Beethoven Takacs

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra & Gábor Takács-Nagy - The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey (2023) [24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 9, 2023

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra & Gábor Takács-Nagy - The Symphonies: A Beethoven Journey (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 341:52 minutes | 3,43 GB
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon, Official Digital Download

Over a thirteen-year period, Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra embarked on a spiritual journey through the nine symphonies of Beethoven. The resultant cycle of recordings captures the ensemble's liberated and transformative account of these masterworks, approaching each opus with a sense of spontaneity, insight, and joy. In the words of legendary Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford: "Honesty is what we hear: no romantic lushness, no ego, rather a sense of the truth of each piece on its own terms. There is a sense of intimate communication between an orchestra and conductor in service of a vision of the works as individuals and as a whole."

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Artemis Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete String Quartets (2011) 7CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at June 7, 2022

This 2011 box set from the Artemis Quartet marks Virgin Classics' first complete cycle of Beethoven String Quartets. Over the past two seasons, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has been performing Beethoven around the world. The New York Times hailed them as "one of the most impressive of the new generation of string quartets," and has described their Beethoven performances as "organic… riveting… engrossing… brilliant." the first of the Artemis Quartet's Virgin Classics CDs of Beethoven Quartets was released in the Fall of 2005. Now, nearly six years later, the complete Beethoven cycle becomes available in a box of seven CDs, which includes two previously unreleased items: The quartet No 10, op 74, known as the 'Harp', and a transcription for string quartet, proudly made by Beethoven himself, of the Piano Sonata No 9, op 14.

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Elias String Quartet - Ludwig van Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, Vol.1 (2015) 2 CDs [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 22, 2021

At the heart of Beethoven’s life’s statement as a composer lies the cycle of sixteen string quartets, which, to this day, has retained a special status and reverence. Since 2012, the Elias String Quartet has been immersed in its Beethoven Project, performing all Beethoven’s string quartets at venues throughout the UK. In this live recording, the ensemble captures both the intimacy and grandeur of the works. With an ever-expanding recording catalogue that has been met with widespread critical acclaim, the quartet is delighted to release this disc, the first volume of its complete Beethoven cycle to be recorded live at Wigmore Hall over the coming Seasons.

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Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin - Robert Schumann: String Quartet, Op. 41, No. 3; Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (2009) Music

Posted by Designol at May 10, 2022

The peerless Takacs Quartet recently nominated for a Gramophone award for their second disc of Brahms's string quartets, continue their exploration of the Romantic chamber music tradition with this disc of Schumann. The Piano Quintet is by far Schumann's most popular chamber work and one of the most beloved works in the genre. Schumann was the first romantic composer to pair the piano with the string quartet. Schumann studied the string quartets of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn and his quartet Op. 41 No. 3 demonstrates these influences. However, it contains many highly original strokes, particularly the casting of the scherzo as a set of variations. The Takacs Quartet are joined by Marc-Andre Hamelin in an invigorating partnership that has already been widely acclaimed on the concert platform.

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Mikhail Pletnev, L'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève & Gábor Takács-Nagy - Live at Victoria-Hall Geneva, 2 March 2021 (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 12, 2022

Mikhail Pletnev, L'Orchestre de Chambre de Genève & Gábor Takács-Nagy - Live at Victoria-Hall Geneva, 2 March 2021 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 320 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:26:25
Classical | Label: Claves Records

It should have been just another memorable concert in the hectic life of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra. However, the global Covid-19 pandemic decided otherwise and turned this summit meeting with conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy and pianist Mikhaïl Pletnev into a historical moment. Chronicle of an extraordinary adventure…in every respect.

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Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024) (Hi-Res) Vinyl & HR

Posted by Rtax at March 8, 2024

Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) 24bit-88.2kHz - 932 MB
53:55 | Classical | Label: Yarlung Records

My friend Clarice Assad called me out of the blue a few months after our album Confessions earned a GRAMMY® nomination. Clarice had written the title tracks on the album, which Laura Strickling sang magnificently. “Bob,” Clarice said, “I have an idea….” I have learned that anytime Clarice has an idea, I’m interested. “I wrote a piece for Takács Quartet and bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro. It’s a wild piece. The five of them have been performing it all over the world on tour, and I think you would like it. Actually, I know you would like it. Julien also wrote a companion piece, and the third work is by Bryce Dessner. I think you know Bryce; he lives in Paris. What a trio!” I responded that it sounded wonderful. “I want you to record these three works, plus another piece I have in mind for violin and piano. When can we do it?” Hence began one of Yarlung’s most adventurous (and I hope you will agree, successful) collaborations in the label’s nineteen year history.

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Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 8, 2024

Takács Quartet, Clarice Assad and Julien Labro - Takács Assad Labro (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 242 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 141 MB
53:55 | Classical | Label: Yarlung Records

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Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 8, 2023

Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 MB
1:07:51 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.Dedicated ‘à mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré’, Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet was started in 1902. On 30 April that year he had attended the first performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and immediately afterwards set about preparing for the Prix de Rome—a prize he was fated never to win despite repeated attempts between 1900 and 1905. In the autumn he undertook a project for a fellow composer, Frederick Delius, who asked him to make a piano–vocal score of the opera Margot la Rouge. He then got to work on the String Quartet, and the first two movements were finished in December 1902, according to Ravel’s note on the last page of the second movement in the autograph score.

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Gabor Takacs-Nagy - Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 7 (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 16, 2023

Le volume 7 de l'étude des concertos pour piano de Mozart de Jean-Efflam Bavouzet avec Gábor Takács-Nagy et la Manchester Camerata présente deux des concertos tardifs - Nos 24 et 25 - ainsi qu'une lecture animée de l'Ouverture des Noces de Figaro.

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Messen: Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Weber, Beethoven, Cherubini, Schumann, Kiel, Gounod, Bruckner [10CDs] (2013) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 14, 2022

This 10 CD-Set offers a collection of the most popular Mass compositions from the Viennese Classics up to the romantic period. It includes famous masterpieces like Mozart’s „Coronation Mass“, Beethoven Missa solemnis, Haydn „Harmony Mass“, Gounod St. Cecilia Mass but also rarities like „Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni“ by Michael Haydn, the „Coronation Mass“ by Cherubini, „Missa sacra“ by Robert Schumann and the „Misa solemnis“ of the german romantic composer Friedrich Kiel. Performed by well known artists like the Vienna Boys’ Choir, RIAS Chamber Choir, Tölzer Boys’ Choir, Wiener Akademie and last but not least also includes the spectacular recording of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with conductor Michael Gielen.

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