![Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington - Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/06/utzprs3g8mgla_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington – Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:56 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Following their critically acclaimed first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos (CHAN 20234), Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington complete the set, once again with outstanding support from a reduced Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This cycle not only represents the first time Sir Roger has recorded these concertos, but the present album is also his final recording project. All five concertos were written before Mozart was twenty; nevertheless, his rapid development as a composer is evident in the progression from the first to the fifth, which has an unusual Adagio section within the first movement, an extensive slow movement, and of course the extensive ‘Turkish’ episode in the final movement (probably based on Hungarian folk music). Whilst given on modern instruments with metal strings, these are performances immersed in Norrington’s lifetime of experience in period performance practise. As The Sunday Times noted of the first album: ‘Pairing the veteran Mozartian Norrington – a pioneer of historical performance practice – with the young Italian-American soloist Dego proves inspiring in what promises to be one of the freshest of recent cycles of the Mozart concertos.’
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Fukio Ensemble – Transcend (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:17 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion
With Transcend, the Fukio Quartet illustrates the experience and feeling of the global crisis that has strongly influenced their work over many months: The Corona Pandemic. Between cancelled concerts and an uncertainty if and when it will be possible for them to make music live again, this album was created. Within a transcendent time that was accompanied by open questions and vagueness. The state of limbo that in a way defines any crisis – the mood in which the next decision, the next turn, is not completely clear – represents a very essential core of the quartet’s work. Through the sound of the saxophone, they are able to transmit emotions that they cannot communicate in any other way. In the process, every little dissonance, every inner discord, every crisis is a significant part of what resonates with the recipients. It’s fukio.
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![Floris Mijnders, Roland Glassl, Nina Karmon, Daniel Giglberger - Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/06/xobxwh69zfkib_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Floris Mijnders, Roland Glassl, Nina Karmon, Daniel Giglberger – Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:45 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Frühling is still remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly “résumé” of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. The main reason for his relegation to oblivion is a fact that Frühling kept secret; a fact that nevertheless had to be declared on official documents: he was Jewish. Even before the Nazis took power his religion had caused him problems, making it difficult for him to pursue a career as a composer. As a result, Frühling understandably tried to conceal his religious adherence. In 1907 he converted to Protestantism and in his CV of 1929 he stated that he was born in Vienna. The truth is however that he actually came from Lviv (the Germans called it Lemberg, and today, the city is in Ukraine), then a predominantly Jewish city, where he was born on November 28, 1868.
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