Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad, Daniel Müller-Schott – Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:04 minutes | 989 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Since the foundation of PentaTone Classics in 2001, their enterprising programming; appealing contemporary presentations; consistently high quality performances and state of the art recordings have been nothing short of astonishing. I look forward enthusiastically to each of their stylish new releases and this hybrid Super Audio CD of Mendelssohn’s two Piano Trios was no exception. After a check of the accompanying marketing information it seems that this disc has already been selected as a Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’ and the recipient of a Diapason d’Or award.
PentaTone have provided a smart contemporary presentation, interesting and detailed annotation, excellent sonics together with superb performances. What more could one ask. This is certainly a disc to dash out and purchase.” –Michael Cookson, Music Web
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Julia Fischer & Daniel Müller-Schott – Duo Sessions (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Classical
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Two of the world’s leading string soloists have teamed up for Orfeo’s Duo Sessions, and their virtuosity and musicianship carry this 2016 album, even though the CD consists of relatively unfamiliar material. Violinist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott have performed as a duo over a period of ten years, and they have established a rapport that is evident in their musical interests and their ability to communicate on the same high level. Here they play four works that test their remarkable abilities and give them considerable room for expression, but the pieces themselves seem to have languished in that special obscurity reserved for much modern chamber music. These works are rarely programmed, no doubt because of the relative scarcity of violin-cello duos, and only Maurice Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello has a firm place in the repertoire. Yet the pieces by Zoltán Kodály, Erwin Schulhoff, and Johan Halvorsen are certainly accessible and attractive, and these compelling performances will give them a higher profile. Fischer and Müller-Schott are most familiar to listeners in their roles as concerto soloists, though this tête-à-tête shows a new side that their fans will appreciate just as much.
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Daniel Müller-Schott, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Alexandre Bloch – Four Visions of France (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:48 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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It is not by chance that luminous textures and sensual orchestral colors are considered essential features of French music. Its history features great names renowned for their art of instrumentation and sensitive use of timbres, who include the composers of the cello concertos on this recording: Camille Saint-Sa”ens, whose instrumentation technique always combines color with transparency, ‘Edouard Lalo, who was highly esteemed by Claude Debussy for the wealth of color in his works, and Arthur Honegger, who painted striking soundscapes not only in his Cello Concerto but in his works without a large orchestra as well. Often it is the fine shadings and delicate transitions that characterize the tone colors of French music and are responsible for its delightful charm. Daniel M”uller-Schott – Opus Klassik award winner 2019 – appealingly combines five works from the French sound kaleidoscope on his newest album with the DSO Berlin and Alexandre Bloch ‘Four Visions of France’.
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Daniel Müller-Schott & Francesco Piemontesi – Brahms: Sonatas Opp. 38, 78 & 99 (2020)
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“The two cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms are in very stark contrast to each other. This is not solely due to the more than twenty years separating the works. Brahms had a preference for pairs of works with the same instrumentation, which he frequently composed according to the principle of contrast. In the case of the cello concertos, it is above all the character and mood of the respective pieces that describe the contrasts. In the version for cello, the Violin Sonata op. 78, one of Brahms’ finest chamber works, supplements the two original cello sonatas in a charming way.
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Daniel Müller-Schott – Trip to Russia (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:54 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Classical
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Rare Russian cello repertoire: From the Old World: Perhaps the relatively small size of a repertoire is an advantage after all. The vast realm occupied by the leading genres – as in Verdi’s operatic oeuvre, Bach’s cantatas, Schubert’s Lieder or Haydn’s symphonies – seems so extensive as to make one despair of embracing it in its entirety.
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Daniel Müller-Schott – #CelloUnlimited (2019)
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After J. S. Bach’s solo cello suites in the early 18th century, the genre experienced a fallow period until Zoltán Kodály set the pace with a monumental sonata for solo cello in 1915. It inspired a variety of similar works, but Kodaly’s 30-minute sonata still stands ‘like Mount Everest’, to quote Daniel Müller-Schott, the soloist on this recording. His programme also includes music by Prokofiev, Hindemith, Henze, Crumb and Casals, and features a work of his own for the first time: Cadenza continues the tradition of compositions that other cellists have always added to their recital programmes. “Here, you can recognise influences of the solo works that have influenced me over the years. In Cadenza, the contrasting elements of the world of my instrument appear in the closest space – the cello in pure lyricism, just as sequences catapulting themselves into the highest registers in rhythmical savagery and immediately concluding the movement after a final culmination.” (Daniel Müller-Schott)
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Daniel Müller-Schott & Herbert Schuch – Edvard Grieg: Cello Works (2022)
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Edvard Grieg, arguably the most popular composer ever to emerge from the Scandinavian peninsula, made substantial contributions to the chamber music canon with his violin sonatas rather than with his works for cello: only one sonata for cello and piano (Op. 36) was written for this line-up. Daniel Müller-Schott, always driven to expand the musical repertoire for his instrument and with a keen sense of transcriptions, for this all-Grieg album – which is his 20th album on the label Orfeo – hence transcribed and recorded for the first time the violin sonata in C minor, Op. 45, No. 3, for the cello. Accompanied by his long-standing duo-partner Herbert Schuch on piano, the short Intermezzo in A minor (EG 115) guides us to the second part of the album, where the duo presents selected songs of various characters transcribed for cello and piano.
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Julia Fischer, Daniel Müller-Schott, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, Yakov Kreizberg – Brahms: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:55 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Is violinist Julia Fischer in the same league as David Oistrakh in her recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto? Are Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in the same league as Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich in their recording of Brahms’ Double Concerto? No: Oistrakh and Rostropovich are playing big, muscular, and heroic music while Fischer and Müller-Schott are playing intimate, sensuous, and lyrical music. Fischer’s tone is lovely, her technique is impeccable, but best of all his interpretation of the Violin Concerto is sweet, smiling, and joy-filled. Müller-Schott’s tone is warm, his technique is impressive, but best of all his interpretation of the Double Concerto with Fischer sounds like a love duet from an Othello written by a German. Together with the lush and enveloping accompaniment of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam led by Yakov Kreizberg, Fischer and Müller-Schott turn in performances that aren’t in the same league as Oistrakh and Rostropovich — they’re in a wonderfully seductive league of their own. PentaTone’s super audio digital sound is rich, full, deep, and just about real. –James Leonard, AllMusic
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