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    Claudio Arrau - The Complete Warner Classics Recordings [24CDs] (2022)

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    Claudio Arrau - The Complete Warner Classics Recordings [24CDs] (2022)

    Claudio Arrau - The Complete Warner Classics Recordings [24CDs] (2022)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 4,04 Gb | Total time: 21:18:41 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190296245572 | Recorded: 1921-1962

    Claudio Arrau (1903-1991) is a pianist fully deserving of the epithet ‘legendary’. His rigorous intellect and sense of the sublime found expression in his transcendent technique and sumptuous, yet lucid sonorities. The recordings in this 24CD collection, a significant portion of Arrau’s legacy from the years between 1921 and 1962, are indispensable to his extensive discography. They can now be heard in their full glory, thanks to a process of restoration and HD remastering using the original tapes (for recordings from the LP era) or the best available source (for 78s). Among them are four world premiere releases: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30, op. 109, a Chopin étude, and two pieces by Liszt.

    Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Asturiana: Songs From Spain And Argentina (2007)

    Posted By: Designol
    Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Asturiana: Songs From Spain And Argentina (2007)

    Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Asturiana: Songs From Spain And Argentina (2007)
    Manuel de Falla - Enrique Granados - Carlos Guastavino - Alberto Ginastera
    Xavier Montsalvatge - Carlos Lopez Buchardo

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 289 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1975, 476 6149 | Time: 01:12:04

    These soulful Spanish and Argentinean songs arranged by violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Robert Levin are well suited to their expressive and expansive playing. Most of the songs, ranging from works by Granados, de Falla, and Montsalvatge to early Ginastera, are written in a late romantic to early modern idiom, and many incorporate a strong folk element. The selections include rowdy, rhythmically charged dance-like songs, tender lullabies, and many flavors of love songs, from the exultant to the despairing. In addition to the better-known composers, Argentineans Carlos Guastavino and Carlos López-Buchardo make extraordinarily fine contributions. The choices of repertoire are excellent; each one of these songs is a jewel, and the ordering of the selections artful, including the surprisingly effective repetition of two songs at different points in the program. The transcriptions are inventive and imaginative, with the vocal lines idiomatically adapted for the viola's expressive capabilities.

    Josep Pons, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (2019)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Josep Pons, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (2019)

    Josep Pons, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 59:33 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902609 | Recorded: 2018

    Enrique Granados' famous opera 'Goyescas', first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1916, derives from the piano suite premiered in Paris two years previously. At the head of a BBCSO in top form and a handpicked cast, Josep Pons clearly much enjoyed conducting this sparkling new production in London. Many scenes in the opera draw their inspiration directly from paintings by Goya, which listeners will also have the pleasure of discovering in the booklet of this rare and precious album.

    Enrique Granados, Sergey Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin: The Composer Plays (1997) [Grand Piano Series]

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    Enrique Granados, Sergey Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, George Gershwin: The Composer Plays (1997) [Grand Piano Series]

    Granados, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Gershwin: The Composer Plays (1997)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Nimbus | # NI 8813 | Time: 01:18:30

    Grand Piano is a series devoted to the art of the Reproducing Piano. It presents major performances by the legendary pianists who recorded for the Aeolian Company between 1915 and 1930. The acoustic gramophone rarely attempted major keyboard works. The 78s' restricted sound and duration was acceptable for short virtuoso pieces but little else. In contrast, by 1915, the Aeolian Company's "Duo-Art" was already a highly sophisticated digital recording process. Pianists, well aware of the gramophone's limitations, turned enthusiastically to the reproducing piano. Hofmann, Bauer, Paderewski and Grainger were especially committed, not alone in believing that they had achieved the ultimate recording process. Great pianists joined them in recording their concert repertoire, including much that was never repeated on disc.

