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Villa-Lobos - Piano Music Vol. 2 - Joanna Brzezinska

Villa-Lobos - Piano Music Vol. 2 - Joanna Brzezinska
ID: CLAVES502913
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír

The first volume (Claves CD 50-2707) was a huge success, receiving, among other accolades, a Choc award from Monde de la Musique. Pianist Joanna Brzezinska is back with a new collection of solo pieces by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. In his preface, writer Etienne Barilier says it all in a few words. “Simple, sweetly naïve melodies and energetic, unrelenting rhythms carried by a boundless, surging vitality. Such is Brazil - sentimental and powerful, ingenuous and wild; ineffably gentle and yet infinitely forceful. Heitor Villa-Lobos succeeded in all his works, and particularly in those gathered here, in bringing these extremes together: languor and vigour, the caressing hand and the closed fist, the sun and the moon.” As of the first bars, Joanna Brzezinska’s piano wafts you away…
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Trio Nota Bene - Swiss Perspective - Swiss Perspective - Raff - Martin - Bloc - Honegger

Trio Nota Bene - Swiss Perspective - Swiss Perspective - Raff - Martin - Bloc - Honegger
ID: CLAVES502912
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Trio

After a first volume dedicated to Russian music (Claves CD 502720), the young Nota Bene Trio from the canton of Valais, Switzerland, are back with a programme that is 100% ….Swiss! This recording is truly a sensational experience as many of these chamber riches are still relatively unknown.

E. Bloch - Three Nocturnes
A. Honegger - Piano Trio in F minor
F. Martin - Trio on Popular Irish Folk Tunes for piano, violin & cello
J. Raff - Piano trio No. 1
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Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos Op. 25 & Op. 40 - Chamber Version - Fumiko Shiraga

Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos Op. 25 & Op. 40 - Chamber Version - Fumiko Shiraga
ID: CLAVES502910
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Quartet

The Japanese pianist Fumiko Shiraga has made a specialty in recent years of performing famous concertos with a small group of instrumentalists. She calls this project “concertos in disguise.” “It was common in the 19th century to present concert performances of large-scale works in a scaled-down version,” she explains. “There were many fewer orchestras then on the musical scene than there are today, and so one had recourse to the musicians that were available and adapted the music according to the instrumentarium.” Beyond such practical considerations, these arrangements can be appreciated on a purely artistic level. To Fumiko Shiraga’s mind, small formations offer many advantages. “When one plays with an orchestra, the result depends in large part on the conductor, on his or her ideas and ability to enter into the world of the soloist. With a small ensemble it is quite different - one is flexible, reactive. One reaches the limits of fortissimo much more quickly, and thus the piano has much wider expressive possibilities, particularly in the intimist register.” For her first recording for Claves, she has chosen Felix Mendelssohn’s concertos Opus 25 and Opus 40, arranged by Cord Garben for piano and string quintet. Plus: six Romances without Words delicately arranged for piano, violin, and cello. Chamber music on symphonic or soloist notes - a rediscovery!
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Bach - Organ Masterworks Vol. 1 - Kei Koito

Bach - Organ Masterworks Vol. 1 - Kei Koito
ID: CLAVES502908
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Organ

Organ of the Martinerk, Groningen
After her magnificent Buxtehude boxed-set in 2007 (CD 50-2704/06), Japanese organist Kei Koito pursues her collaboration with Claves Records by laying the foundation stone of a cycle dedicated to masterpieces by Johann-Sebastian Bach. Recorded in June 2009 on the organ of the Groningen Martinikerk in the Netherlands, she presents an anthology of - as ever - most carefully selected pieces. Original scores such as the Preludes and Fugues BWV 543, 548 et 743, the chorals "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier" and "Schmücke dich, O liebe Seele", and the Partita "Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig", but also transcriptions by Bach (Adagio from the Sonata for violin and harpsichord BWV 1016) and by herself (Trio in G from the Sonata for viola di gamba and harpsichord BWV 1027). Kei Keito excels in them, showing to those who had not yet encountered it her very special affinity with the St-Thomas cantor. She founded a Bach Festival in 1997 in Lausanne (where she lives), Festival that has become a reference in the matter.

J.S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV548 'Wedge'
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV536
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV543
Chorale Prelude BWV731 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier'
Chorale Prelude BWV743 'Ach, was ist doch unser Leben', transcribed for organ by Kei Koito
Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 1 in G major, BWV1027, transcribed for organ by J.S. Bach
Chorale Partita BWV768 'Sei gegrusset, Jesu gütig'
Chorale Prelude BWV654 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele'
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Ensemble Orlando - J.S. Bach - Masses BWV 234 & 235 - La Cetra Barockorchester

Ensemble Orlando - J.S. Bach - Masses BWV 234 & 235 - La Cetra Barockorchester
ID: CLAVES502907
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Baroque

