Volker Hartung

Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra, Volker Hartung – Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites & Waltzes for Orchestra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:37 minutes | 689 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1972. It is composed of graduates of the most important German Rhineland Conservatories. They are superbly gifted young players who, once they have finished their studies, wish to experience the reality of a practical musical life playing chamber music and symphonic repertory at the highest level before entering their careers as soloists or as members of some philharmonic orchestra.

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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra & Volker Hartung – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 38, 40 & 41 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:30 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album contains three of Mozart’s greatest masterpieces, the late Symphonies No.38 (Prague Symphony), No.40 in G minor, and No.41 (Jupiter). The KV 550 Symphony is one of Mozart’s best-known works.

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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra, Volker Hartung – J.S. Bach: Baroque Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album consists of Johann Sebstian Bach’s Baroque Concertos for Violin & Oboe, the Double Concerto for 2 Violins, the Concerto in A minor and the Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor in exciting performances by soloists of the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Volker Hartung.
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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra, Volker Hartung – Retro Party: Swing Dance from the Golden Twenties (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:26 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Some songs are so deeply rooted in the attitude to life of a region that one can rightly call them ‘Hits.’ Broadway and its motion picture shows and theaters were synonyms of national cultural identity for New York and the American way of life. The names and melodies of composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Benny Goodman were omnipresent in New York. They are part of national history, just as the film in Babelsberg in Berlin developed a unique cultural flowering after the First World War. Talented composers such as Friedrich Hollander, Walter Jurmann, and Peter Kreuder became famous overnight through films like ‘The Blue Angel.’ The famous hit ‘Falling in Love Again’ (the German translation writes literally: ‘I am attuned to love from head to toe’) and the legs of the beautiful Marlene Dietrich enchanted Berlin and the whole world.

With the invention of sound film, a new, sparkling musical genre emerged: dance and film music, which developed its specific sound through jazz bands.
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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra, Volker Hartung – Smetana: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:34 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Classical
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Smetana was a musician of great talent who, in self-imposed exile from his native Bohemia, taught music and composition in Göteberg, Sweden. Like other Bohemian artists and musicians in the mid of the 19th century, Smetana longed for the day when his native land would be free from the oppression of its Austrian masters. After the Austro-Hungarian Empire granted political sovereignty to Bohemia, Smetana and other Czech composers could finally return to their home- land to create a national cultural identity for the self-governing provinces.
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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra & Volker Hartung – Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 114, D. 667 “Trout” & Other Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:26 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
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Volker Hartung is regarded as one of the most colorful personalities in the music scene today. His unmistakable conducting style, great musical sensitivity and skill in handling orchestras as well as soloists make his Concerts unforgettable events, which he enhances with his witty and famously entertaining announcements to the works performed. His several decades of experience as an independent manager of ensembles have taught him how to form orchestras and to make them financially and artistically viable in the face of various obstacles.

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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra & Volker Hartung – Dvořák: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:58 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Classical
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The concert overture Carnival (Czech: Karneval, koncertní ouvertura), Op. 92, B. 169, was written by Antonín Dvořák in 1891. It is part of a “Nature, Life and Love” trilogy of overtures written by Dvořák, forming the second “Life” part. The other two parts of the trilogy are In Nature’s Realm, Op. 91 (“Nature”) and Othello, Op. 93 (“Love”).

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