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Lorenzo Gatto & Miguel Da Silva – Mendelssohn & Enescu: String Octets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:03 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuga Libera
Emerging from the pandemic like a bubble of oxygen from the ocean depths, this recording project is built around two ideas that lie at the heart of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. On one hand it perfectly embodies the ideal of a continuing relationship between masters and artists in residence by bringing together three generations of musicians with Miguel da Silva, Lorenzo Gatto and the young artists currently in residence at the Chapel, providing an opportunity for the former to pass on their mastery and knowledge to the latter. On the other, it also fulfils a desire to bring together a number of artists in an ensemble that unites chamber music with a string orchestra for major works. The string octet, a form made even more attractive by its rarity, was adopted by two composers of genius: Mendelssohn and Enescu. These youthful works, nonetheless mature and filled with musical riches, echo each other here by highlighting their contrasts.
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Lorenzo Gatto, Julien Libeer – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 9 “Kreutzer”, 4 & 2 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:11 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The adventure began in 2012, when Gilles Ledure, director of Flagey (Brussels), suggested to Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer they should perform the complete Beethoven violin sonatas there. For these two artists, Beethoven was ‘perhaps the first composer in our history to have embodied the values of the Enlightenment in both his music and his life’. Haunted by these monuments of architecture and expression, they decided to embark on a recording. Here are three sonatas recorded in the legendary Salle de Musique of La Chaux-de-Fonds, including the famous ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata. Since his version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (ZZT 354), Lorenzo Gatto has taken his place among the violinists who matter on the international scene.
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Lorenzo Gatto & Julien Libeer – Beethoven : Violin Sonatas No. 1, 10 & 5 “Spring” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:27 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
‘Building on the success of their first disc of Beethoven violin sonatas (ALPHA240), which won a Diapason d’Or of the year (the magazine hailed ‘the birth of a great duo’) and ‘Choc’ de Classica, Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer continue their complete recording of the cycle. ‘Beethoven’s sonatas have become the core of our musical lives. Rehearsed, tried out in concert, given a rest, rehearsed again.’ Since performing the entire cycle over three consecutive evenings at Flagey in Brussels in 2016, they have played them repeatedly, and they met again at the end of 2017, at the Hilversum studio in Amsterdam, to record three more sonatas: ‘Surprise, even now? . . . Anyone who frequents Beethoven for a long time is no longer surprised to be surprised. For him, everything is coherent, but nothing is written in advance.’ So they experiment here again and Julien has chosen a piano with parallel stringing: ‘The resonance of Chris Maene Straight Strung illuminates this music in a subtly different way. We enjoy ourselves.’ (Lorenzo Gatto, Julien Libeer)
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Lorenzo Gatto – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 3, 6, 7 & 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:03 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Building on the success of the first two instalments of their cycle devoted to Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin (Alpha 240, Diapason d’Or of the year, and Alpha 407), Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer conclude this complete series by recording the remaining four sonatas. Composed between 1797 and 1801, these sonatas are dedicated to Emperor Alexander I of Russia, except for op.12 no.3, which Beethoven dedicated to his teacher Antonio Salieri.Lorenzo Gatto and Julien Libeer’s feeling for melody and tempo works wonders in these pieces, which they recorded in the ideal surroundings of the Salle de Musique of La Chaux de Fonds (Switzerland) and the Flagey Studio (Brussels, Belgium).
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Duo Walning, Lorenzo Gatto – Richard Strauss: Morgen (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:31 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Classical
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A classical cellist, soloist of the Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, involved in chamber music, jazz/ rock and folk/fiddle meets an eclectic pianist familiar with Bach, Chopin, Franck or Corrigliano as much as with jazz and improvisation. Loco Motive Trio and Blade Runner band for the first one, Soledad for the second one and until 2014, Trio Talweg for both of them (founded in 2004 with Sébastien Surel) : Sébastien Walnier and Alexander Gurning pride very seriously opening up musical approaches, faithful to each musical style they play and free to travel from one world to another. Between «walking» and «awakening», Walning explores different musical styles in all simplicity.
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Orchestre de chambre Pélléas, Benjamin Lévy, Lorenzo Gatto – Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Romances (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:08 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zig-Zag Territoires
Lorenzo Gatto, a creative artist and an exceptional violinist (winner of several major international competitions), could have concentrated exclusively on his career as a soloist, but he has always been interested in exploring other, more experimental paths, as he does with Trilogy, formed with two violinist friends, a trio that goes beyond the bounds of classical music.
This recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Romances represents as it were a return to his roots. It also bears witness to his fruitful encounter with the Orchestre de Chambre Pelléas and its conductor, Benjamin Levy, and to their common desire to bring out the essence and the modernity of these masterpieces.
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