Oliver Schnyder – Albert Anker: Malstunden bei Raffael (Piano Music by Edvard Grieg) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:53 minutes | 820 MB | Genre: Classical, Soundtrack
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Oliver Schnyder, probably the most promising Swiss pianist of his generation, has recorded the soundtrack to a film by Heinz Bütler about the Swiss painter Albert Anker. A selection of the most beautiful and popular “Lyrical Pieces” by Edgard Grieg is musically set to the multi-layered portrait of the Swiss artist. The film “Malstunden bei Raffael” (Painting Lessons with Raphael) opens up the work, thinking and life of the great Swiss painter for the first time in a cinematic way far beyond the well-known and often clichéd: In “Albert Anker. Painting Lessons with Raphael”, a “room of wonders” is the starting point of the journey through time to Albert Anker (1831-1910). For the studio in the painter’s farmhouse in the Seeland village of Ins is one of the very few artists’ studios of the 19th century that has been preserved in its original state – a spectacular time capsule “curated” by Anker himself with pictures, photos, books, documents, bizarre items, letters and objects of painterly and everyday use.
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Rudens Turku, Carel Kraayenhof & Oliver Schnyder – Astor Piazzolla 100 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:20 minutes | 589 MB | Genre: Classical
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On his new album “Piazzolla 100”, violinist Rudens Turku, some of his musical friends and the W”urttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn celebrate the Argentine musician and composer Astor Piazzolla: The South American tango revolutionary would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Rudens Turku is the ideal soloist for his complex and gripping compositions. Gramophone praises his seriousness and musical intelligence: “Rudens Turku displays a fiery zeal, seriousness of purpose and clear-headed intelligence….”
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Oliver Schnyder Trio – Brahms: The Piano Trios (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:01:14 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Brahms composed the first of his three Piano Trios aged 21, then pruned and recomposed it in his late 50s. The Oliver Schnyder Trio’s new Brahms set is different from most in that they include both versions. Indeed, they are ardent advocates for the earlier one, which bursts with youthful vigour but sprawls under the weight of its own ideas, and is by some way the longest work on the recording. The only sleeve note is a letter from Oliver Schnyder addressed to Brahms in which he castigates the composer for what he sees as a lack of self-belief.
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Oliver Schnyder Trio – Beethoven: The Piano Trios (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:26:03 minutes | 3,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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The main mission of The Oliver Schnyder Trio (Andreas Janke, violin, Oliver Schnyder, piano, and Benjamin Nyffenegger, cello) is to celebrate classical works written for trio and commission new compositions. Their first grand opus is this timeless recording of Beethoven’s works for piano trio in a special 3CD set. The music of Ludwig van Beethoven is revolutionary and reaches far beyond the time of writing. Beethoven was unique, but at the same time, offered a central point of departure for new traditions of composition. The Oliver Schnyder Trio made their debut at the Zurich Tonhalle in 2012. Their recording of Schubert’s Piano Trios was hailed as “a new benchmark recording” by the magazine Die Bühne and was chosen as Switzerland’s Best Classical Album of the Year by the Aargauer Zeitung.
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Oliver Schnyder, James Gaffigan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester – The 5 Piano Concertos & 4 Overtures (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:26:58 minutes | 4,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical is delighted to bring you the latest album from the sensational pianist, Oliver Schnyder, featuring a selection of Ludwig van Beethoven’s greatest works including his complete piano concertos and selected overtures. Dubbed the “piano poet” and with over 12,000 fans on Facebook alone, Schynder’s aesthetic approach is compared with that of the great pianists Kempff, Schnabel, Fischer and Barenboim. Ludwig van Beethoven stands for independence of mind, for revolutionary ideas, for music that reaches far beyond his own time. The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra with its chief conductor James Gaffigan took this as an occasion to realize the “Beethoven Project.” The result is this truly landmark recording featuring all of his remarkable piano concertos and a selection of his most famous overtures. Oliver appears in the most important concert venues in Europe, North America and Asia such as Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Kölner Philharmonie, Herkulessaal and Carnegie Hall. His chamber music collaboration with violinist Andreas Janke and with the cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger led in 2012 to the founding of the Oliver Schnyder Trio. In 2016, Schnyder was awarded a prestigious Werkbeitrag by the Aargauer Kuratorium. James Gaffigan, Chief Conductor – Hailed for the natural ease of his conducting and the compelling insight of his musicianship, James Gaffigan continues to attract international attention and is one of the most outstanding American conductors working today. Gaffigan also holds positions as Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and was appointed the first Principal Guest Conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra, Cologne in September 2013, a position that was created for him. Luzerner Sinfonieorchester – Orchestra-in-residence of the renowned KKL Luzern. As Switzerland’s oldest symphony orchestra (founded in 1806), it has gained an international standing that extends far beyond its home territory. Strongly anchored in Lucerne, a city with a worldwide reputation for music, the orchestra offers a number of annual concert cycles and organizes the Zaubersee Festival – Russian Music Lucerne. It also acts as the opera orchestra of the Lucerne Theatre.
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Oliver Schnyder – Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:59 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Der Schweizer Pianist Oliver Schnyder macht derzeit vielfach von sich reden: als Haydn-Interpret mit der renommierten Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, als großer Beatles-Kenner und -Fan und nun zusammen mit dem Musikkollegium Winterthur unter Douglas Boyd als Interpret der Klavierkonzerte von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
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Oliver Schnyder, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Andrew Watkinson – Haydn: Three Piano Concertos (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:33 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
“The Schynders evidently have fun refracting Haydn’s motifs through the prism of contemporary styles, but what is remarkable is that these modern additions never outstay their welcome while making gentle fun of their surroundings.” (Gramophone)
“Crisp accounts with touching nuances in the nocturnal slow movements” (BBC Music Magazine)
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