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Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Viola and Piano (1997)

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Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Viola and Piano (1997)

Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Johannes Brahms: Sonaten für Viola und Klavier (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 199 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 136 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1630, 457 068-2 | Time: 00:44:04

These two sonatas, originally written for clarinet, marked the end of an intense period of depression for Brahms, during which his creative energies had all but faded. Kim Kashkashian, whose command of the viola unearths an even deeper realm of possibility in this already engaging diptych, faithfully captures the somber circumstances of its creation. In doing so, she shows that the viola is no less an instrument of breath, drawing from deep within her lungs the sheer vocal power required to carry across such arresting music.

Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Paul Hindemith: Sonatas for Viola/Piano & Viola Alone (1988) 2CDs

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Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Paul Hindemith: Sonatas for Viola/Piano & Viola Alone (1988) 2CDs

Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin - Paul Hindemith: Sonatas for Viola/Piano & Viola Alone (1988)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 537 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 292 Mb | Scans ~ 20 Mb
Classical, Chamber Music | Label: ECM | # ECM 1330-32, 833 311-2 | Time: 02:07:46

The viola was Hindemith's instrument (though he could play almost any), and he wrote some of his most expressive chamber music for it. This two-disc set includes all four of Hindemith's sonatas for solo violin and the three for viola and piano. I prefer the wildness of Hindemith's earlier music to the sometimes arid calm of his later music, so listeners like myself who like Hindemith can have a feast here as most of these are early works. They are played with energy and passion by an outstanding violist and a fine pianist.

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

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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.

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang, Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)

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Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang, Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Bojan Čičić, Ya-Fei Chuang & Laurence Cummings - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6-8 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 287 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:00:44
Classical | Label: AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) releases the penultimate volume of an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra. This volume includes Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos and Orchestra, performed here uniquely on three different types of keyboard instruments: by Robert Levin (tangent piano), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano) and Laurence Cummings (harpsichord). It follows the release of the same concerto in Mozart’s own arrangement for two keyboards (Vol. 11) and is joined on this album by two other Piano Concertos composed in Salzburg in the early months of 1776.

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings & Ya-Fei Chuang - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 7 & 10 (2023)

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Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings & Ya-Fei Chuang - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 7 & 10 (2023)

Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings & Ya-Fei Chuang - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 7 & 10 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 241 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:00:45
Classical | Label: AAM Records

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continues an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra, with this eleventh volume of the series. Renowned pianists Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang join Laurence Cummings and AAM to present Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 7 and 10, the former of which is recorded here in Mozart’s own arrangement for two pianos. Also included is the Concerto Movement for Piano, Violin, and Orchestra, completed by Robert Levin.

Robert Levin, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)

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Robert Levin, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)

Robert Levin, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 55:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Academy of Ancient Music | # AAM 041 | Recorded: 2021

Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) resumes a celebrated project to record Mozart’s complete Piano Concertos, with this ninth volume released after an extraordinary 20-year wait. Together with renowned scholar-pianist Robert Levin, AAM presents Mozart’s Piano Concertos No. 21 in C Major K467, perhaps one of Mozart’s most well-known Piano Concertos and featured in films The Spy Who Loved Me and Elvira Madigan, and No. 24 in C Minor K491, described by Mozart scholar Alexander Hyatt King as ‘not only the most sublime of the whole series but also one of the greatest pianoforte concertos ever composed’.

Renaud Capuçon & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2023)

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Renaud Capuçon & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2023)

Renaud Capuçon & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne - Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 549 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 278 Mb | 02:00:51
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Mozart: The Violin Concertos, recorded with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL), of which Capuçon is Artistic Director. Mozart has been at the heart of the OCL’s repertoire since its foundation in 1942, and the orchestra’s extensive discography already includes acclaimed recordings of the composer’s complete piano concertos and serenades and other works. Now Mozart: The Violin Concertos reflects the rapport that Renaud Capuçon and the OCL have developed since the former became the ensemble’s Artistic Director at the start of the 2021 22 season.

Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas [7CDs] (2022)

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Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas [7CDs] (2022)

Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas [7CDs] (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.66 Gb | Total time: 06:29:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2710-16 | Recorded: 2017, 1018

The first complete recording of W.A. Mozart’s piano sonatas on the composer’s own fortepiano (Anton Walter, 1782). This comprehensive, 7-CD boxed set also comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer, here completed by American pianist and Mozart-scholar Robert Levin in consideration of Mozart’s idioms and the compositional mannerisms of his era. Robert Levin’s interpretations of the piano sonatas, too, are informed by the performance practice customs of the First Viennese School, including improvised elements and decorations in the repeats.

Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 26 (1987)

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Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 26 (1987)

Robert Levin, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 26 (1987)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:07 | 284 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 452 052-2

Robert Levin plays these works on a restored Walter fortepiano that Mozart owned. This headline feature is both an asset and a limitation. The instrument has its own pronounced personality, which is arresting, when you can hear it. It also has a frailer sound than most of the early pianos or replicas used for concerto recordings, so you can't always hear it clearly. Perhaps this balance was what Mozart's audiences actually heard, but, more likely, if he used a piano like this, he also used a very small orchestra.

Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)

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Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)

Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 217 MB | Cover | 55:27 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 133 MB
Classical | Label: Academy of Ancient Music

"Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) resumes a celebrated project to record Mozart’s complete Piano Concertos, with this ninth volume released after an extraordinary 20-year wait. Together with renowned scholar-pianist Robert Levin, AAM presents Mozart’s Piano Concertos No. 21 in C Major K467, perhaps one of Mozart’s most well-known Piano Concertos and featured in films The Spy Who Loved Me and Elvira Madigan, and No. 24 in C Minor K491, described by Mozart scholar Alexander Hyatt King as ‘not only the most sublime of the whole series but also one of the greatest pianoforte concertos ever composed’.

Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (2022)

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Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (2022)

Robert Levin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 1,51 GB | Cover | 06:29:40 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 896 MB
Classical | Label: ECM New Series

The first complete recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano sonatas on the composer's own fortepiano. This box set comprises unfinished fragments by the Austrian composer completed by American pianist and Mozart scholar Robert Levin in consideration of Mozart's idioms and the compositional mannerisms of the era. His interpretations of the sonatas are informed by the performance practice customs of the First Viennese School, including improvised elements and decorations in the repeats.

Kim Kashkashian, Robyn Schulkowsky, Robert Levin - Dmitri Shostakovich, Linda Bouchard, Paul Chihara (1991)

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Kim Kashkashian, Robyn Schulkowsky, Robert Levin - Dmitri Shostakovich, Linda Bouchard, Paul Chihara (1991)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata Op. 147; Linda Bouchard; Pourtinade; Paul Chihara: Redwood (1991)
Kim Kashkashian, viola; Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion; Robert Levin, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 219 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1425, 847 538-2 | Time: 01:00:50
Classical, Chamber Music

The first two works are for viola and a battery of percussion instruments. Pourtinade, in nine sections with highly descriptive titles whose order is decided by the performers, elicits every possible sound and color effect from the viola, and an extraordinary range of blending and contrasting textural timbres from the instrumental combinations. "Redwood," inspired by Japanese woodcuts, uses the percussion as melody instruments; often it seems incredible that a single player can produce such a wealth of sounds. Opening softly and mysteriously, it becomes quite active, and then a beautiful viola solo fades away. The Shostakovich Sonata, written in the shadow of death, is heartbreakingly moving in its lamentatious mournfulness and turbulently desperate outbursts. The piano texture is pared down to skeletal spareness; the viola mourns in the dark low register and soars radiantly up high. The Scherzo is defiantly sardonic; the Finale, full of quotes from Beethoven, ends in resignation. The playing is beautiful and projects the changing moods with a riveting, inwardly experienced expressiveness.

Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Elegies (1986)

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Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Elegies (1986)

Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin - Elegies (1986)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 50:35 | 191 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series | Catalog: 827 744-2

This elegiac music seems very well-suited to the dark sound of the viola. Kashkashian plays it simply and very expressively, without slides or sentimentality; glowing and shimmering, her tone is pure, warm, inflected. The program has great variety. Britten's mournful Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song of John Dowland) comes to an agitated climax and ends with an old chorale. Vaughan Williams's Romance is a peaceful pastoral; Carter's Elegy is somber, gentle, and hardly dissonant; Glasunov's Elegy is very romantic. Liszt's Romance is very rhetorical–half recitation, half lamentation–but ends serenely.

Robert Levin, The Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for Fortepiano & Wind Instruments (1998)

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Robert Levin, The Academy of Ancient Music - Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for Fortepiano & Wind Instruments (1998)

Robert Levin, The Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble - Mozart, Beethoven: Quintets for Fortepiano & Wind Instruments (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 223 Mb | Total time: 66:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 455 994-2 | Recorded: 1996

What could more enticing than two masterpieces written by composers still in their twenties? In a letter to his exacting father, Leopold, Mozart said he thought his recently completed quintet, K452, was his best work yet. And this in the midst of an extraordinarily purple patch, even by his standards. Beethoven's quintet (for the same instruments and in the same key) was written in deliberate imitation of Mozart's, perhaps in as much a spirit of friendly competition as homage.