Orchestra of the Munich Chamber Opera & Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 and Rondo WoO 6 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestra of the Munich Chamber Opera & Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2 and Rondo WoO 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:22 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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With his first two piano concertos, the young Ludwig van Beethoven presented himself in Vienna as a man of the hour and a musician of the future: a new style, a new momentum, which the eleven musicians around the multi-award-winning Aris Alexander Blettenberg bring to life on their current GENUIN album from the first note. The arrangements, written especially for the orchestra of the Kammeroper München, make the details of the original scores transparently audible, without losing any of their orchestral radiance. The conductor, pianist and composer Aris Alexander Blettenberg leads the orchestra dynamically and expressively from the grand piano.

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Theo Plath & Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Lost Times (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Theo Plath & Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Lost Times (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:53 minutes | 557 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

With this album Theo Plath has have fulfilled his personal dream to revel in the music of Romanticism and Impressionism, an era otherwise mostly lost for the bassoon as a solo instrument. Theo Plath, principal of the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, plays here in this new album Saint-Saëns Bassoon Sonata alongside Plath’s own arrangements of popular chamber works by Boulanger, Debussy and Franck.

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Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Hommage à Beethoven (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Aris Alexander Blettenberg – Hommage à Beethoven (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:15 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

Hommage à Beethoven or per aspera ad astra – a musical journey from darkness into light.

The program is framed by two Beethoven transcriptions:

At the beginning is the Allegretto of the VII Symphony in Franz Liszt’s arrangement, and at the end a piano version of the song An die Hoffnung, written for this CD. In both pieces, sound worlds emerge that set the keynote of this musical journey. The Allegretto functions as a prologue, looks ahead, sets the direction; the song becomes an epilogue, looks back, sums up. The somber atmosphere that runs throughout the program – in the minor passages of the Allegretto, in Schumann’s variations, in the third movement of the Beethoven Sonata, in the recitative-like episodes of the Lied – finds its complement in the light-filled moments, the A major sections of the Allegretto, the first, second, and fourth movements of the Sonata, and ultimately in the confident sounds of the Lied transcription, with its concluding exclamation, “O hope!” (Aris Alexander Blettenberg)

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