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Brahms: Piano Concertos, Piano Works & Chamber Music

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released August 18, 2017 | Warner Classics

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Guéthary

Aurèle Marthan

Classical - Released August 12, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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Ravel and the Basque Country have always been one and the same. His Concerto in G major is the central work of this album and is presented here in an original arrangement for piano and small ensemble. Pianist Aurèle Marthan also pays homage to his splendid hometown, Guéthary, where he founded the festival "Classic à Guéthary". All of the works recorded here illustrate the richness of a region that has been cherished by so many artists: Stravinsky arranged his Petrouchka in Biarritz, Pablo de Sarasate chose to reside there and Isaac Albéniz opted to spend his last days there. Another Basque celebrity, although on the Spanish side, is Alberto Iglesias, director Pedro Almodóvar’s house composer. The Basque coast is often compared to California because of its excellent beaches for surfing; Aurèle Marthan evokes the Eagles as well as his passion for the American minimalists (Glass) and for cinema, with music from the films Amen and Waltz with Bashir; he also provides a piano version of the Biarritz-based rock band La Femme’s hit Sur la planche. This album covers more than three centuries of music and includes music by Rameau and Couperin — the composer of La Basque ! Guéthary was written especially for this recording by composer David Chalmin, who also produced the recording in his studio in the Basque Country. © Alpha Classics
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, 3 Hungarian Dances

Boris Berezovsky

Concertos - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Brahms: Variation on a Theme of Paganini, Ballades, Waltzes

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released January 9, 2006 | Warner Classics

Who is Nicholas Angelich and why does he play Brahms so well? Indeed, better than "so well," why does Angelich sound like a born Brahms player? Actually a born American trained in Paris who had made several recordings as an accompanist and a couple of discs of Liszt and Rachmaninov as a soloist, Angelich, with his mixture of deft dexterity and enormous intensity, of soulful expressivity and demonic virtuosity, sounds in Brahms like an idealized Wilhelm Kempff with a better technique crossed with an only slightly less terrifying Sviatoslav Richter. Angelich's Ballades are by turns heroic and tragic, lyric and dramatic, triumphant and, in the closing pages of the final Andante con moto, wonderfully consoling. His Rhapsodies are an intoxicating blend of emotional restlessness, interpretative recklessness, and rhythmic force. His Paganini Variations are brightly colored, brilliantly shaped, and fantastically imaginative, qualities only rarely present in Brahms' music, but fully present in these Variations and given a double-helping of power in Angelich's blazing performance. As captured in Virgin's immense but intimate sound, Angelich sounds like he could play any other work by Brahms, indeed, any other work by any composer, and sound like he was born to play it.© TiVo
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Le violoncelle à l'école de Paris

Wen-Sinn Yang

Chamber Music - Released July 16, 2021 | Oehms Classics

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After the signal event that was World War I, young, hopeful, gifted composers trooped into the French metropolis. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term "École de Paris" (School of Paris) for the foreign composers then living in Paris, especially the Hungarian Tibor Harsányi (1898-1954), Pole Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), Czech Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959), Russian Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977), and Romanian Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), whose works he specialized in disseminating. All five composers came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinů, died there. All five initially attempted to translate the principal aspects of the difficult-to-notate idioms of folk music from their homelands into standard musical notation. Some works can be heard in a world premiere recording. © Oehms Classics
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Brahms : Symphonie No. 1 & Variations sur un thème de Haydn (Diapason n°585)

Orchestre De La NDR De Hambourg

Symphonic Music - Released September 28, 2009 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Récital de Besançon, 7 septembre 1956

Clara Haskil

Classical - Released June 27, 2001 | INA Mémoire vive

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Martha Argerich | Evgeny Kissin: The Verbier Concerts

Evgeny Kissin

Classical - Released July 28, 2023 | Verbier Festival Gold

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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 - Études sur un thème de Beethoven, WoO 31 & Geistervariationen, WoO 24

Claire Désert

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Mirare

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From one recording to the next, French pianist Claire Désert continues her exploration of Schumann’s piano works with a new album focussed on the variation genre. She explores the manifold, elusive moods found in the “Symphonic Studies”, the “Etudes in Variation form on a Theme of Beethoven” and the “Geistervariationen” (Ghost Variations), like a diary of the composer. From a tribute to Beethoven to the ultimate variations composed right before sinking into the Rhine, it is all Romanticism that is sung by Schumann's piano, with its breaks and ideals. © Mirare
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Guitar Recital: Raphaël Feuillâtre

Raphaël Feuillâtre

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Naxos

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 - Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Maxim Emelyanychev

Symphonic Music - Released October 19, 2018 | Aparté

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Fantaisie Romantique: 19th-Century Eastern European Guitar Music

