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Ingrid Jacoby, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14 & 27 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:10 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ICA Classics
Praised by The New York Times for her ‘clear articulation … unequivocal phrasing … [and] expressivity’, Ingrid Jacoby has established herself as one of the most poetic and admired pianists of her generation. She has won numerous prizes, including the Artists Presentation Award, Steinway Hall Artists Prize, Baldwin National Piano and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, the Concert Artists Guild Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters.
Since moving to England, she has performed with many major orchestras including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the London Mozart Players, working with such eminent conductors as Mackerras, Slatkin, Sinopli, Susskind and Kaspszyk. Recent high profile performances include concerts in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Russian National Orchestra and at the Salzburg Music Festival where she played works by Mozart.
Her new recording of Mozart’s Concertos K449 and K595 complete with the Concert Rondo K382 accompanied by the internationally celebrated Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner follows on from her critically acclaimed cycle of the Beethoven Concertos. Her Beethoven cycle received wonderful reviews: ‘Jacoby revitalises Beethoven’s Piano Concertos … terrifically and with so much intelligence and energy that all leading competitors pale by comparison’ (Crescendo Magazine, Germany) and ‘Utterly compelling … here is a performance of Beethoven that is well-nigh flawless in every regard’ (International Record Review).
The booklet contains notes by Richard Wigmore in addition to personal insights by Ingrid Jacoby on Mozart.
The release of this very high-profile recording marks an important milestone in Ingrid Jacoby’s career. It is planned to follow up this release with a second volume of Mozart Concertos for issue in autumn 2014.
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Ingrid Jacoby, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 17 & 20 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:31 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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Praised by The New York Times for her ‘clear articulation … unequivocal phrasing … [and] expressivity’, and by The Guardian as being ‘very impressive’, Ingrid Jacoby has established herself as one of the most poetic and admired pianists of her generation.
She has won numerous prizes and competitions, including the Artists Presentation Award and Steinway Hall Artists Prize, the Baldwin National Piano and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions, the Concert Artists Guild Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters.
Since moving to England, she has performed with many major orchestras, including the London Symphony, London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, working with such eminent conductors as Mackerras, Slatkin, Sinopli, Susskind and Kaspszyk.
Recent high-profile performances include concerts with the Liverpool Philharmonic under the baton of Vasily Petrenko and a hugely successful tour in China.
Her new Mozart recording features concertos No.17 K453 and No.20 K466, accompanied by the internationally celebrated Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. It also features as a bonus a rarity in the repertoire – Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.1 K37. This album follows on from her earlier releases on ICA Classics of Concertos K449 and K595 (ICAC5125) and Concertos K467 and K488 (ICAC5135) which received excellent reviews. International Record Review: ‘Marriner and Jacoby seem to be on the same wavelength… often extremely beautiful’; Gramophone: ‘At her finest, she (Jacoby) displays a wonderful clarity of fingerwork’; Fanfare Magazine: ‘This is Mozart playing on a par with such greats as Rosenberg, Haskil, and Fischer’; The Guardian: ‘Ingrid Jacoby is in suitably playful mood, dancing through the finale of the E flat Concerto and charming us with the childlike grace of No.27’s larghetto’; Pizzicato: ‘Neville Marriner and Ingrid Jacoby perform two Mozart Concertos in a vivid yet very classical manner with the American pianist confirming her talent to emphasize the music with the most expressive naturalness.’
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Jan Lisiecki, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (Live at Konzerthaus Berlin / 2018) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:53:37 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Gifted with a vast talent and supported by a powerful global marketing operation, the young Polish-Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki has now been catapulted into the ranks of the global piano stars. He was 15 when Deutsche Grammophon had him sign an exclusive contract; at 24, standing in for a poorly Murray Perahia, he played Beethoven’s five Concertos at the head of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields for a European tour in eight different cities. There are in fact three stand-in pianists for Perahia, given he is prone to recurrent health problems. Nelson Freire, Rudolf Buchbinder and Jan Lisiecki who performed the five concertos, conducting from his keyboard, on the 2, 4 and 6 December 2018 in the Berlin Konzerthaus.
