Andre Schuen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – Thomas Larcher: Symphony No. 2 “Kenotaph” & Die Nacht der Verlorenen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Austrian composer Thomas Larcher (born 1963) is one of the great symphonists of our era. This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu includes the first recording of his Second Symphony, “Kenotaph”, and the song cycle Die Nacht der Verlorenen performed by the baritone Andrè Schuen.
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Andrè Schuen – Schubert: Schwanengesang (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:39 minutes | 933 MB | Genre: Classical
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After receiving huge praise for his debut album on Deutsche Grammophon, baritone Andrè Schuen continues his Schubert journey. Schubert’s enigmatic final collection of songs, Schwanengesang, is the subject of Andrè Schuen and his longstanding accompanist Daniel Heide’s second release for Deutsche Grammophon. Schuen calls Schwanengesang “my greatest love among the Schubert lieder. Especially the Heine settings; they move me the most!”.
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Andrè Schuen – Liszt: Petrarca Sonnets (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:25 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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„This complete recording of Franz Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets attempts to highlight the significance of his different versions of the three Sonnets 47, 109, und 123 – possibly for the first time. Musicologists are baffled by the fact that Liszt wrote several versions of the same works. He even set the same texts to different music: not twice, but occasionally three or more times – an absolute exception in the history of music. This is both bewildering and rewarding: Liszt aficionados can embark on a treasure hunt through the scores.
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André Schuen, Daniel Heide – Schumann, Wolf & Martin: Lieder (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:44 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Their purpose for their début album is to present the entire scope of their repertoire. André Schuen has been exploring different facets of his voice. “The three personalities we encounter on this recording represent three different generations. In Robert Schumann we meet the enraptured youthful lover.
In Frank Martin we meet a man caught in the midst of life but pushed to the brink of despair by fear of death.
And Hugo Wolf draws our gaze to Mignon’s father, the old harpist, full of melancholy, approaching the end of his life.”
Daniel Heide adds: “We’re also confronted with three different compositional styles.” In Robert Schumann’s music we have the soft, lyrical high notes that André Schuen finds so appealing. This – Heide adds – is core Romantic lied repertoire, loved by many and almost too familiar.
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André Schuen and Boulanger Trio – Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura, Adelaide, An die ferne Geliebte, Scottish & Irisch Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Classical
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Art song had blossomed into a multifaceted genre by 1800, and the debate whether to favour recurrent stanza structures or through-composed form was well underway. Lieder, as the lyrical genre per se, marked out the territory in which musicians could express the most profound emotions. The best composers therefore increasingly chose to through-compose their songs – a logical step, thanks to which they were able to closely follow the content and the speech of the poems they were setting to music. Beethoven already took that very step in his earliest Lieder. The emotional value of a song such as Adelaide op. 46 (1795/96) even managed to convince a late-19th-century Vienna music critic otherwise well known for his harshness – Eduard Hanslick, who wrote in 1886: “No depiction of a youth’s enthusiastic love could be more faithful and exemplary than this Adelaide by Beethoven. What sweet, secret bliss shivers in every note of this golden melody! Perhaps the young man is not even ‘blushingly following her footsteps’ like Schiller’s suitor [in The Song of the Bell ]. Instead, this lover seems to be content to inebriate himself with his beloved’s mere name, to which he renders such profuse homage.”
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Andrè Schuen – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:08 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Andrè Schuen releases his debut album on DG after signing as an exclusive artist 2020. Together with his partner pianist Daniel Heide, he performs Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. Andrè and Daniel have been performing together since Andrè’s early twenties, next to their stellar musical performance they are sparking with enthusiasm and wit in conversation with each other and the audience.
Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, written almost two hundred years ago, is one of the supreme tests of the lieder singer’s art. The duo brings to life the story of a young miller who wanders the countryside in search of work and sees his carefree world transformed within the course of the song cycle.
“By recording it now, while I’m relatively young, I can still bring many light colors to the music as well. The piece makes no sense to me without them.”
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