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Francesco Dillon & Emanuele Torquati – Brahms: Cello Transcriptions (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:33 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Arrangements of the First Violin Sonata and groups of songs and Hungarian dances, made by Brahms’s contemporaries for an idiom close to the composer’s heart, in new recordings by an experienced partnership.
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Emanuele Torquati – L’anima e la danza (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:31 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stradivarius
“L’Ame et la Danse” (1921) is the title of a fictitious dialogue where the French poet Paul Valéry portrays Life as a dancing woman. Valéry, through an ethereal mixture of sound and sense, creates Music for a body in continuous vital transformation. The musical path presented in my latest recording aims at exploring a kaleidoscope of sounds that belongs to extremely diverse musical and poetic worlds. Some of the pieces interpreted do not have a close thematic connection with dance instead they have a relationship with the soul. After all, this essential component of the human being has an inner and silent rhythm, an inextinguishable movement. The Dialogue between Couperin’s musical personifications and their twofold essence at times is ironic and stylised as in Castiglioni, Benjamin, Filidei and Pesson and at times is oneiric, as in Chopin, Busoni and Faurè. This imaginary journey is framed by Ravel’s sublime reinterpretations of the Pavane and Waltz genres, summarized by Henri de Régnier’s epigraph: “Le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d’une occupation inutile”.
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Emanuele Segre, Orchestra I Pomeriggi musicali & Carlo Boccadoro – Italian Guitar Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:56 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
Spain may be the ancestral home of the guitar, but Italy has produced wonderful guitarists and guitar music – witness Italian virtuoso Emanuele Segre and his new release on Delos, Italian Guitar Concertos. Segre brings his “rhythmic buoyancy,” “delicate touch,” and “persuasive playing” to a delightful programme ranging from Vivaldi and Giuliani concertos to new creations.
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Emanuele Passerini, Tiziano Tononi & Tito Mangialajo Rantzer – Trio Geometrics (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:08 minutes | 821 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dodicilune
After four CDs with the Painting Jazz Duo, flanked by the Galag pianist Massimiliano Bruno Belloni, and “Our World”, in duo with the percussionist Alessandro “Pacho” Rossi, the collaboration between saxophonist Emanuele Passerini and the Dodicilune label continues. Distributed in Italy and abroad by Ird and in the best online stores by Believe Digital, “Trio geometrics” is released on Tuesday 10 November.
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Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni & Mark Solborg – Foil (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:36 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ILK Music
Three years after their critically acclaimed first eponymous LP, Emanuele Maniscalco, Francesco Bigoni and Mark Solborg are ready to deliver a new chapter of their journey. Put together a whole new set of original compositions, three strong and sensitive musicians from Denmark and Italy carrying three years of focused concert activity in Europe together, the amazing acoustics of the “Ridotto” hall, in one of the best preserved opera houses in Italy, and you have FOIL.
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Emanuele Delucchi – Godowsky: Studies on Chopin, Op. 25 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:06 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
Some of the most challenging keyboard music ever composed in a new recording of consummate artistry.
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Emanuele Delucchi & Delucchi Emanuele – Czerny: Der Pianist im klassischen Style, Op. 856, 48 Preludes & Fugues (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:13:22 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carl Czerny
A little-known “Well-Tempered Clavier” for the 19th century in a superbly engineered new version. Long known as Beethoven’s pupil, Liszt’s teacher and the bane of countless piano students ever since as the prolific author of exercises and studies which have won foundational status in their importance for piano technique, Carl Czerny (1791-1858) is finally gaining recognition as a composer in his own right. During the 19th century, while his pupils were still alive to play them, his concertos still enjoyed a measure of familiarity and success, but Czerny’s sheer industry obscured his creative achievements: where should a listener start with a catalogue of opus numbers into the four figures?
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Emanuel Ruffler – Three Words to Thrive (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:32 minutes | 803 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Enja Horst Weber
‘Three words to thrive by’ is as interesting for its uplifting jazz music as its is for the creative process behind the album. The trio of Emanuel Ruffler (piano), Rashaan Carter (bass) and Timothy Angulo (drums) starts off with discussions that becomes ideas, that then inspire them to make music.
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Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos & Yo-Yo M – Brahms: The Piano Trios (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:19 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime collaborator, pianist Emanuel Ax, are joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos in their first recording together of all three of the piano trios of Johannes Brahms. Ma and Ax have built together a distinguished catalogue of Brahms recordings, but this is their first recording of the Piano Trios and their first collaboration with Kavakos.
