Quartetto di Cremona & Eckart Runge – Schubert: String Quintet & String Quartet ‘Death and the Maiden’ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:18 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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The new album offers the chance to listen simultaneously to four Stradivari instruments and an Amati cello: The Quartetto di Cremona plays the Stradivarius Paganini Quartet, one of the few quartet “sets” completed by Antonio Stradivari and once owned by the legendary violinist Niccola Paganini. Eckart Runge plays a rare cello made by Hieronymus and Antonio Amati in their Cremonese atelier.
After completing the recording cycle of Beethoven’s String Quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona’s new double CD is entirely dedicated to Franz Schubert, presenting two of his latest masterpieces: the String Quartet Death and the Maiden and the String Quintet in C major, with cellist Eckart Runge.
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Eckart Runge – Revolutionary Icons (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:44 minutes | 529 MB | Genre: Classical
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From rebellious hero: inside, subversive restless spirits and living Legend: inside education – Eckart Runge and Jacques Ammon celebrate their 25th anniversary as a duo in 2021 and the release of their debut album on Berlin Classics. On the one hand,” Revolutionary Icons ” is a bold, cross-genre album concept full of energetic music by the classical border crosser Beethoven paired with the Ikon:inside of rock-pop-jazz. At the same time, it is testimony to the collaboration of two curious and insatiable music explorers.
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Eckart Runge & Jacques Ammon – Baroque in Blue (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:37 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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On their new album “Baroque in Blue”, Eckart Runge & Jacques Ammon explore the field of tension between two musical epochs and genres that are separated by more than 200 years. Baroque and jazz have much more in common than one might think at first glance: walking basso continuo, the joy of spontaneity and, last but not least, the high art of improvisation.
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