Quatuor Modigliani, Jean Frédéric Neuburger, Andrea Hill, Laurent Marfaing – Brahms: Quintette pour cordes et piano & Zwei Gesänge (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Quatuor Modigliani, Jean Frédéric Neuburger, Andrea Hill, Laurent Marfaing – Brahms: Quintette pour cordes et piano & Zwei Gesänge (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:01 minutes | 479 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

Written twenty years apart, these gems of chamber music by Johannes Brahms present two captivating faces of a complicated romantic composer. Mezzo-soprano Andrea Hill sings the intimate and poignantly nostalgic Zwei Gesänge for mezzo, viola and piano and the Modigliani Quartet is joined by pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger in the crowd-pleasing Piano Quintet, a work of almost symphonic texture and intensity.
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Jean-Frédéric Neuburger – Stockhausen: Mantra (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger - Stockhausen: Mantra (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger – Stockhausen: Mantra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:12 minutes | 534 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

“Mantra is a sweeping epic of a work in which Stockhausen’s chief characteristics are apparent: stylistic rigour, the elaboration of a generative system of composition, the conception of a large-scale form, experimentation with electronics, and highly individual links with the divine and the cosmos. Stockhausen always believed that music was born of a single principle, deployed in a macroscopic universe. In Indian mysticism, a ‘mantra’ is a prayer that must be repeated many times; Stockhausen chose this term to designate a two-part melodic formula that is repeated throughout the work. But unlike the identical repetitions of India’s sacred utterances, Stockhausen puts his basic formula through many transformations. There will be nothing more than this ‘mantra’; nothing will be added or removed.”
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Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Jean-François Heisser, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger – Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Jean-François Heisser, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger - Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Jean-François Heisser, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger – Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:51 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

Without a doubt, it is urgent to get back to essentials, to retrace the path from the canyons to the stars, to celebrate “the beauties of the earth (its rocks, its birdsongs), the beauties of the material sky, the beauties of the spiritual sky,” as Messiaen writes at the head of his score.
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