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Nils Wülker, Munich Radio Orchestra, Patrick Hahn – Continuum (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:42 minutes | 1013 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The career of the trumpeter and composer Nils Wülker is continuously wonderful. The upward curve, which the internationally renowned musician from Germany has described with his last three studio albums, now crowns his previous masterpiece “Continuum”. This orchestral, wide-screen and yet filigree album was recorded in autumn 2021 with Wülker’s excellent rhythm section and the award-winning BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester and will be released in spring 2022, to coincide with Wülker’s 20th stage anniversary. Unpredictable and beyond all genre boundaries, “Continuum” presents fascinating, overwhelming new music: a force of nature composed down to the last detail with lively improvisational peaks – an acoustic panorama whose every musical moment shines with energy, happiness and confidence.
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Munich Radio Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Lucia Popp – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera Arias1983/2023）
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:51 minutes | 2.69 GB
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Charles Castronovo, Munich Radio Orchestra & Ivan Repušić – Puccini: I Canti – Orchestral Songs & Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:25 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Established in 1952, the Munich Radio Orchestra has developed into a body engaged in a wide spectrum of musical activity. There have been gala concerts and opera concert performances in particular, under the direction of Marcello Viotti, as well as a Paradisi Gloria series devoted to the sacred music of the 20th century, concerts for children and young people, and theme evenings.
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Munich Radio Orchestra & Ivan Repušić – Giacomo Puccini: Orchestral Works (Crisantemi, Preludio sinfonico, Capriccio sinfonico) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:44 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
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Puccini’s purely instrumental compositions, whether for orchestra or in the field of chamber music, were almost all written while he was still a student at the Milan Conservatory from 1880 to 1883. These works reflect the musical spirit of the time that shaped the young composer: the melodic influences of his teacher Amilcare Ponchielli and also the impressions left on him by the music of Richard Wagner. At the same time, however, these pieces already point ahead to Puccini the opera composer. It seems only logical, therefore, that many of the themes echoed in them subsequently reappeared in his stage works and became much more famous there than in their original form.
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Munich Radio Orchestra and Ernst Theiss – Der wilde Sound der 20er: 1929 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Classical
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When the Berliner “Funk-Stunde” (“Radio Hour”) went out on the air on October 29, 1923, heralding the start of German radio, the first piece of music to be broadcast live was Fritz Kreisler’s Andantino in the Style of Martini. The fact that the era of the new mass medium began with an imitation of an old musical style is not without a certain irony – and reveals how little attention had been paid to the problem of music on the radio. It was indeed to be a further five years before the radio stations commissioned the first compositions for the medium. Here, under the heading of “generic radio music”, the following genres were defined: “radio suite, musical radio play, radio cantata, radio opera and symphonic light music”. Modern composers such as Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch and Kurt Weill were all commissioned, along with light entertainment composers such as Edmund Nick, Mischa Spoliansky and Eduard Künneke.
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Munich Radio Orchestra & Ernst Theis – Eduard Künneke: Dance Suite (Tänzerische Suite) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:43 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Classical
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29 October 1923 was a date steeped in history. In the middle of a year of political and economic crises, the age of public radio in Germany was ushered in with the first broadcast of the “Berliner Funkstunde” (Berlin Radio Hour) from the attic of an office building on Potsdamer Platz. Radio offered entirely new possibilities for the production and reception of music. The two compositions on this CD not only benefited from these developments but also played an active role in shaping them.
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Benjamin Appl, Munich Radio Orchestra & Oscar Jockel – Franz Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:52 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Time and again, composers – well-known and lesser-known – have arranged Franz Schubert’s piano songs for orchestra. These versions are not in any way intended to cast doubt upon the powerful quality of the originals, they merely place them in a different light, and/or attempt to make them easier to perform on a larger scale – when an art song cannot be performed in an intimate salon or chamber music hall, it can also make an impact in a large concert hall. Baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled nineteen such arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries for this new CD from BR-KLASSIK. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester, conducted by Oscar Jockel, provides accompaniment that is subtle and in keeping with the work.
