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Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 17 Apr 2011 18:28:21 | Comments : 7

Du Caurroy, Le Jeune, Lassus, Sandrin, Sermisy, Willaert - Chansons Musicales, Joyssance vous donneray ~ Arianna Savall, Il Desiderio, Thomas kugler
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 281 Mb
21 novembre 2006 | Aeolus | Filesonic + Fileserve

" The good spirits of these performers—their delight in the music— makes this enjoyable ing. " (American Record Guide)
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 17 Apr 2011 07:02:01 | Comments : 4


Dom Quichotte - Cantates & Concerts Comiques ~ Dominique Visse, Café Zimmermann
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 293 Mb
08 Octobre 2009 | Alpha | Filesonic + Fileserve

Here, Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza encounter a disconsolate (but not inconsolable...) widow and a conceited composer, presenting the execution of 'his' sonata, with which he is unduly satisfied. All the protagonists of this highly coloured play are interpreted by Dominique Visse, who gives proof once again of his vocal mastery and exceptional presence. May the party begin…
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 15 Apr 2011 20:52:44 | Comments : 4

Frescobaldi - Dialogues ~ Francesco Tristano Schlimé
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 158 Mb
26 avril 2007 | Sisyphe | Filesonic + Fileserve

The text entitled 'AL LETTORE' is a preface intended to provide the musician (the reader) with rules for the performance of the Toccatas or rather to point out the absence of such rules. Initially written in 1615, it was revised by Girolamo Frescobaldi in 1637...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 10 Apr 2011 11:13:36 | Comments : 3

Estel de mar - LLibre Vermell de Montserrat ~ Ensemble Kantika
Chants de Pèlerins du Moyen-Age en l'honneur de Marie
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 334 Mb
11 janvier 2009 | Christophorus | Filesonic + Fileserve

Montserrat monastery had been a well-known place for the veneration of the Virgin in the 13th and 14th centuries, also being home of the Llibre Vermell, the “Red Book”, a famous collection of theological and liturgical texts as well as Marian chants in different languages as Latin, Occitan and Catalan...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 04 Apr 2011 05:34:39 | Comments : 7

Liszt & Wagner - Sonatas & Métamorphoses ~ Thomas Hitzlberger (Steingraeber ’Liszt’ Piano)
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 227 Mb
11 janvier 2007 | Ambronay | Filesonic + Fileserve
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 03 Apr 2011 10:42:18 | Comments : 9

Mozart - Une soirée chez les Jacquin ~ Piau, Gabail, Caton, Lehtipuu, Ensemble 415, Banchini, Thome
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 2 Cds, 150+250 Mb
30 septembre 2000 | Zig Zag Territoires | Filesonic + Fileserve
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Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 02 Apr 2011 07:36:23 | Comments : 7


Schumann - Humoreske, Studien Fur Den Pedalflugel, Gesange Der Fruhe ~ Piotr Anderszewski
Classical | Easy CD-DA, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 171 Mb
10 janvier 2011 | Virgin Classics | Filesonic + Fileserve

For this recital, Piotr Anderszewski turns his attention to some of Schumann’s less frequently performed works. The Humoreske of 1839, far more serious-minded and substantial than its name might suggest, is built in five discrete sections. Mercurial in it's shifts of mood, it reflects the composer’s report to his wife Clara that, while working on the piece, he was “laughing and crying, all at once”...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 02 Apr 2011 06:06:22 | Comments : 8

Brahms - Variations Handel op. 24, Rhapsodies op. 79, Pièces pour piano op. 118 et op. 119 ~ Murray Perahia
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 235 Mb
16 novembre 2010 | Sony Classics | Filesonic + Fileserve

This release sees Murray Perahia returning to Brahms after a significant series of excellent Bach recordings for Sony Classical. His 1991 Sony recording of the Sonata No.3 has an assortment of Intermezzos and Rhapsodies as a filler, but this new disc sees Perahia taking the later opus numbers head-on, working up to them chronologically via the Handel Variations and Rhapsodies Op.79 which, as Katrin Eich says in her booklet notes, each represent an ‘end point’ at certain stages in Brahms’ compositional output...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 28 Feb 2011 07:15:41 | Comments : 1

