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Peter Sheppard Skærved, Julian Perkins – Schubert: Violin Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:38 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Athene
As well as being internationally recognised as a leading interpreter of music new and old, Peter Sheppard Skærved is the only violinist to have performed on the personal violins of Viotti, Paganini, Joachim, Kreisler and Ole Bull. On this recording he plays a fabulous instrument made by Martin Leopold Widhalm II in 1782 with a bow by François Tourte around 1775. Peters work is celebrated worldwide and he has made many recordings for Athene and, with contemporary music, for its sister Divine Art group label Métier, both as soloist and with the Kreutzer Quartet and the ensemble Longbow. Julian Perkins is one of Britains most accomplished early-music specialists and with his ensembles Sounds Baroque has worked with many top singers and actors. He has also directed the Academy of Ancient Music and has presented concerts and operas around the UK. Here he plays a square piano of 1812 by the Clementi family.
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Emma Abbate & Julian Perkins – Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:18 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Both Beach and MacDowell were formidably accomplished pianists who wrote concertos in barnstorming virtuoso style, for themselves and their contemporaries to play, but they could also turn their hand to the lucrative domestic market for piano-duet music. In doing so they also tapped into the 19th-century, Romantic preoccupation with childhood which Schumann had encapsulated in his Kinderszenen of 1838.
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Julian Perkins – From Handel’s Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:58 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
Handel Hendrix House in London’s Mayfair holds a substantial collection of keyboard instruments – spinet, organs, and harpsichords – both original from Handel’s own day and reproductions, representing a roster of some of the greatest names from Kirckman and Snetzler to Goetze & Gwynn and Bruce Kennedy’s copy of the Colmar Ruckers harpsichord.
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Julian Perkins – Handel’s Attick: Music for Solo Clavichord (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:33 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deux-Elles Limited
This album celebrates the delicacy and intimacy of the clavichord, the harpsichord’s quieter cousin, which was central to the daily life of musicians for centuries. The title is inspired by the story that Handel’s early biographer John Mainwaring tells, ab out the young Handel secretly going up to the attic during the night to practise on the clavichord, in defiance of his father. The pieces in the first half are by some of those composers mentioned in a notebook of 1698, now lost, which Handel used while he was studying in Halle with Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. The second half includes pieces Handel might have played on such an instrument to himself later in life, for relaxation and maybe even solace, away from the demands and intrigues of his frantic public l ife. Dubbed ‘‘The Indiana Jones of Early Music’’ by BBC Radio 3, Julian Perkins brings a dynamic and adventurous spirit to all of his music – making. In 2022 he succeeded Monica Huggett as Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in Oregon, USA. B ased in the UK, he is also Artistic Director of Cambridge Handel Opera and the period – instrument ensemble Sounds Baroque, and enjoys a busy and varied career as a solo keyboard player, chamber musician and conductor/director.
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Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:40 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music
Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Julian Perkins are proud to present the first professional recording of John Eccles’s Semele (ca 1707), a notable early setting of the great English libretto by William Congreve better known in a version by Georg Friedrich Handel from 1744.
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Emma Abbate & Julian Perkins – Tournament for Twenty Fingers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:27 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
Initially enjoying popularity first in Germany-speaking lands and then in France, the genre of the piano duet (four hands, one piano) went on to blossom in England during the 20th century. On this album Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins present the complete works for piano duet by each of the composers selected. Palm Court Waltz, the Sonatina and Theme and Variations from Lennox Berkeley display Gallic traits, the consequence no doubt of his studies in France and his keen interest in the music of Satie, Ravel and Poulenc. While showing an evolution in the composer’s approach to tonality, every hint of seriousness is constantly balanced by elegant playfulness and diaphanous textures.
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Anna Dennis, Sounds Baroque & Julian Perkins – Sweeter Than Roses: Songs by Henry Purcell (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:31 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
Director and keyboardist Julian Perkins and his acclaimed ensemble Sounds Baroque join with soprano Anna Dennis to this celebration of the songs Henry Purcell. Kown for his undisputed mastery in setting the English language, Purcell also absorbed influences from both French and italian styles, and the programm is complemented with close contemporaries who also worked in Lodon – a guitar suite from italian Francesco Corbetta and a harpsichord suite from Giovanni Battista Draghi, along with two songs from the earlier Stuart court composr Henry Lawes.
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