Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich – Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:07 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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There comes a moment in the career of any respected violinist (and even some who aren’t), when they dream of playing, and perhaps recording, Paganini’s 24 Caprices. And that is precisely what German star violinist Augustin Hadelich (b. 1984) has done. Hadelich has been a regular fixture in the orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Munich and Salzburg, for whom he has given some of the greatest concertos that exist, but he has also performed a repertoire of much rarer, contemporary works, which he has decided to champion. Hadelich tackles these 24 Caprices, which Paganini wrote over about 15 years, from 1802 to 1817, without intending to make them into a cycle in their own right – much less a programme to be played in a single concert; indeed, it seems that he never performed them in concert himself – like many small Italian operas (but French ones as well, in the tradition of grand opéra), each one is concentrated down into a few minutes. They run from grandiose tragedy in the style of Meyerbeer, to lighter shades of Rossini, with a real lyrical and vocal vision which is as far removed as can be from pure and demonstrative virtuosity. At 33 years old, Hadelich shows consistent maturity, but also humility, and a sense of experience which one would expect to see in a much older musician.

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Augustin Hadelich – Brahms & Ligeti: Violin Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:45 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Winner of the Warner Prize, this is the first recording for violinist Augustin Hadelich as an exclusive Warner Classics artist. On this new recording of the concertos by Brahms and Ligeti, the Ligeti Concerto includes new cadenzas written by Thomas Ades especially for Augustin – never-before recorded.

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Augustin Hadelich – Bohemian Tales (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:21:29 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Classical
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‘Mr Hadelich increasingly seems to be one of the outstanding violinists of his generation,’ wrote the New York Times after Augustin Hadelich played Dvorák’s Violin Concerto under Czech-born Jakub Hrusa’s baton in 2017. Hadelich and Hrusa have now recorded the concerto with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks .
Bohemian Tales pairs the concerto with works for violin and piano by Dvorák and two other major Czech composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, Leos Janácek and Josef Suk. The pianist is Charles Owen.

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Augustin Hadelich – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:11:19 minutes | 5,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Lovingly long, smooth and slowly drawn, the quietly subdued broken G minor chord with which Augustin Hadelich opens his Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas is of a showstopping beauty and distinctiveness that’s rarely heard so immediately and unmistakably in recordings of this Everest of the violin repertoire. It would be an understatement to say that it sets expectations high, and equally it’s an understatement to proclaim that, as Hadelich proceeds through the set, he follows though on all that initial promise.
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