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Leon Bosch, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar – Thomas de Hartmann: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:46 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1884–1956) is only now beginning to be rediscovered, almost seven decades after his death. The two works receiving their first recordings here reveal a major late-Romantic voice, downstream from Tchaikovsky, a student of Arensky and Taneyev, contemporary of Rachmaninov, and alert to the discoveries of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
The Symphonie-Poème No. 1 – a musical cousin of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – occupies a vast canvas and requires a correspondingly huge orchestra, generating a monumental sense of scale from essentially balletic material. The lighter Fantaisie-Concerto for double bass and orchestra moves from tangy dissonance via a tuneful slow movement to a perky, folk-inspired finale.
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Leon Bosch – Bottesini: Virtuoso Double Bass Vol. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:54 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Meridian Records
This recording with Rebeca Omordia, on the Meridian Records label, completes Leon Bosch’s exploration of Giovanni Bottesini’s complete works for double bass and piano.
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Leon Bosch, I Musicanti – Bottesini: String Quintets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:20 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
Recorded for the first time, the C minor Second String Quintet adopts the string quartet-with-second cello scoring employed by Schubert and Boccherini to create a work of rhythmic vitality, colour and contrasting moods. Also receiving its premiere recording, the intricately designed Third String Quintet, in A major, employs the two-viola instrumentation preferred by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and is, as Toby Deller observes in his booklet notes, “the more lyrically Romantic work of the three on this recording, with four sharply characterised movements”.
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