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Compositeur: SCHUBERT, Franz (Peter) ((1797-1828)) |
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ID: 5060192780017
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Vocal and PianoThis debut recital disc from violinist Kaoru Yamada and pianist Sholto Kynoch is a breathtaking performance of a fascinating and beautiful programme based around the Fantasy repertoire for violin and piano. For Schubert’s song Sei mir gegrüsst, they are joined by rising stars of the singing world, soprano Rhona McKail and tenor Nicky Spence. |
| 16.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ACDBH049-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: SaxophoneInternationally renowned Dutch classical saxophonist performs works by Fauré, Schuber, Scriabin and Folkert Buis.
There is often a thin line between composed and improvised music, and this recording mosaics the two styles to create a cross-section that is beautifully effective in its simplicity - often dramatic and melancholy but also light-footed and assured.
Since Guido of Arrezzo laid the basis for musical notation in the 11th Century, music aficionados have challenged each other with the question: Who is the best composer of all time? Although the answer is normally someone like Bach, Mozart or Schönberg, the composer Shane Fage has offered the most original answer: The writer Charles Dickens. “Your first job is that of the story teller. Owing to the power of Dickens’ language, one could see the room, smell the stale cigar in the ashtray, feel the warmth of the fire, everything.......And that is why Dickens is the best composer I have ever heard.”
Telling stories as the basis for music. An art form from long before Guido of Arrezzo, and one that is effective in all genres. The story behind El Cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds) is the birth of Christ, until the legendary cellist Pau Casals transformed it into the epitome of the Catalonian soul, “The birds in this piece sing “Peace, Peace, Peace!” And the music is a music that Bach and Beethoven and all the greats would have loved and admired. It is so beautiful, and it is also the soul of my country, Catalonia.” If you compare Schubert’s Adagio, Fauré’s Nocturne and the fourth Prelude of Scriabin with the ancient traditional Catalonian folksong, it is apparent that both Fage and Casals are right. For centuries the craftmanship of composers has been defined by the ability to base music on a simple but very effective melody.
A craft that is being carried on by Folkert Buis. In his “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” the requisite beautiful melody is constantly interrupted by cold dissonance and the violence of blows on the piano. In the middle of the piece it seems that peace and quiet have triumphed, but it quickly becomes apparent that this is no more than the eye of the storm.
That the craft is genre-free is obvious in Kirkland’s Dienda. Even in improvised music simplicity is often the trump card, but sometimes a masterwork can be brought to a higher plain by Jazz musicians. uch as Branford Marsalis’ version on his album Royal Garden Blues. His brilliant phrasing of this melody is only surpassed by the story that he brings to it with his own improvisation.
The final composition by Paquito D'Rivera, a musician who has based his carrer on a perfect mix of musical tradition and enjoyment of performance. Ultimately it is all about emotion. |
| 15.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ARNR1298
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: PianoClassical Music, Schubert, Chambermusic, Paul Badura-Skoda, Piano
In the Mirror of Time, sheds new light on a masterpiece of European classical music, Franz Schubert's quintet, The Trout.
The art of interpretation in the mirror of time: the great Viennese pianist Paul Badura Skoda offers us two interpretations of the same piece, played 39 years apart.
The first is taken from a historical recording made in 1958, and the second was recorded in Vienna in 1997.
It is remarkable to hear how the early interpretation of the young pianist is intimately tied to the one recorded 39 years later. |
| 18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ART177
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano |
| 11.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ATH23026
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Baroque
Subcollection: HarpsichordPeriod-instrument specialist Joanna Leach takes us on a journey through the development of keyboard instruments used in wealthy homes, from a spinet through three square pianos; each contemporary with the music played.
1 - 15: Spinet (Barton, 1727)
16 - 20: Square Piano (Longman & Broderip, 1787)
21 - 29: Square Piano (Stodart, 1823)
30 - 34: Square Piano (Clementi, 1832)
Musically both educational and extremely entertaining - a fine and unique recital. |
| 12.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ATHCD3
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Great Performers
Subcollection: PianoAuthentic period style performances of baroque and classical music played by specialist Joanna Leach. These works are played on four square pianos of the early classical period namely a Stodart (c.1823), a Broadwood (1789), a D’Almaine (c.1835) and a Longman & Broderip (1787).
All the instruments were restored by Andrew Lancaster. |
| 13.00 eur Buy |
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ID: ATHCD6
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoThis work is played on a Clementi square piano of 1832 and is therefore a genuine reconstruction of the sort of sound heard in Schubert’s day. The instrument was restored by Andrew Lancaster. A very rare opportunity to hear one of the greatest vocals works ever written, as it would have sounded to the composer's contemporaries. |
| 13.00 eur Buy |
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