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Phillip & Xaver Scharwenka
YOERAE KIM, violin · MATTEO WEBER, piano
After a prolonged period during which they were ignored wholesale, the compositions of both Philipp and Xaver Scharwenka are performed again – occasionally, anyway—and some of them have been seen the light of day on record. However, no discographic attempt has yet been made to explore their music in relation to each other, which might seem surprising, given their very similar artistic influences and the close connection between the two composing brothers. In this collection, Yoerae Kim and Matteo Weber demonstrate their sensitivity to a dramaturgically cohesive program, which highlights those intriguing biographical connections. They pair a violin sonata by each brother with a serenade and a suite, spanning a creative period of some 35 years.
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Karl Weigl - Symphony No. 3
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz · Jürgen Bruns
The two works recorded on this disc both come from a creative period at the beginning of the 1930s. In terms of style, with his works linked to basic tonalities Weigl drew on the sound realm of late Romanticism, from whose aesthetics he never departed in favour of more progressive contemporary trends. Weigl’s knack for orchestration shows both in the hymnic climaxes as well as the chamber music-like passages. Weigl never lived to hear any performances of either his Third Symphony or the Symphonic Prelude. Like so many of his larger works, these scores were not (re-)discovered until interest in Weigl’s music resurged, decades later. This release allows audiences to hear both works for the first time on record.
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HARRIET KRIJGH - Dvorak / Elgar Cello Concertos
Tonkünstler-Orchester Martin Sieghart
Harriet Krijgh is one of today’s most exciting and promising young cellists. Her grace and expressiveness touch her audiences as soon as she is on the concert platform. Her discography also comprises of six discs, all released by Capriccio in the last six years, featuring music by Kabalewski, Haydn, Brahms, Rachmaninov as well as several French composers. Krijgh is winner of numerous competitions. She was chosen "Rising Star" of by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) and was artistic director of the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival in 2017 and 2018. With the present CD she made a long-held wish come true and presents two of the most popular cello concertos by Dvorak and Elgar.
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Dmitri Shostakovich - Film Music Edition
DSO Berlin · RSB Berlin
Dmitri Shostakovich is best known for his symphonies and string quartets, which paint him as a very serious composer, indeed. But he was also one of the most prolific film composers of the 20th century, with 36 films for which he wrote the music and which span virtually his entire professional career. It’s a fascinating panoply that shows Shostakovich from a side that sometimes gets lost when we think of him merely as tormented and dark. There is the truly unburdened humour and coy delight in quirkiness, which we assume must be “ironic” in his concert works. Still, Shostakovich never took composing lightly, and whether he wrote music for cartoons or symphonic “tombstones”, the musical merits are always impeccable.
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Dmitri Shostakovich - The Symphonies
GÜRZENICH-ORCHESTER KÖLN · DMITRIJ KITAJENKO
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphonies are arguably the most impressive symphonic cycle of the 20th century – certainly, if you don’t count Gustav Mahler. The depth and variety of these 15 Symphonies, so closely tied to Shostakovich’s personality and the times he lived in, make it particularly rewarding to listen to varying interpretations. Dmitrij Kitajenko’s survey, recorded between 2002 and 2004, has found its place among the great such cycles, both for its artistic merits and its reference sonics, the wide dynamics and the impassioned playing from the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne that the native Leningrad native Kitajenko gets from his musicians.
