Altomonte Orchester St. Florian, Remy Ballot – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:01 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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This incredible recording of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonie IX also includes a bonus disc with the Version for Two Pianos. Featuring the Altomonte Orchester St. Florian under the direction of Remy Ballot, this album is a live recording of the original version. Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony is, in the composer’s own words, “The loveliest thing that I [Bruckner] ever composed.” The work is dedicated to the “dear Lord” and is the composer’s personal confrontation with his journey into the afterlife. The transcription for two pianos was arranged by Klaus Laczika and Matthias Giesen using a transcription by Dr. Karl Grunsky (1911) and more closely aligning it to Bruckner’s original scoring in the way of dynamics and instrumentation.
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Klangkollektiv Wien & Rémy Ballot – Mozart & Haydn: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:06 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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The musicians of the multinational ensemble Klangkollektiv Wien, comprised of members of renowned Viennese orchestras, feel the need to interpret works from their everyday professional lives in another manner, outside of the music industry, in their own right and for the audience. The co-founder, violinist and conductor Rémy Ballot, born in Paris and living in Vienna, a student of Celibidache, has for years now had great success as musical director of the symphony cycle at the Brucknertage festival in St. Florian.
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Klangkollektiv Wien & Remy Ballot – Beethoven Quartette (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:46 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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The repertoire of KLANGKOLLEKTIV WIEN with it’s conductor Rémy Ballot is focused on a core of famous and lesser-known works of the First Viennese School. This live recording presents the two late String Quartets No. 14 in C-sharp minor Op. 131 and No. 16 in F major Op. 135 by Ludwig van Beethoven in a version for string orchestra. The working title of this concert “Music from a Place of Inner Silence” refers to the fact that Beethoven had presumably completely lost his hearing by the time of composition of these works – he appears to have been turning more and more to an inner, spiritual world. Thus, these two great quartets encompass in their musical substance all possible moods and states of the soul and our being and were not only considered avant-garde at the time, but in many ways pre-shadow the daring of the Second Viennese School and the innovations of the Béla Bartók string quartets. This effect is significantly augmented by the expansion of the ensemble from the original four to 16 musicians.
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Oberösterreichisches Jugendsinfonieorchester, Rémy Ballot – Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (1881 version, ed. B.-G. Cohrs) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:10 minutes | 2,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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This live recording brings together an extraordinary combination of artistic abundance: Remy Ballot conducting the music of Anton Bruckner, enacted at Bruckner’s place of work, the basilica of St. Florian in Upper Austria. Captured at the annual festival Brucknertage, the musical youth of the Upper Austrian Symphonic Youth Orchestra enjoyed the great honour to give a celebrated performance in a one-of-a-kind setting. The vigour and professionalism joined by the intuition of Ballot provide for some goosebumps and appends another worthy opus to a series which has been critically acclaimed and lavished with prestigious international awards.
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Altomonte Ensemble & Rémy Ballot – Bruckner: String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 & String Quartet in C Minor, WAB 111 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:35 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anton Bruckner embarked on his studies with the Linz-based Kapellmeister Otto Kitzler in the fall of 1861 and it was Kitzler who put him in touch with the music of Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, and Richard Wagner. In their lessons, they drew on Ernst Friedrich Richter’s primer Formenlehre but also the rather forward-looking textbook of Adolph Bernhard Marx’ and Johann Christian Lobe’s, which familiarized Bruckner with modern instrumentation that went well beyond the style of Viennese classicism.
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Remy Ballot – Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:10 minutes | 2,55 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Gramola Records
This live recording brings together an extraordinary combination of artistic abundance: Remy Ballot conducting the music of Anton Bruckner, enacted at Bruckner’s place of work, the basilica of St. Florian in Upper Austria. Captured at the annual festival Brucknertage, the musical youth of the Upper Austrian Symphonic Youth Orchestra enjoyed the great honour to give a celebrated performance in a one-of-a-kind setting. The vigour and professionalism joined by the intuition of Ballot provide for some goosebumps and appends another worthy opus to a series which has been critically acclaimed and lavished with prestigious international awards.
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