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Ralph Van Raat – Tan Dun: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:03 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Tan Dun’s originality has been reflected in worldwide recognition of his music, which draws on both Chinese and Western musical languages. The Eight Memories in Watercolor are deft painterly reflections, while in Traces he balances sound with silence in this evocation of nature. The vibrant drama of Blue Orchid incorporates the opening motif of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.
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Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Ralph van Raat & Robin de Raaff – De Raaff: Orphic Descent (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:56 minutes | 609 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
How is it that music that is so precise and obviously well organised can at the same time move with unforced, almost improvisational fluidity? And how can it be that atonal music sounds so natural and accessible? It’s because De Raaff’s music is nature itself; geometrically and architecturally stylised music it may be, but no different to the way a tree puts out its branches or how a leaf forms its veins. No different to the cosmologic nature of constellations, wave patterns on water, the pictorial architecture of a murmuration of starlings or a shoal of fish. In De Raaff’s work calculation and spontaneity merge into a single, monumental but never massive whole.
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Ralph Van Raat – Daan Manneke: Grote archipel, Polychroon & Blues for Marcel (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:00 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records
Manneke’s intention and motivation to write a substantial piano work were partly inspired by six eminent musicians, to each of whom he dedicated a part: Ralph van Raat, Geoffrey Madge, Kelvin Grout, Hannes Minnaar, Jelena Bazova and Daniël Kramer.
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