Christopher Maltman, Rachael Wilson, Benjamin Bruns, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Patrick Hahn – Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christopher Maltman, Rachael Wilson, Benjamin Bruns, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Patrick Hahn – Zemlinsky: A Florentine Tragedy (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:12 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

Guido Bardi, the son of the Duke of Florence, kneels before Bianca, the wife of the rich merchant Simone, and holds her hands. Simone enters the room, having returned early from a business trip. – The very beginning of Alexander Zemlinsky’s one-act opera based on Oscar Wilde’s “A Florentine Tragedy” in the German translation by Max Meyerfeld shows the conflict from which the tragedy arises. The stage work by the Austrian composer, who was forgotten for many decades, had its world premiere on 30 January 1917 in Stuttgart and was not performed again until 1977.

This BR-KLASSIK album documents the Munich premiere with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Patrick Hahn, which was recorded live in the Prinzregententheater on 27 November 2022.

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Nils Wülker, Munich Radio Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Continuum (Deluxe Edition) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Nils Wülker, Munich Radio Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Continuum (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:42 minutes | 1013 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM Germany

The career of the trumpeter and composer Nils Wülker is continuously wonderful. The upward curve, which the internationally renowned musician from Germany has described with his last three studio albums, now crowns his previous masterpiece “Continuum”. This orchestral, wide-screen and yet filigree album was recorded in autumn 2021 with Wülker’s excellent rhythm section and the award-winning BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester and will be released in spring 2022, to coincide with Wülker’s 20th stage anniversary. Unpredictable and beyond all genre boundaries, “Continuum” presents fascinating, overwhelming new music: a force of nature composed down to the last detail with lively improvisational peaks – an acoustic panorama whose every musical moment shines with energy, happiness and confidence.
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Kerson Leong, Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Kerson Leong, Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Britten & Bruch: Violin Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:57 minutes | 2,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

On his second album for Alpha Classics, rising star violinist Kerson Leong juxtaposes the Violin Concertos of Bruch and Benjamin Britten. This unusual pairing is a reflection on the journey from one extreme of expression to another. Bruch’s In Memoriam is the perfect bridge between them.
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