Two Concertos For Organ

Albrecht Mayer, Sinfonia Varsovia - New Seasons: Handel for Oboe & Orchestra (2006)

Albrecht Mayer, Sinfonia Varsovia - New Seasons: Handel for Oboe & Orchestra (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 397 Mb | Total time: 78'19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 476 5681 | Recorded: 2006

New Seasons is a project undertaken by oboist Albrecht Mayer to create "new" concertos for oboe, based primarily on the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Handel. He and arranger Andreas N. Tarkmann used arias, sometimes including bits of recitative, and gave the vocal lines to the oboe, flute, and bassoon without changing too much of the accompanimental parts to create a cycle of four concertos. Compared to Handel's original instrumental music, these are naturally more lyrical and sometimes more declamatory, but it is surprising how often the music is very dance-like. Lively, moving rhythms are not what is normally expected in vocal music, but it makes the arias used here very natural sounding as concerto movements.

Lalo, Saint-saens: Cello Concertos; Berlioz - Wispelway (2013)  Music

Posted by peotuvave at Nov. 8, 2013
Lalo, Saint-saens: Cello Concertos; Berlioz - Wispelway (2013)

Lalo, Saint-saens: Cello Concertos; Berlioz - Wispelway (2013)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 295 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | Catalog Number: 4107

After a highly acclaimed recording of Briten’s Cello Symphony (ONYX4058) Pieter Wispelwey and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiko Kim, turn to two romantic cello concertos whose neglect is hard to fathom. Lalo, unusually for a French composer in the mid 19th century, was drawn to chamber music, and formed a string quartet (in which he played viola, and later second violin) that championed the works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. His passion for chamber music developed to embrace large scale orchestral works – two violin concertos, the famous 'Symphonie espagnole' for violin and orchestra, a symphony in G minor, the Piano Concerto and the concerto recorded here: the Cello concerto in D minor of 1877.
Kei Koito - Bach: Famous Organ Works (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

Kei Koito - Bach: Famous Organ Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/176.4 kHz | Time - 70:32 minutes | 2.30 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Although Bach is viewed today mainly as a monumental composer, it was as a dazzling organist that he made his mark during his lifetime. The present recording, featuring a diverse array of works performed by the organist Kei Koito, shows why. In Bach’s time, organ works were divided into distinct categories: free pieces (pieces based on freely conceived ideas rather than chorale melodies), chorale settings (pieces based on chorale tunes), and transcriptions. Kei Koito touches on all three genres as she presents a fascinating survey of Bach organ music.
Trevor Pinnock, Simon Preston, The English Concert - Handel: Coronation Anthems, Concerti A Due Cori (1995)

Trevor Pinnock, Simon Preston, Choir of Westminster Abbey, The English Concert - Handel: Coronation Anthems, Concerti A Due Cori (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:27 | 392 MB
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | Catalog: 0289 447 2802 6

This disc brings together recordings made in the 1980's as part of a reduction of three original discs down to two. At the same time, the original fine recordings have been remastered to good effect with added depth and space. This makes a particularly important improvement to the Coronation Anthems which previously came over as sonically lacking ideal breadth, depth and recorded weight in Zadok. The ears adjusted after that.
Markus Becker, Thierry Fischer - The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 55 - Widor: Piano Concertos (2011)

Markus Becker, Thierry Fischer - The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 55 - Widor: Piano Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC (log,tracks+cue) -> 265 Mb (5% Rec.) | Scans (covers+d.booklet) included
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records, CDA67817 | 2011 | 01:11:37

Charles-Marie Widor was born in Lyon to a family of organ builders and consequently became an organist of great skill and an assistant to Camille Saint-Saëns at La Madeleine in Paris at the age of twenty-four. Today, Widor's compositions for organ have a prominent position in the instrument's core repertoire, but it is often forgotten that the composer wrote many other significant works, notably his two piano concertos.
Markus Becker, Thierry Fischer - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 55: Charles-Marie Widor: Piano Concertos & Fantaisie (2011)

Markus Becker, Thierry Fischer, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 55: Charles-Marie Widor: Piano Concertos & Fantaisie (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 71:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67817 | Recorded: 2010

Charles-Marie Widor was born in Lyon to a family of organ builders and consequently became an organist of great skill and an assistant to Camille Saint-Saëns at La Madeleine in Paris at the age of twenty-four.
Bjarke Mogensen, Danish NCO, Rolf Gupta - Accordion Concertos (2012)

Bjarke Mogensen, Danish NCO, Rolf Gupta - Accordion Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 134 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Contemporary | Label: Dacapo | # 6.220592 | Time: 00:57:20

Danish Bjarke Mogensen (b. 1985) is the new star of the accordion in a country where there are already fine accordion traditions. On this CD Bjarke is accompanied by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta in new Danish accordion concertos by Per Nørgård, Ole Schmidt, Anders Koppel and Martin Lohse – the last two written specifically for the young soloist.
Sophie Yates - Bach: Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi & Marcello (2013)

Sophie Yates - Bach: Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi & Marcello (2013)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 508 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 796

This recording brings together all the arrangements for harpsichord by Bach of instrumental concertos by his Italian contemporary Antonio Vivaldi, adding those of one concerto each by the brothers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. They are performed by Sophie Yates who has made a series of solo CDs for Chandos, many of which have won international awards. She has been described by Gramophone as ‘hugely talented’ and by BBC Music as playing ‘with exceptional poise’.
Sophie Yates - J.S. Bach: Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi (2013)

Sophie Yates - J.S. Bach: Transcriptions of Concertos by Vivaldi (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 76:28 | 559 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 0796

This recording brings together all the arrangements for harpsichord by Bach of instrumental concertos by his Italian contemporary Antonio Vivaldi, adding those of one concerto each by the brothers Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello. They are performed by Sophie Yates who has made a series of solo CDs for Chandos, many of which have won international awards. She has been described by Gramophone as ‘hugely talented’ and by BBC Music as playing ‘with exceptional poise’.

Chisholm: Piano Concertos - Danny Driver, Rory Macdonald (2012)  Music

Posted by peotuvave at Feb. 2, 2013
Chisholm: Piano Concertos - Danny Driver, Rory Macdonald (2012)

Chisholm: Piano Concertos - Danny Driver, Rory Macdonald (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 245 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67880

Who was Erik Chisholm? A fascinating musical polymath: composer, conductor and performer, and collector of folk music from his native Scotland. Born in Glasgow in 1904, his attitude to music was progressive, looking towards central European modernism (he was dubbed ‘MacBartók’). Chisholm’s understanding and mastery of the piano—he performed the Scottish premieres of Rachmaninov’s Third and Bartók’s First Concertos—is evident in his two concertos.