Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem – Animated Movie Classics (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 25:25 minutes | 452 MB | Genre: Soundtrack, Classical
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Raphaela Gromes from Munich is a highly virtuoso cellist who immediately seduces her audience with her personality, charisma and a certain magic. She received her earliest artistic training from her parents, both cellists themselves, with whom she had her first taste of the stage at the age of seven. She attended masterclasses with renowned cellists such as David Geringas, Natalia Gutman and Yo-Yo Ma. The young musician likes to tread unusual repertoire paths – and at the highest level: the Süddeutsche Zeitung attested to her “beauty of sound and poetry”, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung “diabolical acrobatics and an infectious love of music-making”.
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Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem & Daniel Dodds – Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye, M. 60 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:35 minutes | 317 MB | Genre: Classical
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Originally, it was a four-hand piano work composed by Maurice Ravel for the son and daughter of friends – inspired by Charles Perrault’s collection of fairy tales “My Mother the Goose”. When the time came, however, the two children did not dare to give the first performance. Ma mère l’oye” was not quite so simple and small after all. The piano piece later became an orchestral work and even a ballet. Florian Heurich talked to conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin about the work – and about the child’s soul that adults need for this music.
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Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem – Richard Strauss: Cello Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:21 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Only few cellists are as inspiring as Raphaela Gromes: her cello playing is virtuosic and vibrant, full of passion and technically brilliant, versatile and charming at the same time. She fascinates her audience as soloist as well as duo-partner or member of a wind-quartet, her performance being fantastically challenging and extraordinarily light-footed.
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Georg Arzberger & Julian Riem – Fantasie (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:58 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Farao Classics
Fantasy inspires, fantasy opens doors, fantasy allows changes of perspective: “With fantasy, you can shape a completely new world language-wise, intellectually and musically. The composer creates the basic framework; we musicians fill this with our interpretation and aspire to take the listeners with us into this wonderful and fantastic world of music“, says Georg Arzberger. “All the works on this album are so-called ‘Romantic character pieces’; they were inspired by poetry, experiences in nature or simply the current emotional state of the composer. So for me, finding each individual ‘language’ and the corresponding musical message of the pieces is the main goal of our album“, says Julian Riem.
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