Ailbhe Mcdonagh – Bach: Complete Solo Cello Suites (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:26:16 minutes | 2,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
On February 2, 2024 the Steinway & Sons label is pleased to release Ailbhe’s McDonagh’s recording of Bach’s Complete Solo Cello Suites (STNS 30232). As Ailbhe writes in her program notes, “Bach’s Cello Suites are some of the most beautiful, challenging, and complex works composed for the instrument. Bach’s ability to create counterpoint on a solo instrument is astounding. He really makes the cello sound like an orchestra rather than just one instrument. Composers the world over (myself included) have been inspired by him to compose solo suites for the cello. The variety of characters, moods, rhythmic interest and phrase structure heard in these suites keep the performer engaged and eager to perform these works over and over again.
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Ailbhe Mcdonagh, John O’Conor – Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:12 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
Irish cellist Ailbhe McDonagh and world renowned Beethoven specialist John O’Conor celebrated Beethovens 250th anniversary year with this recording of his complete sonatas for cello and piano. Out of several performances of the Beethoven A major sonata heard over 30 years, McDonaghs was the most musically complete and satisfying. (Irish Times) O’Conor brought real poetry to his recital of late-period Beethoven … incisive, even visionary projections that drove to the heart of the musical matter. (Washington Post)
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