Boris Giltburg, Veronika Jaruskova, Peter Jarůšek – Dvořák: The Complete Piano Trios (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Boris Giltburg, Veronika Jaruskova, Peter Jarůšek – Dvořák: The Complete Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:23:48 minutes | 5,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Piano Trio No. 4, “Dumky”, ranking among Antonín Dvořák’s most celebrated works, is one of the most frequently recorded chamber pieces there is. After attending a performance, with the composer on the piano, Leoš Janáček summed up his impressions succinctly: “A new source of light has flashed.” When it comes to Piano Trio No. 3, the renowned Vienna-based critic Eduard Hanslick called it a gem, demonstrating that Dvořák was “one of the best modern masters”. Piano Trios No. 1 and 2, however, have been scarcely performed. In this light, the complete recording of Dvořák’s piano trios is a project richly deserving attention. All the more so due to the artists who have made it: Boris Giltburg, winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition and one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary pianists, alongside Veronika Jarůšková and Peter Jarůšek, members of the globally celebrated Pavel Haas Quartet, who have earned great recognition for performing Dvořák’s music – Gramophone Recording of the Year (quartets) and Gramophone Chamber Award (quintets, together with Giltburg). The three musicians featured on the album manifest an incredible chime. Possessing the uttermost technical brilliance, they breathe as one. The album was made at the studios in the picturesque Wye Valley, straddling the border between England and Wales, under the supervision of the legendary producer Andrew Keener while London was celebrating the coronation of Charles III. Exceptional moments for Dvořák’s exceptional music …

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Boris Giltburg – Rachmaninov, Grieg & Liszt: Romantic Sonatas (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Boris Giltburg – Rachmaninov, Grieg & Liszt: Romantic Sonatas (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:16 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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After Vladimir Horowitz’s 1982 barnstorming Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata on last month’s BBC Music Magazine cover disc, I was struck by the space and the sense Boris Giltburg finds in this titan. Admittedly he embraces the composer’s compact 1931 revision where Horowitz played a splashier composite version of that and the 1918 original. But this makes total, thematically interconnected sense. The passages of melancholy introspection bathe in a gentle air, and the climaxes – especially the bell ringing clamour at the heart of the first movement – never disappoint, though Giltburg’s is not an obvious bravura. I’d have liked a little more of the exuberant hoof-stampings in the finale, where Simon TrpΩeski’s EMI alternative – my top choice of the 1931 version for Radio 3’s Building a Library some years back – scores highest.

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Boris Giltburg, Mateusz Borowiak – Queen Elisabeth Competition: Piano 2013 & 2016 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Boris Giltburg, Mateusz Borowiak – Queen Elisabeth Competition: Piano 2013 & 2016 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 04:33:30 minutes | 3,94 GB | Genre: Classical
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Enthält überwiegend unveröffentlichte Aufführungen der Ersten Preise und der Gewinner der Publikumspreise der Queen Elisabeth-Klavierwettbewerbe 2013 und 2016. Zu hören sind: Boris Giltburg, Mateusz Borowiak, Lukás Vondrácek und Alberto Ferro. Vier Pianisten mit sehr unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Persönlichkeiten, die allesamt für großartige musikalische Momente gesorgt haben.

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Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Opp. 37 & 58 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4, Opp. 37 & 58 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:56 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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For 19th-century audiences Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. The simplicity of its opening piano statement gives way to an unprecedented dialogue in the central movement between a heartfelt piano and an austere unison string orchestra, before the infectious energy of the dramatic finale.
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Boris Giltburg – Rachmaninoff: 24 Préludes (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Rachmaninoff: 24 Préludes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:51 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Classical
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Written over a period of 18 years, Rachmaninov’s sets of Préludes are a mirror and a record of his compositional development. With so rich a variety of character, colour, texture and mood, no two préludes are fully alike, and differentiation of tempo and register ensures that each prélude’s character is clearly defined. The first eleven pieces were conceived by Rachmaninov as a single cycle, and their full-hearted Romanticism contrasts with the significantly more angular, modernistic Op. 32. Whether evoking ballad or bell toll, the exotic or folk influences, the Préludes stand in the great tradition of works by Bach and Chopin written in all 24 major and minor keys.
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Boris Giltburg – Liszt: Piano Works (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Liszt: Piano Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:31 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante enshrine the spirit of High Romanticism, embodying extremes of expressive drama and technical virtuosity. His encyclopedic approach to technique is shown at its most dazzling in this cycle, heard here in the 1852 revision which Liszt himself declared ‘the only authentic one’. Integration of musical and technical elements is absolute, and the music’s narratives are supported by dramatic physicality, an orchestral richness of sonority, and an exceptional colouristic quality.

