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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henze Das Floß der Medusa (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 1, 2023

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henze Das Floß der Medusa (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:13:49 | 291 / 170 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CapriccioNR

Théodore Géricault’s hugely imposing painting The Raft of the Medusa has stimulated imaginative responses from numerous artists ever since its creation in 1819, including composer Hans Werner Henze and his librettist Ernst Schnabel, who were inspired by Géricault to write a political oratorio on the painting’s tragic historical subject in 1967. Noted for its harsh-edged sounds, and melding a tender depiction of suffering with scathing irony and gripping dramaturgy, the political scuffles and rowdiness that broke out at its aborted premiere lifted the work into the canon of great classical music scandals.

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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister – Hans Werner Henze: Das Floß der Medusa (2023) [24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 31, 2023

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Cornelius Meister – Hans Werner Henze: Das Floß der Medusa (2023) [24/48]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:13:49 minutes | 715 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The shipwreck of the "Medusa" was a symbolic testimony for many artists: for the painter Théodore Géricault, who captured the rescue of a handful of survivors on a monumental painting; for the writer Peter Weiss, who described his encounter with Géricault's painting in the novel "The Aesthetics of Resistance"; for the Austrian Franzobel, who published a "Medusa" novel in 2017; and for the composer Hans Werner Henze, who dramatized in an oratorio in 1967/68.

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Peter Schöne, Peter Stein, SWR Symphonieorchester feat. Peter Eötvös - Henze: Das Floß der Medusa (2019) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Sept. 13, 2019

This is the second release ever of Henzes famous Oratorio, after the release of the general rehearsal for the world's first premiere from 1968 by Deutsche Grammophon. Excellent sound technique, first class singers and orchestra (conducted by none other than Peter Eötvös) as well as a booklet containing detailed liner notes and the libretto contribute in making this album a very important testimony about the music of the 20th century. Henze wrote the Oratorio as a Requiem for Che Guevara and set it to a text by Ernst Schnabel. It tells the story of the French frigate Meduse, which ran aground off the west coast of Africa in 1816, immortalized in the painting of the same name by Theodore Gericault. The work employs a large orchestra, a speaker, a soprano, a baritone, and choruses. In the course of a performance, the chorus members move from left side of the stage, “the Side of the Living,” to the right side, “the Side of the Dead.”

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Richard Hickox, Northern Sinfonia - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea; Household Music; Flos Campi (2015) Music

Posted by Designol at March 4, 2023

As he proved with his recording of A London Symphony – Record of the Year, Gramophone Awards 2001 – Richard Hickox was a Vaughan Williams specialist. This reissue of an original 1995 recording features such lesser known works from the composer as Household Music and Flos Campi. Alternating between the passionate and the tortured, between long-breathed lyricism and moments of obvious pain, Flos Campi has never really found itself in the mainstream concert repertoire, maybe because of its title, misleadingly suggesting jolly music. Household Music has equally suffered from its title, rather an off-hand one for pieces that at their best show the composer’s brilliance as an arranger. Riders to the Sea, however, is a masterpiece, seen as the finest as well as the most concentrated of Vaughan Williams’s works for the stage, conjuring up multiple layers of emotional response to the natural world, a losing battle with the sea, and the God which rules it, for the islanders in the North Atlantic.

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Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Serenade to Music & Flos Campi (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 26, 2018

Peter Oundjian, Toronto Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto, Oboe Concerto, Serenade to Music & Flos Campi (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 82:14 minutes | 1.52 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

With this celebratory release completing his fourteen-year tenure as Music Director of the TSO, Peter Oundjian conducts an exquisite Vaughan Williams programme, supported by an all-Canadian cast of star soloists.

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Matthew Best, English Chamber Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Serenade To Music, Flos Campi, Mystical Songs (1990) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 6, 2022

This disc of Vaughan Williams favorites has been a bestseller since its original release. Featured works include the composer's Serenade to Music, Five Mystical Songs, Flos Campi and the Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Matthew Best leads his Corydon Singers and the English Chamber Orchestra in a recording that is guaranteed to please.

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Bart Flos - Roots & Reflections (Featuring Eric van der Westen & Marc Schenk) (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at Oct. 27, 2019

Bart Flos - Roots & Reflections (Featuring Eric van der Westen & Marc Schenk) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 423 MB | Tracks: 14 | 74:06 min
Style: Jazz | Label: Next Steps Projects

After almost 25 years I was eager to see my Jazz Suite Roots & Reflections reflected in a jazz trio again as part of the NextSteps Projects Stage 6. Therefore it was a great experience to see my music being fortified by such awesome musicians as Eric van der Westen on bass and Marc Schenk on drums. The trio album contains different jazz styles: swing, blues, latin and fusion as part of that musical family that I intended to convey with my jazz suite. Therefore all compositions are interconnected, related and intertwined; they influence each other.

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Bart Flos - Roots & Reflections (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at Oct. 27, 2019

Bart Flos - Roots & Reflections (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 327 MB | Tracks: 15 | 77:37 min
Style: Jazz | Label: Next Steps Projects

That first idea in 2013, the composition Origin Alpha Prime, ultimately resulted in the biggest NextSteps Project so far: Stage 6, the creation of the Jazz Suite Roots & Reflections. After recording digital Concept Audio Files and deriving the subsequent Sheet Music (part 1), a selection of compositions of this jazz suite was played solo at the grand piano (part 2). It provides you with the idea that this jazz suite is like a musical family: all compositions are interconnected, related and intertwined; they influence each other.

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VA - Vaughan Williams: An English Music (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 30, 2022

VA - Vaughan Williams: An English Music (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.5 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 868 MB
06:10:57 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Ralph Vaughan Williams’s 150th anniversary (12th October) is one of the major musical commemorations of this autumn. It is marked on our side by the release of a 30 CD boxset spanning his major achievements by the greatest performers. Adrian Boult, Janet Baker, Vernon Handley, the Choir of King’s College, Simon Rattle and more are all gathered in this collection of the 70 best tracks from the boxset. The title, An English Music, reflects Vaughan Williams’ commitment to using elements from British folklore and the Elizabethan masters to forge his own musical personality and become the figurehead of a typically British school.

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The Hilliard Ensemble - Walter Frye: Choral Works (1994) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 7, 2019

The Hilliard Ensemble - Walter Frye: Choral Works (1994)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 290 MB | 01:01:41
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: ECM New Series

This early ECM New Series offering chronicles the music of Walter Frye, a 15th-century English composer whose biographical details are as elusive as his music is captivating. He is survived by a significant handful of vocal works, of which the Hilliard Ensemble gives us a thoughtful cross section. Of these, the Ave regina is the most well known, though the Missa Flos regalis forms the backbone of this altogether revelatory album. The mass itself—which, in true Hilliard fashion is divided among a selection of motets—is a brooding flow of delicate harmonies, seamless “hand-offs,” and intimate exchanges. Its inward-looking tone invites the listener into a prayerful space in which worldly cares are both the source of one’s burdens and the key to absolving them.

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