Johan Dalene, Eivind Ringstad, Ariel Lanyi, Alexandre Zanetta, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Howard Griffiths – Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante KV 364, Rondos KV 382 & 386 & Horn Concerto No. 2 KV 417 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johan Dalene, Eivind Ringstad, Ariel Lanyi, Alexandre Zanetta, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Howard Griffiths – Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante KV 364, Rondos KV 382 & 386 & Horn Concerto No. 2 KV 417 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:19 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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This ninth installment of the Next Generation Mozart Soloists series presents four young soloists under the direction of Howard Griffiths and reveals the full range of Mozart’s creativity. Mozart most likely heard a Sinfonia concertante – a work in which a group of solo instruments enters into a dialog with the orchestra – for the first time in Paris in 1778. The following year he composed such a work for violin, viola and orchestra: the Sinfonia concertante K. 364. It is recorded here by Johan Dalene and Eivind Ringstad, who are full of praise for the way Mozart placed the viola on an equal footing with the violin.

Mozart composed no less than four horn concertos in Vienna; the first of these is played here by Alexandre Zanetta, who admits to being fascinated by the delicacy, complexity and humor of the work. The pianist Ariel Lanyi describes the two rondos for piano and orchestra K. 382 and K. 386 recorded here as perfect examples of simplicity and variety as well as the passages with a distinctly operatic character.

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Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johan Dalene & Christian Ihle Hadland – Stained Glass (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:30 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recital brings together two established classics from the 20th century with lesser-known works from the repertoire for violin and piano. Alongside Ravel’s Sonata, a work that reveals the influence of jazz on the French composer, and Prokofiev’s wartime Sonata, Op. 94a, an idiomatic arrangement of its original version for flute, we find compositions by Arvo Pärt, Lili Boulanger and Grażyna Bacewicz, which, at times meditative, at times lyrical, at times folk-inspired, testify to the richness of this repertoire.

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Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland – Nordic Rhapsody (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johan Dalene, Christian Ihle Hadland – Nordic Rhapsody (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:13 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Only 20 years old, Johan Dalene has already been hailed as “a musician of special sensibilities” (Gramophone) in possession of “a rare fire” (Diapason), and his début recording, with the concertos of Tchaikovsky and Barber, was described as “one of the finest violin débuts of the last decade” in the BBC Music Magazine.
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Johan Dalene, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf – Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johan Dalene, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Blendulf – Tchaikovsky & Barber: Violin Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:47 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
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Born in 2000, Swedish violinist Johan Dalene is already making an impact on the international scene. His refreshingly honest musicality, combined with an ability to engage with musicians and audiences alike, has won him many admirers. Johan began playing the violin at the age of four and made his professional concerto debut three years later. A student at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, he has also worked closely with mentors including Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes and Gidon Kremer. Johan has been a prize winner at a number of competitions, most recently the prestigious Carl Nielsen Competition at which he won First Prize.
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Johan Dalene, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Johan Dalene, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Nielsen & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2022)
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Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, alongside Grieg the two giants in Nordic classical music, were both born in 1865. Both also received their first musical training on the violin, earning valuable insights when it came to writing for the instrument. Their respective Violin Concertos were composed some six years apart – Sibelius’ in 1904-05 and Nielsen’s in 1911 – and belong to the most performed works of either composer. They are nevertheless as different from each other as are the artistic temperaments of their makers. While retaining the traditional three-movement concerto form, Sibelius composed something closer to a Late-Romantic orchestral tone poem giving the orchestra unusual prominence. Nielsen on the other hand opted for an unconventional form, reminiscent of the Baroque concerto grosso: the spiky, neoclassical work is nominally in two movements, but with each movement having a slow and a fast section.
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