Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu – A Lionel Tertis Celebration (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:07:52 minutes | 4,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Lionel Tertis (1876-1975), a great genius of the viola, is little known to today’s public.
Timothy Ridout pays tribute to this key figure in his instrument’s history with a flamboyant programme featuring music by Tertis’s friends, teachers and students alongside some of his own original works and transcriptions.
A marvellous musical journey, rich in discoveries.
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Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree – A Poet’s Love, Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet – Schumann: Dichterliebe (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:28 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Classical
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In this debut recording for harmonia mundi, the young viola prodigy Timothy Ridout and his musical accomplice Frank Dupree celebrate the power of love, with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, performed in Borisovsky’s popular arrangement, and with their own transcription of Schumann’s Dichterliebe. The voice of the heart and the soul of candour, here the viola displays an astonishing range of emotions and expressive colours – from boisterous to tender or introspective in the Prokofiev excerpts, while also mirroring the myriad nuances of Heine’s poems in Schumann’s sublime musical love letter to his Clara.
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Frank Dupree – Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op. 104 & Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 49 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Classical
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When western audiences discovered the music of Nikolai Kapustin, they were truly shocked: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes? As we discover more and more of his music (and there’s so much more yet to discover), a very distinct, always wholly charming voice emerges, whether in a freewheeling outright-jazzy work like his Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion, the more symphonic Fifth Piano Concerto, or the frisky Sinfonietta which transports us into a smoky 1940s bar in Manhattan.
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Frank Dupree, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn & Case Scaglione – Kapustin: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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“…our life is like jazz improvisation, it should always be spontaneous, always in the moment, and always free”. (Nikolai Kapustin)
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Frank Dupree, Jakob Krupp, Meinhard Jenne – Blueprint (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:20 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Kapustin uses jazz as his musical language and then composes quasi-improvisations that sound as though they stemmed right from Oscar Peterson’s or Erroll Garner’s fingers. He is one of the few who were able to have the structures of composition and liberty of improvisation come together to such an organic whole.’ After his first successful release with the piano- and double concerto of Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (Capriccio C5437), Frank Dupree presents the original jazzy solo piano pieces of the still unknown master, enlarged with additional bass and drums. The genres of Jazz and classical music finally melt in a fascinating pure Jazz-Trio formation.
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