BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER·SIR SIMON RATTLE
VILDE FRANG
Recorded live at Røros in Norway, 1 May 2016, directed by Henning Kasten
TV-Producer: Dorothea Diekmann, Arild Erikstad,Kerstin Asplund, Masumi Kawaguchi
Producer: Isabel Iturriagagoitia Bueno
Executive Producer: Jan Bremme, Bernd Hellthaler
Tracklist:
Opening 0:40
Edvard Grieg
„Evening in the mountains”,Op.68/4 4:30
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Violin Concerto in E minor,Op.64
I.Allegro molto appassionato 13:45
II.Andante 7:49
IIl.Allegretto non troppo -Allegro molto vivace 8:32
Bjarne Brustad
„Veslefrikk” 3:52
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat major,Op.55Eroica”
I. Allegro con brio 16:58
II. Marcia Funebre-Adagio assai 15:51
III. Scherzo-Allegro vivace 6:14
IV. Finale-Allegro molto 11:59
Credits 3:05
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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano, Vilde Frang, Nicolas Altstaedt – Beethoven: Songs & Folksongs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:05 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Conductor Antonio Pappano gladly trades in his conductor’s baton for his piano keys in this recording during which he accompanies some of the greatest voices in music today. He plays in perfect complicity with English tenor Ian Bostridge in this exciting program devoted to a selection of Beethoven’s Lieder.
The centrepiece of this album is, of course, An die ferne Geliebte (“To the distant beloved”), which is considered to be the first ever Lieder cycle in the history of music. The six poems depict an unknown woman that the composer had idealised from their very first encounter, quickly followed by their separation. His longing for her caused him so much torment that even the joyous awakening of spring could not take away his melancholy in this heart-rending lover’s lament.
The other twenty or so Lieder on this album, including the famous Adelaide, which was also set to music by Schubert, are a testament to Beethoven’s mastery of the lied and popular songs, which he liked to harmonise. Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano interpret these rare gems with sensitivity and sophistication. © François Hudry/Qobuz
Details of original recording : Recorded 2–4.X.2019, St Jude-on-the-Hill, London (England)
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Vilde Frang – Beethoven & Stravinsky: Violin Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:07 minutes | 2,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vilde Frang juxtaposes Beethoven’s epic, lyrical work with Stravinsky’s compact Violin Concerto, which pays spiky tribute to 18th century models. The conductor is Pekka Kuusisto, himself an adventurous violinist; he conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, familiar to the Beethoven orchestral works.
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Vilde Frang – Paganini & Schubert: Works for Violin& Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
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“I have heard an angel sing,” wrote Schubert after he heard Paganini play in Vienna in 1828. Vilde Frang, partnered by pianist Michael Lifits, juxtaposes and links works by these two violinist-composers, who lived vastly different lives, yet are musically connected. Both found inspiration in the human voice and Frang sheds new light on Schubert’s demands for virtuosity and on Paganini’s sensitive musicality.
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Vilde Frang, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 5 & Sinfonia concertante (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:24 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of her discs of Romantic and Late Romantic repertoire, Vilde Frang has recorded Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 ‘Turkish’ and the Sinfonia Concertante K364, enabling music lovers to hear the Norwegian violinist perform Classical repertoire on disc for the first time. The impetus for this album was a 2012 orchestral tour of Asia conducted by Jonathan Cohen in which Vilde performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5. The vibrancy of their musical collaboration was something both artists were keen to repeat and commit to disc. Jonathan Cohen’s chamber orchestra, Arcangelo, proved the ideal partner, joined by violist Maxim Rysanov in the Sinfonia Concertante.
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Vilde Frang – Korngold & Britten: Violin Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:10 minutes | 603 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is the young Norwegian violinist’s fifth Warner Classics release. Early 2015 brought a programme devoted entirely to Mozart, but her previous concerto discs were also notable for imaginative musical matchmaking: Tchaikovsky/Nielsen and Sibelius/Prokofiev. Both concertos on this new disc were written when their composers were in the USA around the time of World War II: the Korngold was completed in 1945, the Britten in 1939. In the course of the 1930s Korngold, an Austrian Jew, had become a prominent Hollywood composer, but could not return to his homeland after 1938; the young Britten, a pacifist, left the UK for New York shortly before the declaration of war in 1939. Both composers had been child prodigies and both concertos are centred around the key of D, the most ‘natural’ key on the violin and the tonal focus for the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky.
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Vilde Frang – Homage (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:51 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Classical
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Vilde Frang’s Homage is more than a captivating programme of short pieces for violin and piano, it is also a homage to the players of the Golden Age of the Violin, such as Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Auer and Joseph Szigeti. Vilde Frang has conceived the album as something of a homage to her illustrious predecessors. Born in 1986, she is clearly very much a violinist of today, and – as a Norwegian trained in Germany – she did not grow up in the Central and Eastern-European tradition of Heifetz, Kreisler, Auer and Szigeti. That being said, she brings her own, distinctively captivating magic to her instrument.
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Vilde Frang, Philharm. de Radio France, Mikko Franck – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 – Enescu: Octet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:04 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bela Bartok and George Enescu were born in same Year – 1881, Bartok in the Austrian-Hungarian city of Nagyszentmiklos (today Romania), Enescu in the Moldovian town of Liveni-Botosani (today Romania). Both pieces on this recording are youth works of theirs – 1900 (Enescu Octet) and 1907 (Bartoks 1st violin concerto). Both works were neglected – Enescus Octet for nearly a decade due to the challenges of the piece (being premiered in 1909) , and Bartoks concerto was neglected by its dedicatee, the violinist Stefi Geyer (who was also his young love), and was published only after her death, in 1956 (being premiered in 1958). Bartok and Enescu both died in self-chosen exile – Bartok 1945 in New York, Enescu 1955 in Paris – yet both were respected and admired for being contributers to the development of their countries’ culture and art, particularly as great «ambassadors» for the folk music.
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