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Christian Ferras - Brahms: Violin Concerto; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 (2003)

Christian Ferras - Brahms: Violin Concerto; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 186 Mb | Total time: 64:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Testament | # SBT1293 | Recorded: 1954

Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933, he began studying the violin with his father, who was a pupil of Marcel Chailley. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi in 1941, and in 1943 obtained the First Prize. In 1944 he went to the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1946 he won the First Prize in both disciplines (violin and chamber music), and started his performing career with the Pasdeloup Orchestra under Albert Wolff, and later Paul Paray. He worked with Romanian violinist and composer George Enescu, who also acted as an instructor. Ferras premiered the Violin Concerto by Federico Elizalde, under the direction of Gaston Poulet.
Various Artists - Selected Signs III-VIII (2013) [6CDs] {ECM 2350-55}

Various Artists - Selected Signs III-VIII (2013) [6CDs] {ECM 2350-55}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 1.8GB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 980MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Classical

In the winter of 2012/13, the Haus der Kunst in Munich – one of Europe’s most important museums for contemporary art – hosted the exhibition ECM – A Cultural Archaeology. The goal of curators Okwui Enwezor and Markus Müller was to show the range of the label’s artistic endeavours in music, graphic art, and photography and its creative interchanges with film, theatre and literature. For this exhibition, Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake created this box-set accentuating directions in ECM's rich musical history. Many themes and streams are touched upon here including the range of composition in the New Series, music for and from films, imaginative historical reconstructions, trans-cultural music, ambient minimalism, and jazz and improvisation of many hues, in a collection with a playing time of more than seven hours.