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Anne Akiko Meyers, Keith Lockhart, London Symphony Orchestra – Serenade: The Love Album (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:46 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Without much fanfare, Anne Akiko Meyers has risen to the top of the heap in American classical music; she was the best-selling traditional classical instrumentalist in the U.S. in 2014. She does nearly everything well and puts it across effectively: she has strong fundamentals, a good deal of stage charisma, great programming instincts, and a couple of extraordinary violins to which she has lifetime access, including the 1741 “Ex Vieuxtemps” Guarneri heard here. It’s unusual to hear this instrument, with its purring lower register, applied to the likes of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but the truth is that she applies its capabilities in novel and entirely appropriate ways. Leonard Bernstein is at the center of the program, which sets it apart from the usual collections of sentimental pop tunes; Meyers effectively plays the more abstract Serenade After Plato’s Symposium against film themes and popular songs by Bernstein and other composers, with tango accents from Gade and Piazzolla to break things up. It’s an exceptionally engaging program that uses Meyers’ basically lyrical talents to the maximum, and her aims are perfectly complemented by the London Symphony under Keith Lockhart. That might seem an unusual combination, but once you listen it makes perfect sense. And the same can be said of Meyers’ playing in general. Luxuriantly melodic, and highly recommended.
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Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux, Fabio Bidini – Anne Akiko Meyers – Shining Night (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:10 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Shining Night is an exquisite album, expertly curated by leading violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, featuring new music and old music in new guises, embracing themes of love, poetry and nature, spanning the Baroque era to the present day.Anne Akiko Meyers has amassed a multitude of fans and admirers for her exquisitely curated recordings, often exploring her passion for new music, and old music in new guises. Her quest for creative collaborations has inspired countless commissions and world-premieres, with the results infusing Shining Night, an album that embraces themes of love, poetry and nature. Anne’s fruitful association with composer Morten Lauridsen led to the arrangement of his popular choral work Sure on this Shining Night, for violin and piano, lending its name to the album’s title. From there springs forth an album imbued with music of light and hope, spanning the history of music through Baroque, Romantic, Popular, and current genres.
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Anne Akiko Meyers, Philharmonia Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi – Fantasia (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:09 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Classical
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Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today’s most in-demand classical performers. Beloved by audiences around the world, with a reputation for groundbreaking recital programs and important commissions, Fantasia marks her 35th studio album and is one of her most important projects to date.
Meyers has been Billboard’s Top Selling Classical Instrumentalist of the year and has had numerous albums reach the Number 1 spot on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart. Her latest album captures the rare combination of incredible virtuosity and poetic color with iconic works by Ravel, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s last major work, written for Meyers, and Karol Szymanowski’s sensuous Violin Concerto No. 1.
The title track, Fantasia is legendary Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s premiere posthumous recording and last major work for violin and orchestra. Ms. Meyers traveled to Finland and worked with the composer on it shortly before he died. Karol Szymanowski’s sensuous Violin Concerto No. 1, dedicated to Polish virtuoso violinist, Paul Kochanski, is a dazzling display of exotic melodies, and Ravel’s iconic Tzigane is a virtuoso showpiece that conjures Hungarian gypsy music, and premiered almost a century ago.
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Anne Akiko Meyers – The Four Seasons: The Vivaldi Album (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:34 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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Anne Akiko Meyers presents The Four Seasons: The Vivaldi Album, also featuring the Vivaldi Triple Concerto (where she plays all 3 parts) and Arvo Part’s Passacaglia with the English Chamber Orchestra. The Four Seasons is a compilation of four violin concertos, Vivaldi’s best known classical compositions originally published in 1725. Each concerto represents and evokes a respective season, “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” and “Winter.” This will mark the debut recording of the ‘Ex-Vieuxtemps’.
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Anne Akiko Meyers – Mirror in Mirror (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘Mirror in Mirror’ is the most personal recording to date by best-selling violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, a reflective and spiritual journey that weaves a beautiful story through commissions and arrangements by Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Jakob Ciupinski and Morten Lauridsen, alongside works by Arvo Part and Maurice Ravel.
Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today’s most in-demand classical performers. A Billboard Top Selling Classical Instrumentalist of the Year, she is beloved by audiences around the world, with a reputation for innovative programmes and ground-breaking commissions. Mirror in Mirror marks her 36th studio album and is her most personal project to date.
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Anne Akiko Meyers, English Chamber Orchestra, Steven Mercurio – AIR – The Bach Album (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:33 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This release by California violinist Anne Akiko Meyers looks both backward and forward. Meyers’ playing is a throwback to a style of Bach playing that was common a couple of generations ago but isn’t much heard anymore: flowery, heavy on the vibrato, a bit sentimental, with moments of slight tempo rubato in both the violin and the orchestral accompaniment of the English Chamber Orchestra (which was always the go-to group for this style) under Steven Mercurio. The novelty factor here involves the magic of overdubbing, which has been commonplace in pop since Patti Page’s hits of the 1940s but is still a rarity in classical music: Meyers uses a pair of Stradivarius violins in the Concerto for two violins, strings, and continuo in D minor, BWV 1043, playing both herself. Whether or not you are fully on board with these approaches, you’re likely to agree that Meyers executes them both quite well. Her pitch is precise in the Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, and she pulls on the heartstrings in the arrangements of the so-called Air on a G string from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, and the Bach/Gounod Ave Marie. But the real attraction is the Double Concerto, where Meyers makes the most of her two violins, the “Molitor” of 1697 (the violin I part) and the “Royal Spanish” of 1730. The latter has a slightly rougher tone that Meyers deploys very effectively in its lower register. Though it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, this recording has met with well-deserved commercial success.
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