Avi Avital – Avi Avital: The Verbier Recital (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Avi Avital – Avi Avital: The Verbier Recital (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:15 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verbier Festival Gold

The studio recordings of mandolinist Avi Avital have always been marked by a sense of fiery charisma and panache. Yet hearing the Israeli virtuoso in the context of a live performance delivers an added dimension of spontaneity. His 2015 solo recital from the Verbier Festival – including works by Bloch, Sauli, Kuwahara, Bach, and Avi Avital himself – yields a level of energy that is altogether unique, especially in the niche idiom of solo mandolin.

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Avi Avital, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Concertos (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:28 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

With his album ‘Concertos’ the charismatic mandolinist Avi Avital fulfills a dream and collaborates with the renowned ensemble for historical instruments ‘Il Giardino Armonico’ and its conductor and founder Giovanni Antonini. Together they interpret three concertos for mandolin by Emanuele Barbella, Giovanni Paisiello and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, as well as Avital’s own arrangements of concertos by J. S. Bach and Vivaldi.

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Avi Avital & Omer Avital – Avital Meets Avital (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital & Omer Avital - Avital Meets Avital (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Avi Avital & Omer Avital – Avital Meets Avital (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:53 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Avital meets Avital is a dialogue between two musicians who come from different worlds but share a common richness of musical heritage. Grammy-nominee mandolinist, Avi Avital, comes from a classical tradition whilst award-winning bass virtuoso and oud player, Omer Avital, is an acclaimed jazz performer and composer. In Avital meets Avital, these two musicians, joined by Omer Klein on piano and Itamer Doari on percussion, draw on the diverse influences of Moroccan and North African sounds, folkloric and classical traditions, Israeli harmonies and Mediterranean rhythms creating a musical melting pot where the finesse of chamber music meets the raw emotional energy of jazz.
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Avi Avital – Vivaldi (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital – Vivaldi (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:25 minutes | 972 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Grammy-nominated classical mandolinist Avi Avital is an artist who relentlessly pushes at boundaries and defies expectations. From Bach to tangos, from Balkan improvisations to Dvořák string quartets, his concert programmes fearlessly and seamlessly transcend musical genres, while his disco graphy demonstrates a masterful versatility. With his current recording project, however, he brings the mandolin “home”, to the music of Antonio Vivaldi, the beloved Venetian composer whose Mandolin Concerto forms the cornerstone – “the Old Testament”, says Avital – of the instrument’s repertoire.

Yet a virtuoso interpretation of the four Vivaldi concertos here recorded – that for mandolin and its sibling for lute, together with two familiar violin concertos in Avital’s own transcriptions – is not enough. For Avital, as both soloist and musical director, recording a Vivaldi album is not an act of passive veneration, but an open-ended invitation to explore the man’s music and his world. On this journey of discovery there are no taboos: much as in Venice itself, the lines between historical practice and contemporary spirit are blurred, the exalted and the profane sit side by side. Avital is dogmatic only in the spirit of tireless experimentation – daring, risking and teasing startling new sounds out of these familiar pieces.

As the recording sessions unfold, it becomes clear that not only historically-informed performance practice, but also the spirit of rock music is at heart of Avital’s interpretative approach. The music-making is bold, personal and immediate. Avital often uses a dif- ferent plectrum or pick for each section of music. His sense of dynamic contrast pushes the limits of the recording engineers’ technical capacities. Tempos are not defined in strict intervals, but remain as dynamic as volume, subject to the ebb and flow of the melodic architecture. Intonation is precise, but tones are occasionally “bent”, as a jazz musician might, to add exotic spice to moments of emotional extreme. The accompanying lute, cello and harpsichord are given freedom to temperamentally punctuate the music’s structure.

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Avi Avital – Prélude (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital – Prélude (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:12 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

The first mandolin soloist to be nominated for a classical Grammy, Avi Avital is one of the foremost ambassadors for his instrument. Passionate and “explosively charismatic” (New York Times) in live performance, he is a driving force behind the reinvigoration of the mandolin repertory. “The exciting part of being a classical mandolin player,” he says, “is that it opens a wide field for creative freedom. When I commission new pieces and engage with different musical styles, I feel that I am bringing to light new faces of this unique instrument, uncovering what is hiding there.”

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Avi Avital – Between Worlds (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital – Between Worlds (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:52 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

A genre-defying tour of the globe exploring the nexus between classical, popular and traditional music uniquely inhabited by Avi Avital and his magical mandolin. From Bach to Bluegrass to Balkan Beats, Avi Avital plays all with charismatic charm. After the success of “Bach”, Avi returns to again defy expectations with a selection of beautiful melodies and delightful dances from Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas, each with roots in popular folk traditions, arranged by some of the world’s greatest classical composers. For this journey, Avi is joined by a host of special guests: from music legends such as Richard Galliano and Giora Feidman, to DG stars such as Catrin Finch, accompanied by a hand-picked ensemble of virtuoso friends from around the world. Repertoire highlights include the popular Monti Czardas, Bachianas Brasilieras (Villa-Lobos), Bloch’s spiritual Nigun, the finale from Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Cuban and Georgian folk dances, and a very special Piazzolla tango.

Composer: Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Béla Bartók, Traditional, Heitor Villa-Lobos, …
Performer: Klaus Stoll, Avi Avital, Itamar Doari, Richard Galliano, …
Orchestra/Ensemble: Potsdam Chamber Academy

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Avi Avital – Bach: Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital – Bach: Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:12 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Following his successful Deutsche Grammophon debut “Bach”, Avi Avital has continued to immerse himself in the music of J.S. Bach. For his upcoming tour in the Spring of 2019, the Grammy-nominated mandolin virtuoso from Israel has arranged two of Bach’s best known works, the Solo Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 and the famous Prélude from Cellosuite No. 1. The Extended Edition of his 2012 album includes around 33 minutes of newly recorded Bach as arranged by Avital.

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Avi Avital – Art of the Mandolin (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Avi Avital – Art of the Mandolin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:56 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

‘Art of the Mandolin’ is Avi Avital’s first recording program consisting exclusively of pieces originally written for the mandolin. His personal take on the best existing repertoire for the instrument, and a showcase presentation of the fullest spectrum of its expressive potential. From Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Mandolins in G Major through Beethoven’s seldom-performed Adagio in E-flat Major to contemporary pieces commissioned over the last few years by Avi himself – works by composers like Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Ben-Haim, David Bruce, Giovanni Sollima, Hans Werner Henze. This project represents a return to the heart of the instrument from a very long journey, which had Avi and his mandolin travel to the terrain of the violin, the harpsichord, the flute.

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