Tapiola Sinfonietta & Mario Venzago – Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Serenades Nos. 1 & 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:41:14 minutes | 3,73 GB | Genre: Classical
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The size of the orchestra and the arrangement of the orchestra is similar to the situation of the historic Hofkapelle in Meiningen, where the composer’s 4th symphony had been performed for the first time Fascinating new sound impression of well known classical pieces. Appealing and interesting version of Brahms’ immortal symphonies. About the artists Mario Venzago is the principal conductor and artistic director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, Artist in Association at Finland’s Tapiola Sinfonietta and a regular guest conductor of the Kammerorchester Basel. Before taking up conducting, Venzago was a concert pianist at Radiotelevisione Svizerra in Switzerland, and performed throughout Europe as a soloist and accompanist. Several of his CDs have won international prizes. His recordings of the operas «Venus» and «Penthesilea» and of all choral works by Othmar Schoeck with the MDR choir and symphony orchestra received great international recognition and prestigious awards. The Tapiola Sinfonietta ? the orchestra of the City of Espoo – is a high-quality chamber orchestra whose guest performers include leading Finnish and foreign conductors and soloists. For 30 years, the orchestra has maintained a core repertoire of the Viennese Classics, but the ensemble is also eager to perform contemporary works and children’s music and participate in multi – genre productions. The orchestra tours regularly in Finland and abroad. Its home base is Tapiola Hall at the Espoo Cultural Centre, which is also where most of its nearly 70 discs have been recorded.
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Symphonieorchester Bern & Mario Venzago – Schubert: Symphony in E Major (D 729), Overture “Fierabras” (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recently, the E major Symphony has often been counted as Schubert’s 7th symphony. Unlike his other symphonic fragments, the Symphony in E major exists in a complete draft from the first to the last bar in all four movements. More recently, the symphony became accessible to a wider public again in the completed version by Brian Newbould (1982). Now the Austrian composer Richard Dünser, together with the conductor Mario Venzago, has presented a new version of the symphony fragment. The less inspired middle movements have been replaced by supplemented drafts from the year of Schubert’s death. The result: a «new» great symphony by Schubert with a playing time of over 40 minutes; an original and gripping work that immediately convinces with its idiomatic and formal unity.
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Keri Fuge, Roderick Williams, Joshua Tan – Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights, Echoes for Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:41 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Bernard Herrmann is considered one of Hollywood’s most important composers, creating more than 50 film scores, and is especially known for his congenial collaborations with Orson Welles and later Alfred Hitchcock. But Herrmann also created regular classical works: presented here for the first time is Hans Sorensen’s Suite with excerpts from Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights. Echoes, also presented here, was composed in 1965 for string quartet and later arranged by Sorensen for string orchestra – the version heard on this album.
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Mario Venzago – Symphony in E Major, D. 729 (Completed by Richard Dünser) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:04 minutes | 994 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recently, the E major Symphony has often been counted as Schubert’s 7th symphony. Unlike his other symphonic fragments, the Symphony in E major exists in a complete draft from the first to the last bar in all four movements.
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Julian Bliss, Mario Venzago, Royal Northern Sinfonia – Nielsen & Mozart: Clarinet Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Classical
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Julian Bliss performs the Clarinet Concertos of Mozart and Nielsen – often thought of as the two greatest such works in the repertoire, twin examples of what can be achieved by composers who have been truly inspired to write for the clarinet, using its uniquely expressive qualities to produce enduring and comprehensively masterly compositions.
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Liza Ferschtman, Mario Venzago, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra – Dvorak: Violin Concerto; Gershwin: An American in Paris (2011)
DSF Stereo DSD128/5.64 MHz | Time – 01:44:28 minutes | 4,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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When Antonn Dvork first submitted a number of compositions in 1874 to qualify for a state stipendium, Eduard Hanslick, an influential music critic, but also a member of the assessment committee, was pleasantly surprised. Dvorak was awarded the grant and could spend all his time on composing. In the next years he again applied for the grant, and it was again awarded. When he appliedin 1877, he even received a personal letter from Hanslick, advising the young composer to get in touch with Johannes Brahms, who had been a member of the committee for several years. Brahms held Dvor?k’s work in high regard and wanted to meet him.
They indeed met shortly afterwards and soon became good friends. Brahms brought Dvork in contact with other composers, publishers and famous musicians. One of them was the renowned violinist Joseph Joachim, a good friend of Brahms for many years. Dvork was invited to the Joachim home in Berlin, where he was cordially received. The violinist even organised a home concert for the first performance of Dvork’s String Sextet and the Tenth String Quartet. The two men talked at great length, and Dvork spoke of the violin concerto which he had recently started to compose. Joachim, who had not long before played the premiere of Brahms’s Violin Concerto, responded with enthusiasm. Dvork spent the next few months labouring over the concerto and sent it to Joachim in the autumn of 1879.
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