Lorenzo Gatto & Miguel Da Silva – Mendelssohn & Enescu: String Octets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:03 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Emerging from the pandemic like a bubble of oxygen from the ocean depths, this recording project is built around two ideas that lie at the heart of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. On one hand it perfectly embodies the ideal of a continuing relationship between masters and artists in residence by bringing together three generations of musicians with Miguel da Silva, Lorenzo Gatto and the young artists currently in residence at the Chapel, providing an opportunity for the former to pass on their mastery and knowledge to the latter. On the other, it also fulfils a desire to bring together a number of artists in an ensemble that unites chamber music with a string orchestra for major works. The string octet, a form made even more attractive by its rarity, was adopted by two composers of genius: Mendelssohn and Enescu. These youthful works, nonetheless mature and filled with musical riches, echo each other here by highlighting their contrasts.
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Miguel Da Silva, Xavier Phillips, François-Frédéric Guy – Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:52 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms’ Trio, Op. 114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas Op. 120), is presented here in its version with viola: “Like all Brahms’s works, this Trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string quartet that comes closest to the human voice”, says violist Miguel Da Silva. “This version with viola obliges me, as a cellist, to listen differently: our two stringed instruments must “breathe” together and match their articulation”, continues Xavier Phillips. These three works from late in Brahms’s career testify to his modernity: “Brahms was often considered a classical composer who was impervious to modernity, the guardian of a certain tradition”, says pianist François-Frédéric Guy, who agrees with Schoenberg that he was, on the contrary, highly innovative: “We have a fine example, in the trio, of the extraordinary modernity of his combinations of rhythm and timbre: he is a total innovator”.
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Busch Trio, Maria Milstein, Miguel Da Silva – Dvořák: Piano Quintets & Bagatelles (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:39 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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After two earlier Dvořák releases, the Trios nos.3 and 4 (Dumky) and the two Piano Quartets, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their teachers at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the violist Miguel da Silva (founder member of the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe) and the violinist Maria Milstein, who was also an artist in residence at the Music Chapel from 2011 to 2014. Together they continue this recording of the Czech composer’s complete chamber music with keyboard, this time in the two Piano Quintets and the Bagatelles. There is an obvious close rapport between these musicians, who share with us their passion for this repertory and their enjoyment of playing together. A gap of fifteen years separates Dvořák’s two Piano Quintets, which have few features in common except a shared home key: the First marks the debut of a youthful composer, while the Second shows him at the peak of his art. The Bagatelles, originally scored for two violins, cello and harmonium, are among his bestknown short pieces. A recording scheduled for release in autumn 2018 will complete this quadriptych of Dvořák’s piano trios, quartets and quintets.
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Busch Trio, Miguel Da Silva – Dvořák: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:03 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following a first recording devoted to Dvořák’s Dumky Trio and Trio no.3, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their former teachers at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the violist Miguel da Silva, a founder member of the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe. Together they pursue this series of the Czech composer’s complete chamber music with piano: there is an obvious close rapport between the musicians, who share with us their passion for this repertory and their pleasure in playing together. The Piano Quartet no.1 in D major op.23 of 1875 was one of the first works in which the young Dvořák, inspired by Schubert, laid the foundations of the compositional style which he would conserve for the rest of his life. Fourteen years later, he composed the Piano Quartet no.2 in E flat major op.87, completed under pressure from his publisher. This work, influenced by Brahms, is one of the masterpieces of his maturity. Two further recordings will complete this quadriptych of the Czech composer’s keyboard trios, quartets and quintets.
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