Martina Frezzotti

Martina Frezzotti – Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:55 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most prolific female composers of the 19th century, Fanny Hensel was also a pianist of rare talent and prodigious memory who dazzled private audiences at her concert series in her Berlin home. During her lifetime, Hensel’s career was overshadowed by the career of her brother, Felix Mendelssohn. She received much the same liberal education in the arts as Felix, and demonstrated hardly less talent than him as a musician, a linguist and an artist in her early years. Hensel’s music reflects her deep reverence for Bach and Beethoven, but it also exhibits the fine craftsmanship and lyricism associated with her brother’s music, and her own experimental and inventive approach to form and content. She allowed her music to be published only in the year before her early death at the age of 41 – which foreshadowed and probably hastened her brother’s demise – though in fact several of her pieces had already appeared in print under her brother’s name.
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Martina Frezzotti – Amy Beach: Piano Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:34 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was a pioneering American composer and pianist. She was the first female composer in the United States to achieve significant recognition, and her works were frequently performed during her lifetime. Beach’s piano works are an important part of her legacy and are a testament to her virtuosity as a performer and her innovative approach to composition. Her style is marked by her ability to capture the essence of folk music while incorporating her own unique musical style. Her piano music is full of complex rhythms and harmonies and requires great technical skill. Beach composed numerous works for solo piano, including preludes, waltzes, and nocturnes. These pieces feature rich harmonies, lyrical melodies, and intricate textures. They attest to Beach’s ability to create evocative musical landscapes and are documents of her status as one of the most important American composers of her time. In addition to a selection of shorter character pieces, this CD presents the extensive Variations on Balkan Themes, a masterpiece of its genre. Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman at the Imola Piano Academy and later with Elisso Wirsaladze at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she received her doctorate in music with full marks in 2012 – the first Italian in the history of this prestigious university. Also in 2012, she made her debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Her first CD for Piano Classics with piano works by Fanny Mendelssohn (PCL 10238) received many excellent reviews, 5 stars and the “Recording of the Month” award in the Italian magazine Musica.

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Martina Frezzotti – Fanny Mendelssohn: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:55 minutes | 1006 MBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics

One of the most prolific female composers of the 19th century, Fanny Hensel was also a pianist of rare talent and prodigious memory who dazzled private audiences at her concert series in her Berlin home. During her lifetime, Hensel’s career was overshadowed by the career of her brother, Felix Mendelssohn. She received much the same liberal education in the arts as Felix, and demonstrated hardly less talent than him as a musician, a linguist and an artist in her early years. Hensel’s music reflects her deep reverence for Bach and Beethoven, but it also exhibits the fine craftsmanship and lyricism associated with her brother’s music, and her own experimental and inventive approach to form and content. She allowed her music to be published only in the year before her early death at the age of 41 – which foreshadowed and probably hastened her brother’s demise – though in fact several of her pieces had already appeared in print under her brother’s name.
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