Reinhold Friedrich, Dorothee Mields, Eriko Takezawa, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Listen to Our Cry (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Reinhold Friedrich, Dorothee Mields, Eriko Takezawa, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Listen to Our Cry (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:00 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion

The recordings for this release were made in the middle of the pandemic under difficult conditions. The hope of the artists involved is to make their contribution so that culture will emerge from this crisis not weakened, but strengthened. “Art is a daughter of freedom, and from the necessity of spirits, not from the necessity of matter, it wants to receive its prescription” (Schiller). Reinhold Friedrich, a prolific performer on major stages around the world, is a professor of trumpet at Karlsruhe, a sought-after lecturer for master classes, honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid and also in Hiroshima. Many of his recordings were awarded international prizes and got high press acclaim.

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Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Frid: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto & Inventions (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Frid: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto & Inventions (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:34 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR

With his opera The Diary of Anne Frank (1968/69), by virtue of the subject alone Grigory Frid could be sure of attracting attention beyond the borders of Russia. The remaining enormous oeuvre by the composer, covering mainly instrumental works, songs, radio and film music, still remains to be discovered and treated in depth. Both prior to and after the collapse of the Communist USSR, Frid was awarded the highest honours, e.g. the title of Artist of Merit (1986) and the Moscow Prize (1996). If it is probably not erroneous to view Frids aesthetic position in a propinquity to Dmitri Shostakovich, on the one hand, and in the environment of his contemporaries a generation younger such as Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. As in the cases of these composers, Frids music is also positioned in a field of tension between following the great Russian tradition and the quest for possibilities of expression in keeping with new, modern and international trends.

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