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Samuel Hasselhorn, Ammiel Bushakevitz – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
As if he were one with Müller’s hero, Schubert explores in La Belle Meunière loneliness, emotions, the call of elsewhere, disappointed or impossible loves, death too… For this first stage of the Schubert series that Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz propose to us 200 years apart, they give us a poetic and poignant reading of this founding masterpiece of German lied.
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Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Licht! 800 Years of German Lied (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:42 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
After her Schumann disc (CC 72867), we are glad to present a new disc by great mezzosoprano Anna Lucia Richter. The theme of of the disc is: Light. The repertoire encompasses eight hundred years of German Lieder.
“[her] bright, clean, focused tone, precise diction and keen sense of drama will be familiar from her performances in an impressively wide-ranging portfolio.” – Gramophone on A.L.Richter:
With the present programme we want to explore the history of the German Lied throughout a period spanning some 800 years, from that first light of dawn represented by the earliest music scored with modern notation – courtly love songs by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170-1230) and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445) – down to such present-day emissaries of the Lied tradition as Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm. In between we find: J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, F. Hensel, Wolf, Berg and Eisler.
The programme is rounded off, however, by the work of a political exile, Kurt Weill: namely, Berlin im Licht. This work appears initially to be no more than a love-song to the future of the electric light bulb: “Turn on the light; so you can see what’s wrong and what is right”. The deeper meaning was soon thrown into relief by the blotting out, within a few years of its composition, of both the light and the right to which Kurt Weill aspired and Germany’s swift descent into the darkness of dictatorship and war. A spark, however, still remained.
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Katharina Konradi & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Insomnia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:03 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Insomnia is a persistent or recurrent sleeplessness. When we sleep fitfully or lie awake night after night, we conjure up all manner of images, fantasies and feelings, which in the hours of darkness or twilight mostly seem confused, larger than life and very existential. That is how it is with our choice of Lieder. The pieces examine the great feelings and issues like love, death, hate, yearning, under the magnifying glass of nocturnal sensitivity. Worlds arise in which one no longer knows what is true and what is not. And that is what is special about our Insomnia: everything is possible, and everything is to be found in the ears and the eyes of the listener.
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Katharina Konradi & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Insomnia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:03 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Insomnia is a persistent or recurrent sleeplessness. When we sleep fitfully or lie awake night after night, we conjure up all manner of images, fantasies and feelings, which in the hours of darkness or twilight mostly seem confused, larger than life and very existential. That is how it is with our choice of Lieder. The pieces examine the great feelings and issues like love, death, hate, yearning, under the magnifying glass of nocturnal sensitivity. Worlds arise in which one no longer knows what is true and what is not. And that is what is special about our Insomnia: everything is possible, and everything is to be found in the ears and the eyes of the listener.
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Laetitia Grimaldi, Ammiel Bushakevitz, Talia Erdal – Ombres: Women Composers of La Belle Époque (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:46 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS
Devised by Laetitia Grimaldi and Ammiel Bushakevitz, Ombres brings together songs by nine women composers whose lives span the years 1821–1964. Many of the songs were written during the so-called Belle Époque, at a time when women might be accepted as performers – especially in domestic settings – but struggled to be recognised as composers. And even in the cases when their music was heard – for instance in the fashionable salons of Paris – or published, it soon fell into oblivion.
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Anna Lucia Richter, Ammiel Bushakevitz – Brahms: Lieder (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:06 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
On her third Pentatone album Brahms Lieder, Anna Lucia Richter returns to the German lied, making her recording debut as a mezzo-soprano with a recital of Brahms songs, together with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. Brahms is particularly suitable for this recording debut as his songs fit the mezzo-soprano voice like a glove, and the pieces presented here range from love poetry and dark Romanticism to folk songs, including the world-famous Wiegenlied. Richter’s profound engagement and knowledge of the German lied is perceivable in each song she performs, as well as in her insightful liner notes text for the booklet, in which she links the project to the notion of twilight (Dämmerung). Bushakevitz’s poetic playing offers the perfect tone for both the gloomy and the idyllic pieces.
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Timothy Fallon & Ammiel Bushakevitz – Crepuscolo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
Crepuscolo is the final song in Ottorino Respighi’s song cycle Deità silvane (‘woodland deities’), but as an album title it also stands for the twilight during the interwar years of everything that Respighi represented, as various trends such as atonality, spiky neoclassicism and futurism flourished. In reaction to these developments, Respighi in 1932 famously signed a manifesto calling for music with a ‘human content’ – something which his songs certainly live up to: as Elsa Respighi, the composer’s wife, once said it was to his songs that he ‘entrusts his heart’s hidden secrets, when he lets his soul sing freely.’
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