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Jean-Francois Heisser – Weber: Piano Sonatas Opp. 39 & 49 (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 65:19 min | Front/Rear Covers | 3,28 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,49 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,2 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Praga Digitals # PRD/DSD 250247
Weber’s piano music, once played by most pianists, has since suffered neglect and even the famous Invitation to the Dance is now more often heard in its orchestral form. Since he was a renowned pianist as well as a major composer, the neglect seems odd, particularly when other pianist composers such as Chopin and Liszt are at the centre of the concert repertory; but part of the trouble may lie in the difficulty of the music, reflecting his own huge hands and his tendency to write what the booklet-essay calls ‘chords unplayable by others’. Jean-François Heisser, the French classical pianist, makes out a real case for this music, and his playing of the two sonatas is idiomatic and resourceful, even if one can’t banish the feeling that Weber all too readily used the melodic and harmonic formulae of 18thcentury galanterie and simply dressed them up in 19th-century salon virtuosity.
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Jean-François Heisser, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Beethoven: Les 5 concertos pour piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:58:25 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare
The interpretation of the five concertos presented by Jean-François Heisser and his chamber orchestra offers an insight into the evolution of Beethoven’s style during the decisive ten years or so over which he composed them, on the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In short, it demonstrates how the improvisatory virtuoso pianist of the first two concertos, conceived at the very end of the eighteenth century in the tradition of Mozart and Haydn asserted his credentials as a composer in his own right with the Third Concerto in the first years of the nineteenth century, before reaching a summit with the surprises of his last two works in the genre.
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Jean-François Heisser, Marie-Josèphe Jude – Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:22 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
A composition that marked the birth of the modern symphony orchestra, it was instead through the medium of the piano that Symphonie Fantastique became generally known to the public when Franz Liszt – a prime champion of the music of his friend, Hector Berlioz – made a transcription of the work for solo keyboard.
The project undertaken here by Jean-François Heisser and Marie-Josèphe Jude continues that respected tradition but it doubles the stakes and multiplies the pleasure: the expanded sound palette offered by the two-keyboard piano constructed by Pleyel and housed at Paris’s Museum of Music gives rise to unexpected colours emanating from the shared resonator box, and their fingerings (twenty fingers strong) can reproduce the minutest details of Berlioz’s dazzling, ground-breaking orchestral writing. The work of a master indeed.
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Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Jean-François Heisser, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger – Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:32:51 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare
Without a doubt, it is urgent to get back to essentials, to retrace the path from the canyons to the stars, to celebrate “the beauties of the earth (its rocks, its birdsongs), the beauties of the material sky, the beauties of the spiritual sky,” as Messiaen writes at the head of his score.
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Orchestre Poitou Charentes, Jean François Heisser, Marie josèphe Jude, François Marie Drieux – Wien 1925 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:49 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
A provocative yet logical juxtaposition of two musical worlds apparently remote from one another: one of the key works of the 20th-century avant-garde, combined with the greatest popular successes of Romantic Vienna…
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