Kilian Herold – Serenade – Works for Clarinet and Strings by Krenek, Gál and Penderecki (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Classical
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The century was only twenty-one years old, and so was Ernst Krenek, when his Serenade op. 4 was premièred on 31 July 1921 at the newly launched “Donaueschingen Chamber Music Performances for the advancement of contemporary music.” The event soon came to be known as Donaueschingen Festival, now one of the oldest specialized music festivals worldwide: Krenek’s music has occasionally been heard there since then – albeit as a series of utterly contrasting works one would hardly ascribe to the same composer.
Read moreKilian Herold, Hansjacob Staemmler – Vienna 1913 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:31 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
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The years between 1900 and 1914 are perhaps among the most exciting in European music history. It was during these years that what is now commonly referred to as musical modernism emerged. It is the time when the great European “schools” of the musical avant-garde take shape in Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg and especially in Vienna, and when music fans out into a variety of aesthetics, styles and genres that are reflected in the set of terms we use today to try to get to grips with the art of this era: Impressionism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Neoclassicism, Folklorism, Late Romanticism / Post-Romanticism, Symbolism, etc. The programme selection is grouped around two works written in Vienna in 1913, in this “summer of the century” (Florian Illies) that ends the long 19th century and heralds the dark 20th century: Alban Berg’s Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano op. 5 and Egon Kornauth’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. It is the year of scandalous premieres: Schönberg’s Gurrelieder, Berg’s Altenberlieder, Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, but also the less scandalous ones of Debussy’s Images pour Orchestre, Reger’s Toteninsel, Sibelius Luonnotar, de Falla’s La vida breve and Strauss’s Festliches Präludium.
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Kilian Herold, Armida Quartett – Max Reger, Johanna Senfter: Clarinet Quintets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:22 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Classical
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In March of 1908, 27-year-old Johanna Senfter went “on a pilgrimage” to visit Max Reger in Leipzig. Having studied piano and violin at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, she now wanted to learn composition. Reger, only six years her elder, had been in charge of a masterclass for musical composition at Leipzig Royal Conservatory for only a year.
Read moreKilian Herold, Sarah Maria Sun, Nicholas Rimmer – Mátyás Seiber: More Nonsense (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:19 minutes | 459 MB | Genre: Classical
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Clarinetist Kilian Herold and soprano Sarah Maria Sun pay homage to Mátyás Seiber’s eclectic compositions that take influences from jazz, Bartók and Schoenberg with More Nonsense. This collection of chamber music celebrates Seiber’s colourful career, with particular emphasis as his work as a European jazz pioneer.
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