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Rebecca Nelsen, Marlene Gassner, Matthias Stier, Markus Eiche, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann – Flury: Der schlimm-heilige Vitalis (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:38 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The bad-saintly Vitalis is the last of the four operas by Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967). It was premiered in 1963, a year after its completion, and then went unheard until this recording. The plot, based on a novella by Flury’s Swiss compatriot Gottfried Keller, pits cheerful village life against religious intolerance and sexual politics in a disturbing blend of sentimentality and cynicism – though, of course, love triumphs in the end. Flury’s late-Romantic music makes up for the libretto with a steady flow of memorable melodies, engaging solo and choral numbers, and colorful orchestration – and a sense of fun that is never far from the surface.
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Howard Shelley, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra – Tellefsen & Kalkbrenner: Piano Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:55 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
A fascinating new name bursts into our Romantic Piano series with the two concertos by Thomas Tellefsen, here coupled with an extended concert piece by series stalwart Friedrich Kalkbrenner. All three works here enjoy Howard Shelley’s trademark dexterity and exuberant bravura technique.
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Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann – Flury: The Magic Mirror & Little Ballet Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:21 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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Der magische Spiegel (‘The Magic Mirror’), a 1954 ballet by the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967), tells a pantomime tale of flirtation, cuckoldery, magical spells and perdition – but this is no puritanical morality play: using the limited resources of a chamber orchestra to surprisingly full-bodied effect, Flury conjures up a delightful sequence of dances – a generous number of waltzes, with a czardas, a bolero and more – that skip past in good-humoured succession. And behind its innocent title, the Little Ballet Music of thirty years earlier hides a buoyant dance-suite, scored with a feeling for colour that would have gone down well in Hollywood. This recording was made by the team – Paul Mann and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra – responsible for a ‘pulsating’ recording of Richard Flury’s one-act opera Eine florentinische Tragödie.
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