Brahms - A German Requiem ~ Grupo de Canto Coral, Andrenacci
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 248 Mb
29 février 2000 | Hanssler Classics | Filesonic + Fileserve

In 1871 Brahms prepared a version of his German Requiem for a performance in London--set for soloists and chorus, and four-hand piano. Of course, piano transcriptions of his orchestral works were common for this composer, but in this case the task was a bit more complex than usual: translating the highly independent and varied instrumental parts to an effective accompaniment for the substantial and preeminent choral writing. Only a handful of recordings have attempted to recreate this unusual version of the Requiem, and this surprising, superlative newcomer (distributed by Collegium) is the only one currently available...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 25 Feb 2011 18:16:34 | Comments : 5


Caplet, Debussy, Godard, Pierne, Roussel, Saint-Saens - Une flûte invisible (Musique Française à l'aube du XXème Siècle) ~ Sandrine Piau, Gilles de Talhouët, Arthur Schoonderwoerd
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 275 Mb
16 avril 2006 | Alpha | Filesonic + Fileserve

This is quite simply marvellous. Une flûte invisible is an exquisitely planned collection of French music from the turn of the 20th century, bringing together, on the one hand, settings by Saint-Saëns, Pierné, Godard and Caplet of the same Victor Hugo poem, and, on the other, musical references to Pan, predominantly from Debussy...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 24 Feb 2011 19:31:54 | Comments : 2

Vierne - Quintette pour piano & cordes Op.42 Quatuors à cordes Op. 12 ~ Quatuor Athenaeum-Enesco, Gabriel Tacchino
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 215 Mb
01 septembre 2005 | Arion | Filesonic + Fileserve

If, like me, your knowledge of the music of Vierne is limited to his organ works and, perhaps, his fine Messe Solennelle, this CD may be something of a revelation. His six organ symphonies, composed between 1898 and 1934, are fairly well represented in the UK catalogue, as are some of his other organ works...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 24 Feb 2011 11:48:19 | Comments : 9

Caplet - Conte fantastique, Septuor, Prières ~ Ensemble Musique Oblique
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 177 Mb
05 janvier 2006 | Harmonia Musique d'Abord | Filesonic + Fileserve

Caplet didn't have a large output of music, partly due to his early death from complications resulting from his exposure to poison gas during WWI. He had a broad and varied musical career and was a friend of Debussy, whose music made a strong impression on him. He liked creating chamber works with unusual instrumentation and was partial to the recently-perfected French pedal harp...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 23 Feb 2011 19:57:55 | Comments : 6

Vasks, Weill - Violin Concertos ~ Anthony Marwood, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 293 Mb
21 octobre 2005 | Hyperion | Filesonic + Fileserve

This new account of Vasks's Distant Light swells the number of recordings it has garnered to five, an amazing statistic for a work premiered as recently as August 1997. Then again, perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised: the Latvian's music speaks without artifice and offers an enticing blend of unspoilt beauty, compassionate heartache and superior compositional craft...
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 23 Feb 2011 13:12:49 | Comments : 5

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE
American Light Music Classics ~ New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 1 Cd, 288 Mb
11 septembre 1998 | Hyperion | Filesonic + Fileserve

'These lovely old tunes have a freshness and charm akin to the best light-hearted literature or illustration from the same period. A splendid successor to the previous volumes' (Gramophone)
Posted By : Pancho Villa | Date : 21 Feb 2011 20:10:54 | Comments : 13

Schumann - Klavierwerke & Kammermusik – VIII ~ Eric Le Sage
Classical | Eac, Ape+cue, log | covers+booklet | 2 Cds, 232+152 Mb
05 novembre 2009 | Alpha | Filesonic + Fileserve

The eighth volume of Eric Le Sage’s survey of Schumann’s solo and chamber compositions for piano presents some of Schumann’s most virtuosic and least personal piano music—the Allegro, op. 8, and the two sets of études after Paganini caprices, op. 3 and op. 10—juxtaposed with three seldom-heard and rather sizeable teaching pieces for children, the late Clavier Sonaten Für die Jugend...