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Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Jeremy Denk, Academy of St Martin in the Fields – For the Love of Brahms (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:22 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Heartland American violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis have known each other for many years and have often performed together. This release, spearheaded by Bell in his post as music director of the venerable Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, is a bit unwieldy, but has moments that make it worth the time and money of Bell fans especially. The three works, loosely linked by the concept described in the title, have their background abundantly described by Isserlis in the booklet. The Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op. 102, is conducted by Bell from the violin. There are moments that show his star quality, contrasting nicely with the detailed, concentrated approach of Isserlis, and the relatively small size of the Academy probably approximates the way Brahms imagined the work. There are smoother versions of this curiously restrained, deliberate work, however. In the slow movement of the Schumann Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23, Isserlis takes an orchestral cello line as a solo for no very good reason. The album finishes strongly, however, with the original 1854 version of the Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8, which Brahms reworked in 1889 but did not, as Isserlis points out, discard (and he discarded plenty of other music). It’s a passionate, tumultuous work of Brahms’ youth, and Isserlis and Bell come together with pianist Jeremy Denk to make the best possible case for it. Sample the “Scherzo” with its daring rhythmic shift to waltz, and hear Bell’s way with the expressive violin parts of the outer movements, and you’ll come to understand Brahms’ ambivalent attitude toward this early work. The 1854 version of the work is less often recorded than the 1889 reworking, and a fine, stirring performance of it is reason enough to pay the admission price here. ~AllMusic Review by James Manheim
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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Murray Perahia – Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5-7 (2002)
SACD ISO (Stereo): 2,16 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 917 MB | Artwork
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SS 89690 | Country/Year: Europe 2002 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque
Perahia doing Bach, as Perahia does Bach: very clean and very smooth. Very un-Gould. If Gould uses the piano to try and emulate the detached sound of a harpsichord (always sans pedal), Perahia is almost the opposite. Having said so, the sound Perahia achieves in the second movement (largo) of Concerto No. 5 (BWV 1056) is simply fabulous … one of my favourite piano sounds on SACD (after the Tchetuev Schnittke SACD on Caro Mitis). Beautifully recorded.
I may be wrong, but it does sound to my ear as though the piano has been tuned below A = 440 Hz. The sound is slightly flat to my ear, though not to the extent that one would find in an authentic instrument recording. There is no mention in the programme notes to this effect.
Perahia’s Goldberg variations on SACD is now almost impossible to find, and this SACD seems to be heading the same way, so grab it while you can. Highly recommended.
End-notes:
1.The so-called Concerto No. 6 is derived from the harpsichord continuo part in Brandenburg No.4 … and I think it is the first time I have actually heard this played on the piano rather than the harpsichord. In this instance alone, I am not sure that the transition to pianoforte is successful. ~SA-CD.net
Inon Barnatan, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Alan Gilbert – Beethoven: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:37 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most admired pianists of his generation, Inon Barnatan kicks off his complete Beethoven piano concertos cycle with this double album, together with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and maestro Alan Gilbert. Ranging from the classical First and romantic Third to the experimental Fourth Piano Concerto, and closing with the festive Triple Concerto, Barnatan and his colleagues display the exceptional expressive range and stylistic diversity of Beethoven’s musical language. For the Triple Concerto, Barnatan joins forces with violinist Stefan Jackiw and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. This recording project bears the fruit of longstanding and profound musical friendships, and – surprisingly – offers the first integral recording of Beethoven piano concertos by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the most-recorded ensembles in the world of classical music.
