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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.

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.

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

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Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)

Daniel Raiskin - Brahms arr. Schoenberg: Piano Quartet; Brahms arr. Berio: Clarinet Sonata (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:46 | 311 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 777356-2

"The main attraction on this disc is the Berio orchestral arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata op.120/1. Like Schoenberg, it’s a harmonically and melodically “straight” transcription, not a modern re-imagining of the work. Berio, no stranger to orchestrations and adaptations - Puccini’s Turandot, works by Schubert, Mahler, and Verdi - tackled this last major work of Brahms’ for reasons we don’t know. Iosif Raiskin speculates that the tinges of Mahler in late Brahms may have been a reason for the Mahler-loving Berio. Be that as it may, the result is a wonderfully graceful Brahms Clarinet Concerto.

Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)

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Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)

Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 358 MB | 01:18:40
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Back in the '50s and '60s when RCA was one of the two dominant American classical record companies, the big debate was over which of their two recordings of Brahms Piano Concerto in B flat major was better: the Emil Gilels with Fritz Reiner from 1958 or the Sviatoslav Richter with Leinsdorf from 1960. Both are with the Chicago Symphony at the peak of its strength and sensitivity.

Brigitte Haudebourg, Philippe Foulon - J.C.F. Bach, Abel, Binder: Sonatas (2004)

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Brigitte Haudebourg, Philippe Foulon - J.C.F. Bach, Abel, Binder: Sonatas (2004)

Brigitte Haudebourg, Philippe Foulon - J.C.F. Bach, Abel, Binder: Sonatas (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 62:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # ARN 68645 | Recorded: 2004

These attractive Classical works are played on a reconstructed cello-like instrument with five strings and twelve sympathetic strings which produces a silvery, delicate sound somewhat like the baryton.

Kreeta-Maria Kentala, Lauri Pulakka, Mitzi Meyerson - François Francœur: Sonates à violon seul et basse continue (2018)

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Kreeta-Maria Kentala, Lauri Pulakka, Mitzi Meyerson - François Francœur: Sonates à violon seul et basse continue (2018)

Kreeta-Maria Kentala, Lauri Pulakka, Mitzi Meyerson - François Francœur: Sonates à violon seul et basse continue (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 712 Mb | Total time: 63:38+60:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 921809 | Recorded: 2018

For her ninth recording project on Glossa, the Berlin-based American harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson is joined by her Finnish colleagues Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin) and Lauri Pulakka (cello). With this same setup which they are keen to call the Jones Band they have previously unearthed works for the label by Richard Jones and Giovanni Battista Somis. The new recording is centred on François Francur, a celebrated member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi and of Le Concert Spirituel in France, and co- director, later in his career, with François Rebel, of the Paris Opéra. The ten violin sonatas on the present double album represent the complete Premier Livre de sonates à violon seul et basse continue, published in Paris in 1720.

Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)

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Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)

Eric Lu, Edward Gardner, Hallé Orchestra - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4; Chopin: Sonata No.2; Ballade No.4 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 62:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 9029555215 | Recorded: 2018

Warner Classics and Askonas Holt are proud to announce the signing of 20-year old American pianist, Eric Lu, winner and Dame Fanny Waterman Gold Medallist at the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition 2018. As part of this year’s coveted prize the winner receives worldwide management with Askonas Holt – one of the world's leading arts management agencies, and an international album release on Warner Classics – one of the foremost global classical music recording companies.

The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)

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The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)

The Kuijken Ensemble - François Couperin: Les Nations (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 548 Mb | Total time: 50:43+50:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC9285/86 | Recorded: 1992

What is it that makes this 1992 recording of François Couperin's Les Nations by the Kuijken Ensemble so special? In a word, brotherhood. You see, the Kuijken Ensemble has the brothers Barthold, Sigiswald, and Wieland on transverse flute, violin, and viola da gamba and they play together with a combination of affection, aggression, appreciation, and wholehearted love that makes the ensemble like no other. Each brother a master of his instrument, and they understand Baroque music with a combination of intellect, emotion, and musicality that few other period instrument players can match.

