ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien & Ernst Märzendorfer – Franz Schmidt: Fredigundis (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien & Ernst Märzendorfer – Franz Schmidt: Fredigundis (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:24:42 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo

In 1914, Franz Schmidt staged his opera Notre Dame at the Vienna State Opera to great acclaim. Immediately afterwards, he was looking for material for a new opera when he came across the novel Fredigundis by Felix Dahn, which is loosely based on historical events from the 6th century. Schmidt worked on the project from 1916 to 1921, with the premiere taking place in Berlin in December 1922. Schmidt’s music for Fredigundis marks the end of a development that runs through the so-called ‘Classic-Romantic’ period. The work is characterised by extensive chromaticism and a boundary-pushing expansion of the major-minor tonal system paired with dense counterpoint and perfect compositional artistry in the vocal parts. The dramatic mezzo-soprano Dunja Vejzovic, who became famous for her Wagner roles in Bayreuth and Salzburg, performed on all the major opera and concert stages of the world. The excellent cast of singers in this performance is supported by Austrian conductor Ernst Märzendorfer, who also mastered several instruments and composed piano concertos, incidental music and a ballet. On this recording, he conducts the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which has established itself as an opera orchestra through a long and successful collaboration with the MusikTheater an der Wien.

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ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien – Sara Glojnarić: Pure Bliss (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien – Sara Glojnarić: Pure Bliss (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:36 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kairos

It is the most versatile orchestra in Austria. It masters rarities from the 18th century as well as contemporary world premieres. Music is performed at the Musikverein, Konzerthaus and Theater an der Wien.

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ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 – Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 – Andante for Flute KV 315 – Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 – Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 – Andante for Flute KV 315 – Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:04 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas Ramez records one of his favourite concertos, the first of Mozart’s four horn concertos. Finally, the young flutist Diren Duran performs the Andante for flute and orchestra K.315 before accompanying the harpist Elisabeth Plank for the divine concerto for flute, harp and orchestra K.299.

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Julian Trevelyan, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Christian Zacharias – Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Julian Trevelyan, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Christian Zacharias - Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Julian Trevelyan, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Christian Zacharias – Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:05 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

For the fourth volume in this collection dedicated to Mozart concertos by the younger generation of performers, the Orpheum Foundation and Alpha Classics present the Concertos nos. 23 and 24 (K488 & 491) performed by the British pianist Julian Trevelyan, who was awarded three prizes at the Géza Anda Competition in Zurich in 2021 and, at the age of sixteen, became the youngest-ever prizewinner at the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris in 2015. ‘Mozart’s music is full of life, humour and enjoyment. My life wouldn’t feel fulfilled if I didn’t have his music’, says the young musician, who is accompanied here by one of the most eminent Mozartian maestros, Christian Zacharias, conducting the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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