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Dietrich Henschel, Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Mahler: WUNDERHORN (2022)

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Dietrich Henschel, Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Mahler: WUNDERHORN (2022)

Dietrich Henschel, Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Mahler: WUNDERHORN (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 308 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 194 Mb | 01:24:40
Classical, Vocal | Label: Avanticlassic

Throughout his lifetime, Gustav Mahler's musical imagination got sparked by the Wunderhorn anthology of folk poetry compiled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano. Whether autonomous lieder or conscripted into symphonic service, Mahler’s Wunderhorn settings represent some of his most exotic, exhilarating, but also visionary music. The Wunderhorn songs evoke and celebrate a lost era but they also prefigure its demise. Mahler captures this ambiguity in uncompromisingly melodious and idyllic, but also satiric, relentless and cruel music.

Thomas Oliemans, Steven Sloane, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra - Martin: Monologues (2010)

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Thomas Oliemans, Steven Sloane, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra - Martin: Monologues (2010)

Thomas Oliemans, Steven Sloane, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra - Martin: Monologues (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 227 MB | 01:00:54
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Scene

The music of Frank Martin is most often characterized by exquisite craftsmanship, intelligence, subtlety, a tonal language that is neither overtly modernist nor overtly Romantic, and a finely calibrated but reserved, chaste expressiveness, which are not attributes likely to create wild popularity with broad audiences. For his admirers, though, his voice has a potent individuality and emotional depths that engender fierce loyalty, and this album should be like catnip for them. Its attractive program adds to its appeal; it includes an alternate, rarely heard version of his most popular work, Petite symphonie concertante arranged for full orchestra as Symphonie concertante; a genuine rarity, the suite from his opera Der Sturm, based on The Tempest, for baritone and orchestra, and Six Monologues from "Jedermann" for baritone and orchestra, with a text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2021)

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Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2021)

Bochumer Symphoniker & Steven Sloane - Schreker: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 355 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 225 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:22
Classical | Label: CPO

As a famous music authority and critic once wrote, the life story of the Austrian composer Franz Schreker and the reception history of his oeuvre would have offered fine material for a magnificent novel with a musician as its protagonist – if not for the fact that everything had actually occurred in real life: his childhood spent in poverty; the difficult initial path to local prominence in Vienna; the breakthrough to superstar status in German-language opera houses; his appointment as director of the Berlin College of Music; his failure to resist the seductive powers of flatterers; the gradual loss of favor among audiences and critics that many seeming friends followed with malicious spite; and then the final blow, when the new »master race« turned the world upside down – all of this was fact, not fiction.

Seven Sloane, Bochumer Symphoniker - George Antheil: The Brothers (2011)

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Seven Sloane, Bochumer Symphoniker - George Antheil: The Brothers (2011)

Seven Sloane, Bochumer Symphoniker - George Antheil: The Brothers (2011)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 662 Mb | Total time: 54:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 777 545-2 | Recorded: 2009

With acclaimed recordings of the Symphonies and selected orchestral works, Cpo has gone some way in demonstrating this American composer was one of the twentieth century’s most important composers. Antheil wrote his one act opera The Brothers in 1954. The libretto, penned by Antheil himself, drew on the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Its setting is the working-class world of post-war America, and the four men and one woman presented by Antheil on stage are all damaged and traumatized.