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Quatuor Ardeo – Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arr. F. Meïmoun for String Quartet) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:06 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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To be sure, Bach’s Goldberg Variations are intimately, profoundly, a technical work for the harpsichord: in fact, for two harpsichords. But the notes are pure music, and there is nothing stopping artists playing them with, for example, a string quartet. And that is what the Ardeo Quartet is doing here, with great conviction, in a version signed by François Meimoun, which has already been performed in concert many times over. Meimoun, of course, doesn’t “change” a single note, a pitch, a rhythm, a line: rather, he is working on the discourse here, in order to make it a piece for string quartet in every minute, intimate detail. And his effort really pays off, as the “harpsichord” aspect of the work doesn’t show through at all. As a number of the variations are written for two voices, he has fun with supplementary pizzicati and switching from one instrument to another: it’s a real four-hander. It is a safe bet that the listener, including listeners who know the Goldberg Variations by heart – but on harpsichord – will discover countless counterpoints and even a few hidden jokes from Bach which don’t come through on the harpsichord(s).
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Aline Piboule – Coincidentia Oppositorum: Piano Works by Bach, Liszt & Greif (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:16 minutes | 2,58 GB | Genre: Classical
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With this new program recorded for Artalinna in Metz in April 2023, Aline Piboule continues her original musical journeys by associating two unexpected composers, both genius pianists, Franz Liszt (1811-1886) and Olivier Greif (1950-2000), who each one carried out a powerful mystical journey during their existence. Of the two, it brings together two works as beautiful as they are complementary. From Liszt, Ballade No. 2 as then sublimated by Blessing of God in Solitude, coming from poetic and religious harmonies. From Greif, two Sonatas, among his most beautiful works, Three Poems of Li T’ai Po (1977) and the Codex Domini (1994), both played in the critical edition produced by Anne-Élise Thouvenin. Two pages of Bach open and end this recital, filled with grandiose and intense feelings.
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Project Fusion – Bach, Glazunov & Others: Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:38 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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The brilliant saxophone quartet Project Fusion make their debut recording featuring two major works- Glazunov’s richly contrapuntal Quartet, Op. 109, with its tips of the hat to Chopin and Schumann, and the late David Maslanka’s Recitation Book (2006), a work based on music by J.S. Bach. Extraordinary chamber playing!
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Leonidas Kavakos, The Apollon Ensemble – Bach: Violin Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:32 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this release, violinist Leonidas Kavakos goes back to Bach – varied and vivid orchestral works from the first half of the 18th century in which the composer combined the best of German and Italian instrumental styles. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Kavakos is one of the world’s most respected violinists. He continues to be a guest of the great concert halls and orchestras of the world as both violinist and conductor.
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Pierre Gallon – Bach – Suites françaises (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:36:07 minutes | 5,87 GB | Genre: Classical
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El clavecinista Pierre Gallon nos entrega las Suites francesas de J. S. Bach, que constituyen hoy una de sus obras más documentadas. Verdadera herramienta pedagógica, estas suites han sido cuidadosamente copiadas por numerosos alumnos del Cantor, lo que demuestra la importancia de un libro que pasa a veces por una musicalidad menos ambiciosa que las Suites inglesas. Il n’en est rien…
On pense aujourd’hui qu’une première version fut composée aux rondours de 1720, à Köthen, pour l’éducation de l’enfant chéri Wilhelm Friedemann, “le fils que j’aime et qui me donne de la joie” (según las propias palabras de Bach, relatadas por el filólogo C. F. Cramer). Pero esta primera boca es bastante diferente de la que actualmente hace referencia.
Il n’en reste pas moins qu’adjoutées aux six opus habitualement reconnus, ces suites à la française sont en réalité portées au nombre de huit ; me parecía interesante reunirlas (complétant la suite lacunaire par une gigue, fortuitement isolée, de W. F. Bach). En efecto, toutes, elles témoignent de la volonté de Bach d’inculquer à ses proches élèves une certain idée du style français : finesse du discours, élégante simplicité de la ligne mélodique, noblesse et variété traídas por los diferentes caracteres de las danzas. Car il est bien question ici de danse: les huit suites présentés procedent de la même organisation.
Tout au long de son œuvre, Bach nous a left plusieurs indices qui nous permetent, quelques siècles plus tard, de constituer notre propre “Pierre de Rosette”, et ainsi entendre son univers, sa lecture du monde. J’ai le sentiment que ces Suites françaises constituent une de ces traces laissées sur la piste. Y no me parece anodino que este libro haya sido tan estudiado por l’entourage du maître. Aujourd’hui, à l’evidence, nous sommes nous-mêmes les enfants de Bach, les élèves d’un professeur qui n’a pas fini de nous enseignerez toute sa science, tout son art. Il nous faut pruébalo, y pruébalo de nuevo.
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Pierre Dumoussaud, Chœur et Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie, Violette Polchi – Offenbach: Le voyage dans la lune (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:19 minutes | 2,69 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jules Verne was the inspiration for Offenbach’s opéra-féerie, premiered in 1875. The Parisian craze for this type of musical extravaganza stemmed from its impressive stage effects: for Le Voyage dans la Lune, two ballets and some twenty sets took the audience from the Earth to the Moon, successively recreating the Paris Observatory, a working blast furnace and the crater of an erupting volcano. The piece is studded with zany characters and imaginary places: a lunar landscape, a glass palace, mother-of-pearl galleries, etc. The producers even borrowed a dromedary and an ostrich from the zoo at the Jardin d’Acclimatation! To accompany this theatrical display, Offenbach composed a series of colourful, picturesque hit numbers, wittily and energetically performed here by a team of enthusiastic soloists.The Chœur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie are placed under the subtle and precise direction of Pierre Dumoussaud.
