Musique Calibre
Edgard Doneux, Louis de Froment - Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion & Rousseau: Le Devin du village (2002) Music
Posted by ArlegZ at Aug. 15, 2021
Edgard Doneux, Louis de Froment - Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion & Rousseau: Le Devin du village (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 683 Mb | Total time: 79:23+54:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 75266 2 | Recorded: 1956, 1978
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 683 Mb | Total time: 79:23+54:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 75266 2 | Recorded: 1956, 1978
Gretry's "Richard Coeur De Lion" (1784), a rousing tale about the rescue of the crusader king Richard the Lionheart by his faithful troubadour Blondel, is a minor masterpiece, the greatest French opera comique of the Ancien Regime. Gretry wasn't an eighteenth century composer of the calibre of Mozart, Rameau or his contemporary Gluck, but his music seduced audiences with its charm and tunefulness and in this opera he provided a great deal more. Blondel's stirring aria of loyalty to his king, "O Richard, oh mon roi", was so powerful it was used as an anthem by the royalists in the 1790s and promptly banned by the revolutionary authorities.
Alexei Lubimov - Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas: No.14 'Moonlight'; No.21 'Waldstein'; No.17 'The Storm' (2013) Music
Posted by Designol at Oct. 11, 2024
Alexei Lubimov - Ludwig van Beethoven: Moonlight - Waldstein - Storm (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 235 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans ~ 120 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha | # 194 | Time: 01:06:47
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 235 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans ~ 120 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha | # 194 | Time: 01:06:47
There are projects on which the artistic director of a record label straightaway asks himself a few questions. For example, when it comes to recording Beethoven’s three ‘greatest hit’ sonatas, recorded a multitude of times by the leading pianists. However, a forte-pianist of the calibre of Alexei Lubimov already constitutes one good reason to implement the project, as does the choice of the facsimile of an Erard piano (1802, copy made by Christopher Clarke) of which the original was within Beethoven’s reach.