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Ronnie Aldrich - Soft & Wicked (1973) + Come to Where The Love Is (1972) 2LP in 1CD, 2004

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Ronnie Aldrich - Soft & Wicked (1973) + Come to Where The Love Is (1972) 2LP in 1CD, 2004

Ronnie Aldrich - Soft & Wicked (1973) + Come to Where The Love Is (1972) 2LP in 1CD, 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 448 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 196 Mb | Scans included
Easy Listening, Instrumental Pop, Piano | Label: Decca | # 475 6147 DM | 01:21:10

"Beautiful Music" used to be a genre in the realm of popular music. It's also been called "easy listening" and then morphed into "adult contemporary". But today's adult contemporary is really just soft rock (albeit today's soft rock is harder than a lot of Top 40 was in the late 70s and early 80s). There used to be stations that played "beautiful music" exclusively: Stanley Black, Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, Frank Chacksfield, etc. Most of the playlist would be recent contemporary hits covered by choral groups, pianists, and orchestras. During that time, London Records sold a lot of their patented Phase 4 Stereo LP records and reel-to-reel tapes. The series was renowned for it's technical brilliance, using state of the art recording, mixing and mastering techniques. Ronnie Aldrich was among London's best selling artists and Tony D'Amato produced many albums using Aldrich's twin pianos backed by The London Festival Orchestra. These albums were not only known for their technical brilliance (which is still quite impressive even in the 21st century) but also for their glossy, gatefold covers featuring colorful artwork and graphics and maybe a sexy model or two. The two LPs featured on this CD were originally released in 1973 and 1972, respectively.

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)

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András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:46 | 288 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 440 310-2

This set of recordings, as testified to by Mr. Cesar above, are simply breathtaking, individually, and as a complete traversal of Schubert's finest work for solo instrument. His painstaking preparation and studious forethought shine through clearly, illuminating and bringing to us deeply introspective yet fleet traversals of this amazingly sad, yet wistful, ponderously illuminated and wonderously elated and shot-through, delicately, with wispy tenderness, are simply positive testament to the caliber of this great artist.

Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)

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Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)

Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 78:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97118 | Recorded: 2022

This beautifully conceived program brings together the complete works for piano duet by three major American composers: Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Samuel Barber (1910-1981).

Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)

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Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)

Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 79:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | 9029576897 | Recorded: 2017

Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and pianist Fazıl Say share some tantalising, captivating and sensuous Secrets in this album of songs, centred on Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Fazıl Say’s own Gezi Park 3 – which he and Crebassa premiered in 2014. Describing the recording sessions, Marianne Crebassa says: “Sometimes we worked in a kind of trance … there were some moments when nothing seemed to exist around us …”

Krystian Zimerman - Debussy: Preludes (1994)

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Krystian Zimerman - Debussy: Preludes (1994)

Krystian Zimerman - Debussy: Preludes (1994)

EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 84:04 | 237 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 4357732

This award winning set from 1991 will not be to everyone's tastes. The recording and the playing are perfectly suited to each other being exceptionally clear and precise and with wide dynamic range. The playing on this pair of discs is, as mentioned above, exceptionally clear and precise and came as quite shock to me when I bought it some 20 years ago. Everything is laid out for inspection without the slightest hint of softness or textural shading. It is like going into a room with all the main lights on rather than finding the room lit by numerous lamps on tables and other furniture. There are no subtleties of nuance attempted in the normal way allowing for shadows and half-lights metaphorically.

VA - Rachmaninoff: Works for Piano and Orchestra (3CD) (2013)

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VA - Rachmaninoff: Works for Piano and Orchestra (3CD) (2013)

VA - Rachmaninoff: Works for Piano and Orchestra (3CD) (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:32:56 | 717 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | Catalog: MEL CD 10 02128

Given that there are so many discs of the Rachmaninov Piano Concertos available to buy, you have to ask what makes this set different or better than the rest? It's quite refreshing for a start, that all the works are played by different pianists. My main incentive to buy it was Nikolai Petrov's fantastic performance of the 4th Concerto in G minor, its first release on CD from vinyl.

Nicholas Angelich, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Klavierstücke, Op.76 (2010)

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Nicholas Angelich, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Klavierstücke, Op.76 (2010)

Nicholas Angelich, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Klavierstücke, Op.76 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:37 | 286 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | Catalog: 5099926634

This disc confirms Nicholas Angelich's reputation as the greatest Brahms player of his generation. The pianist's previous recordings of music by the great German Romantic, collections of solo piano music, chamber music, and the First Piano Concerto, were all magnificent, and this recording of the Second Piano Concerto with Paavo Järvi leading the Frankfurt Radio Symphony plus the Klavierstücke, Op. 76, is at the same level.

Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)

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Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)

Alexandra Oehler - Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonatas (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:26 | 210 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777 136-2

The two long works are very much worth hearing, and the whole recording is a treat. The pianist is very good, and more power to her in bringing out the works of Ries and other composers, many recognized in their day but since fallen into obscurity. There is much neglected 19th century music that deserves to be heard. Ries is fully comparable to Mendelssohn, Grieg, and others in the "standard" repertoire.

Elizabeth Dorman, Jeffrey Work, Jeff Garza, Casey Jones - Andrew Lewinter: Music for Brass & Piano (2024)

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Elizabeth Dorman, Jeffrey Work, Jeff Garza, Casey Jones - Andrew Lewinter: Music for Brass & Piano (2024)

Elizabeth Dorman, Jeffrey Work, Jeff Garza, Casey Jones - Andrew Lewinter: Music for Brass & Piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:38:06 | 274 / 223 Mb
Genre: Classical

Sonatas for brass and piano are a tricky thing to pull off; in consequence, they are few and far between. Andrew Lewinter, himself a long-time orchestral horn player and soloist, has decided to add to the repertoire on MUSIC FOR BRASS AND PIANO: crafting four different sonatas for piano and each instrument of the brass family, and concluding with a dazzling piano quartet.The tonal language of these sonatas — for piano and trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba, respectively — draws heavily upon the Romantic tradition, but it never copies; rather, it is a reinvention of what Romanticism might have been, had it unfurled in the 21st century. A vibrant arc of suspense gives life to each individual work and, culminating in a grand finale, to the album itself.

Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)

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Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)

Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:34:12 | 700 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 468 491-2

This pair of discs brings together five of the legendary Mozart concerto performances, somewhat reluctantly approved of for publication by Curzon. Curzon was at the same time, a recording artist of choice but also a recording nightmare commercially. There are many of his recordings still in the vaults that were made at considerable expense, but which were then refused permission for publication by Curzon for reasons that few would consider essential.

Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)

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Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)

Valentina Igoshina, Lavard Skou-Larsen - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Hamlet Overture (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:09:56 | 312 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 7777502

The two piano concertos of Dmitry Shostakovich may be treated as rare examples of light humor in Shostakovich's output, which requires connecting the mordant Concerto for piano, trumpet, and orchestra in C minor, Op. 35, to the more genuinely humorous Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102. Many performers, naturally enough, connect the two in some way, but Russian pianist Valentina Igoshina takes a different approach: she divorces the two concertos quite thoroughly. In the Concerto No. 1 she emphasizes the manic quality of the music.

Inkyoung Lee - SCHUBERT and HIS FINAL TWO SONATAS ; D.959 & D.960 (2024)

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Inkyoung Lee - SCHUBERT and HIS FINAL TWO SONATAS ; D.959 & D.960 (2024)

Inkyoung Lee - SCHUBERT and HIS FINAL TWO SONATAS ; D.959 & D.960 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 82:46 | 277 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist In-Kyung Lee graduated from Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School, completed her bachelor's degree at Seoul National University's College of Music, and then moved to the United States to study under Arthur Green at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where she earned a master's degree and a doctorate in music (DMA). After returning to Korea, he worked as a full-time professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, and taught piano, chamber music, and music history lectures to teach non-music students how music and other disciplines harmonize, and the importance of music, such as the emotional richness and comfort of the mind that can be gained from music. is teaching.
Although he spends a lot of time as an educator in Korea, he is a pianist who has never neglected his own development and has consistently performed both domestically and internationally. He is known as a pianist who plays a pioneering role in continuing the status of Korean classical music by performing as a collaborator with orchestras in the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)

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Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 380 MB | 01:17:38
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

This record pairs two composers linked by personal and stylistic association with two performers ideally suited to their music technically and temperamentally. Both composer were attracted to gypsy music, as is shown in the works included here: one early and one late work each.

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

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Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 387 MB | 01:23:38
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical ‎

For this 2009 release, internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos celebrates the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, whose brief meteoric career helped shape Romantic music. Engaging the listener immediately, the album opens with a rousing performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64. which is both conducted and performed by Kavakos.

The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)

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The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)

The Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: The Two Piano Quartets (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 267 MB | 01:04:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Nimbus Alliance

Warmhearted but clear-eyed, the Schubert Ensemble of London's recordings of the Piano Quartets of Fauré are anything but French performances. Where French performers can parse their emotions down to the most infinitesimal gradation of feeling but are intellectually profoundly superficial, these English performers are intellectually clear and lucid, but their interpretations are still deeply felt.