Nicholas Walker Balakirev

Nicholas Walker - Mili Balakirev: Complete Works for Solo Piano [6CDs] (2021) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 6, 2024

Balakirev remains one of the most atmospheric and significant of all Russian composers for the piano. From the Slavic allure of his Mazurkas, through the visionary Second Nocturne and monumental Sonata in B flat minor, to his joyous Spanish-infused pieces, he marries expressive depth with virtuoso panache. Hailed as ‘one of Britain’s best pianists’ by The Spectator, Nicholas Walker has returned to Balakirev’s original manuscripts for these performances and unearthed many new discoveries. This collection brings together Walker’s complete set of Balakirev’s piano works in a cycle that has been hailed as ‘the reference set’ by the American Record Guide.

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Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 11, 2020

Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 6 (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:19:56 | 238 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

This final volume in Nicholas Walker’s much-admired survey of the complete solo piano music of Balakirev includes the composer’s famous work for piano, Islamey, an exotic and ultravirtuoso oriental tale. Also featured are previously unpublished and unrecorded miniatures - pieces that are both poetic and, in the case of the Elegy on the Death of a Mosquito, witty. Transcriptions of Glinka are included, and Walker has arranged Balakirev’s passionate and sensual symphonic poem Tamara for solo piano, recreating textures redolent of the composer’s own piano style. He also plays Au jardin, an Idyll-Étude of rapt beauty and tenderness.

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Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at May 11, 2019

Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 74:55 minutes | 1.21 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

This fourth volume in Nicholas Walker’s complete edition of Balakirev’s piano music is structured around his three Scherzos, which take us from the youthful influence of Chopin and Liszt in the First Scherzo, to the music of his prolific final decade, from which the Second Scherzo is one of his finest compositions. Balakirev’s interest in Spanish music was kindled by his mentor Glinka, creating surprisingly authentic sounding textures and rhythms, and the programme is topped with the elegantly masterful poetry of the two Valse-Caprices.

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Nicholas Walker- Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at Sept. 13, 2019

Nicholas Walker- Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 5 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 214 MB | Tracks: 12 | 79:32 min
Style: Classical | Label: Grand Piano

Balakirev’s appreciation of other composers is reflected in transcriptions that also reveal his brilliance as a pianist. With several world premiere recordings, this programme includes the marvelous balalaika sonorities and virtuoso colors to be found in operas by Glinka, the novel concept of dovetailing preludes by Chopin, and the richness of Beethoven’s string quartets. A plaintive Gondola Song, the relentlessly energetic Tarantelle and Balakirev’s earliest surviving piano opus conclude this fifth volume in Nicholas Walker’s acclaimed complete edition of his piano works.

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Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at May 10, 2019

Nicholas Walker - Balakirev: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 01:14:55 | 204 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Grand Piano

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