Yannick Van de Velde

Yannick Van de Velde – Franck: Between Two Worlds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:49 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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There were a number of influences that contributed to Franck’s distinctly personal compositional method, with two having the most substantial impact on his late style: the Austro-German tradition, particularly their notion of structural unity; and the tradition of France, the country where he lived for the vast majority of his life. With his main purpose as a composer being to give thanks to God through his music, the coexistence of introverted spirituality and passionate outpouring provides an explicit demonstration of the divine nature of his late compositional output. His reputation rests on a relatively small number of pieces he wrote towards the end of his life. It was not until the late 1870s where he would begin to produce what are now considered to be his masterworks. Whilst his contemporaries produced a great amount for the solo piano, César Franck completed only two large-scale works – the Prélude, Choral and Fugue and the Prélude, Aria and Final.

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Yannick Van de Velde – Anamorfosi (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:15 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
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In Greek, the word signifies the reshaping (ana) of a form or image (Morfe). Since the Renaissance, artists have reshaped and experimented with perspectives on images. However, such reshaping can also occur in music, and this idea constitutes the concept of this album. The starting point of this album are compositions by Chopin (I) and Ravel (II), which are subsequently transformed into contemporary idiom and “perspective”, in the Chopiniata by Clément Doucet (I/1) or Anamorfosi by Salvatore Sciarrino (II/1).

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