Alfred Cortot

Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell - Fauré, Crosse & Ravel: Works for Cello & Piano (2024)

Alexander Baillie & Nigel Yandell - Fauré, Crosse & Ravel: Works for Cello & Piano (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:26
Classical | Label: First Hand Records

This album brings together three works for cello and piano. The first of them, Gabriel Faure's Cello Sonata No. 1, is a cornerstone of the repertoire for this medium. It was composed in 1917 and premiered by cellist Gerard Hekking and pianist Alfred Cortot.
Aline Piboule - Samazeuilh, Decaux, Ferroud, Aubert (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Aline Piboule - Samazeuilh, Decaux, Ferroud, Aubert (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 56:26 minutes | 777 MB
Classical | Label: Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Official Digital Download

Following a first solo CD devoted to Fauré and Dutilleux, Aline Piboule continues her exploration of the French school of piano music by inviting us to discover works by Louis Aubert, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Gustave Samazeuilh and Abel Decaux – rare and unknown compositions which she has chosen for their harmonic richness, melodic quality and poetic inspiration. The music of these contemporaries of Debussy and Ravel (Louis Aubert gave the first performance of Valses nobles et sentimentales) was played at the time by major pianists (Marguerite Long, Francis Planté and Alfred Cortot). Aline Piboule restores these forgotten masters to the position they deserve in early 20th century French music.
Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov - Franck: Violin Sonata; Chausson: Concert (2017)

Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov - Franck: Violin Sonata; Chausson: Concert (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, d. booklet, artwork | 332 MB
Label: Harmonia Mundi – HMM902254 | Tracks: 08 | Time: 67:05 min
Classical

Regular chamber partners Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, playing on period instruments, shine new light on two major works of chamber music written at the dawn of the 20th century.
Jūlija Vasiļjeva - Lūcija Garūta- Sacred Love (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jūlija Vasiļjeva - Lūcija Garūta- Sacred Love (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 52:08 minutes | 1.02 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Garuta's songs, despite being written almost a century ago, only now see their release world premiere in a studio album - carefully selected and recorded by Garuta's former student pianist Maris Skuja and his brilliant stage partner soprano Julija Vasiljeva.
Christian Ivaldi, Gérard Poulet, Philippe Bernold, Michel Lethiec, Alain Meunier - Auric... Poulenc: Le Groupe des Six (2006)

Christian Ivaldi, Gérard Poulet, Philippe Bernold, Michel Lethiec, Alain Meunier - Auric… Poulenc: Le Groupe des Six (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 296 Mb | Total time: 79:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Arion | # ARN68652 | Recorded: 2000, 2004

Symbole de l’avant-garde française des années 1920, le « Groupe des Six » cache pourtant des personnalités très différentes. Seule cette expression trouvée par le critique et compositeur Henri Collet caractérise des musiciens liés seulement par une amitié profonde. À l’exception de Poulenc, et de quelques pièces de Darius Milhaud et d’Arthur Honegger, les compositions du Groupe des Six restent encore bien peu présentes au concert et au disque.
Frederic Chopin: Complete Works - L'oeuvre integrale / Historic Collection (2006) (30CD Box Set)

Frédéric Chopin: Complete Works - L'oeuvre intégrale / Historic Collection (2006) (30CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | 6.47 Gb | Artwork, d.booklet | 01:08:59:53 | MP3 CBR 320kbps | 4.65 Gb
Classical, Romantic | Label: Brilliant Classics / 93217

Des enregistrements historiques fabuleux qui auront marqué l'évolution du piano, de l'enregistrement et de la lecture de chopin. Des interprétations globalement bonnes en ce qui concerne l'intégrale et, surtout, une classification qui permet d'ordonner aisément le répertoire de Chopin. Alors, bien sûr, il existe des interprétationsplus brillantes, plus prestigieuses mais ne dit-on pas aussi qu'il y a une certaine forme de subjectivité qui détermine un jugement? Ce coffret est un bon reflet de l'oeuvre de Chopin, honnêtement interprétée.
Joshua Weilerstein - Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony Op. 73a & Op. 83a (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Joshua Weilerstein - Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony Op. 73a & Op. 83a (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:32 minutes | 1,35 GB
Classical | Label: Fuga Libera, Official Digital Download

Founded nearly eighty years ago, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne enjoys an enviable reputation and has welcomed the greatest artists as its guests, from Clara Haskil and Alfred Cortot to Murray Perahia and Martha Argerich, from Paul Hindemith to Günter Wand. Despite its long history, the orchestra has had only six musical directors, including Armin Jordan from 1973 to 1985.
Eric Heidsieck - Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, Gaspard de la nuit & Valses nobles et sentimentales (2021) [24/192]

Éric Heidsieck & Tania Heidsieck - Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, Gaspard de la nuit & Valses nobles et sentimentales (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 53:18 | 1.87 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Luminosity, clarity and depth of colour characterise the playing of Éric Heidsieck, born in Reims in 1936. A student of French masters Marcel Ciampi and Alfred Cortot, he went to Wilhelm Kempff to further his exploration of Beethoven. Heidsieck's career, encompassing more than 2000 concerts around the world and duo partnerships with his pianist wife Tania and cellist Paul Tortelier, has brought him particular fame in Japan. His distinguished interpretations of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, recorded in the years around 1970, are complemented here by a previously unreleased 1958 version of the ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata.

Gerardo Teissonnière - Beethoven: The Last Sonatas (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 2, 2022
Gerardo Teissonnière - Beethoven: The Last Sonatas (2022)

Gerardo Teissonnière - Beethoven: The Last Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:09:04 | 203 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Steinway and Sons

Regarded by international critics and audiences as an artist of extraordinary musicianship and rare sensibility and tracing his musical roots to Alfred Cortot, Artur Schnabel and Alexander Siloti, Gerardo Teissonnière brings to the concert stage an exciting amalgam of the diverse and important pianistic traditions he represents. Transcendental, dramatic, melodic and stylistic elements are present in each of Beethoven’s final three transcendental piano sonatas, and Teissonnière delivers them and more, revealing lyrical, personal interpretations while maintaining faithfulness to the original sources and scores.

Tiberghien - Szymanowski: Masques, Metopes, Etudes (2014)  Music

Posted by peotuvave at Oct. 18, 2014
Tiberghien - Szymanowski: Masques, Metopes, Etudes (2014)

Tiberghien - Szymanowski: Masques, Metopes, Etudes (2014)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 183 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67886

In Cédric Tiberghien’s first solo recording for Hyperion he embraces the sensual, crepuscular sound-world of Szymanowski’s piano music. Tiberghien’s expressive, mercurial, quicksilver playing with its extraordinary pianissimos and kaleidoscopic range of colour makes him an ideal performer of this repertoire. Szymanowski’s most celebrated works have been recorded here. The early 4 Études include the popular ‘Andante in modo d’una canzone’, a sorrowful song above slow repeated chords. The rest of the (later) works show the maturing of Szymanowki’s unique piano style and in particular the salutary influence of Ravel’s and Debussy’s weightless, diaphanous textures.