Günther Groissböck & Gerold Huber – Herz-Tod (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Günther Groissböck & Gerold Huber – Herz-Tod (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:07 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music GmbH

The Austrian bassist Günther Groissböck calls his new album project a “kind of artistic creed”. The album is a very personal selection of four song cycles by Brahms, Wagner, Wolf and Mahler, including the “Wesendonck Lieder” sung for the first time by a bass voice, summarized under the drastically striking title Herz-Tod, which at first reminds one of the cause of death rather than of highly romantic music. The four song cycles unite the thematic brackets of love, death, transience and fragility, both in the real and in the emotional sense.

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Gerold Huber & Raoul Steffani – Deep in a Dream (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gerold Huber & Raoul Steffani – Deep in a Dream (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:34 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics

Many songs on this album have one thing in common: they are mainly early compositions, in some cases even the first songs these composers wrote. They all have a certain spontaneity and freshness which shows that the young men who composed them were still at the beginning of their careers, full of dreams and hopes for the future. Thus, not surprisingly, many of the songs are also about dreams, totally in the spirit of the true romantic soul.

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Christiane Karg & Gerold Huber – Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Christiane Karg & Gerold Huber – Licht der Welt (A Christmas Promenade) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:25 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

In a follow-up to her acclaimed album of Mahler songs, Christiane Karg takes us on a Christmas tour, in the select company of fellow music-makers. Revisiting holiday memories through the eyes of a child, but with the benefit of her superb artistry as a lieder specialist, the German soprano shines a light on some enchanting rarities of German and French repertoire, along with examples of Spanish, Basque, and Scandinavian traditions… A treasure trove of hidden gems!

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Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber – Schumann: Frage (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber – Schumann: Frage (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

“Frage” is the new album by sensational baritone Christian Gerhaher. This new album is the first of many highly anticipated projects to record all of Robert Schumann’s songs. This project will be the first time since the 1970s where a singer has devoted themselves to comprehensively perform and record Robert Schumann’s complete lieder output. Frage is produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Deutsches Liedzentrum Heidelberg. Also featured in the project are fellow singers: Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Sybilla Rubens, Camilla Tilling, Julia Kleiter and Martin Mitterutzner as well as pianist Gerold Huber. Christian Gerhaher is set to perform at the prestigious Wigmore Hall in London on January 16 2019. He has won many awards including the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera and the Midem Special Prize.

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