Yefim Bronfman plays Prokofiev [5CDs] (2013)

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Yefim Bronfman plays Prokofiev [5CDs] (2013)

Yefim Bronfman plays Prokofiev [5CDs] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 990 Mb | Total time: 04:53:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88883737242 | Recorded: 1987-1995

This is the Prokofiev concerto cycle for the digital age. Yefim Bronfman relishes every steely flourish of this brilliant and angular music.

Petra Aminoff, Annamari Pölhö - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas (2002)

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Petra Aminoff, Annamari Pölhö - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas (2002)

Petra Aminoff, Annamari Pölhö - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonatas (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 63:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 165 | Recorded: 2000

Situated at the epicentre of the Enlightenment era, Bach’s second son was the key figure of Empfindsamkeit (Sensibility), the movement that explored the deep and unfathomable stirrings of humanity and nature, countering the learned style of the early eighteenth-century masters with freedom of inspiration and hence emancipation of form.

Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Johann Rosenmüller: Beatus Vir? Motets & Sonates (2010)

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Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Johann Rosenmüller: Beatus Vir? Motets & Sonates (2010)

Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti - Johann Rosenmüller: Beatus Vir? Motets & Sonates (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 65:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires ‎| # ZZT100801 | Recorded: 2009

Rosenmüller, a prodigiously talented German musician and composer, found himself imprisoned in Leipzig for obscure ‘sex offences’: had his presence there become embarrassing? But he managed to escape to Hamburg, then reached the free and ‘Most Serene’ Republic of Venice, where he eventually taught at the Ospedale della Pietà, long before Vivaldi.

Amandine Beyer - Portrait: Matteis, Rebel, de Visée, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi (2013)

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Amandine Beyer - Portrait: Matteis, Rebel, de Visée, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi (2013)

Amandine Beyer - Portrait: Matteis, Rebel, de Visée, J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 662 Mb | Total time: 65:28+56:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires | # ZZT325 | Recorded: 2005-2012

This double album offers a portrait of the violinist Amandine Beyer drawn from the recordings she has made for ZZT. The first CD selects highlights from her chamber repertoire, including works by Jean-Féry Rebel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Nicola Matteis, and Robert de Visée. The second is devoted to the concerto, with compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Arcangelo Corelli. This programme is an ideal introduction to the multiple facets of Amandine Beyer’s talent and to the grace and joie de vivre of her music-making. It also provides an opportunity to discover one of Corelli’s Concerti Grossi op.6, a preview of the complete set to be released on ZZT in the autumn of 2013.

Alexei Lubimov, Yury Martynov - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Pieces for two pianos (2012)

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Alexei Lubimov, Yury Martynov - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Pieces for two pianos (2012)

Alexei Lubimov, Yury Martynov - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Pieces for two pianos (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 75:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires | # ZZT306 | Recorded: 2011

This is the union of two ZZT artists for a disc that includes an original work (the Sonata in D major) and transcriptions for two pianos. Recorded on two historic instruments from the collection of Edwin Beunk, this disc is an operatic and symphonic conversation. It is also the illustration of the highly fruitful collaboration of two singular pianists as well as a new recording with Yury Martynov, who earned a 'Choc' de Classica for his Beethoven-Liszt disc.

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

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Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:06 | 275 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1128-2

J.S. Bach's sonatas for solo violin, part of a long tradition of virtuoso works for the instrument, seem unsuited to transcription. But a guitar comes closer than perhaps any other instrument: it embodies a tension – not the same tension as with a solo violin but a tension nonetheless – between melodic material and polyphony. In the hands of Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen they produce an unusual effect.

Berlin Friday Academy - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Church Sonatas (2022)

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Berlin Friday Academy - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Church Sonatas (2022)

Berlin Friday Academy - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch: Church Sonatas (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 358 Mb | Total time: 64:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96621 | Recorded: 2020

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708-1763) was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia (today Poland). His special inclination towards music led him to undertake a brief period of study in Breslau (today Wroclaw) with the court musicians who were under the employment of the Archbishop of Breslau. In 1733 Janitsch moved to Berlin where the then Crown Prince, Frederick offered him a position as a double bass player. With the permission of the Crown Prince, he founded the circle "Freitagsakademien" (Friday academies), in which music was performed by professional and amateur musicians alike.