Suyeon Kang, Karolina Errera, Andrei Ioniţ, Catalin Serbană – Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Suyeon Kang, Karolina Errera, Andrei Ioniţ, Catalin Serbană – Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:29 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the ‘Ars Gallica’ idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. Fauré didn’t entirely escape the influence of Brahms however, and both he and his pupil George Enescu share a spiritual closeness to German late Romanticism in the melancholy complexity of expression in these chamber masterpieces. The monumental first movement of Enescu’s First Piano Quartet contrasts with the rhythmic momentum of the last, in a work that integrates French impressionism with the unmistakable folk music characteristics of his native Romania.

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Karolina Errera, Lilit Grigoryan – Songs of Rain (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Karolina Errera, Lilit Grigoryan - Songs of Rain (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Karolina Errera, Lilit Grigoryan – Songs of Rain (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:14 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Genuin

A cloudy sky and raindrops beating on the window: this itself is practically music, and for centuries, the sound of rain from the clouds has inspired not only painters but also poets and composers. On her debut GENUIN release, violist Karolina Errera and her piano partner Lilit Grigoryan present a selection of highly emotional music from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten. The prizewinner of numerous international competitions has placed a wide range of original works and arrangements on the program of this album – moving works that are best suited by both the warm sound of viola and piano, as well as the playing culture of the two interpreters!
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