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Antje Weithaas, Steven Sloane, Stavanger Symfoniorkester – Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is a Première – for Antje Weithaas. Her first orchestral recording with two of the “big” solo concertos. And obviously also the realization of one of her top dreams and wishes; the combination of her two favourite concertos. At the time of the recording (2012) Steven Sloane was still Music Director of the Stavanger Sympfoniorkester.
As far as Weithaas is concerned, both of these concertos are “celestial music, difficult to describe in words. This music allows us to delve so deeply into the composer’s soul.” She pauses for a moment: “Also into mine.” (Excerpt from the booklet’s liner notes by Cornelia de Reese)
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Dietrich Henschel, Bochumer Symphoniker, Steven Sloane – Mahler: WUNDERHORN (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:24:40 minutes | 789 MBGenre: Classical
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Throughout his lifetime, Gustav Mahler’s musical imagination got sparked by the Wunderhorn anthology of folk poetry compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. Whether autonomous lieder or conscripted into symphonic service, Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings represent some of his most exotic, exhilarating, but also visionary music. The Wunderhorn songs evoke and celebrate a lost era but they also prefigure its demise. Mahler captures this ambiguity in uncompromisingly melodious and idyllic, but also satiric, relentless and cruel music.
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