Nicolas Horvath

Nicolas Horvath – Within Fourths Within Fifths (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
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Nicolas Horvath – Nocturnes Secrets (2024)
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An unusual artist with an unconventional résumé, pianist and electroacoustic composer Nicolas Horvath is known for his boundariesless musical explorations.

Horvath is both an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary, avant-garde, experimental & minimal music and a rediscoverer of forgotten or neglected composers.

Also known as Meldhkwis he created musical projects such as Dapnom & A.E.P.

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Nicolas Horvath – Jean Catoire: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:12:41 minutes | 3,69 GB | Genre: Classical
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After being the first french concert pianist to support, perform avant-garde, experimental & minimalism music all around the world, with event such as the Night of Minimal Piano, it was time to create a Label / Série dedicated to all the discoveries I did during those last 2 decades : the Nicolas Horvath Discoveries (Collections 1001 Notes)
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Nicolas Horvath – Mélaine Dalibert : En Abyme (2022)
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Artiste atypique au parcours singulier, le pianiste Nicolas Horvath commence ses études musicales à l’Académie de Musique Prince Rainier III de Monaco. A l’âge de 16 ans, il attire l’attention du chef d’orchestre américain Lawrence Foster qui lui obtient une bourse d’Étude de 3 ans de la Fondation Princesse Grâce pour approfondir son pianisme. Ses maîtres sont des pianistes internationaux de premier plan tels que : Bruno-Léonardo Gelber, Gérard Frémy, Eric Heidsieck, Gabriel Tacchino, Nelson Delle-Vigne, Philippe Entremont, Oxana Yablonskaya et le spécialiste de Franz Liszt, Leslie Howard.

Il a remporté un grand nombre de concours dont les premiers prix aux concours internationaux Alexandre Scriabine et Luigi Nono.

Célèbre pour ses explorations musicales sans borne, Nicolas Horvath est non seulement un redécouvreur de compositeurs méconnus ou injustement oubliés mais aussi un passionné de la musique de notre temps. Il commande et crée un vaste répertoire auprès d’un très grand nombre de compositeurs et collabore avec les plus grands compositeurs et créateurs du monde entier (Terry Riley, Vladimir Cosma, Alvin Lucier, Mamoru Fujieda, Lustmord, Jaan Rääts, Alvin Curran, Merzbow, Philippe Vachey, Valentyn Silvestrov). Il s’est fait remarquer en donnant des concerts fleuves de durées exceptionnelles tels que l’intégrale Philip Glass en douze heures non-stop, l’intégrale des 15 Klavierstücke de Karlheinz Stockhausen ou encore l’intégrale des œuvres pour piano d’Erik Satie (qui attire plus de 14000 personnes lors de son exécution à la Salle P. Boulez de la Philharmonie de Paris) et ses Vexations.

Nicolas a réalisé une vingtaine d’albums unanimement salués par la presse. Artiste Steinway, Nicolas horvath est également compositeur électroacoustique.
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Nicolas Horvath – The Unknown Debussy: Rare Piano Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:45 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Robert Orledge’s research into Debussy’s sketches and incomplete drafts has resulted in the unearthing and reconstruction of numerous lost masterpieces, the piano versions of which are given their première recordings here. Unknown versions of famous pieces such as La Fille aux cheveux de lin and an unused movement from Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien appear alongside the ecstatic Prélude de l’Histoire de Tristan. This uniquely valuable programme also includes the life-affirming Suite for No-ja-li (Le Palais du Silence) with narration.

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Nicolas Horvath – Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators XL (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:35 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alvin Lucier is one of America’s foremost experimentalists, challenging the fundamental principles of music and focusing on acoustic phenomena and how listeners perceive them. Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators explores the acoustic ‘beating’ effects and tuning phenomena of sine waves against piano tones. This new XL version expands the extraordinary listening experience in a work described by Nicolas Horvath as ‘immersive, intense and enigmatic’.

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Nicolas Horvath – Montgeroult: Complete Piano Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:36:35 minutes | 2,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hélène de Montgeroult was a student of Clementi in Paris. She survived the French Revolution – during which, as an aristocrat, her life was in grave danger – to become a celebrated pianist, composer and author of a famous piano method. Her compositional language in these nine sonatas is wide and includes Italianate models as well as elements that reflect the influence of Haydn and Mozart, with chromatic and surprising harmonies, contrasts of register, chorale-like nobility and brilliantly athletic finales. Featuring several world première recordings, these sonatas represent a major contribution to the French repertoire of the late Classical and early Romantic periods.

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Nicolas Horvath – Glass: Glassworlds, Vol. 6 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:23 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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In weaving America’s native culture and history, Philip Glass has created his own musical lineage. This album explores these ideas through his single most demanding piano piece, the ferocious, but lyrically meditative “Piano Concerto No. 2” (after Lewis and Clark), as well as one of his most neglected, the mysterious “A Secret Solo 2”. “Wichita Vortex Sutra”, a joyful and transcendent study, is also heard in the version for narrator, with words by the poet Allen Ginsberg. From his experimental years comes “Music in Contrary Motion” with its mesmerising variety of pulse patterns.

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Nicolas Horvath – Czerny: 30 Études de mécanisme, Op. 849 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:56 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Classical
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Carl Czerny, a student of Beethoven – whose music remained an inspiration – occupied an important place in the musical landscape of his time as both performer and pedagogue. His own students, such as Liszt, transmitted his teaching principles which were available in a large number of groundbreaking exercises and études. Carl Czerny wrote his 30 Études de mécanisme, Op. 849 at a time of exceptionally high demand for teaching material. The Studies make use of a limited range of keys but are intended as an introduction for students to the “School of velocity”. Perfectly placed between his simpler and more virtuosic Studies, Czerny’s Études have remained in demand to the present day.

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Nicolas Horvath – Brillon de Jouy: The Piano Sonatas Rediscovered (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:50 minutes | 3,84 GB | Genre: Classical
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The thirteen sonatas on this première recording represent the complete music for solo piano by the Parisian keyboardist and composer Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy, a musician much celebrated in her day and greatly admired by Boccherini. Introducing technical innovations more usually associated with Czerny and Liszt, these sonatas reflect a gloriously rich musical environment, incorporating and transforming elements from music of the time with great imagination and wit, and showing us that Madame Brillon’s glittering salon, though private, was by no means isolated.

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Nicolas Horvath – Tailleferre: Revived Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:13 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Germaine Tailleferre is best known for being the only female member of the French group of composers known as “Les Six”, and her stylish combination of neo-Classicism with a ready wit and energy can be compared to Poulenc and Milhaud. From the captivating Romance written while still a student, to her sparkling music for the 1937 Paris international exhibition, all of these pieces show Tailleferre as being very much at the heart of the contemporary French musical scene. This recording, described by the composer’s granddaughter as being ‘as though Tailleferre herself was perfoming these works’, is the first of three volumes presenting the complete piano music played by Nicolas Horvath.
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Nicolas Horvath – Jean Catoire Complete Piano Works, Vol. 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:25:35 minutes | 2,75 GB | Genre: Classical
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Nicolas Horvath, a seasoned champion of long concerts, such as his solo and uninterrupted concerts of Erik Satie’s Vexations, is the ideal candidate to embrace the vast range of sounds and thoughts contained in Jean Catoire’s minimalist work. (1923-2005).

This recording is the very first piano music from the work of Jean Catoire, and icing on the cake, Nicolas Horvath recorded it in its entirety: here is the fourth of eight volumes. It includes Opus 303ter.

Find on our blog our article dedicated to the career of Jean Catoire as well as the interview of Catherine Catoire, the wife of Jean Catoire.
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