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Guitar Recital: Raphaël Feuillâtre

Raphaël Feuillâtre

Classical - Released June 14, 2019 | Naxos

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Classical Dinner Music

Soft Background Music

Classical - Released May 7, 2015 | Metafon Music

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Musique Classique Bébé

Rockabye Lullaby

New Age - Released July 15, 2015 | Metafon Music

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Nicholas Angelich: Hommage

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Pianist Nicholas Angelich, even more admired in Europe than in his native U.S., passed away tragically early in 2022 at the age of 51. One way to look at this Hommage is to note that it took quite a bit of research power, much of it apparently donated, to put together this massive seven-volume tribute, assembled from live performances and radio broadcasts between 1995 and 2019. That is a lot of Angelich, but fans here will find much that sheds new light on his genius. Consider the Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 24, which Angelich rarely played in concert. It receives a wonderfully controlled performance in which the tricky architecture of this work comes to the surface. Angelich was a fine virtuoso, and the Liszt Transcendental Etudes and the big Russian works generally have a layer of excitement added by the live performance. However, Angelich is equally effective in subtler pieces, thoughtful in the likes of Zemlinsky and the Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, where the sequence of events feels somewhat different from in the pianist's 2011 studio recording even as the über-Romantic slow tempos are retained. His opening aria is even slower than on the studio version. The mastering of these immensely diverse sound sources from Erato is as good as such a thing can be, and physical album buyers get some fine reflections on the pianist's work. This is, in short, an effective tribute to a pianist whose life and work were brutally cut short.© James Manheim /TiVo
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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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Sparks of Spirit

Klavierduo Neeb

Classical - Released March 8, 2024 | audite Musikproduktion

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Berg: Lulu-Suite, Altenberg-Lieder, 3 Pieces Op.6

London Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1971 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Exam Study Classical Music Orchestra

Classical - Released May 10, 2015 | Metafon Music

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Rococo

Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski

Classical - Released November 27, 2014 | Evil Penguin Classic

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Après un rêve (Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano)

Emmanuel Despax

Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Signum Records

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It is hard to figure out what pianist Emmanuel Despax had in mind for the concept of this album. Its various titles offer three ideas: Après un rêve comes from the title of a Fauré song Despax transcribes for his program opener, plus there is "Belle Époque: Nights at the Piano." None of these is of much use; few pieces other than the Fauré are particularly dreamy, and the largest piece, Poulenc's Soirées de Nazelles, is from the nervous 1930s and nowhere near the Belle Époque in time or mood. As for "Nights at the Piano," that fits the Poulenc nicely but not the concluding Gaspard de la Nuit of Ravel, which is an imposing virtuoso concert work carrying none of the connotations of "Nights at the Piano." Really, Despax excels in none of these three ways but rather in a fourth: he hits on an intriguing mix of familiar standards and unusual works. Among the latter group are the Soirées de Nazelles, which Poulenc disclaimed and, perhaps for that reason, have been seldom heard. They are delightful pieces that bear titles describing qualities, like the numbers of a Baroque French suite, but actually seem to have been devised by Poulenc to describe members of a group of his friends, like Elgar's Enigma Variations. The result is a work that distills the hint of improvisation that pervades some of Poulenc's keyboard music and songs, and Despax gives it the right lively, spontaneous feel. The Nocturne, Op. 165, of Cécile Chaminade and the keyboard version of Henri Duparc's Aux étoiles are also nice finds. As for the more heavily trodden works, Debussy's Clair de lune is pleasantly moody, although no one would select this album for the rote Gaspard de la Nuit or the rather un-macabre Danse Macabre, Op. 40, of Saint-Saëns. For Poulenc lovers, however, this is an important find. © James Manheim /TiVo
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Variations on a Theme of Corelli

Boris Giltburg

Classical - Released May 11, 2018 | Naxos

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While Israeli-Russian pianist Boris Giltburg’s career is taking off all over the world, he has felt very close to Belgium ever since he won first prize in the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition. After several recordings for EMI (Warner), here he gives a studio rendition of the Third Concerto, and the Variations on a Theme of Corelli by Sergei Rachmaninov, on his tenth album for Naxos, which completes his often-unique approach to the Russian pianist-composer. The Études-tableaux and the Second Concerto divided opinion, with some seeing him as a "new Glenn Gould" (sic) who would do away with routines, while others drew attention to the total indifference of his style. Boris Giltburg's technique is such that he can give free rein to his imagination while taking care of the minute details of one of the most difficult concertos in the repertoire. Fascinated by the manufacture of instruments, in 2016 he took up the new 102-key piano from French manufacturer Stephen Paulello, a thrilling instrument which the musical world has been eagerly anticipating for a long time, and which proves that, just like in the 19th century, the piano can still evolve towards other sounds. For this Concerto n° 3, recorded at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, Boris Giltburg returns to his dear Fazioli piano and is joined by Mexican conductor Carlo Miguel Prieto at the head of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Amy Beach: Piano Music

Martina Frezzotti

Classical - Released October 25, 2023 | Piano Classics

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Elgar: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Enigma Variations, Cello Concerto, Marches

London Symphony Orchestra

Symphonies - Released November 24, 2023 | LSO Live

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Music for Royal Occasions

London Symphony Orchestra

Symphonies - Released May 5, 2023 | LSO Live

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Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2

The Cleveland Orchestra

Symphonies - Released November 5, 2021 | Cleveland Orchestra

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Two live recordings from Cleveland and Miami. The Schnittke Concerto for Piano and Strings was recorded in Cleveland’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance in October 2020. It features pianist Yefim Bronfman with the Orchestra’s strings. Prokofiev’s Second Symphony was recorded in January 2020 on tour in Miami, in Knight Concert Hall and features full orchestra ensemble in this work inspired by the early 20th century’s fascination with mechanics and industry. Thoughts from Franz-Welser-Möst, Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra: "This is a side of Prokofiev that I didn't know until I discovered this piece. He wrote it in Paris, but deep down, he was carrying his Russian soul — though he was struggling with the political establishment at that time. The symphony was written in the Roaring Twenties, but somehow predicts World War Two, and you can hear the war machine stirring in its mechanical motifs". "Schnittke, in the years after World War Two, was also suffering from the legacy of Russia’s communist regime. And I think that both composers were so grounded and bound to Russian soil that they could not deny that that spirit in their music. You can hear that they are inspired by the same history, the same tradition, and the same heart". © The Cleveland Orchestra
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My Rachmaninoff

Alexander Krichel

Classical - Released March 24, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Clementi: Sonatas, Op. 1 & Op. 1A

Carlo Alberto Bacchi

Classical - Released September 29, 2023 | Piano Classics

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Dukas: Complete Piano Music

Vincenzo Maltempo

Classical - Released January 27, 2023 | Piano Classics

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