![Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn, Case Scaglione – Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/05/tyaebsv9315ya_600.md.jpg)
Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn, Case Scaglione – Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
“…our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free”. (Nikolai Kapustin)
![Frank Dupree – Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op. 104 & Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 49 (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/01/g3wqezh6yruzb_600.md.jpg)
Frank Dupree – Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op. 104 & Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 49 (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
When western audiences discovered the music of Nikolai Kapustin, they were truly shocked: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes? As we discover more and more of his music (and there’s so much more yet to discover), a very distinct, always wholly charming voice emerges, whether in a freewheeling outright-jazzy work like his Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion, the more symphonic Fifth Piano Concerto, or the frisky Sinfonietta which transports us into a smoky 1940s bar in Manhattan.
![Ensemble Tris – Labor: Clarinet Trio & Cello Sonata No. 2 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/05/ittrly72l8tba_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Tris – Labor: Clarinet Trio & Cello Sonata No. 2 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]
A total of around eighty compositions of Joseph Labor have survived. Among them are practically no occasional works, which is connected to the fact that he was blind: for him composition was a luxury, insofar as he had to rely on the help of a scribe who had to commit the work to paper. Labor’s music is very skillfully composed, always sensuous, and first and foremost melodious; it does not require a too complete concentration on itself. In Vienna, Labor was part of Johannes Brahms’s close circle of friends. This is already the third Capriccio release with this sensitive chamber music of an mostly forgotten composer.
![Elena Tsallagova – Martinů: Short Operas (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/11/dnww6gqo23vva_600.md.jpg)
Elena Tsallagova – Martinů: Short Operas (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Martinů is a musical chameleon. On the one hand, there’s an unmistakable from to his output, on the other hand, he would adopt and adapt just about any style that happened to be en vogue or to his liking. These two one-act operas, presented on record for the first time in their respective versions, are a case in point.
![Oliver Triendl – Radu Paladi: Concertos & Symphonic Suite “The Little Magic Flute” (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/27/rh807g2lgp58a_600.md.jpg)
Oliver Triendl – Radu Paladi: Concertos & Symphonic Suite “The Little Magic Flute” (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
After being forced out of his Soviet-occupied home in Bukovina (Chernivtsi), Radu Paladi (1927-2013) proved an exceptional talent, whether as a composer, pianist, conductor or lecturer. In the 1950s, a time that was particularly tricky both politically and artistically, Radu Paladi managed to find his artistic path and distinctive voice, incorporating and elevating Romanian folklore in his highly elaborate compositional style to fascinating effect. His music, combining depth, brilliance and vitality, spoke to listeners with an immediacy that made hearing his music an exhilarating experience.
![Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Antoni Wit – Stojowski: Symphony in D Minor, Op. 21 & Suite for Large Orchestra in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/28/ty4194o5nwwcc_600.md.jpg)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Antoni Wit – Stojowski: Symphony in D Minor, Op. 21 & Suite for Large Orchestra in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
Stojowski might be considered as one of the many missing links between Frédéric Chopin and Karol Szymanowski, who shaped Polish music between the second half of the 19th century and the dawn of modernism… but somehow never entered the repertoire. This is a composer of the high, late-romantic tradition – a style that Stojowski never found any reason to reject and with a strong gift for melody. Stojowski’s work proves the composer’s deft hand at colorful instrumentation, which suggests Russian and French influences. Entering the United States in 1905, he enjoyed a fine reputation as a composer, pianist, and increasingly pedagogue but his lack of presence on the continent meant that Stojowski faded into obscurity.
![Christoph Spering – Reger & Mahler: Works (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/10/12/hvgfzthv0vltc_600.md.jpg)
Christoph Spering – Reger & Mahler: Works (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
In celebration of the 150th Anniversary this Album focus on still less-known but exceptional sensitive and impressive Choral Symphonic and Orchestra songs by Max Reger. With these works, Reger entirely adhered to the trend of the time; the large-scale idea, which would have had no place in the operas of the period, is transferred to the concert hall, so to speak, and is as far removed from the “simple” orchestral song as some of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. The Hebbel Requiem, Op. 144b includes audible parallels with Johannes Brahms‘s German Requiem and was Reger’s memorial for the German soldiers killed in the war.
