Hilary Hahn – Bach Concertos (2003) MCH SACD ISO

Hilary Hahn – Bach Concertos (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:57:19 minutes | Full Scans included | 4,29 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon

Hilary Hahn is not regarded as an early music star, by any means, but her recordings of J.S. Bach’s violin concertos with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra are somewhat in the spirit of historically informed performances, and listeners who might have expected more mainstream interpretations may be pleasantly surprised. Some of the expected characteristics of Baroque period practice are here, such as fleet tempos, a small ensemble, bright sonorities, light textures, and an active harpsichord and cello continuo, and the versatility of Kahane and his group goes far to create this period quality. Hahn might have indulged in some free ornamentation and even added some improvised cadenzas, but her straightforward playing is at least clean and unaffected, and she deserves credit for her brilliant technique, which carries these pieces. While her approach to Bach isn’t close to Rachel Podger’s playing in authentic Baroque style, neither does it approximate the richer, heavier, “old school” style of Yehudi Menuhin, so Hahn may appeal to some listeners as a compromise between competing schools of thought. Deutsche Grammophon’s recording puts Hahn in a prominent, central position, so it’s easy to stay focused on her solo part in the big sound of this hybrid SACD. –AllMusic Review by Blair Sanderson

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Hilary Hahn – Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Violin Solo, Op. 27 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Violin Solo, Op. 27 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:34 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

For this release, multi-award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn turns to the Six Sonatas for Violin Solo op. 27 by Belgian composer and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. As she explains, ‘Ysaÿe’s sonatas are iconic, generation-defining and a beautiful celebration of the instrument’.

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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Hahn, Mariss Jansons – Berliner Philharmoniker in Tokyo (2000) Blu-ray ISO + BDRip 720p/1080p

Publisher: EuroArts
Actors: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Hahn, Mariss Jansons
Genre: Classical, Concerts
Languages: Instrumental PCM 2.0
Aspect Ratio(s): 1920x1080i (1.78:1) @23,976 Hz
Video Codec: MPEG-4/AVC
Running time: 98 minutes
Release: 24.02.2023

The Berliner Philharmoniker are famous for their acclaimed concerts in Japan. In this live recording from the year 2000, they perform under the baton of Mariss Jansons. This concert is of particular musical energy − sometimes overt and joyous, sometimes suppressed and intense. Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring top soloist Hilary Hahn, is rendered with poise, elegance, and demoniac vigour. This piece is framed by two sprightly works: Weber’s charming, zesty Overture to Oberon and Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.

Repertoire

von Weber: Overture to Oberon
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99
Bach: Sonata No. 1 for solo violin, BWV 1001 (Presto)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88; Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 No. 7 in C major

https://youtu.be/F5nX6gR8Uno

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Hilary Hahn, Paavo Järvi, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4: Violin Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hilary Hahn, Paavo Järvi, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen – Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4: Violin Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:52 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hilary Hahn’s newest album, Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4 – Violin Concertos, is her first recording with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi, after performing and touring with the ensemble and conductor for many years. The disc releases on March 31, and is Hahn’s first orchestral offering since her 2010 pairing of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto and Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer-prize winning violin concerto, which was written for Hahn. With this new album, she returns to core violin repertoire, hot on the heels of her critically-acclaimed, Grammy-winning album of 27 commissioned short pieces, In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores, and an improvised recording with prepared pianist Hauschka, titled Silfra.
Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4 also brings Hahn full circle, after more than three decades of violin playing, to two concertos that have been part of her repertoire since she was ten years old. Vieuxtemps’s Violin Concerto No. 4 was the last large piece she learned with Klara Berkovich, her teacher from ages five to ten. Several months later, Mozart 5 was the first concerto that Jascha Brodsky taught her at the Curtis Institute of Music. Berkovich began her violin studies in Odessa and went on to teach in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) before emigrating to the States. Brodsky was one of the last pupils of the legendary Eugène Ysaÿe, who, coincidentally, was a star student of Vieuxtemps, making Vieuxtemps Hahn’s musical great-grandfather in the violinist family tree.

