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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel, Camerata Salzburg, Giovanni Guzzo – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (Extended Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:43:52 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by the Romantic storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann’s eccentric alter ego, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is a work Hélène Grimaud has known since she was a teenager and has recorded once before – yet, as she says, “you can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always find something new”. In revisiting it here, she’s paired it with two pieces by Schumann’s protégé, Johannes Brahms, including a set of songs in which Brahms distilled his unrequited love for Schumann’s widow Clara, and for which Grimaud is partnered by sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. The Extended Edition of her album For Clara complements pianist Hélène Grimaud’s recording of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Brahm’s Op. 117 Intermezzi and Op. 32 songs with a recording of her 2022 performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Camerata Salzburg at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. The second movement, which is now available, gives a first impression of Hélène Grimaud performing one of the most widely recorded piano concertos from the Romantic period.
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Konstantin Krimmel, Hofkapelle Munchen, Rudiger Lotter – Zauberoper (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:33 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following his acclaimed first recording for Alpha Classics, Saga, the German baritone Konstantin Krimmel continues to tell us stories, with a programme focusing on Zauberoper or ‘magic opera’.
Accompanied by the Hofkapelle München orchestra conducted by Rüdiger Lotter, Krimmel explores operas by Mozart, Salieri and Gluck, alongside less well-known titles by Paul Wranitzky and Peter von Winter: spectacular musical comedies from the eighteenth-century Viennese repertory, with their enchanted fairytale universe.
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Konstantin Krimmel, Daniel Heide – Franz Liszt: Songs, Vol. II (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:33 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
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Compared with the catalogues of, say, Schubert, Loewe, or Schumann, the song output of Franz Liszt seems quite modest in terms of sheer quantity. Unexpected obstacles make it difficult, however, to obtain an overview of all the Lieder the Weimar virtuoso ever wrote.Not all of Liszt’s songs are published as sheet music, and this has always been the case; the only currently available collection is a meager anthology of ca. 40 Lieder. One is soon obliged to resort to out-of-print material. The old, 3-volume Leipzig collection edited by C. F. Kahnt contains 57 songs, whereas the most complete edition is the one from 1919-1920 by Carl Alexander, Archduke of Weimar, which is hard to come by. In the meantime, Internet platforms such as Petrucci (imslp.org) have become well-stocked archives where one can find older sheet music that would otherwise be unavailable.
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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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On her new album, pianist Hélène Grimaud explores the rich universe of German Romanticism, combining Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana op. 16 with Brahms’ Intermezzi op. 117 and Lieder und Gesängen op. 32. Grimaud has known Schumann’s Kreisleriana for most of her life. “You can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always discover something new,” the pianist says. Her special relationship with the German Romantics is evident on her album “For Clara,” which focuses not only on the pianist’s relationship with the music of Robert Schumann and his protégé Brahms, but in particular on the two composers’ connection to Clara Schumann.
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Konstantin Krimmel & Daniel Heide – Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:01 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Baritone Konstantin Krimmel, voted ‘Best Newcomer’ of the year at the 2023 Oper! Awards in Germany and a member of the eminent Bavarian State Opera company since 2021, presents his third recording for Alpha Classics. In close partnership with pianist Daniel Heide, he places his artistry and his feeling for words at the service of the lied repertory. This is also an opportunity to discover his vision of the work, an unexpectedly contemporary, socio-psychological analysis: ‘ Die schöne Müllerin is a work that romanticises the development of a mental illness, and shows, unfiltered, how a young person can feel without a tempered emotional world. With all its dark sides.’
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Konstantin Krimmel & Doriana Tchakarova – Saga (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
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The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious “Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs” in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha Classics for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of Lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to ‘tell a story’ for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because ‘they are genuine operas in just a few minutes… mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom’.
Among the great poets present here are Schiller, Goethe and Heinrich Heine. As to the composers, alongside the indispensable Schubert and Schumann, this programme presents a great master of the genre, Carl Loewe, who wrote several hundred ballads: the works recorded here, inspired by Scots poems or Danish legends, are especially eloquent.
There is also a chance to discover the much more rarely recorded Adolf Jensen, a great admirer of Wagner, whom he met in 1861: ‘To translate Wagner’s ideas of Beauty and Truth to smaller forms has been my aim in all my later compositions’.
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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel – Silvestrov: Silent Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:21 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hélène Grimaud pays homage to Ukraine’s greatest living composer with an album of songs by Valentin Silvestrov. Joined by the young baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud presents the gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through this album. “Silent Songs” blends the voices of classic Russian, Ukrainian and English poets together o create a “harmony of mysterious power”, as a line from the Baratynsky poem by that opens the album has it. Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Songs includes contemplative settings of verse by Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Zhukovsky, Yesenin and Mandelstam, Ukrainian lyrics by Taras Shevchenko, and Russian translations of poetry by Keats and Shelley. Grimaud discovered Silvestrov’s Silent Songs almost 20 years ago when she received a recording of the complete song-cycle as a birthday gift. Enchanted by the composer’s music, she soon added a number of his piano pieces to her repertoire and began a long search for the ideal voice to partner in Silent Songs. Her search came to an end when she was introduced to German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel. “It is music which I find deeply touching in its authenticity and transparency of feelings,” observes Hélène Grimaud. “It is utterly poetic, never pretending to be something else. I am always happy to see how much it resonates with people.”
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