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Brussels Philharmonic, Kazushi Ono – Scriabin: Symphony 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:24 minutes | 827 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first volume in a Scriabin series with Brussels Philharmonic and Kazushi Ono.
“For me, Scriabin holds a central and unique role among composers. He is the first composer to engage deeply with mysticism, exploring its nuances through his music and offering us profound answers.” – Kazushi Ono
Can a composer like Alexander Scriabin be associated with any tradition at all, given the uniqueness of his musical language? Initially focusing on piano compositions, Scriabin later expanded to larger orchestral works, crafting five symphonies between 1899 and 1910. A noticeable evolution in composition unfolds, as Scriabin transitions from a late Romantic style to a more modernistic approach, drawing inspiration from symbolist poetry and philosophical figures. Envisioning himself as a musical messiah aiming to change the world, his Second Symphony provides a glimpse into this eccentric vision.
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Thomas Fiorini, Brussels Philharmonic – Concerto for Bass Guitar and Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:50 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Antarctica Records
The next step in the evolution of the bass guitar! The idea of a concerto for bass guitar is something that I have been dreaming of for decades. Since its invention, the bass guitar has firmly established itself as an essential and integral part of practically every genre of music. The bass guitar, as we now know it, was invented and produced by Leo Fender starting in 1951. The more portable bass guitar, in comparison to the large and unwieldy double bass, was capable of playing at higher volumes via amplification and satisfied the new sonic demands created by the widespread use of electrification in popular music. By increasing the overall scale of the electric guitar and only using the lowest four strings (E, A, D, G), Fender gave birth to a new instrument. Traditional double bassists could quickly adapt, with the added benefit of more accurate intonation due to the frets. Hence the original name: The Precision Bass. At the same time, guitarists could also become bass players when called upon. As a result, many of the early bass guitarists began their musical life as guitar players, with the most well-known example being Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
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Stephane Deneve & Brussels Philharmonic – Prokofiev: Romantic Suites (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:08 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Brussels Philharmonic and music director Stéphane Denève will appear on Deutsche Grammophon. Brussels Philharmonic is the first symphony orchestra in Belgium to work with this record label. For its second recording with the more than 100-year-old Deutsche Grammophon, the orchestra opted for the ballet music of Sergei Prokofiev. Denève’s touch is clearly noticeable: he created a new musical dramaturgy, choosing from the existing suites, giving rise to new and exciting combinations.
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Robert Groslot, Brussels Philharmonic, Linus Roth – Second Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Now, Voyager, sail (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:10 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Antarctica Records
Now, Voyager, sail… (First Symphony), Op. 130 is Robert Groslot’s first symphony. The title refers to a poem by the American author Walt Whitman. And the “Scherzo” movement shares a link with the Beatles song, Getting Better from the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Groslot borrows musical motives and paraphrases them in his musical language.
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Uri Caine, Brussels Philharmonic, Alexander Hanson – Agent Orange (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:11 minutes | 911 MB | Genre: Classical
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Caine: “The work consists of small chapters with different themes that express feelings like anger, frustration, but also peace. The work contains allusions to American music history. I take up the question of what holds the United States together. Someone living in NYC has a different background than someone from Oklahoma or Texas. We look at and judge each other in completely different ways. For me, the music is the only connecting element. I’m convinced of that, both as a musician and as a person.” The Brussels Philharmonic commissions a work from the American musician Uri Caine. Caine receives a “carte blanche”. The result is the composition Agent Orange for orchestra and the improvisation artists Dave Liebman on saxophone, John Hébert on double bass, DJ Olive on turntables and Uri Caine on piano: jazz meets symphonic
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Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – David: Christophe Colomb & Musique de chambre, symphonique et sacrée (Portraits, Vol. 4) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:54:15 minutes | 2,19 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Each volume in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a French composer who has now largely been forgotten. With performances by many talented artists, it presents a panorama of his works. The ‘Portrait’ of Félicien David aims to complement the discography already available with world premiere recordings of the composer’s works. Among these are a glimpse of his orchestral output, with the Symphony no. 3 and the Overture to his opéra-comique La Perle du Brésil, the work that really launched David on his operatic career. But it is above all Christophe Colomb (1847) that deserves mention, for this ode-symphonie with speaker was an ambitious follow-up to the success of Le Désert, performed at the Théâtre-Italien some years earlier. Nevertheless, this anthology does not forget that Félicien David was also a figure of the salons, admired for his intimate music and especially his songs. The programme therefore offers a chance to discover excerpts from the Mélodies orientales for solo piano, a selection of romances in the style of the 1840s, and the very rare early motets for chorus in varied scorings. The culmination of this Portrait is the restoration of Le Jugement dernier, which was intended as the concluding apotheosis of the opera Herculanum, but was finally deleted and has never been published until today. – Palazzetto Bru Zane / Ediciones Singulares
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Dirk Brossé & Brussels Philharmonic – The Pulse of Joy (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:07 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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The world premiere recording of compositions by Dirk Brosse, recorded with the Brussels Philharmonic. A Pulse of Joy is the second album (the first one “A Symphonic Journey from Philly to Utopia”, was released last year) contains world premiere recordings of some of the works Dirk Brosse has written over the past 10 years. Dirk Brosse, an internationally acclaimed conductor and composer, is currently Music Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Music at his hometown Ghent, Belgium.
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Charlotte Wajnberg, Brussels Philharmonic & Robert Groslot – Robert Groslot: The Intimacy of Distance, Op. 122 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:42 minutes | 987 MB | Genre: Classical
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The soprano voice occupies a central place in Robert Groslot’s vocal music, and in The Intimacy of Distance he has created his most ambitious composition yet for voice and orchestra. Exploring how elements of life can only be realized through the experience of distance, this concerto for soprano and orchestra moves through various contrasts to huge transformative effect. The calm sounds of nature alternate with melodic lines and dissonant chords in My Green Shade Forest, while Trittico incantevole is a radiant piece composed in honor of the painter Peter Paul Rubens. Composer Robert Groslot is 70 this year; an appropriate anniversary disc with three more premiere recordings. He is one of Belgium’s leading living composers – his catalogue consists of large orchestral works, 50 concertos, three multimedia works and many solo and chamber music works.
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Jodie Devos, Brussels Philharmonic, Pierre Bleuse – Bijoux perdus (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:31 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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After her triumph with the album Offenbach Colorature (ALPHA437), Jodie Devos has chosen to follow in the footsteps of one of her compatriots, the Belgian coloratura soprano Marie Cabel (1827 -1885), who at the age of twenty-six scored a phenomenal success in Adolphe Adam’s opéra-comique Le Bijou perdu , which she premiered in Paris. She then took on a more dramatic role in Halévy’s Jaguarita l’Indienne , whose great Invocation with chorus (‘À moi ma cohorte!’) again hit the bullseye in a run of 124 performances over just a few months. Cabel enjoyed one hit after another, in Auber’s Manon Lescaut and La Part du diable , Meyerbeer’s L’Étoile du Nord and Le Pardon de Ploërmel , Victor Massé’s Galathée , and Le Songe d’une nuit d’été by Ambroise Thomas, who in 1866 gave her the biggest role of her career: Philine in Mignon , based on Goethe. In partnership with the musicologists of the Palazzetto Bru Zane, who have resurrected and edited all these unjustly forgotten rarities, and Pierre Bleuse conducting the Brussels Philharmonic and the Flemish Radio Choir, Jodie Devos pays tribute to this star of the nineteenth century, whose audacity and sense of mischief she undoubtedly shares!
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