Leonidas Kavakos – Accustic Arts (2008)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:59:15 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © Top Music International (Japan)
Violin master Kavacos performed 12 famous violin pieces with the Guanelli famous violin from 1742, showing extraordinary skills and the mellow tone of the famous violin!
The Greek violinist Kavacos was the winner of the 36th (1988) International Competition of Paganini in Italy, which not only made him a professional violinist, but also able to use the famous piano that Paganini once loved, the Guanelli violin “Jesus” in 1742. This collection of Kavakos violin masterpieces recorded in Delos, mastered by Top Music, shows the audiophilic nature of the recording, you can hear the solid and pure timbre of Kavakos, as well as the “pine scent” at your fingertips, and a satisfactory sense of extension, these parts are even more prominent than the original Version of Delos, and it is definitely a rare classic string sketch. The emergence of this SACD, which sets the standard for violin test pieces, can be said to be the index work of the new generation of violin test pieces.
Audiophiles are well aware that a good violin recording is one of the essential treasures for testing the effectiveness of equipment. This album is a test disc created by Tianle Company for the German super audiophile equipment brand – Accustic Arts, and its excellent measured performance can be imagined. Coupled with Leonidas’ first-class skills, excellent texture of the famous violin, and highly realistic reproduction of the recording production technology, “Leonidas Cavacos Best Music Portfolio” is undoubtedly a good choice for classical fans and enthusiasts alike.
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Leonidas Kavakos, The Apollon Ensemble – Bach: Violin Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:32 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
For this release, violinist Leonidas Kavakos goes back to Bach – varied and vivid orchestral works from the first half of the 18th century in which the composer combined the best of German and Italian instrumental styles. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Kavakos is one of the world’s most respected violinists. He continues to be a guest of the great concert halls and orchestras of the world as both violinist and conductor.
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Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 “Archduke” (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Sony Classical is pleased to present Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma’s Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 “Archduke,” which will be released March 15, 2024.
Like the artists’ two previous Beethoven for Three releases, this new recording challenges the traditional distinction between chamber and orchestral repertoire, pairing the unforgettable Archduke trio with one of the composer’s most internally varied symphonies, thoughtfully re-arranged for piano, violin, and cello by Shai Wosner. Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97 “Archduke” is the latest chapter in three friends’ ongoing exploration of what Beethoven’s invention means for musicians and audiences today.
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In 2015, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Europakonzert could hardly have been more European, taking the orchestra to Greece, the country the name “Europe” comes from, and the cradle of democracy. In the Athens concert hall Megaron, Sir Simon Rattle conducted a programme which takes us on a whistle-stop tour of Europe with works by Gioacchino Rossini, Robert Schumann and Jean Sibelius. The soloist is the Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos.
The founding of the Berlin Philharmonic on the 1 May 1882 is annually celebrated in a European city of cultural significance. In 2015 the May Europakonzert, a smash hit with the assembled audience, took place for the second time since 2004 in Athens, Greece, with Leonidas Kavakos joining the Berlin Philharmonic for the Sibelius Violin Concerto and Bachs Largo from the Sonata No. 3. Also heard were works by Rossini (Semiramide Overture) and Schumann (Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 97 Rhenish). Leonidas Kavakos won the Echo Klassik Award in 2013 as Instrumentalist of the Year.
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
– “Semiramide”
— Overture
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
– Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
— Allegro moderato
— Adagio di molto
— Allegro ma non tanto
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
– Sonata No.3 in C major, BWV 1005
— Largo
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
– Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97 “Rhenish”
— Lebhaft
— Scherzo: Sehr mäßig
— Nicht schnell
— Feierlich
— Lebhaft
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace – Virtuoso (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:25 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca
Acclaimed Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos reunites with Italian pianist Enrico Pace, following their highly praised 2013 recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin. This album contains a more diverse representation of composers, including pieces by Tchaikovsky, de Falla and Dvorák in addition to Benjamin Britten and Sir Edward Elgar. Kavakos also delivers two solo works by Paganini.
