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © INCISES

This Modern Art recording project is an invitation to discover new ideas, and these pieces of music by Vincent Lê Quang, Stéphane Kerecki and myself are not really tributes; I prefer to think of them in terms of correspondences, parallel ideas, encounters, affinities, out-of-the-ordinary phenomena. We’ve chosen several 20th century painters to give us one of two possibilities : either we already had such and such a composition in our pack that matched up with the pictorial world of a certain artist, or we’ve written an original composition inspired by an artist’s work.

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Daniel Humair – Sweet and Sour (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Daniel Humair – Sweet and Sour (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:02 minutes | 603 MB | Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Laborie Jazz

Daniel Humair. Legendary name in the history of jazz and yet so present. A book 74 years we certainly one of its most beautiful summits, meetings of which he has the secret and command respect, passion, power and love for music. Time has taken its full potential in this new Quartet, one of the meeting, sharing, listening to one another and especially the unparalleled pleasure to convey a simple joy but so obvious.

Even if you didn’t know that Humair is one of France’s top percussionists, you might guess that this was a Gallic offering by the presence of an accordion in his quartet, in place of the customary piano. Not that this is by any means an easy-listening cafe experience. In fact, some if it is so abstract that it’s quite hard going, but the way these players develop whole musical narratives out of the simplest initial ideas can be mesmerising, if you give it a chance. The veteran Humair has certainly found kindred spirits in musicians half his age, especially the remarkable accordionist, Vincent Peirani.

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Daniel Humair – 1291 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Daniel Humair – 1291 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:42 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Outnote Records

Three generations of top Swiss jazz musicians from three different parts of the country, Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser and Heiri Känzig, form a new trio that promises to stimulate the interest of both music lovers and curious listeners. The title of the album, 1291, is a nod to the Federal Charter, one of the earliest Swiss constitutional documents that eventually became the founding text of Switzerland.

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Daniel Hsu – Cliburn Bronze 2017 – 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Live) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hsu – Cliburn Bronze 2017 – 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:14 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC – Decca Gold

Characterized by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a “poet…[with] an expressive edge to his playing that charms, questions, and coaxes,” Daniel Hsu is a fast-rising pianist who was recently named the bronze medalist at the 15th Van Cliburn international piano competition.

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Daniel Hope, Zurich Chamber Orchestra – Journey to Mozart (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope, Zurich Chamber Orchestra – Journey to Mozart (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

With Journey to Mozart, Daniel Hope turns to core classical repertoire again, exploring the world of Mozart, as well as composers that inspired him and vice versa.

“This album is a reflection of the age seen through my eyes and heard through my ears.” But the only works to be included here are by composers whom publicly acknowledged Mozart and who were connected to him personally.

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Daniel Hope – Tchaikovsky / Elgar / Mozart: Serenades (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – Tchaikovsky / Elgar / Mozart: Serenades (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:09 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

To mark its 75th anniversary, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra has compiled a selection of popular masterpieces for small orchestra ensembles. Together with music director Daniel Hope, the ensemble presents three world-famous string serenades by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Elgar, which are among the Highlights of their repertoire.

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Daniel Hope – Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

“In the summer of 1989, when I was 15, my `love affair’ with Alfred Schnittke’s music began”, recalls Daniel Hope. 3 years later the violinist became acquainted with the composer, studying with & performing for Schnittke many of his works over the next years. “A little more than 20 years after his death, I decided it was time to revisit his music & to pay a recorded tribute to his extraordinary talent. In my mind there is no more striking a talent in contemporary music than that of Schnittke.”

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Daniel Hope – My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – My Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:56 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This year marks the 100th anniversary of violin legend Yehudi Menuhin, and Daniel Hope dedicates a complete album to his former mentor and close friend. After fleeing from the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and ending up in England,

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Daniel Hope – Hope@Home (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Daniel Hope – Hope@Home (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:41 minutes | 847 MB | Genre:
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This week Daniel Hope began a series of 14 daily concerts live from his living room called Hope@Home. In these troubled times Hope invites artists and friends to his home in Berlin to join him for spontaneous mini-concerts (of course one after the other and keeping the required safety distance). “We need to and must stay home at this time”, says Hope. “But we also need to share music as a source of comfort and inspiration.”

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Daniel Hope – Hope (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – Hope (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:48 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Conceived and created during one of the most difficult years ever for the music and culture industry (2020), the star violinist sends us a spiritual, but above all intimate and positive sign. A very personal selection of works that open the mind and the heart trail around the centerpiece “Misa Criolla” (here in a new arrangement for violin and orchestra). The repertoire contains many well-known works such as Elgar’s Nimrod, Albinoni’s & Giazotto’s Adagio in G minor and “Amazing Grace’. Daniel Hope teamed up with singers such as baritone Thomas Hampson and jazz-singer Colin Rich as well as his orchestra Z”urcher Kammerorchester.

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Daniel Hope – For Seasons (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – For Seasons (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:36 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Daniel Hope is not only one of the most talented musicians of our time, but also one of the most imaginative, seemingly incapable of making a dull or predictable album. This is no exception . . . [Hope directs] an eloquent performance of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” . . . as well as contributing some dazzling violin solos . . . first-class performances make you think not how great the musicians are, but how great the music is. This album proves it . . . [in the second half,] what you get is a remarkable range of music, much of which is really rewarding listening. ~ David Mellor, Daily Mail (London) / 08. April 2017

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Daniel Hope – Escape To Paradise – The Hollywood Album (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – Escape To Paradise – The Hollywood Album (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:02 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

The subject matter of this collection of classic music from (mostly) Hollywood seems a major departure from violinist Daniel Hope’s previous focus on music contending with the Nazi cultural orbit, but actually it’s a logical step: a great deal of Hollywood film music was composed by refugees from Germany, and the stylistic world they created continues to resonate today. There are several good recordings of this repertory by young violinists, but Hope’s stands out. Partly it’s because Hope’s big, richly sentimental sound fits this repertory well. Partly it’s because he varies the program effectively with the full Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, of Erich Korngold, and an appearance by none other than Sting in Hanns Eisler’s The Secret Marriage, while still finding the core that connects all these pieces. Partly it’s that Hope finds some unusual things that connect with the rest of the program: a couple of German film scores from the early 1930s, and the German melody better known as As Time Goes By, from the film Casablanca. And partly it’s the variety and sequence of arrangements running from Jascha Heifetz down to the present day. The result is a fine outing that will satisfy anyone in the mood for big film themes, but also those who are seriously interested in film music.

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Daniel Hope – Belle Époque (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Hope – Belle Époque (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:13 minutes | 2,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Daniel Hope’s new double album Belle Époque, initially released as a Limited Deluxe Edition, combines popular and rare repertoire, which was written in the equally named “golden” period between the Franco-Prussian War and the beginning of World War I in 1914 in major European music nations.

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