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Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

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Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2

Like his teacher Yehudi Menuhin before him, the artist formerly known as "Nige" proves to be an uncommonly dab performer on the viola. He certainly has the full measure of the 26-year-old Walton's astonishingly mature concerto (unquestionably the finest of the composer's three), penetrating to its bitter-sweet core with devastating emotional candour. Similarly, Kennedy's bitingly intense reading of the yearningly lyrical Violin Concerto earns the warmest plaudits in its characterful involvement and edge-of-seat spontaneity.

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

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Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 370 MB | 01:08:58
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Nigel Kennedy created a sensation with his pumped-up Vivaldi on The Four Seasons, and this second volume of concertos with the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic offers more of the same: slapdash tempi, outrageously loud dynamics, over-the-top techniques, a pugnacious basso continuo, hammered exchanges between soloist and orchestra, and an aggressive pop/rock sensibility that speaks more of this star violinist than of the composer.

Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)

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Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)

Pedro Burmester - Schumann, Schubert, Bach (3CD) (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:36:28 | 649 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 8 79157 2

Depois de vários anos descatalogados, os três álbuns que Pedro Burmester gravou para a etiqueta “EMI Classics”, são agora reeditados. Schumann “Kreisleriana”, Schubert “Sonata D 784” e Bach " Variações Goldberg" são os compositores e as obras eleitas por Pedro Burmester nestas três gravações dos finais dos anos 90.

Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)

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Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)

Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 246 MB | 50:01
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

This miraculous recital was Chang's debut recording, made when she was nine years old. In Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy you can hear some very minor flaws in the technique, which were gone when I heard her play it two years later. There's nothing else to indicate that this is a young violinist, not even the tone Chang draws from a quarter-size violin.

Tasmin Little - Brahms, Sibelius, Arvo Pärt (2011)

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Tasmin Little - Brahms, Sibelius, Arvo Pärt (2011)

Tasmin Little - Brahms, Sibelius, Arvo Pärt (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 556 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 343 MB | 02:15:00
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

This collection of recordings illuminates two different sides of violinist Tasmin Little’s accomplished playing. While the Brahms and Sibelius Concertos are a testament to her technical skill and breadth of expression, the Pärt works display a more pared-back approach, making full use of Little’s pure and resonant tone.

Alban Berg Quartett - Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67 (1993)

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Alban Berg Quartett - Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67 (1993)

Alban Berg Quartett - Brahms: String Quartets, Opp. 51 & 67 (1993)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 481 MB | 01:42:16
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Brahms's string quartets are among the composer's most "difficult" works, and they take a bit of effort to get to terms with. It has been said that inside them there are symphonies struggling to emerge, and to some extent one does get the feeling that Brahms was less than fully comfortable with the medium, that it provided restrictions more than opportunities and that the music is too large-scale in feel for the intimacy of chamber music.

Alban Berg Quartett - Haydn: Streichquartette Op. 77 / Berio: Notturno Quartetto III (2005)

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Alban Berg Quartett - Haydn: Streichquartette Op. 77 / Berio: Notturno Quartetto III (2005)

Alban Berg Quartett - Haydn: Streichquartette Op. 77 / Berio: Notturno Quartetto III (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 329 MB | 01:11:24
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

The Alban Berg Quartet excel in 18th-century repertory and the Franz Josef Haydn found here makes up an especially excellent example of this ensemble’s playing. The music is great, too: the two late Op. 77 Quartets quartets are what I believe are the finest examples he penned in this genre.

Nigel Kennedy - Polish Spirit (2014)

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Nigel Kennedy - Polish Spirit (2014)

Nigel Kennedy - Polish Spirit (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:11:27 | 333 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 3 79934 2

After restoring his first name, Nigel Kennedy (aka, the artist formerly known as Kennedy), released a series of recordings on EMI as virtuosic and eccentric as himself: East Meets East, Inner Thoughts, The Vivaldi Album, and the Blue Note Sessions. But despite the enormous musical diversity of those records, little could have prepared one for the album that followed: Polish Spirit, featuring violin concertos by Emil Mlynarski and Mieczyslaw Karlowicz and arrangements of Chopin's 2 Nocturnes, Op. 9.

Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)

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Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)

Nigel Kennedy - Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:35 | 333 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49663 2

Kennedy has shrewdly augmented the regular concerto coupling of Bruch and Mendelssohn with the rare Schubert work, and the result is a generous issue which on every front can be warmly recommended for exceptionally strong and positive performances, vividly recorded. The Rondo in A, D438, dating from 1816, the year of his Concertstuck in D for violin and orchestra, was originally written for solo violin accompanied by string quartet.

Alban Berg Quartett - Dvorák: String Quartets, Op. 51 & 105 (2005)

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Alban Berg Quartett - Dvorák: String Quartets, Op. 51 & 105 (2005)

Alban Berg Quartett - Dvorák: String Quartets, Op. 51 & 105 (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 303 MB | 01:00:55
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

When released in 2001, these live performances of two Dvorak quartets caught the ABQ at their best (in concert from 1999). Quartet no. 10 in particular is a miracle of supple ensemble in which the smallest nuances of tone and phrasing are uncannily shared by each musician. This reading comes as close as imaginable to a string quartet sounding like a single great musician. Compared to performances by native Czech groups, the ABQ's Dvorak is urbane, subtle, and poised. Don't expect earthiness or rustic atmosphere.

Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)

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Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)

Dennis Brain - Strauss, Hindemith: Horn Concertos (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:07 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 67783 2 0

This CD from EMI features Dennis Brain, in my opinion the greatest horn player who ever lived. In his tragically brief life Brain recorded the definitive versions of numerous works, and although his Mozart horn concertos are my favorites, his treatment of Strauss is a close runner up. Despite these recordings being from the mid-1950s, the musicianship of Brain still makes these the best available. While I like Strauss, I find Hindemith a bit derivative and monotonous, although with Brain's treatment still a delight.

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)

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Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)

Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer - The Berlin Recital (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 508 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 298 MB | 01:56:32
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Violinist Gidon Kremer and pianist Martha Argerich are two of the greatest living virtuosos on their instruments and, though they are wholly individualistic players, they get along extremely well together. German Romantic Robert Schumann and Hungarian modernist Béla Bartók don't have much in common at first blush: one is dreamy and poetic, the other brutal and cerebral.

Christa Ludwig - Les introuvables de Christa Ludwig (1992)

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Christa Ludwig - Les introuvables de Christa Ludwig (1992)

Christa Ludwig - Les introuvables de Christa Ludwig (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:52:28 | 1.4 Gb
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 64074

She sang all the major mezzo roles, and also some in the dramatic soprano repertory, notably Leonora in Fidelio, Lady Macbeth and the Marschallin. Her voice is a rich, expressive mezzo capable of dramatic incisiveness and even throughout its considerable range. Her upper register in mezzo music is excintingly projected. Although this compilation is composed of different recordings in different settings in different years, all of them show a young Ludwig when she had not yet acquired her prime and her status of, arguably, the best mezzo of the world, which would arrive in the years to come.

Nigel Kennedy - Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2003)

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Nigel Kennedy - Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2003)

Nigel Kennedy - Tchaikovsky & Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2003)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 279 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 177 MB | 01:09:45
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics ‎

First, as a violinist I can guarantee that Nigel Kennedy IS NOT a mediocre violinist, he is surely a great violinist one of the best of our time. Mr. Hurwitz you must be the kind of people Kennedy criticizes because you just can't accept the fact that he can play any kind of music being Jazz or Classical music or any other good music in a high level and he does play it very well as well as you can't accept his image and his way of thinking, and we can see it on your critic where you spent the whole message criticizing Kennedy and made just a small and not very happy commentary about the album.

Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations (1993)

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Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations (1993)

Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations (1993)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:11 | 211 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 0777 7 54890 2 6

Nigel Kennedy’s repackaged 1986 recording of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is an adventure – free, rhapsodic, emphasising the constant flow of song which is the work’s main asset. Perhaps he’s a little over-keen to emphasise what melancholy there is here, nearly bringing the outer movements to a halt with the bitter-sweet dreams of second subjects, but the Canzonetta is a miracle of introspection. All this passes Gil Shaham by. While the young Israeli clearly has a fabulous palette, conjuring a bright, beautiful sheen at the top of the instrument (though unduly spotlit by DG), he rarely uses it discriminatingly enough, and the sense of flexible movement so vital for the Tchaikovsky is missing.