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Daniel Hope - For Seasons (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Daniel Hope - For Seasons (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Daniel Hope - For Seasons (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 79:26 minutes | 1.38 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

British violinist Daniel Hope’s new Deutsche Grammophon recording „For Seasons“, unites Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with a dozen pieces associated with the months of the year, from compositions by Rameau, Bach, Schumann and Tchaikovsky to recent works by Aphex Twin, Nils Frahm, Chilly Gonzales and Max Richter. Twelve visual artworks, specially selected to complement the music, are featured in the accompanying booklet.

The Four Seasons belongs to Daniel Hope’s earliest memories. As he recalls:

“I first experienced Vivaldi as a toddler at Yehudi Menuhin’s festival in Gstaad, in 1975. I heard what I thought was birdsong coming from the stage. It had such an electrifying effect that I still call it my ‘Vivaldi Spring.’ How was it possible to conjure up so vivid, so natural a sound of birds, with just a violin?”

The violinist was about seven when he first began to “stumble through” Vivaldi’s score, and 13 when he first performed The Four Seasons in public. His rising tally of performances stands today at about one thousand, but it was the adventure of recording Max Richter’s contemporary reimagining, Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons, as well as the delights of performing the original composition with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, which finally convinced him to make a recording of Vivaldi’s masterwork.

When it came to choosing companion pieces for the Vivaldi, Hope turned to a concept from the early years of his professional career: to use the Baroque concertos as a jumping-off point for a broader exploration of the artistic resonances of the seasons and their power to affect everything from literature and philosophy to painting and music. In Hope’s words:

“We have created a mosaic in music and images of what the seasons mean to me. I see it as a way of placing Vivaldi within a broader look back at my life and putting The Four Seasons together with works that match my feelings for the months of the year. There’s a modern message here, which is about the cohesive expression of time and life cycles. Those familiar cycles are being broken left, right and centre at present throughout our world. This is my way of marking time: my time and our times.”

Hope’s choice of compositions includes works directly associated with the calendar, including arrangements of Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th, “June” from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons and Kurt Weill’s September Song, and other pieces that convey the atmosphere of a given month. The lyrical Ambre by German composer and producer Nils Frahm, freshly arranged for solo violin, string quartet, double bass, harp, and piano, sets the contemplative mood for January. “Spring 1” from Max Richter’s Recomposed and “Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen” from Schumann’s Dichterliebe emerged as the violinist’s firm favorites for March and July. Genre-hopping composer, pianist and producer Chilly Gonzales composed Les doutes d’août for August and supplied his Wintermezzo for December, as well as playing piano on both tracks. And Hope recorded Amazing Grace, his choice for May, in one take with the composer and sound artist Dom Bouffard while working with Robert Wilson on the latter’s award-winning radio play The Tower of Babel. A dance from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes, music by Bach’s younger contemporary Johann Melchior Molter, and an aria by Bach himself, featuring soprano Anna Lucia Richter, reflect on the months of February, October, and November, respectively. Brahms’s famous lullaby “Guten Abend, gut Nacht” serves as a “Postscriptum.”

For Seasons also offers a showcase for the tremendous musicianship of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, of which Hope became the new Music Director after succeeding Sir Roger Norrington in the post last September. His long association with the ensemble dates back to his childhood, when his mother was manager for the legendary Yehudi Menuhin. The orchestra regularly performed at Menuhin’s Gstaad festival, the very place where Hope first encountered The Four Seasons. As the violinist observes:

“I have at my disposal an orchestra which has the flexibility to play Baroque music like a period-instrument band, and yet also performs Romantic and 20th-century music with great authority. I wanted to reflect that flexibility on our album, just as we do in our concerts together.”

Echoing the album’s musical range, an equally varied group of visual artworks are featured in the accompanying booklet, created by twelve different painters. Selected by Hope in collaboration with the artists, the works are carefully chosen to resonate in a variety of ways with the months they represent and the musical works with which they are paired.

TRACKLIST

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Concerto In E Major "La primavera", Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269
1 1. Allegro 03:14
2 2. Largo 02:06
3 3. Allegro 03:58

Concerto In G Minor "L'estate", Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315
4 1. Allegro non molto 05:06
5 2. Adagio 01:58
6 3. Presto 02:39

Concerto In F Major "L'autunno", Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293
7 1. Allegro 04:55
8 2. Adagio molto 02:34
9 3. Allegro 03:26

Concerto In F Minor "L'inverno", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297
10 1. Allegro non molto 03:17
11 2. Largo 01:28
12 3. Allegro 03:16

Nils Frahm (b.1982)

13 Ambre (Arr. By Christian Badzura )03:50

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)

14 Danse des sauvages 02:00

Max Richter (b. 1966)

15 Spring 1 02:42
16 Aphex Twin: Avril 14th (Arr. By Christian Badzura) 02:12
17 Traditional: Amazing Grace (Arr. By Daniel Hope And Dom Bouffard) 03:35

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

18 June (Arr. By Daniel Hope And Jacques Ammon) 05:28

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

19 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Arr. By Daniel Hope) 03:06

