Gottlieb Wallisch

Gottlieb Wallisch – 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 6 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:29 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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This sixth volume of seven of Gottlieb Wallisch’s acclaimed 20th Century Foxtrots series takes us to Southern Europe, featuring composers from across the Mediterranean, such as Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Camilleri, Mompou and Skalkottas, among many others. International influences blend with regional character and famous names jostle with new discoveries, all of whose contributions create a joyous mix of exuberant theatricality, evocative elegance and colourful blues. Includes 16 world premiere recordings.

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Gottlieb Wallisch – Mozart in Vienna (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:49 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Austrian pianist Gottlieb Wallisch’s debut on Linn Records, Mozart in Vienna, features a selection of Mozart’s best-loved works, all composed in Vienna during one of the composer’s most fruitful periods: 1781-1791.

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Gottlieb Wallisch – Haydn: The London Sonatas (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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Famed for his clarity of line and purity of tone, Gottlieb Wallisch moves from Mozart to his contemporary Haydn for his fourth recording with Linn. Wallisch launched his international career by winning the ‘Joseph Haydn Prize’ as well as first prize at the prestigious Stravinsky Awards at the age of just sixteen.

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Gottlieb Wallisch – 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 3: Central & Eastern Europe (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:46 minutes | 662 MB | Genre: Classical
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Gramophones and radios brought the voice of America, its fashion, its carelessness and joie de vivre into every corner of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, and no composer could remain immune to the hot jazz influences of the Foxtrot, Shimmy and Charleston. This third volume of jazzy piano dances features composers from nine Central and Eastern European countries, from Misha Spoliansky’s hypnotising Valse Boston ‘Morphium’ to Leonid Polovinkin’s extremely entertaining and refreshingly futuristic approach to the genre. Gottlieb Wallisch continues his ‘most surprising and consistently charming recording project’ (The New York Times on Volume 2, GP814).

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Gottlieb Wallisch – 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:25 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Classical
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The first volume in this series traced the inter-war craze for carefree dance music in Austria and the Czech Lands (see GP813). This latest album focuses on Germany where jazz-influenced music flourished from the mid-1920s onwards even in the face of some social, political and racial opposition. Cabarets and dancehalls rejected this nationalist resistance and the Weimar Republic rejoiced in a cross-pollination of symphonic jazz and Kunstjazz – a fusion of dance and classical elements. The many previously unrecorded pieces here chart the progress of this vigorous musical rejuvenation.

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Gottlieb Wallisch – 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 1: Austria & Czechia (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:24 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Classical
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During the inter-war period, in the cities of the West, a younger generation found ways to enjoy life in the form of dances such as shimmies, foxtrots, tangos and Charlestons: strong rhythms that became a symbol of a carefree and decadent era. The new jazz craze took hold everywhere, and Kreneks opera Jonny spielt auf became an overnight sensation. The inter-war Zeitgeist in Vienna and the Czech lands is reflected in a programme full of première recordings many of which were hits in their day rich with fashionable dynamism, syncopation and joie de vivre.

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Gottlieb Wallisch – 20th Century Foxtrots, Vol. 4: France & Belgium (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:17 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gottlieb Wallisch continues his acclaimed survey of jazz-influenced piano literature. In this volume we explore le tumulte noir (“the Black craze”) in the French-speaking countries after the First World War, taking us to Paris and Brussels where the mood was hot for dancing. The fashionable status of this new craze attracted writers, composers, intellectuals and artists from all over the world, with American jazz music as the latest rage in the cafes and bistros of the day. The influence of dances from overseas spread like wildfire, taking hold amongst French and Belgian composers eager to free themselves from Germanic Wagnerism while riding the wave of popularity of hit records and cinema.
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Gottlieb Wallisch – Weinberger: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:00 minutes | 666 MB | Genre: Classical
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The international success of Weinberger’s opera Schwanda the Bagpiper in 1927 has obscured a sequence of piano works written when the composer was still in his teens. The Second and Third Piano Sonatas form a commanding pair, both written in 1915 – the former autobiographical, playful and dark – the latter neo-Classical with Francophile elements. Elsewhere one can admire his use of 16th-century dance forms, his melodic gifts in the Valses nobles, and his technical command of preludes and fugues in Gravures. The three arrangements from Schwanda show his imperishable use of Bohemian dance forms.

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