Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Goetterdaemmerung (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 04:11:06 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Rhine is where Richard Wagner’s cycle of operas “Der Ring des Nibelungen” begins and ends – and it was beside the Rhine in 1851 that the composer first dreamed of this equally visionary and monumental work. Even if Wagner’s plans for a festival would ultimately be realised in an entirely different part of Germany, the performance of a “Ring on the Rhine” will always remain something very special.
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Duisburger Philharmoniker & Axel Kober – Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:36:27 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
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After moving into Valhalla, Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries with various women, who recruit the fallen heroes from all battlefields into a powerful private army. With this he arms himself against Alberich, from whom he has elicited the Ring promising power, and who now wants to take revenge. Alberich also has a son, with whose help he wants to destroy the gods. The Stormy force of the “Valkyrie”prelude testifies to the time pressure Wotan is under. Only a new, blameless Generation can establish a new world order. Wotan relies on the love of the twin couple Siegmund and Sieglinde. But Wotan’s wife Fricka demands Siegmund’s death, because as the patroness of marriage and family she cannot tolerate adultery and incest. Scale of a new order.
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Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Justin Taylor & Axel Kober – Poulenc, Schreker & Zimmermann: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:46 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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The French composer Francis Poulenc wrote his Concert champêtre for harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. In doing so, he made a contribution to the renaissance of this historic keyboard instrument, having learned to play on a modern version made by the French builder Pleyel. The arrangement of the work is highly original. On the one hand, it is extremely contemporary. On the other hand, the piece is in the style of French Baroque harpsichordists and its most important representatives Francois Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau. The main instrumental work of the opera composer Franz Schreker not only begs a comparison to Arnold Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony, but also fulfils the principle developed by Franz Liszt of melding various types of movements into a large one-movement form. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Un “petit rien” was taken from his own music for a radio drama and links the title to a ballet composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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