Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado – Schumann: The Complete Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:25 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Four symphonies were enough for Robert Schumann to leave his mark. Without allowing himself to be overawed by Beethoven’s shadow, he succeeded from the outset in coining a highly personal idiom, with an astonishing combination of formal rigour and freedom of inspiration. Pablo Heras-Casado and the Münchner Philharmoniker offer their interpretation of this corpus, more mysterious than it appears, which tells of its composer’s passionate and tormented soul.
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Margit-Anna Süß, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Hansjörg Schellenberger – La harpe á Paris (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:45 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Campanella Musica
Paris – the city of so many dreams and promises – has its own special ring in the ears of harpists. In hardly any other place in the world has the harp been played so much, had so many compositions written for it and been so popular. It is no coincidence that all the great works for harp on this album were written in Paris – for that is its home town.
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