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Louis Spohr - Violinkonzerte Nr. 10, 7 & 9
Ulf Hoelscher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Christian Fröhlich
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 311 MB | Full Artwork: 176 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 232-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School, Romantic

Hoelscher demonstrates a formidable mastery of Spohr’s technically challenging passagework, although his efforts are somewhat undermined by the recessed sound of the orchestra. (…) Nonetheless, it is fascinating to experience a bird’s-eye view of Spohr’s development, from the elegant if somewhat four-square First Concerto to the more sophisticated harmonic and formal structures of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth.

Louis Spohr - Violinkonzerte Nr. 8, 12 & 13
Ulf Hoelscher / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Christian Fröhlich
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 196 MB | Full Artwork: 166 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 187-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1999
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School, Romantic

Hoelscher demonstrates a formidable mastery of Spohr’s technically challenging passagework, although his efforts are somewhat undermined by the recessed sound of the orchestra. (…) Nonetheless, it is fascinating to experience a bird’s-eye view of Spohr’s development, from the elegant if somewhat four-square First Concerto to the more sophisticated harmonic and formal structures of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth.

Hans Pfitzner - Orchesterlieder
Hans Christoph Begemann / Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie / Otto Tausk
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 312 MB | Full Artwork: 174 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 777 552-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Orchestral, Early 20th Century

"…The accompaniments under conductor Otto Tausk couldn’t be more aptly judged, or more finely engineered. If you enjoy the orchestral Lieder of Mahler and Strauss, then this disc is a must." ~classicstoday 10/10

Christoph Graupner - Jesus ist und bleibt mein Leben: Solo & Dialogue Cantatas (2018) {CPO 555 215-2}
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© 2018 CPO | cpo 555 215-2
Classical / Baroque / Vocal

On its brand-new second Graupner album the Kirchheimer BachConsort performs solo and dialogue cantatas by this composer who always met the highest standards of his times. Graupner sought opportunities for original expression and was open to the latest developments and to unfamiliar instruments. With his inexhaustible imagination he was able to create cantatas rich in contrasts and with variability, originality, diversified instrumentation, special tone color opulence, intelligent voice leading, and drama schooled on the opera as their hallmarks.

"Viotti's A minor concerto is my very special rapture. It is a magnificent piece, from a strange booklet in the invention; as if he fantasizes, it sounds, and everything is masterfully thought and made. If people had a clue that they would get from us drop by drop what they could drink there to their heart's content"

Morton Feldman - Flute, Cello, Oboe, Piano & Orchestra
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken / Hans Zender
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 422 MB | Full Artwork: 53 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 483-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1997, 1970's
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Post-Modern

"Johannes (Hans) Wolfgang Zender (born 22 November 1936 in Wiesbaden) is a German conductor and composer. (…) From 1988 until 2000 Zender taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. In 1997 Zender was awarded the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt. Since 1999 he has been Permanent Guest Conductor of the Southwest German Radio (SWR) Symphony Orchestra in Baden-Baden and Freiburg…"

New Chamber Music by Louise Farrenc
Following the release of her symphonies, our ambitious Louis Farrenc Edition continues with more chamber music by this French composer. Shortly after her first symphony (1841) she composed her first piano trio and performed it herself as the pianist together with two fellow musicians in Paris.

Friedrich Schneider - Das Weltgericht - Gregor Meyer (2019) {2CD Set cpo 555 119-2}
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© 2019 cpo 555 119-2
Classical / Viennese School / Sacred / Oratorio / Period Instruments

A magnificent oratorio, long forgotten, has been rediscovered in Leipzig. Gregor Meyer conducts the Gewandhaus Chorus and the camerata lipsiensis in Friedrich Schneider’s Das Weltgericht. The composer, pianist, organist, and Anhalt-Dessau court music director Friedrich Schneider was one of the most creative and productive minds in the Central German music world during the first half of the nineteenth century but today is unfortunately a forgotten man. Das Weltgericht was once one of the most famous German oratorios, inspired euphoric headlines everywhere when it was first composed, and occasioned genuine storms of enthusiasm among concertgoers.

Johann David Heinichen - Dresden Wind Concertos
Fiori Musicali / Thomas Albert
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 272 MB | Full Artwork: 62 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 637-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1998
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

"A few years ago, the name of Johann David Heinichen came out of the blue as a wonderful surprise. Baroque music lovers around the world were amazed to discover an obscure composer who, in his best works, was second to none–easily comparable to Vivaldi in terms of originality, rhythmic exuberance, and boundless imagination. (…) The Fiori Musicali ensemble, on period instruments, plays with enthusiasm and poetic commitment. The virtuosity may not be as extreme as that of Concerto Köln, but each performance reaches a perfect balance between expressive ardor and precision–a quality mirrored by the accurate and natural sonics of the Radio Bremen engineers." ~classicstoday