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Scarlatti: Ombre et lumière

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Mirare

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Domenico Scarlatti : 50 Sonates pour clavecin

Pierre Hantaï

Chamber Music - Released November 17, 2014 | Mirare

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Domenico Scarlatti (Vol. 1) : Keyboard Sonatas

Pierre Hantaï

Chamber Music - Released May 1, 2002 | Mirare

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Sonates pour clavier

Zhu Xiao-Mei

Classical - Released January 1, 1995 | INA Mémoire vive

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Scarlatti - Father and Son. Cantatas and Sonatas (con idea humana)

Tenta La Fuga

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | Prospero Classical

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Chopin: 26 Préludes - Scriabine: Sonate Op. 19 No. 2

Beatrice Rana

Classical - Released September 2, 2012 | ATMA Classique

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Hélène de Mongeroult, portrait d'une compositrice visionnaire

Marcia Hadjimarkos

Classical - Released September 20, 2023 | iMD-Seulétoile

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Domenico Scarlatti (Vol. 3) : Keyboard Sonatas

Pierre Hantaï

Chamber Music - Released November 10, 2005 | Mirare

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Carte Blanche

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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To celebrate his 60th birthday Decca Classics gave Jean-Yves Thibaudet "carte blanche" to choose a very personal selection of music he has never recorded before. Including Dario Marianelli commissioned Pride and Prejudice - Suite to build on 97m streams for Dawn, Thibaudet's own transcriptions of Disney's When You Wish Upon a Star and Barber's Adagio for Strings. © Decca Classics
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Mendelssohn : Romances sans paroles, Variations sérieuses, Fantaisie écossaise

Shani Diluka

Classical - Released September 11, 2008 | Mirare

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Rêve d'amour

Brigitte Engerer

Classical - Released December 15, 2003 | Mirare

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Charles Avison : Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti

Concerto Köln

Chamber Music - Released October 2, 2015 | Berlin Classics

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The music on this album takes a little bit of explanation that the words "Concerti Grossi After Scarlatti" does not fully supply. These are not really arrangements or orchestrations of keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, even though they are sometimes described that way. Instead, as the booklet notes by Kai-Hinrich Müller put it here, this "is music by Avison and Scarlatti simultaneously" (or at least, one might say, sequentially). The basic source material is the set of Essercizii (Exercises) published by Scarlatti in England in 1739. These were among the few sonatas of Scarlatti that were internationally known during the composer's lifetime; Charles Burney remarked that "everyone played, or at least tried to play, Scarlatti's Essercizii." Enter English composer Charles Avison, who attempted to fill an obvious market niche by arranging them for a small orchestra. The keyboard pieces contain basically Italianate material, with loud-soft contrasts and registral blocks; there is no question of trying to orchestrate some of the wilder harmonic experiments or Spanish effects of some of Scarlatti's sonatas. But they are not "concertos" for keyboard, and there are not enough slow ones to make up three-movement concertos. Avison reworked the melodic material into orchestral-suitable shapes, pulled in material from other sonatas (some of them unknown), and may have written some slow movements to match outer-movement pairs. In short, what you hear is sort of an adaptation of Scarlatti, and in places almost a fantasy. You could just listen to concertos by Vivaldi or Sammartini instead, but the whole thing is sufficiently unusual to be interesting in itself, and the veteran Concerto Köln delivers lively, idiomatic performances. Recommended for Baroque enthusiasts.© TiVo
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Frédéric Chopin: 19 Nocturnes

Stéphane Blet

Classical - Released March 20, 2008 | Saphir Productions

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Arkana

Arvo Pärt

Pop - Released May 24, 2019 | Studio Lahore

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J'écoute Mozart et Haydn avec mon papa

Iddo Bar-Shaï

Classical - Released December 3, 2012 | Mirare

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Sonates pour clavecin

Colin Tilney

Classical - Released January 1, 1988 | Dorian

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Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 1 (Ballade, Mazurka op.62, Quatre Valses-Caprices, Préludes Op.103

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 12, 2009 | Mirare

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Though Fauré was assuredly his own man as a composer, in these performances of his piano music by Jean-Claude Pennetier, he is also surely the rightful heir of Chopin. The formal matter here is clearly Chopin's -- a ballade, a mazurka, four waltzes, and nine preludes -- and the stylistic manner is Chopin's as well -- the filigree and melody in the right hand and the left hand divided between counter-melody, chordal accompaniment and bass. This is meant as no slight to either Fauré or Pennetier. This is luscious music with toothsome melodies, succulent sonorities, and mouthwatering forms, and if these can be faulted for being too beautiful, it's a fault they should bear proudly. The performances are likewise exquisite. Pennetier has a fluent technique, a pearly tone, and an elegant way of phrasing a melody and shaping a form. But more than that, Pennetier has a real sympathy for Fauré's music and his interpretations are honest and heartfelt. Though the classic performances of these works are certainly worthy of admiration and love, Pennetier's are no less admirable and loveable and any listener interested in the composer or the period is urged to try this disc. Mirare's digital sound is clear, deep, and immediate. © TiVo
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16 sonates

Inger Södergren

Classical - Released September 1, 2011 | Saphir Productions

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia

Teresa Berganza

Opera - Released January 1, 1972 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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This is a Barbiere "di qualità, di qualità": in fact, of very great quality indeed, from Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded in London in the summer of 1971, it is one of the first meetings of Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Orchestra. It is also the first of Alberto Zedda's philological editions of Rossini's works, whose scores have been covered over by inherited errors for over a century. Getting rid of the additions which have, quite wrongly, become traditional, means restoring certain interruptions and the fine instrumentation of the period; and above all, singing and playing without exaggerations, thanks to an innate sense for the theatre. It's a spot of spring cleaning which has restored the youth of the 24-year-old composer's masterpiece. Bravo, signor barbiere, ma bravo! It is a dream record, with singers who are well-versed in the repertoire. Everyone is right where they need to be, from Teresa Berganza's wiley and cheeky Rosina, to the refined and hard-working Figaro played by Hermann Prey, via Luigi Alva's frivolous Count and the utterly ridiculous Basilio played by the outrageous Paolo Montarsolo. We're amused by their antics, as we admire the well-oiled and unstoppable machine of Rossini's theatre, under the unceasingly inventive and thrilling baton of Claudio Abbado. © François Hudry/Qobuz