Sophie Dervaux & Munich Chamber Orchestra – J.C. Bach & J.M. Haydn (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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With her new album, Sophie Dervaux brings to the fore two composers who have received less attention so far – despite their great surnames Bach and Haydn. For it is not works by “our old favorites” Johann Sebastian and Joseph that the bassoonist has chosen for her third recording on Berlin Classics, but rather Bach’s youngest son – Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) – and Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806), Joseph Haydn’s younger brother. Sophie Dervaux has been principal bassoonist of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra since 2015. Previously, she was principal contrabassoonist of the Berlin Philharmonic. As an ambassador for her instrument, she is committed to expanding the repertoire for bassoon by rediscovering works or commissioning new ones. She has been a “Püchner Artist” since 2014 and is passionate about making her instrument even better known.
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Christian Poltéra & Munich Chamber Orchestra – Haydn & Hindemith: Cello Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:56 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Haydn once remarked: ‘I was not a magician on any instrument, but I knew the power and effect of all of them.’ This knowledge he used to good effect in his cello concertos, composed some twenty years apart for two different cellists in ‘his’ orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy. Both works are firmly established in the concert repertoire, but this has not always been the case.
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Arabella Steinbacher & Munich Chamber Orchestra – Four Seasons (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:16 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Star violinist Arabella Steinbacher presents Antonio Vivaldi’s world-famous Four Seasons alongside Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones porteñas, creating a lively combination of baroque and tango. The enormous popularity of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons tends to make us forget the original and ground-breaking nature of these violin concertos. Coupling them with Piazzolla’s tango-inspired Four Seasons of Buenos Aires makes both pieces sound fresher than ever before, thanks to Steinbacher’s personal engagement with the repertoire and the inspired accompaniment of the Münchener Kammerorchester. Piazzolla’s music is performed here in a new arrangement for violin and string orchestra by Peter von Wienhardt, whose Strauss song arrangements on Steinbacher’s previous album Aber der Richtige … (2018) were extensively praised by the press.
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Alexander Liebreich, Munich Chamber Orchestra – Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Symphony No. 4 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:38 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Classical
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Herrlich klar und dynamisch! Der Komponist schuf mit seiner Musik zu William Shakespeares bunter Komödie voller Feen, Elfen und Kobolde ist die wohl populärste Vertonung des ‘Sommernachtstraums’. Werke wie der wunderbare ‘Hochzeitsmarsch’ zählen bis heute zu den berühmtesten der Musikgeschichte. Wunderbar intoniert vom Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, dem Münchener Kammerorchester unter dem Dirigat von Alexander Liebreich.
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