![Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – David: Christophe Colomb & Musique de chambre, symphonique et sacrée (Portraits, Vol. 4) (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/02/olw6jmfhdq8ta_600.md.jpg)
Flemish Radio Choir, Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet, Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth – David: Christophe Colomb & Musique de chambre, symphonique et sacrée (Portraits, Vol. 4) (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Each volume in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a French composer who has now largely been forgotten. With performances by many talented artists, it presents a panorama of his works. The ‘Portrait’ of Félicien David aims to complement the discography already available with world premiere recordings of the composer’s works. Among these are a glimpse of his orchestral output, with the Symphony no. 3 and the Overture to his opéra-comique La Perle du Brésil, the work that really launched David on his operatic career. But it is above all Christophe Colomb (1847) that deserves mention, for this ode-symphonie with speaker was an ambitious follow-up to the success of Le Désert, performed at the Théâtre-Italien some years earlier. Nevertheless, this anthology does not forget that Félicien David was also a figure of the salons, admired for his intimate music and especially his songs. The programme therefore offers a chance to discover excerpts from the Mélodies orientales for solo piano, a selection of romances in the style of the 1840s, and the very rare early motets for chorus in varied scorings. The culmination of this Portrait is the restoration of Le Jugement dernier, which was intended as the concluding apotheosis of the opera Herculanum, but was finally deleted and has never been published until today. – Palazzetto Bru Zane / Ediciones Singulares
![Fabrizio Chiovetta – Bach: Keyboard Suites (2016) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/29/3149028077926_600.md.jpg)
Fabrizio Chiovetta – Bach: Keyboard Suites (2016) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
This programme, carefully chosen from amongst the hundreds of works by the composer, starts first with the French Overture in B minor: a monumental, complex work, rarely performed in concert. It was during a recital by Grigory Sokolov that Chiovetta fell in love with this pièce. He next chose one of the fundamental pieces that marks the culmination of the suite genre: the sublime Partita No.1 in B flat major. He concludes with the English Suite No.4, with the wish of restoring some of the honour it deserves.
![Felix Klieser, CHAARTS Chamber Artists – Baroque Arias for Horn (Beyond Words) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/30/ow8d4u1650lwc_600.md.jpg)
Felix Klieser, CHAARTS Chamber Artists – Baroque Arias for Horn (Beyond Words) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Felix Klieser, on his new album Beyond Words, focuses on the language of music, the stories that it tells – all without any words at all. He places the emphasis on the images that arise before our mind’s eye when listening to the music, on the emotions triggered by the music. For Beyond Words the hornist has chosen various arias by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Gluck, each of which describes the various, self-contained musical worlds they encompass in a very individual manner.
![Fabio Bussola, Irene Sacchetti – Piazzolla Gnattali Pujol Lavia (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/29/rkmdfgsu9skla_600.md.jpg)
Fabio Bussola, Irene Sacchetti – Piazzolla Gnattali Pujol Lavia (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]
Born in Bergamo in 1998, Irene Sacchetti began studying the transverse flute at the age of nine. After obtaining his high school diploma, he continued his flute studies at the Conservatory “Gaetano Donizetti “in Bergamo with Maestro Paola Bonora where in 2020 he graduated with honors and honors, then specializing with Maestro Gianni Biocotino at the Conservatory” G. Cantelli” in Novara. In parallel with the flute, she deepens the study of opera singing, followed by the singer Tiziana Fabbricini. He has participated in numerous master classes and master classes with teachers of national and international caliber. Since 2010 he has participated and won numerous national and international transverse flute competitions, among which the prize for best solo flute at the national competition “Civica scuola di Musica, fondazione di Milano” and the first prize at the international competition “Città di Cremona”stands out. In 2017 she received the prize for chamber music “Music and nature” in Switzerland, which will allow her to be a guest of important concert festivals.
![Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi – Suite Italienne (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/04/e23q90bt8a3xa_600.md.jpg)
Francesca Dego, Francesca Leonardi – Suite Italienne (2018) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
A world premiere recording of three works by the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The Italian violin and piano duo Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi will release a new album on Deutsche Grammophon this October, featuring Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, Respighi’s Violin Sonata in B minor for violin and piano and the world premiere recording of three works by the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In addition to violin paraphrases of operas by Rossini and Verdi, the album includes Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Ballade” Op. 107 for violin and piano, which was written for and premiered by Tossy Spivakovsky in 1940. It was left to gather dust until February 2018, when it was recovered by Dego with the assistance of the composer’s granddaughter, Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco. It is now available internationally in print thanks to Edizioni Curci.
![Florentin Ginot – Bach – Biber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/zb4o0wcnark8a_600.md.jpg)
Florentin Ginot – Bach – Biber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
With this first album for NoMadMusic, double bassist Florentin Ginot displays all his virtuosity in a daring reinterpretation of the violin repertoire of Bach and Biber. More accustomed to the role of continuo, the double bass shines here in a new light, which in turn tinges these works with a roundness and warmth that is typical of the instrument’s basses. Accompanied by Fanny Vicens (keyboard) and Caroline Delume (theorbo and guitar), this opus opens up new perspectives on the double bass repertoire!
