Tatiana Samouil, David Lively, Marie-Pierre Langlamet, Lise Berthaud, Claire Désert – Debussy: Sonates, danses et rhapsodies (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:43 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens
Along with the Etudes and En blanc et noir of 1915, Claude Debussy‘s three sonatas constitute the last will and testament of the composer, who died in Paris on March 25, 1918. It’s not due to there being the final works in Debussy‘s chronology that confer this privilege open them so much as the fact that they perfectly manifest the composer’s ideal of French music distinguished by « clarity, elegance, simple and natural declamation (in which) seeks, above all, to please. How could one better describe these three masterpieces ?
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Elsa Grether, David Lively – Prokofiev: Masques & Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuga Libera
“Masques”, the title of this album, is a reference to Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet; it mirrors his visionary music, so full of wit, colour and drama, that expresses every possible human emotion. The thousand characters created by the music are both actors in and spectators of their own lives by turns. The Violin Sonata No. 1 is a truly epic work; it leads us from an anguish-laden grief permeated with a gust of wind from the grave to a nostalgic lyricism — the memory of a lost paradise? — that is then driven by tremendous rhythmic energy to the apocalyptic climax of the work: we experience an explosion, a dissolution of every hope, before a return to the frozen whiteness of the beginning and an ending in resignation. The Sonata No. 2, unrestrainedly lyrical and punctuated with humour, can be seen as a contrasting counterpart to the previous work. This album also includes the undervalued Sonata for solo violin and two miniatures in Prokofiev’s characteristic style: they are filled with alacrity, humour and biting wit — an extract of life ! – Fuga Libera
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Denis Pascal, Aurélien Pascal, Svetlin Roussev & David Lively – Ravel à Gaveau (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:03 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Musica
Maurice Ravel has created some of his major pieces in the Salle Gaveau : the Valses nobles et sentimentales, Le Tombeau de Couperin, the Trio avec Piano and Tzigane. It is the task of Svetlin Roussev, Aurélien Pascal, David Lively and Denis Pascal to perform these mythical works in the context of their creation.
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David Lively, Quatuor Cambini-Paris – Chopin: Concertos for Piano & String Quintet (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:30 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Chopin’s Piano Concertos are works of a twenty year old composer and ambitious soloist. Powerful and challenging, their romantic dimension also carries sensitive effusions. This duality is highlighted here by an interpretation on period instruments in a chamber version.
Choices that are as many clues to recognize the musicians from the Cambini-Paris Quartet and their accomplices: pianist David Lively and double bassist Thomas de Pierrefeu.
Direct heir to Chopin’s piano teaching legacy, David Lively chose a vintage Érard piano to record both Concertos. Accompanied by a string quintet, he revives the tradition of the genre: before being performed in big concert halls, composers and pianists like Chopin played their latest scores in music lovers’ salons. The broad ambitus covered by the strings and the richness of the sound of the pianoforte respect the symphonic dimension of those two pieces.
A musical quest for fidelity and authenticity to music and musicians and a gift for the listener.
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David Lively – I Got Rhythm (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:07 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Musica
The linchpin of this album is indeed the dozen beautiful Songs from Gerswhin’sSongbook, adapted by the composer himself for solo piano for some of his countless songs. But far from being a blend of jazz melodies played away on a piano, this extraordinary collection oscillates between jazzy languages – true – and Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, sometimes ragtime, with a pianistic writing of flawless flair, truly impeccable writing, and a real joy for both the pianist and the listener. Around this linchpin, David Lively has constructed a magnificent array of American works from Ives to Joplin for the oldest, to William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and even Eliott Carter for the most recent − and probably the most avant-garde of all, in fact it is the time the album forays into avant-garde material, may the anti-avant-garde be reassured! The range from Ives – him too a pioneer before his time, whose 1919 South Paw Pitching is an extraordinary moment of modernity and farce − to Carter is immense, but the language of American music indeed comes through, throughout the album. Just aslively as the pianist’s name suggests!
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Elsa Grether & David Lively – Ravel: Complete Works for Violin and Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:41 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1928 Maurice Ravel described the violin and the piano as “essentially incompatible.” Yet, by then, he had already composed for those instruments two sonatas (one of which was published posthumously), Tzigane, and the Berceuse sur le nom de [Gabriel] Fauré – a miraculous output for a supposedly mismatched duo.
Written for the most part in the early Twentieth Century, these works reflect Ravel’s interests and influences, including Spain, jazz, blues and foxtrot, Hebrew songs… All of these pieces show Ravel’s modesty and poetry, and his marvellous ability to bring enchantment to our world.
Here, Elsa Grether and David Lively present Ravel’s complete works for violin and piano, including two world premiere recordings: Gustave Samazeuilh’s arrangement of the Adagio assai from the Piano Concerto, and a transcription by André Asselin of the mischievous Five o’Clock Foxtrot from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges.
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David Lively, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Pascal Rophé – Blank: Reflecting Black (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:37 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aeon
Here, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Pascal Rophé, with whom the æon label has collaborated since 2003, give us a very fine William Blank monograph, the fruit of the orchestra’s sustained work with this essential representative of Swiss creation, alongside his elder Heinz Holliger and his contemporary Michael Jarrell. Born in 1957 in Montreux, William Blank, composer and conductor, is performed the world over. With him, there are no (or few) evanescent layers, aleatoric or improvised passages. Rather, there is a sort of pointillism with a human face, a maniacal love of small detail behind which emotion is flushed out by harsh, searing intensity or dense outpourings. The works on this programme are representative of the recent evolution in his work, especially the piano concerto, Reflecting Black, written in homage to the painter Pierre Soulages and magnificently served in this recording by pianist David Lively.
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