Chilly Gonzales (b. 1972)

20 Les doutes d'août 02:42

Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)

21 September Song (Arr. By Paul Bateman) 02:51

Johann Melchior Molter (1696 -1765)

22 Aria II: Lento e sempre piano 02:16

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

23 Aria "Bete aber auch dabei" 05:39

Chilly Gonzales

24 Wintermezzo 03:03

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

25 Guten Abend, gut Nacht (Arr. By Daniel Hope) (Bonus Track) 02:15

PERSONNEL
Daniel Hope, violin
Jacques Ammon, piano
Chilly Gonzales, piano
Kaiser Quartett
Zürcher Kammerorchester

foobar2000 1.3.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-06-03 17:40:28

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Analyzed: Daniel Hope & Chilly Gonzales / For Seasons (1-2)
Daniel Hope & Christian Badzura & Jane Berthe & Zürcher Kammerorchester / For Seasons (3)
Daniel Hope & Claudio Bohorquez & Naoki Kitaya & Anna Lucia Richter / For Seasons (4)
Daniel Hope & Jacques Ammon & Christoph Anacker & Jane Berthe & Kaiser Quartett / For Seasons (5-6)
Daniel Hope and Dom Bouffard / For Seasons (7)
Daniel Hope and Jacques Ammon and Jane Berthe / For Seasons (8)
Daniel Hope and Jacques Ammon and Zürcher Kammerorchester / For Seasons (9)
Daniel Hope and Jacques Ammon / For Seasons (10)
Daniel Hope and Michael Metzler and Zürcher Kammerorchester / For Seasons (11)
Daniel Hope and Zürcher Kammerorchester / For Seasons (12-24)
Daniel Hope / For Seasons (25)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -2.91 dB -21.08 dB 2:42 20-Chilly Gonzales: Les doutes d'août
DR14 -2.08 dB -21.87 dB 3:03 24-Chilly Gonzales: Wintermezzo
DR12 -0.10 dB -18.66 dB 2:42 15-Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons-Spring 1
DR14 -0.89 dB -21.54 dB 5:39 23-J.S. Bach: Cantata, BWV 115 "Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit"-Aria "Bete aber auch dabei"
DR12 -1.89 dB -19.74 dB 3:50 13-Frahm: Ambre (Arr. By Christian Badzura)
DR12 -5.16 dB -21.88 dB 2:12 16-Aphex Twin: Avril 14th (Arr. By Christian Badzura)
DR11 -5.52 dB -21.50 dB 3:35 17-Traditional: Amazing Grace (Arr. By Daniel Hope And Dom Bouffard)
DR11 -12.75 dB -29.33 dB 3:06 19-Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op.48-12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Arr. By Daniel Hope)
DR13 -0.92 dB -19.07 dB 2:51 21-Weill: Knickerbocker Holiday-September Song (Arr. By Paul Bateman)
DR15 -1.87 dB -22.02 dB 5:28 18-Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op.37b-June (Arr. By Daniel Hope And Jacques Ammon)
DR14 -0.10 dB -18.14 dB 2:00 14-Rameau: Les Indes galantes, RCT 44 / Entrée IV-Danse des sauvages
DR14 -1.61 dB -21.45 dB 3:14 01-Vivaldi: Concerto In E Major "La primavera", Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269-1. Allegro
DR13 -9.30 dB -28.74 dB 2:06 02-Vivaldi: Concerto In E Major "La primavera", Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269-2. Largo
DR13 -4.03 dB -21.72 dB 3:58 03-Vivaldi: Concerto In E Major "La primavera", Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269-3. Allegro
DR14 -1.79 dB -23.05 dB 5:06 04-Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor "L'estate", Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315-1. Allegro non molto
DR16 -6.63 dB -29.53 dB 1:58 05-Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor "L'estate", Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315-2. Adagio
DR13 -1.39 dB -18.01 dB 2:39 06-Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor "L'estate", Op. 8, No. 2, RV 315-3. Presto
DR14 -2.88 dB -23.11 dB 4:55 07-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Major "L'autunno", Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293-1. Allegro
DR11 -19.09 dB -33.86 dB 2:34 08-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Major "L'autunno", Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293-2. Adagio molto
DR15 -1.08 dB -21.18 dB 3:26 09-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Major "L'autunno", Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293-3. Allegro
DR14 -2.01 dB -22.09 dB 3:17 10-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Minor "L'inverno", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297-1. Allegro non molto
DR12 -7.15 dB -25.07 dB 1:28 11-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Minor "L'inverno", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297-2. Largo
DR13 -3.49 dB -22.58 dB 3:16 12-Vivaldi: Concerto In F Minor "L'inverno", Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297-3. Allegro
DR12 -11.07 dB -27.87 dB 2:16 22-Molter: Concerto Pastorale In G Major-Aria II: Lento e sempre piano
DR13 -7.98 dB -29.27 dB 2:15 25-Brahms: Fünf Lieder für eine Stimme, Op. 49-Guten Abend, gut Nacht (Arr. By Daniel Hope)
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Number of tracks: 25
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2338 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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