Bach: Janos Starker

János Starker - Starker Plays Kodaly (1987)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 6, 2018
János Starker - Starker Plays Kodaly (1987)

János Starker - Starker Plays Kodaly (1987)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:30 | 336 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Delos | Catalog: DE 1015

When he was a boy, Kodaly taught himselfwith virtually no professional guidance-to play the piano, the violin and the cello, partly in order to take part in domestic music-making (his father, a station master employed by the Hungarian state railways, was an amateur violinist, his mother sang and played the piano), and his chamber music for strings all dates from relatively early in his working life, between 1905 and 1918. It includes three major works that feature the cello in a virtuoso capacity: the Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 4(1909-10), the Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 (1914) and the Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8 (1915).

Heinrich Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites (2005) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 17, 2021
Heinrich Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites (2005) 2CDs

Heinrich Schiff - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites (2005) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 571 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 333 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 7243 5 86534 2 7 | Time: 02:04:56

In the '80s there were those listeners who thought that Heinrich Schiff might redeem cello performance practice from fatal beauty and lethal elegance. Aside from the burly and brawny Rostropovich, more and more cellists were advocating a performance style whose ideals were perfect intonation and graceful phrasing. In some repertoire, say, Fauré, these are perfectly legitimate goals. In other repertoire, Beethoven and Brahms, say, it is a terrible mistake. In Bach's Cello Suites, as the fay and fragile Yo-Yo Ma recordings make clear, it was a terminal mistake. Not so in Schiff's magnificently muscular 1984 recordings of the suites: Schiff's rhythms, his tempos, his tone, his intonation, and especially his interpretations were anything but fay or fragile. In Schiff's performance, Bach's Cello Suites are not the neurasthenic music of a composer supine with dread and despair in the dark midnight of the soul, but the forceful music of a mature composer in full control of himself and his music.
Ophelie Gaillard - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012 (2011) 2CDs [Re-Up]

Ophélie Gaillard - Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suites (2011) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 596 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 319 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Aparté | # AP017 | Time: 02:16:57

Over the years, the Bach Suites have become a monument of the cello repertoire, to which all cellists return regularly. Some of the greatest did not record these works until they reached their years of maturity (Casals was over 60, Rostropovich was 63), while others have not hesitated to present several versions (Yo-Yo Ma, 1990, 1998; Janos Starker, 1957, 1963, 1983). Ophélie Gaillard’s first recording of the Suites, released on Ambrosie in 2000, was highly acclaimed internationally by the critics and her performance earned her a French Classical Music Award (Victoire) as a "Revelation" in the Solo Instrumentalist category. Ten years later, at the request of Nicolas Bartholomée, artistic director of Aparte and indeed Ambroisie, she agreed to record a new version on a cello made in 1737 by Matteo Goffriller, a contemporary of J. S. Bach. Ophélie Gaillard had already given us a reference performance of these pieces. Now we discover a prodigiously renewed vision of this masterpiece.
Bach - Sonates & Partitas Pour Violon Seul,Le Petit Livre D'anna-Magdalena Bach,Suites Pour Violoncelle Seul (1996) (5CD)

Bach - Sonates & Partitas Pour Violon Seul, Le Petit Livre D'anna-Magdalena Bach, Suites Pour Violoncelle Seul (1996) (5CD Box set)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 1402 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 783 mb
Classical, Cello, Violin | Label: EMI Classical - 7243 4 89179 2 8

This set includes two of the rarest and hardest to find of all recordings: the 1958-59 version of the Bach Cello Suites by Janos Starker – the one everyone says his later recordings cannot match – and the extremely beautiful performance of Bach's unaccompanied violin sonatas and partitas – the one that Japanese collectors pay 3-digit dollar prices for – in outstanding EMI Digital Re-Masterings.

Catrin Finch - Bach Little Masterpieces (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 11, 2020
Catrin Finch - Bach Little Masterpieces (2020)

Catrin Finch - Bach Little Masterpieces (2020)
FLAC tracks | 3:46:25 | 867 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.

