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Matthieu Bordenave – La traversée (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Jazz
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French saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave’s first leader date for ECM introduces a new project with German pianist Florian Weber and Swiss bassist Patrice Moret. On La traversée – The Crossing – Bordenave explores musical ground between contemporary composition and jazz, subtly influenced by the innovations of the Jimmy Giuffre 3 with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, who “opened new territory that remains relevant for improvisers today.” The recording of La traversée, he explains, was guided by an approach to trio playing, “in which melodic lines interweave and blossom in the nuances of tones, as each musician follows his intuition.” Bordenave leads the way with his highly distinctive saxophone sound, recently characterized by Down Beat as “light yet textured and authoritative”, establishing that this is music in which space will play an important role. La traversée was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines in the South of France last autumn, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
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Matthias Schwengler Sextett – Schwengelbop (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:36 minutes | 370 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Established in 2013 under the name „SchwengelBOP“, the Matthias Schwengler Sextet has remained true to its title playing only own compositions with a Bop touch, offering a journey through the various decades of Bop culture. The six musicians have previously performed together in various formations including the German Youth Jazz Orchestra, Peter Herbolzheimer’s Masterclass Bigband and many more. Now they are working together, creating their own path where tradition meets innovation. In August 2018 they recorded their frst album “Schwengelbop”. The recording was part of Matthias Schwengler’s Master’s degree fnal project.
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Matthias Schorn, Minetti Quartett – Mozart & Brahms & Sulzer: Clarinet Quintets (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:05 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Classical
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Matthias Schorn, 31 year old Principal clarinettist of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Austrian Minetti Quartett did not only record a special and popular coupling of Mozart’s and Brahms’ often played clarinet quintets, but there is also a third piece, „Invention“ by the Austrian composer Balduin Sulzer (*1932), which is also dedicated to the artists – a World Premiere.
Finally two young, famous Austrian artists are working together first time on this album and are showing a typical Austrian sound, swing and rhythm which suites those quintets more than anything else. (On the way to the musical Olymp, was the conclusion of the die Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten / News after a concert with the artrists on 16th Januar 2013).
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Matthias Michael Beckmann & Elena Braslavsky – Arpeggione (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:26 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Classical
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The 5-string cello is more than simply the trade-mark of Matthias Michael Beckmann; it is his artistic credo and his message.
Even in familiar pieces it opens up new sound spaces. Franz Schubert’s Sonata for Arpeggione embraces whole worlds of emotion; Robert Schumann’s pieces are filled with the most profound poetry.
Here Beckmann and distinguished pianist Elena Braslavsky form an exquisite partnership.
Classical form combined with sensitive Romanticism and sublime melody – this is great, timeless music, in all its energy and humanity.
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Matthias Kirschnereit, Frankfurt Radio Symphony & Michael Sanderling – Hummel – Weber – Mendelssohn (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:13 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Classical
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Matthias Kirschnereit and the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Michael Sanderling have compiled a compelling, captivating programme of music from the last days of the Classical era, on the cusp of the Romantic. This “half-way house” – in the best possible sense – accommodates the compositions of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn. On his latest album, the soloist makes the boldness of this musical venture audible: “I was attracted by the fact that these rare jewels were created at a time of change, of new horizons.”
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Matthias Kirschnereit – Schumann: Concertant (Concert Pieces and Piano Concerto) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:18:31 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
It’s a perfect match: Matthias Kirschnereit, the “Poet at the Piano” (according to Süddeutsche Zeitung), and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Jan Willem de Vriend play Schumann’s large-scale work for piano and orchestra. All of the musicians are experienced, skilled artists and they have produced a performance clearly based on knowledge of the work and musical experience. The album’s concept is impressive: Schumann’s Piano Concerto, the most frequently recorded work in the history of the CD, is presented as the highlight, but also as a sort of encore after the three lesser known Concert Pieces opp. 86, 92 and 134.
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Matthias Kirschnereit – Beethoven: Unknown Solo Piano Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:50 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Unknown Beethoven – is there such a thing?
The pianist Matthias Kirschnereit has therefore given himself something of a challenge for his new album by researching and recording the small but nevertheless brilliant jewels of Beethoven’s piano repertoire. “On this album it is my aim to bring to life those works by Beethoven that are seldom in the limelight and to let them sparkle anew. They include pieces that are not going to set the world on fire. I am no archaeologist who hunts around in attics, libraries or archives in search of works yet to be published. Everything he ever wrote has already been published. So I set about compiling a list – and I was utterly amazed,” explains Matthias Kirschnereit.
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Matthias Höfs – Kind of Gold (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:21 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Classical
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The trigger for this unique album was actually the realisation that “there are very few works in the music literature in which one can experience such a concentrated sound,” explains Matthias Höfs. And when one of Germany’s most renowned trumpet virtuosos speaks of concentrated sound, then you can be sure he means a really phenomenal sound.
