Mark Simpson, Guy Johnston, Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt, Goldfirld Ensemble – Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mark Simpson, Guy Johnston, Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt, Goldfirld Ensemble - Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Mark Simpson, Guy Johnston, Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt, Goldfirld Ensemble – Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:55 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Delphian Records

Storytelling and making – craft and narrative, and the ways in which they are both enabled and complicated by the presence of music – lie at the heart of Matthew Kaner’s compositional world, as revealed on this debut album devoted to his work.

Extended solo works for basset clarinet and for cello are presented by stellar soloists Mark Simpson and Guy Johnson respectively. Violin-and-piano duo Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt, fresh from their triumphant Delphian debut ‘1942’: Prokofiev – Copland – Poulenc, are joined by cellist Matthias Balzat in Kaner’s evocative and playful Piano Trio, while clarinettist Kate Romano leads the Goldfield Ensemble in a nocturnal diptych for clarinet quintet.
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Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt – 1942: Prokofiev, Copland & Poulenc (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt - 1942: Prokofiev, Copland & Poulenc (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhardt – 1942: Prokofiev, Copland & Poulenc (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:25 minutes | 594 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

Since winning First Prize at the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, New Zealand-born violinist Benjamin Baker has established a strong presence across the globe, with acclaimed solo, chamber and concerto appearances on five continents. His Delphian recording debut sees him joined by regular duo partner Daniel Lebhardt in a programme of three powerful works which were all begun in 1942. Each marked in its own way by a world at war, these three Sonatas – by Aaron Copland, Francis Poulenc and Sergei Prokofiev – show three of the twentieth century’s most individual and admired composers engaging themes of private loss, political uncertainty and music’s enduring ability both to reflect and to transcend circumstance.
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