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This video includes some of the most popular, endearing and affectionate piano works by Claude Debussy, early works, written while still under the influence of Chopin and French romantic symbolism.
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Composers: Claude Debussy
Artist: Hubert Rutkowski (piano)
Included are the Suite Bergamasque (including the popular Clair de lune), the Ballade, Danse, the early set of Images, 2 Arabesques, Danse bohemienne, Nocturne, Reverie and others. Played on a gorgeous Erard grand piano of 1880, the period of composition, lending an authentic character to these beautiful performances, presenting the colours and sonorities Debussy had in mind. Polish pianist Hubert Rutkowski is a prizeholder of many international and national piano competitions, including the Main Prize of the Chopin Competition in Hannover (2007); distinction âMedalla per Unanimitatâ at the 52nd International Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona (2006) amongst many others. He studied at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and later the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg in the class of professor Evgeni Koroliov. Since April 2010 he has served as a professor at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg as one of the youngest professors in this university. Since November 2011, Hubert Rutkowski has been leading also his piano class at the Hochschule fur Kunste in Bremen.
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Nocturne, L. 82
Suite bergamasque, L. 75:
0:06:27 I. Prélude
0:10:35 II. Menuet
0:14:49 III. Clair de lune
0:19:23 IV. Passepied
0:23:13 Danse, L. 69
0:29:02 RĂȘverie, L. 68
2 Arabeques, L. 66:
0:33:20 I. Andantino con moto
0:37:39 II. Allegretto scherzando
0:41:06 Ballade, L. 70
0:47:49 Danse bohémienne, L. 9
0:50:17 Valse romantique, L. 71
Images, L. 87:
0:53:46 I. Lent
0:57:29 II. Quelques aspects de ânous nâirons plus au boisâ
1:01:55 III. Dans le movement dâune âsarabandeâ
1:06:29 Mazurka, L. 67
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This video includes some of the most popular, endearing and affectionate piano works by Claude Debussy, early works, written while still under the influence of Chopin and French romantic symbolism.
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Composers: Claude Debussy
Artist: Hubert Rutkowski (piano)
Included are the Suite Bergamasque (including the popular Clair de lune), the Ballade, Danse, the early set of Images, 2 Arabesques, Danse bohemienne, Nocturne, Reverie and others. Played on a gorgeous Erard grand piano of 1880, the period of composition, lending an authentic character to these beautiful performances, presenting the colours and sonorities Debussy had in mind. Polish pianist Hubert Rutkowski is a prizeholder of many international and national piano competitions, including the Main Prize of the Chopin Competition in Hannover (2007); distinction âMedalla per Unanimitatâ at the 52nd International Maria Canals Piano Competition in Barcelona (2006) amongst many others. He studied at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and later the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg in the class of professor Evgeni Koroliov. Since April 2010 he has served as a professor at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hamburg as one of the youngest professors in this university. Since November 2011, Hubert Rutkowski has been leading also his piano class at the Hochschule fur Kunste in Bremen.
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Nocturne, L. 82
Suite bergamasque, L. 75:
0:06:27 I. Prélude
0:10:35 II. Menuet
0:14:49 III. Clair de lune
0:19:23 IV. Passepied
0:23:13 Danse, L. 69
0:29:02 RĂȘverie, L. 68
2 Arabeques, L. 66:
0:33:20 I. Andantino con moto
0:37:39 II. Allegretto scherzando
0:41:06 Ballade, L. 70
0:47:49 Danse bohémienne, L. 9
0:50:17 Valse romantique, L. 71
Images, L. 87:
0:53:46 I. Lent
0:57:29 II. Quelques aspects de ânous nâirons plus au boisâ
1:01:55 III. Dans le movement dâune âsarabandeâ
1:06:29 Mazurka, L. 67
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![J.S. Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias
Experience J.S. Bachâs complete Inventions & Sinfonias in a stunning new recording by acclaimed Bach specialist Yuan Sheng, whose crystal-clear modern-piano artistry has captivated listeners worldwide. Perfect for fans searching for Bach piano masterpieces, Baroque essentials, or high-definition classical recordings, this album brings fresh brilliance and expressive depth to some of Bachâs most iconic teaching works.
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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Yuan Sheng (piano)
The latest volume in an ongoing series by an acclaimed Bach specialist on the modern piano.
With recordings of the French Suites, Partitas and Goldberg Variations on Piano Classics, the Chinese pianist Yuan Sheng has placed himself among the most searching of present-day Bach pianists. As Jed Distler remarked in Gramophone, reviewing the Goldbergs, âYuan Shengâs disciplined, scrupulously terraced style often reflects his mentor Rosalyn Tureck.â
In a new and illuminating booklet essay for this album, the musicologist and pianist Raymond Erickson remarks that the 15 two-part Inventions and the 15 three-part Sinfonias played an important role in Bachs teaching. These pieces, although today mainly associated with basic piano training, are not at all easy and in fact are sophisticated, small-scale masterpieces. âThey were not composed simply to provide technical training in keyboard playing but, perhaps more important, to teach keyboard players how to compose.â
In 1720 Bachs oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-84) was already of an age appropriate for introducing him into the family trade of musician. So Bach started for him a music notebook: a ClavierbĂŒchlein which included these Inventions and Sinfonias. Bach revised them shortly before moving to Leipzig in the spring of 1720, to take up his new post as Thomaskantor, and copied them out with a preface.
