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Florilegium, Ashley Solomon - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 8 "Le Matin", "Le midi", "Le Soir" (2022)

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Florilegium, Ashley Solomon - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 8 "Le Matin", "Le midi", "Le Soir" (2022)

Florilegium, Ashley Solomon - Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 8 "Le Matin", "Le midi", "Le Soir" (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:10:22 | 301 / 160 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Recorded in St John's Church West Norwood, London in March 2022, this recording involves eighteen members of Florilegium, the exact same number Haydn had at his disposal when he composed these symphonies shortly after arriving at Esterhazy in 1761. Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three entitled "Morning", "Noon" and "Night". Perhaps these were a result of the Prince’s suggestion that Haydn write something programmatic along the lines of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. As symphonies for a small chamber orchestra, all three exploit the solo skills of each of Florilegium’s principals, from flute to double bass, not to mention heroic horns as well as spectacular violin and cello solos, each vividly characterised in an almost operatic way.Florilegium's previous Haydn London Symphonies recording was hailed as "first rate" by BBC Music Magazine. Florilegium is one of Britain's most outstanding period instrument groups specialising in music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Many of their recordings have garnered international awards over the years.

Rachel Podger - Tutta sola (2022)

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Rachel Podger - Tutta sola (2022)

Rachel Podger - Tutta sola (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 67:30 | 329 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

On this album entitled "Tutta sola", violinist Rachel Podger plays solo repertoire from five European composers who all lived to celebrate new year’s eve in 1700. It is a wonderful baroque programme of selected solo violin pieces, preludes, dances and fugal movements. One person, at least with regards to the repertoire for Baroque violin, springs immediately to mind: Johann Sebastian Bach. But the german composer was not the only composer to experiment with "senza basso" – music without accompanying bass –, and neither was he the first. In addition to Johann Sebastian Bach, this recording features solo violin music from Johann Joseph Vilsmayr, Nicola Matteis Jr., Johann Paul von Westhoff, and Giuseppe Tartini.

Andrea bressan, Giovanni Guzzo - Paganini and Rolla: Chamber Music for Strings and Bassoon (2022)

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Andrea bressan, Giovanni Guzzo - Paganini and Rolla: Chamber Music for Strings and Bassoon (2022)

Andrea bressan, Giovanni Guzzo - Paganini and Rolla: Chamber Music for Strings and Bassoon (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:19:27 | 355 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Bassoonist Andrea Bressan (Principal; Budapest Festival Orchestra) and violinist Giovanni Guzzo (Concertmaster; Camerata Salzburg & Guest Concertmaster; London Symphony Orchestra) have teamed up to record new – or never played – repertoire for bassoon and violin.

MIB Wind Ensemble - Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade (2022)

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MIB Wind Ensemble - Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade (2022)

MIB Wind Ensemble - Beethoven: Rondino & Wind Octet - Mozart: Serenade (2022)
FLAC tracks | 51:11 | 170 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

This is the first recording on Channel Classics with the Italian based MIB Ensemble. Compromising the best players from the top orchestras of Italy, the ensemble felt the need to create their own ensemble to fill the gap in repertoire and concert possibilities for wind instruments. The two major early composers having written for winds would indeed be Mozart and Beethoven so there is no better fitting pieces than two octets combined with the RondinoSerenade's first movement is anything but street music - no friendly and polite little piece of entertainment, but a serious, sometimes threatening eight-part wind music full of chromaticism, dramatic leaps and definitely unfestive dissonances. The Octet of Beethoven also has the classical four-movement structure but wrote the piece as an official concert piece.

Ragazze Quartet - Bartók Bound, Vol. 2: String Quartets Nos. 3, 5 & 6 (2021)

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Ragazze Quartet - Bartók Bound, Vol. 2: String Quartets Nos. 3, 5 & 6 (2021)

Ragazze Quartet - Bartók Bound, Vol. 2: String Quartets Nos. 3, 5 & 6 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:15:41 | 305 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Ragazze Quartet tells us: "Five years ago, we declared ourselves Bartók Bound. In so doing, we committed ourselves for an unlimited period to the fascinating music of an assiduous and headstrong Hungarian.

Thomas Oliemans - Formidable! (2021)

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Thomas Oliemans - Formidable! (2021)

Thomas Oliemans - Formidable! (2021)
FLAC tracks | 68:22 | 276 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Thomas Oliemans has had French chansons in his head for as long as he can remember: on a scratchy car radio or a cassette player, in the back seat for hours on end on the way to the Vendee or Dordogne, or softly issuing from a gramophone record in his father's study. When he started to learn the piano and got into the habit of singing along, it was obviously French chansons that he picked up by ear and sang entirely phonetically. The French teachers at Oliemans's secondary school enter him in the Concours de la Chanson, which he promptly (and nearly by accident) won. And all of a sudden, the path opened up for him to become a professional singer or pianist. It led into the world of classical singing, opera, lied and oratorio, but the chanson was never far away. On Formidable!, he is joined by Amsterdam Sinfonietta for a recital of old friends.

Rosanne Philippens - Rosanne Philippens plays Haydn & Stravinsky with The Vondel String (2021)

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Rosanne Philippens - Rosanne Philippens plays Haydn & Stravinsky with The Vondel String (2021)

Rosanne Philippens - Rosanne Philippens plays Haydn & Stravinsky with The Vondel String (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 57:40 | 131 / 262 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

For both classical musicians and classical musicians, it’s pretty hard to think of an upside to the past period of Covid-themed havoc. However if there is one positive thing that this terrible period will have bequeathed to us for posterity, it’s the number of superb recordings that would never have happened without all those sudden gaps in previously packed performance diaries, and with this harmonious pairing of Haydn and Stravinsky we have yet another.

