Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Paavo Järvi FRANZ SCHMIDT Complete Symphonies

COMPLETE SYMPHONIES

Emmanuel Tjeknavorian / Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Pablo González TJEKNAVORIAN - SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

                                                            VIOLIN CONCERTOS

Alexandre Tharaud GÉRARD PESSON - HANS ABRAHAMSEN - OSCAR STRASNOY

                        GÉRARD PESSON - HANS ABRAHAMSEN - OSCAR STRASNOY

Clara Andrada / Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Jaime Martín FLUTE CONCERTOS

                                                                   FLUTE CONCERTOS

Bruno Philippe / Tanguy de Williencourt / Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Christoph Eschenbach PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata - Sinfonia Concertante

With this new album devoted to Prokofiev, cellist Bruno Philippe continues his exploration of Russian music. Having already recorded a recital of Rachmaninov's and Myaskovsky's Sonatas with Jérôme Ducros, here he is reunited with his long-time musical partner Tanguy de Williencourt on the piano, but also with his mentor, conductor Christoph Eschenbach leading the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt. On the program, Prokofiev's (surprisingly?) romantic cello sonata, coupled with his Sinfonia concertante, that Mount Everest of technical challenges – both works having been written for the great Rostropovitch, who gave them their first performances in 1950 and 1952.

Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Andrés Orozco-Estrada RICHARD WAGNER Overtures & Preludes

Energy, elegance and spirit - this is what especially distinguishes Andrés Orozco-Estrada as a musician. In 2014/15, he took over the position as Chief Conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and became Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In the 2020/21 season he becomes also Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Medellín (Colombia), Andrés Orozco-Estrada began his musical studies on the violin. At the age of 15 he received his first conducting lessons and in 1997 he moved to Vienna in order to study at the University of Music and Performing Arts with Uroš Lajovic, himself a pupil of the legendary Hans Swarowsky. Orozco-Estrada lives in Vienna.

Frankfurt Radio Symphony / Andrés Orozco-Estrada RICHARD STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie

With its epic sweep and grandeur and compelling drama, there has rarely been such a spine-tingling and vivid depiction of nature as found in Richard Strauss’s magnificent tone poem, An Alpine Symphony. Calling for gargantuan orchestral forces, this lavishly illustrated journey is Strauss’s crowning orchestral achievement. Using a vast musical canvas packed with vivid and exquisite details, it’s a bold, optimistic and passionate work, unleashing ecstatic blazes of orchestral colour alongside moments of awestruck contemplation in a continuous narrative of 22 sections, which Strauss threads together with his usual mastery and aplomb.
The work is performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by podium sensation Andrés Orozco-Estrada. It marks their fourth release in a critically acclaimed series for PENTATONE. Their performance of Strauss’s Salome earned Gramophone magazine’s Editor’s Choice (January 2018). Gramophone also praised their Ein Heldenleben “...the playing has an easy virtuosity … the love music swells and swoons magnificently”. And for their first recording, the Stravinsky ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring, Gramophone lauded their ability “to unearth an astonishing amount of detail at relatively spacious tempi” and “PENTATONE’s awesomely precise recording”.