James Akers

Classical - Released February 9, 2024 | Resonus Classics

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Live From The Club Album Yellow Lounge

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Classical - Released August 28, 2015 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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The vogue for performing classical music in nightclubs has seemed to recede in its original homeland, the U.S., but not so in Europe, with the icily perfect Anne-Sophie Mutter as the somewhat unlikely representative of the trend. Mutter, who was apparently inspired to try this by her 20-something children, shows why she's one of the world's greats, adapting to the demands of the medium, and by all appearances having a lot of fun. Mutter and a handpicked group called Mutter's Virtuosi, featuring the superb Mahan Esfahani on harpsichord, essentially offer a program of familiar late Romantic tunes that might have been heard in the nightclub's nearest analogue of a century ago, the Viennese café, spicing it up with syncopated material (Gershwin and the Jamaican Rumba) on one hand, and Vivaldi and Bach on the other. Mutter pushes herself into tempo extremes she might not ordinarily try, and she gets a big cheer from the crowd with a couple of movements of the Vivaldi Four Seasons and, more unexpectedly, two Bach concerto movements. The whole thing has a loose, enthusiastic feel with the flavor of Mutter showing the youngsters what she can do, and it may be that she's hit on a more promising direction for such releases than her much younger American counterparts. Recommended and fun.© TiVo
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Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini & Poulenc: Organ Concerto

Cameron Carpenter

Classical - Released March 15, 2019 | Sony Classical

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Oh, ma belle brunette

A Nocte Temporis - Reinoud Van Mechelen

Classical - Released May 27, 2022 | Alpha Classics

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The term "brunette" refers not only to a young woman with brown hair, but also to a musical form that was highly fashionable from the late seventeenth century to the early eighteenth. The genre evolved from the air de cour, extremely popular in France since the beginning of the seventeenth century. The compositional process, however, remained very similar: to write a short, tender song, dealing with themes of love or nature, which could be sung alone or accompanied by a harmonic instrument. The late seventeenth century also saw the appearance of an instrument that soon became a favourite of composers and amateur musicians: the German flute, now called the traverso or Baroque flute. In this new programme, tenor Reinoud van Mechelen, flautist Anna Besson and A nocte temporis present an anthology of airs and brunettes ranging from the most touching song to the heartiest drinking song (air à boire). © Alpha Classics
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Dukas: Complete Piano Music

Vincenzo Maltempo

Classical - Released January 27, 2023 | Piano Classics

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Henry Vieuxtemps: Violin Works

Alexander Markov

Classical - Released August 26, 2022 | Naxos

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Vieuxtemps transformed the technique and aesthetic of violin playing in the 19th century, and as a virtuoso exponent and composer he was considered a worthy successor to Paganini. His works for violin and orchestra illustrate two notable features – a liking for variation form and the fusion of emotional density with virtuosic flair. These can be heard in the impressive Variations on a Theme from Beethoven’s "Romance No. 1" and his Fantasie in E major "La sentimentale", one of his very greatest concert fantasies, where the music is influenced by bel canto. All of the works on this album were discovered after the composer’s death apart from the unfinished Violin Concerto No. 8 – one of Vieuxtemps’ last compositions and dedicated to his most illustrious pupil, Eugène Ysaÿe. © Naxos
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Rhapsody

Martin James Bartlett

Classical - Released March 4, 2022 | Warner Classics

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With this release, there’s no doubt that young English pianist Martin James Bartlett is paying homage to Earl Wild. He began this second album for Warner Classics with the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninov. This Dionysian score left its mark on Wild since he recorded it for the Reader's Digest label in 1965 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Jascha Horenstein. The American pianist’s presence is really felt in the second part, which includes transcriptions, paraphrases and studies by Earl Wild on works by Rachmaninov and Gershwin. For example, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is one of Wild’s favourites (his recording for RCA with Arthur Fiedler is really worth a listen).As combative as he is poetic, Martin James Bartlett has come on leaps and bounds since his first recital in 2019, revealing himself here to be a pianist gifted with beautiful sensitivity and irresistible panache (I Got Rhythm). His rendition of The Man I Love is beautifully light and airy. His playing is never rushed, and his sound is bright with a beautiful grain in the midrange. This is impeccably captured by the renowned Arne Akselberg's sound recording, which makes his search for harmonic depth crystal clear (Where Beauty Dwells). It’s exiting listening. In The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Joshua Weilerstein is very attentive to the pianist's poetic approach (Variations 17 and 18); both refuse any form of virtuosity or flamboyance, preferring instead to liberate the tragedy: the black drama that Rachmaninov brought to a climax in his American works. Many will be able to overlook the wavering uncertainty of this new proposal, which is far more original than it might seem. © Pierre-Yves Lascar/Qobuz