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Liszt: Intégrale des Rhapsodies Hongroises

Denis Pascal

Classical - Released May 14, 2001 | Polymnie

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Brahms: Piano Works (Klavierstücke Op. 76, Intermezzi Op. 117, etc.)

Adam Laloum

Classical - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Récréations

Pierre-Yves Plat

Jazz - Released April 1, 2017 | PIERRE-YVES PLAT

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, 3 Hungarian Dances

Boris Berezovsky

Concertos - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Orgues de Provence

Lucienne Antonini, Francis Chapelet, Michel Chapuis, René Saorgin

Classical - Released November 6, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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Bach : Contemplation

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 8, 2009 | Mirare

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Scarlatti: Ombre et lumière

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Mirare

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La Mascarade - Music For Solo Baroque Guitar & Theorbo

Rolf Lislevand

Classical - Released May 20, 2016 | ECM New Series

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The Norwegian early music lutenist and guitarist Rolf Lislevand has pooh-poohed the idea of historical authenticity, but it may be that the lovely program here would have appealed to listeners in the court of Louis XIV, for which the music was intended. Lislevand examines pieces by a pair of late 17th century composers, Robert de Visée (a rondeau by whom, plus some rather murky booklet ruminations by Lislevand, give the album its title) and the sparsely heard Francesco Corbetta, choosing slow, quasi-improvisatory pieces and dances -- preludes, chaconnes, sarabandes, passacaglias -- from each, and adding some improvised introductions. The music alternates between a very deep-voiced, many-stringed theorbo and a small, crystalline Baroque guitar. The result is an extremely reflective concert, dividing up a common stock of musical ideas in several subtle ways, that, as Lislevand points out, would have been played for a small group of connoisseurs in its own time. ECM producer Manfred Eicher is nonpareil as a recorder of music like this, but here, working in the Auditorio Stelio Molo in Lugano, he outdoes himself, evoking the "musica callada," the music that has fallen silent, of Mompou. He draws the listener into a rich communion with a remarkable player.© TiVo
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Rhétorique du Silence

David Bergmüller

Classical - Released August 18, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Poulenc : Pièces pour Piano

Alexandre Tharaud

Classical - Released October 15, 1996 | Arion

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Joseph Haydn : Cello Concertos

Freiburger Barockorchester

Cello Concertos - Released March 27, 2003 | harmonia mundi

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This admirable Harmonia Mundi release presents Franz Josef Haydn's two cello concertos and the Cello Concerto in G minor by Georg Matthias Monn with the luster of period instruments; refined, idiomatic playing; and exceptional sound quality, with full resonance; and cellist Jean-Guihan Queyras and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Petra Müllejans, render these works with exquisite details and emotional depth. In a real sense, their performances are acts of rediscovery, for Haydn's cello concertos have become routine fare from too many modern renditions, and Monn's piece is unfamiliar from too few performances. Indeed, all three concertos have suffered the vagaries of preservation and interpretation. Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major was once considered lost until its discovery in 1961; the Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major suffered false attribution and its authorship was debated until the appearance of the manuscript in 1954; and Monn's concerto survived only in an arrangement for harpsichord and strings until Arnold Schoenberg edited it in 1912. To set the record straight, this disc presents the concertos intelligently refurbished, with appropriate eighteenth century style and color. Through their insightful scholarship and sensitive performances, Queyras and Müllejans have produced a fine alternative to the less authentic mainstream recordings.© TiVo
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Domenico Scarlatti : 50 Sonates pour clavecin

Pierre Hantaï

Chamber Music - Released November 17, 2014 | Mirare

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Musique de chambre

Louise Farrenc

Chamber Music - Released August 30, 2005 | naïve classique

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Alexandre Tharaud: Baroque

Alexandre Tharaud

Classical - Released April 16, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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C.P.E Bach: Concerto pour piano, cordes et basse continue en ré mineur

Christian Zacharias

Miscellaneous - Released April 17, 2020 | XXI Music

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was admired and often cited as an example by Haydyn, Mozart and Beethoven, but just like these three musicians he too struggled to find an audience for his music. As one of Johann Sebastian’s sons, he was a custodian of his father’s rather daunting legacy. The composer dates back to the beginning of the classical area but his music already seemed to show hints of romanticism. The very essence of his music and his originality has been considered as a “theatre of the soul” (Gilles Cantagrel) – the emotional staging of the music interspersed with surprises and sudden modulations, fiercely dynamic oppositions and silences sometimes heavy with anguish. Like all the artists of his time, Carl Philipp was a prolific composer and wrote nearly fifty concertos for the harpsichord, which was his favourite instrument, along with the clavichord on which he took great pleasure in improvising for hours at a time. Christian Zacharias is familiar with the composer and has already devoted several recordings to his work. For this concert in November 2019 with the Auvergne National Orchestra, who he conducts from behind his own instrument, he selected the Concerto in D minor, Wq. 23, H. 427. It is a piece which illustrates the innovativeness of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s style perfectly, particularly in the Poco Andante, whose expressive effusion prefigures Mozart’s greatest concertos. The extraordinary Rondo in C minor with its harmonic instability is featured as an encore and takes us to right to the edge of the abyss before leaving us there with its question-like inconclusive ending. A musical style that seemingly initiates and embodies the “Age of Sensibility” to which Hadyn and Mozart later greatly contributed. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Concertos pour clavecin et cordes

Maude Gratton

Classical - Released October 2, 2015 | Mirare

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Bach : The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released March 18, 2016 | Aparté

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