19th Century Music, Vol. 22, No. 3

Bart van Oort - Nocturnes from 19th Century Russia, Vol. 1 (2023)

Bart van Oort - Nocturnes from 19th Century Russia, Vol. 1 (2023)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 196 Mb | Total time: 64:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96966 | Recorded: 2022

A nocturne is a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night. The term nocturne (from French nocturne 'of the night', also named Notturno) was first applied to musical pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening occasion.
Bart Van Oort - Nocturnes from 19th Century Russia, Vol. 1 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Bart Van Oort - Nocturnes from 19th Century Russia, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 64:23 minutes | 1,01 GB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

This recording, along with the forthcoming Vol.2, represents a first, comprehensive anthology of the Russian nocturne in its nearly two-hundred-year development. Some nocturnes are recorded here for the first time. The earliest Russian nocturnes were composed by Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857) and owe a debt to his teacher, the Irish composer John Field. The first, in E flat, was written in 1828 before his first trip to Italy. His Nocturne in F minor ‘La Séparation’, written at the height of his career, is styled like a ‘romance’ (song) without words.
Jean Sibelius - Piano Music Vol. 3 - Havard Gimse (2001) {Naxos 8.554814}

Jean Sibelius - Piano Music Vol. 3 - Håvard Gimse (2001) {Naxos 8.554814}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 170 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 142 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 16 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2001 Naxos / HNH International | 8.554814
Classical / Late Romantic / Early Modern / Piano

The Ten Pieces of Op. 58 date from 1909, the year of the String Quartet (Voces intimae). They are delightful and by no means just trivial. Each has its own sobriquet and shows real keyboard character. The final rather solemn Summer Song is memorable, as is the wistful mood of the first of the Two Rondinos, written two years later; the second sparkles most pianistically. The three Sonatinas, written together in the summer of 1912, are also full of charming ideas, giving the impressions of a composer relaxing in holiday mood. Håvard Gimse plays all this music freshly, and this Naxos disc more than bears out the promise of its companions.

Artur Pizarro - Rodrigo: Piano Music, Volume 2 (2005) (Repost)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 1, 2019
Artur Pizarro - Rodrigo: Piano Music, Volume 2 (2005) (Repost)

Artur Pizarro - Rodrigo: Piano Music, Volume 2 (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:11:47 | 226 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8557923

This is the second and last volume of Naxos’s complete music for solo piano by Rodrigo. It is played by the superb Artur Pizarro. I was enthusiastic about Volume 1 a couple of years ago (see review), even chose it as one of my recordings of the year. I wasn’t alone in admiring it: both my colleagues Steve Arloff and Patrick Waller praised it and it was Editor’s choice in Gramophone. I have no reason to be less enthusiastic this time. Pizarro’s playing is certainly second to none, combining clarity with warmth and being unfailingly rhythmically alert.
Gaia Federica Caporiccio - Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2022)

Gaia Federica Caporiccio - Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:42:20 | 370 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

Piano Classics presents the first volume in a major new series which promises to become the most comprehensive recorded survey of a central but now little-known figure in 19th-century Italian music.Born in Rome in 1841, Giovanni Sgambati cut an impressive but relatively familiar figure as a prodigious young virtuoso until, as a 21-year-old keyboard lion in the making, he was introduced to Franz Liszt. The encounter changed Sgambati’s life. Liszt, perhaps the single most influential figure in European musical life in the middle of the 19th century, took the young Sgambati under his wing, and his faith was richly repaid. Still in his 20s, Sgambati conducted the Italian premiere of the Dante Symphony and even the premiere of the first (lengthy) part of the Christus oratorio.
Ensemble MidtVest - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Music, Vol. 1:  Primavera; 'Gioco'; Sonata per flauto solo; Ballata; Quartetto (2011)

Ensemble MidtVest - Vagn Holmboe: Chamber Music (I) (2011)
Primavera; "Gioco"; Sonata per flauto solo; Ballata; Quartetto

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 288 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Dacapo Records | # 8.226073 | Time: 01:12:21

This recording marks the beginning of a new series devoted to previously unrecorded chamber works by the Danish composer Vagn Holmboe (1909-96). The music was written from the 1950s to the 1980s and ranges wide, all the way from the playful to the serious. Holmboe's inexhaustible wealth of ideas and his mixture of lightness and ingenuity run through all the works. As does his 'metamorphosis' technique, which makes the music breathe and grow like the Nordic landscape of which Holmboe felt himself to be a part.
Tommaso Mazzoletti - Pietro Alessandro Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2020)

Tommaso Mazzoletti - Pietro Alessandro Yon: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 03:03:45 | 531 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Sumptuous and spectacular Romantic works by ‘Toscanini’s Organist’.
Pietro Yon (1886-1943) played in what is widely regarded as one of the finest-ever performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, conducted at Carnegie Hall in 1935 by Arturo Toscanini. Yon was sharing the stage with the likes of Elizabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza; he had acquired a comparable celebrity within the organ world in his lifetime, having emigrated from Italy to the US at the age of 21, and become Organist of St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the foremost seat of Catholicism in the US. A New York Times profile portrayed him as an adopted New Yorker who moved in high-society circles and enjoyed ragtime and vaudeville, and he welcomed the likes of Caruso and Toscanini to his home as friends. When he died in 1943, the world-famous conductor numbered among the 1300 mourners at St Patrick’s.Yon’s own music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavour reflecting his background without belonging to a single ‘school’.
Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: Shostakovich: Quartets Nos. 1-4, Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 (2012) (Repost)

Pacifica Quartet - The Soviet Experience, Vol. 2: Shostakovich: Quartets Nos. 1-4, Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:09:03 | 623 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Cedille Records | Catalog: CDR 90000130

Chicago-based Cedille label's ambitious "The Soviet Experience" series continues with this set of early Shostakovich string quartets from the 15 years surrounding World War II, along with one unusual Prokofiev quartet of the same period. In addition to reflecting the situations in which he lived, Shostakovich's quartets deal with a different kind of legacy as well: the Beethovenian tradition of the string quartet as it developed through the 19th century and became an outlet for inward emotion refined into well-crafted melody and counterpoint.
Gaia Federica Caporiccio - Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Gaia Federica Caporiccio - Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-88kHz] | 1:42:20 | 1,64 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

Piano Classics presents the first volume in a major new series which promises to become the most comprehensive recorded survey of a central but now little-known figure in 19th-century Italian music.Born in Rome in 1841, Giovanni Sgambati cut an impressive but relatively familiar figure as a prodigious young virtuoso until, as a 21-year-old keyboard lion in the making, he was introduced to Franz Liszt. The encounter changed Sgambati’s life. Liszt, perhaps the single most influential figure in European musical life in the middle of the 19th century, took the young Sgambati under his wing, and his faith was richly repaid. Still in his 20s, Sgambati conducted the Italian premiere of the Dante Symphony and even the premiere of the first (lengthy) part of the Christus oratorio.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2016)

Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2016)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5163 | Time: 01:12:27

In this second volume, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis play some of the most characteristic pieces of Charles Ives, an insurance salesman by trade and one of the most precociously original of all American composers.