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Svetlin Roussev, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève & Arie van Beek – Frank Martin: Concerto pour violon / Esquisse (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:02 minutes | 892 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
A recording dedicated to Frank Martin, an important figure of 20th century music, faithful to the tonal tradition, while experimenting with forms and instrumentation; he was also one of the first “classical” composers to have written for the electric guitar!
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Estelle Revaz, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve & Arie van Beek – Journey to Geneva (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:02 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
The Geneva Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Collegium Academicum founded by Robert Dunand in 1958) and its conductor Arie Van Beek invite us on an armchair journey into the heart of the traditions of the free city of Geneva (before it was ceded to Switzerland in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic conquests), which was home to Calvin and his friends the Reformers, before becoming a city of art and peace, which to this day remains wide open to the world.
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Orchestre de Picardie & Arie van Beek – Brahms · Transcriptions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:31 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
The history of Brahms’ Op. 34 is quite remarkable. The piece was originally composed in 1863 for a string quintet with two cellos. However, after a few rehearsals and a disappointing private concert, he decided to rework it as a sonata for two pianos…
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Orchestre de Picardie & Arie van Beek – Andriessen, Fauré, Ravel (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:46 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
The goal of this recording is to celebrate French music through its past: its antique dances, its pastoral ambiences, its atmospheres of legend… starting with a homage to François Couperin. Often considered as the very quintessence of French musical art, this very great composer and harpsichordist succeeded in charming musicians from all times and places, even far removed from his personal universe. We know, for example, that Brahms held him in high esteem. Nearer to our own time, Hendrik Andriessen (1982-1981) – a major figure in Dutch music – borrowed a lovely melody from our composer (from La Basque, in the Second Book of Harpsichord Pieces), as the theme for a set of variations composed in 1944. Led by a tender and agile flute, accompanied by a harp and strings, the work discreetly evokes the rhythms of the
antique dances (the Sicilienne, the Chaconne, the Gavotte…) and also contains a ‘scholastic’ fugato; other more lyrical or meditative moments confer an intensity and even a nobility of expression on these charming ‘concert variations’ that make one regret the little reaction that Andriessen’s music has suscitated outside of his own country.