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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester & Thomas Zehetmair – #4 Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 23 & 38 “Prague” / Violin Concerto No. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:41 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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What can we hear on this album? Firstly, a symphony that is only around nine minutes long, formally and tonally an Italian piece (with three merged movements). KV 181 in D major, composed in May 1773, shortly after the Milan premiere of “Lucio Silla”, begins with fanfares in Allegro spiritoso, followed by highly dramatic, expansive contrasts between major and minor, forte and piano, light and shadow, spanned over a “walking” bass, as well as effective dialogues between the first and second violins, which audibly emulate the tonal ideals of the Mannheim School. In the second movement, an Andantino grazioso, the solo oboe sings a melody that resembles a (two-part) opera aria. The Presto assai finale, a finely structured Rondo, uses dotted notes as it marches towards a happy end in a narrative that speaks to us without words.
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Andre Schoch & Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – Core (Baroque Trumpet Concertos) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:27 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Classical
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Berlin Philharmonic trumpet player Andre Schoch will publish his first solo album with an ambitious repertoire with pieces from the baroque and early classical era by composers Michael Haydn, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Johann Melchior Molter, Leopold Mozart and Georg Philipp Telemann. The new album was recorded with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. The album title “CORE” represents the innermost sensation, soul and heart of this special music which has been accompanying Andre Schoch for a long time. On the one hand the artist is concerned with the “core”, the soul of the sound, which he wants to express on his instrument. On the other hand the works found on the album are precisely the central and “core pieces” of the 18th century repertoire.
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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Thomas Zehetmair – #3 Bartók / Adams: Divertimento / Shaker Loops (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:12 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Classical
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Béla Bartók and John Adams – the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra has chosen an unusual pairing for the third release on its own label. The orchestra and chief conductor Thomas Zehetmair play to one of their greatest strengths: pushing themselves to the limits in terms of creativity. In Bartók’s Divertimento for string orchestra, the folk motifs dance dangerously close to the abyss. The contrasts between optimism and a premonition of doom are striking – Bartók composed the piece in the summer of 1939. In John Adams’ “Shaker Loops”, the extremes oscillate between lucid pauses and rousing outbursts. This recording makes it impressively clear that this popular work of “minimal music” is not so minimal after all, but contains complex arcs of tension and transitions.
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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – #2 Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 “Der Tod und das Mädchen” (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:09 minutes | 718 MB | Genre: Classical
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Closer investigation of the roots and history of the Quartet, which was composed in 1824, reveals traces of all three of the so-called fine arts. The title “Death and the Maiden” reaches far back into the history of art. In the early 16th century, Hans Baldung Grien produced particularly impressive paintings and drawings on the theme of confrontation between life and death, symbolically embodied by a young girl and a skeleton. Published in 1774, the poem by Matthias Claudius succinctly presents the encounter in two verses that engage in mutual dialogue: on the one hand, the young woman in fear of death, and on the other, the skeletal man, whom Claudius transforms into an entirely positive figure through his soothing words.
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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – Die Rohre / The Tube (2003)
SACD ISO (2.0): 2,61 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,12 GB | NO! Artwork | 3% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 574 | Country/Year: Germany 2003
Genre: Classical | Style: Audiophile Recording
“The Tube is a collection of excellently played baroque music using Tubes though out the entire recording process. On the back of the SACD it says “No conductor – no semiconductor – I beg your pardon.” The players on this SACD are the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and they have no conductor. The booklet explains how semiconductors were avoided in making this SACD. From the 2 Neumann M49 valve microphones, the tubed mixer, to the restored tubed Telefunken M5 2 channel Stereo Reel to Reel, to the editing by hand up to the DSD converter which does use semiconductors. However the booklet says “… in the course of being converted the signal does not pass through any transistors, but rather adjoins them and is measured: The transistors cannot ‘pass on’ any of their properties to it’s sound. So we can rightly claim that for the music recorded here no transistor effected the sound in any way all at.
This 2 channel SACD has the most gorgeous sounding strings I have ever heard in any format, the sound and music are utterly beautiful. This is not a sampler but complete works by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. I especially love the first selection “La Musica Notturna della strade di Madrid” by Boccherini it is not only beautiful but exciting too, a major discovery for me. Also other gems by Sammartini, Avison, Scarlatti, Handel, Vivaldi, Biber and Corelli.”
“The lengths to which TACET have gone to secure an all-valve (tube) recording chain for this disc might seem perverse to some, but I think that the sound quality that they have achieved is a complete vindication of their unusual approach. The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, under their founder Karl Munchinger, were of course one of the stars of the Decca repertoire during the “Golden Age” of valve mastered recordings in the late Fifties and early Sixties, and this disc has the wonderfully warm string tone of the renowned SXL series LPs from that era. Of course, cynics (or diehard vinyl revivalists) might question the virtues of the latest digital techniques if all they do is take you back to the sound of 40 years ago, but you only have to listen to the dynamics and, of course, blissful silence during the quiet passages, to realise what benefits SACD can offer over its vinyl predecessor. The music is very appealing throughout – the Handel and Corelli are worth the admission price alone, and the other pieces are never less than interesting, particularly the Biber which was totally unfamiliar to me. The performances, to my admittedly inexpert ear, are impeccable, and very lively throughout. All this, and you get a joke too: “No conductor, no semiconductor…..” – who says the Germans have no sense of humour?” ~sa-cd.net
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Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Ensemble Ascolta, Basel Sinfonietta, Peter Rundel, Bas Wiegers – Gravity’s Rainbow (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:24 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Classical
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A sound so overwhelmingly rich and manifold that it almost transcends the ensemble producing it; a wealth of colours bordering on the boundless; a swarm of teeming shapes that is too dense for our ears to unravel; a whole that is far more than its parts, yet does not swallow them. These may be some of the first impressions evoked by the music of Michael Pelzel. Pelzel himself uses the image of a river that takes all manner of things with it; taking up the metaphor, one could say that the place of Pelzels ideal listener is not on the shore, but in the midst of the current. This recording brings together a multitude of performers: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Ensemble ascolta, Peter Rundel, ensemble recherche, Ernesto Molinari, Basel Sinfonietta, Jetpack Bellerive, WDR Sinfonieorchester and Bas Wiegers.
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Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies – Witold Lutosławski, Béla Bartók: Musique funèbre (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Classical
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Dennis Russell Davies has had a long-running and highly productive association with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – documented on exceptional ECM recordings of repertoire from Mozart to Kancheli – and is currently the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate. Here he leads them through spirited performances of Bartók’s “Divertimento”, “Romanian Folk Dances” and “Seven Songs” (on which the orchestra is joined by the Hungarian Radio Children’s Choir.) This selection of lively Bartók pieces is viewed through the prism of Wittold Lutosalwaski’s “Musique funèbre”, written in memory of the great Hungarian composer, and first performed on the 10th anniversary of Bartók’s death. It’s an important, and moving, piece (and one which also led to international recognition for Lutoslawski).
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