Nils Mönkemeyer, Julia Fischer, Sabine Meyer, William Youn – Mozart with Friends (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:20 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by the fact that Mozart had often composed for friends and fellow musicians to play with him in good company, ECHO Award winner Nils Mönkemeyer invited his own dear friends and top classical artists Sabine Meyer, Julia Fischer and William Youn to record some very special duos and trios by the composer.
The “Kegelstatt-Trio” is the perfect example for the motto of the album since Mozart wrote it while playing skittles with his friends. He later performed the trio, playing the viola. Besides that, Nils chose to explore the development of the famous composer, starting with pieces from “The London Sketchbook”, which Mozart wrote when he was 8 or 9 years old, or the Sonata in F major for violine and piano (but recorded in a version for viola and piano), written by an 11-year-old Mozart.
The selected pieces from “The London Sketchbook”, originally written for piano, were arranged and compiled by William Youn who is one of the leading Mozart interpreters of his generation.
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Alliage Quintett & Sabine Meyer – Fantasia (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:40 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Alliage Quintet has a gift for surprising its audiences by toying with the illusion of a symphony orchestra. The ensemble is like a storyteller regaling its audience with its own version of a traditional narrative.
For ‘Fantasia’, the players joined forces with Sabine Meyer to explore the imaginative world of works by Borodin, Stravinsky, Dukas, Bernstein and Shostakovich – works that are all based on famous fairytales, narratives and stories, e.g. Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Voltaire’s much-travelled Candide or the Russian folklore Firebird.
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