Alexander Lonquich & Nikita Magaloff – Wolfang Amadeus Mozart & Franz Joseph Haydn (Remastered) (1989/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Alexander Lonquich & Nikita Magaloff – Wolfang Amadeus Mozart & Franz Joseph Haydn (Remastered) (1989/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:33 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: In terms of the subtlety of many of the instrumental passages, the originality and perfection of form, and the intensity of its expressivity, the concerto in A major, written during the draught of “Figaro”, is one of the aristocrats among Mozart’s concertos, and is therefore set as a pinnacle of his creativity. The delicacy with which Mozart defines the character of the first movement from the outset, the painful solitude with which the wonderful Adagio is voiced, the return to life, with its inkling of nostalgic fun, of the Finale, kaleidoscopic in its tunes and rhythms, estranges this masterpiece from the genre of brilliant and mundane entertainment, and transforms it into a private space, a sphere wherein one could say that Mozart himself is colloquising with the music. Through this concerto we leamed, as in few other works, that if his music would seem to be extraneous to the motions of renouncement or romantic confession, it is not through a kind of sentimental modesty, but rather because in this music there lives an absolute identification between the words of subjectivity and musical language. …

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Alexander Lonquich, Colibrì Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmüller (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexander Lonquich, Colibrì Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmüller (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:06:05 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Odradek Records

The lives of Robert Schumann and Norbert Burgmüller intersect in fascinating ways. Both were born in 1810, and both spent significant periods of their lives in Düsseldorf, which is how Schumann came to orchestrate the Scherzo of Burgmüller?s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 11.

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Alexander Lonquich – Schubert 1828 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexander Lonquich – Schubert 1828 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:40 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

Alexander Lonquich has his own special place in the world of the piano: this German pianist, who made his home in Italy, has enjoyed an untypical career. A disciple of Paul Badura-Skoda, he is highly respected by many conductors and instrumental artists, such as Philippe Herreweghe, Nicolas Altstaedt and Christian Tetzlaff, with all of whom he collaborates on a regular basis. Navigating his way between the modern and the early piano, he takes the time needed to allow programmes to properly mature, working on them and thinking them over for several years. Such was also the case for this recording, carefully made on a modern Steinway piano, and we have genuinely fallen in love with it. As Alexander Lonquich’s accompanying notes to this album testify, the artist has intensively reflected on and lived with the music of Schubert before recording it. The year of Schubert’s death, which took place on 19th November 1828, was marked – particularly from its springtime – by an extraordinary burst of artistic creativity, produced at a frenetic working pace. It was during this period that he composed the three last piano sonatas and the threeKlavierstücke that make up this programme.

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Alexander Lonquich & Colibri Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmuller (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexander Lonquich & Colibrì Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmüller (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:00 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Odradek Records

The lives of Robert Schumann and Norbert Burgmüller intersect in fascinating ways. Both were born in 1810, and both spent significant periods of their lives in Düsseldorf, which is how Schumann came to orchestrate the Scherzo of Burgmüller?s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 11.

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