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Sofja Gülbadamova, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz & Ariane Matiakh – Dohnányi: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:51 minutes | 759 MB | Genre: Classical
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Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time, but his stage works, orchestral compositions (including symphonies and concertos) and numerous chamber music pieces are now seldom played. This is the fourth album in Capriccio’s series of recordings of Dohnányi’s works that remain less well known. The programme features his late romantic, sensual music which is deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition. There is nothing in the musical language of these piano concertos (rhythm, melody, harmony, orchestration) that Brahms would have found unfamiliar.
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David & Alexandre Castro-Balbi, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz & Kevin Griffiths – Brandl: Orchestral Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:18 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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When Johann Evangelist Brandl wrote his Symphonie concertante op. 20, he had more time to concentrate on composing free of court occasions and to exploit in full his own capabilities rather than focusing on the planning and performing of concerts. Therefore his Symphonie concertante, like the one by Mozart, can be viewed as a sort of visiting card, and with it Brandl wanted to put out his feelers in quest of new appointments. Like Mozart, in his work with two solo instruments Brandl has the dimensions of the first movement noticeably expand in view of the solo concerto and in this way gives both soloists space and time to present all the themes and motifs in succession as well as to elaborate them with great virtuosity. What our two soloists, the Castro-Balbi brothers, display in breathtaking virtuosity is simply sensational. Brandl had composed his four-movement Symphony in D major with a dazzling finale as a »Grande Simphonie à grand Orchestre« some ten years earlier. Already then Brandl anticipated a lot of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony op. 60, which first was completed in 1806. Something of the quest for new sound worlds that the Rhinelander Beethoven envisioned is also in evidence in Brandl, who was ten years his senior. Today musicologists are discovering in Brandl an artist whose musical language above all toward the end of his creative career surmounted the style of Classicism and instead favored a sharpened chromaticism and already exhibited Early Romantic characteristics.
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Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Antoni Wit – Stojowski: Symphony in D Minor, Op. 21 & Suite for Large Orchestra in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:01 minutes | 648 MB | Genre: Classical
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Stojowski might be considered as one of the many missing links between Frédéric Chopin and Karol Szymanowski, who shaped Polish music between the second half of the 19th century and the dawn of modernism… but somehow never entered the repertoire. This is a composer of the high, late-romantic tradition – a style that Stojowski never found any reason to reject and with a strong gift for melody. Stojowski’s work proves the composer’s deft hand at colorful instrumentation, which suggests Russian and French influences. Entering the United States in 1905, he enjoyed a fine reputation as a composer, pianist, and increasingly pedagogue but his lack of presence on the continent meant that Stojowski faded into obscurity.
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