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Hai-Kyung Suh & Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Mozart Piano Concertos 19∙20∙21∙23 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:59:56 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Hai-Kyung Suh dazzled the international music scene by winning the prestigious Busoni International Competition as a teen-ager. Her New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall five years later was hailed byThe New York Times as “a propulsive and exciting performance, built block by sonic block with the structual command of a musical architect.”
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Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Gabriel Yared – The English Patient: Original Soundtrack Recording (1996) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 75:05 minutes | Scans included | 3,29 GB
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Original music composed by Gabriel Yared, and performed by Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
Gabriel Yared composed most of the music for the soundtrack of one of 1996’s most acclaimed dramas, which was largely performed by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; John Constable (on solo piano) and Marta Sebestyen (vocals) are also featured. Yared’s score is mostly typical wide-screen epic stuff–nothing special. More interesting are Hungarian folk singer Sebestyen’s occasional contributions. A few period pop/jazz cuts by Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Fred Astaire are interspersed throughout, and are most likely more effective on screen than on disc, where they juxtapose uncomfortably with the orchestral instrumental pieces.
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Alfred Brendel, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marrine – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 12 & 17 (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:47 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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Here is another gem from PENTATONE’s marvellous series of ‘Remastered Classics ‘ in which classic performances from the 1970s, originally recorded in 4-channel quadraphonic sound, are given a new lease of life on SACD and match, or even sometimes exceed in naturalness, many recordings made today.
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:18 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 7 is Joshua Bell’s debut recording as Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Bell is a GRAMMY® Award-winning artist and this monumental release marks the first American and first person to hold the title of Music Director since Sir Neville Marriner formed the ensemble back in 1958. Bell is found both conducting and performing from the concertmaster chair. It is truly a display of virtuosity and has already garnered praise from The Washington Post.
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Joshua Bell, Academy of St Martin in the Fields – Joshua Bell: Bach (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 284 MB | Genre: Classical
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Reactions to this release may well depend on how listeners feel about violinist Joshua Bell’s music-making in general. Bell is an heir to the violin idols of the early 20th century, and he grabs attention and doesn’t let it go: his tone is startlingly brilliant, his execution flawless, his insights into the music generally well-worn ones. In the two Bach violin concertos that make up the bulk of this Sony release, that’s what’s here, and he is ideally partnered by the champions in the silvery-strings derby, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, under his own direction. He holds the ensemble together with a naturalness that takes the whole enterprise beyond the old-fashioned. But there is a new wrinkle to this release: a pair of arrangements of arrangements. Most daring, and perhaps less successful, is an orchestration of Mendelssohn’s version of the Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004. Bell’s idea seems to be that this is something his forerunners of a century ago might have done, and indeed the Mendelssohn arrangement is a work that gives insights into how he and his time experienced Bach. Adding the orchestra to it introduces another level of noise, however, and it’s not at all clear that the result is to the good. The situation is similar with the little Gavotte and Rondeau twice filtered through Schumann and the same arranger as with the Mendelssohn, Julian Malone. None of this is going to bother listeners coming to this album already enamored of Bell’s flashing tone, however, and it must be said that on that terrain he is in unusually good form here.
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Oliver Schnyder, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Andrew Watkinson – Haydn: Three Piano Concertos (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:33 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
“The Schynders evidently have fun refracting Haydn’s motifs through the prism of contemporary styles, but what is remarkable is that these modern additions never outstay their welcome while making gentle fun of their surroundings.” (Gramophone)
“Crisp accounts with touching nuances in the nocturnal slow movements” (BBC Music Magazine)
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Yeol Eum Son, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner – Yeol Eum Son: Mozart (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onyx Classics
Second Prize winner at both the 2011 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition and the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, Yeol Eum Son’s graceful interpretations, crystalline touch and versatile, thrilling performances have caught the attention of audiences worldwide. Praised for her widely eclectic repertoire, ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shchedrin and Gershwin, on this recording Son performs a selection of Mozart piano works with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields led by the late Sir Neville Marriner in his final recording.
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