Marcel Worms – Graupner meets Bach (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marcel Worms – Graupner meets Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:23 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records

Graupner and Bach: Two baroque composers: one known to most music lovers at most by name; the other the undisputed Number One in the canon of western classical music. Both endowed the keyboard generously with compositions, and in that genre, for both composers, the dance suite was an important starting point. Even though Christoph Graupner and Johann Sebastian Bach were contemporaries, their treatment of the dance suite is quite different. Each one’s personal style comes clearly into its own when we compare their partitas (suites of then-current dances). On this double album, partitas by Bach and Graupner sound in a brotherly way, both side by side and face to face.

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Marcel Worms – Twenty Years Of New Blues For Piano (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marcel Worms – Twenty Years Of New Blues For Piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:21 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records

Dutch pianist Marcel Worms has been performing his programme New Blues for Piano since 1997. Some 200 new blues pieces from around 50 different countries were commissioned for Worms for this project and this release features a selection from the most recent repertory of new blues (composed between 2011 and 2016) as well as pieces from the repertoire of the entire project that are most dear to Worms. The project highlights the significance of the blues in jazz and the pieces provide insight into what the blues mean to the contemporary composer.

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Marcel Worms – J.S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marcel Worms – J.S. Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:48:34 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records

The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1) contains 24 preludes and 24 fugues, each piece a personality with its own unique character. A prelude is always followed by a fugue in the same key. With an endless fantasy Bach lets the different voices speak, each for itself yet also in dialogue with and attuned to each other. A perfect technical mastery of the form goes hand in hand with the ability to translate all conceivable human emotions into sound. Heart and head, emotion and intellect, are one. All this justifies the prominent place the work has enjoyed for many years in the Western musical canon. Conductor Hans van Bülow (1830-1894) called it ‘the Old Testament of every pianist’ (Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas would form the New Testament), and according to Robert Schumann this work of all works provides the pianist’s daily bread.

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Marcel Worms – Erik Satie: Piano Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marcel Worms – Erik Satie: Piano Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:42 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir Records

It was a significant step: the decision of the French composer Erik Satie, in 1884, to write his first name henceforth with a “k”. He was born on 17 May 1866 as Eric Satie in Normandy’s Honfleur, from where England lies almost in view. His mother, born in London, had English and Scottish blood. And in his work and in his personage, irony, understatement, and British-sounding humour are never far away. Despite an unmistakably French sound in his music, he did not regard himself as a musicien français, as his friend Debussy styled himself on his card.

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