Catrin Finch won the 2000 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, as well as the Princeton University Concerts Prize and the Orchestra New England Soloist Prize. She was also awarded First Prize at the 1999 Lily Laskine International Harp Competition in France, and the Victor Salvi Foundation has provided her with generous sponsorship, including her debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall in 2000, a new Salvi "Aurora" Harp, and a CD. Other honors include the Marisa Robles Harp Prize at the 1999 Royal Overseas League Music Competition in London, and prizes in the Wales National Eisteddfod Festival and World Harp Festival Competitions. Most recently, she won the 2004 Echo Klassik award for Best Crossover Artist in Germany and was nominated for the Classical Brit Awards in the category of Young British Classical Performer, resulting in an appearance on ITV with Bryn Terfel.

VA - Bach Adagio (2015)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 16, 2018
VA - Bach Adagio (2015)

VA - Bach Adagio (2015)
MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) | 02:16:01 | 319 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca

Viele der bekanntesten Melodien von Johann Sebastian Bach stammen aus den ausdruckstarken langsamen Sätzen seiner Konzerte, Suiten und Sonaten. Aus Anlass von "330 Jahre Bach" erscheint nun die Doppel-CD Bach Adagio. Sie lädt dazu ein, Ruhezonen im Alltag zu entdecken und sie zur Entschleunigung zu nutzen. Die reichen Klangwelten, die der Barock-Meister erschuf, animieren zum Träumen und Entspannen. Mit den renommierten Bach-Interpreten wie John Eliot Gardiner, András Schiff, Friedrich Gulda, Albrecht Mayer, Janine Jansen, Riccardo Chailly, Christopher Hogwood und vielen mehr.

Sung-Won Yang - J.S. Bach: Cello Suites (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 21, 2017
Sung-Won Yang - J.S. Bach: Cello Suites (2017)

Sung-Won Yang - J.S. Bach: Cello Suites (2017)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 586 MB
Label: Decca | Tracks: 36 | Time: 140:34 min

A second recording of J.S. Bach’s 6 suites for solo cello Universal Music/Decca, after the first release for EMI in 2004.
Zuzana Ruzickova - Bach: The Complete Keyboard works (20CD Box Set) (2016)

Zuzana Ruzickova - Bach: The Complete Keyboard works (20CD Box Set) (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 8.08 Gb | 23:11:09 | Scans included
Classical | Country: Czechoslovakia | Label: Erato

A musician of searching intellect, generous spirit and formidable purpose, Zuzana Růžičková is one of the 20th century’s most influential harpsichordists. Central to her career, the music of Bach also helped her to transcend with grace the extraordinary adversity she faced during World War II and the Communist era. “There is something above us, near to us, which makes absolute sense, but we don’t see it. Bach tells you: ‘Don’t despair, there is a sense in life and in the world.’”

Mayke Rademakers - J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites (2015)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Nov. 10, 2019
Mayke Rademakers - J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites (2015)

Mayke Rademakers - J.S. Bach: The Cello Suites (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1 Gb | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 496 MB | 03:13:52
Genre: Classical | Label: Challenge Classics

Dutch cellist Mayke Rademakers performing the suites for cello solo by Bach, alternated with cello works by Gubaidulina, Britten, Kurtág, Penderecki and Schnittke. According to performer Mayke Rademakers, an authentic listening experience is, despite what we would all like to believe, simply not possible. For that reason she has strived to make a connection with today's world, by pairing the suites with works by contemporary composers, setting them in an unusual and sharp perspective.
Taeguk Mun, Chi Ho Han - Songs of the Cello: Homage to Pablo Casals (2019)

Taeguk Mun, Chi Ho Han - Songs of the Cello: Homage to Pablo Casals (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 59:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | 0190295633134 | Recorded: 2018

This debut album opens with cellist Taeguk Mun - winner of the 2014 Pablo Casals International Cello Competition and the 2016 János Starker Foundation Award - playing Bach's Suite for Solo Cello No 1. He is then joined by the pianist Chi Ho Han, another multi-award-winning musician from South Korea, for Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano in A Major and short pieces by Schumann, Schubert, Rubinstein and Pablo Casals.