Margarita Hohenrieder – Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Margarita Hohenrieder – Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:25 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

For years, Margarita Höhenrieder was searching for the authentic sound of the piano works of Frédéric Chopin. Which instrument of his time most convincingly reflects Chopin’s music? Chopin himself had given the answer in 1831: “Pleyel’s instruments are the non plus ultra”!

The choice for the recording therefore fell on a Pleyel fortepiano, built around 1848 in Paris and professionally restored with historical materials and methods. It is absolutely identical in construction to the instrument that Chopin owned, and thus represents an authentic testimony of sound.

For acoustic reasons of the sound of the original instruments, the Oberstrass Church in Zurich (1st Piano Concert) and the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna (2nd piano concert) were chosen as the recording locations.

The orchestras “La Scintilla” under the direction of Riccardo Minasi and the “Vienna Academy” under Martin Haselböck also played on historical instruments. We listen to the historical versions of Jan Ekier each time.

Margarita Höhenrieder’s careful imitation of the authentic Chopin sound provides the listener with highly interesting insights into the history of music.

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Margarita Höhenrieder – Clara & Robert Schumann: Works for Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Margarita Höhenrieder – Clara & Robert Schumann: Works for Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:27 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

Margarita Höhenrieder writes of her new release: “After just a few notes on this exceptionally fine Pleyel grand piano in Kellinghusen, north of Hamburg, in a collection of Eric Feller’s, I found myself plunged into a different century. This pianoforte was built in Paris in about 1855 and professionally restored using historical materials and methods. It is absolutely uniform with the instrument that Chopin possessed, and is of typically French elegance – in sound as well as in appearance. It reflects the soul of the Romantic era. Apart from that, it offers an authentic testimony to the sound of the instruments that Fryderyk Chopin and Robert and Clara Schumann played. Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck, gave his daughter a Streicher grand, built in Vienna. Personally, I saw this Pleyel as the ideal instrument on which to play the works of Robert and Clara Schumann as authentically as possible while also matching as precisely as possible the exacting demands they place on piano technique. The constant aspiration in today’s music world towards ever larger and more versatile instruments and architecturally and acoustically challenging auditoria meant that I was in search of a convincingly authentic sound for compositions written in and around the 1830s, while also looking out for a suitable performance location – comparable to a mid-19th-century salon and differing from today’s concert halls.”

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Margarita Hohenrieder – Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Margarita Hohenrieder – Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:18:01 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

“Who would I need to be to be able to talk about a man who is still growing…” Adam Zagajewski: “The late Beethoven”

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Margarita Hohenrieder – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, B. 53 & Mazurkas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Margarita Hohenrieder – Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, B. 53 & Mazurkas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:27 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

For years, Margarita Höhenrieder was searching for the authentic sound of Frédéric Chopin’s piano works. Which instrument of its time most convincingly reflected Chopin’s music? Chopin himself had given the answer in 1831: “Pleyel’s instruments are the nec plus ultra”! The choice for the recording therefore fell on a Pleyel fortepiano, built around 1855 in Paris and expertly restored using historical materials and methods. It is absolutely identical in construction to the instrument Chopin owned and thus represents an authentic sound testimony.

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