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Franziska Pietsch, Detlev Eisinger - Szymanowski & Franck: Works for Violin & Piano (2017)

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Franziska Pietsch, Detlev Eisinger - Szymanowski & Franck: Works for Violin & Piano (2017)

Franziska Pietsch, Detlev Eisinger - Szymanowski & Franck: Works for Violin & Piano (2017)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 286 MB | 58:12
Genre: Classical | Label: audite Musikproduktion

We experience a meeting of two musical worlds in this recording with Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger: Karol Szymanowski's often experimental, highly original sounds (particularly in Mythes, Op. 30) are heard alongside the direct musical language of Franck's Romantic A major Violin Sonata.

Joshua Bell - Sibelius, Goldmark: Violin Concertos (2000)

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Joshua Bell - Sibelius, Goldmark: Violin Concertos (2000)

Joshua Bell - Sibelius, Goldmark: Violin Concertos (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:05:25 | 303 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SM 65949

Joshua Bell has returned to the mainstream repertoire from his recent successful excursions into film (The Red Violin) and bluegrass-crossover (Short Trip Home), and his playing, always brilliant, and arresting, has reached a new peak. Despite the booklet's claim to the contrary, these two concertos have nothing in common except fiendishly difficult bravura solo parts; rather, they represent a perfectly valid pairing of opposites. Bell makes the most of the contrasts, bringing out each work's idiomatic character.

Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)

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Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)

Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:09 | 298 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 436 798-2

Jacques Loussier, of course, moved on from ''Play Bach'' a long time ago, although the wider musical audience no doubt has little recollection of him away from that context. Yet the pianist always had a rigorous intellectual grasp of his musical ends and means, even when the average album by his group was capable of selling half a million copies. In a sense, Bach was never the focal point of his musical discourses, although the great man's music remained the bedrock of Loussier's questings.

Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

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Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2

Like his teacher Yehudi Menuhin before him, the artist formerly known as "Nige" proves to be an uncommonly dab performer on the viola. He certainly has the full measure of the 26-year-old Walton's astonishingly mature concerto (unquestionably the finest of the composer's three), penetrating to its bitter-sweet core with devastating emotional candour. Similarly, Kennedy's bitingly intense reading of the yearningly lyrical Violin Concerto earns the warmest plaudits in its characterful involvement and edge-of-seat spontaneity.

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

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Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)

Nigel Kennedy, Berliner Philharmoniker - Vivaldi II (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 370 MB | 01:08:58
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Nigel Kennedy created a sensation with his pumped-up Vivaldi on The Four Seasons, and this second volume of concertos with the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic offers more of the same: slapdash tempi, outrageously loud dynamics, over-the-top techniques, a pugnacious basso continuo, hammered exchanges between soloist and orchestra, and an aggressive pop/rock sensibility that speaks more of this star violinist than of the composer.

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)

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Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)

Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Nagy - Maurice Ravel / George Enescu (2003)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 380 MB | 01:17:38
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series

This record pairs two composers linked by personal and stylistic association with two performers ideally suited to their music technically and temperamentally. Both composer were attracted to gypsy music, as is shown in the works included here: one early and one late work each.

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

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Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)

Leonidas Kavakos - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Conderto & Piano Trios (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 387 MB | 01:23:38
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical ‎

For this 2009 release, internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Leonidas Kavakos celebrates the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, whose brief meteoric career helped shape Romantic music. Engaging the listener immediately, the album opens with a rousing performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op. 64. which is both conducted and performed by Kavakos.

James Ehnes - The Essential (2015)

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James Ehnes - The Essential (2015)

James Ehnes - The Essential (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 812 MB | 02:33:50
Genre: Classical | Label: Analekta

Already a presence to be reckoned with by his early 20s, James Ehnes has risen steadily to claim a place among the finest violinists of the day. Critics were impressed with both his immaculate technique and his musical integrity, each of an order rare enough in a musician of any age. Ehnes has continued to consolidate his strengths, bringing audiences a brand of music-making that transcends the present and draws upon the richest traditions of ages past.

Mark O'Connor, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra - The American Seasons (2001)

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Mark O'Connor, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra - The American Seasons (2001)

Mark O'Connor, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra - The American Seasons (2001)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 295 MB | 59:56
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

The virtuoso violinist is a roots rock U.S. fiddle champ and one-time king of Nashville's blue chip session players who has spent recent years exploring the riches of classical music. This amazing session is broken up into two main sections, a four movement thrust through the seasons and then a 13 track segment entitled "Strings and Threads Suite" which draws both poignantly and happily from the intense spirit of his Irish heritage. Both are performed with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo. The seasonal sequence is an explicit nod to Vivaldi, wedding to the Shakespearean notion of the seven stages of man.

Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)

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Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)

Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:20 | 391 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 478 1530

This unusual coupling works surprisingly well, God only knows why. Perhaps the Britten’s neo-classical (or Baroque) leanings and formal freedom sit well next to Beethoven’s echt-Classical language, but whatever the reason the performances of both works are extremely fine. Paavo Järvi’s expertise in Beethoven with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is by now well-known, and in Janine Jansen he has a soloist who matches him for vibrancy and freshness.

Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)

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Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)

Sarah Chang - Debut (1992)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 246 MB | 50:01
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

This miraculous recital was Chang's debut recording, made when she was nine years old. In Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy you can hear some very minor flaws in the technique, which were gone when I heard her play it two years later. There's nothing else to indicate that this is a young violinist, not even the tone Chang draws from a quarter-size violin.

Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)

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Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)

Salvatore Accardo - J.S. Bach: Sonate No. 1-3, Partite No. 1-3 per violin solo (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 803 MB | 02:24:47
Genre: Classical | Label: Fonè Records

Salvatore Accardo is an outstanding Italian violin virtuoso, best known as a master of the works of Niccolò Paganini, but equally accomplished across a wide variety of repertory for the instrument. His playing is characterized by a taut, visceral tone and a disciplined musical approach that avoids self-indulgence. Having also established himself as a successful conductor, chamber musician, and teacher, Accardo may be considered one of the most accomplished and influential musicians of his generation.

Salvatore Accardo - The Best of Violin (2010)

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Salvatore Accardo - The Best of Violin (2010)

Salvatore Accardo - The Best of Violin (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 337 MB | 01:15:50
Genre: Classical | Label: Fonè Records

Salvatore Accardo; born September 26, 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor. Accardo studied violin in the southern Italian city of Naples in the 1950s. He gave his first professional recital at the age of 13 performing Paganini's Capricci. In 1956 Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 became the first prize winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa.

Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)

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Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)

Salvatore Accardo, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos, Double Concerto (2000)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 430 MB | 01:12:48
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips

If you’re approaching these familiar Bach concertos for the first time, or want inexpensive performances that still provide decent musical rewards, then you won’t go far wrong with this Eloquence disc. Salvatore Accardo (who also directs the Chamber Orchestra of Europe) is soloist in the violin concertos in A minor and E major. Both are earnest, direct readings that hardly differ from Accardo’s EMI remakes.

VA - Strings Tradition: Mesmerising Confluence of Kora, Sitar and Violin (2008)

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VA - Strings Tradition: Mesmerising Confluence of Kora, Sitar and Violin (2008)

VA - Strings Tradition: Mesmerising Confluence of Kora, Sitar and Violin (2008)
Mamadou Diabate, Lalgudi GJR Krishnan, Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 380 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 185 Mb | Scans included
World Fusion, Indian, West African | Label: Felmay/Mystica | # ACW 09017 | Time: 01:03:19

A unique album which brings together the musical traditions of Mali and India and which involves some of the most important musicians of these traditions!