Kammerorchester Basel

Kammerorchester Basel – Schubert: Symphony No. 7 “Unfinished” & Franz Schuberts Begräbniß-Feyer, Roland Moser: Echoraum (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:38 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
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The chamber orchestra Kammerorchester Basel (also: Kammerorchesterbasel) was founded in Basel, Switzerland, in 1984. In the tradition of Paul Sacher’s Basler Kammerorchester, its focus is on both early music and contemporary classical music. The orchestra plays regularly without a conductor with their leading concertmasters Julia Schröder, Daniel Bard and Baptiste Lopez. The Basel Chamber Orchestra is recognised as one of the leading chamber orchestras in the classical music scene. Invitations to the most important worldwide concert houses and festivals shape their agenda, as well as their own subscription concerts in Basel.

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Kammerorchester Basel – Mozart, Holzbauer & Pleyel: Sinfonia Concertante (2017)
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There was hardly a music genre more popular at the height of the Classical period than the Sinfonia Concertante. An entirely new concert experience resulted from a combination of a straightforward orchestral setting and brilliant playing by soloists as well as blending elements of the symphony, solo concerto and divertimento. Composers did not score works for individual soloists only, but also created a symphonic genre with as many as nine solo instruments. Under the baton of Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, the Kammerorchester Basel – one of the best chamber orchestras in Europe and three-time winners of the ECHO Klassik Award – has recorded three of the most interesting and varied works of this genre. The Sinfonia Concertante in F major by the Haydn pupil and Strasbourg cathedral Kapellmeister Ignaz Josef Pleyel (1757–1831) is impressive not only due to the number of solo instruments but also because of its wonderfully refined orchestral accompaniment. The Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major by Mannheim court composer Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783) is recorded by a first-rate orchestra here for the first time. A further highlight is the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K 297b, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) as reconstructed by Robert Levin.

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Kammerorchester Basel – Bologna 1666 (2017)
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The multiple award-winning recordings of the Kammerorchester Basel are a genuine asset to the record market. With “Bologna 1666” they take their listeners on a musical journey to what was probably the most important musical centre of 17th-century Italy. Founded in 1666, the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, one of Italy’s oldest academies of music, influenced the musical life of its times far beyond the borders of Italy itself. It is thus all the more astonishing that with few exceptions, such as Giuseppe Torelli or Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri, most of its composers have fallen into oblivion. For this recording, the Kammerorchester Basel, headed by its concert-mistress Julia Schröder, have unearthed outstanding masterpieces.

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Kammerorchester Basel – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2018)
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Vollendung des Beethoven-Zyklus’: Nach den von der Presse hochgelobten »sensationellen Aufnahmen« (NDR) der Sinfonien 1 bis 8 erscheint jetzt die weltberühmte Sinfonie Nr. 9. in d-moll, die Beethoven zwischen 1817 und 1824 komponierte. Auch in dieser Aufnahme beweist der charismatische Giovanni Antonini sowie das vielfach preisgekrönte Kammerorchester Basel, welches sowohl in historischer Aufführungspraxis als auch mit modernen Instrumenten musiziert, wie spektakulär neu Beethoven klingen kann. Die mitreißende, vor musikalischer Energie geradezu sprühende Interpretation besticht durch eine atemberaubende Klarheit sowie pointierte Präzision. Das Orchester spielt einen ungemein schlanken Beethoven, der den Blick auf schonungslose Kontraste freilegt. Dabei erreicht Antonini eine einzigartige Prägnanz im Klang. Die Sinfonie schließt im effektvollen und mitreißenden Schlusssatz mit der 1785 von Friedrich Schiller geschriebenen »Ode An die Freude«, bei dieser Aufnahme hervorragend gesungen vom Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, der Schweizer Sopranistin Regula Mühlemann, der Mezzosopranistin Marie-Claude Chappuis, dem Tenor Maximilian Schmitt sowie dem Bariton Thomas E. Bauer.

“Eine der aufregendsten Beethoveneinspielungen unserer Tage.” (Rondo).

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Kammerorchester Basel & Giovanni Antonini – Haydn 2032, Vol. 11: Au goût parisien (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:25 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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The eleventh volume of the complete HAYDN2032 symphony cycle moves its focus to Paris: ‘Every day one perceives more clearly, and consequently admires more, the productions of this great genius, who, in every one of his works, knows so well how to draw rich and varied developments from a single subject’, wrote the Mercure de France in April 1788, adding that Haydn was ‘quite different from those sterile composers who constantly move from one idea to another’. The symphonies presented here are no.2 (the first to be published in France), no.24 (the first to be performed there) and the so-called ‘Paris’ symphonies nos. 87 and 82 ‘L’Ours’, with its references to fairground atmosphere and its famous contredanse finale.
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