National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & Theodore Kuchar – Shostakovich: Jazz Suites Nos. 1 & 2 (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:49:26 minutes | Full Scans included | 3,55 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Brilliant Classics – 7096
The Jazz Suites with the addition of 2 overtures and a hymn on SACD. Both Suites date from the 1930’s and enjoy a huge popularity. Especially the second Waltz from the first Suite has become widely known through the arrangement by violinist and “Stehgeiger” André Rieu. The Overture on Russian and Kirghiz Folk Themes was written to celebrate the centenary of the incorporation of Kirghizia into Russia. On the same patriotic note is a short hymn to the port on the Black Sea, the Novorossisk chimes. The Ukrainian Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar gives excellent, idiomatic performances.
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Leon Bosch, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar – Thomas de Hartmann: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:46 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The music of the Ukrainian-born Thomas de Hartmann (1884–1956) is only now beginning to be rediscovered, almost seven decades after his death. The two works receiving their first recordings here reveal a major late-Romantic voice, downstream from Tchaikovsky, a student of Arensky and Taneyev, contemporary of Rachmaninov, and alert to the discoveries of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
The Symphonie-Poème No. 1 – a musical cousin of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony – occupies a vast canvas and requires a correspondingly huge orchestra, generating a monumental sense of scale from essentially balletic material. The lighter Fantaisie-Concerto for double bass and orchestra moves from tangy dissonance via a tuneful slow movement to a perky, folk-inspired finale.
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Fanya Lin, Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra & Theodore Kuchar – Rhapsodic (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:15 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pianist Fanya Lin’s RHAPSODIC is a masterful exploration of two of the most iconic pieces in piano repertoire. With her deft touch and nuanced interpretation, Lin lends an entirely new dimension to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Variations.
From the opening notes of Gershwin’s masterpiece, Lin’s playing proves both powerful and sensitive, capturing the complex emotions of the iconic American composer with great vividness. Some musicians might be hard-pressed to switch seamlessly into the mind and heart of the great Russian, but Lin’s virtuosity is on full display as she navigates the intricate variations with vigor and precision, effortlessly enticing the listener into their bittersweet, heady romance.
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Bülent Evcil, Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar – Hartmann: Orchestral Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:53 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Ukraine, Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956), a student of both Arensky and Taneyev, achieved fame as a composer in Russia in the early 1900s, and his concert music was later played by some of the major musicians of the day, primarily in Paris. Since his death, he has been remembered mainly for his association with the Caucasian mystic G. I. Gurdjieff, whom he met in 1916, and his output for the concert hall has fallen into obscurity. The four works receiving their first recordings here reveal a major late-Romantic voice, downstream from Tchaikovsky, contemporary with Rachmaninov, and alert to the discoveries of Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
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