Pablo Heras Casado

Orchestra of St. Luke's, Pablo Heras-Casado - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 Op. 13; The Tempest Op. 18 (2016)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams' Op. 13; The Tempest Op. 18 (2016)
Orchestra of St. Luke's; Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902220 | Time: 01:08:20

Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied conducting career—encompassing the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performance and cutting-edge contemporary scores. He has served as Principal Conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 2011, now extended to September 2017. OSL began as a chamber ensemble based at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village. Today, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble consists of 21 virtuoso artists who perform a diverse repertoire and make up OSL’s artistic core. harmonia mundi are proud to release OSL's debut album for the label featuring two of Tchaikovsky's earliest notable works, both of which are dramatic and vibrant: Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams' and 'The Tempest', a sprawling and turbulent seascape.
Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor-und-Ensemble - Praetorius (2015)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor-und-Ensemble - Praetorius (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 71:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 479 4522 | Recorded: 2014

Relaxing and heavenly music from the early 17th century for choir and small ensemble by Jacob, Hieronymus and Michael Praetorius. The Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and Balthasar-Neumann-Chor (founded by Thomas Hengelbrock) is one of the most prestigious and famous early music ensembles. It can definitely be considered as one of the best groups in the world of early music.
Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann Chor and Ensemble - Verdi: La Traviata (2016)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann Chor and Ensemble - Verdi: La Traviata (2016)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7.42 Gb (DVD9) | 139 min
Classical | C major | Sub.: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Korean, Chinese, Japanese

Star tenor and director Rolando Villazn's staging of La Traviata at the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden is "visually spectacular" (The Huffington Post) and made for "an enthusiastic reception for the premiere" (Stuttgarter Zeitung)! Villazn "proves again his excellent narrating skills on stage" (WDR Klassik). "The setting and opulence of the stage captivates the spectator, as do the stylized costumes designed by Thibault Vancraenenbroeck for circus artists" (Stuttgarter Zeitung). Olga Peretyatko as Violetta delivers "a fantastic portrait of the title role wavering between adolescent joie de vivre, mature insight and anguish" (Stuttgarter Zeitung).
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 ‘Emperor’ (2020)

Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos nos. 2 & 5 ‘Emperor’ (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 60:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902411 | Recorded: 2019

Beethoven's five piano concertos relate, in a sense, part of the composers life: some twenty years during which a young musician from Bonn made several revised versions of the first concerto he wrote (a springboard to Viennese success that ended up being called no.2), before becoming the familiar Emperor of music embodied by the brilliant inspiration of no.5. Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, it is with these two extremes that Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester have chosen to start an exciting period-instrument trilogy of the concertos that bids fair to be a landmark!
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2016)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2016)
Freiburger Barockorchester, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 302 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902228 | Time: 01:07:34

Following his critically acclaimed recording of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.2, Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado returns with Symphonies Nos.3 and 4, this time leading the Freiburger Barockorchester. Both works have origins in the composer’s 1829- 1831 tour of Europe. Symphony No.3, sometimes called the “Scottish” symphony, was inspired by a visit to the ruined Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh in 1829. It was not completed until 1842, making it, chronologically, the last of his five symphonies. Symphony No.4, called the “Italian” symphony, was born of the color and atmosphere of Italy, and was completed in Berlin in 1833.
Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Unfinished" (2023)

Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Unfinished" (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 121 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:52:26
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

If the shadow of Mozart still haunts Schubert’s Symphony no.5, the Seventh (in no way ‘unfinished’ in the eyes of its creator) already looks far into the future. Pablo Heras-Casado and the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester lead us towards that Romantic élan. Their flexible approach, keen and swift in the earlier symphony, making room for shadows and mystery in its successor, meets the challenge of bringing out the contrast between these ‘two Schuberts’, here more audible than ever.
Pablo Heras-Casado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, El Amor Brujo  (2019)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra - Manuel de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, El Amor Brujo (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 62:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902271 | Recorded: 2019

There is no shortage of recordings of Manuel de Falla's El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) and El amor brujo (Love, the Wizard), with more on the way, thanks to the centenary of the former in 2019. Even casual listeners may reflect that this delightful work has never, despite plenty of changes in taste in music of the interwar period, fallen out of style. It was on the cutting edge when it was premiered, and yet its fusion of flamenco influences with growing French neoclassicism is irresistible for general symphonic audiences.
Pablo Heras-Casado, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2014)

Pablo Heras-Casado, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 309 Mb | Total time: 61:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 902151 | Recorded: 2012

The 'Lobgesang' or Hymn of Praise, commissioned by the city of Leipzig from its Kapellmeister Mendelssohn to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing in 1840, has elements of all three categories. But, at the opposite pole from Beethoven s Ninth, we have here a symphonic miniature in three movements, intended to act as the overture to the sung part of the work, which is twice as long. Thus this splendid Symphony-Cantata expands into a sweeping vocal and choral epic.
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorcheste - Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 1 (2019)

Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 1 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 63:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902369 | Recorded: 2018

Mendelssohn's first symphonic work scored for full orchestra, the Symphony Op.11 in C minor, paved the way for even greater examples of the genre he was soon to produce. The concert overture Die schöne Melusine and the sparkling Piano Concerto No.2 rely on the type of orchestration and harmonic language that are best served when played on period instruments, as heard here. Devoid of the atmosphere of Romantic doom and gloom, nearly every page of both scores is marked by an exuberant cheerfulness, youthful drive and irrepressible energy in these splendid performances from fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester led by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2022)

Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado, Freiburger Barockorchester - Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 67:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902412 | Recorded: 2017

After the first two instalments, highly praised by the press – ‘one of the finest, most . . . thrilling performances of [the] Fourth Concerto’, wrote Gramophone – Kristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado and the Freiburger Barockorchester close their Beethoven trilogy with the classical yet already eminently personal Concerto no.1, and that masterpiece of intensity and drama, Concerto no.3. Once again, period instruments and historically informed performance practice reveal the astonishing modernity that early listeners found in these works.