Reinhard Goebel

Reinhard Goebel – New Mozart (2021)
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The Suddeutsche Zeitung reveres him as an ‘icon of early music’, and the New York Times applauds him as a ‘light in a sea of mediocrity’. Reinhard Goebel specialises in the repertoire of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries; As an expounder of period performance practice for both early music ensembles and modern orchestras, and as an endless fount of knowledge about gems of the repertoire, he is a world-renowned specialist.

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Reinhard Goebel – Beethoven’s World: Salieri, Hummel, Vorisek (2020)
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The recordings of Reinhard Goebel’s recording project “Beethoven’s world” receive great attention and excellent reviews worldwide. For the first album of Clement’s violin concertos, Die Welt am Sonntag judged: “if the discovery of Beethoven’s contemporaries, which Goebel has just made for the Beethoven year, continues like this, it will be a fine year.”For the second Album with double cello concertos by Reicha and Romberg sr2 wrote: “music for Cello and orchestra is rare, concertos for two cellos and orchestra is almost non-existent (…) The classically well-proportioned sound fits perfectly into the attentive orchestra.”Deutschlandfunk added: “recording (…) sets standards.”With the third recording of the celebrated series, Reinhard Goebel continues his musical journey through early 19th century Vienna with extraordinary rarities by Beethoven’s contemporaries. Recorded with the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Mirijam Contzen on violin as well as Herbert Schuch on piano, the recording proves once again that there was far more to hear for Viennese music lovers than piano concertos by Mozart or symphonies by Beethoven. On the Album, The Young Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) performs the Double Concerto for violin and piano from 1804, which still entirely follows the paths of his teacher Mozart. Of Beethoven’s teachers, Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) are composed of large variations on the Baroque Follia theme, the Salieri 1815 as a Deposit in Handel’s Alexander’s feast. And with the symphony in D Major of Bohemia Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791-1825) Goebel completes this musical rarity program; the only symphony by the composer, who died early, already points the way to romanticism in a pioneering way. “Not offering new readings of Beethoven’s work for the Beethoven year, but rarities from his surroundings, is an idea typical of Reinhardt Goebel, the tireless discoverer. (Rondo)”

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Reinhard Goebel – Beethoven’s World – Reicha, Romberg: Concertos for Two Cellos (2020)
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Already the first album of Reinhard Goebel’s recording project “Beethoven’s world” with violin concertos by Franz Clement (1780-1842) received great attention and excellent reviews worldwide. Die Welt am Sonntag even dedicated two pages to the composer as an outstanding discovery and concluded: “if the discovery of Beethoven’s contemporaries, which Goebel has just made for the Beethoven year, goes on like this, it will be a fine year.”SWR2 also praised the project: “after these two violin concertos by Clement, Reinhard Goebel promises even more exciting explorations from Beethoven’s world.”Now Sony Classical releases the second Album with two rarities by Beethoven contemporaries: There are few concertos for 2 cellos and orchestra and even fewer in the quality shown here: the Concertino op. 72 by Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841) is a world premiere recording. The work is a gigantic Tour de Force with only the most necessary breaks for the two soloists and a Bolero Finale in which all the stops are really pulled left and right. The mind-boggling virtuoso Sinfonia Concertante by Antonín Reicha (1770-1836) is full of creative experiments, and has clear references to Beethoven’s new musical grammar. These double cello concertos were recorded with cellists Stephan Koncz and Bruno Delepelaire and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under the direction of Reinhard Goebel. Another world premiere recording worth discovering in Beethoven’s surroundings is the third work on the Album: a “Divertisment for Carnival Tuesday” by the composer and then Viennese court orchestra master Joseph von Eybler.

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Reinhard Goebel – Beethoven’s World – Clement: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2020)
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Conductor Reinhard Goebel is one of the most famous personalities of the German classical music world, an “icon of the Early Music” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), an “enlightenment in a sea of mediocrity” (New York Times), a world-renowned mediator of historical performance practice and a never-ending source for repertoire treasures. His Sony Classical recording of the Brandenburg Concertos by Bach with the Berlin Baroque Soloists received worldwide best reviews, an Opus Klassik and is considered a new reference. For Beethoven’s anniversary year 2020, “Beethoven’s World” now appears as the result of a long-standing research and music project in which Reinhard Goebel explores unknown works by Beethoven and his contemporaries, thereby encouraging a relocation of Beethoven. The present recording is the first album of “Beethoven’s World” and features the two violin concertos by Franz Joseph Clement (1780-1842). Clement was considered one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his time and Beethoven (1770-1827) dedicated his Violin Concerto to Clement by writing on the score “Concerto par Clemenza pour Clement” and which can be considered in response to Clement’s first Violin Concerto of 1805. The similarities between Clement’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto op. 61 are by no means accidental. Rather, they reflect the way in which the two composers could refer directly to one another, tossing balls back and forth with a nod and a wink and sparking creative reactions – a process repeated in reverse in the case of Clement’s Second Violin Concerto in D Minor/D Major that was written only a short time afterwards. Both violin concertos by Franz Clement can be heard on this album for the first time – the second violin concerto is a world premiere recording. The works were recorded by Mirijam Contzen with WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Reinhard Goebel. Fascinating music that allows a different view of the exceptional composer Beethoven.

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Reinhard Goebel – Beethoven’s World – Beethoven, Wranitzky, Reicha, Vorisek: Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:48 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Reinhard Goebel is continuing his exploration of the world of Beethoven until 2027, when the bicentenary of his death will be commemorated, a great way to understand the music composed at that time and to avoid overdosing on publications solely devoted to Beethoven, which will inevitably overwhelm even the most willing music lovers. In fact there is little Beethoven in this new album, just the surprising discovery of the sketches of a Violin Concerto in C major, WoO 5 composed around 1790. Surprising, because these two hundred and fifty-nine bars completed by Joseph Hellmesberger contain decorative motifs that the composer would later reprise in his Violin Concerto, Op. 61 of 1806.

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