Andrew von Oeyen, Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume – Ravel, Debussy & Bizet: Orchestral Works (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Andrew von Oeyen, Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume – Ravel, Debussy & Bizet: Orchestral Works (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:04 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

A French orchestral programme par excellence, marking 100 years since the death of Claude Debussy. The relative absence of the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra from concert halls today is something of a mystery; all the colour, inventiveness, fluidity and pianistic and orchestral verve that characterise Debussy’s music can be heard here, with a central movement which is one of his most expressive pieces of writing. Bizet’s Symphony in C reveals all the clarity, directness, passion and sophistication that would later be associated with the composer of Carmen, while the richly imaginative orchestral textures of Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite plunge listeners into a realm of fairy-tale fantasy. This recording owes much to the virtuosity, enthusiasm and energy of the PKF – Prague Philharmonia and its conductor Emmanuel Villaume, and to the intelligence and poetic sensibilities of pianist Andrew von Oeyen.

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Andrew von Oeyen, Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume – Saint-Saëns, Ravel & Gershwin: Piano Concertos (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Andrew von Oeyen, Prague Philharmonia, Emmanuel Villaume – Saint-Saëns, Ravel & Gershwin: Piano Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:05 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Living as he does between Paris and Los Angeles, pianist Andrew von Oeyen is the ideal interpreter for this enticing programme: flanking Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 and Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody, it explores Franco-American cross-currents. Von Oeyen is partnered by the PFK Prague Philharmonia under its Music Director and Chief Conductor Emmanuel Villaume.

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Andrew von Oeyen – Bach & Beethoven (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Andrew von Oeyen – Bach & Beethoven (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:08 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Shaped by pianist Andrew von Oeyen’s experience of lockdown, this solo recital comprises Bach’s eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No 13 in E flat and No 23 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’, and arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff of two movements that Bach wrote for accompanied flute. “Perhaps more than any other composer, Bach expresses the clearest sense of order in a chaotic world,” says von Oeyen. “If Bach served as my first musical mooring in confinement, I returned to Beethoven for second-wave pandemic relief … I was now ready to weigh anchor and face the storm in the company of stalwart and indestructible 19th century sonatas. Crises, for all their destructiveness, can also lead to renewal and discovery.”

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