Elisabeth Leonskaja, Michael Sanderling, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester – Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:35 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Innate piano playing with musical sensitivity and a boldness honed by a lifetime of experience,” wrote The Guardian in admiration. Elisabeth Leonskaja, a living legend of the present day, is now releasing her third album on Warner Classics under the title Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos.
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Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan – Rihm: Symphonie “Nähe fern” (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:33 minutes | 821 MB | Genre: Classical
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If every work of art can be understood as the docile or rebellious descendant of dozens, indeed hundreds of other works of art, the immense majority of Wolfgang Rihm’s compositions fully assume the heritage of the past. This is especially true of ‘Nähe fern’, whose title (‘Distant proximity’) refers to his experience of the four symphonies of Brahms. Each of these pieces for orchestra is a homage profoundly linked with its model, yet at the same time constantly moves away from it. Commissioned by the Lucerne Sinfonieorchester ‘Nähe fern’ was premiered at the Lucerne Festival on 20th August 2012.
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Luzerner Sinfonieorchester & James Gaffigan – Dvořák: Symphony No. 6. American Suite, Op. 98b (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:50 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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“The Americans expect great things of me,’ Dvorák wrote in November 1892 to his friend Josef Hlávka, ‘and the main thing, so they say, is to show them the way to the promised land and kingdom of a new and independent art, in short, to create a national music.”
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Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Michael Sanderling – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:42:24 minutes | 3,79 GB | Genre: Classical
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When Michael Sanderling took up the post of principal conductor with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in 2021, it marked the beginning of a collaboration that has attracted worldwide attention. The first, impressive discographic fruits are now revealed in the form of a complete recording of Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies: summit works of music history, recorded against the alpine backdrop of Lake Lucerne, on whose shores the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra resides as Switzerland’s oldest and most renowned symphony orchestra – in the Culture and Convention Center (KKL), which was completed in 1998 and is famous for its phenomenal acoustics.
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James Gaffigan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Paul Jacobs – Bernstein, Barber, Crawford & Ives: Americans (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vivid testimony to the multifaceted partnership of James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, their latest release invites us to explore the conductor’s American roots, from the most mischievous (Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story) to the spiritual (Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3, based on his works for solo organ). With dramatically potent dissonances, Ruth Crawford’s Andante for Strings casts a spell in the form of a hypnotic and restless nocturne, while Samuel Barber’s boldly athletic Toccata for Organ and Orchestra reveals a rarely heard aspect of this well-known master. An electrifying performance!
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Emmanuelle Bertrand, Pascal Amoyel, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester & James Gaffigan – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – Cello Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:54 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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“That’s it done at last, this blasted sonata! Will it please or not? That is the question.” So wrote Saint-Saëns, not without humour, of his second ‘quadruped’ for cello and piano. He adored the cello, as is shown by much more than the famous ‘Swan’. He wrote three sonatas for it, but unfortunately the last two movements of the Third Sonata have been lost and what is left survives only in manuscript. Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel play it here with emotion and total respect. The Concerto also included here is today one of the ‘musts’ of the concertante repertory for cello.
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Emmanuelle Bertrand, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan – Tout un monde lointain (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:40 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Classical
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A bouquet of French cello music.Dutilleux, the centenary of whose birth we celebrate on 22 January 2016, made his appearance on earth just a few months before the premiere of one of Debussy’s final compositions: the Cello Sonata presented on this disc. The filiation is a natural one, for at an early age fate placed Dutilleux under the auspices of the composer of Pelléas and in the vicinity of the cello, which his brother played. Alongside a new recording of the famous Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, Emmanuelle Bertrand joins with her partners in the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester to pay an eagerly awaited tribute to the ‘distant world’ hymned by the poems of Baudelaire and sublimely echoed by Dutilleux, the most sensitive composer of our time.
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Vadim Gluzman, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester & James Gaffigan – Beethoven & Schnittke: Violin Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:09 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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After acclaimed recordings of the great Romantic violin concertos by Brahms, Bruch and Tchaikovsky, Vadim Gluzman takes on the work that in the beginning of the 19th century mapped out a new course for the genre: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. With this work, Beethoven rejected the idea of a virtuoso display piece with a largely irrelevant orchestral accompaniment. Instead he presented a symphonic reinterpretation of the concerto principle, with soloist and orchestra becoming equal partners in a texture that is interwoven on many levels. Largely forgotten for several decades after the first performance in 1806, it is now considered one of the greatest violin concertos. However innovative Beethoven was in his opus 61, he nevertheless remained true to the tradition of allowing the soloist several cadenzas. Over the years, a number of composers and great violin virtuosos have proposed their own cadenzas for the concerto, with Alfred Schnittke being one of the more unexpected names.
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Oliver Schnyder, James Gaffigan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester – The 5 Piano Concertos & 4 Overtures (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:26:58 minutes | 4,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical is delighted to bring you the latest album from the sensational pianist, Oliver Schnyder, featuring a selection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s greatest works including his complete piano concertos and selected overtures. Dubbed the “piano poet” and with over 12,000 fans on Facebook alone, Schynder’s aesthetic approach is compared with that of the great pianists Kempff, Schnabel, Fischer and Barenboim. Ludwig van Beethoven stands for independence of mind, for revolutionary ideas, for music that reaches far beyond his own time. The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra with its chief conductor James Gaffigan took this as an occasion to realize the “Beethoven Project.” The result is this truly landmark recording featuring all of his remarkable piano concertos and a selection of his most famous overtures. Oliver appears in the most important concert venues in Europe, North America and Asia such as Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Kölner Philharmonie, Herkulessaal and Carnegie Hall. His chamber music collaboration with violinist Andreas Janke and with the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger led in 2012 to the founding of the Oliver Schnyder Trio. In 2016, Schnyder was awarded a prestigious Werkbeitrag by the Aargauer Kuratorium. James Gaffigan, Chief Conductor – Hailed for the natural ease of his conducting and the compelling insight of his musicianship, James Gaffigan continues to attract international attention and is one of the most outstanding American conductors working today. Gaffigan also holds positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and was appointed the first Principal Guest Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne in September 2013, a position that was created for him. Luzerner Sinfonieorchester – Orchestra-in-residence of the renowned KKL Luzern. As Switzerland’s oldest symphony orchestra (founded in 1806), it has gained an international standing that extends far beyond its home territory. Strongly anchored in Lucerne, a city with a worldwide reputation for music, the orchestra offers a number of annual concert cycles and organizes the Zaubersee Festival – Russian Music Lucerne. It also acts as the opera orchestra of the Lucerne Theatre.
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