Gary Hoffman & David Selig – Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gary Hoffman & David Selig – Beethoven: Complete Sonatas and Variations for Cello and Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:06 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano laid the foundations of twentieth-century musical thought. Under the fingers of Gary Hoffman and David Selig, these five monuments of musical history, though dating from the early nineteenth century, reveal all their premonitory dimension. For these two peerless musicians, this recording marks the culmination of an artistic partnership that began more than thirty years ago. Gary Hoffman and David Selig met in 1986 and have been programing Beethoven’s sonatas for many years. Sometimes they even play them all in a single concert. Hoffman says, “I regret that the notion of individuality is being lost today. What is wonderful is to reveal the different ‘characters’ of the score. Even in Beethoven’s quartets, there are voices that emerge from a sonic ‘fusion’.”

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Jerusalem Quartet, Veronika Hagen, Gary Hoffman – Dvořák: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jerusalem Quartet, Veronika Hagen, Gary Hoffman – Dvořák: String Quintet, Op. 97 & String Sextet, Op. 48 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:55 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

The Jerusalem Quartet explores two aspects of Dvořák’s chamber music: one of the first big successes in the genre of a Bohemian composer who now enjoyed a well-established reputation in Europe (op.48), and one of the masterpieces from the years of American exile which brought him worldwide fame (op.97).

He had just made his decisive breakthrough. More or less overnight, Antonín Dvorák, now thirty-six years old, had risen to the front rank of European composers – and had done so with works that bore their national, popular aura in the title.
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