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Janna Baty, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Fawzi Haimor – Reza Vali: The Being of Love (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:40 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Award-winning composer Reza Vali is a native of Iran but is now based in the United States after studies in Europe. Vali’s distinctive cross-cultural style is founded in a quiet rebellion that saw him return to his Persian musical heritage. Following the dazzling concert opener Ravân, Vali has taken a text by 13th-century poet and mystic, Rumi, two traditional texts, and words by Vali himself, to create the moving cycle The Being of Love, with each song evoking a different aspect of love. Isfahan uses Persian modes and forms, and is among Vali’s most striking microtonal works, pushing the orchestra beyond its usual twelve-note sound-world in an exciting way.
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Andrea Kauten, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Timo Handschuh – Brahms: The Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:44 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
It has long been my wish to record both of Johannes Brahms’s piano concertos for CD. In doing so, I have been able to build upon many experiences that allow me at this point in time to open myself up even more to the essence of these works, which move me to the depths of my being. Both works offer me something incredibly great, something that in my conception of things can hardly be further enlarged. Each of the two concertos fascinates me with its vast wealth of sound, its intensity, above all with its simply infinite emotional range. Highly dramatic developments open out into playful lightness of being. Time and again there are sincerely thoughtful moments, marked by deep serenity. The slow movements of these two concertos particularly fascinate me on account of those passages, which give us a glimpse into what is above and beyond the world we know. The Magyar in me senses many Hungarian influences. My engagement with the two concertos in the course of making the present recordings together with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen has enabled me to look at the above aspects with new eyes. These are insights that go ever deeper throughout one’s whole life. The process is never complete. The cathedral is too big for that.
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Mikhail Pochekin, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Sebastian Tewinkel – Mendelssohn & Bruch: Romantic Violin Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:58 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
Both Mendelssohn’s and Bruch’s Violin concertos have in common that they were composed with great violinists in mind. With Mendelssohn it was the violin virtuoso Ferdinand David. There’s an interesting exchange of letters about the E Minor Violin Concerto and the friendship shared by Mendelssohn and David, which is a highly informative and compelling read. And the Bruch Concerto is unthinkable without Sarasate. Both works are based on a similar foundation. What the works have in common, however, is that they are two completely different masterpieces, each of which tells a completely different “story”. This combination creates many moments full of suspense.
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Gabriel Castagna, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen – Astor Piazzolla: Orchestral Works (2000) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:34 minutes | Scans included | 3,07 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,08 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.0 multichannel surround sound | Reissue 2003 | Label: Chandos # CHSA 5006
Astor Piazzolla become hugely popular thanks to his ‘tango nuevo’ band and his short tango pieces. This disc shows his other, more serious side in some of his symphonic music, still mostly inspired by tango rhythms and catchy tunes. It is a great joy to have this music so well recorded and performed, and if you like Piazzolla’s music, you should definitely check this one out.
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Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen & John Jeter – Price: Songs of the Oak (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
The rediscovery of Florence Price’s music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price’s immense artistic imagination on full display. The two Concert Overtures explore her engagement with spirituals, both episodically and coloristically, in music that embraces the somber, the poignant and the ebullient. Songs of the Oak is a tour de force of Hollywood-influenced storytelling while The Oak offers a more anxious, ultimately tragic portrait. Price’s best-known work is the Suite of Dances – originally for piano it is heard here in the composer’s full, sumptuous orchestration.
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