Boris Giltburg’s recordings for Naxos received numerous praises and awards. Recently he won Best Soloist Recording (20th/21st century) at the inaugural Opus Klassik Awards for his recording of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Carlos Miguel Prieto, coupled with the Études-tableaux (8.573629). In May 2018 Naxos released his recording of the Third Piano Concerto and Corelli Variations with the same forces (8.573630), which has already garnered spectacular reviews including a Gramophone Editor’s Choice award.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 9: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 9: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:53 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg’s Beethoven 32 project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. Reflecting the introspection that came with his later years, the final three sonatas are among Beethoven’s most inspired compositions. In them he achieved ultimate freedom in moulding the sonata form, creating unique musical worlds suffused with transcendent beauty, dramatic tension and spirituality. These recordings display Giltburg’s customary poetic sensibility and technical finesse and convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording. The complete series will also be available in a special 9-disc boxed set in the autumn of 2021.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 8: Piano Sonatas Nos. 27-29 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 8: Piano Sonatas Nos. 27-29 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:39 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg’s personal exploration of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas reaches its penultimate volume. The Sonata No. 27, Op. 90 dates from 1814 and foreshadows Beethoven’s late period in its nuanced, expressive musical language. Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 is the first of Beethoven’s late period piano works, combining haunting poetic beauty with complex contrapuntal passages. Sonata No. 29, Op. 106, nicknamed ‘Hammerklavier’, is a monumental, symphonic work, pushing all boundaries of what had been achieved in the sonata form so far. Giltburg’s Beethoven 32 project has received critical praise for his playing that ‘allows every quality of the music to come across at full value’ .
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 7: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23-26 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 7: Piano Sonatas Nos. 23-26 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:23 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first six volumes (9.70307–9.70312) of Boris Giltburg’s traversal of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas have been received with much acclaim: ‘[Giltburg brings] us closer to the spontaneous feel of a live performance… on this form Naxos’s cycle looks set to be something special’ (Malcolm Hayes, BBC Music Magazine, on Sonatas Nos. 4–7 / 9.70308). In this instalment the light and joyful Nos. 24 and 25 are bookended by two cornerstones of Beethoven’s piano sonatas: the powerfully dramatic Appassionata, and Les Adieux, the only programmatic sonata in Beethoven’s cycle.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 6: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19-22 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 6: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19-22 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:40 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first five volumes (9.70307–9.70311) of Boris Giltburg’s traversal of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas have been received with much acclaim. ‘[Giltburg brings] us closer to the spontaneous feel of a live performance… on this form Naxos’s cycle looks set to be something special.’ (Malcolm Hayes, BBC Music Magazine, on Sonatas Nos. 4–7 / 9.70308). ‘The slow movements, which Giltburg plays without affectation but with all the more sensitive differentiation and intelligence, are very beautiful and gripping (Remy Franck, Pizzicato on 9.70308). ‘The B flat Sonata… typifies what one might hope for in a traversal of familiar repertory by an outstanding young artist: fresh perspective on terrain one thought one knew. (Patrick Rucker, Gramophone, on Sonatas Nos. 8–11 / 9.70309).
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 5: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 5: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:04 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. These performances display Giltburg’s customary spirit and technical finesse, and also convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording. Volumes 1–4 can be heard on Naxos 9.70307–10.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 4 – Piano Sonatas Nos. 12-15 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 4 – Piano Sonatas Nos. 12-15 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:44 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. These performances display Giltburg’s customary spirit and technical finesse, and also convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 3: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8-11 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 3: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8-11 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:40 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. These performances display Giltburg’s customary spirit and technical finesse, and also convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 2: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4-7 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 2: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4-7 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:15 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. These performances display Giltburg’s customary spirit and technical finesse, and also convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording. Volume 1 can be found on Naxos 9.70307.
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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 1: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Boris Giltburg – Beethoven 32, Vol. 1: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:12 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Boris Giltburg has set out to learn and film all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas, and the recordings presented in this initial volume display Giltburg’s customary spirit, technical finesse and convey the electric atmosphere of the live recording.
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