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Robin Neck & Doriana Tchakarova – Made in Europe (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:01 minutes | 1014 MB | Genre: Classical
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MADE IN EUROPE – a tantalisingly simple title for this CD – so consequently all the more profound and unifying the selected pieces from a diverse and traditional European song heritage.
The song traditions that manifested themselves within the European region during the course of the 19th century assigned the song an important role in the formation of national and cultural identity concepts, “whereby folk and art song ultimately merged” (Martin Günther). And so a song journey through Europe could span from Italy in the south to Iceland in the north, from Bulgaria in the east to France in the west, and since Ukraine is a part of Europe, we would have to plan a stop there too.
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Konstantin Krimmel & Doriana Tchakarova – Saga (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious “Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs” in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha Classics for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of Lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to ‘tell a story’ for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because ‘they are genuine operas in just a few minutes… mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom’.
Among the great poets present here are Schiller, Goethe and Heinrich Heine. As to the composers, alongside the indispensable Schubert and Schumann, this programme presents a great master of the genre, Carl Loewe, who wrote several hundred ballads: the works recorded here, inspired by Scots poems or Danish legends, are especially eloquent.
There is also a chance to discover the much more rarely recorded Adolf Jensen, a great admirer of Wagner, whom he met in 1861: ‘To translate Wagner’s ideas of Beauty and Truth to smaller forms has been my aim in all my later compositions’.
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