Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 685 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Their recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is the long-awaited sister-recording to Teodor Currentzis’ and musicAeterna’s Beethoven Symphony No. 5 album. Recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus in August 2018, both albums are the Russia-based musicians’ seminal contribution to the composer’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

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Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:37 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

In celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, revered composer Teodor Currentzis releases his stunning new album ‘Ludwig Van Beethoven—Symphony No. 5’

This stunning album was recorded at the legendary Konzerthaus in Vienna under per- fect studio conditions

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MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Requiem KV 626 (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Requiem KV 626 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:44 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha

This release stands out from among both the dozens or hundreds of available recordings of Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626, and from among the recordings in the catalog of France’s Alpha label. On the latter count, while most of Alpha’s recordings have been historically oriented, this one falls into glorious Russian tradition of luxurious expression, and the usual art-historical essay included with Alpha’s discs is missing here (although the packaging does bear some gorgeous Byzantine iconography). The recording pairs four western European soloists, who traveled all the way to Novosibirsk for the lengthy recording sessions, with the New Siberian Singers and the chamber orchestra MusicAeterna under its conductor, Teodor Currentzis. This is not a large choir (33 singers), but it has the rich sound associated with Russian opera choruses, which is what this group does as a general rule. If you’re thinking this sounds a bit like Mozart as conducted by Rachmaninov, you’re about right, especially in the sections where the dying Mozart seems to gaze into the fires of hell. The considerably more delicate soloists, especially alto Stéphanie Houtzeel, make a vivid contrast with the choir in this deeply colored, almost raw performance, which is nevertheless very carefully done in its details and sonically matched to the Novosibirsk opera house where it was recorded. By any measure this choir is a striking new talent.

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Teodor Currentzis – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teodor Currentzis – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:18 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Without dispute Teodor Currentzis is todays hottest & most sought after conductor- alongside his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. The Greek-Russian conductor who has taken the classical music world by storm (The Times) This is Currentziss first ever recording of Mahler. Mahlers symphonies feature heavily in their tour programme but this is the first time Currentzis has gone into the studio with this composer. His last recording of major symphony repertoire (Tchaikovsky 6) is the highest shipped single album for Currentzis repertoire to date. The album won Japanese Recording Academys highest accolade Gold Award, received 5-star reviews from The Times, NRC Handelsblad, a Diapson Dor Award and was named in many Top albums for 2017 including Best classical recording in Spiegel Online and appeared on the New York Times Best Classical Music Recordings for 2017.

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Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:50:05 minutes | 3,06 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

The eagerly awaited release of Don Giovanni represents the culmination of the critically acclaimed cycle of Mozart’s Da Ponte operas from the charismatic conductor Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna, the orchestra and choir he founded in Siberia.

This album completes this Mozart Da Ponte opera series by Teodor Currentzis with one of Mozart’s most-loved operas, Don Giovanni. The opera that has had artists, philosophers and musicians musing down the years on the lasting significance of this work. As the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote in his book “Either/Or” “With his Don Giovanni, Mozart joins that little immortal band of men whose names, whose works, time will not forget because eternity recollects them.”

Currentzis’ work with MusicAeterna is going from strength to strength, having performed the complete Da Ponte series in Dortmund Konzerthaus in 2015 and he will tour with the orchestra in Western Europe throughout the rest of 2016.

In addition, BRMI are creating and new 50-min documentary titled “The Archetype of Myself – The Conductor Teodor Currentzis” which followed the conductor over several months following his artistic and private endeavours with MusicAeterna last year. This recording of ‘Don Giovanni’ forms the focal point of this documentary.

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Teodor Currentzis – Fragments Part I – “Traviata” (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Teodor Currentzis – Fragments Part I – “Traviata” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 17:10 minutes | 280 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

The ‘Fragments’ project features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAeterna’s home residence, Dom Radio in St Petersburg. With their signature perfectionism and dedication, Teodor Currentzis and the musicians have spent many hours rehearsing and recording in the studio in order to capture the true expressiveness of the performed masterpieces.

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Alexander Melnikov, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Teodor Currentzis – Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Alexander Melnikov, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Teodor Currentzis – Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concertos (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:09 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

The programming of this recording by Alexander Melnikov seems to be no accident. The two large, witty, outward-looking piano concertos surround the more grave, inward-facing Violin Sonata the way a sonata’s or concerto’s two fast movements surround a slow movement. It’s also a real reflection of Melnikov as a performer, schooled in the Russian tradition and mentored by Richter (the pianist of the first public performance of the Violin Sonata), who is as comfortable as a soloist as he is as a collaborative pianist playing chamber music. In that regard, Melnikov and Faust make their parts of the sonata equal partners in the music, bringing out the smallest details. It is generally held that the sonata is about death, and these two handle it with intensity and seriousness, but do not make it grim or frightful. In the concertos, Melnikov and conductor Teodor Currentzis are also well matched. In the slow movements, especially of the Concerto No. 2, Melnikov’s touch is so soft and phrasing so lyrical as to give the music a sweetness normally associated with a Rachmaninov or Ravel concerto, and Currentzis follows his lead. The animation in the fast movements, where Shostakovich likes to use rapidly repeated notes, is not pointedly sharp, but is impressive and extremely engaging nonetheless. The finale of Concerto No. 1, when everyone — including the very precise trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts — gets going together is almost precipitously exciting. Yet it is Melnikov’s sensitivity of touch that distinguishes his performance of these works from others’. – by Patsy Morita

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Musicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 (Dramma giocoso in quattro atti) (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Musicaeterna, Teodor Currentzis – Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 (Dramma giocoso in quattro atti) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:56:29 minutes | 5,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Sony Classical announces a major new Mozart opera project with conductor Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. A ‘no-compromise’ studio recording cycle of Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas. Living in a unique artistic community established on the edge of Siberia, the musicians work and record under ideal conditions towards Currentzis’ stated goal “to show what can be achieved if you avoid the factory approach of the classical music mainstream”.

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