Renaud Capuçon, Kit Armstrong – Mozart: Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:57:55 minutes | 4,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This 4-CD album of Mozart’s ’16 Sonatas for Violin and Piano’, played by Renaud Capuçon and Kit Armstrong, showcases the brilliance of the composer’s chamber music and mastery of both instruments. The sonatas have been central to this duo’s partnership since they made their debut together with the works at the 2016 Salzburg Mozartwoche.
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Title: Kit Armstrong Plays Wagner, Liszt and Mozart – Live From The Margravial Opera House Bayreuth 2019
Release Date: 2020
Genre: Classical
Director: Bernhard Fleischer
Production/Label: C Major
Duration: 01:35:06
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 25936 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3197 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 22.1 GB
Bayreuth is not only the city of Richard Wagner, but also of his father-in-law Franz Liszt. Described by the New York Times as a brilliant pianist who combines musical maturity and youthful daring in his exceptional playing, Kit Armstrong performed at the famous Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, a masterpiece of Baroque theatre architecture, works by Wagner, Liszt and Mozart in a concert that was technically sophisticated – and poetically poignant. (Der Opernfreund) Alfred Brendel, who has guided Armstrong as teacher and mentor since 2005, ascribes to him an understanding of the great piano works that combines freshness and subtlety, emotion and intellect.
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Kit Armstrong – William Byrd & John Bull: The Visionaries of Piano Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:03 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
American pianist and composer Kit Armstrong steps back in time to revive the spirit of the early English composers William Byrd and John Bull on his Deutsche Grammophon debut album. William Byrd & John Bull: The Visionaries of Piano Music explores a remarkable legacy of works originally written for the virginal – a close relative of the harpsichord. “William Byrd and John Bull created the universe – the universe of keyboard music as it still exists today.”
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Kit Armstrong – Liszt: Symphonic Scenes (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:47 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical, Pano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
As an eagerly anticipated follow-up to his debut album, which featured works by Bach, Ligeti and a piece of his own composition, Kit Armstrong has now recorded works by Franz Liszt for his second CD for Sony Classical. Kit Armstrong has long been in love with Liszt’s music had a desire to champion works by the composer that are not all that well known, especially among his orchestral works, for which a number of these incredible pieces of music also exist in piano transcriptions that Liszt himself prepared. Armstrong’s aim was to record the “Symphonic Scenes” in their entirety. Individual pieces such as “Le triomphe funèbre du Tasse” and the “Salve Polonia” were also to be included, as were the Two Episodes from Lenau’s Faust and the Mephisto Waltzes.
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