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Pierre Goy – CPE Bach – für Kenner und Liebhaber, Sonatas, Rondos & Fantasias (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:22:16 minutes | 3,62 GB | Genre: Classical
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C. P. E. Bach and his keyboards für Kenner und Liebhaber allow us to enter into a forgotten world of sound where various keyboard instruments, especially those strings that are struck, mix and mingle, revealing new colours and accents. C. P. E. Bach’s work explores this broad expressive palette that enables him to evoke successively, or sometimes abruptly, the affable and tender grace of the songs to the dry anguish of break-ups, joyful liveliness to sad melancholy.
With three keyboards – a clavichord, a Pantalon and a fortepiano -, exceptional witnesses of this sensitive and resonant universe, Pierre Goy succeeds in unveiling to us the whole teeming, whimsical and innovative dimension of works imbued with deep humanity, born of the great art and true freedom with which C. P. E. Bach successfully combined improvisation and composition.
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Pieter-Jan Belder – J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:22 minutes | 3,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bach at his most extrovert and exhilarating: new, period-instrument accounts of the earliest masterpieces in the lineage of keyboard concertos.
Piano concertos from Beethoven to Brahms to Busoni and beyond are all indebted to the example of Bach in his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and its liberation of the harpsichord from continuo support to virtuoso soloist, in both the spectacular first-movement cadenza and the one-against-many dramatic narrative which marks a revolutionary break with the concerto-grosso model of collegiate co-operation.
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Pietro Soraci – Sämtliche Klavierwerke VI – Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (BWV 846-893) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:48:54 minutes | 3,91 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Italian pianist, Pietro Soraci, showed his extraordinary natural talent in playing the piano since he was 3 years old, gaining the interest of the national press and televisions. He performed first when he was 11, with the Orchestra of Bellini Opera Theater. He graduated – followed by Emilia Miozzi – with the highest score, cum laude, and honored with a special award of appreciation. After experiencing different approaches to the piano music and techniques through the contact with some of the major teachers like Elisabeth Leonskaja (Salzburg, Austria), Massimo Bertucci and Vincenzo Vitale (Sermoneta, Italy), Andrej Jasinski (Katovice Music Accademy), he was awarded of several prizes in national and international piano competitions and in particular he was recognized as the best Italian pianist by the International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in Varsaw (Poland) in 1985.
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Music Of Offenbach (1956/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:31 minutes | 886 MB | Genre: Classical
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Immerse yourself in the timeless charm of Jacques Offenbach’s music with the iconic album Music of Offenbach, performed by the illustrious Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the baton of Ernest Falk. Originally released in 1956 by Period Records, this captivating collection showcases Offenbach’s whimsical melodies and vibrant orchestrations in all their glory. Experience the enchantment of Offenbach’s compositions anew with this masterful rendition by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, a treasure trove for lovers of classical music and connoisseurs alike.
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Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent – Bach: Missa in h-moll, BWV 232 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:40:55 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Classical
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“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. Philippe Herreweghe’s longlasting interest in the works of the Cantor of Leipzig has turned him into a man whose views evolve as he delves deeper into his subject matter. The joy that he feels – combined with a very legitimate sense of pride – in having forged musical tools that have today reached maturity, has led him to come back on a Missa that has never ceased to intrigue him: the catholic Missa of the protestant composer Bach.
Last spring, theJesus-Christus Kirche in Berlin came alive with the splendid sounds of Bach’s score as preceding recordings of the Missa no longer met the radiant vision that the Flemish maestro had of it. Together with a handful of excellent soloists – included in the choir – and a Collegium vocally and instrumentally at its best, Philippe Herreweghe delivers a work that must be savoured like a sweet or a last supper where rigor and hedonism, inner depth and outer seduction tenderly offer themselves to the listener.
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Pieter-Jan Belder – J.S. Bach: Miscellaneous Pieces for Harpsichord (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:22:14 minutes | 4,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Over a career spanning more than 30 years, the Dutch harpsichordist and conductor Pieter-Jan Belder has become renowned as a Bach interpreter with his surveys in concert and on record of the keyboard and orchestral masterpieces such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Brandenburg Concertos and no fewer than three recordings of the Goldberg Variations.
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Hilary Hahn – Bach Concertos (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:57:19 minutes | Full Scans included | 4,29 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon
Hilary Hahn is not regarded as an early music star, by any means, but her recordings of J.S. Bach’s violin concertos with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra are somewhat in the spirit of historically informed performances, and listeners who might have expected more mainstream interpretations may be pleasantly surprised. Some of the expected characteristics of Baroque period practice are here, such as fleet tempos, a small ensemble, bright sonorities, light textures, and an active harpsichord and cello continuo, and the versatility of Kahane and his group goes far to create this period quality. Hahn might have indulged in some free ornamentation and even added some improvised cadenzas, but her straightforward playing is at least clean and unaffected, and she deserves credit for her brilliant technique, which carries these pieces. While her approach to Bach isn’t close to Rachel Podger’s playing in authentic Baroque style, neither does it approximate the richer, heavier, “old school” style of Yehudi Menuhin, so Hahn may appeal to some listeners as a compromise between competing schools of thought. Deutsche Grammophon’s recording puts Hahn in a prominent, central position, so it’s easy to stay focused on her solo part in the big sound of this hybrid SACD. –AllMusic Review by Blair Sanderson
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