Koroliov Bach

Since its first authorized edition in 1741 or 1742, the Goldberg is indispensable to any serious keyboard professionals, and with the dawn of the recording age, the Goldberg has naturally attracted a league of pianists who wish to put their personal statements onto this symbolic work. Pianists who acquired a legacy in part through their championship in this work include such Bach interpreters as Glenn Gould (Sony, 1955), Evgeny Koroliov (Hänssler, 1999), Maria Tipo (EMI, 1986) and the late Rosalyn Tureck (DGG, 1985), whose interpretation of the Goldberg she claimed was inspired by a visionary communication between the pianist and a higher being. To date, the Goldberg has likewise drawn the interests of a multitude of arrangers who have re-worked arrangements based on the original.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Murray Perahia - Goldberg Variationen
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 240 MB | Full Artwork: 122 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SK 892432 | Country/Year: Europe 2000
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Piano

"…Artists as individually outstanding as Gould, Tureck, Koroliov, and Schiff have all found solutions that are equally valid, but none, I think, have ever made the music sound so naturally, joyously at home on the modern piano as has Perahia. With gorgeously rich recorded sound fully worthy of the interpretation, this Goldberg Variations easily joins my short list of recommendations on any instrument. Perahia has given us a recording for the ages, no doubt about it." ~classicstoday

Various - Das Mikrofon: Ein Querschnitt durch die Entwicklung des Mikrofons von 1927 bis heute
Various - The Microphone: Highlights of the evolution of the microphone from 1927 until today
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 296 MB | Full Artwork: 89 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 17 | Country/Year: Germany 1991
Genre: Classical, Technical | Style: -

As well as giving you a historic cross section, we would also like to provide you with an acoustic "insight" into the TACET label's production methods. TACET's philosophy that there is no recording technique or method which is absolutely perfect forever. Rather, it should be the job of a good recording team to use the best technical equipment available at any given time to experiment in the interests of the music, and to endeavor to provide the technical support in order to portray clearly the ideas of the composer and of the performing musicians. (…) Really audiophile sounds are only found where excellent musicians get the best out of excellent instruments and themselves. And the result is music! If you are not content to just listen to the excerpts on this album, you must simply listen to TACET's entire program.

Various - Das Mikrofon: Ein Querschnitt durch die Entwicklung des Mikrofons von 1927 bis heute
Various - The Microphone: Highlights of the evolution of the microphone from 1927 until today
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 296 MB | Full Artwork: 89 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Tacet # TACET 17 | Country/Year: Germany 1991
Genre: Classical, Technical | Style: -

As well as giving you a historic cross section, we would also like to provide you with an acoustic "insight" into the TACET label's production methods. TACET's philosophy that there is no recording technique or method which is absolutely perfect forever. Rather, it should be the job of a good recording team to use the best technical equipment available at any given time to experiment in the interests of the music, and to endeavor to provide the technical support in order to portray clearly the ideas of the composer and of the performing musicians. (…) Really audiophile sounds are only found where excellent musicians get the best out of excellent instruments and themselves. And the result is music! If you are not content to just listen to the excerpts on this album, you must simply listen to TACET's entire program.

The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. She has now made her first Chopin recording, coupling the four Ballades, a cross between the miniature and the sonata, with the four Impromptus he composed at different periods of his life, between 1835 and 1842.

The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. She has now made her first Chopin recording, coupling the four Ballades, a cross between the miniature and the sonata, with the four Impromptus he composed at different periods of his life, between 1835 and 1842.