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Johannes Søe Hansen, Christina Bjørkøe – Works for Violin & Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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All of Vagn Holmboe’s (1909-1996) works for violin and piano are on this CD, which contains the three violin sonatas and a handful of other small pieces for the same instruments and for solo violin. This music is from the chronological extremes of his long career, which lasted from the 1920s until the 1990s. The violin was Holmboe’s own instrument and his violin works show a decidedly extroverted love of music-making. Much of the music is inspired by the folk music that Holmboe encountered and studied at the beginning of the 1930s in the Balkans and Transylvania, but also by the relatively neglected Danish fiddling tradition.
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Wieland Kuijken, François Joubert-Caillet – Johannes Schenck: Le Nymphe di Rheno (Les Nymphes du Rhin) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:32 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Amsterdam and based in Germany, Johannes Schenk blended the musical influences of the English viol school and of Marin Marais. Each volume of his works has its own individual character: the volume entitled Le Nymphe di Rheno contains twelve sonatas for two bass viols without figured bass. Schenk here makes use of the Italian sonata form, as he does in the church sonatas as well as the chamber sonatas with their dance movements. French influences can also be felt in the various rondeaux and minuets and above all in the monumental Chaconne of the Sonata in G major.Two splendid musicians here meet face to face. Wieland Kuijken, one of the pioneers of the viola da gamba revival and the teacher of dozens of today’s most talented musicians, needs no further introduction. François Joubert-Caillet belongs to the new generation: a pupil of Paolo Pandolfo, he performs with many ensembles including Leonardo Garcia Alarcon’s Cappella Mediterranea and Clematis. This CD was recorded in the wonderful atmosphere of the superb Romanesque church of Notre-Dame de Centeilles in the Minervois region of France.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Nahuel Di Pierro – German Cantatas with Solo Violin (Bonus Track Version) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:06 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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Continuing their research into the vast hinterland of German cantatas from the early baroque period, Johannes Pramsohler and the musicians of his excellent Diderot Ensemble here dive into the austere and strange music of Biber, but also the less-well-known works of Johann Christoph Bach, great uncle of Johann Sebastian and musicians like Pachelbel, Bruhns and Eberlin. Johannes Pramsohler brings a particular fire and mystical sensuality to this new album (heavenly and earthly delights never being so far apart), and intense celestial flights to his violin playing. A range of international singers have left behind opera and dived with staggering ease into a completely different repertoire. The architects of this success, the supply and airy voice of the Canadian mezzo Andrea Hill, the perfectly gloomy timbre of Spanish tenor Jorge Navarro Colorado and the dark colours of the Argentine bass Nahuel di Pierro, sound the depths of this music driven by a great piety. – François Hudry
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Johannes Pramsohler, Gulrim Choi, Philippe Grisvard – Hellendaal: “Cambridge” Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:15 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Audax Records
Pieter Hellendaal was one of the star violinists who – like Geminiani and Veracini – appeared as a soloist during the intermissions of Handel’s operas in London. Exploring Hellendaal’s sonata manuscript in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, Johannes Pramsohler brings to light a composer firmly rooted in the Corellian tradition, yet reminiscent of his teacher Tartini in his melodic invention and of Locatelli in his stunningly virtuosic cadenzas.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – Handel: Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 11:50 minutes | 259 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audax Records
The Violin sonata in D major (HWV 371) was composed (c. 1749-50) by George Frideric Handel, for violin and keyboard (harpsichord). Other catalogues of Handel’s music have referred to the work as HG xxvii,47; and HHA iv/4,28. This sonata represents Handel’s last piece of chamber music. The piece was not published by Walsh. The designation Opus 1 No.13 was first made in the Chrysander edition. A typical performance of the work takes about twelve minutes.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Philippe Grisvard – French Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:56:04 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Audax Records
Sonatas for violin and obligato harpsichord by Guillemain, Mondonville, Corrette, Duphly, Marchand, Balbastre and Clément. Powerful, elegant, and refined – In 1740, with the op. 4 of Jean-Joseph Cassan a de Mondonville, a new genre appeared on the scene in France, a genre that was to fundamentally overturn the relationship to the harpsichord – until then a continuo instrument when it was not playing alone: the Pieces de clavecin en sonates avec accompagnement de violon.
Contrary to what the title might suggest, the two instruments engage in a dialogue as equals. Unknowingly, Mondonville imitated the Sei Suonate Cembalo certato e Violino solo that Bach had composed ten years earlier. Moreover, he introduced a thoroughly Italian flavour – certainly an echo of the concertos by Corelli and Vivadli that at the time were often heard at the Concert Spirituel. The following decade then experienced a veritable rage for this form: Corrette, Guillemain, Balbastre, and others put their visions of the theme on paper – each in a very personal manner.
The “Dream Team” (Early Music Review), made up of the two indefatigable researchers Philippe Grisvard and Johannes Pramsohler, has rediscovered this neglected part of the violin-harpsichord repertoire and now presents a captivating selection of the genre’s best works in world premiere recordings on an opulent double album.
