The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, Irish Chamber Orchestra & Desmond Earley – Be All Merry (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, Irish Chamber Orchestra & Desmond Earley – Be All Merry (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:46 minutes | 913 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

The Choral Scholars is an internationally acclaimed chamber choir of gifted student singers led by founding Artistic Director, Dr. Desmond Earley, based at University College Dublin College of Arts & Humanities. Scholars come from various academic disciplines and commit to an intensive programme of choral study.

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Sergei Nakariakov, Jörg Widmann, Irish Chamber Orchestra – Haydn & Mozart: Metamorphosis (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sergei Nakariakov, Jörg Widmann, Irish Chamber Orchestra – Haydn & Mozart: Metamorphosis (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Luiza Records

“Sergei Nakariakov plays the trumpet the way the rest of us breathe – if we are lucky.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

Sergei Nakariakov, the russian born israeli trumpet player, has established himself as one of the most sought-after trumpet players on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, a suave and velvet-toned sound and a deep sensitivity he was named “The Paganini of the trumpet” and “Caruso of the trumpet”. Nakariakov has single-handedly brought the flugelhorn to prominence on the concert platform. He has developed long-standing relationships with many of the world’s most respected leading orchestras, conductors and musicians.

Nakariakov’s repertoire covers not only the entire range of original literature for trumpet, but is continually expanding into broader territories, comprising many fascinating transcriptions and commissions by Peter Ruzicka, Uri Brener, Enjott Schneider and Jörg Widmann, while he searches for ever new means of musical expression.

“In Sergei Nakariakov Widmann found a soloist to whom he could write an almost unplayable solo part.” (Online Music Magazin)

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Katherine Hunka & Irish Chamber Orchestra – Piazzolla, Schubert & Schnittke: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Katherine Hunka & Irish Chamber Orchestra – Piazzolla, Schubert & Schnittke: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics

“A dazzling programme of music for violin and orchestra performed by The Irish Chamber Orchestra, featuring Katherine Hunka (violin/director) and Nicola Sweeney (violin – Schnittke).

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Irish Chamber Orchestra & Jörg Widmann – Widmann, Strauss & Beethoven: Con brio (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Irish Chamber Orchestra & Jörg Widmann – Widmann, Strauss & Beethoven: Con brio (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:37 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Here we meet Jorg Widmann as soloist, conductor and composer. With his piece Con brio, premiered in 2008, he pays a vibrant tribute to Beethoven in general and his Seventh Symphony in particular. At the head of the excellent Irish Chamber Orchestra, of which he is principal conductor, he has also recorded the aforementioned Symphony no.7, which occupies a special place among the most grandiose works of Beethoven; he himself considered the second movement to be one of his finest compositions! He wrote this symphony in 1812, when deafness was beginning to take its toll on him, the Napoleonic Wars were raging in Russia, and he met Goethe. Richard Strauss was in his twilight years when he composed his last instrumental work, the Duett-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon with string orchestra and harp, in 1947.

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