Jan Mrácek, Lukáš Klánský, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, James Judd – Dvořák: Violin Concerto (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jan Mrácek, Lukáš Klánský, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, James Judd – Dvořák: Violin Concerto (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:32 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onyx Classics

“Jan is a worthy winner. He has fascinated us from the first round. Not only with his technical skills, but also with his charisma on stage” the chairman of the jury of the 2014 Fritz Kreisler Competition announced after Mrácek’s performance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was met with thunderous applause. Prior to this Mrácek has studied with the great Czech master Václav Hudecek, as well as with Levon Chilingirian, Gavriel Lipkind and Ida Haendel.

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Benjamin Grosvenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd – Rhapsody in Blue: Saint-Säens, Ravel, Gershwin (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Benjamin Grosvenor, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd – Rhapsody in Blue: Saint-Säens, Ravel, Gershwin (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:42 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

The three principal works that Benjamin Grosvenor has chosen for his first concerto album complement each other perfectly. The urbane charm and dazzling virtuosity of Saint-Saëns lead naturally on to the brittle brilliance and dry wit of his fellow Frenchman Ravel. Ravel’s distinctly jazzy G major Concerto was written soon after he’d met Gershwin, and just a few years after the great Broadway songsmith had so spectacularly gatecrashed his way into the classical world with his syncopated, note-bending Rhapsody in Blue.
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Ophélie Gaillard, James Judd, Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo – Exiles – Bloch & Korngold (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ophélie Gaillard, James Judd, Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo – Exiles – Bloch & Korngold (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:27 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté

Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States, land of freedom, open to the world, a democracy concerned with human rights, attracted emigrants of all origins. Rightly or wrongly, the young nation, in full economic expansion, embodied a land of redemption for the composers brought together by Ophélie Gaillard. After Alvorada, her globe-trotting cello leads us in the footsteps of Bloch, Korngold, Prokofiev, Chava Alberstein and Giora Feidmann, singing their exile, whether suffered or deliberately chosen. She makes us vibrate to the sound of a film score (Korngold’s Concerto), a prayer (From Jewish Life), an Hebraic narrative (Schelomo), a lullaby, a wedding dance… The spirit of celebration, tenderness, religious meditation: so many facets of daily life and the culture of several generations of Jewish immigrants, related by Ophélie Gaillard’s humanistic bow.

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