Sofia Fomina – Medtner: Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:11 minutes | 937 MB | Genre: Classical
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Like his friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Medtner enjoyed a privileged and affluent upbringing, and was also exiled from Russia following the revolution in 1917. Unlike Rachmaninoff, Medtner could point to an ancestry that was part German, and his father’s passion for Germanic culture ensured that Goethe and Beethoven exerted as much influence on the young Medtner as Russian composers and writers, in particular Beethoven’s piano sonatas and string quartets. Medtner moved first to Germany, then France, before settling in London in 1935.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski and Sofia Fomina – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:04 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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No worldly commotion is heard in Heaven! All live in gentlest peace’. Such is the child-like innocence which permeates Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, and yet beneath the surface there is more than meets the eye: an undercurrent of mysticism; a momentary glimpse behind the curtain at something timeless and unsettling. Star Russian soprano Sofia Fomina joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski in this performance of Mahler’s beguiling Symphony, recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
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