Maya Fridman & Artem Belogurov – The Fiery Angel (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 28:15 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Classical
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Taking a large musical work such as an opera, and arranging it into a piece of chamber music, can be quite a daunting task, as you may imagine. But it had been done before, especially in the late 19th century. Taking Sergei Prokofiev’s masterpiece, The Fiery Angel, and recomposing – no, re-imagining – it into a half-hour story that completely conveys the story with just two instruments, that’s a monumental task. A task which Maya Fridman took upon herself in 2015, as part of her Master’s Degree in cello performance (for which she received the highest honors, cum laude).
To be able to create this arrangement, she needed to work out a way to portray all these different roles of the story with just two instruments, cello and piano. The hysterical, erratic Renata, the knight Ruprecht, Madiël, the Fiery Angel himself, and even figures such as the Village Witch and the people at the convent in Trier, all are portrayed wonderfully by Maya’s arrangement for these two instruments. Her famously expressive playing style came in perfectly to suit the various timbres her arrangement requires.
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Madison Leonard, Shea Owens, Artem Belogurov – To the Thawing Wind (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:50 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Classical
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Record label TRPTK has released the new album To The Thawing Wind, which focuses on classical songwriting.
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Jed Wentz, Artem Belogurov – The Pied Piper of Hamelin and other Melodramas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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The melodrama, a genre combining recitation with music, flourished with particular vigour at the dawn of the 20th century. By that time, it had outgrown its original 18th-century form: no longer simply alternating between music and speech, late 19th-century melodramas (and their descendants) mainly consisted of texts declaimed over a nearly continuous and elaborate musical accompaniment.
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Artem Belogurov & Menno van Delft – Miscellanea (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:43 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album was recorded between 1 and 12 September 2019 at the historical site of Kasteel Amerongen (NL) and is a comprehensive document of selected keyboard music from the Christopher Hogwood collection. Spread across 3 volumes, Artem Belogurov and Menno van Delft take you through known and -mainly- unknown works for harpsichord, fortepiano, organ and clavichord. Many of these pieces have never been recorded before and are a testament to the timelessness of keyboard music.
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Aleksey Semenenko, Artem Belogurov – Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:55 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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In this transatlantic recording, three American composers born during the first half of the last century rub shoulders with two young musicians from Eastern Europe. A member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, the violinist Aleksey Semenenko first met the pianist Artem Belogurov at the Stolyarsky Special Music School in Odessa at an early age. Even if their individual careers have taken to different parts of the world, the two still perform together whenever possible, and here they present three sonatas.
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