Claire Chevallier – Liszt_Fever, Claire Chevallier_piano Erard 1876 (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Claire Chevallier – Liszt_Fever, Claire Chevallier_piano Erard 1876 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:07 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta

« FEVER » is a powerful, impassioned portrait raised to sublimity by the magical sound of Claire Chevallier’s Erard. A great collector of pianos, she lives surrounded by them; they are part of her daily world. It was after buying an 1876 Erard, Liszt’s favourite piano, that she felt the presence of the great composer behind its very characteristic sound and found she wanted to make this recording.
It seemed self-evident to me that I had to put together a varied program for this recording. Wiegenlied and Mephisto-Walzer no.1 are both by the same musician, the same virtuoso. But to tackle these multiple facets within a single time frame (a recording, a concert) demands a certain type of schizophrenia, a multiplying of the body in terms of effort.

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Claire Chevallier, Jos van Immerseel – Dvořák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Claire Chevallier, Jos van Immerseel – Dvořák, Grieg & Brahms: Music for Piano Four Hands (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:24 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Jos van Immerseel and Claire Chevallier have enjoyed a close collaboration for many years now. Like Jos van Immerseel, Claire Chevallier loves period pianos; like him, she is a researcher and possesses her own collection of keyboard instruments.

After its recordings of works by Saint-Saëns for two pianos and works by Rachmaninoff for four hands, the duo devotes a programme to the dance with the famous Hungarian Dances of Johannes Brahms and the no less celebrated Slavonic Dances of Antonín Dvorák. The much more rarely played Norwegian Dances of Edvard Grieg and the five Spanish Dances of Moritz Moszkowski complete this trip around Europe.

A recording made on an authentic Carl Bechstein piano built in Berlin in 1870, from the personal collection of Jos van Immerseel.

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