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Golda Schultz, Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:13 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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‘Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!’ This is the title that the South African soprano Golda Schultz has decided to give to her new album, devoted to the female heroines of Don Giovanni , Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro , roles that have marked her career from Berlin to The Metropolitan Opera: ‘Why does Mozart drive me crazy? First of all, because his music, which sounds so easy when you listen to it, is extremely difficult to perform… And when I immerse myself in the world of Da Ponte and Mozart, I realise that there’s a deep complexity to their female characters: they endure the toughest trials, but they also display great strength. In fact, these operas explore humanity from the feminine perspective: every single one of these women is constantly evolving. They show how human beings transcend trauma and how grief and pain can be overcome.’ The programme is conducted by another eminent Mozartian, Antonello Manacorda, with the Kammerakademie Potsdam.
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Lisa Larsson, Het Gelders Orkest, Antonello Manacorda – Berlioz: La Captive (2014)
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Swedish soprano Lisa Larsson is among the most versatile singers on the European scene, with a repertory stretching from the Baroque to contemporary music. This coherent and innovative program features two cantatas and a song composed by Berlioz between 1828 and 1830. One of the stars of today singing, Lisa Larsson finally approaches French romantic repertoire.
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Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:14 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Kammerakademie Potsdam and its musical director Antonello Manacorda have received numerous awards for their complete recordings of the symphonies of Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Their recording of the last three Mozart symphonies earned them an OPUS Klassik 2022 as “Orchestra of the Year.” Last year they began a new Beethoven cycle with Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 7, which they now continue with the pivotal Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6.
Critics attested to the first album “incredible anticipation and joie de vivre” (Stereoplay) as well as “inner logic and persuasiveness” (FONO FORUM).
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Lisette Oropesa, Il Pomo d’Oro & Antonello Manacorda – Mozart: Ombra compagna (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:28 minutes | 2,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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Soprano Lisette Oropesa presents her solo debut album “Ombra Compagna”, a kaleidoscope of concert arias by Mozart, whose music is very dear to her heart. These concert arias, written for important sopranos in his life, contain the most lavish and virtuosic music Mozart composed, both for the voice and for the orchestra. The emotional centre of the album is the aria Ah, lo previdi, in which the most sublime music accompanies the journey between life and death, as the spirit of a loved one slips away. For Oropesa, to be an “Ombra compagna” means to be with someone in spirit, a comforting yet heart-breaking testament of love.
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Kammerakademie Potsdam & Antonello Manacorda – Mozart Symphonies Nos. 39, 40, 41 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:09 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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In the summer of 1788 Wolfgang Amad’e Mozart (1756-91) wrote what from any standpoint is an extraordinary set of three symphonies – as Jarno says in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, people “do extraordinary things without respecting orderliness”. It was presumably not Mozart’s intention that this group of symphonies should remain his final word on the subject, and a weighty one at that. Despite every setback, it tells of a time of new departures, not of valediction. Only three years later, during which time he had written many other masterpieces, death snatched the pen from his hand. He was only thirty-five…
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Kammerakademie Potsdam, Antonello Manacorda – Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:09 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Kammerakademie Potsdam, headed by Antonello Manacorda, received an Echo Klassik Award as the year’s best orchestra for its complete recording of the Schubert symphonies. Now it is turning to a Mendelssohn cycle and has already received high praise for its recording of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4: “sparkling and vivacious”, wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, “a sentient being with heartbeat that breathes and never stops moving”. Now these works are followed by Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5, which occupy a special place in Mendelssohn’s oeuvre. The atmospheric and popular “Scottish” Symphony (No. 3) has an autobiographical aspect in the form of the composer’s 1829 journey to Scotland, a place of longing much frequented by Central Europeans for its rugged landscapes, fog-bound seacoasts and legends of witches and sorcerers, all of which find their way into the music. Symphony No. 5, often called the “Reformation” Symphony, was written in 1830 for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. In the event, its performance had to be postponed owing to the pan-European revolutions of 1830, and the work did not receive its première until two years later. An x8 trak piece of work.
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Lisa Larsson, Het Gelders Orkest, Antonello Manacorda – Berlioz: La Captive (2014)
DSF Stereo DSD128/5.64 MHz | Time – 48:34 minutes | 3,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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Have you ever heard of Jean-Baptiste Guirod, Giullaume Ross-Despraux or Eugne Prvost? Apart from Prvost, perhaps, they have mostly been consigned to the depths of oblivion. But these were composers who won the coveted Prix de Rome, an award that had been instituted by Napoleon himself in 1803, in the period from 1827 to 1829. And in doing so, they whipped the prize right out from under the nose of Berlioz, who had competed for it just as often as they had. It might offer Berlioz some — posthumous — solace to know that he was in excellent company; Ravel, Debussy and Bizet were also to be denied the prize. The judging system for the prize, which offered little scope for groundbreaking composers, has come in for severe criticism over the years. In the words of Edgar Varse, the prize ‘produced so much insipid fruit that nowadays we can barely even remember their names’. It was Berlioz himself, in his highly readable and entertaining autobiography, who explained all about the prize’s requirements and what the prize itself involved. The winner received an allowance for five years, but this was on condition that he would spend the first two years at the Acadmie de France in Rome, use the third year for travelling through Germany and survive the remaining two years ‘doing what he could to promote himself and avoid dying from hunger’ in Paris.
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Antonello Manacorda, Kammerakademie Potsdam – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 7 (2022)
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Italian conductor and violinist Antonello Manacorda first appeared on the conducting scene in a 2000 production of La Clemenza di Tito. At the time he had virtually no conducting experience, but influential figures accurately spotted his talent, and he has emerged as a versatile and innovative figure. Manacorda was born in 1970 in Turin, Italy. His father was an accountant, but both his parents were amateur music enthusiasts, and when Manacorda, as a child, expressed a desire to become a conductor, they encouraged his instincts. In school at the Turin Conservatory, however, Manacorda studied violin.
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Antonello Manacorda, Het Gelders Orkest – Debussy: La mer, L. 109 – Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye, M. 62 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:59 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Classical
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The bulk of La mer was composed during a visit to Burgundy – a long way from the nearest sea – although the work was completed in the English seaside town of Eastbourne. The composer himself argued that his inspiration was drawn from a range of ocean view paintings and from literature in which the sea played a major part. Debussy described the work as ‘Three symphonic sketches for orchestra’ (Trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre), thus avoiding the term ‘symphony’, which would have imposed a specific musical structure, as well as the expression ‘symphonic poem’, which would imply that the music was descriptive in nature. ‘Sketches’ was a wise choice, precisely because it neatly conveys that the music is meant to do no more than provide an impression.
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