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Pieter Wispelwey, Paolo Giacometti – Schubert & Brahms: The Complete Duos / Rondo (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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The cellist Pieter Wispelwey and the pianist Paulo Giacometti have decided to record six albums comprising the complete works for duet of Brahms and Schubert. In other words, the pieces written for an instrument and piano. The instrument in question could be the cello, or the violin, the viola, etc. Because can a virtuoso cellist really resist the temptation to dip their toes into other repertoires than their own? After all, we know full well that the composers themselves wouldn’t hesitate to transcribe, or authorise a transcription, of their own work for other instruments. And so here is the fourth volume of this collection, which hinges on Brahms’s Sonate Op. 78, which was first written for violin in G major, here transcribed into D major by Paul Klengel in 1897; as well as the First Sonata, originally for clarinet Op. 120, by the very same Brahms. Of the latter work, we know that the composer himself transcribed it for the viola, and this transcription formed the basis for Pieter Wispelwey’s own re-reading – very close to the viola part, within which he has simply transposed certain uncomfortably high passages down an octave. By way of overture we have Schubert’s Rondo in B minor (1826), written for violin and piano, here brought down an octave (or two) for cello, although the change doesn’t make any difference at all to the harmonic perception.
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Thomas Oliemans, Paolo Giacometti – Schumann: Lieder – Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82 MHz | Time – 32:04 minutes | 2,47 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two souls, alas, reside within my breast’ Faust ascertained, and he was not the first to do so. From time immemorial we have quite some struggle with our inner contradictions, and we try to restrain them in many ways. Knowledge, alchemy, music, literature and drink are just some of the paths we follow in search of clarification and in the hope of gaining mastery of these troublemakers. Through the centuries all this has given rise to many literary and mythological couples: Apollo and Dionysus, Yin and Yang, but Florestan and Eusebius, Schumann’s literary and musical alter egos, are part of this tradition as well. The cautious, gentle Eusebius, as distinct from the more impulsive, high-spirited Florestan, prevail over both the musical and literary oeuvre of Schumann, as a line of approach, a disguise, and an attempt to get a grip on his inner turmoil.
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Paolo Giacometti – Schumann: Piano Works (2009)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.0 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Digital Booklet | 2.73 GB
FLAC tracks 2.0 24bit/88.2 kHz | Digital Booklet | 840 MB
By late summer of 1837, the 27-year-old Schumann was secretly engaged to his beloved Clara Wieck. The powerful emotions connected with this event were a stimulus to Schumann’s creative impulses, for he was a Romantic through & through. It was at this time that he composed the deeply personal Davidsbundlertanze -18 dances inspired by the imaginary league of David. This fellowship, invented by Schumann, consisted of Schumann’s own alter egos, plus a number of well-respected musicians & friends including Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. The group was established as a way of fighting against the Philistines; it was Schumann’s response to contemporary musical trends which he saw as cheap, excessively virtuosic, & superficial.
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Ariadne Daskalakis, Paolo Giacometti – Schubert: Music for Violin, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:14 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pristine performances bring out the classicist in Schubert … Ariadne Daskalakis’s skilled hands cascade off the fingerboard with a litheness and shimmering delight that capture the music’s innate charm and dance-like vivacity with a beguiling sureness of touch.’
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