Pianist 2021

Remy Le Boeuf - Architecture of Storms (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 17, 2024
Remy Le Boeuf - Architecture of Storms (2021)

Remy Le Boeuf - Architecture of Storms (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 298 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 127 Mb | 00:55:20
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Big Band, Straight-Ahead Jazz | Label: SoundSpore Records

The second album from alto saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf's big band Assembly of Shadows, 2021's Architecture of Storms is an enveloping production showcasing his kinetic improvisation and deeply textured compositional skills. The album is the follow-up to the group's Grammy-nominated 2019 eponymous debut and once again displays their progressive, cross-pollinated approach to modern creative jazz.
Reinoud Van Mechelen, Anthony Romaniuk - Édouard Lassen: Lieder - Mélodies (2021)

Reinoud Van Mechelen, Anthony Romaniuk - Édouard Lassen: Lieder - Mélodies (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 79:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musique en Wallonie | # MEW2099 | Recorded: 2020

Édouard Lassen never stopped composing. His copious oeuvre contains examples of almost every genre in favour in the second half of the 19th century, from piano pieces to operas, choral works, symphonic and concertante pieces. His international reputation was secured especially by his theatrical works. He also produced a regular and uninterrupted flow of over 260 songs from 1857 until his death in 1904. The small-scale song form was ideally suited to his temperament imbued with universalism, assuming a dual cultural heritage.
Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2021)

Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 148 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 80 Mb | 00:34:07
Jazz | Label: Nonesuch Records

Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme will be released June 11, 2021, on Nonesuch Records. The recording features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; the album also includes an encore, “Variations ‘X’ and ‘Y.’” You can watch a video with excerpts from the piece below. (Mehldau originally composed Variations on a Melancholy Theme for pianist Kirill Gerstein.) Mehldau and Orpheus toured Europe, Russia, and the US with the piece, including a 2013 performance at Carnegie Hall. Speaking to the combination of classical form with jazz harmonies in the work’s musical language, Mehldau wrote, “I imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues.”

György Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021/2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 22, 2024
György Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021/2024)

György Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Chopin (2021/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,17 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 668 Mb | 04:49:39
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

If the name of György Cziffra remains unswervingly associated with Liszt, Frédéric Chopin’s music was the pianist’s true love from his very childhood. Cziffra’s mastery and sensitivity works wonders, either in the waltzes, the impromptus, the études or the first piano concerto conducted by his son, all gathered in this superb collection.
Emanuele Delucchi - Czerny. Der Pianist im klassischen Style, Op. 856 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Emanuele Delucchi - Czerny. Der Pianist im klassischen Style, Op. 856 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:13:31 minutes | 2,16 GB
Classical | Label: Piano Classics, Official Digital Download

A little-known ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for the 19th century in a superbly engineered new version.
Emanuele Delucchi & Delucchi Emanuele - Czerny: Der Pianist im klassischen Style, Op. 856, 48 Preludes & Fugues (2021)

Emanuele Delucchi & Delucchi Emanuele - Czerny: Der Pianist im klassischen Style, Op. 856, 48 Preludes & Fugues (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 2:13:23 | 374 / 305 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

A little-known ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for the 19th century in a superbly engineered new version.
Long known as Beethoven’s pupil, Liszt’s teacher and the bane of countless piano students ever since as the prolific author of exercises and studies which have won foundational status in their importance for piano technique, Carl Czerny (1791-1858) is finally gaining recognition as a composer in his own right. During the 19th century, while his pupils were still alive to play them, his concertos still enjoyed a measure of familiarity and success, but Czerny’s sheer industry obscured his creative achievements: where should a listener start with a catalogue of opus numbers into the four figures?
Marina Baranova - Atlas of Imaginary Places (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Marina Baranova - Atlas of Imaginary Places (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:41 minutes | 406 MB
Classical | Label: Neue Meister, Official Digital Download

Marina Baranova knows a thing or two about conjuring fantastical worlds. Since her childhood when she’d sit with her fairy tale books open in front of the piano translating the pictures she saw into sound worlds up to her last album, where she envisioned a darker side to Debussy, the Ukrainian composer and pianist’s imagination has always played an active role in the music she plays. For her latest release, 'Atlas of Imaginary Places', she lets it run the show.

Marina Baranova - Atlas of Imaginary Places (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 28, 2022
Marina Baranova - Atlas of Imaginary Places (2021)

Marina Baranova - Atlas of Imaginary Places (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 155 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 100 Mb | 00:43:41
Classical | Label: Neue Meister

Marina Baranova knows a thing or two about conjuring fantastical worlds. Since her childhood when she’d sit with her fairy tale books open in front of the piano translating the pictures she saw into sound worlds up to her last album, where she envisioned a darker side to Debussy, the Ukrainian composer and pianist’s imagination has always played an active role in the music she plays. For her latest release, 'Atlas of Imaginary Places', she lets it run the show. For it, Baranova worked with the Danish visual artist Christian Gundtoft and Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Kompaniets to conceive more than just an album. “I wanted to create this alternative listening experience,” she explains, “Don’t underestimate the power of imagination, now more than ever, it’s important to remember we have this treasure within us.”
Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster) (1959/2021) [Official Digital Download]

Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster) (1959/2021) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 45:54 minutes | 492 MB
Vocal Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label.

Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)  Music

Posted by varrock at May 7, 2021
Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)

Christopher Guild - Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 5 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 227 MB | Tracks: 25 | 80:44
Style: Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

The personal generosity that made the Scottish composer Ronald Stevenson (1928–2015) such a warm and vibrant character extended also to his writing-desk: around a quarter of his enormous output is given over to transcriptions, mostly for piano, of music by other composers. Here he pays homage to three earlier colleagues whose music he particularly esteemed: Purcell, Delius and van Dieren. Stevenson described his version of Van Dieren’s String Quartet No. 5 (1931) as ‘transcribed as a piano sonata (which B. v. D. never composed)’ – and thus it became the piano sonata which Stevenson himself never composed. The album ends with Stevenson’s brief but achingly beautiful harmonisation of Purcell’s The Queen’s Dolour – as exquisite an example of the transcriber’s art as anyone could wish.