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Alexander Melnikov – Debussy: Préludes du 2e Livre, La Mer (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colourist’ and father of modern music. Alexander Melnikov is among those pianists increasingly committed to playing the works of the past on the instruments on which they came into being (or could have done so). And so it is on a ‘period’ piano (an Érard piano ) that he breathes new life into Book II of the Préludes, but also – with the help of Olga Pashchenko – the extraordinary transcription of La Mer by the composer himself.

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Alexander Melnikov, Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton – Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Tragic Overture – Cherubini: Éliza (Overture) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alexander Melnikov, Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton – Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Tragic Overture – Cherubini: Éliza (Overture) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:08 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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A peak of the Romantic concerto. With his First Concerto, the young Brahms set his own course in the wake of Beethoven and Schumann and at the same time poured forth his personal emotions in this work of impressive dimensions. The Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov has chosen an instrument contemporary with the premiere, a magnificent Bl”uthner piano from 1859, a perfect match for the Sinfonieorchester Basel under its British conductor. In addition to Brahms’s Tragic Overture, the programme also includes the much rarer Overture to ‘Eliza, an opera by a composer whom Brahms greatly admired: Cherubini.

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Alexander Lonquich, Colibrì Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmüller (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The lives of Robert Schumann and Norbert Burgmüller intersect in fascinating ways. Both were born in 1810, and both spent significant periods of their lives in Düsseldorf, which is how Schumann came to orchestrate the Scherzo of Burgmüller?s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 11.

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Alexander Lonquich – Schubert 1828 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alexander Lonquich has his own special place in the world of the piano: this German pianist, who made his home in Italy, has enjoyed an untypical career. A disciple of Paul Badura-Skoda, he is highly respected by many conductors and instrumental artists, such as Philippe Herreweghe, Nicolas Altstaedt and Christian Tetzlaff, with all of whom he collaborates on a regular basis. Navigating his way between the modern and the early piano, he takes the time needed to allow programmes to properly mature, working on them and thinking them over for several years. Such was also the case for this recording, carefully made on a modern Steinway piano, and we have genuinely fallen in love with it. As Alexander Lonquich’s accompanying notes to this album testify, the artist has intensively reflected on and lived with the music of Schubert before recording it. The year of Schubert’s death, which took place on 19th November 1828, was marked – particularly from its springtime – by an extraordinary burst of artistic creativity, produced at a frenetic working pace. It was during this period that he composed the three last piano sonatas and the threeKlavierstücke that make up this programme.

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Alexander Liebreich, Munich Chamber Orchestra – Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Symphony No. 4 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Alexander Liebreich, Munich Chamber Orchestra – Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Symphony No. 4 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:38 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Classical
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Herrlich klar und dynamisch! Der Komponist schuf mit seiner Musik zu William Shakespeares bunter Komödie voller Feen, Elfen und Kobolde ist die wohl populärste Vertonung des ‘Sommernachtstraums’. Werke wie der wunderbare ‘Hochzeitsmarsch’ zählen bis heute zu den berühmtesten der Musikgeschichte. Wunderbar intoniert vom Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, dem Münchener Kammerorchester unter dem Dirigat von Alexander Liebreich.

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Alexander Krichel – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Moments Musicaux (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Alexander Krichel – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Moments Musicaux (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Classical
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Alexander Krichel ist einer der talentiertesten jungen Pianisten seiner Generation und entfacht überall, wo er auftritt, Begeisterung bei Presse und Publikum. Er überzeugt mit Virtuosität, Dynamik und musikalischer Intensität und bringt »das Klavier so zum Singen, wie man es nur selten hört. Tiefe, Sensibilität und Eleganz verschmelzen bei ihm zu vollkommener Schönheit, so dass man sich nicht satt hören kann« (Crescendo). Bereits sein Debütalbum wurde zum Bestseller und mit dem ECHO Klassik ausgezeichnet.

