Christophe Coin, L’Onda Armonica – Vivaldi: Concerti per violoncello, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:27 minutes | 1002 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Christophe Coin continues his complete collection of the Vivaldi cello concertos. There are some pieces on this new album which show the cello to be more of an ensemble instrument than a solo one. Working from the premise that the cello’s vocal-like tone was Vivaldi’s favourite thing about the instrument, Christophe Coin’s rendition puts this voice at the forefront of this score.
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Christophe Coin – Antoine Reicha: Symphonies Concertantes (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:12 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
The two Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Flute and for two Cellos by Antoine Reicha show an astonishing balance between innovation and reflection. They bear witness to an outstanding virtuosity and art of composition, which revolutionise forms through spectacular, enthusiasm-provoking lines of execution and through novelties of writing that impact their deeper structures. A composer who established a link between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Vienna and Paris, Joseph Haydn and César Franck (one of the last among his many pupils), Reicha can no longer be reduced to his theoretical and didactic dimension alone: his extensive work, still too little known, continues to surprise us.
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