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Hera Hyesang Park, Munich Radio Orchestra, Keri-Lynn Wilson – Rossini: Sigismondo (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:26:27 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini is best known for his operas. Many of their overtures and arias were catchy tunes at the time and have remained so to this day. Although it is Rossini’s comic operas that are primarily performed today, more than half of his stage works are in fact based on serious themes. One veritable rarity is the stage work “Sigismondo”, which premiered in 1814 at the famous Teatro La Fenice in Venice but was only ever rarely performed afterwards. Presumably, the story on which it was based had no appeal for the audience at that time, because musically, the work is hardly less impressive than the “Italian Girl in Algiers”, written during the previous year, or the “Barber of Seville”, which followed two years later. The subject of the opera is, however, based on a long tradition. Rossini shows his protagonist, the fictional King Sigismondo, in extreme states of mental distress. Confusion and insanity reveal inner feelings, and it is only delirium that finally brings the truth to light. This “madness opera” is highly topical, both in its subject matter and its musical language – after all, Rossini is among the top ten most-performed composers of our time. A concert performance of this little-known and unjustly neglected masterpiece was given at Munich’s Prinzregententheater on October 14, 2018 – in the original language, and by performers highly familiar with Rossini’s music, which seems so easy but is in fact extremely difficult to sing. This extraordinary opera event – a festival of singing that received tumultuous applause as well as great critical acclaim – is now being released on BR-KLASSIK as a live recording.
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Munich Radio Orchestra, Henry Raudales – Mendelssohn: String Symphonies (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Classical
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It was thanks to his father’s penchant for organizing musical concerts in his family’s Berlin apartment on Sunday mornings that the 11-year-old Felix Mendelssohn began to compose quite a long series of string symphonies, and also that the works were initially performed. The study of music and composition spurred the young composer on greatly; his diligence as well as his youthful creativity developed early, and he made astonishing progress. In 1821, he wrote the first half of his string symphonies, which together took less than two years to complete. During performances that formed part of the concerts at home, he always took over the direction of the chamber orchestra, which consisted of amateur and professional musicians from the Berlin court orchestra.
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Munich Radio Orchestra & Henry Raudales – Felix Mendelssohn: The Complete String Symphonies (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:28:13 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This CD box set from BR-KLASSIK combines Mendelssohn’s twelve string symphonies, his ‘Symphoniesatz’ in C minor (No. 13) and his early violin concerto in D minor in the form of studio recordings made by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under its leader Henry Raudales. The violinist has won several awards and made numerous recordings with the orchestra as a conductor and soloist. It was thanks to his father’s penchant for organizing musical concerts in his family’s Berlin apartment on Sunday mornings that the 11-year-old Felix Mendelssohn began to compose quite a long series of string symphonies, and also that the works were initially performed. The study of music and composition spurred the young composer on greatly; his diligence as well as his youthful creativity developed early, and he made astonishing progress. In 1821, he wrote the first half of his string symphonies, which together took less than two years to complete. During performances that formed part of the concerts at home, he always took over the direction of the chamber orchestra, which consisted of amateur and professional musicians from the Berlin court orchestra. Mendelssohn’s early concerto for violin and string orchestra, written at around the same time for his violin teacher Eduard Rietz, was probably played in the same setting. Formally, it owes much to the concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach, but it clearly sounds like Mendelssohn.
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Munich Radio Orchestra, Christian Baldini – Varèse, Lutosławski, Ligeti & Baldini: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:41 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is an album featuring path-breaking works for orchestra and for violin and orchestra. Lutoslawski, Var`ese, and Ligeti certainly need no introduction. Conductor Christian Baldini is also a first-rate composer. Two superb violinists, Miranda Cuckson and Maximilian Haft are featured performers. “Christian Baldini brings symphonic revival” commented the Buenos Aires Herald on Baldini’s recent concerts at the Teatro Argentino featuring Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Var`ese’s Am’eriques. Based in California, Baldini conducts regularly several international orchestras including the Munich Radio Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra (of Argentina and the US), Orquestra Sinf’onica do Porto (Portugal), San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Ensemble Dal Niente. Baldini recently made his debut conducting Verdi’s Aida in London for English National Opera, and has conducted new productions at the Teatro Col’on in Buenos Aires, where he received the National Critics Association Award for best operatic performance.
