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Matthias Höfs, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Oskar Böhme Trumpet Concerto & Pieces (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Classical
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The tragic fate of composer Oskar Böhme long went unresearched. His music suffered a similar fate. On this album, the trumpeter Matthias Höfs is joined by The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a performance of his most ambitious works that aims to win a hearing both for his striking and sensitive music and for the story of his life.
The Trumpet Concerto – which is the only Romantic 19th-century concerto for trumpet – is presented here in Matthias Höfs’s own orchestration. It is a challenging work that holds the attention with its dramatic narrative and powerful cadenzas.
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Matthias Höfs – Kind of Gold (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:21 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Classical
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The trigger for this unique album was actually the realisation that “there are very few works in the music literature in which one can experience such a concentrated sound,” explains Matthias Höfs. And when one of Germany’s most renowned trumpet virtuosos speaks of concentrated sound, then you can be sure he means a really phenomenal sound.
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Matthias Höfs – Festive Trumpets for Christmas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:31 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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If there’s one thing that makes Christmas what it is, it’s festive music and uplifting melodies: ‘Festive Trumpets for Christmas’ is the new Christmas album from Matthias Höfs, to be released by Berlin Classics on November 5. On this new album, the trumpeter joins his brass ensemble and organist Christian Schmitt in a wide-ranging programme. The instruments of the musicians ring out in triumphal tones, brilliantly nuanced, capturing the joy and splendour of the Christmas festival. There are works by Albinoni, Handel, Vivaldi, Morales and Scheidt, along with arrangements by Peter Lawrence, Nikolaus Herman and Matthias Höfs himself.
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Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen & Matthias Höfs – Telemann Trompetenkonzerte (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:33 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
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As a Hamburg-based musician Matthias Höfs has a special relationship with Georg Philipp Telemann, who was a very successful composer of operas at the city’s opera house on the Gänsemarkt. As director of music for the five parish churches of Hamburg, Telemann made a decisive contribution to the sacred music performed at those institutions. And it has not taken the 250th anniversary of his death, on June 25, 2017, for Telemann to be acknowledged as one of the most efficacious Baroque composers alongside J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel.
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