In learning and playing these works, Bach affirmed, a diligent student would be taught âa clear manner for playing not only in two voices but also in three obbligato parts and, furthermore, not only how to invent good musical ideas [inventiones] but also how to develop these well. And above all, how to achieve a cantabile manner of playing, and additionally to obtain a strong foretaste of Composition.â
So it is that the Inventions and Sinfonias have given much pleasure to both performers and listeners throughout the subsequent two centuries. Brief as they are, each one of these 30 works elegantly outlines a distinct and often playful world of its own. They reward intensive listening both on their own and in sequence. And Yuan Shengâs performances draw on all the coloristic possibilities and varieties of articulation available on the modern piano, without seeking to exceed the bounds of style which the works themselves inhabit.
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Invention 1 in C Major, BWV 772
0:01:26 Invention 2 in C Minor, BWV 773
0:03:40 Invention 3 in D Major, BWV 774
0:04:50 Invention 4 in D Minor, BWV 775
0:05:51 Invention 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776
0:07:45 Invention 6 in E Major, BWV 777
0:10:32 Invention 7 in E Minor, BWV 778
0:12:23 Invention 8 in F Major, BWV 779
0:13:21 Invention 9 in F Minor, BWV 780
0:15:31 Invention 10 in G Major, BWV 781
0:16:27 Invention 11 in G Minor, BWV 782
0:18:23 Invention 12 in A Major, BWV 783
0:19:35 Invention 13 in A Minor, BWV 784
0:20:55 Invention 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785
0:22:24 Invention 15 in B Minor, BWV 786
0:23:56 Sinfonia 1 in C Major, BWV 787
0:25:21 Sinfonia 2 in C Minor, BWV 788
0:27:34 Sinfonia 3 in D Major, BWV 789
0:28:58 Sinfonia 4 in D Minor, BWV 790
0:31:08 Sinfonia 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791
0:33:54 Sinfonia 6 in E Major, BWV 792
0:35:08 Sinfonia 7 in E Minor, BWV 793
0:37:30 Sinfonia 8 in F Major, BWV 794
0:38:45 Sinfonia 9 in F Minor, BWV 795
0:42:16 Sinfonia 10 in G Major, BWV 796
0:43:19 Sinfonia 11 in G Minor, BWV 797
0:45:53 Sinfonia 12 in A Major, BWV 798
0:47:14 Sinfonia 13 in A Minor, BWV 799
0:49:05 Sinfonia 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 800
0:50:57 Sinfonia 15 in B Minor, BWV 801
0:52:47 Invention 1 in C Major, BWV 772a
0:54:22 Sinfonia 3 in D Major, BWV 789, Embellished Version
0:55:50 Sinfonia 4 in D Minor, BWV 790, Embellished Version
0:58:07 Sinfonia 7 in E Minor, BWV 793, Embellished Version
1:00:41 Sinfonia 9 in F Minor, BWV 795, Embellished Version
1:04:00 Sinfonia 11 in G Minor, BWV 797, Embellished Version
1:06:26 Sinfonia 13 in A Minor, BWV 799, Embellished Version
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![Boccherini: Complete Violin Sonatas, Volume 2
This new recording is the second volume of the complete violin sonatas, works in which the pianoforte plays a significant role next to the solo violin.
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Luigi Boccherini composed just a single set of sonatas, Op.5, specifically for violin and piano. However, his commercial celebrity and his artistic reputation at the time, as a composer considered in the same breath as Mozart and Haydn, encouraged publishers to commission arrangements of other works.
Such arrangements include this set of Sonatas published in London in 1780, made by Thomas Billington but admitted to the catalogue of Boccheriniâs works as G34-39. Igor Ruhadze and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya have made the first ever complete recording of this set as a sequel to their 5CD set of Boccherini sonatas (96612) issued by Brilliant Classics in 2023.
âLooking forward to the sequel!â concluded the review in Diapason of that set, after praising the stylish spirit of musicianship and authenticity in the playing of both artists. Compared to their rivals on record, remarked the reviewer, âthe seduction is more demonstrative, the contrasts more accentuated, the sensuality and the feeling more showy.â
Today, as Rudolf Raschâs booklet note remarks, we may prefer original works over arranged works; in the 18th century, such a preference was unknown. No one looked down on them. In fact, they made a composerâs music accessible for those who could not perform them in their original format. There was hardly a format more accessible for music-making among friends than the violin sonata, in which the piano would take the lionâs share of the harmony from the original work, with the principal melody line assigned to the violin.
As well as these violin sonatas, Thomas Billington arranged Corelliâs concerti grossi for solo keyboard, and composed a good deal of his own music. In these sonatas, he drew from Boccheriniâs Trios Op.4 and Op.6, Quartets Op.8 and Quintets Op.10. He was in any case emulating the example of Boccherini himself, who made several such arrangements. As always with Boccherini, there is no shortage of attractive melodies and upbeat, galant invention to contrast with the lyrical beauty of the slow movements.
Tracklist:
Sonata No. 1 G.34 in C Major:
00:00:00 I. Allegro con forza
00:07:55 II. Adagio
00:12:34 III. Rondo grazioso
Sonata No. 2 G.35 in E Major:
00:14:57 I. Allegro moderato
00:18:37 II. Cantabile, ma con un poco moto
00:18:37 III. Tempo di minuetto
00:21:38 IV. Finale presto assai
Sonata No. 3 G.36 in B-Flat Minor:
00:26:06 I. Allegro assai
00:31:37 II. Adagio
00:34:40 III. Allegro [presto assai]
Sonata No. 4 G.37 in E-Flat Major:
00:41:16 I. Allegro
00:46:05 II. Adagio
00:47:37 III. Tempo di minuetto
00:49:33 IV. Allegro assai
Sonata No. 5 G.38 in A Major:
00:56:00 I. Andante grazioso
01:01:21 II. Allegro con spirito
Sonata No. 6 G.39 in D Major:
01:07:25 I. Andante
01:10:44 II. Allegro con spirito
01:14:47 III. Rondo Tempo di minuetto
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