Anna Fedorova - Shaping Chopin: Waltzes, Mazurkas, Nocturnes (2021)

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Anna Fedorova - Shaping Chopin: Waltzes, Mazurkas, Nocturnes (2021)

Anna Fedorova - Shaping Chopin: Waltzes, Mazurkas, Nocturnes (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:03:35 | 170 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Already a concert artist at age six, pianist Anna Fedorova has made the transition from child prodigy to an international success. With more than 27 million views as of this writing, an online video of Fedorova performing the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, of Rachmaninov, is among the most-watched classical music videos of all time. Fedorova was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, on February 27, 1990.

Iván Fischer - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Serenade No. 2 (2021)

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Iván Fischer - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Serenade No. 2 (2021)

Iván Fischer - Brahms: Symphony No. 3 & Serenade No. 2 (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 68:10 | 155 / 227 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Founded in 1983 by Iván Fischer and the late pianist and conductor Zoltán Kocsis, the Budapest Festival Orchestra quickly became one of the world's more prominent orchestras. The handpicked young virtuosos who fill its ranks produce a beautiful sound and superior ensemble performances. Supported from the outset by the City of Budapest and the Hungarian Ministry of Culture, it quickly made a name for itself by attracting top conductors and soloists, and thanks to its proactive policy of recording and touring internationally.

Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Other Works (Digital Box Edition) (2021)

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Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Other Works (Digital Box Edition) (2021)

Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Other Works (Digital Box Edition) (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 04:15:06 | 916 / 582 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Above the album worked the 'Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4 and Other Works (Digital Box Edition) ', and his release took place on 2021. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Oyster Duo - Stolen Pearls (2021)

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Oyster Duo - Stolen Pearls (2021)

Oyster Duo - Stolen Pearls (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:12:25 | 248 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

In this programme two musicians travel criss-cross through two centuries and six countries in search of melodious gems. Gems that really belong to somebody else’s ‘domain’. For here we listen to the giant of string instruments, the double bass, as it whets its appetite on the melodious and virtuosic repertoire of its smaller siblings, the violin, viola and cello. Surely, the double bass can sing compellingly too, and tackle the most daredevil escapades? Yes, it can, and in so doing it surfaces from those low and hidden orchestral depths in which its life and lot usually lie. For this recording the double bass and its faithful friend the piano, have journeyed extensively, bringing home a rich booty of musical discoveries, ‘stolen gems’ from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Argentina, Germany, Austria, the USA, Russia and Italy

Rachel Podger - Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021)

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Rachel Podger - Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021)

Rachel Podger - Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (2021)
FLAC tracks/ MP3 320 kbps | 55:42 | 228 / 125 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Think of the uncompleted fragments Mozart left behind at his premature death in 1791, and the Requiem is probably the one that springs most easily to mind. However Mozart also left a significant body of unfinished concerti, chamber and piano solo music, and it's four violin and piano fragments that form the basis of this programme from Baroque violinist Rachel Podger with Christopher Glynn: three sonata Allegros in B-flat major, A major and G major, plus a Fantasia in C minor, all dating from Mozart's final decade in Vienna (that's to say, when the violin sonata had developed from its beginnings as what was effectively a piano sonata with violin colour, to a true partnership of equals) and now completed by Royal Academy of Music Deputy Principal Timothy Jones.

Ragazze Quartet & Martijn Cornet - Schubert: Die Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. Baritone & String Quartet) (2021)

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Ragazze Quartet & Martijn Cornet - Schubert: Die Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. Baritone & String Quartet) (2021)

Ragazze Quartet & Martijn Cornet - Schubert: Die Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Arr. Baritone & String Quartet) (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:15:45 | 312 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

The Ragazze Quartet contributes not only the sonority of four string instruments, but also the energy of four musicians who at the same time connect with the music and the singer. The challenge, was to remain faithful to Schubert while exploiting to the full the extra possibilities offered by this instrumentation.The four members of the quartet have immersed themselves in the texts, and, in collaboration with the arranger Wim ten Have, have taken care to create a score perfectly suited to the baritone Martijn Cornet and themselves.

Marie Stockmarr Becker - J.S. Bach Sonatas for Viola (da Gamba) and Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 (2021)

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Marie Stockmarr Becker - J.S. Bach Sonatas for Viola (da Gamba) and Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 (2021)

Marie Stockmarr Becker - J.S. Bach Sonatas for Viola (da Gamba) and Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 44:35 | 252 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Marie Stockmarr Becker and Ilaria Macedonio offer a fresh and different - yet historically informed - perspective on the three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord by J.S. Bach. Their rather uncommon instrumentation, explores these sonatas in their historical context and considers the fact that violists in Bach's time had very little sonata repertoire, and for this reason possibly 'borrowed' repertoire from the viol. The three sonatas for viola da gamba are particularly adapted to the viola da braccio with almost no changes in terms of octavations or arrangements.

Ning Feng - Paganini: 24 Caprices + 1 (2021)

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Ning Feng - Paganini: 24 Caprices + 1 (2021)

Ning Feng - Paganini: 24 Caprices + 1 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 01:19:18 | 352 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Channel Classics Records

Paganini's success as a violin virtuoso was naturally only partly based on the fantastical, mysterious and demonic atmosphere that surrounded him. What his professional admirers captivated most of all was his unparalleled playing technique. The best impression of his musical and technical accomplishment can be gained from his most talkedabout work, the 24 Caprices opus 1 (1817), which were modelled on the similarly named pieces by Pietro Locatelli (1733). To this day the 24 Caprices are still considered the bible of violin technique. Ning Feng, First Prize winner at the 2006 International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, gives us a fresh take on his 2017 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin, and concludes the program with the remarkable Caprice d'Adieu.