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Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Keri-Lynn Wilson – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:01 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This recording of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s emotionally charged performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Warsaw captures one of the artistic highlights of 2023. The orchestra was founded as a cultural backlash against Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Their Beethoven has the special feature that the text of Schiller’s great freedom poem “Ode to Joy” is sung in Ukrainian. Schiller’s opening word “Freude” (joy) is exchanged for the Ukrainian word “Slava” (glory), which conveys an electrifying effect in the moving echo of Ukraine’s joint call for resistance in the face of aggression, Slava Ukraini! (“Glory to Ukraine!”).
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Hera Hyesang Park, Munich Radio Orchestra, Keri-Lynn Wilson – Rossini: Sigismondo (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:26:27 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is best known for his operas. Many of their overtures and arias were catchy tunes at the time and have remained so to this day. Although it is Rossini’s comic operas that are primarily performed today, more than half of his stage works are in fact based on serious themes. One veritable rarity is the stage work “Sigismondo”, which premiered in 1814 at the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice but was only ever rarely performed afterwards. Presumably, the story on which it was based had no appeal for the audience at that time, because musically, the work is hardly less impressive than the “Italian Girl in Algiers”, written during the previous year, or the “Barber of Seville”, which followed two years later. The subject of the opera is, however, based on a long tradition. Rossini shows his protagonist, the fictional King Sigismondo, in extreme states of mental distress. Confusion and insanity reveal inner feelings, and it is only delirium that finally brings the truth to light. This “madness opera” is highly topical, both in its subject matter and its musical language – after all, Rossini is among the top ten most-performed composers of our time. A concert performance of this little-known and unjustly neglected masterpiece was given at Munich’s Prinzregententheater on October 14, 2018 – in the original language, and by performers highly familiar with Rossini’s music, which seems so easy but is in fact extremely difficult to sing. This extraordinary opera event – a festival of singing that received tumultuous applause as well as great critical acclaim – is now being released on BR-KLASSIK as a live recording.
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Valentina Nafornita, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Keri-Lynn Wilson – Romance (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:16 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Outhere Music France
Very appropriately, Valentina Naforniţă devotes half of her debut album released on Outhere to the composer who makes the highest vocal demands, with his incomparable dramatic complexity and inspired musical invention. Ever since she sang her first Papagena as a new ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera in the autumn of 2011, she has repeatedly enjoyed enormous success performing Mozart’s great female roles, which are so challenging in their diversity. The charismatic Moldovan soprano impresses with an astonishingly wide palette of expression and emotion. The second part of the CD is devoted to the Slavonic repertory. With her rich, bronze timbre, she is ideally suited to the tragic depth of expression of Dvořák’s ‘Song to the Moon’, with which she made her breakthrough at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, and to Tchaikovsky, whose Iolanta she sang at the Opéra de Paris in May 2019. The recording ends with a song dedicated to Valentina by the Moldovan composer Eugen Doga, recounting the life story of this singer who has been known as ‘The Nightingale’ in her homeland since she was five years old.
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