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Matthias Höfs – Festive Trumpets for Christmas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:31 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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If there’s one thing that makes Christmas what it is, it’s festive music and uplifting melodies: ‘Festive Trumpets for Christmas’ is the new Christmas album from Matthias Höfs, to be released by Berlin Classics on November 5. On this new album, the trumpeter joins his brass ensemble and organist Christian Schmitt in a wide-ranging programme. The instruments of the musicians ring out in triumphal tones, brilliantly nuanced, capturing the joy and splendour of the Christmas festival. There are works by Albinoni, Handel, Vivaldi, Morales and Scheidt, along with arrangements by Peter Lawrence, Nikolaus Herman and Matthias Höfs himself.
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Matthias Goerne, The Synergy Vocals, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons – Berio: Sinfonia – Mahler: Lieder (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:27 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Classical
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This release is dedicated to the pioneer of Italian modernism Luciano Berio. His 5-movement ‘Sinfonia’, is undoubtedly his most well-known work, written for the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. It has become one of the key works and principle musical manifestations of the 1960s bringing together collage technique and modernism.
A few years later, Berio went on to orchestrate a number of songs on texts from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’, which Mahler had scored for piano and voice, as if they had been written at the time of the later ‘Kindertotenlieder’. A symphonic backcloth tailor-made for the great baritone voice of Matthias Goerne [whose ‘Knaben Wunderhorn’ songs are already available on DVD, with Andris Nelsons, from Lucerne]. His warm, dark voice allows him to capture the sombre and tragic atmosphere of this music like no one else.
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Matthias Goerne, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz – Bach: Cantatas for Bass (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:39 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
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Here’s a repertoire that everybody knows about yet is completely neglected: the Bach cantatas. Granted a few have gained some importance, mostly thanks to the vocal qualities of singers who have seized it for a few decades – Fischer-Dieskau and Elly Ameling to name a few – while some complete works adorn aficionados’ collections. There is however enough content in these cantatas to “make up” about a dozen Passions or Oratorios on par with some of those we already know. Bach himself didn’t refrain from drawing from them to recycle arias, ensembles, choirs and sinfonias. Among some of the most famous, honoured in the 1950s by Fischer-Dieskau, are two cantatas for baritone: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (1726) and Ich habe genug (1727), both written with oboe and string accompaniment. It’s precisely with this roster in mind that the Freiburger Barockorchester serves Matthias Goerne, a disciple of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and… Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, him again! The German baritone, a regular on the world’s most prestigious scenes, doesn’t refrain from lending his immense voice to this almost-chamber music by giving it a character far removed from the lyrical style required by Berg, Wagner or Strauss. In addition, still with the oboe in mind, the recording includes the Concerto in A Major for Oboe d’amore BWV1055R, a modern reconstruction from a keyboard concerto in A major, which there is every reason to believe was itself recycled by Bach from an older concerto for oboe d’amore. The remarkable Katharina Arfken plays the oboe for the cantatas and the oboe d’amore for the concerto.
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Matthias Goerne, Elisabeth Leonskaja – Schubert: Sehnsucht (2008/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:03 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Classical
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More than almost any other Lieder singer today, [Goerne] combines expressive diction with an unblemished legato. – The Daily Telegraph, Classical CD of the Week
[Goerne’s] voice has a melting allure that draws you in completely to the sentiments of the song, and the disarming beauty of Schubert’s music. The performances glow in various lights, rounding off a truly excellent first volume of an ongoing Schubert series. – The Scotsman
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Matthias Goerne, Daniel Harding & The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – The Wagner Project (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:02:04 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or bass from Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Holländer, Parsifal and other operas, the themes dear to the composer (gods, men and redemption) inspire him to deploy supreme expressive resources and show the incontestable genius of this born orchestrator in a new light.
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Matthias Goerne, Alexander Schmalcz – Schubert: Nacht und Träum (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:38 minutes | 493 MB | Genre: Classical
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The fifth exquisite Schubert Lieder recording for harmonia mundi from German baritone Matthias Goerne, a protégé of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. ‘Matthias Goerne is fast becoming the Fischer-Dieskau auf his generation, the standard-setting singer of the central lieder repertoire.’ (International Record Review). ‘In such repertoire Goerne’s mellow, darkly rounded timbre, expressive diction and care for a true, “bound” line are well nigh ideal.’ (Gramophone). ‘Even the lesser Schubert Lieder become gems from Goerne’s velvet baritone.’ (The Times).
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Matthias Goerne, Markus Hinterhäuser – Schumann: Einsamkeit – Lieder (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:11 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following the Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition for harmonia mundi, a venture that has revealed his stature as the foremost interpreter of lieder, especially at its darkest, Matthias Goerne has now selected 19 gems, lovingly fashioned by Schumann in the year of his marriage (1840). They are contrasted with those of the Düsseldorf period (1849-52). From the fragrant flowers of the bouquet of ‘Myrtles’ to the nocturnal atmosphere of the ‘Six Poems and Requiem’ the mood spans Schumman’s joy in his marriage to his beloved Clara but also the darkest despair: in which he erects a worthy monument to his soulmate, the poet and arch-melancholic of his time, Nikolaus Lenau. An enchanted, sometimes brooding, nocturnal atmosphere dominates these impressive songs, whose piano accompaniment – hardly coincidentally – recalls the tone of Chopin’s Nocturnes, played here by Markus Hinterhäuser, artistic director of the Salzburg Festival and regular collaborator with Matthias.
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