![Fabrice Ferez – Telemann: Fantasia & Canon for Oboe Solo (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/29/ce8wip029cuga_600.md.jpg)
Fabrice Ferez – Telemann: Fantasia & Canon for Oboe Solo (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
Telemann, the power of imagination: The cycle of the Twelve fantasias for flute solo, though surrounded by hundreds of oratorios, dozens of passions or operas, holds a singular place in Telemann’s huge work. First of all, it is one of the few rare opuses were engraving and publication was carried out by Telemann himself, in Hamburg, in 1732.
![Freddy Kempf – Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 8 & 9 (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/06/pcdnv0mlhfusb_600.md.jpg)
Freddy Kempf – Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 8 & 9 (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Sergei Prokofiev virtually grew up at the keyboard –he composed for the piano from early childhood, and the instrument was his workshop and laboratory. Well before the end of his student days he had absorbed the virtuoso techniques of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, and to these he added his own brilliant, sharp-edged virtuosity, marked by a keen contrast between dramatic, hard-driven passages and more intimate and gentle lyrical moments. His nine sonatas therefore hold a very special place in his output and represent his language at its most personal, free of any external dramatic, verbal or visual associations: they contain the essential Prokofiev.
![Friederike Chylek – From Byrd to Byrd (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/07/hkkhmu0245yha_600.md.jpg)
Friederike Chylek – From Byrd to Byrd (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
From Byrd to Byrd is the funny legend that perches on the cover of this album from German harpsichord player Friederike Chylek, who studied under Jesper Christensen at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, where she currently lives. As well as being a recitalist she works with various baroque ensembles and forms a duet with violinist Simon Standage with whom she records for Chandos.
William Byrd’s range and formidable musical inventiveness has influenced many English harpsichordists down the years. Often thought of as “the father of English music”, he was one of the most important composers in the era of Shakespeare, protected by Queen Elizabeth I who granted him the rare monopoly of musical printing in England for more than twenty years.
This privilege allowed his music to spread and influence a whole generation of musicians, in particular his students John Bull, Thomas Morley and Peter Philips. Recorded in 2017 and based on a Matthias Griewisch copy of a Ruckers harpsichord from 1624, this anthology by Friederike Chylek paints a very rich panorama of a profusion of English music, savouring the works of Dowland, Locke, Lawes, Purcell, Gibbons and Morley, bookended by that of William Byrd of whom everything is an echo, and two whom everything returns in the end. – François Hudry
![Fine Arts Quartet – Beethoven: Early Quartets (Remastered from the Original Concert-Disc Master Tapes) (1969/2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/01/0848033062929_600.md.jpg)
Fine Arts Quartet – Beethoven: Early Quartets (Remastered from the Original Concert-Disc Master Tapes) (1969/2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The period during which the Middle Quartets were written covers the years from around 1806 to 1810: the three Quartets, Opus 59 date from 1806-7, Opus 74 from 1809, and Opus 95 from 1810. During these same years, Beethoven composed his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the E flat Piano Concerto, and the music to Egmont.
![Fabio Biondi – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/29/v65agd2rfe2eb_600.md.jpg)
Fabio Biondi – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
Newly signed to the naïve label, violinist Fabio Biondi, the celebrated founder and director of Europa Galante, here presents his interpretation of one of the major peaks of the solo violin repertoire: the Sonatas and Partitas of J. S. Bach. For many years a passionate devotee of this Holy Grail of violinists, and having performed many of the works individually in the course of his career, Fabio Biondi is now, at the age of sixty, using his maturely ripened art to record the complete set for the very first time: it is the culmination of long and patient study, as well as of a process of personal development. For years Biondi was intimidated by Bach’s writing for solo violin: so intimate, yet so universal, so close to the essence of things – which the music often expresses through silence and pure, untranslateable sound – and so technically demanding as well.
![Franz Silvestri – Certamen Musicum, Vol. I (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/17/h01v83eepvwha_600.md.jpg)
Franz Silvestri – Certamen Musicum, Vol. I (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Franz Silvestri was born near Milan in 1974. As a child he started his musical studies with a special interest for piano and organ playing. He was barely nine years old when he had his first post as a church organist. When he was thirteen he was awarded first prize at an international piano competition. He has devoted himself to the study of various keyboard instruments. He currently collaborates with several important ensembles such as the Ensemble Festeggio Armonico (also as director), Ensemble Baschenis, Symphonic Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milan, LaBarocca, Mailänder Kantorei, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Silete Venti and Ensemble Isabella Leonarda, with performances and tours in Italy and all around Europe. He has played with remarkable singers such as Sonia Prina, Karina Gauvin, Stefanie Iranyi, Cyrill Auvity, Christian Senn, Klaus Kuttler, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Céline Scheen, Filippo Mineccia, Angelo Manzotti and many others. He has reviewed original manuscripts and editions, and has recorded different programs of baroque and symphonic music. In the 2015 he started a series of concerts in the Protestant Church in Milan, playing the complete harpsichord works by J. S. Bach.
