Piano Fantasy

Katia & Marielle Labèque ‎- Piano Fantasy: Music For Two Pianos (2003) [6CD Box Set]

Katia & Marielle Labèque ‎- Piano Fantasy: Music For Two Pianos (2003)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
6CD | Decca, 473 582-2 | ~ 1237 or 945 Mb | Booklet(jpg) -> 65 Mb
Classical, Romantic, Modern

The keyboard aficionados from all over the world know that Katia and Marielle Labeque are the most famous pianistic duo on the international concert stage now. They have reigned supreme in the territory of the two keyboards repertoire for some three decades and still seem inexhaustible in musical resources when conveying its marvels…
Jeroen van Veen, Maarten van Veen & Piano Duo Van Veen - Famous Works for Piano Duo (2022)

Jeroen van Veen, Maarten van Veen & Piano Duo Van Veen - Famous Works for Piano Duo (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 441 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 294 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:07:03
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a unique sequence of masterpieces for the genre in live and studio performances, made between 1992 and 2008, and given by the brothers as Piano Duo Van Veen.
Sviatoslav Richter - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8 & 23; 8 Bagatelles; Choral Fantasy, Op.80 (2003)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8 & 23; 8 Bagatelles; Choral Fantasy, Op.80 (2003)
Sviatoslav Richter, piano; All-Union Radio Large Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling
USSR State Russian Chorus, Artistic Director Alexander Sveshnikov

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 304 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | # MEL CD 10 00732 | Time: 01:19:37

This live Appassionata, from a Moscow recital of 1959, is one of the most thrilling piano performances ever recorded. Sviatoslav Richter fills every moment of the first movement with intense drama, creates the illusion of total repose in the central variations, and then takes off in the finale with an exhibition of musical virtuosity and ever-increasing tension that becomes almost unbearably intense (and unbelievably fast and accurate). The studio Pathétique is quite fine, and the Fantasy (sung in Russian!) well performed by all but still rather quaint in its effect. But don't miss that Appassionata!
Jeroen van Veen, Maarten van Veen & Piano Duo Van Veen - Famous Works for Piano Duo (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Jeroen van Veen, Maarten van Veen & Piano Duo Van Veen - Famous Works for Piano Duo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 127:03 minutes | 1,06 GB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

The pianist, composer, producer and renaissance musician Jeroen van Veen has played many concerts with both his wife Sandra and his brother Maarten, and has recorded with both of them for Brilliant Classics. The present compilation brings together a unique sequence of masterpieces for the genre in live and studio performances, made between 1992 and 2008, and given by the brothers as Piano Duo Van Veen.

Ekatarina Litvintseva - Pejačević: Piano Music (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 22, 2021
Ekatarina Litvintseva - Pejačević: Piano Music (2021)

Ekatarina Litvintseva - Pejačević: Piano Music (2021)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 64:56 | 178 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Piano Classics

When the Siberian-born ‘Arctic Circle Pianist’ Ekaterina Litvintseva heard “Blumenleben” (‘Life of Flowers’) for the first time, she immediately resolved to find out more about the life and music of Dora Pejačević (1885-1923). This resolution prompted her to investigate an extraordinary corpus of music, remarkable not least for its sheer diversity, which she has attempted to convey in this selection of Pejačević’s piano output. Among 57 extant works, 24 are scored for solo piano; there would surely have been many more in both categories had she not died of kidney failure on 5 March 1923, aged 37, having suffered complications in giving birth to her first child.Pejačević was born in Budapest in 1885 into the Croatian aristocracy. She grew up on the family estate of Našice (in the region of Slavonia in Croatia) before taking her musical studies more seriously in Zagreb. Her early output shows how well she had mastered the Romantic idiom of character pieces by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Grieg, but her voice begins to emerge in the “Six Fantasiestücke Op.17” of 1903. From two years later, the “Blumenleben” bring the character of each chosen the innocent snowdrop, the erotic rose, the mournful chrysanthemum – with a refined melodic imagination and rare economy of thought: her Mendelssohnian sympathies lead her only to use as many notes as are needed.
Elisabeth Leonskaja - Franz Schubert: Sonatas; Impromptus; Wanderer Fantasy; Trout Quintet (2016) 6 CD Box Set

Elisabeth Leonskaja - Franz Schubert: Piano Works (2016) 6 CD Box Set
Sonatas; Impromptus; Wanderer Fantasy; Trout Quintet

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.2 Gb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190295974954 | Time: 06:38:19

The works of Schubert are central to Elisabeth Leonskaja's repertoire - and her interpretations of his work have been described as "essential". Born in the Soviet Union, where her greatest mentor was Sviatoslav Richter, she moved in 1978 to Vienna. She has said that: "In Schubert, there are things that any average Viennese person will understand better than I do … I, though, have to think about them carefully. In Schubert, profound matters are expressed with a lightness of touch."

Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at March 2, 2024
Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs

Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 313 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67591/2 | Time: 01:56:42

Apart from Grieg, no Scandinavian composer has written for the piano with more individuality and insight than Nielsen. Right from the very outset of his Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3, there is no doubt that his is an individual voice. The first emerges from a Schumannesque innocence to speak with personal accents, but all five are strong on humour and character. Nielsen’s greatest piano music is clustered into a period of four years (1916-20) with his final thoughts in the medium, the Three Pieces, Op. 59 of 1928 being composed in the immediate proximity of his Clarinet Concerto, music that already breathes the air of other planets. With the exception of Leif Ove Andsnes, no pianist of international standing has championed it on record, and apart from John Ogdon and John McCabe it has been the almost exclusive preserve of Nordic artists. True, the American scholar Mina Miller, who edited the autographs for the Hansen edition, recorded a complete survey in 1995 – also for Hyperion. But although Schnabel was the dedicatee of the Suite, Op. 45, he never broke a lance for it on the international scene. The Suite is not only Nielsen’s greatest keyboard work but arguably the mightiest ever written in Scandinavia. Martin Roscoe is right inside this music and guides us through its marvels with great subtlety and authority.
Peter Jacobs, John McCabe, Malcolm Binns, Phyllis Sellick, Colin Horsley - Twentieth Century British Piano Sonatas (2022)

Peter Jacobs, John McCabe, Malcolm Binns, Phyllis Sellick, Colin Horsley - Twentieth Century British Piano Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 4:18:12 | 821 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Heritage Records

This compendium of British Piano Sonatas has been dictated by quality and variety. There are obvious omissions, largely of composers who wrote fine music for the piano, but maybe not in the form or structure suggested by the loaded word ‘sonata’. All the works presented here show their composers’ thinking over a bigger scale than their smaller pieces might allow, so that the listener is able to indulge in the creator’s sound world and control of musical form over longer periods. Here are a dozen such works each totally representative of their composers. We can delight in the stylistic and sonic contrasts as well as revelling in their varieties of keyboard writing. Peter Jacobs
Tatiana Nikolayeva - P.I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.44; Concert Fantasy, Op.56 (2008) [The Russian Piano Tradition]

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.44; Concert Fantasy, Op.56 (2008)
Tatiana Nikolayeva, piano; USSR State Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Nikolai Anosov & Kyrill Kondrashin

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 203 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 201 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Appian | # APR5666 | Time: 01:16:08

These three titles inaugurate the Goldenweiser School, the last of the three great teaching traditions to be covered in this comprehensive survey of the many great pianists who worked in Russia in the Soviet era. Along with Goldenweiser himself we start with Nikolayeva and Ginzburg. The bulk of the issues in THE RUSSIAN PIANO TRADITION will be divided into 'schools' which represent the three main teachers of this period - Neuhaus, Goldenweiser and Igumnov, - and their pupils. Today Nikolayeva (1924-1993) is remembered mainly as a Bach player and also as the definitive performer of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes & Fugues, which were inspired by, and written for, her after the composer heard her play Bach in the 1950 Leipzig Bach competition (which she won). However, to limit Nikolayeva's reputation to these two composers would be doing her a great disservice. She had a vast repertoire and her recordings include concertos by Bartok, Medtner, Prokofiev Stravinsky and several Soviet composers - including her own concerto, as she was also a composer! Further, she recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas and much other standard repertoire from the 19th century. This CD presents two recording premieres - the first ever recording of the Tchaikovsky Concert Fantasy Op56 and the first recording of the original version of Tchaikovsky's 2nd Piano Concerto.
Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker - Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Choral Fantasy (1988)

Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker - Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Choral Fantasy (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:10:51 | 779 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 419796

A marquee name among classical pianists since the 1970s, Maurizio Pollini has been noted for performances of some of the most monumental of contemporary music, and for pairing such works with standard repertory of the 19th century. Pollini's decades-long relationship as a recording artist with the Deutsche Grammophon label has been among the most stable in years.