Daniel Hope – Tchaikovsky / Elgar / Mozart: Serenades (2020)
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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)
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“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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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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