Linda Nicholson – Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Linda Nicholson – Loewe: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:24 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of songs and ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era – with the remarkable Four Fantasies of 1854 heard here ‘documenting’ in music the contemporary emigration of German families to the United States. This third volume of Linda Nicholson’s survey of his piano music on historical instruments concludes its first-ever complete recording on any kind of piano.

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Linda Nicholson – Discovering the Piano (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Linda Nicholson – Discovering the Piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:39 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille

On a copy of a 1730 Cristofori-Ferrini Pianoforte Linda Nicholson demonstrates the qualities of these earliest of pianofortes. The repertoire, sonatas from Platti, Paradisi et al., all composed between 1720-1754, is perfect for this instrument, whose sound is much closer to the harpsichord than the later pianofortes, despite its dynamic abilities.

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Linda Nicholson – Loewe – Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Linda Nicholson – Loewe – Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:47 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Known in his lifetime as ‘the north German Schubert’, Carl Loewe (1796–1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era.

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