Beatrice Rana, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Beatrice Rana, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

“How rich in invention, how interesting from beginning to end it is,” Clara Schumann once enthused about Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor when she premiered it. With her album Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos, pianist Beatrice Rana shows that the piano virtuoso could hold a candle to her husband in terms of composition. Together with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, she complements Robert Schumann’s imaginative Piano Concerto in A minor with a piano concerto that his wife had already composed as a 13-year-old – also in A minor and almost more ingenious than that of her husband.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1-6, 8 & 9 (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1-6, 8 & 9 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:15:46 minutes | 2,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ICA Classics

This release celebrates the partnership of the distinguished conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016) directing the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) in a memorable cycle of the complete Schubert Symphonies at the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria during July 1988. Harnoncourt was a notable and perhaps controversial Schubertian who, with his favorite orchestra, set about examining everything afresh. The players he worked with in 1988 talk about the way he changed their perceptions, of discovering Schubert’s work for themselves, ignoring the accretions of previous performance tradition.

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The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Beethoven: The Symphonies (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Beethoven: The Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:46:27 minutes | 11,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Originally planned for April 2020 in celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, this recording of Beethoven’s symphonies is the third composer-led collaboration between Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the COE having previously performed and recorded together complete Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles in 2014 and 2017 respectively. This Symphony Cycle was going to use the now complete performance material featuring the musical text of the “New Beethoven Complete Edition”. Especially in Symphony No. 9 one can literally hear and experience the difference, as Beethoven’s original and recently re-discovered double bassoon part is used for the very first time. The recording will also be the COE’s first complete Beethoven Cycle on record since the landmark recording with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the 1990’s.

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