Elinor Frey

Elinor Frey, Eva Lymenstull, Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde – Dall’Abaco and the Art of Variation (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · February 14, 2024 · Comments off

Cellist Elinor Frey has long been involved in researching, recording and editing the remarkable cello music of Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805). On her new CD with works by the composer, the art of variation is explored in two cello trios and three cello sonatas. In each sonata, the final movements have a theme which is followed by a series of variations. These give the composer or performer space to develop the piece further by developing imaginative and virtuosic new figures in the solo cello part.

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Dorian Komanoff Bandy, Hank Knox, Elinor Frey – Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-Century Germany (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 7, 2023 · Comments off

Dorian Komanoff Bandy, Hank Knox, Elinor Frey – Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-Century Germany (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:05 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Lovers and Mourners: Variations and Sonatas from 17th-century Germany, offers a comprehensive glimpse into the lives of virtuoso composer-performers Johann Jakob Walther, Heinrich Biber, and Johann Georg Pisendel. The Composers featured on Lovers and Mourners drew upon the “stylus phantasticus,” a 17th-century Italian idiom whose features were marked by jagged shifts of affect and intended to display the player’s technical command and expressive abilities. Violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy nimbly guides the listener through a labyrinth of variation sets and themes, simultaneously reproducing faithful interpretations of the music while injecting his own unique touch. Lovers and Mourners boasts a brief, yet intense survey of one of the richest chapters in the history of the virtuoso composer-performer.

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Elinor Frey – Guided by Voices: New Music for Baroque Cello (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 5, 2023 · Comments off

Today, the five-string cello is treated as an exotic and rarely-played cousin of the standard cello. However, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was simply one of the many instruments used in the family of bass violins, and was particularly important for virtuosic sonatas and solos. The program of Guided By Voiuces is inspired by the five-string cello’s most enduring work, Bach’s Sixth Solo Suite (BWV 1012). Each movement reveals the instrument’s incredible versatility and remarkable colors.

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Elinor Frey – Fiorè: Complete Cello Sonatas and Italian Arias (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 5, 2023 · Comments off

Late Baroque ascendency of the cello in Northern Italian sonata and vocal music, brilliantly played on original instruments.

If asked to guess the origin of the major human inventions such as the mechanical clock, gunpowder, the compass, or paper, the safe guess is usually China. When it comes to musical forms and instruments, however, one should posit an Italian source, the heritage that has bequeathed us the very word “invention.”

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Elinor Frey – Antonio Vandini: Complete Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · January 5, 2023 · Comments off

Cellist Elinor Frey and Passacaille Records will announce the release of the new album, Antonio Vandini: Complete Works, presenting the six sonatas and one concerto of one of the most noteworthy and fascinating Italian cellist-composers of the 18th century, to be released on the Passacaille label in Europe on January 4th and worldwide on February 1st.

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Elinor Frey, Rosa Barocca, Claude Lapalme – Early Italian Cello Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 31, 2022 · Comments off

Elinor Frey, Rosa Barocca, Claude Lapalme - Early Italian Cello Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

This project relates to a new album, “Early Italian Cello Concertos” to be released on April 1, 2022 on the Analekta label, a collaboration between cellist Elinor Frey and Rosa Barocca, conducted by Claude Lapalme. We recorded the album last September in Calgary, Alberta.
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Elinor Frey, Cathrine Jones, Michele Pasotti & Federica Bianchi – The Cello According to Dall’Abaco (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 23, 2022 · Comments off

Elinor Frey, Cathrine Jones, Michele Pasotti & Federica Bianchi – The Cello According to Dall’Abaco (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:56 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco (1710-1805), son of the composer Evariso Dall’Abaco, learned to play the cello as a child. Raised in Munich, he found employment at the court of the Elector of Cologne as early as 1729 and embarked on a fascinating musical career that made him famous in London, Paris and Vienna, among other places, and even features several “eventful” episodes. French grace, German thoroughness and Italian joy of virtuosity meet in his magnificent sonatas and duos for violoncello, some of which are recorded here for the first time.

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Elinor Frey – Symmetriā Pario (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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This album explores the relationship between acoustically produced music created by human beings and CERN LHC atomic decay files from the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. The CERN tracks function here as intermezzi.

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