Jean-Guihen Queyras, Lee Santana, Michael Behringer – Vivaldi: Sonatas for Cello & Basso Continuo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:09 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Antonio Vivaldi’s six sonatas for cello and continuo were written between 1720 and 1730 and published in Paris in 1740 by Leclerc and Boivin. Although a staple of the cello repertoire, these works are not often played in public recitals. When they were composed, the cello was just emerging as a solo instrument, and Vivaldi took full advantage of the instrument’s expressive capabilities. These performances feature soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras, accompanied by a continuo team of harpsichordist Michael Behringer, lutenist Lee Santana and cellist Christoph Dangel.
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Jean-Guihen Queyras – Vivaldi: Cello Concertos (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:32 minutes | 706 MB | Genre: Classical
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Among his many famous and beloved concertos, Vivaldi wrote no fewer than twenty-seven for the cello an instrument that at the time was generally consigned to playing basso continuo. With the genuine virtuosi he had available to him at the Ospedale della Pietà, the Prete Rosso played a key role in the emancipation of the cello. On this new CD of Vivaldi concertos, acclaimed cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras is supported by the musicians of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin in a fascinating program that is further enhanced by a selection of highly expressive Sinfonias by Antonio Caldara.
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi, Antonio Caldara
Performer: Jean-Guihen Queyras
Conductor: Georg Kallweit
Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin
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Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Brahms: String Sextets (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:52 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms was one of the first composers to write for pairs of violins, violas and cellos, blazing the trail for Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Korngold and Schoenberg. His two sextets are early works, composed in 1860 and 1865 respectively. Brahms wrote to his publisher that the Second was in “the same joyful vein” as the First. Yet the composer’s life was sombre at this time: his mother died suddenly and his romantic relationship with the soprano Agathe von Siebold ended in failure; indeed, the first movement of the Sextet opens with a viola motif on the notes A-G-A-D-B-E (AGADHE in German notation). The members of the Belcea Quartet called in their friends Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras to record these peaks of the chamber repertory following a concert tour to some of Europe’s major venues.
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Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras – Beethoven: Piano Trios Op 70 No 2, “Archduke” (2014)
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By giving the stringed instruments the status of genuinely equal partners with the piano, it was Beethoven who gave the piano trio the form it was to retain throughout the 19th century. This album presents the composer’s last two works in the genre, Op.70 No.2 dedicated to Countess Marie Erdödy, and the celebrated ‘Archduke’ trio, which marked the final public appearance of its composer.
Three eminent Beethovenians, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov join forces here in performances that aim to highlight Beethoven’s humour in their interpretation and set a new benchmark in the process. Their next project will be Schumann Piano Trios to be recorded in May and released in 2015.
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Jean-Guihen Queyras, Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
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