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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Elim Chan – All These Lighted Things (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:05 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anyone who has seen the conductor Elim Chan on stage is familiar with the immense energy produced by her baton. With the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, of which she has been Principal Conductor since 2019, she celebrates a genre dear to her heart, ballet music, which places the emphasis on both physical movement and orchestral power. More than a century of ballet music is presented here, with excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suites, oscillating between passionate love and fatal violence; Suite no.2 from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé , the fruit of his first collaboration with Diaghilev in 1912, which he described as a ‘choreographic symphony’; and finally a work by Elizabeth Ogonek, All These Lighted Things , premiered in 2017. Although the title of these ‘three little dances for orchestra’ comes from a poem that evokes a soothing union with the earth at the dawn of a sunny day, the piece ends with a sort of folk dance that degenerates into an orchestral storm.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra – Peter Benoit: Heaven and Hell (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:56:40 minutes | 2,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Peter Benoit (1834-1901) inspired a renaissance in Flemish music, composing magnificent choral works in Flemish despite the cultural predominance of French in Belgian society. Many of his compositions were performed during open-air concerts attended by large crowds. Moreover, this changemaker also helped found several Antwerp art institutions that define local cultural life to this day. Benoit’s extensive and timeless oeuvre spans numerous genres, from religious music in Latin to monumental oratorios in the vernacular. As a proud ambassador of Benoit’s music, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra pays the ultimate tribute to the spiritual father of Flemish music with this CD box, featuring a collection of his greatest masterpieces, performed live with an international cast of soloists, choirs and conductors.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997, and the Ghent conductor regularly conducts and records with the Flanders orchestra. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies (LPH032), they are continuing their exploration of Schumann’s symphonies: ” The symphony has given me many hours of joy. I often give thanks to the beneficent spirit that enabled me to complete such an important work so easily and in such a short time ” says the tormented composer. He wrote his first symphony, “Spring”, in just four days and orchestrated it in three weeks. The third, known as the “Rhenish”, was inspired by a day Schumann spent with his wife Clara in the Rhineland.
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Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart – Elgar: Cello Concerto & Piano Quintet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:00 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Classical
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After making several discs of chamber music by Brahms and Schubert, the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker now records a large-scale concerto, showing the full range of her talent. Composed between 1918 and 1919, Elgar’s Concerto Op.85 was poorly received at its first performance but has since become established as one of the key works in the cello repertoire. To complete the programme, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker rejoins her chamber music partners, the violinists Carolin Widmann and David McCarroll, the violist Pauline Sachse and the pianist Martin Helmchen, in Elgar’s Piano Quintet, composed at the same time as the Concerto and premiered in London in 1919.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins – Kalevi Aho: Trombone & Trumpet Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:18 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Concertos for cor anglais are few and far between, and harp concertos aren’t very common either. In combining the two, Kalevi Aho has come up with a true rarity – possibly the only double concerto in existence for these two instruments. Composed in 2014, the work was commissioned by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra for two of its solo players: Anneleen Lenaerts and Dimitri Mestdag, who also perform it here. The work is characteristically eclectic, making the most of the sonic possibilities of the solo instruments, but also of the orchestral palette.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:45 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Philippe Herreweghe and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra explore the tormented world of Robert Schumann. Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 plunge us into the psychological tangles of the composer’s mind, reflecting his relentless struggle with melancholy and depression. In these two seminal works, a slow and sombre introduction unveils the main motifs that will unfold throughout, before culminating in an emphatic and optimistic finale. The director from Ghent (and former psychiatrist) Philippe Herreweghe manages to grasp the full complexity of this cathartic process leading us from darkness into light. He delivers a lively and urgent interpretation of these romantic masterpieces, confirming his reputation as an unrivalled performer of the German repertoire.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe – Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:07 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the success of his recordings of Symphonies nos. 1, 3 and 4, released on the Phi label in 2016, Philippe Herreweghe offers us the next instalment of Schubert’s orchestral output with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic: the Symphony no.2 D. 125 and Symphony no.5 D. 485 – both in B flat major. Like those on the previous disc, these works from his youth – written when the Viennese composer was not yet twenty years old – mark the promising beginnings of an already highly accomplished composer. They demonstrate finesse of large-scale symphonic construction, even though the Fifth is the least heavily scored of the cycle – it is the only one that does not call for clarinets, trumpets and timpani. The Second, with its light character, requires just as much subtlety from the orchestra – which Philippe Herreweghe and the Philharmonic provide with their accurate and intelligent playing throughout this album.
A new homage from the Belgian conductor to the genius of the Viennese composer, whose later symphonies are better-known to us, while his earlier works are – quite unfairly – not played or recorded enough!
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Olari Elts – Kalevi Aho: Double & Triple Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
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Concertos for cor anglais are few and far between, and harp concertos aren’t very common either. In combining the two, Kalevi Aho has come up with a true rarity – possibly the only double concerto in existence for these two instruments. Composed in 2014, the work was commissioned by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra for two of its solo players: Anneleen Lenaerts and Dimitri Mestdag, who also perform it here. The work is characteristically eclectic, making the most of the sonic possibilities of the solo instruments, but also of the orchestral palette.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg – Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 & Ett drömspel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:23 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
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Considered to be one of the great Nordic symphonies of its time, Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Symphony No. 2 in G minor was a long time in the making. Stenhammar the conductor and pianist was a leading figure in the musical life of Sweden and Scandinavia, but in his role as composer he struggled with self-doubt, feeling that his knowledge of musical theory was insufficient. In 1910 he decided to address this perceived shortcoming, and began an intensive study of counterpoint which included setting himself several thousand assignments over the following decade. At the same time, between 1911 and 1915, Stenhammar composed his G minor symphony, and against this background it is hardly surprising that it displays his preoccupation with counterpoint, its final movement a grandiose double fugue.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Christian Lindberg – Christian Lindberg: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:44 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a performer and conductor, Christian Lindberg has a rare ability to electrify an audience, and as reviewers attest, the same applies to his compositions. Released in 2018, his viola concerto Steppenwolf was described as ‘one of those rare contemporary works that captures the attention from the first notes’ (Fanfare) while the five-star review in BBC Music Magazine spoke of ‘thrilling orchestral storytelling’ and ‘glorious musical cavalcades’.
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