Hope@Home Daniel Hope

• Joseph Kosma (1905 - 1969):
• 1 Les Feuilles Mortes 03:55
• Marcel Louiguy (1916 - 1991):
• 2 La vie en rose 02:37
• Max Richter (b. 1966) & Clyde Lovern Otis (1924 - 2008):
• 3 This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight 06:36
• Werner Richard Heymann (1896 - 1961):
• 4 Irgendwo auf der Welt 03:53
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 5 An die Musik, D. 547 02:58
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826):
• 6 Larghetto 02:50
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950):
• 7 Youkali 04:29
• Nino Rota (1911 - 1979):
• 8 Godfather Waltz 03:52
• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925):
• 9 Erik Satie: Gnossiennes: No. 1 03:33
• Samuel A. Ward (1848 - 1903):
• 10 America the Beautiful 03:08
• Henry Mancini (1924 - 1994):
• 11 Moon River 02:47
• Jose Maria Cano Andres (b. 1959):
• 12 Hijo De La Luna 02:13
• E.Y. Harburg (1896 - 1981) & Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986):
• 13 Over the Rainbow 03:44
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924):
• 14 Après un Rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 03:28
• Samon Kawamura (b. 1973), Max Herre (b. 1973), Sophie Hunger (b. 1983) & Roberto Di Gioia (b. 1965):
• 15 Berlin – Tel Aviv 04:32
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943):
• 16 Sergei Rachmaninoff: 14 Romances, Op. 34: 14. Vocalise 05:45
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937):
• 17 Summertime 02:46
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897):
• 18 Johannes Brahms: 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32: 1. Wie rafft ich mich auf in der Nacht 04:32
• Manuel de Falla Matheu (1876 - 1946):
• 19 Asturiana / If 03:26
• Manos Hadjidakis (1925 - 1994):
• 20 Never on Sunday 02:21
• Kurt Weill:
• 21 Kurt Weill: Lost in the Stars: Lost in the Stars 04:05
• Total Runtime 01:17:30

Info for Hope@Home

Violinist Daniel Hope spent his period of social distancing by performing chamber concerts from his living room in Berlin online and for Arte Concert with specially invited guests. Deutsche Grammophon is proud to present Hope@Home the album, a selection from this ground-breaking series of livestream events which attracted a combined audience of 2,5m viewers, to be released on 14th August. This album is a document of these extraordinary weeks. Everything you hear is live, one take only. Some pieces were rehearsed, others were not. In some cases Christoph Israel finished the arrangements literally minutes before we went live. You will hear the frequent squeak of my living room floor, as well as other spontaneous bumps and bangs. There were no patches or editing, no second takes. Sometimes life doesn’t allow for second takes. This was my world for six magical and highly unusual weeks. I hope you enjoy listening. (Daniel Hope)

The new release captures this extraordinary experience with faithful authenticity. Although the recordings have been remastered, they are completely unedited. In his accompanying liner note, Hope writes:

“This album is a document of those extraordinary weeks. Everything you hear is live, one take only. Some pieces were rehearsed, others were not. In some cases Christoph Israel finished the arrangements literally minutes before we went live. You will hear the frequent squeak of my living room floor, as well as other spontaneous bumps and bangs. There were no patches or editing, no second takes. Sometimes life doesn’t allow for second takes. This was my world for six magical and highly unusual weeks. I hope you enjoy listening.”

“There are few figures in today’s classical music who so perfectly embody the role of ambassador for music as Daniel Hope.” (Gramophone)

Daniel Hope, violin
Christoph Israel, piano
Till Brönner, trumpet
Joy Denalane, vocals
Max Raabe, vocals
Jacques Ammon, piano
Michael Metzler, percussion
Max Herre, vocals
Sebastian Knauer, piano
Matthias Goerne, baritone
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
Iris Berben, narrator
Aliya Vodovozova, flute

Daniel Hope
British violinist Daniel Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for more than twenty years, and as the youngest ever member of the Beaux Arts Trio during its last six seasons. He is renowned for his musical versatility and creativity and for his dedication to humanitarian causes. Hope performs as soloist with the world’s major orchestras and conductors, directs many ensembles from the violin, and plays chamber music in a wide variety of traditional and new venues. Raised in London and educated at Highgate School, Hope earned degrees at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with renowned Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron.

London’s Observer called Hope “the most exciting British string player since Jacqueline du Pré,” and recent New York Times reviews summarized his unique attributes: “... a violinist of probing intellect and commanding style... In a business that likes tidy boxes drawn around its commodities, the British violinist Daniel Hope resists categorization.’

Daniel Hope, an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, has earned numerous Grammy nominations, a Classical BRIT award, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and five ECHO Klassik Prizes. He previously recorded for Warner Classics and Nimbus, playing Bach, Britten, Elgar, Finzi, Foulds, Ireland, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Penderecki, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Tippett, Walton, and Weill. His recording of the Berg Violin Concerto was voted to be the “best available of all time” by Gramophone Magazine in 2010. His Mendelssohn CD for Deutsche Grammophon featuring the Violin Concerto and Octet was voted one of the finest Mendelssohn recordings by the New York Times in 2009. His recent release for Deutsche Grammophon was a tribute to the great and highly influential violinist and composer Joseph Joachim (1831- 1907) and centred around the Bruch concerto, a work with which Joachim was closely associated. The Bruch was recorded with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Sakari Oramo. "Four Seasons Recomposed" – the newest release in DG’s “Recomposed” series presents Daniel Hope with the Berlin Konzerthaus Chamber Orchestra, conducted by André de Ridder, in a world première recording of British composer Max Richter’s." Spheres" – which is Hope’s own project, due out in early 2013 – is a curated collection of repertoire celebrating the idea, first brought forward by Pythagoras, that planetary movement creates its own kind of music. This idea has fascinated philosophers, musicians, and mathematicians for centuries. The CD’s program includes music in a variety of styles, from Baroque to minimalist, by Bach, Faure, contemporary masters like Arvo Pärt and Michael Nyman, and younger composers who have specially composed new works for Hope, based on the idea of spherical music. These include Gabriel Prokofiev, Ludovico Einaudi, Alex Baranowski and Aleksey Igudesmann. Hope is joined by the Berlin Rundfunk-choir under the direction of Simon Halsey on this disc.

Hope regularly directs chamber orchestras as violin soloist with ensembles including the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Camerata Salzburg, and Lucerne Festival Strings. He has performed at the world’s most important festivals, such as the BBC Proms, Hollywood Bowl and the Lucerne, Ravinia, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Tanglewood festivals. Daniel Hope has performed in all of the world’s most prestigious venues and with the world’s great orchestras. Highlights include the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, as well as the major orchestras of Berlin, Birmingham, Dallas, Detroit, Dresden, Israel, London, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm, and Vienna. He is Associate Music Director of the Savannah Music Festival and Artistic Director at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Summer Festival in Germany. He has also published three bestselling books.

Daniel Hope plays the 1742 “ex-Lipiński” Guarneri del Gesù, placed generously at his disposal by an anonymous family from Germany. The instrument carries the name of its owner, the 19th century Polish violinist Karol Lipiński, who shared the stage with Paganini, Schumann and Liszt.

This album contains no booklet.