Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following a fruitful first collaboration for Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 24, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen return this time with Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23. The works on this recording were composed by Mozart between 1783 and 1786, when the musician was approaching an important personal and professional turning point. First, the Concerto in A major, K. 488, was completed on March 2, 1786, two months before the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, a work that marks Mozart’s return to opera. While Concerto K. 466 is, with Concerto No. 24, the only one by Mozart in the minor mode, that also coincides with the arrival of his son Karl. The performance of the soloist and of the orchestra complement each other marvellously in these two masterpieces whose contrasts respond to each other magnificently.
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Andrew Wan, Charles Richard-Hamelin – Schumann: The Three Violin Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:26 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonatas for violin and piano, a triptych that has been awarded numerous prizes, Andrew Wan and Charles Richard-Hamelin continue their fruitful collaboration with the complete sonatas for violin and piano by Robert Schumann (1810-1856). A perfect program to highlight the bond between the concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the pianist who won the silver medal at the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 2015.
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Charles Richard-Hamelin – Chopin: Sonata No. 3 – Polonaise-Fantaisie – Nocturnes (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:42 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Charles Richard-Hamelin is one of today’s most promising Canadian pianists. He was the the winner of the 2011 Prix d’Europe and, in 2014, he won the second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition. As well, in October 2015, Charles will compete at the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
The works of Chopin on this recording were composed between 1843 and 1846, a period in which Chopin’s final compositional style came to the forefront. He emerged from this period even more of a perfectionist than before. The spontaneity and passionate impulses of youth gave way to a more pensive, meditative mood that in turn could express a much wider palette of emotions. Accomplished virtuosity!
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Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy & Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:35 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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In their very first recording together, pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin and the Violons du Roy present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s piano concertos No. 22 and No. 24 that are replete with passionate outbursts, startling contrasts, rich orchestration and overt emotional fervor. Charles Richard-Hamelin, Silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman award at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015, impresses with his extremely refined playing and the Violons du Roy, under the direction of Jonathan Cohen, offer grandiose performances imbued with dignity and grace.
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Charles Richard-Hamelin – Chopin: Ballades & Impromptus (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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This new album by Charles Richard-Hamelin presents two important sides of Frederic Chopins work as a composer and confirms the place of this young musician in the high spheres of the piano universe. About Richard-Hamelin, the reputed BBC Music Magazine has written that he is fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication Very free in form, the four Chopin ballads present a similar journey, in which tension will increase to a fiery coda. The four impromptus show Chopins affection for miniatures and salon pieces and reveal another facet of his work, putting us in touch with his talent as an improviser. An essential album!
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Charles Richard-Hamelin – Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 – Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:22 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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This new album by Charles Richard-Hamelin presents two important works from Frederic Chopin’s repertoire, 24 Préludes, Op. 28 and Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22, and confirms that he is one of the world’s elite pianists. Writing about Richard-Hamelin, BBC Music Magazine characterized his playing as “fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive… a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication”. Qualities that are made evident on this brilliant new album. Charles Richard-Hamelin is well known on the international music scene as a “highly sensitive” pianist (Gramophone), driven by “a great depth of feeling without the slightest pretense” (Le Devoir).
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Andrew Wan, Charles Richard-Hamelin – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4, 9 & 10 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:27:27 minutes | 2,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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With this third album, which includes Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 23, the famous Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”), and Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96, Andrew Wan and Charles Richard- Hamelin complete their recording of the entire cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770–1827) sonatas for violin and piano.
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Andrew Wan, Charles Richard-Hamelin – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 8 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:10 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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Here’s a new album that brings together two of Canada’s most prominent young musicians, Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 2008, and Charles Richard-Hamelin, Silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman award at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015. For this first studio collaboration, they recorded the three sonatas of Beethoven’s Op. 30, one of the most important works for violin and piano. Wan and Richard-Hamelin’s playing is dynamic and expressive and the result is nothing short of impressive. These works by Beethoven highlight three facets of the composer’s personality. While Sonata No. 6 shows Beethoven’s calmer side, Sonata No. 7 reveals a more tempestuous and tormented man, and the charming Sonata No. 8 displays a touch of humor. This is the first album of three by Wan and Richard-Hamelin that will cover the complete sonatas for violin and piano of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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