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Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 4 (2012)

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Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 4 (2012)

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 4 (2012)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 399 MB | 02:16:44
Genre: Classical | Label: ATMA Classique

For once the hyperbole rings true. Christian Leotta’s fourth volume of Beethoven sonatas is indeed ‘a major addition to other sets currently available’. Musicianly to the core, this young Italian pianist quietly but unmistakably commands your attention at every level. His musical focus and concentration are unswerving, nothing is rushed or overly volatile, everything is scrupulously placed yet illuminated with acute detail and vitality. You will rarely encounter performances more meticulously prepared.

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 3 (2010)

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Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 3 (2010)

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 3 (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 436 MB | 02:37:33
Genre: Classical | Label: Atma Classique

Le pianiste italien Christian Leotta nous revient avec le volume 3 de son intégrale des 32 sonates pour piano de Beethoven. Il a fait de ce corpus une spécialité. Ce CD double contient notamment les sonates pour piano No. 17 en ré mineur op. 31 No. 2 “ La Tempête” et la No. 31 en la bémol majeur op. 110, ainsi que quelques sonates des premiers opus.

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 2 (2009)

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Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 2 (2009)

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 2 (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 357 MB | 02:07:14
Genre: Classical | Label: Atma Classique

The second two-disc installment of a projected Beethoven sonata cycle from Christian Leotta offers individualistic interpretations that alternately hit and miss, sometimes within the same work. The “Waldstein” first-movement exposition and recapitulation exude power and polish, yet the development comes off too sectionalized and rounded off for the arpeggiated sequences to generate the dramatic tension we expect. Leotta’s deliberation in the Rondo yields gorgeous, alluringly blurred sonorities at the outset as he observes Beethoven’s long pedal markings, yet the extensive scales and rotary figurations run in place, moving nowhere until the Presto coda: too little, too late.

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 1 (2008)

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Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 1 (2008)

Christian Leotta - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Volume 1 (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 529 MB | 02:22:10
Genre: Classical | Label: ATMA Classique

French Canada's ATMA Classique label tends to favor Canadian artists and specifically those from Québec, but the only connection between Canada and young Italian pianist Christian Leotta is apparently that he appeared in 2002 and perhaps – this is not made clear in the booklet – that he began playing the complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas in that city. He's certainly among the youngest performers to have attempted that feat, and perhaps that mark of ambition is what attracted the label to the project.

Juilliard String Quartet, Christopher Oldfather - Elliott Carter: The Four String Quartets, Duo For Violin and Piano (1991) 2CD

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Juilliard String Quartet, Christopher Oldfather - Elliott Carter: The Four String Quartets, Duo For Violin and Piano (1991) 2CD

Elliott Carter: The Four String Quartets, Duo For Violin and Piano (1991) 2CDs
Juilliard String Quartet; Christopher Oldfather, piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 603 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 330 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary, Avant-Garde | Label: Sony Classical | # S2K 47229 | 02:16:59

These quartets are Juilliard specialties, and anyone wanting to hear this music played with a near ideal combination of virtuosity and humanity need look no further. Carter's quartets are not for the musically faint of heart: they are uncompromisingly thorny, intricate pieces that require lots of intense, dedicated listening. Very few people doubt their seriousness–or even their claims to musical greatness–but just as few people enjoy listening to them. Perhaps this spectacular set will encourage the adventurous to give them a shot. They're worth the time.

Joseph Moog, Kai Adomeit - Rachmaninoff, York Bowen & Medtner (2023)

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Joseph Moog, Kai Adomeit - Rachmaninoff, York Bowen & Medtner (2023)

Joseph Moog, Kai Adomeit - Rachmaninoff, York Bowen & Medtner (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:05:11 | 205 / 148 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Onyx Classics

Three pianist-composers from the first half of the last century form the program for Joseph Moog's new album. For this recording he is joined by pianist Kai Adomeit in three works for two pianos - Rachmaninoff's late 1940 Symphonic Dances, York Bowen's 1951 Theme & Variations, and Rachmaninoff's friend and compatriot Medtner's Two Pieces. York Bowen had many works by Rachmaninoff in his extensive concert repertoire, and he became known as 'The English Rachmaninoff' without much reason. As strange as that sounds, like the two Russians on this recording (with Prokofiev), he represents the last of the great pianistic composers of the 20th century.

Meret Luthi - Biber: The Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2023)

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Meret Luthi - Biber: The Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2023)

Meret Luthi - Biber: The Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:08:35 | 640 / 295 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Prospero Classical

After having devoted many years to the instrumental ensemble music of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, the Swiss early music ensemble Les Passions de l'?me, together with its artistic director Meret L?thi, also turned to his opus magnum, the 15 Rosary Sonatas, in a marathon of three concerts. They then went into the studio and recorded all the sonatas for a double album in co-production with Bayern 4 Klassik, which is now published by PROSPERO in a splendid edition with many illustrations and informative texts on the work.

Jerusalem Quartet - Bela Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 6 (2016)

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Jerusalem Quartet - Bela Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 6 (2016)

Jerusalem Quartet - Béla Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 & 6 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 351 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 184 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902235 | Time: 01:18:50

The string quartets of Béla Bartók punctuate the evolution of his style and the turning points of his existence. From the Second Quartet (1915-17) reflecting the period of World War One and his troubled personal life, through the Fourth whose exploration of rhythm, tonality and timbre produces magnificent and unprecedented sonorities in its ‘night music’, to the unbearable anguish of the Sixth (1939), as his dream of fraternity was shattered against the rise of nationalism and fascism, the Jerusa lem Quartet’s programme brings us the essence of Bartók's genius. Expect reviews in Classical music press for these hm artists with an extensive, acclaimed back catalogue for the label.