![Faenza – Un bestiaire fabuleux (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/01/x5ukks1czhfvc_600.md.jpg)
Faenza – Un bestiaire fabuleux (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 88,2 kHz]
Les animaux sont discrets, mais tout de même bien présents dans la musique française des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, aussi nous amuserons-nous à en suivre la trace dans un safari musical destiné à les débusquer là où ils se cachent le mieux : dans les airs sérieux, les airs à boire, et les débuts de la cantate française.
Innombrables les moutons des bergères et bergers de nos airs pastoraux, innombrables les oiseaux, présents aussi les ânes autant que les chiens, qu’ils soient bergers ou chasseurs. On voit passer aussi des chats, des abeilles, des papillons aussi bien que des bêtes féroces : des lions, des tigres, des ours et des serpents. Nous puisons abondamment, pour la partie musicale de ce programme, dans le charmant répertoire de fables de La Fontaine, mises en musique dans les recueils de Poésies Spirituelles et morales, publiés dans les années 1730.
La société aristocratique de Louis XIV n’était ni un modèle d’équité ni de paix sociale, loin de là, mais l’un de ses bons côtés – dû sans doute à une passion discutable pour les plaisirs de la chasse – était son respect et son admiration pour la nature, dont on était loin d’avoir découvert toutes les merveilles.
![Ferenc Vizi – Schubert (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/31/mjhat8dhr4vcc_600.md.jpg)
Ferenc Vizi – Schubert (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
The D. 664 sonata was written during the summer of 1819, the same period as the Trout Quintet and in the same key of A major, when Schubert was accompanied by the famous singer and devoted friend Vogl on a journey to upper Austria, Linz and then Steyr.
![Ring Around Quartet & Consort – Frottole: Popular Songs of Renaissance Italy (2015) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/07/OtCQrLs.md.jpg)
Ring Around Quartet & Consort – Frottole: Popular Songs of Renaissance Italy (2015) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Set to vernacular texts dealing mainly with the theme of love, frottole were short, improvisatory polyphonic songs with instrumental accompaniment that flourished in the Renaissance courts of Italy for some forty years between c. 1480 and 1520. Despite its apparent simplicity, this completely new genre of song inspired some of Europe’s greatest vocal and instrumental musicians. The recent invention of movable type added further to its popularity. This recording explores a representative selection, including work published by the historically pivotal figure of Ottaviano Petrucci.
![Franz Vorraber – Romantic Piano, Vol. 2 (Live) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/06/zx4viyvbq1x6a_600.md.jpg)
Franz Vorraber – Romantic Piano, Vol. 2 (Live) (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Franz Vorraber (born August 24, 1962 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian–German pianist and composer.
Live recordings featuring works for Piano and Piano with Orchestraby Schubert, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms & Haydn
![Flute East trio – Kuhlau: 7 Flute Trios (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/03/om5crz0nywxgb_600.md.jpg)
Flute East trio – Kuhlau: 7 Flute Trios (2020) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Friedrich Kuhlau was the foremost pioneer of the Danish Golden Age in the early 19th century. He is often referred to as the “Beethoven of the flute”. His flute compositions enjoyed great popularity during his lifetime and were praised by the important musical luminaries Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Kuhlau, moreover, is still known for his impressive contribution to the flute repertoire.
![François-Frédéric Guy – En Pièces: Music by Marc Monnet (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/05/bq2ql66z7rzqc_600.md.jpg)
François-Frédéric Guy – En Pièces: Music by Marc Monnet (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Marc Monnet’s extraordinary musical life has been auspicious from the start: he studied with Kagel and Stockhausen in Cologne, gained attention at the Darmstadt summer school and was awarded a residency at the Villa Medici. The first book of En pièces (2007) is dedicated to François-Frédéric Guy, who premiered the entire collection at the Strasbourg Musica Festival in 2012. A long artistic companionship and a real friendship bind these two artists. François-Frédéric Guy has praised Monnet’s dazzling ability “to push piano techniques to their extreme”, as well as his “freedom of tone”, and his “Schumannian” inspiration in music of “whimsical, even fantastic, and unclassifiable character”.
![Francesco D’Orazio – Vito Palumbo: Woven Lights (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/21/j2591pq0hnuac_600.md.jpg)
Francesco D’Orazio – Vito Palumbo: Woven Lights (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
The critically acclaimed Italian composer Vito Palumbo has had works performed all over the world by leading orchestras. He began his career with postmodern experimentation, going on to different forms of music theatre. In recent years Palumbo has focused on works for full orchestra, exploring the possibilities of colours and textures – sometimes with the help of electronics – and putting the concept of ‘historical memory’ at the centre of his own composing.
![Frédérique Peters – Chopin & Beethoven: A Piano Recital by Frédérique Peters (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/07/03/x2xseh0jqfvhb_600.md.jpg)
Frédérique Peters – Chopin & Beethoven: A Piano Recital by Frédérique Peters (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgian-American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musicians and premiered works by then relatively untried American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond, that are now widely played and celebrated. She also edited and published the ground-breaking newsletter, Women in Music, which highlighted the activities of professional women musicians throughout the ages