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Leonidas Kavakos – Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Op. 61, Septet, Op. 20 & Variations on Folk Songs, Op. 105 & 107 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:53:46 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
The violinist Leonidas Kavakos has many strings to his bow: an acclaimed soloist, he conducts orchestras – his first love – and is a chamber musician. This double album bears witness to the skills of this musical polymath who knows his Beethoven. He functions here both as soloist and conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which boasts over 60 musicians. In line with the practices of the composer’s lifetime, this choice highlights the “egalitarian” style of the concerto’s writing. While a virtuoso piece for sure, this score is more than just a pedestal for the soloist: the latter works closely with their peers, and shares every theme with them. Leonidas Kavakos gives a magisterial performance at the head of this impressive orchestra and brings forth some sumptuous nuances from the players, commanding their sustained and close attention.
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Leonidas Kavakos – Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:56:17 minutes | 3,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
The Greek violinist and Italian pianist come together for a selection of Beethoven’s duo sonatas. The BBC Music Magazine review of their joint recording of the entire series described Kavakos’ tone as ‘sweet and full-blooded, never overblown’, and Pace’s contribution as ‘lithe, characterful and sensitive. Both are crucial to the album’s success.’
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Leonidas Kavakos – Bach: Sei Solo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:25:34 minutes | 5,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical
An exclusive Sony Classical artist since 2018, Kavakos now stands ready to release his most significant recording yet – his first account of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. The set also includes the famous Chaconne in D minor from the Partita No. 2, for many, Bach’s single greatest span of music. Like many of his coevals, Bach was capable of creating great structures in sound, making use of the full panoply of choir, orchestra and soloists. He was unique, however, in his ability to..
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Leonidas Kavakos – Accustic Arts (2008)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:12:28 minutes | 2,33 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:28 minutes | 922 MB
Souce: SACD-R | Artwork: Front Cover | Genre: Classical | © Top Music International
Violin master Kavacos performed 12 famous violin pieces with the Guanelli famous violin from 1742, showing extraordinary skills and the mellow tone of the famous violin!
The Greek violinist Kavacos was the winner of the 36th (1988) International Competition of Paganini in Italy, which not only made him a professional violinist, but also able to use the famous piano that Paganini once loved, the Guanelli violin “Jesus” in 1742. This collection of Kavakos violin masterpieces recorded in Delos, mastered by Top Music, shows the audiophilic nature of the recording, you can hear the solid and pure timbre of Kavakos, as well as the “pine scent” at your fingertips, and a satisfactory sense of extension, these parts are even more prominent than the original Version of Delos, and it is definitely a rare classic string sketch. The emergence of this SACD, which sets the standard for violin test pieces, can be said to be the index work of the new generation of violin test pieces.
Audiophiles are well aware that a good violin recording is one of the essential treasures for testing the effectiveness of equipment. This album is a test disc created by Tianle Company for the German super audiophile equipment brand – Accustic Arts, and its excellent measured performance can be imagined. Coupled with Leonidas’ first-class skills, excellent texture of the famous violin, and highly realistic reproduction of the recording production technology, “Leonidas Cavacos Best Music Portfolio” is undoubtedly a good choice for classical fans and enthusiasts alike.
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Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op. 1, No. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:03 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Like their first ‘Beethoven for Three’ release – ‘Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5’ – this recording challenges the traditional boundary between the chamber and orchestral repertoire to offer the listener two very different sides of the composer using the same three voices.
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Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos & Yo-Yo M – Brahms: The Piano Trios (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:19 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
World-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime collaborator, pianist Emanuel Ax, are joined by violinist Leonidas Kavakos in their first recording together of all three of the piano trios of Johannes Brahms. Ma and Ax have built together a distinguished catalogue of Brahms recordings, but this is their first recording of the Piano Trios and their first collaboration with Kavakos.
