Martin Gester – J.S. Bach: Clavier-Übung I (6 Partitas) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:05 minutes | 3,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ligia
Here is yet another high-standard new addition to Ligia’s roster. Martin Gester has a wealth of all kinds of experience in the field of music. He comes back to the keyboard in the same way one returns from numerous trips, with one’s outlook enriched by accumulated know-how, focusing here on a preferred domain: the harpsichord which, after the organ, has become his main instrument. As it did for Bach, it has become the place where he “speaks” music instead of “playing” it or conducting it.
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Van Diemen’s Band & Martin Gester – Handel: 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:58 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
What we know as “Handel’s Opus 3” is most likely little more than a brazen attempt by the London publisher John Walsh to make some quick money. In 1715, Walsh had issued a pirated edition of Corelli’s 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 which proved an instant success and left him constantly looking for similar opportunities. Almost 20 years later, perhaps in the knowledge that the royal protection granted to Handel’s musical output was about to expire, Walsh assembled a set of six orchestral pieces for a wide range of instruments. He prefaced them with a wholly misleading title-page – based on Corelli’s style-defining collection – and advertised them as Handel’s “Opera Terza”.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Grandes oeuvres a quatre mains – Aline Zylberajch, Martin Gester (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: eClassical | Digital Booklet| © K617
Mozart par deux complices musicaux, Aline Zylberajch et Martin Gester. Échappant au domaine des “frivolités musicales de salon”, ces grandes oeuvres de W.A. Mozart vont jusqu’au bout des richesses sonores et polyphoniques que rendent possibles 4 mains se livrant à de subtils jeux de miroirs. Aline Zylberajch et Martin Gester, tour à tour s’affrontant et se joignant, restituent à merveille l’inspiration symphonique qui prévaut dans ces grandes pages.
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