Of the three Brahms Piano Trios – Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8; Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; and Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 the Second and Third Trios were written and first performed in quick succession (1882 and 1883), both examples of Brahms at his creative zenith. The same can be said of the First Trio: originally completed when he was twenty, in 1854, and premiered the following year, Brahms thoroughly rethought and revised it in a new version premiered early in 1890. That more elegant and concentrated version of a youthful work has become the standard for the First Trio, and it is the version performed on the recording by Ma, Ax and Kavakos.
All three performers have been acclaimed for their interpretations of Brahms, as soloists and as colleagues. Between them, Ma and Ax have shared four Grammy Awards for their recordings of Brahms’s chamber music. With Kavakos, they first performed all three Brahms Piano Trios together on one program at the Tanglewood Festival in 2015. They will repeat the program in US concerts during the 2017-18 season.
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Emanuel Ax – Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55 & Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61 & Ma mère l’Oye, M. 60 (Remastered) (1978/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:46 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Born in Poland in 1949, Emanuel Ax moved with his family to Canada before settling in New York City in 1961. There, beginning in 1966, he studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. He made a concert tour of South America in 1969; in the year that followed he completed a bachelor’s degree in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen.
Ax had his New York recital debut in 1973, at Alice Tully Hall. In 1974, at the age of twenty-five, he took first place in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. A successful American concert tour was the result, along with numerous European appearances. He received the prestigious Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award in 1975, and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize in 1979.
An exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987, Mr. Ax made his debut on this label with a collection of Chopin scherzos and mazurkas. He has won two Grammy Awards, both for recordings of the piano sonatas of Franz Joseph Haydn.
Devoted to chamber music, Mr. Ax regularly performs with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, Young Uck Kim, and Jaime Laredo; the late Isaac Stern was also a frequent partner. These collaborations frequently result in widely acclaimed recordings and additional Grammy Awards.
In recent years Mr. Ax has developed an enthusiasm for twentieth-century music, including the works of Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and others. He has given the premier performances of compositions by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng, Melinda Wagner, and others. This growing interest in contemporary music has produced numerous commissions for new music and further additions to his acclaimed discography.
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Emanuel Ax – Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1977/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:56 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Born in Poland in 1949, Emanuel Ax moved with his family to Canada before settling in New York City in 1961. There, beginning in 1966, he studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. He made a concert tour of South America in 1969; in the year that followed he completed a bachelor’s degree in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen.
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Emanuel Ax – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 & 3 Novuelles Études & Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 (Remastered) (1978/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:39 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Born in Poland in 1949, Emanuel Ax moved with his family to Canada before settling in New York City in 1961. There, beginning in 1966, he studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. He made a concert tour of South America in 1969; in the year that followed he completed a bachelor’s degree in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen.
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Emanuel Ax – Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 (1984/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:19 minutes | 791 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Pianist Emanuel Ax was born in Lvov, Poland, and performs in recital and with major symphony orchestras around the world. He appears regularly at the BBC Proms, Blossom Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, and Ravinia Festival, among many others. Frequent chamber music performance collaborators include Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, and Young Uck Kim. Among his many world premieres of 20th- and 21st-century music include Joseph Schwantner’s Piano Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin (1988). He has recorded more than 20 discs for RCA records and has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. He received Grammy Awards in 1985 and 1986 for recordings of Brahms and Beethoven with Yo-Yo Ma. He was also the winner of the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in 1974, the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists in 1975, and the Avery Fisher Prize in 1979.
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Emanuel Ax – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23 & 26 (Remastered) (1981/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:32 minutes | 788 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Born in Poland in 1949, Emanuel Ax moved with his family to Canada before settling in New York City in 1961. There, beginning in 1966, he studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. He made a concert tour of South America in 1969; in the year that followed he completed a bachelor’s degree in French at Columbia University and became an American citizen.
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Elvis Presley – Essential Elvis Volume 2: Stereo ’57 (1988) [Analogue Productions Remaster 2013]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 Stereo > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:13 minutes | Scans included | 2,42 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,13 GB
The second volume of Essential Elvis offers Elvis in binaural stereo from the January 1957 sessions that produced several hits. (RCA Victor generously filled the disc out with mono masters of the remaining songs to give the consumer a complete version of the sessions.) This is a lot of fun; the gaffes are numerous, obvious, and hilarious, and for ears raised on multi-track recording, it must be amazing to hear an entire record recorded live in the studio!
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