![Anne-Aurore Cochet, Sonja Gornik, Aachen Opernchor, Sinfonieorchestra Aachen, Christopher Ward – Blech: The Alpine King and the Misanthrope (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/06/xds1f17op6baa_600.md.jpg)
Anne-Aurore Cochet, Sonja Gornik, Aachen Opernchor, Sinfonieorchestra Aachen, Christopher Ward – Blech: The Alpine King and the Misanthrope (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Around 1902 Leo Blech nabbed the subject of the “original romantic-comic magic” play by Viennese theater manager/actor/playwright Ferdinand Raimund, had it streamlined, and turned it into his fifth opera. A cantankerous misanthrope terrorizes family and servants with his paranoid mistrust. He’s only cured when faced with his own behavior courtesy of supernatural role reversal. Highbrow opera meets folksy farce with unexpectedly gorgeous, splendidly orchestrated music somewhere between Wagner and Humperdinck. The premiere at the Dresden Court Theater was a sensational success. Then all of Blech’s music was banned and once the Nazi horror was over, it never came back. Now you can hear what we missed.
![Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward – Rott: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/19/kzpw3eyn0cnya_600.md.jpg)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Christopher Ward – Rott: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The 1989 premiere of Hans Rott’s Symphony No. 1 in E major (it was written more than 100 years earlier) introduced the international music world to a composer who had remained unknown, or known by name only, even among experts. His colleagues and friends included the younger composers Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf. Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most important model for Rotts first symphonic work. Written when he was barely twenty years old, the work stands as his magnum opus, his only completed major work, a synthesis of what he had written to date, and a proclamation of what might have been yet to come.
![Bruckner Orchester Linz – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (1877/92) (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/16/dpc5wc05622ea_600.md.jpg)
Bruckner Orchester Linz – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (1877/92) (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
When Otto Desshoff read through the score of Bruckner’s Second Symphony to determine its suitability for performance by the Vienna Philharmonic, he declared “What nonsense this is”, dooming the work to a life of revisions. Composed in 1871, the work was then known as The Third, since the original second, Zeroeth, hadn’t yet been removed from the catalogue of Bruckner’s numbered symphonies. Although the premiere of The Second Symphony was quite well received, Bruckner and his team of assistants set about reworking it in 1877, trimming it of any superfluous material, most significantly in the Finale, where a full 193 bars were pruned. This recording of the 1877 version observes all those cuts, without affecting Bruckner’s original, expansive structure.
![Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vladar – Schubert – Schwanengesang, D. 957 (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/17/0845221052922_600.md.jpg)
Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vladar – Schubert – Schwanengesang, D. 957 (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]
20 years ago, at the beginning of his career, the young baritone Bo Skovhus made his first recording of Schubert’s “Schöne Müllerin”. Now, as a famous opera and Lied interpreter he presents a new production of all 3 Schubert Cycles: “I’m very thankful to do this again. As a young men you do not reflect so much what happen. Now, when I’m older, I understand much more about. Especially for this cycle it’s important to have another point of view.” (Bo Skovhus) Stefan Vladar, the famous Viennese pianist and his partner on the piano, shows us the virtuosity of the piano part in a new different light.
![Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor, WAB 100 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/02/27/ctmgyvhuhocna_600.md.jpg)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor, WAB 100 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
The third publication of the comprehensive complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies in 19 surviving versions
Although the work did not belong to the canon of his nine numbered symphonies, which the composer bequeathed to the court library, he did not destroy them. Perhaps it was the hope that future generations would see this symphony in what he believed to be the right light that prompted him to label it ‘invalid’, ‘completely void’ and ‘cancelled’ at various points. In this CD edition, the text has to be reread and understood. What is the reason for this and what does Bruckner’s music point to.
