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Georg Nigl & Olga Pashchenko – Echo: Schubert, Loewe, Schumann & Wolf (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:12 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The baritone Georg Nigl is fascinated by ballads, which unfold in him “dream images”. Schubert’s long and little-known lied Viola , based on a poem by Franz von Schober, or the great ballads based on texts by Goethe “opened up a world that has always accompanied me, that of the storyteller (…) stories of frightening beauty, with as many colours as possible…”. The magnificent pianos on this recording – a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf (Vienna, 1826) and a Steinway & Sons concert grand piano (New York, 1875) – beautifully played by Olga Pashchenko, with whom Georg now forms an intimate and inspired duo, allow us to hear “unknown sounds and sometimes unheard-of colours”…
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Georg Nigl, Andreas Staier, Anna Lucia Richter, Petra Müllejans, Roel Dieltiens – Bach Privat (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:54 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording is an invitation to immerse ourselves in the musical inner circle of the Bach family. We are familiar with Johann Sebastian Bach as a composer of genius, but we know little about his family life, with the exception of the famous Clavierbüchlein (Little keyboard book) that the forty-year-old composer gave as a present in 1725 to his second wife Anna Magdalena, his junior by sixteen years. This manuscript is a unique document of the music the family played together. It provides us with a point of reference for the ‘programmes’ of these domestic concerts: it contains short keyboard pieces and songs alongside extended arias taken from the church cantatas, as well as chamber music. Bach and his two eldest sons were not only virtuoso harpsichordists but also excellent violinists, while the composer’s son-in-law Bach, J. C. Altnickol, played the cello and was an outstanding double bass player. Anna Magdalena Bach and her oldest stepdaughter both contributed as singers. And the still young children of the second marriage participated by playing easy pieces on their father’s various keyboard instruments. The musicians and singers on this recording, all eminent exponents of Bach and of Baroque music in general, have come together here to bring these exceptional moments back to life.
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Georg Nigl – Vanitas – Schubert, Beethoven & Rihm (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:22 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Like the paintings of the Flemish Baroque painters, the ‘vanities’ presented here can be approached in two ways: on the one hand, as manifestations of doubts and anxieties at the fragility of human life; on the other, as delights to be savoured without moderation, celebrating earthly life through the senses and the pleasure that human beings can derive from them.
After two critically acclaimed recordings each for Alpha, the baritone Georg Nigl and the pianist Olga Pashchenko explore the tortuous meanders of the human soul with vocal works by Schubert (an ‘existentialist’ composer if ever there was one), Beethoven (whose torments hardly need stressing) and the contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm, whose highly expressionistic Jakob Lenz Nigl performed on stage in 2019. His piece Vermischter Traum, here given its world premiere, is dedicated to the Austrian singer.
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