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Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson – Mendelssohn & Mendelssohn-Hensel: Works for Cello & Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:56 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. Once composed for the popular Sunday Sessions at the Berlin Mendelssohn family house, these works fit into the typically nineteenth-century tradition of domestic music-making, albeit at the highest thinkable level. Beatson plays an 1837 Érard fortepiano, identical to the instrument that belonged to the Mendelssohn household when these pieces were composed.
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Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson – Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:28 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM Recordings throws new, invigorating light on the Chamber Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, performed by the Eusebius Quartet and pianist Alasdair Beatson. Hailed by musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky as “the very last breath of the romantic spirit of Vienna”, Korngold’s stellar beginnings in Europe’s concert halls and opera houses were later overshadowed by his success in America where his soaring symphonic signature forged the template for the Hollywood soundtrack.
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Hélène Clément, Dame Sarah Connolly, Alasdair Beatson – Bridge & Britten: Works for Viola (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:16 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Both Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge at one point owned the Giussani viola played by Hélène Clément on this album, which features pieces the two composers wrote for the instrument. The most substantial work here, Britten’s Lachrymae, is a series of pensive variations on a theme by John Dowland and is performed evocatively by Clément. In the Elegy, also by Britten, the Giussani viola’s special eloquence is evident in its deep tonal resonance and vivid responsiveness to Clément’s pizzicatos. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly’s stirring performance of Bridge’s Three Songs is another highlight, as is the vein of aching sadness Clément finds in another of Bridge’s works, There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook.
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Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 5 & 7 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:43 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PM Classics Ltd.
Viktoria Mullova’s first album of Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Nos 3 & 9’Kreutzer’ with Kristian Bezuidenhout, was reviewed enthusiastically by Gramophone magazine. ‘ The sound, in these familiar pieces has a startling clarity’; it went on to say that the period instruments ‘relocate these two works in a darkly Romantic sound world’. For the next volume in a complete cycle, Viktoria is partnered by Alasdair Beatson in the strange and gnomic 4th sonata, the popular 5th ‘Spring’ sonata and the dramatic 7th – Beethoven in C Minor mood – always exciting and turbulent!
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Alasdair Beatson – Aus Wien (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:59 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Musical portrait of a vibrant city. After his acclaimed Mendelssohn album with cellist Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson presents his first Pentatone solo album “Aus Wien”, on which he brings together piano music from Schubert, Schumann, Schönberg, Korngold and Ravel. Ranging from treasures of late-Romantic and early atonal music to carnivalesque, grandiose dance pieces, the works on “Aus Wien” constitute a picture of the vibrant city of Vienna, a hub of musical creativity without parallel, and the capital of the waltz. Alasdair Beatson works prolifically as a soloist and chamber musician, and is renowned as a sincere musician and intrepid programmer.
Details of original recording : Recorded : September 2020, The Stage One, Gateshead (UK)
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