nuovo aspetto & Michael Dücker – Haydn News – Chamber Music Arrangements by his Contemporaries (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

nuovo aspetto & Michael Dücker – Haydn News – Chamber Music Arrangements by his Contemporaries (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:31 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical

Something new by Haydn? Well, yes and no… None of the works presented on this album has ever been heard in this form in our time. Michael D”ucker, director and spiritus rector of nuovo aspetto, has gone in libraries and archives in search of Haydn works that are ideally suited for the chamber music-apart instrumentation of the ensemble nuovo aspetto. Michael D”ucker has carefully re-edited the originals and adapted them to today’s musical requirements. The result is a fascinating project with amazingly contemporary-sounding chamber music versions of various Haydn works.

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Michael Dücker – Tombeaux – Remembrances (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Michael Dücker – Tombeaux – Remembrances (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:39 minutes | 665 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical

A Tombeau in the French Baroque period refers to a piece of music in memory of a more or less beloved person, but sometimes also of a parrot or canary. This does not mean, however, that the pieces must necessarily be sad, somber music. The genre is also varied by the fact that a Tombeau can actually take on any type of movement – mourning takes place in major and minor, fast or slow. Michael D”ucker, lutenist, music researcher, editor and spiritus rector of the ensemble nuovo aspetto, reveals to us here in exemplary fashion the sheer inexhaustible inventiveness and originality with which composers in the Baroque period processed their grief musically.

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