Steven Isserlis, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Haydn & Bach: Cello Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:46 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Over the course of his career, Steven Isserlis has performed the two cello concertos of Franz Joseph Haydn with several orchestras, and recorded them previously with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on RCA. This 2017 Hyperion release features Isserlis performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H. 7b:1 and the Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, H. 7b:2 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a lively, all-Classical program that also includes Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Cello Concerto No. 3 in A major, H439, and two short filler pieces, Isserlis’ arrangement of Geme la tortorella from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, and the Adagio from Luigi Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in G major, G480.
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Hilary Hahn, Paavo Järvi, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4: Violin Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:52 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hilary Hahn’s newest album, Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4 – Violin Concertos, is her first recording with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi, after performing and touring with the ensemble and conductor for many years. The disc releases on March 31, and is Hahn’s first orchestral offering since her 2010 pairing of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto and Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer-prize winning violin concerto, which was written for Hahn. With this new album, she returns to core violin repertoire, hot on the heels of her critically-acclaimed, Grammy-winning album of 27 commissioned short pieces, In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores, and an improvised recording with prepared pianist Hauschka, titled Silfra.
Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4 also brings Hahn full circle, after more than three decades of violin playing, to two concertos that have been part of her repertoire since she was ten years old. Vieuxtemps’s Violin Concerto No. 4 was the last large piece she learned with Klara Berkovich, her teacher from ages five to ten. Several months later, Mozart 5 was the first concerto that Jascha Brodsky taught her at the Curtis Institute of Music. Berkovich began her violin studies in Odessa and went on to teach in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) before emigrating to the States. Brodsky was one of the last pupils of the legendary Eugène Ysaÿe, who, coincidentally, was a star student of Vieuxtemps, making Vieuxtemps Hahn’s musical great-grandfather in the violinist family tree.
Iiro Rantala, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen & Jonathan Bloxham – Playing Gershwin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:43 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The time of rigid demarcations between musical genres is over. For those who see music, indeed who love music as a universal language offering unlimited scope for human expression, this can only be a positive development. When one considers the jazz pianists of our time, they have just about all received their grounding in classical music, and yet these are musicians who don’t just traverse many different jazz styles, they can also roam at will into other genres. And looking among them, it would be hard to find a pianist as quintessentially complete as Iiro Rantala from Finland.
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