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Duo Genova and Dimitrov Piano Duo - Rachmaninoff: Complete Works for Piano (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 10, 2020

Duo Genova and Dimitrov Piano Duo - Rachmaninoff: Complete Works for Piano (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:24:20 | 454 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: CPO

On the occasion of its 25th Birthday Anniversary, the Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov realizes this year a fervent wish with a genuine mammoth project taking the pianists to their emotional limits in a form that has never been witnessed in the music world before: the two exceptional artists have recorded on cpo Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Complete Works for Piano Duo as a double album. The manifold colors in these pieces full of musical ideas are just spectacular… truly a captivating affair of the heart and a hommage to their idol Rachmaninoff. But nobody can describe this music better than the pianists themselves: "Rachmaninoff's Second Suite, Schubert's Fantasy, Mozart's Sonata!, this was the authoritative answer that we, being Postgraduate students at the Hanover University of Music, received at the end of 1995 from our teacher, the piano legend Vladimir Krainev, to our question which works we could prepare for our first piano duo competition. At that time, we would have never imagined that almost 25 years later from these few words the idea for this grand project would develop – a project we are now so particularly proud of." And justifiably so. Their impressive interpretations of the whole wide range of diverse compositions display Rachmaninoff’s multifacetedness in all its emotionally incredible, supercharged glory.

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Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 16, 2021

Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 216 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:58
Classical | Label: BIS

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation.

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Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 16, 2021

Ronald Brautigam, Kölner Akademie & Michael Alexander Willens - Weber: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 55:58 minutes | 948 MB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation.

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Ronald Brautigam, Michael Alexander Willens - Carl Maria von Weber: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra (2021) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 6, 2021

Carl Maria von Weber wrote music that has been admired by composers as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. But in his lifetime he was also recognised as one of the finest pianists of the period, with an exceptional technique and a brilliant gift for improvisation. Especially during the 1810s he toured extensively, and like other composer-pianists he wrote works to use as his personal calling cards, among them the two piano concertos recorded here. They were both composed in 1811-12, but while the First Concerto takes Mozart's concertos as its model, Piano Concerto No. 2 looks towards Beethoven.

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Aurora Quartet - Mare: Works for 4 Pianists (2006) {Hybrid-SACD // ISO & Hi-Res FLAC} Vinyl & HR

Posted by luckburz at Aug. 13, 2016

"…Thoroughly recommended to the fans who flock to duo-piano concerts, and also to those with fine audio equipment they wish to challenge." ~allmusicguide

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Claude Bolling & Emanuel Ax - Sonatas for Two Pianists Music

Posted by Buaires at Dec. 21, 2008

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Stephen Hough, Dallas SO, Andrew Litton - Rachmaninov: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (2004) SACD-ISO + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at May 22, 2019

The combination of Dallas and Litton offers a conductor who adores Sergei Rachmaninov (he has recorded all the symphonies) and understands the works from a pianist’s perspective, an orchestra with a glorious and old-fashioned string sound of the kind with which the composer would be familiar, a hall to record in which is one of the best in the world, and let’s not forget Stephen Hough who has already won two Gramophone ‘Record of the Year’ accolades for his concerto recordings. As the results here triumphantly show, all our hopes have been fulfilled, and more.

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Adrienne Soos, Ivo Haag - Claude Debussy: Early Works For Piano Duet (2011) Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 29, 2021

An innovative genius, Claude Debussy is famous for his mature ‘Impressionist’ music, though he rather disliked the term. He frequently performed four-hand piano pieces in concert, most of the works on this disc either being composed or adapted by him for this line-up. The imaginative figuration, kaleidoscopic sonorities and moments of dazzling virtuosity found in these rarely-heard works from the 1880s are a testament to Debussy’s skills both as a performer and a composer. Pianists Adrienne Soós and Ivo Haag have been a firmly-established piano duo for more than fifteen years, becoming one of the leading ensembles in Switzerland.

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François-Frédéric Guy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet / Transcriptions for Two Pianists - Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok (2015) Music

Posted by newskl at Oct. 15, 2015

Debussy: Jeux (Transcription for two pianos by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet); Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps (Transcription for piano four hands by Igor Stravinsky); Bartók: Two Pictures (Transcription for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis) – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, François-Frédéric Guy. As played here, these transcriptions renew our experience of three great orchestral works, each of which was premiered in 1913.

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Elizabeth Dolin, Bernadene Blaha - Felix Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2003) Music

Posted by Designol at March 17, 2023

Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano fit on a single CD with room to spare, and your collection should have room to spare for the terrific performances contained on this disc. Cellist Elizabeth Dolin and pianist Bernadene Blaha emphasize the composer's classicism and elegance, in contrast to the somewhat wilder spin with which cellist Mark Shuman and pianist Todd Crow suffuse these works. But whereas the latter ASV release is resonant to a fault, Analekta's engineering conveys a more intimate and equally warm ambience that falls kindly on the ears. Dolin and Blaha are never less than equal partners, which is important considering that Mendelssohn treats both instruments as such. (Classics Today 10/10)

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