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Udo Wachtveitl, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – R. Schumann: Die innere Stimme (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:34:15 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
There are many biographies of Robert Schumann, but none that gives a real voice to his music – and the life and the music of this great Romantic composer were connected in a particularly subtle way. This new release in the successful series of BR-KLASSIK audio biographies contains approximately 150 excerpts from Schumann’s works; carefully interwoven into his life story, they give voice to his inner world. The mysterious “inner voice” that Schumann noted down in the score of his Humoreske op. 20 thus becomes the motto of this audio biography. “Unknown songs I had never heard flowed through my heart – songs that sounded to me like ghostly voices.” It was this passage from ETA Hoffmann’s Kreisleriana that inspired Schumann to write his own Kreisleriana op 16. In February 1854, the composer himself heard such voices – and this marked the start of a journey that would culminate in the mental asylum. Schumann’s “inner voice” thus represents not only his romantic sensitivity but also his fragile and volatile psyche. Of course, this ten-part audio biography also devotes a lot of room to the relationship between Robert and Clara – probably the greatest “romantic novel” of music history. Nothing is exaggerated, however; it is all based on the original sources, which are dramatic and touching enough in themselves. Outstanding actors including Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Matthias Brandt (Schumann) and Brigitte Hobmeier (Clara) contribute, alongside further narrators, to all the fascinating sounds and colours of this audio biography. Performers such as John Eliot Gardiner, Eric Le Sage and Christian Gerhaher guarantee the highest quality in the musical excerpts, which also feature several rarities. The audio biography is rounded off by a new live recording of the “Spring Symphony” with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Mariss Jansons.
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Antoine Tamestit, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding – Widmann: Viola Concerto (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:00 minutes | 422 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
A fiery partnership. The brainchild of Antoine Tamestit, this recording stems from a long-standing collaboration with his recital partner, Jörg Widmann. Over the course of his new viola concerto, Widmann the composer lets his soloist move freely about the stage, producing fresh orchestral colours within a novel structure: combining humour with earnestness, ferocity with delicacy, Widmann’s unfailing sense of theatre serves to highlight the work’s haunting beauty. Whether embedded in the orchestral fabric or exploring the more intimate pieces on this programme, the violist comes out a hero, hands down!
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Alisa Weilerstein, Pablo Heras-Casado, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
It was in Shostakovichs First Cello Concerto that cellist Alisa Weilerstein prompted the Los Angeles Times to marvel: Weilersteins cello is her id… She and the cello seem simply to be one and the same. Alisa returns with Shostakovichs cello masterworks Concertos 1 & 2.
Composed for the virtuosic cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the coupling and contrasting of these two arresting works is irresistible: the anti-heroic, relentless, emotionally suppressed First Concerto set alongside the sarcasm and isolation of the Second.
Weilersteins interpretation is underpinned by her meeting Rostropovich a close friend of the composer when she was 22, playing Shostakovich for him and absorbing his advice and wisdom.
Her outstanding rapport with conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the Symphonieorchester Bayerischen Rundfunks is evident in this new recording.
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Alice Sara Ott, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Wonderland – Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:20 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Edvard Grieg’s hit pieces for piano on one album – performed by one of the most exciting young pianists of our days
On her new album Alice Sara Ott takes us into the world of mountain trolls and elves, hills and fjords through a selection of Grieg’s works – his Lyric Pieces, as well as through selected piano versions of pieces from the Peer Gynt Suites, and one of the most famous works of piano literature: Grieg’s piano concerto in A minor, for which she teams up with oe of the top orchestras, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, under star conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen at a live recording
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