Rachel Barton Pine

Rachel Barton Pine, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Tito Muñoz – Dependent Arising (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 31, 2023 · Comments off

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording for Cedille Records, Dependent Arising, reveals surprising confluences between classical and heavy metal music by pairing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein’s “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Tito Muñoz.

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Rachel Barton Pine, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton – Elgar & Bruch: Violin Concertos (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine releases her 36th album and fourth for AVIE with her first recordings of two repertory staples, violin concertos by Edward Elgar and Max Bruch. The two works – Elgar’s only concerto for violin and Bruch’s first – straddle the turn of the 20th century but have in common a Romantic hue which Rachel probes with her rich, soulful tone.

The album is dedicated to “the memory of a musical hero and generous friend, Sir Neville Marriner,” who was to have reunited with Rachel on this album. She was fortunate to work with him on the scores, with Sir Neville vividly relating accounts of his teacher Billy Reed, former leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, who collaborated with Elgar on the creation of his violin concerto. Grammy Award-winning conductor Andrew Litton brings his own Romantic pedigree to the recording, as does the BBC Symphony Orchestra and celebrated producer Andrew Keener who himself has overseen award winning versions of the Elgar and Bruch concertos.

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Rachel Barton Pine, Jory Vinikour – J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, critically acclaimed artists of international renown- and also close friends-record together for the first time on this album of J.S. Bach’s complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord. The artists approach these works as Bach intended: as trio sonatas with equally important roles for the violin and the harpsichord’s treble and bass lines. In addition to the six Sonatas, the album offers the remarkable and ravishingly poetic Cantabile, BWV 1019a, a free-standing work that Bach originally conceived as a movement of the Sonata, BWV 1019. Cedille’s audiophile engineering and the intimate acoustics of Evanston, Illinois’ Nichols Hall allow the complex trio textures to blossom with detail. In all, the album sets a new standard for a body of work that Bach’s son, CPE, considered among his father’s finest compositions. Rachel Barton Pine is a Billboard chart-topping artist. Her 2016 album ‘Testament’, comprising JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin entered the Billboard Classical Chart in the No. 1 position, as did her 2013 Cedille album ‘Violin Lullabies’. Making his Cedille label debut, Vinikour received Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Solo Instrumental Recording for his 2013 album of modern American music for harpsichord and his 2012 release of Rameau’s complete harpsichord works.

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Rachel Barton Pine – Bel Canto Paganini (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine traverses Paganini’s ground breaking set of 24 Caprices with virtuosic flair and, in equal measure, reverence for the bel canto – or “beautiful singing” – style of the composer’s generation. Playing on the ‘ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat’ Guarneri del Gesù violin from 1742 – made by the same Cremona-based maker in the same year as Paganini’s own violin – Rachel channels the composer’s own technical wizardry as well as his love for beautiful melodies.

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Rachel Barton Pine & Matthew Hagle – Violin Lullabies (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Violin Lullabies is one-of-a-kind album of 25 classical lullabies for violin and piano performed by renowned American violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille Records’ best-selling artist, and pianist Matthew Hagle, her longtime recital collaborator.

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Rachel Barton Pine & Matthew Hagle – Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, “an exciting, boundary-defying performer” (Washington Post) known for her “bravura technique and soulful musicianship” (New York Times), headlines a groundbreaking album of blues-influenced classical works for solo violin and violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent.

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Rachel Barton Pine – Mendelssohn & Schumann Violin Concertos; Beethoven Romances (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Barton Pine is an award-winning violinist who enjoys exploring lesser known works and developing and encouraging young talent.

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Rachel Barton Pine – Dvořák; Khachaturian: Violin Concertos (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The latest release by Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine uniquely pairs the concertos by Anton n Dvorak and Aram Khachaturian, composers who were inspired by the folk music of their respective countries and raised the idiom to high art.

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Rachel Barton Pine, Matthew Hagle – Violin Lullabies (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The world’s first lullabies were simple songs sung or hummed by parents cradling their infants and rocking them to sleep. After the birth of violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s first child in 2011 she could find no existing collection of classical violin lullaby scores or recordings, so she set about gathering sheet music from libraries around the world and recording her own versions with pianist Matthew Hagle. Familiar tunes and new discoveries intertwine in this sweet, timely release celebrating the beauty of new life and parenthood.

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Rachel Barton Pine – Testament (Bach, J S: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Rachel Barton Pine - Testament (Bach, J S: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Rachel Barton Pine – Testament (Bach, J S: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin) (2016)
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‘Testament’ is Rachel Barton Pine’s very personal homage to the music of J. S. Bach, on which she performs the composer’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin in the acoustic of her hometown St. Pauls Church in Chicago, where she first heard and fell in love with Bach’s music.
Best-selling violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s relationship with the music of Bach runs deep. She first heard and fell in love with Bach’s music in her hometown St. Pauls Church in Chicago, which had a stained glass window of the composer in the sanctuary. That church is where Rachel first played Bach’s music, at the age of four, and where she returned to record Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas in its beautiful yet clear acoustic. Rachel says, “I’m so pleased to have recorded the Six Sonatas and Partitas in my favourite sound space for these works, the place that I consider to truly be my emotional home for playing them.”
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