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Johannes Pramsohler, Ensemble Diderot – Concertos pour violon (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:11 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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France’s contribution to the genre of the Baroque solo concerto seems late and tentative, but it is fascinating to see how French composers celebrated the arrival of the violin and combined Italian robustness and French elegance in their works. Johannes Pramsohler and Ensemble Diderot take a journey to the origins of this hybrid form, presenting here the very first violin concertos by French composers, with two world-premiere recordings of concertos by Jean-Marie Leclair and Andre-Joseph Exaudet at the heart of this virtuosic and exciting programme.
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Johannes Oerding – Alles brennt (Bonus Live Track Version) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:11 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Pop
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This is simply a vision that you, as a musician, carry in you for a long time: to play in front of the widest possible audience. It was only a matter of time before the outspoken live junkie, who has again played around the 250 mostly sold-out shows in the past two years, would record one of his concerts for eternity. Because if Oerding had the choice between an ECHO and a sold-out tour, it would be clear the tour. He just burns to play live and to spend unique, intimate nights with his audience and absolutely everyone who has experienced it will be glad to have something against the withdrawal symptoms: With Live in Hamburg Johannes Oerding brings the first one.
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Johannes Müllers Jazz Mile – Gloomy Smokey Light (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:06:08 minutes | 728 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Johannes Mueller JAZZ MILE invites us on a historic musical excursion to one of most impulsive places in jazz. It is 9:48 PM and we saunter through the smoky Frenchmen Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Faraway, you can hear the sound of a saxophone, carrying the melody and being rhythmically supported by the contrabass and the drums. More sides appear, this time a trumpet and a piano. As we arrive in front of Snug Harbour, a very traditional jazz bar, we recognize, through the gloomy light, Johannes Mueller on the saxophone with his band JAZZ MILE on stage in his favourite bar. It could have been occurred this way or in a similar way.
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![Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson - Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn-Hensel: Works for Cello & Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/24/mzp48mj8x4neb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson – Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn-Hensel: Works for Cello & Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:56 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin Mendelssohn family house, these works fit into the typically nineteenth-century tradition of domestic music-making, albeit at the highest thinkable level. Beatson plays an 1837 Érard fortepiano, identical to the instrument that belonged to the Mendelssohn household when these pieces were composed.
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Johannes Moser – Lutosławski & Dutilleux: Cello Concertos (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:50 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
This album features cello concertos by Witold Lutosławski and Henri Dutilleux performed by the multiple prize-winning German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Thomas Søndergård. These works, premiered in 1970, are two of the biggest gems of the twentieth century, the golden age of the cello. While equally virtuosic and engaging, both pieces showcase different aspects of the musical landscape of the late twentieth century. Lutosławski’s concerto explores the possibilities of chance composition in the form of a duel between the solo cello and a ferocious orchestral accompaniment, in which the individual ultimately prevails. In comparison, soloist and ensemble work together more smoothly in Henri Dutilleux’ “Tout un monde lontain”. In this “cello concerto”, the composer invokes a mystical “world from afar”, inspired by Baudelaire quotes and full of allusions to French musical greats such as Debussy and Messiaen, while simultaneously sounding unmistakably Dutilleuxian.
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Johannes Haage, Drift – Darwin’s Blues (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:48 minutes | 237 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Darwin’s blues is the second album of the Berlin trio around the guitarist Johannes Haage. After organizers the tape over and over again like his debut record (“DRIFT”, in 2016) announced she has assumed since some time officially the name DRIFT.
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Johannes Fleischmann – Exodus: The Men Who Shaped Hollywood (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:18 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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The ‘Viennese Violinist’ Johannes Fleischmann gives heartfelt and deeply insightful interpretations of the music of Erich Korngold and Eric Zeisl, Viennese composers who escaped the rise of Nazism by journeying to America shortly before the Second World War. Once there, both composers adapted their talents to the world of Hollywood, becoming defining voices in the golden age of Hollywood movie scores. 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the premiere of the ‘Brandeis’ Sonata by Eric Zeisl, heard on this release alongside Korngold’s Violin Sonata. Johannes Fleischhmann is joined on this album by pianist Magda Amara and, for Korngold’s song ‘Schneeglöckchen’, by baritone Gunter Haumer.
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Johannes Enders, Rainer Böhm – Kokoro (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yellowbird Records
johannes enders describes himself as an optimistic melancholic, romantic and soulful he calls the music played in the acoustic duo with rainer boehm. Both have known each other for a long time, both now teach as professors of their instruments, both recorded in a duo a good decade and a half ago and have met again and again since then. saxophonist enders appreciates the pianist böhm that despite all his virtuosity he has not forgotten how to serve the overall picture. he does not have to take the lead with his instrument, but can also let the other take the lead. “I am the melody and he is the orchestra”, sums up johannes enders.
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Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly – Brahms: The Symphonies (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:53:58 minutes | 4,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
This comprehensive overview of Brahms’s orchestral works includes several rarities, among them world premieres of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus’s long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel) and the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.
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