United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:25 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS

After two stylistically diverse anthologies – “In Motion” and “Renewal” – the United Strings of Europe and their director Julian Azkoul have chosen to devote their latest project to a single composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They open with the composer’s Serenade, a tribute to Mozart’s divertimentos, but infused with Tchaikovsky’s characteristic pathos and melancholy. It is one of his most popular works, with the especially beloved Waltz as its second movement, and a finale featuring Russian folk songs.
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United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Through the Night (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Through the Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:47 minutes | 2,71 GB | Genre: Classical
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For their fourth release with BIS, the United Strings of Europe with their director Julian Azkoul present another innovative programme, dedicated this time to the night, a source of wonder and fascination, rich with metaphorical associations. The ensemble’s varied, tailor-made programme features counterpoint, aching dissonance and chromaticism from across a range of styles spanning nearly 500 years, from the Renaissance to the present day. The album is built around two post-romantic masterpieces: Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (here in an arrangement by Éric Mouret), a work composed during the final months of the Second World War that evokes destruction, mourning, nostalgia, but also hope for progress and transformation, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, which, in a nocturnal dialogue between a man and a woman, shows the power of love that can overcome the greatest challenges. These two major works are joined by arrangements for strings of vocal pieces by Maddelena Casulana, Carlo Gesualdo and Henry Purcell, as well as a new work by Daniel Kidane, Be Still, featuring percussionist Beibei Wang, a reflection on recent years marked by lockdowns during which everyday markers, such as meeting with friends and family, travelling or attending concerts vanished.

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United Strings of Europe – Through the Night (2023) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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United Strings of Europe – Through the Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:47 minutes | 2,71 GB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul – Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48 & Other Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:25 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS

After two stylistically diverse anthologies – “In Motion” and “Renewal” – the United Strings of Europe and their director Julian Azkoul have chosen to devote their latest project to a single composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They open with the composer’s Serenade, a tribute to Mozart’s divertimentos, but infused with Tchaikovsky’s characteristic pathos and melancholy. It is one of his most popular works, with the especially beloved Waltz as its second movement, and a finale featuring Russian folk songs.
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United Strings of Europe – In Motion (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

United Strings of Europe – In Motion (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:22 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

The streets of eighteenth-century Madrid; a contaminated test-bombing site in Australia and a song from El Salvador provide some of the subject matter for this album by the United Strings of Europe (USE). Formed in 2012 by students at London’s Royal Academy of Music, the ensemble brings together outstanding players from across Europe. Artistic director is the Anglo-Lebanese violinist Julian Azkoul, who leads from the violin, curates programmes and arranges music for the ensemble.

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United Strings of Europe, Ruby Hughes & Julian Azkoul – Renewal (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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United Strings of Europe, Ruby Hughes & Julian Azkoul – Renewal (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:45 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Having released their debut album In motion in 2020, the musicians that make up United Strings of Europe (USE) return with another innovative program: Renewal. The title refers in part to the fact that the majority of the works included are heard in arrangements and adaptations tailormade for the ensemble by Julian Azkoul, who also directs it from the violin. In Winter’s House by Joanna Marsh and Caroline Shaw’s and the swallow are both originally choral works while a second work by Shaw, Entr’acte, was conceived for string quartet, but is here heard in the composer’s own version for string orchestra. A similar treatment has been given Mendelssohn’s F minor String Quartet, one of the composer’s final works, written in reaction to the unexpected death of his beloved sister Fanny. For the centerpiece of the disc, Osvaldo Golijov’s Three Songs, USE is joined by soprano Ruby Hughes. The three songs were written for different occasions, but were rearranged by the composer to form a single work, capturing various strands of his immigrant identity as well as specific moments of inspiration, both felicitous and tragic. This is the first time all three songs appear with string orchestra on album.
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