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Hilary Hahn – Hilary Hahn plays Bach: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Partita No. 1 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Hilary Hahn plays Bach: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Partita No. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:21 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca

When Hilary Hahn Plays Bach came out on Sony in 1997, critics were astounded that a performer would choose solo Bach for her debut album; they were further confounded by her elegant approach to this music’s technical and interpretive challenges at such a young age. Bach expert Nicholas Anderson wrote in BBC Music Magazine at the time, “Bach’s six unaccompanied solos – three each of partitas and sonatas – have long been regarded as the pinnacle of violin writing and the most elusive of goals for the aspiring performer… Hahn’s affection for Bach’s music becomes apparent at almost every turn; and the concluding movement of the C major Sonata is a tour de force. I long to hear more.” Stereo Review wrote, “I would go so far as to say that I’ve never heard this legendary, impossible piece of music played on a higher level, technically and musically, than it is on Hahn’s debut CD. This is simply a magnificent performance, completely true in all its parts and possessed of a depth and wisdom that belie the performer’s age. Unlike most of the violinists who play this music, she is truly its master, and that frees her to play it with soul.”

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Hilary Hahn & Valentina Lisitsa – Ives: Four Violin Sonatas (2011/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Hilary Hahn & Valentina Lisitsa – Ives: Four Violin Sonatas (2011/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:05:08 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

When violinist Hilary Hahn and pianist Valentina Lisitsa began working together on Charles Ives’ violin sonatas, they commenced with the Third Sonata, which they took on tour in 2008. A second tour with the First, Second, and Fourth sonatas followed, and by 2010, the duo was ready to record all four works for Deutsche Grammophon. This cycle, complete on one CD, was an unexpected hit with recital audiences, and promises to win over new listeners who may at first be startled by Ives’ unorthodox approaches to form and content, yet will come to appreciate the mixture of nostalgic melodies, quirky rhythms, pungent and sweet harmonies, and colliding elements of Americana as surprisingly communicative and moving music. Hahn is quite serious in these performances, and perhaps too tightly focused on getting the details right to really break free, yet she is at her best in conveying wistful and melancholic emotions, so her introspective and careful playing has many fine moments. Lisitsa seems much more comfortable with making a big Ivesian noise, and her playing is as robust as Hahn’s is close-to-the-vest. The sound of these studio recordings is well-balanced and clear, though the tone is cool and the ambience is a little dry.

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Hilary Hahn – Tchaikovsky / Higdon: Violin Concertos (2010/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Tchaikovsky / Higdon: Violin Concertos (2010/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:06 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This was what it used to be like in classical music: a hot young soloist offers a newly commissioned work along with a fresh interpretation of a warhorse, and it’s released with some fanfare on a major label. It doesn’t happen that often anymore, but Hilary Hahn, a student of the last student of Eugène Ysaÿe, shows that there’s life in the old model yet. The new work was commissioned by Hahn herself and grew out of her association with the composer, Jennifer Higdon, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The concerto won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2010, and Higdon’s colorfully orchestrated music in general has been popular among American orchestras. But the concerto is closely tailored to Hahn’s individual style, with its combination of steely flawlessness and delicate lyricism. Whether it will take off among other performers remains to be seen, but a real marriage of composer and performer comes through here (and of course the virtuoso concertos of the 19th century all had their individual champions). But it comes off beautifully here, unfolding with seeming inevitability from the lovely opening passage in harmonics through the beautifully orchestrated first movement in which the violin engages in both solo heroics and dialogues with various orchestral groupings; the flute, Higdon’s own instrument, is prominently featured. The movement’s title, “1726,” refers not to any neo-Baroque quality one might expect from the “Chaconi” slow movement of multiple ground basses, but to the street address of the Curtis Institute. It’s unclear how the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko were chosen for this project, but they keep up well with a difficult new score. Hahn’s take on the Tchaikovsky Violin Concert in D major, Op. 35, isn’t a barn-burner, but is quite persuasive, with a precise control of pitch that never becomes robotic because the texture of her violin sound, from pearly to wiry, is so lively and constantly in motion. Hahn’s tempos are on the slow side, and she tends to open up a line rather than blaze through it. It’s not a peformance that will bring you to your feet, but it does hang in the mind. Another engrossing release from one of America’s strongest young violinists. Booklet notes, with a reflection by Hahn along with more formal notes by Lynne S. Mazza, are in English only.

