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Chitose Okashiro - Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano Works (2000)  Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 19, 2023
Chitose Okashiro - Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano Works (2000)

Chitose Okashiro - Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano Works (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 197 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans ~ 62 Mb
Contemporary Classical | Label: ProPiano Records | # PPR224532 | Time: 01:03:23

Pioneer of techno-pop, Academy Award winning film composer, touring performer - Ryuichi Sakamoto enjoys a diverse career as an artist whose music continually challenges traditional categories. Pianist Chitose Okashiro, taking risks that not a single "classical pianist" has been willing to take, recognizing the greatness of the classically trained Sakamoto's piano works, and imbuing them with her own brand of explosively talented genius has herewith set the standard for "independent classical label crossover" achievement. Already a HUGE success in Japan, with sales in excess of 30,000 units, Miss Okashiro herewith reveals the complete arsenal of Sakamoto's prowess… a prowess that lands him in the position (arguably) of the world's most important composer. Included on this CD are the hugely impressionistic and French like pieces that ONLY a trained classical pianist can play with the simplicity and grace required to foster their most sublime effects.

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.
Martin Roscoe - Erno Dohnanyi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.3 (2015)

Martin Roscoe - Ernő Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol.3 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 218 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA 68033 | Time: 01:19:06

The penultimate volume in Hyperion’s four-part survey of the complete solo piano music of Ernő Dohnányi focuses on music from the period when the composer’s pre-eminent position was being assured. The titles of the largest works here, Ruralia hungarica and the Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, mask in their nationalistic ostentation the skill of a true master of piano composition. Martin Roscoe inhabits the world of Dohnányi’s music like no other—appraisals of the earlier volumes attest to this—and this new recording is a joy.
Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)

Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 78:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97118 | Recorded: 2022

This beautifully conceived program brings together the complete works for piano duet by three major American composers: Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Samuel Barber (1910-1981).

Magazine Printing - Nate Heller (Piano Solo)  Sheet music

Posted by Gelsomino at July 27, 2023
Magazine Printing - Nate Heller (Piano Solo)

Magazine Printing - Nate Heller (Piano Solo)
English | 2 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB

Elisaveta Blumina - Valentin Silvestrov: Piano Works (2013)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 30, 2022
Elisaveta Blumina - Valentin Silvestrov: Piano Works (2013)

Elisaveta Blumina - Valentin Silvestrov: Piano Works (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 155 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:05:56
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Grand Piano | # GP639

Piano music is central to Valentin Silvestrov’s output. With its frequent allusions to lingering recollections of the past, this programme presents an overview of various creative periods. It begins with the composer’s reworkings of youthful sketches (Naive Musik), followed by Der Bote (The Messenger) with its beautiful Mozartian theme leading into a sonatina in the style of the 18th century. After recent works from Silvestrov’s self–defined ‘Bagatelle’ period, the recording concludes with the striking Kitschmusik, which engages with the music of Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. The Two Waltzes are dedicated to Elisaveta Blumina.
Matthieu Idmtal, Paolo Scafarella & Giorgio Trione Bartoli - Piano Sonatas: Discoveries Vol 2 (2023)

Matthieu Idmtal, Paolo Scafarella & Giorgio Trione Bartoli - Piano Sonatas: Discoveries Vol. 2 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 218 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | 01:13:41
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

“Belgian pianist Matthieu Idmtal creates a wonderfully colorful and profound universe that not only surprised me, but even more completely captivated me. His great technical vocabulary leads to an interpretation that combines a refined sound with penetrating expressiveness in a sublime way.” – Opus Klassiek
Matthieu Idmtal, Paolo Scafarella, Giorgio Trione Bartoli - Piano Sonatas: Discoveries Vol 2 (2023) [Digital Download 24/44-88]

Matthieu Idmtal, Paolo Scafarella & Giorgio Trione Bartoli - Piano Sonatas: Discoveries Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1-48-88,2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 73:41 minutes | 737 MB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

“Belgian pianist Matthieu Idmtal creates a wonderfully colorful and profound universe that not only surprised me, but even more completely captivated me. His great technical vocabulary leads to an interpretation that combines a refined sound with penetrating expressiveness in a sublime way.” – Opus Klassiek
Roman Rabinovich - Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Roman Rabinovich - Haydn Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:02:48 minutes | 1,86 GB
Classical | Label: First Hand Records, Official Digital Download

The second volume of Roman Rabinovich's complete cycle of Haydn Piano Sonatas, with each volume featuring Rabinovich's iPad drawings.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2012)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 25, 2020
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2012)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet - Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (2012)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 254 MB | 01:09:08
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records

This is Volume 4 in Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s project to record the complete piano sonatas of Haydn. The last volume in the series (CHAN10689) was a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone, an Instrumental Choice in the magazine BBC Music, Editor’s Choice in the magazine Classic FM, and Recording of the Month in MusicWeb International. In the words of Bavouzet himself: ‘Each volume of this ambitious, extended project will arrive over the years like a postcard, dispatched during my travels with scant respect for chronological considerations, but undertaken with the greatest passion for trying to convey as vividly as possible to twenty-first-century ears the boundless treasures of this sublime music.’