Alessandro De Marchi, Orchestra La Scintilla, Cecilia Bartoli, Juan Diego Florez - Vincenzo Bellini: La Sonnambula (2008)

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Alessandro De Marchi, Orchestra La Scintilla, Cecilia Bartoli, Juan Diego Florez - Vincenzo Bellini: La Sonnambula (2008)

Alessandro De Marchi, Orchestra La Scintilla, Cecilia Bartoli, Juan Diego Flórez - Vincenzo Vincenzo Bellini: La Sonnambula (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 599 Mb | Total time: 134:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 478 1087 | Recorded: 2007-2008

This recording of La Sonnambula is notable on a number of fronts. It's the first recording of the opera based on a 2004 critical edition of the score that confirms the leading role was indeed written for a mezzo-soprano, although it has been performed by sopranos for much of its history. (Among the first Aminas were the celebrated mezzos Giuditta Pasta and Maria Malibran.) It's also the first recording using period instruments, in this case Orchestra La Scintilla, based at the Basel Opera and conducted by Alessandro de Marchi in an idiomatic and lively reading. And, as the promotional materials trumpet, it's the first recorded collaboration between superstars Cecilia Bartoli and Juan Diego Flórez. Although less hoopla is made of him, the recording also features a superbly lyrical performance by baritone Ildebrando D'Arcangelo.

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)

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Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 147:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K&K | # KuK 67 | Recorded: 2004

Handel’s spectacular oratorio Belshazzar was composed in 1744, from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Less successful in it’s day than the popular Italian opera, Belshazzar is a work on an imposing scale — dramatic, passionate, full of stirring choruses and solos, and a piece which Handel himself described as ‘very grand and uncommon’. The oratorio is full of invention, energy and drama with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musical styles that were juxtaposed to create a tense dramatic conflict. Composed in the same year as the splendid Hercules the two oratorios represent the peak of Handel’s dramatic writing. Belshazzar was a failure at the time of its first performance in 1745—contemporary reports speak of a disastrously bad performance—and the oratorio never gained popularity in Handel’s lifetime.

Concerto Budapest - Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9 (2023)

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Concerto Budapest - Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9 (2023)

Concerto Budapest - Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 9 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 293 MB | Tracks: 4 | 79:05
Style: Classical | Label: TACET Musikproduktion

This is not the ninth 5th, but still the fifth 9th symphony by Andras Keller with Concerto Budapest on TACET! After Bruckner, Dvorak, Shostakovich and Schubert (it now counts as the 8th), now Mahler. An impressive testament to the range of this unusual orchestra and its unique conductor. Certainly there are countless other recordings, also very good, of these last finished symphonies of great composers. However, I find that Keller's interpretations, with his unconditional will to express in detail, can compete with any, even the best known. Recordings of that repertoire in TACET Real Surround Sound are completely new. They bring to light previously hidden beauties and place the listener in the middle of the music. This also allows you to hear these works in a completely new way.

Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Dirigenten bei der Probe: Mariss Jansons probt Mahler Symphonie Nr. 5 (2023)

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Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Dirigenten bei der Probe: Mariss Jansons probt Mahler Symphonie Nr. 5 (2023)

Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Dirigenten bei der Probe: Mariss Jansons probt Mahler Symphonie Nr. 5 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 193 MB | Tracks: 11 | 39:28
Style: Classical | Label: BR-Klassik

Otherworldly, flowing, peaceful - the famous Adagietto is the heart of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. It was popularized by Luchino Visconti's film "Death in Venice". Mariss Jansons shows that this adagietto is a single declaration of love. Rehearsal for the concerts on March 10th and 11th, 2016 in the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich.

Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Beauteous Softness (2023)

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Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Beauteous Softness (2023)

Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica, David Bates - Beauteous Softness (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:09:58 | 160 / 383 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: PentaTone

Countertenor Tim Mead presents Beauteous Softness, a programme containing restrained yet profoundly moving songs by seventeenth-century English composers such as Purcell, Blow, Humfrey and Webb, in collaboration with La Nuova Musica and David Bates. The album also showcases the rich musical context that provided the foundation from which Purcell rose to prominence.

Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)

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Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)

Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:20:00 | 184 / 248 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Renowned both as a guitarist and a composer, Carlo Domeniconi has written over 150 compositions, combining Eastern and Western elements in striking and individual ways. Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar is a perfect example of his imaginative style and is one of the most remarkable works in the entire solo guitar repertoire, evoking the panoramic journey of the sailor and adventurer known from The Arabian Nights. The piece draws on diverse sources including Oriental-Persian scales, Arabic oud ornaments and extended techniques to chart, in three cycles, the Middle Eastern atmosphere through which Sinbad travels.

Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)

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Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)

Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:27:24 | 440 / 200 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

The second volume of Leone Sinigaglia’s music for string quartet (Volume 1 is on 8.574183) explores a series of generally shorter pieces for the medium. These deeply expressive works, such as the yearning Romanza for string quartet and horn, combine compositional rigour with a flowing Italianate lyricism nurtured in the years 1888–89. Also included are the String Trio in A major, which evokes the world of the Baroque through its Bachian counterpoint, and the Trio-Serenata, fusing elysian beauty with joyful elegance. All but one of these pieces are world premiere recordings, many of which are played from the composer’s original manuscripts.