Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas – Loss & Love: Schubert · Schumann (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:00 minutes | 1008 MB | Genre: Classical
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In ‘Schubert & Schumann: Loss & Love’, cellist Adolfo Gutierrez Arenas and pianist Josu De Solaun touch on two perennial themes that pervade all human lives. The album is a very personal one: both artists have recently lost their parents, and during a pandemic we all turn to music more than ever to find solace and a reflection of our own feelings as those experiences of loss and love are intensified.
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Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas & Christopher Park – Evolution – Beethoven Complete Cello Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:57 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
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Spanish cellist Adolfo Gutierrez Arenas and German-Korean pianist Christopher Park deliver refreshingly vigorous, even irreverent performances of the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas, works that offer the listener a unique overview of the composer’s evolving style.
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Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas – Dvořák: Works for Cello (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:53 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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It is the part the cello must interpret by assuming or acquiring a human nature. Dvořák transforms it into a warm lyrical baritone. He repopulates it with harmonics and nuances. And he shows us that the best way to overcome cello “limitations” is none other than to transcend it. Dvořák turns the cello into a meta-cello. Just as in a Mephistophelian pact, he achieves the feat of “animating” it. And the soul is in the score. You have to know how to find it. No one better to do it than Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas, from his sensitivity, spontaneity and affinity to an instrument he would never have wanted to explore if Bach and Dvořák had not persuaded him otherwise.
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