After a first album dedicated to polyphonic rarities by the Franco-Flemish composer Philippe de Monte (Claves CD 50-2712), the Ensemble Orlando de Fribourg and conductor Laurent Gendre, escorted for the occasion by the ensemble La Cetra from Basel, have set out to conquer the gigantic Johann-Sebastian Bach, and two of his four “Missa Breve”: Masses BWV 234 and 235. As Etienne Barilier, who wrote the booklet, points out, we know neither their precise destination nor the exact date of composition; we only know that they were written between 1735 and 1744. “If they remain relatively little known, even today, it is because they are not ex nihilo creations, says the author. Virtually all the pieces that make them up (six per mass: the Kyrie, followed by a Gloria subdivided into five parts) were borrowed from cantatas composed ten or twenty years previously, between 1723-1726. It may well even be that the very few “original” pieces of these masses were not in fact orginals, but came from cantatas that have since been lost”. And so what! The genius of the Thomaskirche Cantor is present and there is little chance that anyone listening to these Lutheran masses may get a feeling of déja-vu. As Barilier remarks, “the same pieces, transposed into different key signatures, with different orchestral colours and new texts, are no longer the same pieces.”
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Basque Music Collection Vol. XII - B. Pagola - Basque National Orchestra - Gimeno

Basque Music Collection Vol. XII - B. Pagola - Basque National Orchestra - Gimeno
ID: CLAVES502906
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr

The adventure started over ten years ago. With one recording a year, we are now, in 2009, up to the 12th volume of the Basque music collection, begun by Marguerite Dütschler-Huber, the founder of Claves Records, which the new management is very keen to pursue. This last opus is dedicated to the composer, pianist and teacher Beltrán Pagola (1878-1950), who was, notably, professor at the San Sebastián Conservatory of two other musicians whom this collection has already honoured: José María Usandizaga (CD 50-9814) and Francisco Escudero (CD 50-2110/11). Pagola left an indelible mark on the Basque institution, where he spent almost half a century. He gave it a Symphony Orchestra and wrote a Traité pratique d’harmonie (Practical Harmony Treatise), which is still a reference today. In this album, the National Basque Orchestra, conducted by Rubén Gimeno, proposes a range of works spanning about thirty years of creative activity. From the 1918 Allegro Appassionato orchestrated by Escudero (who took over his composition class in 1848) to the surprising 1947 iDonosti!, caprice humoristique, we discover music that is both true to its period and irresistibly attached to the Basque tradition.
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Joseph Moog - Metamorphose (n)

Joseph Moog - Metamorphose (n)
ID: CLAVES502905
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír

Following on from his successful debut recording on Claves, Liszt / two piano concertos, Joseph Moog is back with a recital programme centered around the art of transcription. Metamorphose(n) includes transcriptions from Liszt, Friedman, Busoni, Moszkowski as well as the ‘master of the art’ Leopold Godowsky.

Busoni:
Sonatina No. 6 (Chamber Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen)

Chopin: arranged Godowsky
Waltz No. 6 in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1 'Minute Waltz'

Godowsky:
The Garden of Buitenzorg (from Java Suite)

Liszt:
Réminiscences de Norma, S394

Moszkowski: arranged Godowsky
Paraphase of the Venus Bacchanale from Tannhäuser (Wagner)

Saint-Saëns:
Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne

Johann Baptist II (jr.) Strauss: arranged Friedman
Frühlingsstimmen Walzer Op. 410
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Sous L'ear du Songe - Naria-Riccarda Wesseling -Clara Schumann - Lili Boulanger - Alma Mahler

Sous L'ear du Songe - Naria-Riccarda Wesseling -Clara Schumann - Lili Boulanger - Alma Mahler
ID: CLAVES502904
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Vocal and Piano

This is her third album for Claves. She is riding on the wave of a flourishing career, highlighted at the moment by brilliant performances at the Paris Opera in collaboration with conductor Marc Minkowski. Mezzo-soprano Maria Riccarda Wesseling from the Grisons in Switzerland has chosen the intimacy of song to spotlight another facet of her superb voice. Accompanied by pianist Nathalie Dang, she performs works by three exceptional women composers: Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Alma Mahler. A work of pure poetry captured on recording by Radio Suisse Romande - Espace 2 in Geneva last spring, the CD is accompanied by liner notes penned by writer Etienne Barilier.

Clara Schumann
1. Ich stand in dunklen Träumen
2. Am Strande
3. Oh weh, des Scheidens, das er tat
4. Liebst du um Schönheit?
5. Walzer
6. Volkslied
7. Die stille Lotosblume
8. Liebeszauber
9. Warum willst du andre Fragen?
10. Sie liebten sich beide
11. Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
Lili Boulanger
12. Reflets
13. Attente
14. Dans l'immense tristesse
15. Le retour
Alma Mahler
16. Lobgesang
17. Ich wandle unter Blumen
18. Laue Sommernacht
19. Erntelied
20. Bei dir ist es traut
21. Ansturm
22. Die stille Stadt
23. Der Erkennende
24. Kennst du meine Nächte?
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Basque Music Collection, Vol. 7: A.Donostia -Basque National Orchestra -C.Mandeal

Basque Music Collection, Vol. 7: A.Donostia -Basque National Orchestra -C.Mandeal
ID: CLAVES502305
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Podkolekce: Orchestr

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Elena Vassilieva - Quatuor Sine Nomine - Contemporary Russian Music

Elena Vassilieva - Quatuor Sine Nomine - Contemporary Russian Music
ID: CLAVES502303
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Voices and Chamber Ensemble

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