Alex Klein – Amoroso (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:02 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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Few instruments are as viscerally associated with the idea of grace and beauty as the harp, and few are as apt to express a sense of yearning as the oboe. So what could possibly capture the feeling of love better than a duo composed of these two instruments? Possibly nothing, as harpist Rita Costanzi and oboist Alex Klein rivetingly demonstrate on AMOROSO, an archetypally romantic album of intimate chamber music. Well-known classics by Debussy, Fauré, Massenet, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, and Rodrigo shine in a new light, and two new, fittingly Romanticist pieces by contemporary composer Michael Cohen perfectly complete this wonderful picture.
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Alex Klein & Phillip Bush – Twentieth Century Oboe Sonatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:20 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, former principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performs sonatas that signify the oboe’s 20th-century reemergence as a brilliant solo instrument. One of the world’s most famous oboe players, Klein says he waited to acquire a professional lifetime’s worth of experience before putting his stamp on the six sonatas heard here.
Read moreAlex Klein, Phillip Bush – When There Are No Words: Revolutionary Works for Oboe & Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Grammy Award-winner Alex Klein, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboe emeritus, and pianist Phillip Bush perform works by composers from both sides of the Atlantic who were caught up in or deeply moved by 20th-century political turmoil.
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