Bruno Hoffmann – Bruno Hoffmann: The Art of the Glass Harp (Recordings on Archiv Produktion) (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Bruno Hoffmann – Bruno Hoffmann: The Art of the Glass Harp (Recordings on Archiv Produktion) (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:43 minutes | 885 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

We announce the re-issue of an album on which the undisputed master and rediscoverer of the glass harmonica, Bruno Hoffmann, performs different pieces by composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Reichardt.

With its gentle, rounded sounds, the glass harmonica epitomised the tender mind, the dark side of the soul and the longing for eternity. Hoffmann favoured playing on individual glass bells, whose sound he preferred to Benjamin Franklin’s mechanized glass harmonica, and gave the name ‘glass harp’ to the instrument he perfected.

In the 1950‘s, Hoffmann recorded significant works from the repertoire for the newly founded DG label Archiv Produktion, of which only a few have been released on CD or digitally to date. This album now makes all the recordings available digitally for the first time.

Listen to a pre-release track of Reichardt’s joyful and mediative Grazioso for Glass Harmonica. The full album will be released digitally on 4 April and is now available for pre-order.

Tracklist:

1-1. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Andante (03:02)
1-2. Bruno Hoffmann – Ib. Grazioso (04:17)
1-3. Bruno Hoffmann – II. Tempo di Menuetto (04:59)
1-4. Bruno Hoffmann – Adagio in C Major for Glass Harmonica, K. 356 (Perf. on Glass Harp) (03:43)
1-5. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Adagio (06:09)
1-6. Bruno Hoffmann – II. Rondo (09:06)
1-7. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Adagio arioso (02:28)
1-8. Bruno Hoffmann – II. Allegretto (03:00)
1-9. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Adagio (01:59)
1-10. Bruno Hoffmann – II. Allegretto (02:28)
1-11. Walter Gerwig – I. Andante non troppo (04:00)
1-12. Walter Gerwig – II. Chorale (06:09)
1-13. Bruno Hoffmann – No. 2, Romance (Arr. Hoffmann for Glass Harp) (02:39)
1-14. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Allegro furioso (03:03)
1-15. Bruno Hoffmann – IIa. Andante (03:09)
1-16. Bruno Hoffmann – IIb. Andante (05:18)
1-17. Bruno Hoffmann – I. Adagio (04:39)
1-18. Bruno Hoffmann – II. Fugue (03:53)
1-19. Bruno Hoffmann – Grazioso for Glass Harmonica (Perf. on Glass Harp) (01:33)

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