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Riitta-Maija Ahonen - Samuil Feinberg: Songs (2009/2019)

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Riitta-Maija Ahonen - Samuil Feinberg: Songs (2009/2019)

Riitta-Maija Ahonen - Samuil Feinberg: Songs (2009/2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 286 MB | Tracks: 27 | 76:33 min
Style: Classical | Label: Altarus Records

Russian Jewish composer and pianist Samuil Feinberg has been largely neglected, perhaps because he made his peace with the Soviet bureaucracy and perhaps because of a generally conservative stylistic outlook. His gorgeously over-the-top Bach readings as a pianist have been reissued in Russia, and his piano sonatas, one of which was made the subject of a contest with Stravinsky's piano sonata by a Dutch newspaper, are sometimes performed. These songs, however, are world premieres on recordings.

Denver Oldham - Jacques Ibert: Piano Works (2003/2019)

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Denver Oldham - Jacques Ibert: Piano Works (2003/2019)

Denver Oldham - Jacques Ibert: Piano Works (2003/2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 238 MB | Tracks: 24 | 75:01 min
Style: Classical | Label: Altarus Records

The life and multi-faceted career of Jacques Ibert is as fascinating and colorful as the music he composed. By the age of four he knew music better than the alphabet. It was about this time that he began to study the piano and the violin. His mother was Manuel DeFalla's second cousin; it was partly at DeFalla's suggestion that Ibert auditioned for the Paris Conservatory. In 1910, he was accepted as an auditor. By 1911, he was admitted to study harmony, counterpoint and fugue, and composition and orchestration.

Donna Amato - Edward MacDowell: Piano Sonatas (2003/2019)

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Donna Amato - Edward MacDowell: Piano Sonatas (2003/2019)

Donna Amato - Edward MacDowell: Piano Sonatas (2003/2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 243 MB | Tracks: 14 | 81:05 min
Style: Classical | Label: Altarus Records

In the case of this pianist it is not just that she seems to know no fears about tackling the unfashionable and peripheral – at least that which is viewed as peripheral by the mainstream. Amato plunges with gusto into the travails associated with learning such repertoire and brings to it the intellect and humanity of an artist in the grand tradition. Her Sorabji, Hinton, Stevenson, Cooman (Naxos and Altarus), Rosner and Scelsi (Stradivari) are testimony to her manifest valour and discriminating artistry.