Bobby Mitchell – Rzewski: Late Piano Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bobby Mitchell - Rzewski: Late Piano Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Bobby Mitchell – Rzewski: Late Piano Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:58 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

Frederic Rzewski was one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. The themes explored in his late piano works are typical of his entire body of work in their uncompromising and universal nature. The intensely contrapuntal Ruins and virtuoso Wake Up are the last pieces in his vast piano cycle Dreams, while the War Songs weave together six war and anti-war songs from the last seven centuries. Winter Nights was written for Bobby Mitchell. Rzewski said of the three movements that they were intended to help with insomnia in a similar way to Bach’s Goldberg Variations, though they are inevitably very different in the darkness of their moods.
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Bobby Mitchell – Haydn: Fortepiano Sonatas, Adagio & Variations (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Bobby Mitchell – Haydn: Fortepiano Sonatas, Adagio & Variations (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:35 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

For his first disc, Bobby Mitchell, ‘Alpha winner’ of the legendary Bruges Competition, proposes a programme devoted to Joseph Haydn. His interpretation, juvenile yet based on solid musicological research, lets us rediscover all of Haydn’s humour as well as the depth of his feelings. It also reveals an unusual musical personality and an absolutely remarkable pianist.

Bobby Mitchell is a perfect example of Alpha’s desire to bear witness to the talent of young artists and to accompany them in their development: a way for the label to contribute to the future of ‘early music’.

Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn, Bobby Mitchell
Performer: Bobby Mitchell

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Bobby Mitchell – Schumann: 8 Novelletten, Op. 21 – Humoreske, Op. 20 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Bobby Mitchell - Schumann: 8 Novelletten, Op. 21 - Humoreske, Op. 20 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Bobby Mitchell – Schumann: 8 Novelletten, Op. 21 – Humoreske, Op. 20 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:12 minutes | 734 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © VDE-GALLO

Bobby Mitchell & the Toppers were part of the wave of New Orleans rock & rollers who followed in the wake of Fats Domino and Lloyd Price. Although the group had limited success (their best-known song, “Try Rock ‘n Roll,” climbed into the R&B Top 20 nationally, and “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday” was a smash in numerous localities without ever charting nationally) and broke up in 1954, Mitchell remained a popular figure in New Orleans R&B for 35 years.
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Bobby Mitchell, Tom Rosenkranz – Scherzinger Etudes (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bobby Mitchell, Tom Rosenkranz - Scherzinger Etudes (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Bobby Mitchell, Tom Rosenkranz – Scherzinger Etudes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:16 minutes | 958 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings

Composer Martin Scherzinger releases his second album with New Focus, Scherzinger Etudes, focusing on his piano etudes. Performed here by pianist Bobby Mitchell, Scherzinger describes these works as “a topological study of found musical sound,” taking existing music by composers such as Brahms, Schumann, and Paganini, and putting them through “a hall of mirrors” to re-examine them from new angles and open our ears to their many possibilities.
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