Of the three Brahms Piano Trios – Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8; Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; and Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101 the Second and Third Trios were written and first performed in quick succession (1882 and 1883), both examples of Brahms at his creative zenith. The same can be said of the First Trio: originally completed when he was twenty, in 1854, and premiered the following year, Brahms thoroughly rethought and revised it in a new version premiered early in 1890. That more elegant and concentrated version of a youthful work has become the standard for the First Trio, and it is the version performed on the recording by Ma, Ax and Kavakos.
All three performers have been acclaimed for their interpretations of Brahms, as soloists and as colleagues. Between them, Ma and Ax have shared four Grammy Awards for their recordings of Brahms’s chamber music. With Kavakos, they first performed all three Brahms Piano Trios together on one program at the Tanglewood Festival in 2015. They will repeat the program in US concerts during the 2017-18 season.
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Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang – Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:40 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Leonidas Kavakos, the “exceptional violinist” (Daily Mail) follows his spectacular Brahms Violin Concerto recording by teaming up with star pianist Yuja Wang – “a prodigious talent, with an astonishing technique” (The Guardian) for the great Brahms Violin Sonatas
Leonidas Kavakos’s third release for Decca makes a perfect supplement to his acclaimed Brahms Violin Concerto disc with Chailly.
‘It’s a long time since there was a new version of this concerto as good as this.’ Andrew Clements, The Guardian (October 2013).
‘There is a rapier-like cut-and-thrust about this performance that recalls the surging adrenaline-charge of Isaac Stern in full flight, with Kavakos emerging as the swashbuckling hero of the hour, taking all technical obstacles in his stride with soaring abandonment.‘ Julian Haylock, Sinfini (October 2013).
For the three sonatas Kavakos – an exclusive Decca artist – teams up with Wang, a former Gramophone Young Artist of the Year.
Their partnership at the 2013 Verbier Festival was much talked about (and broadcast on Medici) and they will be touring these works in April to major European cities.
The F-A-E Scherzo which Brahms contributed to a composite sonata (along with his friends Schumann and Dietrich) will be added as a bonus.
The three violin sonatas were written for Brahms’s muse in all matters violin, Joseph Joachim, who also gave the premiere of the Violin Concerto and contributed its cadenzas.
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Leonidas Kavakos, Péter Nagy, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly – Brahms – Violin Concerto, Hungarian Dances; Bartok – Rhapsodies (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:53 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Leonidas Kavakos tackles a pillar of the violin repertoire in a disc that establishes him as a concerto soloist for Decca Classics. His first concerto disc for Decca features the Brahms Violin Concerto, for which he is joined by one of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly. Leonidas is also accompanied by pianist Péter Nagy for Brahms’ timeless Hungarian Dances (No.s 1, 2 ,6 and 11) and Bartók’s energetic Rhapsodies and Romanian Folk Dances – two great composers hugely influenced by Hungarian folk music.
Richly charismatic music in superbly spirited performances by musicians who have this repertoire in their blood.
Composer: Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos, Péter Nagy
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
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Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax – Beethoven for Three: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:43 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Beethoven for Three transports listeners to the turn of the nineteenth century, when audiences would have been more familiar with the composer’s music in arrangements for piano trio, string quartet, or piano four hands than for full orchestra. Here, Ax, Kavakos, and Ma seek out the most essential elements of Beethoven’s musical language, pairing his second symphony, arranged for trio by Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries, with his fifth — among the most recognizable pieces in western classical music — in a newly-commissioned arrangement by Colin Matthews.
Performing the symphonies on three instruments is a challenge that yields a wealth of insights about Beethoven’s writing process. “The idea of actually being able to play the beginning of the fifth symphony with your hands is just an incredible thrill,” says Ax. “And you learn a lot about his kind of combination of controlled mania with an incredible lyricism — and you get so much of that in both the fifth symphony and the second … It was an incredible thrill to work on this over and over and over, just trying to get the notes.”
The new release comes just days before the trio begins a tour of the United States, with performances scheduled in Washington, DC (March 7), New York, NY (March 8), Boston, MA (March 9), Chicago, IL (March 11), and Stony Brook, NY (March 12).
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