Emerson String Quartet, Barbara Hannigan, Bertrand Chamayou – Infinite Voyage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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The title of this album evokes not only the life-long journey of all these musicians, but also a lasting friendship between soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Emerson String Quartet. One of the greatest string quartets of the last four decades, the Emersons will disband in October 2023. Barbara and the Emersons were determined to record Schoenberg’s Quartet No. 2 since they started performing the work together in 2015. “The sheer sonic scope of this work takes us on a voyage into previously uncharted territory” say the Emerson musicians. “It’s like a tall, gnarly tree to climb (all the way to another planet, it seems), yet one with deep and emotional roots”, continues Barbara Hannigan. “The soprano’s fin-de- siècle primal scream at the end of the 3rd movement, begging to be relieved of love, is a heavy hitter”. Melancholie is a rare and intimate work by the young Hindemith, “a gem of a piece” that the Canadian soprano has wanted to explore for many years. The fascinating Quartet Op. 3, composed by Berg in 1909 as he was finishing his apprenticeship with Schoenberg, features the quartet on its own. And to round out the album, pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins Barbara and the Emersons for another deeply moving encounter by way of Chausson’s heartbreaking Chanson perpétuelle.
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Ludwig Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan – Dance With Me (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:40 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Classical
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This album celebrates dance music, from waltz to tango, from slow foxtrot to quickstep, from samba to jive. Seventy years of music rooted in the 1920s, assembled by the enthusiastic musicians of the Ludwig Orchestra, who have taken to playing them at festivals, alongside their usual programmes devoted to Stravinsky or Schoenberg, to get the audience dancing – a phenomenal success story that now becomes an album, “Dance With Me”!
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Barbara Hannigan, Raoul Steffani, Camerata RCO, Rolf Verbeek – Sehnsucht (Live in Rotterdam) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:42 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Sehnsucht”, a central and nearly untranslatable word of the Viennese fin-de-siècle period, referring to aspects of longing, melancholy, and nostalgia. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a collective “Sehnsucht” arose, in performers and audiences alike. “This programme was given in the empty concert hall of De Doelen in Spring 2021. We decided to issue the recording as an album, recognizing that the performance also represents continuity and mentorship through music. Both young Dutch artists, conductor Rolf Verbeek and baritone Raoul Steffani are associated with the initiatives Equilibrium and Momentum, and joined me and the Camerata RCO for this intimate journey… In “Sehnsucht”, we explore two song cycles of Berg, written shortly after Mahler’s 4th Symphony. All these works are presented in special arrangements for chamber ensemble. The Berg Songs are expanded from their original voice and piano to a dialogue of new colours and instrumentation. Mahler’s 4th Symphony is reduced to an intimate soloistic journey, a tender conversation” (Barbara Hannigan).
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Barbara Hannigan, Reinbert de Leeuw – Vienna: Fin de Siècle (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:39 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the huge success of her GRAMMY Award-winning first album for Alpha,Crazy Girl Crazy, Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan is back with her longtime collaborator and mentor, the great figure of twentieth-century music, Dutch pianist Reinbert de Leeuw.
For this new recital album, the duo explores the roots of modern music with composers who went on to lead a musical revolution: Arnold Schoenberg, Hugo Wolf, Anton Webern, Alexander Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler and Alban Berg. Vienna: Fin de Siècle presents a vision of Vienna at the height of late Romanticism, when music was at its most lush and decadent, at the edge of tonality and full of voluptuous beauty. Featuring composers for whom text and song were inseparable, the album captures the rich and intense moment before the disruption of the harmonic language of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hannigan and de Leeuw have long championed the exquisite repertoire from this époque.
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Barbara Hannigan – La Passione: Nono, Haydn & Grisey (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:41 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Classical
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The starting point for Barbara Hannigan’s third recording for Alpha is a work by Gérard Grisey (1946-98) that is particularly close to her heart. Grisey wrote: ‘I conceived the Quatre Chants pour franchir le seuil (Four songs for crossing the threshold) as a musical meditation on death in four parts: the death of the angel, the death of civilisation, the death of the voice and the death of humanity… The texts chosen belong to four civilisations (Christian, Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian) and have in common a fragmentary discourse on the inevitability of death’.
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Hans Abrahamsen – Let Me Tell You – Barbara Hannigan, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 32:42 minutes | 330 MB | Genre: Classical
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Composed in 2012-13, »let me tell« you is a half-hour dramatic monologue, voiced by a character who requires us to hear her. That character is not quite the Ophelia of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She has the same words, her entire text being made up from words Ophelia speaks in the play, but she uses these words in different ways, and certainly to express herself differently.
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