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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Pietari Inkinen – Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70, B. 141 & Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:15 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 1884, Antonín Dvořák undertook his first concert tour to England. This was to become a highlight of his career to date and brought him international recognition and economic security. It was a time of private and professional bliss. It is interesting to note, however, that the Seventh Symphony by no means reflects a consistently pastoral, idyllic atmosphere. On the contrary, the music often has a dramatic and sombre effect. It is possible that Dvořák was coming to terms with the blows of fate he had suffered: he had lost his mother and three children. Four years after the premiere of the Seventh Symphony, Dvořák set to work on his Eighth, which differed substantially from it. In the Seventh, he still adhered to the form of the classical symphony according to Beethoven, but in the Eighth he gave preference to melody over form. It leads through the work, creating the impression of a “sequence of atmospheric poetic pictures”. Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen has been chief conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie since 2017 and music director of the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul since 2022. He has conducted many renowned orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Fazıl Say, Friedemann Eichhorn, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Christoph Eschenbach – Fazil Say: Violin Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:26 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fazıl Say is one of the world’s most prominent pianists but he is also a much-admired composer with a substantial catalogue of works. He combines both these accomplishments in his two Violin Sonatas, the first of which is suffused with Turkish motifs and dances, such as the horon. The Second Sonata takes as its theme the abuse of nature and the need to resist despoliation. His Violin Concerto is subtitled ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’ and is full of rich melodies and atmosphere, and features an array of Turkish percussion instruments.
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Theo Plath, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie & Leo McFall – Weber, Bitsch. Jolivet & Crussell: Bassoon Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Classical
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Bassoonist Theo Plath is currently the talk of the town. After winning the 2018 German Music Competition, which awarded him this Primavera Edition prizewinner album, he also impressed audiences at the 2019 ARD Music Competition. Be it as a soloist, chamber musician, or solo bassoonist with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Theo Plath simply thrills his audiences.
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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and Pietari Inkinen – Festklänge (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
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When typical Christmas music is played on the radio for the first time, the Christmas season begins for many people. However, the music that we like to listen to on these days was not always composed especially for the festive season. We associate Christmas in particular with early, highly emotional memories. The music we associate with these deeply imprinted feelings does not therefore necessarily have to be Christmassy: it simply has to reinforce or reflect these feelings.
In its December 2022 festive concert, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by its principal conductor Pietari Inkinen, performed a mix of “real” Christmas music and music associated with the holiday today. In addition to Hely Hutchinson’s “A Carol Symphony,” excerpts from Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” were heard, among others.
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Sebastian Manz, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Magnus Lindberg & Dominik Beykirch – Nielsen & Lindberg: Clarinet Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:11 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Classical
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Seekers after extreme landscapes and rugged coastlines are well provided for in Scandinavia – as they are in its music. On his new album, Sebastian Manz engages with the clarinet concertos of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen and Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. Both are well known for their elemental, abstract sound stuctures, summoning up the natural world of their homelands for listeners as if painting in sound.
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Joseph Moog, Nicholas Milton, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie – Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 & Four Pieces for Piano Op. 119 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:07 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Classical
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One could lose oneself among the multitude of German orchestras, so active is musical life in that great musical country. But these orchestras’ many fusions can render reality somewhat opaque. This is the case with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie which offers us here a new recording of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto in D minor with Joseph Moog, coming on the heels of the recording of the Second, which was released in 2017. This orchestra, founded in 2007, was the product of a merger between the Saarbrücken and Kaiserlautern Radio Orchestras, whose total membership has fallen from 152 to 98 musicians today.
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Joseph Moog, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Nicholas Milton – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Strauss: Burleske (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:37 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms was 48 years old and at the height of his powers when he completed his Piano Concerto No. 2. The Olympian B flat Concerto is, famously, not only one of the most technically challenging of all piano concertos to play but also one of the longest and a supreme test of the soloist’s technique and stamina. Not far behind it in terms of the challenges it presents the soloist with, is the early Burleske for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss. Dedicated to Hans von Bülow as a thank-you present, Bülow however, refused to learn it, considering it to be ‘unplayable’. This may have had something to with the fact that Bülow’s hands could barely span an octave – an insuperable obstacle in a work that demands superlative, stamina-sapping octaves – but which begs the question why the composer should write something so physically unsuitable for his mentor. This is repertoire in which Joseph Moog excels
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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie – Shostakovich: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:43 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Classical
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Shostakovich never wrote an original composition entitled “Chamber Symphony”. Works known under this title are arrangements of the composer’s string quartets by the conductor Rudolf Barshai and authorized by the composer. The String Quartet No. 1, Op. 49 was written in 1938, after the Great Terror from 1937 and can be considered as an act of inner emigration. The String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 was written 22 years later, within three days, from 12 to 14 July 1960, in the Saxon health resort of Gohrisch. The Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35, written in 1933, is one of the last works written in Shostakovich’s first creative period which was not yet overshadowed by Stalinist repressions and is peppered with a great deal of parodistic allusions. With the present recordings the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under its young, energetic chief conductor Pietari Inkinen draws a dramaturgically convincing bow across Shostakovich’s work.
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Claire Huangci, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie & Shiyeon Sung – Paderewski and Chopin: Piano Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:33 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Classical
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Claire Huangci went from being “clearly a pianist to follow” (Gramophone Editor’s Choice, September 2015) to the status of internationally established and acclaimed young pianist even before winning the Mozart Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in 2018. Following on from four successful solo albums – from arrangements of Russian ballet music through Scarlatti to Chopin’s complete Nocturnes and all of Rachmaninoff’s Preludes – she now releases her first orchestral disc with Berlin Classics. Together with the aspiring young South Korean conductor Shiyeon Sung and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken she plays Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and contrasts it with Paderewski’s concerto.
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Deutsche Radio Philharmonie & Pietari Inkinen – Bartók: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:13 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Classical
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Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936) enjoyed right from the beginning a roaring success, being praised by critics as a masterpiece. It was also the composer’s last work published by Universal-Edition in Vienna. A fierce opponent of National-Socialism, he stopped co-operating with his main publisher soon after. The Divertimento (1939), though definitely not a “lightweight”, does hardly give any indication of the political circumstances and events at the time it was created. The piano works on the present recording, arranged for percussion ensemble, are in their original form miniatures whose strong rhythms almost predestinate them for percussion arrangements (Bartok himself experimented extensively with percussion instruments and was familiar with them). Pietari Inkinen is one of the noted rising stars on the international conducting scene. His comprehensive experience in both opera and symphonic repertoire enable him to shape various repertoire into powerful, convincing interpretations. As chief conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, he achieved superb performances.
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