Oliver Zeffman

Oliver Zeffman – Live at the Science Museum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:03 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Music and mathematics were taught together in Europe’s universities for centuries before science and the arts drifted apart. Conductor Oliver Zeffman shows how the two subjects intersect in this live album, part of his Music x Museums series. Its program, performed in the well-stocked space of London’s Science Museum, explored the diverse ways in which composers play with the nature of musical time. It was brought to life by Ozero Ensemble’s 16 players, almost within touching distance of objects in the museum’s Stephen Hawking at Work exhibition.

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Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Classical
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Those inseparable twins, dress and identity, fell under the spotlight of the V&A’s Fashioning Masculinities. The exhibition’s galleries—Undressed, Overdressed, and Redressed—informed Oliver Zeffman’s choice of music for the first of his Music x Museums concerts. Recorded live in the V&A’s sublime Raphael Court, the performance opens with Lully’s Overture to Le bourgeois gentilhomme, a nod to the periwigged posturing of 17th-century Paris.

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Oliver Zeffman – Live at the V&A (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:42 minutes | 898 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OZERO Records

British conductor Oliver Zeffman leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in a programme that wanders through time, perfectly complementing the glorious surroundings. Russian-born British violinist Viktoria Mullova joins the ASMF for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major in a performance that’s crisp, songful and wonderfully eloquent, and her Bach solos speak powerfully in such a striking setting. Zeffman conducts Honegger’s “Pastorale d’été” with a lovely sense of atmosphere, while Arvo Pärt’s timeless “Fratres” makes a huge impact with its stillness and deceptive simplicity.

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