Isabelle van Keulen and Hannes Minnaar – Beethoven: Complete Sonatas For Piano and Violin (2014) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Isabelle van Keulen and Hannes Minnaar – Beethoven: Complete Sonatas For Piano and Violin (2014)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 222:09 minutes | Basic Scans | 11,4 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans incl. | 4,17 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Challenge Classics # CC 72650

This four-disc hybrid SACD set presents the complete works for piano and violin of Ludwig van Beethoven. The performers are the critically-acclaimed Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keuelen and the talented young compatriot, pianist Hannes Minnaar. This is very enjoyable performances and recording by two outstanding young artists.

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Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam – Strauss, Rota, Respighi – The violin sonata around 1900 (2009) DSF DSD128

Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam – Strauss, Rota, Respighi – The violin sonata around 1900 (2009)
DSF Stereo DSD128/5.64 MHz | Time – 02:14:20 minutes | 5,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Booklet, Front Cover |  © Challenge Records

At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century the violin sonata experienced a considerable renaissance. A fundamentally conservative genre, it suddenly sparkled with vitality. Mozart developed its classical formula: violin and piano are two equal partners in dialogue with neither the piano being reduced to a mere accompanist nor the violin being reduced to mere colouring of the melody voice; a three-movement-pattern; the first movement being based on the so called sonata form with two themes of clearcut atmospheric contrast and their developement.

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Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam – Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius – Music for violin & piano (2007) DSF DSD128

Isabelle van Keulen, Ronald Brautigam – Grieg, Elgar, Sibelius – Music for violin & piano (2007)
DSF Stereo DSD128/5.64 MHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 4,8 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover |  © Challenge Records

The acclaimed Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen is joined here by award-winning pianist Ronald Brautigam in a fascinating program of chamber music from Grieg, Elgar and Sibelius. The year 2007 marks an anniversary for each of these great composers.

Isabelle van Keulen and Ronald Brautigam are artists of keen insight, immaculate musicianship and culture… Moreover they are accorded first-rate sound… – BBC Music Magazine – December 2007

High-powered playing from Isabelle van Keulen and Ronald Brautigam, flawless in its technical accomplishment and brimful of big-boned vigour and assertiveness. – Gramophone Magazine – Janurary 2008

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Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Frid: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto & Inventions (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Isabelle van Keulen, Oliver Triendl, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt & Ruben Gazarian – Frid: Symphony No. 3, Double Concerto & Inventions (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:34 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR

With his opera The Diary of Anne Frank (1968/69), by virtue of the subject alone Grigory Frid could be sure of attracting attention beyond the borders of Russia. The remaining enormous oeuvre by the composer, covering mainly instrumental works, songs, radio and film music, still remains to be discovered and treated in depth. Both prior to and after the collapse of the Communist USSR, Frid was awarded the highest honours, e.g. the title of Artist of Merit (1986) and the Moscow Prize (1996). If it is probably not erroneous to view Frids aesthetic position in a propinquity to Dmitri Shostakovich, on the one hand, and in the environment of his contemporaries a generation younger such as Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. As in the cases of these composers, Frids music is also positioned in a field of tension between following the great Russian tradition and the quest for possibilities of expression in keeping with new, modern and international trends.

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