Piotr Beczala & Helmut Deutsch – Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky: Romances (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Piotr Beczala & Helmut Deutsch – Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky: Romances (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:20:59 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone

Star tenor Piotr Beczala presents a selection of romances by Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, together with the acclaimed lied accompanist Helmut Deutsch. The romance was the most popular musical genre in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russia, practised by professionals as well as amateurs. Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff both enriched this genre with their lyricism and melodic invention. Elevated by Deutsch’s splendid accompaniment, Beczala delivers these songs with a great sense for the Slavic idiom and meaning of the words, combined with colourful lyricism and italianità, perfectly fitting the Russian and cosmopolitan musical language of these two masters.

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Sarah Traubel, Helmut Deutsch – In meinem Lied (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Sarah Traubel, Helmut Deutsch – In meinem Lied (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:23 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté

This first Lied recording by soprano Sarah Traubel with pianist Helmut Deutsch is nothing less than a declaration of love for the genre! Four of Gustav Mahler’s Rückert Lieder and the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss are heard here. Pieces by Franz Liszt and Erich Wolfgang Korngold ideally round off a beautiful panorama of the post-Romantic Lied of the turn of the century, in which Sarah Traubel – here in excellent accompaniment! – is perfectly in her element! Read more
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Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch – Liszt – Freudvoll und leidvoll (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch – Liszt – Freudvoll und leidvoll (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:35 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical

After their album Selige Stunde, Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch used the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, to make a further series of recordings. Their second album of songs is devoted to Franz Liszt, a composer for whom both feel a special affinity and whose music has long featured in their shared concert career.
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Diana Damrau – Jonas Kaufmann – Helmut Deutsch – Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Diana Damrau – Jonas Kaufmann – Helmut Deutsch – Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:34 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Diana Damrau and Jonas Kaufmann, reigning stars of opera, are also consummate interpreters of song. In early 2018, with master pianist Helmut Deutsch, they performed Hugo Wolf’s multi-faceted Italienisches Liederbuch in 12 cities around Europe. “One couldn’t ask for more,” wrote the Telegraph after their London concert, which took place two days before this live recording was made in the German city of Essen.

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Christian Immler & Helmut Deutsch – Hidden Treasure (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Christian Immler & Helmut Deutsch – Hidden Treasure (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

Growing up in Vienna, with its great Lied tradition, Hans Gál had written about 100 songs before leaving secondary school. He later destroyed them, along with all his other works composed prior to 1910, but between 1910 and 1921 he wrote many more. Except for the five songs of Op. 33, these were never published, and Gál himself would later refer to them as ‘laid aside’. Many of these songs were publicly performed at the time, however, often with the composer at the piano.

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