Thomas Albertus Irnberger

Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Haydn: Violinkonzerte & Doppelkonzert (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 7, 2023 · Comments off

While Joseph Haydn is quite rightly regarded as the most important co-inventor of genres such as the symphony, the string quartet and the piano trio in the form in which they have been handed down since the middle of the 18th century, the instrumental concerts are somewhat different. They primarily served the purpose of giving the individually outstanding members of the Esterházy court orchestra the opportunity to perform as soloists. Nevertheless, one can always appreciate their quality and, upon closer listening, discover a variety of beautiful things in them. Developed from the tradition of the Baroque concerti grossi, Haydn probably created a total of about 40 solo concertos, probably four of them for violin.

Thomas Albertus Irnberger from Salzburg is one of Austria’s leading violinists. He devotes himself with great passion and meticulousness to the classical-romantic repertoire on the one hand and to the exploration and rediscovery of “ostracized composers” on the other.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, David Geringas, Barbara Moser – It’s a Girl! (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 23, 2023 · Comments off

The violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, the cellist David Geringas and the pianist Barbara Moser play Piano Trios by female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Amy Marcy Beach artfully combines French modernity with late romantic and American folklore elements in her Trio from 1938, Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté’s work Ein wenig Musik impresses with originality, melodious ideas and diverse rhythmic components, Louise Farrenc’s Trio from 1857 shows that she was a contemporary of early Romanticism, but also dealt with Ancient music, Mélanie Hélène Bonis’ pieces for piano trio Soir and Matin were created in 1907 and reflect the different moods of a day, while Julia Frances Smith’s Cornwall Trio from 1966 expresses the funny, playful energy of the gifted composer that she was.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Jörg Demus – Beethoven, Demus & Others: Violin Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 21, 2023 · Comments off

The work of pianist Jörg Demus was one of the most important musical exports of Austria after the end of the Second World War. In addition to many other musical partners Demus also entertained a very fruitful collaboration with the established Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, which is documented on the occasion of his death with 90 years in April 2019 with this collection with mostly unpublished recordings. In addition to Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas No. 1 in D major Op. 12 No. 1, No. 5 in F major Op. 24 and No. 6 in A major Op. 30 No. 1 there are two sonatas for violin and piano by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1016/BWV 1017), the Three Romances Op. 94 by Robert Schumann and the famous Sonatina in G major Op. 100 by Antonin Dvorak. The fact that Jörg Demus, in addition to his extensive concert tours and engagements as lecturer, appeared also as a composer in the last decades of his life is only known to proven connoisseurs. One can hear his Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 7 “Gahberg Sonata”, Op. 35 “Il tramonto” and Op. 48 “Sonata sylvestre / Forest Sonata”.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Elgar: Violin Concerto in B Minor & Violin Sonata in E Minor (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 21, 2023 · Comments off

Edward Elgar, the most prominent representative of the British Empire in music, completed his violin concerto, which was commissioned and premiered with great enthusiasm by Fritz Kreisler, in 1910. It is said that Elgar never spoke emotionally about his own music – with the striking exception of this one work, about which he uttered the words ,,I love it”. Violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger from Salzburg, Austria, presents this popular work here with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of James Judd in a particularly beautiful interpretation which pays special attention to the tempo indications noted on Elgar’s score. In addition, Elgar’s sonata for violin and piano will be heard on this recording, also featuring Irnberger in collaboration with the great German pianist Michael Korstick.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger – Stravinsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Works for Violin (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 19, 2023 · Comments off

The established Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger has already played with the greatest musical personalities and leading ensembles of our time such as the Royal Philhamonic Orchestra. For his most recent recording featuring the Violin Concerto in D by Igor Stravinsky, the versatile virtuoso Irnberger can refer to the collaboration with another world-class orchestra: the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Doron Salomon. In addition to this work from 1931, the Concert Fantasy on Russian themes in B minor, Op. 33 by Stravinsky’s teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is included on this album. Together with Paul Kaspar, piano, with whom he shares a long artistic collaboration, Irnberger also interprets Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, the Duo concertant for violin and piano as well as the Danse russe (from Petrushka) and Chanson russe (from Mavra), borrowed from stage works.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger & Michael Korstick – Prokofiev – Works for Violin and Piano (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, the Salzburg violinist, who performs worldwide, and Michael Korstick, piano, internationally known for his Beethoven interpretations, release works by Sergei Prokofiev for violin and piano on this double SACD. With unmatched precision in ensemble play and critically acclaimed virtuosity, the performers present the two sonatas for violin and piano, Op. 80 and Op. 94a, the “Five Melodies, Op. 35a” and “Five Pieces from Cinderella”. Also included on this recording is the Sonata for Violin solo, Op. 115. Irnberger dedicates this recording to Igor Oistrakh, who was born in Ukraine and died in 2021, from whom he received important impulses for his own playing, and whose father David Oistrakh was one of the most important Prokofiev interpreters and friends of the composer.

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, Pavel Kaspar, Brigitta Simon – Salon de Budapest (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, violin, and Pavel Kašpar, piano, lead us with this album into the bourgeois salon of the late 19th century – an oasis amid the “good old days” which weren’t, of course, that good to begin with: mired turmoil, social inequalities, and wars as much and more than ever since. The invited audience were to listen to Hungarian dances by Brahms, Kodály or Rachmaninoff, Csárdás’ by Franz Lehár, Miska Hauser or Jeno Hubay, Romances, Fantasies and other melodies by Tchaikovsky, Leopold Auer, Carl Bohm or Joseph Joachim. Some songs from operettas by Lehár, Jeno Huszka, Emmerich Kálmán and Pongrác Kacsóh with the Hungarian soprano Brigitta Simon complete this musical visit to the “Salon de Budapest”

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Thomas Albertus Irnberger, David GerIngas, Lilya Zilberstein – Brahms: Piano Trios (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · July 22, 2022 · Comments off

For this complete recording of Johannes Brahms’ piano trios, the internationally successful Salzburg violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger chose his usual top-class ensemble partners. Irnberger has long had an intense artistic friendship with the versatile cellist David Geringas, who, like the Russian-born pianist Lilya Zilberstein, can point to a number of recordings that are as long as they are impressive.The Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 can be heard here in the revised version, which closes the time gap of almost 25 years to the other two trios (No. 2 in C major, Op. 87 and No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101), since the revision took place after the completion of these works and thus at the peak of Brahmsian compositional art.

For the Trio for Clarinet, Violoncello and Piano in A minor, Op. 114, Brahms envisaged the viola as an alternative instrumentation from the very beginning, which is mastered by Irnberger as brilliantly as the violin.

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