Eteri Andjaparidze

Eteri Andjaparidze - Christmas Piano Music: Max Reger, Liszt, JS Bach, Leroy Anderson, Tchaikovsky, Rebikov, Lyapunov (1996) Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 3, 2023

Most of this disc is taken up with Liszt's Christmas Tree, an unusually modest suite based on Christmas carols. It also offers charming pieces by Reger, Tchaikovsky, Rebikov, and Lyapunov based on Christmas themes, and a couple of Bach transcriptions. Eteri Andjaparidze, whose first CD was a sensational Prokofiev collection, plays this music truly superb musicianship and the kind of pianistic color that has become a rarity. Her Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the most beautiful I've heard since Dinu Lipatti's. And wait until you hear her delightful playing of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride! It's deliciously witty and charming.

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Eteri Andjaparidze - Zez Confrey: Piano Music (1998) Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 30, 2017

Eteri Andjaparidze - Zez Confrey: Piano Music (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 203.16 Mb | 62:31 | Cover
Jazz, Ragtime | Label: Naxos (8.559016)

Zez Confrey's compositions for piano deserve a better shake than they've been getting over the past 80 years or so. While historical recordings made by Confrey himself are delightful and exciting to those who enjoy such innocent fun, these 1995 realizations by Georgian pianist Eteri Andjaparidze expand the lens a bit and allow for a glimpse at the composer's full range of musical ideas. The primary stratum consists of Confrey's most famous novelties: 1921's "Kitten on the Keys," "Coaxing the Piano," and "Stumbling" from 1922, and the showoff's "Dizzy Fingers" of 1923. These pleasant little ragtime-flavored pieces of pop piano illustrate both why the average American enjoyed such stuff and why Harlem stride piano ace Willie "The Lion" Smith spoke so disparagingly of what he regarded as know-nothing ragtimers, meaning those who helped to popularize and perpetuate the often improvisationally limited Tin Pan Alley approach to piano playing.

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Benjamin Frith - Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol.5 (2002) Music

Posted by tirexiss at May 8, 2023

Scarlatti's sonatas were originally entitled 'Essercizi' ('Exercises'), and their purpose was to provide musical études for the development of keyboard technique, primarily for his patroness, Queen Maria Barbara of Spain, who must have been a talented harpsichordist. In one of his published collections, he indicated that the Essercizi offer 'no profound Learning, but rather an ingenious Jesting with Art, to accomodate you to the Mastery of the Harpsichord.'

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VA - The Best Of J.S. Bach (1997) {Naxos} Music

Posted by TestTickles at Sept. 30, 2018

VA - The Best Of J.S. Bach (1997) {Naxos}
EAC Rip | FLAC | scans | 336 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 172 mb
Genre: classical

The Best Of J.S. Bach is a 1997 compilation CD. It consists of the works of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach that Naxos released over the years.

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