Stewart Goodyear – For Glenn Gould (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:06 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sono Luminus
This release comes from one of the hardest-working and most respected pianists in the world today- Stewart Goodyear. Every album from Goodyear is released to widespread critical acclaim, and this one is sure to be no different. Goodyear writes of this release: “It was the year Glenn Gould died when I first heard his legendary name. It was his Bach that introduced me to his playing. His sound struck me immediately… a sound that was compelling and uncompromising. It was not designed to speak words of mere prettiness, but of an individual truth… My decision to record Glenn Gould’s program came right after performing it in Montreal. While playing homage to one of the great Canadian legends, I was being transported to childhood memories of growing up in Toronto, Gould’s home town, studying at the Royal Conservatory, Gould’s home alma mater, and being an artist from Canada, Gould’s country.” “A phenomenon.” (Los Angeles Times) “One of the best pianists of his generation.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Stewart Goodyear – Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:52:57 minutes | 2,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Following the success of his previous Orchid Classics albums, Stewart Goodyear returns with his spirited, insightful interpretation of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, recorded with Andrew Constantine conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a release that coincides with Beethovens 250th anniversary year. Goodyear made his Orchid debut with an album of Ravels solo piano music, hailed as a major achievement (Classics Today). More recently, his sensational album with Chineke! Orchestra and Wayne Marshall featured Goodyears own music alongside Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue, the performance of which earned 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine. Now, Goodyear returns with perhaps his most ambitious recording yet: the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos. There is the Haydnesque wit of the Piano Concerto No.1, with its exquisite Largo; a pared-down, Mozartian orchestra for the Concerto No.2 with its playful Turkish finale; and in the Concerto No.3, premiered alongside the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven establishes a new intimacy between soloist and orchestra. This relationship reaches new depths in the intricately linked Piano Concerto No.4, and the set culminates in the majestic Emperor Concerto, No.5.
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