Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 36 “Linz” & 38 “Prague” (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:54 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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After an album devoted to the final trilogy, Riccardo Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz continue their exploration of Mozart’s symphonies. These formidably expressive, incandescent interpretations give us the impression we are discovering the works for the first time. “Minasi and his expert 35-strong band (modern instruments, period ethos) play up the music’s disruptive aspects for all their worth. With lean, vibrato-light strings and assertive wind and brass, tutti textures have an abrasive clarity.”
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Jean-Guihen Queyras, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi – C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:04 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Classical
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After two albums which met with unanimous critical acclaim all over the world, the Resonanz Ensemble, based in Hamburg, is offering a recording dedicated to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: the Cello Concertos wq. 170 and Wq. 172, respectively from 1750 and 1753, and the Symphonie Wq. 173 of 1741. The listener will immediately note the radical difference in language between the two concertos, written after the death of Bach Senior, and the Symphony, written while he was still alive: the concertos keep their eyes firmly fixed on the nascent classical era, including the “Sturm und Drang” which still lay ahead (in this regard, the Concerto in A Minor which opens the album, full of force and melodic power, is an excellent example), whereas the Symphony takes the final throes of baroque as its point of departure. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Resonanz Ensemble offer a crystal-clear reading, conducted by their new musical director in residence, violinist Riccardo Minasi: and coolly resist the vogue – which can be quite intrusive, or even dictatorial or exclusive – for period instruments, which seems to hold that any music before Mozart (and even sometimes Mozart too) may not be played on modern instruments. Queyras, Resonanz and Minasi are all able to make use of stylistic elements gleaned from the fashion for baroque. This is a very fine album, superbly played, which really brings out all the originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
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Matthias Goerne, Thomas Larcher, Ensemble Resonanz – Hanns Eisler: Ernste Gesänge – Lieder with piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:03 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Classical
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From 1920s Vienna and the Berlin of the Weimar Republic to emigration to the USA, then back to Vienna after the defeat of Nazism, to end his days in East Berlin: Hanns Eisler’s life was one long exile against the backcloth of the artistic, technical, and political revolutions of the 20th century. Distance, irony, and melancholy are the aesthetic corollaries that characterise the lieder presented here, their atmosphere often evoking the despair of those dark times. The early piano sonata gained the young Eisler an admiration that has never dimmed since.
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Giulia Semenzato, Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Rossell: Salve Regina (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:22 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Here is the work of a genius who died at the age of twenty-six: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is one of the miracles of eighteenth-century sacred music. Nourished by their experience of ‘setting in resonance’ early and contemporary repertories, Riccardo Minasi and the Hamburg musicians shed an astonishingly modern light on these moving pieces, in which the voices of Giulia Semenzato and Lucile Richardot intertwine in the most sublime of communions. The Stabat is echoed by Joan Rossell’s poignant Salve Regina, long attributed to Pergolesi himself.
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Ensemble Resonanz & Riccardo Minasi – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 “Jupiter” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:23 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the widespread acclaim for their previous recordings of C. P. E Bach and Haydn, the musicians of the Resonanz Ensemble of Hamburg pursue their explorations on modern instruments. Here they tackle Mozart’s last three symphonies, which, it is generally agreed, ‘require no introduction’. And yet Riccardo Minasi does much more than introduce them: he reintroduces them to us. The rhetorical, if not theatrical, dimension of the celebrated trilogy comes into full focus here and the result is irresistible.
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Ensemble Resonanz – J.S. Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:32 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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There are many ways of celebrating Christmas. Ensemble Resonanz comes up with a musical ceremony based on a chamber version of the most popular work of the Advent season, Bachs Christmas Oratorio. The score remains untouched, regarding the instrumentation there are new aspects: an electric guitar or a hammond organ as continuo instruments, just one trumpet doing the job of three and the whole ensemble singing the chorals.
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Ensemble Resonanz – Enno Poppe: Filz (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:21 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Diese Produktion vereint drei Werke von Enno Poppe, die seit 2010 für das Ensemble Resonanz geschrieben wurden und nun als Ersteinspielungen unter der Leitung des Komponisten veröffentlicht werden.
Eine lang anhaltende künstlerische Partnerschaft verbindet den Komponisten Enno Poppe mit dem Ensemble Resonanz. »Ich finde es gut, wenn ich Überraschungen erlebe« – Poppe hat keine fertige Vorstellung im Kopf, wenn er ein neues Stück erarbeitet, und oft entwickelt sich das klingende Ergebnis in eine ganz unerwartete Richtung. Im direkten Austausch mit den Musiker:innen habe er die besten Ideen, meint Poppe, und damit sind er und das Ensemble Resonanz wie füreinander geschaffen: Den intensiven Kontakt zwischen Komponisten und Ausführenden haben beide zum Prinzip erhoben. Poppes Faible für Streichinstrumente basiert auf ihren flexibel modifizierbaren Tonhöhen, Spiel- und Klangmöglichkeiten. Seine Stücke erwecken den Eindruck, man könne dem Komponisten bei der Arbeit zuhören, während die Musik dennoch nie voraushörbar wird.
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Ensemble Resonanz – Bryce Dessner: Tenebre (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Classical
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For Bryce Dessner, music is an expansive and borderless territory. As a composer of classical music, film scores and in the band The National – of which he is founding member and guitarist – the breadth and level of his creative output is extensive. In 2017, he first heard Ensemble Resonanz perform his music during his residency at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. This album assembles four of Dessner’s most recent and important works for strings: a staggering full string orchestra version of his popular masterpiece »Aheym« followed by a new edition of his captivating string quartet »Tenebre«, featuring an appearance by vocal sensation Moses Sumney. Dessner’s string trio »Skrik« appears as a world premiere recording, while his orchestral piece »Lachrimae«, referencing the musical world of John Dowland, completes this collection of a multi-faceted composer
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