Sélim Mazari – Beethoven: Variations (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sélim Mazari – Beethoven: Variations (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:42 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

In the course of his creative life, Beethoven brought the concise form of the variation to its zenith, opening up a whole new field of possibilities.

Sélim Mazari has selected four set of variations in which the evolution of this ‘Titan’’s revolutionary thought is shown at different periods.

The young French pianist’s penetrating interpretation gives us the keys to explore the profundities of these pieces marked by an everalert imagination.

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Sophie Dervaux & Sélim Mazari – Impressions (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Sophie Dervaux & Sélim Mazari – Impressions (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:56 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics

Sophie Dervaux’s debut album on Berlin Classics is very much in the French tradition. Together with her French colleague, pianist Sélim Mazari, the bassoonist presents works on this concept album Impressions that are by composers of various eras, including Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Fauré and Koechlin. The bassoon – unusually – takes the stage as a soloist and so fulfils the purpose that the Vienna Phil bassoonist had in mind: to present the unique singing sound of the instrument and enrich the world of the bassoon in the process.

“A lot of people think of the bassoon as an amusing instrument. But it can be more than just the jolly clown. I wanted to show that it can sound wonderful and sing wonderfully too.”

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Sélim Mazari, Chamber Orchestra Mannheim – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 14 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Sélim Mazari, Chamber Orchestra Mannheim – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 14 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:16 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

If the form of the piano concerto is present throughout the whole of Mozart’s creative process – from the simple childhood adaptations of Johann Christian Bach’s sonatas to the final austerity of the 27th concerto of 1791 – it is striking, as Jean-Victor Hocquart notices, that Mozart almost never composed piano concertos during the periods in which he composed operas. It is as if the piano concerto and the opera were in reality, each in their own way, « responding to one and the same fundamental requirement: the theatrical requirement » . With, of course, for the concerto, the particularity of the double role of the piano: « as a character, it takes part in the action, as a dramatist, it rules over it » . The original and carefully balanced programme proposed here allows us to follow, in this particular genre, the piano concerto, the first stages of Mozart’s progressive and fruitful emancipation from the canons of Viennese ‘divertissement’ towards his conquest of a more personal language.
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