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Quatuor Van Kuijk, Adrien La Marca – String Quintets K. 515 & 516 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:04 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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As in its Schubert recording in 2018, the Quatuor van Kuijk likes to delve into a composer’s youthful output and then measure his evolution by confronting it with his mature works. Hence, after recording two of Mozart’s early string quartets in 2016, the French group, here joined by violist Adrien La Marca, now offers the String Quintets K. 515 and K. 516. These two large-scale works dominate Mozart’s instrumental output in the year 1787, which ended with the premiere of Don Giovanni. They show us a composer at the height of his creative powers, in a genre to which he had not returned for fourteen years and which he herebrought to a high degree of formal perfection.
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Adrien La Marca, Liège Royal Philharmonic & Christian Arming – Walton, Grisi & Prokofiev: Heroes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:32 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
Three large-scale works for viola and orchestra feature on the new recording by violist Adrien La Marca with the Liège Royal Philharmonic. Musically, a programme must tell a story: here the viola becomes the central hero of each work, in an almost cinematographic adventure. A hero who roams from the heart of Russian ballet music with Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, through the lyricism of interwar English music with Walton’s Viola Concerto, to music of today by the Belgian composer Gwenaël Mario Grisi, whose On the Reel is literally ‘scripted’, written directly from analysis of film scenarios. Epic sweep, passions, contrasts . . . Everything you might expect from a great adventure movie is there in this music. Moments of powerful lyricism, love and tenderness, inner struggles, combats or doubts.
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Adrien La Marca – Chanson bohème (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Dolce Volta
This is the story of two young musicians who met during the Coronavirus lockdown, of all things. Daniel Hope invited the French violist Adrien La Marca to appear on his Arte programme “Hope@home” last December. For the first time, his duo partner was the German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken. And already the idea was born: why not work together on a new project that transcends the frontiers of countries and musical genres? The result was a new programme featuring classical music, French traditional music, film music and chansons, which the pair have now recorded…
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