Till Fellner, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (2010)
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Austrian pianist Till Fellner whose two Bach albums on ECM have won him unanimous international acclaim teams up with conductor Kent Nagano and his Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for a sensitive and meticulous interpretation of Beethoven’s much-loved piano concertos Nos. 4 and 5. In a review to be published in the March issue of ‘Fanfare’ Jerry Dubins speaks of a “stunning achievement” and points out that “the recording has a fullness, depth, and solidity to it that are equal to the very best modern technology has to offer.” Fellner and Nagano, musical collaborators for more than a decade, share a delicate and sensitive approach to Beethoven’s middle period that, by eschewing all demonstrativeness, focusses on natural tempi, transparent sound and maximum clarity of articulation. While Fellner continues his much-lauded cycle of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas on major concert platforms in the US, Europe and Japan, Nagano and his Montreal orchestra have received much attention with their Beethoven project “Ideals of the French Revolution”. Fellner can also be heard in Thomas Larcher’s “Böse Zellen”, to be released in late March.
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Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolai Lugansky, Russian National Orchestra, Kent Nagano – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto (2003)
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Only a few works from Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s huge oeuvre have gained general acceptance; however, these are of such an enduring nature that the Russian is ranked among the great com- posers in the history of music. The way the world of music highlights especially his last three symphonies, his Piano Concerto No. 1, his opera Eugen Onegin and his Rococo Variations is nothing less than extraordinary.
Tchaikovsky’s life alternated between tragedy and happiness. He was born on May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk, and received his first piano lessons from his mother at the tender age of five. Even as a child, he was prone to psychosomatic attacks and depressions, which he attempted to combat by composing brilliant pieces on the piano. His parents established the family home in St. Petersburg in 1852, after moving house a number of times. During the following 10 years, Tchaikovsky read law, found employ- ment as a civil servant, travelled throughout Europe as an interpreter and, on the whole, led a carefree and joyous life. He was only sporadically interested in music: his sole artistic activities consisted of evenings spent at the opera or at concerts, and irregular piano lessons.
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Mari Kodama, Russian National Orchestra, Kent Nagano – Chopin, Loewe: Piano Concertos No.2 (2003)
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Revered pianist Mari Kodama shows off her pianistic technique on this program of exciting piano concertos from heavyweight composers, Loewe and Chopin. The polished instrumentalist delivers renowned interpretations of Chopin’s Piano Concerto in F Minor and Loewe’s Piano Concert in A. With superb sonic clarity, this album rejuvenates these familiar works.
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Mari Kodama, Kent Nagano & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin – Beethoven: Piano Concertos 0-5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 04:30:04 minutes | 3,92 GB | Genre: Classical
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Together with the Berlin-based Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) Mari Kodama and her husband Kent Nagano have now completed the recording of all of Beethoven’s piano concertos by jumping, as it were, back in time twice: the last element of this recording series that has spanned more than 13 years was Beethoven’s concerto “number nought” (WoO 4) – personally edited by Mari Kodama from the autograph score.
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Kent Nagano, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1869 Version) [Live] (2019)
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In the 19th Century, Russian music was still dominated the Italian and French repertoires. But young composers were taking things in a new direction. In the face of westernisation, they were working to recreate an unbroken Russian thread, with folk melodies centre stage. In this vein, Modest Mussorgski created a synthesis of centuries-old Russian folk music and the musical language of Romanticism. His opera Boris Godunov exemplified this approach: every character has their own identifying theme, in the manner of the Wagnerian leitmotif, and the discourse exploits popular Russian idiom. The writing and the harmony have an impressive aloofness, which immediately stands out as Russian. The orchestration – and in particular the use of clocks in the second part of the prologue, or the coronation scene – corroborates this picture. Finally – and what is particularly salient in this version – is the vocality of this great score, which is eminently lyrical and follows the prosody of the language. The work’s choral character – Varlaam’s song at the tavern, for example, with choirs that chant the score – lends it a grandiose realism which never falls into the picturesque.
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Kent Nagano – Danse Macabre (2016)
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In time for Halloween, this album features Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and Dvorak’s The Noonday Witch, among other spooky classical works. This is the second album (following this year’s operetta L’Aiglon) from the renewed partnership between Decca and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, whose original collaboration created some of the most stunningly engineered and award-winning recordings of the late 20th century.
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Nikolaï Lugansky, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Kent Nagano – Grieg & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Classical
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Accompanied by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin), one of the best German orchestras, conducted by Kent Nagano, renowned for interpretations of clarity, elegance and intelligence, Nikolai Lugansky performs a new album dedicated to two famous composers, Grieg and Prokofiev. The Russian pianist is still spectacular in these concertos.
