Nazrin Rashidova & Stanislav Hvartchilkov – Dreams (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nazrin Rashidova & Stanislav Hvartchilkov – Dreams (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:01 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © First Hand Records

This album showcases a flamboyant collection of 20th-century Azerbaijani popular song classics, fusing Western traditions, Azerbaijani folk music, and American jazz. The popular and classical oriental and Western themes and approaches in these new transcriptions and arrangements aim to capture the rich harmonies, lyricism and nostalgic intensity of the songs to perfection, while bringing out an equally virtuosic dialogue between the violin and guitar.

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Nazrin Rashidova – Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 4 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nazrin Rashidova – Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 4 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:48 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

The final volume of the 24 Études-Caprices by the internationally renowned virtuoso Émile Sauret, crowns one of the most impressive but seldom performed bodies of solo violin writing in the entire canon. In the last five Études, once again played by Nazrin Rashidova on Sauret’s own Stradivarius violin, the full range of his art can be heard, from double- and triple-stopping, to registral leaps, chordal and staccato techniques and exercises for absolute control of the bow. Of Volume 3 (8.573975) The Strad wrote: ‘Rashidova plays superbly’.

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Nazrin Rashidova – Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 3 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nazrin Rashidova – Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:57 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

With a portfolio of over 250 works, including major concertos and technical studies, Émile Sauret – hugely admired by Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky – was one of the most distinguished figures of his time, a violinist with a stupendous technique and a profoundly analytical mind. With its spellbinding effects and exceptional variation of form and dynamics, Volume 3 of his Études-Caprices, Op. 64 continues the exploration of this monumental work’s fusion of virtuosity and expression (Volume 1 is on 8573704 and Volume 2 on 8573843). Nazrin Rashidova plays on Sauret’s own 1685 Stradivari violin.

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