    Thomas Rajna - Enrique Granados: Complete Piano Works (2004) 6CD Box Set

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    Thomas Rajna - Enrique Granados: Complete Piano Works (2004) 6CD Box Set

    Thomas Rajna - Enrique Granados: Complete Piano Works (2004) 6CD Box Set
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.3 Gb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 92283 | Time: 06:25:10

    Thomas Rajna completed his cycle of Granados’s solo piano music within a year – 1976. As if to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their original appearance on CRD LPs Brilliant Classics has returned the cycle to the market-place. It’s in one slim box containing six nicely filled CDs and with extensive notes from Bryce Morrison. Nothing could be finer. Rajna was an expert advocate for Granados’s music and though recordings since have come – and gone – his have maintained an honoured place in the memory; and now, thankfully, in the disc drawer. And this is all the more so as so few are performed in public with any great conviction, beyond the obvious Goyescas and maybe Escenas Poeticas and Escenas Romanticas.

    Patricia Petibon, Josep Pons, Orquestra Nacional de España - Melancolía: Spanish Arias and Songs (2011)

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    Patricia Petibon, Josep Pons, Orquestra Nacional de España - Melancolía: Spanish Arias and Songs (2011)

    Patricia Petibon, Josep Pons, Orquestra Nacional de España - Melancolía: Spanish Arias and Songs (2011)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 57:24 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophone | # 477 9447 | Recorded: 2010

    Patricia Petibon's album Melancolía: Spanish Arias and Songs is a result of the soprano's lifelong fascination with the music and culture of Spain, with a special interest in the ways Spanish and French influences have cross-pollinated. She has put together an exceptionally attractive selection of songs and arias from zarzuelas, most of them likely to be unfamiliar to general audiences. Petibon is known for her light, silvery coloratura, and her gift for inhabiting her roles, both dramatic and comic, with great spirit and penetrating insight.

    Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)

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    Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)

    Philippe Jaroussky, Thibaut Garcia - À sa guitare (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029500570 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

    The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, À sa guitare takes it's name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But it's frame of reference is extraordinarily wide - both culturally and stylistically. It's 22 tracks range across 400 years and music by composers and songwriters from France, Britain, Austria, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and the USA.

    Xavier de Maistre, Vienna RSO - Aranjuez, Concertos and Dances for Harp: Falla, Rodrigo, Tarrega, Granados, Ginastera (2010)

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    Xavier de Maistre, Vienna RSO - Aranjuez, Concertos and Dances for Harp: Falla, Rodrigo, Tarrega, Granados, Ginastera (2010)

    Xavier de Maistre (harp) - Aranjuez: Concertos and Dances for Harp (2010)
    Manuel de Falla, Joaquin Rodrigo, Francisco Tarrega, Enrique Granados, Alberto Ginastera
    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bertrand de Billy

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 180 Mb | Scans included
    Classical, Harp | Label: RCA Red Seal/Sony | # 88697644362 | 01:08:22

    If Spanish and Latin American music is not only associated with the guitar - but also with the harp, this is due above all to the internationally acclaimed Basque harpist Nicanor Zabaleta (1907-1993). Aranjuez is Xavier de Maistre's homage to his great colleague, whom he was privileged to hear perform and to whom he owes the decisive impulse to embrace a career in music. Here the brilliant young harpist plays leading works by Spanish and Latin American composers that Zabaleta helped to promote in the form of harp transcriptions.

    Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)

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    Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)

    Victoria de los Ángeles - Songs of Spain [4CDs] (1998)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.18 Gb | Total time: 05:00:49 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 7243 5 66937 2 2 | Recorded: 1950-1992

    Nothing could be more appropriate in celebrating Victoria de los Angeles’s 75th birthday than this extensive conspectus of her recordings of Spanish song over 40 years. It’s hardly possible in a brief review to do justice to such an astonishing achievement on the part of the Spanish soprano; indeed had she sung nothing else her place in recorded history would be assured.

    Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)

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    Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)

    Narciso Yepes - Malagueña. Spanish Guitar Music: Albéniz, Falla, Granados, Rodrigo, Tárrega, Ruiz-Pipó, Sanz, Soler, Sor (2000)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 76:29 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Deutche Grammophon | # 469 649-2 | Recorded: 1968, 1971, 1977

    The popularity of the guitar has never waned and the sun-drenched sound of Spanish guitar music is one of the instrument’s most popular incarnations. At the helm of performers of this style of guitar music is Narciso Yepes who recorded vast amounts of guitar music for Deutsche Gramophon. This collection brings together some of the gems from among these recordings and indeed, from the body of work for Spanish guitar.

    Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)

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    Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)

    Arthur Grumiaux, István Hajdu - Favourite Violin Encores (1995)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 765 Mb | Total time: 76:45+75:55 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Philips Classics | # 446 560-2 | Recorded: 1962, 1973

    Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986) was never a technical daredevil and his playing has been described as being "for conoisseurs only." Indeed, his style was quite refined and his repertoire tended towards pieces that which suited his musical gifts. His Beethoven Concerto and Sonata recordings and performances are most definitely among the best ever done of those works. This large set of 30+ smaller pieces (with a couple larger ones thrown in) focuses on Grumiaux's ability to touch the listener and indeed there is a thread of imperturbable calmness that runs through this recording upon a casual listening. This discing on Philips came out around 1996, presumably to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death. I'll just touch on a few of the highlights of this 2 CD set. In all of them, we hear Grumiaux at his best - polished and radiant, with Istvan Hajdu as the competent piano partner for all of the numbers.

    Alicia de Larrocha - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (1977)

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    Alicia de Larrocha - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (1977)

    Alicia de Larrocha - Enrique Granados: Goyescas (1977)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 411 958-2 | Time: 00:56:52

    Alicia de Larrocha has been playing these works, the greatest in the repertoire of Spanish piano music, all her life – one of her very first recordings, 40 years ago, was of some of the Goyescas, and I had the pleasure of welcoming her first Iberia ten years after that (10/65); and immersed as she was from her earliest childhood in the authentic tradition (her mother, her aunt and she herself were all trained at Granados’s own school, of which she later became director), she has several times been asked to re-record them. She once said, rather wistfully, that she didn’t consider herself a specialist but that Spanish music was what the public constantly demanded of her. One can sympathize with her if she feels inescapably cast in this mould – but then she shouldn’t be so wonderfully persuasive in it! She employs plenty of subtle rubato but possesses the ability to make it sound as natural as breathing; yet she can also preserve a stimulating tautness of rhythm.

    Viviana Lasaracina - Enrique Granados: Goyescas, Op.11 (2021)

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    Viviana Lasaracina - Enrique Granados: Goyescas, Op.11 (2021)

    Viviana Lasaracina - Enrique Granados: Goyescas, Op.11 (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 76:25 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS7887 | Recorded: 2019

    Spanish music reached a peak early in the 20th century, with Enrique Granados Goyescas numbered amongst the crowning masterpieces of its day. Infused with the innovations of Debussy and Ravel, and inspired by the colours and emotional depth of Goyas paintings and engravings, the Goyescas are like brilliant and psychologically elaborate improvisations filled with seductively ornamented harmonies. The cycle also conceals a narrative of love and death that Granados would later develop into an opera. Multi-award-winning pianist Viviana Lasaracinas playing was admired for its beautiful liquid tone and summed up as breathtaking in the New York Concert Review.

    Tabea Zimmermann, Javier Perianes - Cantilena (2020)

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    Tabea Zimmermann, Javier Perianes - Cantilena (2020)

    Tabea Zimmermann, Javier Perianes - Cantilena (2020)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 72:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902648 | Recorded: 2019

    This colorful and wide-ranging program brings together two virtuoso soloists, violist Tabea Zimmerman and pianist Javier Perianes, for an exploration of repertoire from Spain to South America featuring works by the greatest composers the countries of these regions have produced. Spanish folk songs arranged by Falla are paired here with compositions by Casals, Granados, Montsalvatge, Piazzolla and the beloved aria from the fifth Bachiana brasileira by Brazil's Villa-Lobos.