Howard Griffiths, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg & Jonathan Fournel – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 KV 456 & 21 KV 467 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:19 minutes | 971 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Bravo Mozart!” exclaimed Emperor Joseph II as he stood up and tipped his hat at the end of the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 18 KV 456 , played by Mozart himself on 30 September 1784. Less than a year later, the composer pens his iconic 21st concerto, which is performed here by the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg conducted by Howard Griffiths, and pianist Jonathan Fournel. Winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2021, the French pianist has already made a Brahms recording for Alpha (ALPHA851). At the age of 30, he is developing a highly promising career, impressing audiences at every one of his concerts.
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ORF Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths, Thomas Zehetmair – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 KV 459 – Concerto for Flute & Harp KV 299 – Andante for Flute KV 315 – Horn Concerto No. 1 KV 412/514 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:04 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the seventh volume in this collection devoted to Mozart by the younger generation of soloists, the award-winning Austrian pianist Aaron Pilsan records the concerto K.459 with the ORF Radio Symphonieorchester in Vienna. French horn player Nicolas Ramez records one of his favourite concertos, the first of Mozart’s four horn concertos. Finally, the young flutist Diren Duran performs the Andante for flute and orchestra K.315 before accompanying the harpist Elisabeth Plank for the divine concerto for flute, harp and orchestra K.299.
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Roman Borisov, Gabriel Pidoux, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and Howard Griffiths – Mozart Piano Concertos No. 11, 13 (KV 413 & 415) & Oboe Concerto KV 314 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:32 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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For the sixth volume of this series devoted to Mozart performances by the young generation of soloists, the pianist Roman Borisov, who won First Prize at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2022 when he was the youngest participant in the competition, has recorded the Concertos K413 and K415 with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. The French oboist Gabriel Pidoux, winner of the ‘Revelation’ award at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2020, who recorded his first solo album for Alpha in 2022 (Romance, Alpha789), presents the famous Concerto K314, with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, conducted as always by Howard Griffiths.
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Marc Bouchkov, Claire Huangci, Kammerorchstra Basel, Howard Griffiths – Mendelssohn: Works for Violin and Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:11 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mendelssohn is a challenge, because his music appears to be so deceptively easy,” says the pianist Claire Huangci, speaking about her new album. Together with violinist Marc Bouchkov she has recorded works by Mendelssohn for violin and piano: the two Violin Sonatas in F – one major, one minor – and the Double Concerto in D minor. They are accompanied in the latter work by the successful conductor Howard Griffiths and the Basel Chamber Orchestra. As Ms Huangci points out, this represents a program rich in contrasts highlighting Mendelssohn’s artistry and the versatility of such a combination of works: “A mix requiring wit and brilliance on the one hand, while also requiring the performers to go beneath the surface and reveal a deeper meaning including sorrow, compassion and nobility, and that is something that is not easy to detect at first glance. The young Felix Mendelssohn has such a feel for the dramatic.
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Claire Huangci, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg & Howard Griffiths – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 15, 16, 17 (KV 450, 451, 453) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:40 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos for various instruments. The finest soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor, who considers that playing his music is like ‘looking in a mirror: you can hear if everything is in place, musicality, intonation, rhythm, phrasing’. For this fifth volume, the American pianist Claire Huangci joins the Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg and Howard Griffiths, her mentor for the past ten years. For her, she says, these concertos are ‘true musical revelations, works full of virtuosity and imagination’.
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Howard Griffiths & Münchener Kammerorchester – Danzi: Ouverture, Cello Concerto & Piano Concerto (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:38 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
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The stunning new album from Howard Griffiths and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Compositions by Franz Danzi, Mozart’s contemporary, acclaimed composer of early classical music. The Cello Concerto in E minor is performed by young French cello virtuoso Aurélien Pascal. The Paris musician, born in 1994, began his musical education at the Paris Conservatory and took masterclasses with János Starker. The second soloist on this album is Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan, who won the famous Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow sensationally at just 19 years old and at the young age of 15, was admitted to the Vienna University of Music as the youngest student. The rarely performed Overture in D major completes this interesting Danzi programme; a well balanced collection of repertoire rarities.
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Howard Griffiths – A. Wranitzky: Violin Concerto – P. Wranitzky: Cello Concerto & Symphony in D Major (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:56 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anton & Paul Bohemian composers Paul Wranitzky (1756-1808) and Anton Wranitzky (1761-1820) were among the most important personalities on the Viennese music scene in around the year 1800. Both Wranitzky enjoyed an excellent reputacion among their more colleagues in Vienna. As a composer, Paul was the most productive and successful of the two half-brothers. He composed in all genres typical of the day -some 50 symphonies, several instrumental concertos and numerous chamber works. Anton Wranitzky’s œuvres is less comprehensive than that of this half-brother and is more concentrated on works for his own instrument, the violin.
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Sebastian Bohren, Sarastro Quartett, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Howard Griffiths – Rauchenecker: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rauchenecker, a versatile virtuoso. Although almost completely forgotten today, Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker was an exceptionally versatile musician of European stature: as founder and conductor of the first professional orchestra of the city of Winterthur (1875), composer, ardent Wagnerian, city organist, music dealer and pedagogue, he left weighty and far-reaching traces in Germany, Switzerland and France.
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Howard Griffiths – Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 KV 218, Piano Concerto No. 6 KV 238 & Flute Concerto No. 1 KV 313 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:37 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has teamed up with ALPHA CLASSICS to make a series of recordings dedicated to Mozart concertos. Leading soloists of the young generation have been selected to perform under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, one of the most renowned Mozart conductors of our time.
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