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Hilary Hahn – Paris (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:05 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

We present three-time Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn’s upcoming release on DG. The new album Paris features Poème for Violin and Orchestra by Parisian-born composer Chausson; Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No.1, first performed in Paris; and the world premiere recording of Rautavaara’s final score, Deux Sérénades, written for and premiered by Hahn, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and its Music Director, Mikko Franck. With this project Hahn pays tribute to the rich cultural heritage of a city that has been close to her heart throughout her career.

“Paris,” says Hahn, “is about expression, it’s about emotion, it’s about feeling connected to a city and a cultural intersection, in a way that’s inspiring for the player and the listener. It has Parisian threads all the way through it. But it’s also a big reference to the arc of my career. I’ve been playing in Paris since I was a teenager.”

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Hilary Hahn – García Abril: 6 Partitas (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hilary Hahn – García Abril: 6 Partitas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:14 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Hilary Hahn never stops pushing the boundaries of classical music. An accomplished virtuoso and talented chamber musician, the American violinist plays the entire violin repertoire from Bach all the way up to the present day, including the classical and romantic period. Most of all, she likes to excite interest around new works and already commissioned a series of small pieces from twenty-seven composers. Then she went a step further and asked the Spanish composer Antón García Abril to compose a sequence of 6 Partitas for solo violin inspired loosely by J.S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas.

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Hilary Hahn – Elgar: Violin Concerto / Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Elgar: Violin Concerto / Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:38 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This is an oddly cool performance of one of the most overtly sentimental–indeed, gushing–pieces in the violin repertoire. In an effort simply to present, rather than interpret, the music, Hahn seems to have gone overboard–she plays with little portamento and vibrato, she keeps away from the music’s soul. All that having been said, the playing itself is faultless, her tone lovely, and by the last movement her virtuosity is truly impressive. The classic performance remains Menuhin’s, but Hahn and Davis and his LSO have much to offer here. Vaughan Williams’ gorgeous-if-sappy “The Lark Ascending” is played ravishingly, with more overt feeling than the Elgar, and again the LSO add greatly to the pleasure with the woodwind section–and clarinet in particular–shining brightly.

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Hilary Hahn – Eclipse (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hilary Hahn – Eclipse (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:28 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hilary Hahn’s most personal album to date was recorded immediately after lockdown. Featuring Dvořák’s and Ginastera’s Violin Concertos as well as Sarasate’s Carmen-Fantasy, the album was recorded with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and Andrés Orozco-Estrada with the pieces chosen connected not only by the solo violin but by the idea that each composer maintained a connection to some musical-geographical center, despite long periods away from their homes.

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Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane – Bach, J.S.: Violin Concertos (2003) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane – Bach, J.S.: Violin Concertos (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:40 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hilary Hahn is not regarded as an early music star, by any means, but her recordings of J.S. Bach’s violin concertos with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra are somewhat in the spirit of historically informed performances, and listeners who might have expected more mainstream interpretations may be pleasantly surprised. Some of the expected characteristics of Baroque period practice are here, such as fleet tempos, a small ensemble, bright sonorities, light textures, and an active harpsichord and cello continuo, and the versatility of Kahane and his group goes far to create this period quality. Hahn might have indulged in some free ornamentation and even added some improvised cadenzas, but her straightforward playing is at least clean and unaffected, and she deserves credit for her brilliant technique, which carries these pieces. While her approach to Bach isn’t close to Rachel Podger’s playing in authentic Baroque style, neither does it approximate the richer, heavier, “old school” style of Yehudi Menuhin, so Hahn may appeal to some listeners as a compromise between competing schools of thought. Deutsche Grammophon’s recording puts Hahn in a prominent, central position, so it’s easy to stay focused on her solo part in the big sound of this hybrid SACD. –AllMusic Review by Blair Sanderson
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