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Philippe Graffin - Rêves - Ysaÿe: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Poème Concertant (2024)

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Philippe Graffin - Rêves - Ysaÿe: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Poème Concertant (2024)

Philippe Graffin, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Jacques Kantorow & Marisa Gupta - Rêves - Ysaÿe: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Poème Concertant (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 277 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:30
Classical | Label: Avie Records

Reves, the new album by acclaimed French violinist Philippe Graffin, features two world-premiere recordings of freshly discovered concertos by Belgian virtuoso violinist and composer Eugene Ysaye - the complete Violin Concerto in E Minor and Poeme Concertant. Rounding out this beautiful album are gems for violin and piano: 2 Mazurkas de Salon, Op.10, and Reve d'enfant.

Philippe Graffin, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 18: Jongen & Lazzari: Violin Concertos (2014)

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Philippe Graffin, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 18: Jongen & Lazzari: Violin Concertos (2014)

Philippe Graffin, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 18: Jongen & Lazzari: Violin Concertos (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 283 Mb | Total time: 65:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68005 | Recorded: 2013

The Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches Belgium and the music of Joseph Jongen, a composer more celebrated for his organ music now, but who was equally admired in his day for his orchestral and chamber works. Jongen studied at the Liège Conservatoire where he heard the great violinist Eugène Ysaÿe and composer-conductors Vincent d’Indy and Richard Strauss.

Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones - The Romantic Violin Concerto 10: Cliffe & Erlanger: Violin Concertos (2011)

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Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones - The Romantic Violin Concerto 10: Cliffe & Erlanger: Violin Concertos (2011)

Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - The Romantic Violin Concerto 10: Cliffe & Erlanger: Violin Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 69:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67838 | Recorded: 2010

Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches its tenth volume, and turns to two composers based in England, and works by them which have lain hidden for decades. This disc provides a fascinating glimpse of musical history and the shifting fashions of the age which made fame such a fleeting thing for so many composers.

Philippe Graffin, Vernon Handley - Elgar: Violin Concerto / Chausson: Poème (2006)

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Philippe Graffin, Vernon Handley - Elgar: Violin Concerto / Chausson: Poème (2006)

Philippe Graffin, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley - Elgar: Violin Concerto / Chausson: Poème (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 276 MB | 01:02:16
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie

Listeners will likely finish this recording of the Elgar violin concerto and feel at least a little conflicted. There are moments of austere beauty and exquisite sound quality that are sadly juxtaposed by periods of poor intonation and curious articulation choices. The first movement opens with an extended orchestral tutti for which the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and conductor Vernon Handley deserve praise. The orchestra provides a powerful, rich, and extremely sensitive backdrop throughout the recording that simply cannot be faulted.

Philippe Graffin, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Michael Hankinson - Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak: Violin Concertos (2004)

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Philippe Graffin, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Michael Hankinson - Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak: Violin Concertos (2004)

Philippe Graffin, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Michael Hankinson - Coleridge-Taylor, Dvorak: Violin Concertos (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 340 MB | 01:02:38
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie

Acclaimed violinist and prolific recording artist Philippe Graffin scored a major coup when he unearthed the Violin Concerto of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Afro-English composer whose star has waned since the height of his fame at the turn of the last century, but has rapidly risen again on the strength of this world-premiere recording.

Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin, Chilingirian Quartet - Ernest Chausson: Concert in D major, Op.21; Piano Quartet (1997)

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Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin, Chilingirian Quartet - Ernest Chausson: Concert in D major, Op.21; Piano Quartet (1997)

Ernest Chausson: Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet; Piano Quartet, Op.30 (1997)
Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin, Toby Hoffman, Gary Hoffman, Chilingirian Quartet

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 171 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66907 | Time: 01:14:21

It is easy to understand why Chausson’s Concert is not as regular a feature of concert programmes as, say, Franck’s Violin Sonata. After all, a work for piano, violin and string quartet must surely have an instrumental imbalance. How can Chausson occupy all three violin parts for nearly forty minutes? In short, he does not. Nor does he try. Much of the Concert is essentially a sonata for violin and piano with an accompanying, though essential, string quartet. Chausson’s refusal to involve the quartet at every juncture merely to justify the players’ fees results in a signally well-balanced late Romantic work. When the quartet does feature on an equal footing, the effect is all the more telling. The fingerprints of Franck can be detected readily throughout the Concert, but in this and the Piano Quartet, Chausson’s individuality overcomes his teacher’s influence. Indeed, there are premonitions of Debussy, Ravel and even Shostakovich. Tangibly the product of live performances, these accounts traverse the gamut of emotions, bristling with energy, lyricism and conviction, and ensuring that this disc will never gather much dust.

Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin - Ernest Chausson: Poème, Piano Trio, Pièce, Andante et Allegro (1998)

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Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin - Ernest Chausson: Poème, Piano Trio, Pièce, Andante et Allegro (1998)

Pascal Devoyon, Philippe Graffin - Ernest Chausson: Poème, Piano Trio, Pièce, Andante et Allegro (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 62:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67028 | Recorded: 1997

This recording brings together four of Chausson's chamber works from different periods of his short life. His youthful Piano Trio and the Andante and Allegro date from April 1881; the Pièce for cello and piano—one of his last compositions—from 1897.

Philippe Graffin, Thierry Fischer - Rare French Works (2002) (Repost)

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Philippe Graffin, Thierry Fischer - Rare French Works (2002) (Repost)

Philippe Graffin, Thierry Fischer - Rare French Works (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:11:09 | 343 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: 67294

This is a collection of absolute gems. The one-movement Concerto by Fauré is the only movement to have survived from an original three-movement violin concerto, and Saint-Saëns’s Morceau de concert was originally intended as the first movement of his third violin concerto. Lalo’s Fantaisie norvégienne, with its utterly gorgeous slow movement, was to become the inspiration behind Bruch’s Scottish Fantaisie, and Guitare is an early encore piece for violin and piano (later orchestrated by Gabriel Pierné) that Lalo (himself a violinist) wrote for his own use.

Philippe Graffin, Pascal Devoyon - Saint-Saëns: Music for Violin (1999)

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Philippe Graffin, Pascal Devoyon - Saint-Saëns: Music for Violin (1999)

Philippe Graffin, Pascal Devoyon - Saint-Saëns: Music for Violin (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:21 | 332 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: 67100

The neglect of the vast majority of Saint-Saëns' chamber and orchestral output is a loss to music lovers everywhere. Even worse is the condescending attitude of musical academia toward a composer who not only was fantastically gifted in his own right, but a true scholar and student of the classics. And if his own works sometimes reflect the result of this knowledge, then what's the harm? The composer himself once said something along these lines: "He who does not get absolute pleasure from a series of well-constructed chords, beautiful only in their arrangement, is not really fond of music."