Arc Ensemble – Robert Müller-Hartmann: Chamber Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Arc Ensemble – Robert Müller-Hartmann: Chamber Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Robert Muller-Hartmann was born in Hamburg, in 1884, the son of the piano teacher and clarinettist Josef Muller and his wife, Jenny. He studied in Berlin for four years, but then returned to Hamburg where he pursued a successful career combining teaching, composing, and writing. His works were widely performed by conductors such as Karl Muck, Carl Schuricht, Richard Strauss, Otto Klemperer, and Fritz Busch, and regularly played on German Radio. With the advent of National Socialism, in 1933, Muller-Hartmann was forced to resign from his teaching posts at the University and Conservatory. He continued to teach at Hamburg’s Jewish girls’ school, and was an active contributor to the Judischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Federation). In the mid 1930s, Eugenia and Jacob (Yanya) Hornstein, Hamburg friends of the Muller-Hartmanns, moved to the town of Dorking, some twenty-five miles south of London, and in 1937 the Muller-Hartmanns followed them. The thirteen years Robert spent in England saw the country scarred by the losses, destruction, and privations of war. There was very little time or opportunity for him to secure a place in his adoptive country’s musical life, and despite his considerable success in Germany during the 1920s and ’30s, his reputation had failed to cross the English Channel. A general antipathy to the inclusion of German musical exiles and his modest, rather retiring personality ensured that he would soon be forgotten.

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ARC Ensemble – Hemsi: Chamber Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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ARC Ensemble – Hemsi: Chamber Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alberto Hemsi was born in 1898 in Turgutlu (also known as Cassaba), in Anatolia (present-day Turkey). Although there had been a Jewish presence in Anatolia for more than 2000 years, the population expanded considerably following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, with the arrival of Sephardim from Spain and Portugal. It then dwindled precipitously with the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the rise of Nazism, the creation of the state of Israel, and the escalation of anti-Semitism in the Arab world.
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ARC Ensemble – Klebanov: Chamber Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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ARC Ensemble – Klebanov: Chamber Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:23 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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The ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) is among Canada’s most distinguished cultural ambassadors. It focuses on researching and recovering music suppressed under the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century and marginalised thereafter. Exile is generally associated with geographical displacement, but the idea of “internal exile” has long had currency. There was a protracted variety of this exile in the Soviet Union: State oversight of musical style and substance began in the 1920s and persisted until well after Stalin’s death, in 1953. Unlike the Central European composers who were murdered or exiled under National Socialism, and whose music is now being assessed and revived, a great number of the musical casualties of the Soviet era still await serious attention.
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ARC Ensemble – Kaufmann: Chamber Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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ARC Ensemble – Kaufmann: Chamber Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:37 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the fourth instalment in its “Music in Exile” series, the Toronto-based ARC Ensemble turns its attention to the music of Walter Kaufmann. Despite a very promising start in Prague and then Berlin, and friendships with Albert Einstein and with Franz Kafka’s circle, Kaufmann’s career become a casualty of the Nazi regime that forced scores of Jewish musicians to flee Germany – in his case for Bombay in India.
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