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Cellist Beatriz Blanco and pianist Federico Bosco follow the success of their first Odradek album with Of Love and War, a sumptuous programme of music by Nadia Boulanger, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith and Fauré, featuring mezzo-soprano Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes of beginnings and endings, night and day, love and loss. 

Nadia Boulanger is celebrated as a teacher of great composers, but was a composer in her own right; her Three Pieces occupy a similar soundworld to that of Debussy, whose Cello Sonata is at the heart of the programme, and Fauré, whose song Les berceaux we hear in an arrangement for cello and piano. There are works by Webern that show us ‘before and after’ his early lessons with Schoenberg: the Zwei Stücke für Cello und Klavier of 1899, written when Webern was only 16, and the Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 and Cello Sonata, both dating from 1914. The album discovers a softer side to Hindemith in his richly Romantic Three Pieces, Op. 8, and the whole recital is framed by glorious songs by Strauss and Debussy, performed by Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

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Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, 1. Allegretto

The Ontario Pops Orchestra is one of the most diverse professional orchestras in Canada. Music director Carlos Bastidas and the musicians of the Ontario Pops Orchestra are featuring three black women soloist on this Breaking Barriers Album.

Violin Concerto in A Minor, No. 1, BWV 1041: I. Allegro moderato by Johann Sebastian Bach

Classical Spa Music

Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse (Transcr. for Piano by Alfred Cortot)

Christmas, Vol. 3

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben), BWV 147

First Worldversion on Feltpiano. Listen to the Track on Amazon Music to trigger the Algorithm. Thank you so much.

Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 cSharp - Minor. Feltpiano - Version by Jürgen Reimann

Recorded at the Peabody Conservatory, December 2006.

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini

Another track to which when I listen to, I can't but think of us conversing.
[Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra with David Perry and Roxana Pavel Goldstein (violins)]

Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor - 2. Largo Ma Non Tanto

E035-Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109, III. Andante

Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 2 in C Minor

"Wachet auf", ruft uns die Stimme
der Wächter sehr hoch auf der Zinne,
"wach auf du Stadt Jerusalem.“
Mitternacht heißt diese Stunde;
sie rufen uns mit hellem Munde:
"Wo seid ihr klugen Jungfrauen?
Wohlauf, der Bräutgam kommt,
steht auf, die Lampen nehmt.
Halleluja.
Macht euch bereit zu der Hochzeit,
ihr müsset ihm entgegengehn."

Zion hört die Wächter singen,
das Herz tut ihr vor Freude springen,
sie wachet und steht eilend auf.
Ihr Freund kommt vom Himmel prächtig,
von Gnaden stark, von Wahrheit mächtig;
ihr Licht wird hell, ihr Stern geht auf.
"Nun komm, du werte Kron,
Herr Jesu, Gottes Sohn.
Hosianna.
Wir folgen all zum Freudensaal
und halten mit das Abendmahl."

Gloria sei dir gesungen
mit Menschen- und mit Engelzungen,
mit Harfen und mit Zimbeln schön.
Von zwölf Perlen sind die Tore
an deiner Stadt; wir stehn im Chore
der Engel hoch um deinen Thron.
Kein Aug hat je gespürt,
kein Ohr hat mehr gehört
solche Freude.
Des jauchzen wir und singen dir
das Halleluja für und für.

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140, Nr. 4)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme • #StayHome • #Trostpflasterkonzerte

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Entrance to our roster is through anonymous demo.

Our dream is utopian: to separate music-making from markets and create a just system of pure artistic meritocracy.


Odradek Records is not just a new record label. Odradek Records is the first wedge of a larger project, proposing a new way to produce and enjoy classical music. We think that the current model undermines the true essence and significance of music. We think that a model centered on just a few big names, the great concert halls, a limited repertoire that is necessarily restricted by the bonds of popularity--a model that makes its selection of new young performers from the anti-musical system of competitions, the success of which is often obtained through extravagant histrionics rather than the correctness or subtlety of interpretation--and finally, a model that is subject to the exploitation of the marketplace, and which obliges the majority of musicians to pay enormous sums to record CDs, for which the profits then go largely to the record company, thus depriving many very worthy but not wealthy musicians from the possibility of recording--is not only a model that is far from art, but is a model that even itself is in crisis. 

Ideally, music just as other primary goods, should not fall subject to the markets. We know that in a strict sense, this is utopian, but it is precisely this tension towards an unreachable utopia that guides our project.

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And finally, a word about our name: we borrow it from Kafka. Like the worried family man in Kafka’s tale, we are also worried. We are worried that music might become always more and more an odradek, an indefinable and incomprehensible being, whose voice sounds falsely, like the voice of one who is “without lungs”, a being without form, disturbingly replicating that which was once alive, that can plastically become whatever is wished for by those who posses the instruments of power and control. We wish for the cage-like railing surrounding the man of Kafka’s drawing to become instead an instrument to play - we would like to transform our prison into our liberty. 

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