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Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)

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Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)

Maurizio Pollini - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonaten opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier" (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 63:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 429 569-2 | Recorded: 1977

Pollini's performances of Beethoven's last five piano sonatas have assumed almost legendary status. Sometimes considered a cold interpreter, Pollini here pays scrupulous attention to Beethoven's instructions, an attention that never gets in the way of sincere expression. There's a lot to be said for approaching this music with a maximum of clarity and simplicity, and a minimum of Romantic panting and heaving. In fact, Beethoven's instructions are so detailed, and the music itself is often so elaborately developed, that it's all most pianists can do to play it as he wrote it. Pollini does that, and much more.

Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

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Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:22 | 500 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 45945

That said, Anner Bylsma's disc gets a great deal more playing time. The timbre of the piccolo cello is ideally matched with the organ. While purists may balk at such unusual instrumentation, I cannot help but think such an experiment is quite in keeping with the spirit of Baroque era practices. In general, I try not to judge the success of a recording by a preconceived idea of what a musical elite would or would not approve of.

Heinrich Schiff, Till Fellner - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2009)

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Heinrich Schiff, Till Fellner - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2009)

Heinrich Schiff, Till Fellner - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 490 Mb | Total time: 71:24+68:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 93895 | Recorded: 1998

The pellucid tone and refined technique of Yo-Yo Ma and the passionate interpretations and flashy virtuosity of Mischa Maisky have defined the poles of post-Rostropovich cello playing. In contrast, Heinrich Schiff may seem reserved to the point of being unemotional and self-effacing to the point of disappearing altogether. But as his 1998 recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano with Till Fellner demonstrate, Schiff is every bit as accomplished as Ma and Maisky.

Olivier Fortin, Ensemble Masques - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sacro-Profanus Sonatas (2013)

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Olivier Fortin, Ensemble Masques - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sacro-Profanus Sonatas (2013)

Olivier Fortin, Ensemble Masques - Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sacro-Profanus Sonatas (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 53:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Zig Zag Territoires | ZZT 334 | Recorded: 2012

With this first project for Zig-Zag Territories, the musicians of the Canadian ensemble Masques under the direction of the harpsichordist Olivier Fortin demonstrate their passion for the music of the Austrian Baroque composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

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.