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Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Kent Nagano – Messiaen: Orchestral Works (Live) (2021)
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Kent Nagano was a close associate of the French composer Olivier Messiaen, whose music is notable for its sense of mysticism and sensuous sonorities. Few conductors know Messiaen’s works as well as Nagano, who is now continuing his Messiaen cycle with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with one of his mentor’s most radical pieces, the colourful Chronochromie for orchestra. Premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1980, it was introduced to Munich audiences two years later by Pierre Boulez. Its title is a portmanteau word derived from the ancient Greek terms for “time” and “colour” – Messiaen was a great believer in the theory of synaesthesia and ascribed particular tone colours to all his rhythmic models. Chronochromie demands a huge battery of percussion instruments and draws its strength from its pulsating rhythms, while the strings contribute an array of birdcalls. Bruckner’s works are no less rooted in Catholicism than Messiaen’s, and it makes sense, therefore, for Nagano to programme Bruckner’s Mass No. 2 in E minor alongside Messiaen’s orchestral study. The Mass No. 2 was first performed in 1869 at an open-air concert to mark the inauguration of the Votive Chapel at Linz’s planned Cathedral. Such were the circumstances of its first performance that the choir could be accompanied only by a wind band, in this case the winds of the Linz Military Band. It is this original scoring that lends the work its very special tone colour. But the work requires no vocal soloists, presenting the Bavarian Radio Chorus with a grateful challenge and allowing its members to savour the score’s indebtedness to Palestrina’s vocal polyphony in all its transcendent beauty.
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Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg & Kent Nagano – Widmann: Arche (Live at Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg / 2017) (2018)
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Commissioned to write new music to inaugurate the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, composer Jörg Widmann drew inspiration from the shape of the building itself: “From the outside it resembles a ship. To me, the interior looked like the hold of a ship, an ark…Re-emerging into the daylight, the ark idea would not leave me alone. The inflection of the music I had to compose was clear….” Arche, an Oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra is a compendious work embracing the course of history in the west with a collaged libretto drawing upon a range of writers: from the unknown authors of the Old Testament to Nietzsche and Sloterdijk via Francis of Assisi, Michelangelo and Schiller. Arche looks at the tradition of the oratorio and transforms it. Dieter Rexroth in the liner notes: “What immediately stands out is above all the impression of paradox and the vast diversity of forms and musical resources. Everything happens at once, everything interlocks. Every moment transports us into another world.” Kent Nagano directs the massed musical forces with aplomb in this concert recording from the premiere performance in January 2017.
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2014)
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Kent Nagano leads the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on this album of Beethoven symphonies, the final volume of their project to record the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies. Nagano calls these two symphonies “peculiar retreats” from the composer’s other symphonic works.
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 7 (2014)
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Kent Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal recorded the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies in Montréal between 2007 and 2013, released as a highly-acclaimed six-disc set and on individual volumes. The two symphonies on this album were recorded in March 2013 at the orchestra’s home auditorium, the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano – The John Adams Album (2019)
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The John Adams Album contains his key orchestral works conducted by one of his greatest, lifelong champions.
“Like all great pieces, each time one returns to them and restudies them, I’m able to find something more — new dimensions that I haven’t seen before, other reflections of innovation and genius.” (Kent Nagano on John Adams)
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Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal & Kent Nagano – Penderecki: St. Luke Passion (Live) (2020)
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The St Luke Passion (“Passio et mors Domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Lucam”), composed in 1966 by a thirty-two-year-old Krzysztof Penderecki, dates back to the composer’s earlier style. Penderecki is one of the most widely played contemporary composers and millions will recognise his music in films such as The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1980), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980), Fearless (Peter Weir, 1993), Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) and Twin Peaks (2017).
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Kent Nagano – Bernstein: A Quiet Place (2018)
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Why yes, it is still possible to discover Bernstein scores, or in this case the chamber version of A Quiet Place, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland, conducted and recorded for the first time by Kent Nagano, at the Montreal Symphony House. The final stage score by the American composer, first performed at the Houston Grand Opera in 1983, it was revisited by the librettist Stephen Wadsworth, and the composer who added several fragments from the one-act piece Trouble in Tahiti, from 1951; this addition would see two new performances (the Scala in Milan, and Washington). Another draft – this one definitive – was performed at the Vienna Opera House, conducted by the composer, in 1986. Fascinating in more ways than one, rather like a modern-day Intermezzo by Strauss, the work depicts American society by way of an existential crisis faced, first by one couple, (Trouble in Tahiti) and then by one family. Bernstein borrowed from Mahler for the structure, with a final movement whose “grave nobility” recalled the final movements of the Third and NinthSymphonies by his much-admired forebear. As is often the case with this composer, Bernstein’s mix of styles (jazz, chorale, Broadway, Mahler, Berg, Britten, Copland…) provides an explosive cocktail, which has about it more of a musical conversation than grand opera – and, paradoxically, that’s what makes this work so unique… And so charming. This is well worth a re-discovery, this time under the baton of Bernstein’s faithful former pupil, Kent Nagano, at the head of top-flight solo singers, who point the way to that “quiet place”, where “love will teach us harmony and grace”. – Franck Mallet
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Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classsical, Opera
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Actors:
John Mark Ainsley – Idomeneo
Pavol Breslik – Idamante
Juliane Banse – Ilia
Annette Dasch – Elettra
Rainer Trost – Arbace
Guy de Mey – Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno
Steven Humes – La Voce
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor Der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Production/Label: EuroArts
Duration: 02:54:09 + 00:10:20
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: PCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 24978 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9
Audio # 1: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 2: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3993 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: Italian / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3993 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
Size: 42,83 GB
With this wonderful production, Mozart’s “Munich” opera returns to the place where it was first performed in 1781, the lovingly restored Cuvilliés Theatre, a veritable jewel of Rococo architecture. In Dieter Dorn’s production, the characters are real people of flesh and blood, their emotions and conflicts intelligible to every member of the audience. The fantastic cast includes some of the finest Mozart singers of our day, headed by the British tenor John Mark Ainsley in the title role, while Kent Nagano in the orchestra pit appears to unleash an elemental force of nature.
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