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Ivan Repusic, Munich Radio Orchestra, Stanko Madic – Peteris Vasks: Viatore, Violin Concerto “Distant Light” & Symphony No. 1 “Voices” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:29 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Classical
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“The works on this album are for chamber-music string ensembles: his first symphony “”Balsis – Voices”” (1991), the haunting violin concerto “”Tālā gaisma – Distant Light”” (1996/97), and the piece “”Viatore” (the traveller; 2001), dedicated to Arvo Pärt, here in a version for eleven solo strings by the conductor, church musician and arranger Stefan Vanselow. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester plays under its chief conductor Ivan Repušić, and the concerto soloist is Stanko Madić, first concertmaster of the MRO. During the critical phase that accompanied the emancipation of the Baltic states from the Soviet Union, Vasks’ symphony “”Balsis”” was commissioned by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and it premiered on September 8, 1991 in Kokkola, Finland. Its three sections are dedicated to the voices of silence, the voices of life and the voice of conscience. – The Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra “”Tala gaisma””, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, is dedicated to Gidon Kremer, who premiered it with the Kremerata Baltica on August 10, 1997 in Salzburg. It is a sound epic rich in contrasts, with three great virtuoso solo cadenzas, tonal carpets of chords, elements of folklore, and full of dramatic gestures. – Viatore, the tribute to Arvo Pärt that Vasks composed in 2001, describes man in the loneliness of his existence as a restless wanderer – from his arrival in this world to his adolescence, his first love, and his eventual disappearance.”
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Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus & Howard Arman – Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70, MWV A 25 (Excerpts) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:08 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Established in 1952, the Munich Radio Orchestra has developed into a body engaged in a wide spectrum of musical activity. There have been gala concerts and opera concert performances in particular, under the direction of Marcello Viotti, as well as a Paradisi Gloria series devoted to the sacred music of the 20th century, concerts for children and young people, and theme evenings.
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Bavarian Radio Choir, Munich Radio Orchestra, Ivan Repušić – Verdi: I due Foscari (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:41:36 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Ivan Repušic, who made his debut as principal conductor of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in theautumn of 2017 with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”, now presents a lesser-known masterpiece by the famous Italian opera composer. The concert performance of Verdi’s early stage work “I due Foscari” was recorded on November 25, 2018 at the Munich Prinzregententheater.
Verdi’s early masterpiece “I due Foscari” was the first opera he wrote for the Teatro Argentina in Rome. He had already worked on the material (Lord Byron’s drama “The Two Foscari”), and, after a first subject had been rejected by the Roman censors, Verdi returned to it and had the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave. Although the opera’s premiere on November 3, 1844 was only moderately successful, the work was still frequently performed up to the 1870s. It was rediscovered during the early 1950s and has since become a fixed part of the international opera repertoire.
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Christina Landshamer, Munich Radio Orchestra & John Fiore – Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:52 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Classical
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In September 1809, the Vienna Hofburg Theatre commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven to create new incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Egmont”. The tragedy had premiered in Mainz on 9 January 1789. It calls for incidental music; but various attempts, some commissioned by the poet himself, remained unfinished or were unsatisfactory. In Vienna, however, the production of “Egmont” was to include the music called for in several places. Beethoven set to work. Since the subject matter suited him – the tragedy is set in Brussels, which is under threat from Spanish troops, and deals with resistance against oppression and foreign rule – he made good progress. Nevertheless, the Viennese theatre premiere of “Egmont” on 24 May 1810 still had to do without music; the score was not completed until the third repetition. Beethoven’s music for the play had its premiere on 15 June 1810. The music itself speaks for the fact that the commission was close to Beethoven’s heart; it far exceeds the standard of the stage music of the time. This applies to the compositional demands, but also to the relationship of the music to the drama. Instead of mere illustration, Beethoven provided an interpretation and thus an additional level of meaning. The well-known Egmont Overture, the most dramatically dense piece of drama music, anticipates the plot, introduces the characters. A clear reference to the drama is made in the ending, which corresponds exactly to the symphony of victory called for by Goethe at the end of the tragedy. Five of the ten numbers are directly integrated into the stage action; the other five, in addition to the overture and the four inter-act music pieces, are less closely linked to the drama. A concert performance of the music, conceived entirely for scenic presentation, dispenses with the context to the play. Often only the overture was and is played. – The declamation texts written by Friedrich Mosengeil, authorised by Goethe and revised by Franz Grillparzer, have been supplemented here by passages from Goethe’s Trauerspiel and newly arranged by August Zirner.
Album 1 of the present recording offers the complete version with declamation and music; album 2 features only Beethoven’s music. The box is completed with Beethoven’s overture “Zur Namensfeier”, op. 115.
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