![Bruckner Orchester Linz – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version) (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/09/mykqhxxlzvq4b_600.md.jpg)
Bruckner Orchester Linz – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version) (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Many stereotypes and assumptions about Anton Bruckner’s personality and works require a critical review. The planned comprehensive complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies in 19 surviving versions #bruckner2024 aims to show why the Linz composer came from and what his music referred to – a reference without stereotypes and hasty conclusions, close to the musical text of the respective edition. The Bruckner exegete Markus Poschner explores the Symphony No. 8 with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in the second part of the series, in the version from 1890 (Ed. L. Nowak).
![Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vladar – Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/17/0845221052908_600.md.jpg)
Bo Skovhus, Stefan Vladar – Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]
20 years ago, at the beginning of his career, the young baritone Bo Skovhus made his first recording of Schubert’s “Schöne Müllerin”. Now, as a famous opera and Lied interpreter he presents a new production of all 3 Schubert Cycles: “I’m very thankful to do this again. As a young men you do not reflect so much what happen. Now, when I’m older, I understand much more about. Especially for this cycle it’s important to have another point of view.” (Bo Skovhus) Stefan Vladar, the famous Viennese pianist and his partner on the piano, shows us the virtuosity of the piano part in a new different light.
![Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/15/gj7e88l8znm7b_600.md.jpg)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Start of the most comprehensive Bruckner Symphonies Edition incl. all available 19 versions. This release marks the start of a significant Capriccio project to record a new edition of the Bruckner symphonies, including all the alternative versions that are included in the new, comprehensive and authoritative Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe. The complete programme will be captured on some 18 hours of recording time, and the musical director throughout the project will be Markus Poschner, making this the first time that one conductor has been on the podium for all nineteen versions of the symphonies. Two of Austria’s finest orchestras have been engaged for this cycle: the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. The project is due for completion in 2024, the year that marks the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth.
![Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Joachim Raff: Choral Works (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/15/xfraifgngp3pa_600.md.jpg)
Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Joachim Raff: Choral Works (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Even eleven romantic symphonies, various concert pieces and four operas have not quite brought Joachim Raff, Franz Liszt’s interim assistant and orchestrator, a breakthrough into the modern repertoire. Perhaps his varied a capella music, which can least be accused of epigonality, helps. Raff’s own dichotomy between liberal awakening and intellectual Catholicism is musically noticeable as a wandering between – and combination of – late Romanticism and his very own reinterpretation of Cecilianism (anticipating Hans Pfitzner by decades) between political awakening choruses and Marian antiphons.
![Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Ammann: Missa Defensor Pacis (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/23/s146t5xw78o8a_600.md.jpg)
Basler Madrigalisten, Raphael Immoos – Ammann: Missa Defensor Pacis (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]
Benno Ammann’s oeuvre reveals influences from impressionism to free tonality, yet he belongs to no stylistic school. The Swiss composer wrote Missa Defensor Pacis in 1946 for the official canonisation, at St. Peter’s in Rome, of Nicholas of Flüe, patron saint of Switzerland. This prestigious commission, with its complex polyphony, countless variations, and use of the cantus firmus technique, is one of the most important and extensive Masses by a Swiss composer for a cappella choir.
![– Zani: Divertimenti for Violin & Cello (2015) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/17/0845221052649_600.md.jpg)
– Zani: Divertimenti for Violin & Cello (2015) [FLAC 24bit, 88,2 kHz]
With great likelihood – at least as far as it can be said almost 300 years later – these twelve duos for violin and cello without accompanying continuo of 1734 are the earliest works with this instrumentation in which the violin and cello parts enjoy equal rights. The fact that Zani is largely forgotten today is probably due to the circumstance that his music has mainly been preserved in handwritten form and has hardly been accessible through recordings. Recently, the cello concertos (Capriccio CD C5145) and a few violin concertos have been re-discovered, but a large number of other treasures are still slumbering in different monastery and palace libraries throughout Europe. In these duos, we can experience the minimal form of chamber music with the maximal entertainment value. Andrea Zani is a composer whose name is worth noting and from whom it is to be hoped that many more treasures can be recovered.