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Ferhan & Ferzan Önder, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Markus Poschner – Play Fazil Say (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:04 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Winter & Winter
Fazil Say komponiert für Ferhan und Ferzan Önder die »Sonate für zwei Klaviere« op. 80, die im Januar 2019 uraufgeführt wird. Dies ist der bis dahin fehlende Mosaikstein, um dieses Konzeptalbum zu verwirklichen. Seit Jahrzehnten sind Ferhan und Ferzan Önder eng mit Fazil Say verbunden. Bereits 2013 spielen sie »Wintermorgen in Istanbul« in einer Uraufführung.
Auch das Doppelkonzert op. 48 ist für sie geschrieben. Während der Entstehung im Mai 2013 erschüttern die Gezi-Proteste die Türkei. Die Ereignisse beeinflussen auch Fazil Say. Die Önder-Zwillinge: »Er hat uns gefragt, was wir davon halten würden, wenn er das Konzert für zwei Klaviere und Orchester in ›Gezi‹ umbenennen würde, was für uns eine sehr spannende Nachricht war!
Mit diesem Werk hoffen wir, etwas zu einer friedlichen, menschlichen, freien und demokratischen Welt beizutragen.« Im Fokus der CD steht dieses Konzert für zwei Klaviere und Orchester. »Wintermorgen in Istanbul« eröffnet und die Sonate op. 80 schließt diese außergewöhnliche Hommage an Istanbul.
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Benjamin Appl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo García Calvo – Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:11 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
Newly discovered orchestral songs by an unsung hero. This is an album full of world-premiere recordings of orchestral songs by Hans Sommer, sung by an excellent quartet of soloists – Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter and Benjamin Appl – together with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the baton of Guillermo García Calvo. Sommer was a Liszt student whose operas were performed and praised by Richard Strauss, but sunk into relative oblivion due to his unusual career path and independence from major publishers. The songs were discovered recently and can finally be presented to the world. Focusing mostly on Goethe poetry, combining high Romanticism with folk styles, Sommer’s songs are colourfully orchestrated, harmonically audacious, and often highly dramatic and evocative. This album release, commemorating Sommer’s 100-year death anniversary, sheds light on a fascinating chapter in music history, and will hopefully contribute to a renaissance of this hero.
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Rundfunkchor Berlin, Juri Tetzlaff, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Steffen Tast – Humperdinck: Der Blaue Vogel (Concert Version Ed. S. Tast) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:27:51 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Maurice Maeterlinck completed his play The Blue Bird (“L’Oiseau bleu”) in 1908. Several of his previous works had proved popular as operatic subjects (Pelléas et Mélisande and Ariane et Barbe-Bleue) so it’s no wonder that composers jumped at the opportunity to set his latest creation to music.
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Oliver Triendl, Vogler Quartett, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Roland Kluttig – Catoire: Chamber Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:41 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Although the originality of Georgi Catoire’s musical language paved the way for Russian modernism, his output still followed the artistic ideals of Russia and not the new culture of the Soviet Republic. His highly expressive work is characterised by polyphonic density, heightened expressiveness, variety of colour, and a wide rhythmic and harmonic mix. Catoire’s music was rarely performed in his day, his name being largely unknown. He left behind 36 works, including symphonic pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, songs and piano cycles. This music was written in the fin de siècle style, which combined brilliance and nobility with fragility.
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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski – Schnittke: Symphony No. 3 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Classical
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One hundred and eleven musicians celebrating a large-scale symphony. That sounds like Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, or Arnold Schoenberg. In fact, the composer of this symphony, Alfred Schnittke, had precisely these composers (and many others) in mind back in 1981. Whereas he initially mirrored certain styles from figures as Mahler, Mozart, Bach, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, he was soon also borrowing concepts from “trivial music”, folklore, jazz, tango, as well as many other styles. He himself described his compositional technique as “polystylistic”, which was more than just a technique, but an aesthetic programme: a serious effort to break through the vicious circle of the self satisfied and self sufficient avant garde music.
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