Für seine neues Album wählte er eines der berühmtesten Klavierkonzerte der Spätromantik. Mit der Dresdner Philharmonie unter der Leitung von Michael Sanderling spielt er Sergei Rachmaninoffs Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 in c-Moll, das mit seiner leidenschaftlichen, poetischen Musik und seinen unwiderstehlichen Melodien bis heute sein populärstes Werk ist. Reizvoll kombiniert mit Rachmaninoffs facettenreichen Moments musicaux op. 16 für Klavier solo, deren Name inspiriert wurde von Franz Schuberts gleichnamiger Sammlung musikalischer Miniaturen, präsentiert Alexander Krichel ein Programm das sowohl technisch als auch künstlerisch höchste Ansprüche an den Interpreten stellt.
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Alexander Krichel – Miroirs – Ravel Piano Works (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alexander Krichel - Miroirs - Ravel Piano Works (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Few pianists can claim a more impressive recording debut than Alexander Krichel’s masterful Liszt recital in 2011 (Telos/Profil). It was followed by two concerto releases, the first offering works by Mozart, Hummel and Chopin and a second with Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto and the Moments musicaux (both Sony Classical) as well as another solo disc with a mixed Romantic programme. All these suggest a steady career trajectory and artistic growth unencumbered by external pressures. Krichel, a Hamburg native who turns 28 this year, has now released an all-Ravel disc, replete with shimmering surfaces and gossamer textures beautifully captured by the Sony engineers.
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Alexander Krichel – Enescu & Mussorgsky (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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One of Germany’s most prominent pianists, Alexander Krichel from Hamburg, has brought together a couple of heavyweights for his first album with Berlin Classics. He combines the “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modest Mussorgsky, a central work of the piano literature, with a rarely heard gem by the Romanian composer George Enescu. Enescu’s Second Piano Suite enhances the formal language of the Baroque with Romantic and Impressionist tim-bres, and entrances the listener with a rich palette of tone colours. To round off the pro-gramme, Alexander Krichel plays another work by a composer from Russia’s “mighty hand-ful”, the Nocturne from the Petite Suite by Alexander Borodin.
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Alexander Krichel – An die ferne Geliebte (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alexander Krichel spielt in einem faszinierenden Programm voller Liebesleid und Liebesfreud Klavierwerke von Beethoven, Schumann, Wagner, Liszt und Kreisler.
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Alexander Koryakin – Franck, Debussy & Others: Piano Works (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Alexander Koryakin, winner of the 2019 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, has selected two perfectly paired masterpieces for his first Naxos recording. Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann is inspired by his travels in Switzerland, and is a true symphonic poem for piano. Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor, which Liszt himself found shockingly intense, is a cyclical work of passionate extremes, and a masterpiece of Franco-Belgian repertoire. Also included are Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse, which offers crystalline brightness, and Jorge Sastre’s Jaenera, “Ecos y temple”, with virtuoso expression drawing on a wide range of influences.

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Alexander Karpeyev – Russian Émigré Composers (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Russian-born pianist Alexander Karpeyev has been a major prizewinner in international competitions, including first prizes at the 2007 Dudley International Piano Competition, the Norah Sande Award 2008 and Oxford Music Festivals recital competition. He is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and City University of London, where his doctoral thesis was on Medtner’s performance practice. Alexander has given recitals in major UK venues and abroad. Dr. Karpeyev originally performed this programme at Kings Place, London, on February 13, 2017 to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. He is grateful to all those who encouraged him to make this subsequent recording.

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Alexander Hilsberg – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 – Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (Remastered) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alexander Hilsberg – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 – Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (Remastered) (2021)
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Hilsberg (real name, Hillersberg), Alexander, Polish-born American violinist, conductor, and teacher; b. Warsaw, April 24, 1897; d. Camden, Maine, Aug. 10, 1961. He studied violin with Auer at the St. Petersburg Cons. In 1923 he emigrated to the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen. He was made a violinist (1926), concertmaster (1931), and assoc. conductor (1945) of the Philadelphia Orch.; he also taught at the Curtis Inst. of Music (1927-53). From 1952 to 1960 he was conductor of the New Orleans Phil., and then was head of the orch. dept. at the New School of Music in Philadelphia.
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Alexander Hawkins, Evan Parker, Riot Ensemble – Togetherness Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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With Togetherness Music, British pianist and composer Alexander Hawkins presents a fascinating musical panorama, a distillation and synthesis of different traditions and influences, reflecting the broad spectrum of an extraordinary musical spirit. Released to celebrate Hawkins’ 40th birthday, this six-movement quasi-orchestral work is an extensive expansion and revision of a piece which originated with a commission from conductor and composer Aaron Holloway-Nahum for the Riot Ensemble, to feature Hawkins and saxophone icon Evan Parker – with whom Hawkins has enjoyed a now more than decade-long musical association – as soloists. The new incarnation of the work features the original forces, augmented by additional acoustic improvisers and the electronic wizardry of Matthew Wright.
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Alexander Hawkins, Tomeka Reid – Shards and Constellations (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Shards and Constellations presents duets with two remarkable musicians Tomeka Reid and Alexander Hawkins. Both have become creative epicenters in the jazz and improvisation scene in recent years with their original, versatile and innovative art. Reid has recorded extensively with many legendary artists from the AACM such as Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell as well as the next generation of AACM artists including Nicole Mitchell, Dee Alexander and Mike Reed.
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Alexander Hawkins – Iron into Wind (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Alexander Hawkins is a creative epicentre from the London jazz scene and is regarded in the UK as one of the most innovative musicians of the younger generation with a surprising radius of action. He plays with Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, Taylor Ho Bynum, Louis Moholo, Shabaka Hutchings and Elaine Mitchener. ‘Iron into Wind’ is the name of his new piano solo. The phrase “Iron into Wind” evokes both the transience of improvisation and a fascination with solid material, represented by the powerful blocks of sound to be heard in several of these pieces. Richard Willimas writes in the liner notes: “The mood varies from the two-handed avant-gospel figurations of “Congregational” to the hurtling ” tude” via the austere ruminations of “Tumble Mono”, the knotted blues of “Strange Courage” and the explosive accelerations of “It Should Be a Song”, with a diversion, in “Pleasant Constellation”, by way of variations on an element from Sun Ra’s “Fate in a Pleasant Mood”. What he achieves here is a fine balance of all his interests, creating a self-portrait of a wonderfully inventive modern musician.”
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