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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Joonas Ahonen – Le monde selon George Antheil (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:11 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
George Antheil called himself a ‘Pianist-Futurist’. A lover of speed, cars and aeroplanes, the American composer settled in the Paris of the Années Folles, where he frequented Picasso and Stravinsky, and composed works such as Sonate sauvage and Jazz Sonata, which caused a scandal: during a concert in Budapest, he even brandished a Chicago gangster-style pistol to restore silence in the hall… He hero-worshipped Beethoven, whose pieces he played in the first part of his recitals before moving onto his own music. In 1933, he returned to the United States where he met John Cage and Morton Feldman. Patkop and the young Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen – whom The Times, following what the journalist described as ‘one of those concerts you remember for ever’, presented as the violinist’s ‘doppelgänger’! – pay tribute to the ‘Bad Boy of Music’.
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Joonas Ahonen and Kreeta-Maria Kentala – Beethoven – Sonatas for piano & violin No. 8, 4 & 9 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:16 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alba Records
Kreeta-Maria Kentala, who has recorded several great albums for Alba, is this time accompanied by pianist Joonas Ahonen. There have been a lot of recordings of these Beethoven sonatas, but in this recording something has been achieved that is not present in previous recordings. Joonas and Kreeta-Maria’s playing is refreshingly fresh and in good spirits. The recording was made in the Schauman hall in Pietarsaari. Joonas Ahonen’s instrument is a Conrad Graf from around 1827, a fortepiano and a baroque violin made by Kreeta-Maria Kentala at the beginning of the 20th century In the booklet, the texts contain a fascinating text written by Minna Lindgren about Beethoven and the birth of the sonatas on the disc. The novelty of Ahonen and Kentala clearly goes to the top of this art music recording spring and will probably still be there when you look at this year’s entire domestic record crop.
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Joonas Ahonen – Charles Ives & Bernhard Gander: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:09 minutes | 917 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © BIS
Of the two large piano sonatas composed by Charles Ives, No. 2 (the “Concord Sonata”) is by far the best-known, overshadowing its sibling. The First Piano Sonata is comparably ambitious, however, and with a playing time of more than 40 minutes, similarly expansive. Like many works by Ives it had a long gestation period, beginning in 1901 with additions and revisions being made well into the 1920s. In contrast to the Concord, Ives didn’t provide the work with an explicit programme, but wrote that it was “mostly about the outdoor life in Connecticut villages in the 1880s and 90s”. This can to an extent explain the various borrowings from hymns, but New York City, where Ives was living, has also left a clear mark with a liberal use of ragtime rhythms.
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