Tal & Groethuysen – Colors (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:37 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Classical
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The piano duo Tal & Groethuysen has thrilled classical music audiences for more than 30 years. They have received innumerable accolades worldwide for their recordings with Sony Classical. They have recorded for this new album Debussy’s famous orchestral worksPrélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and La Mer in four-hand versions full of evocative colours, the first arranged by the composer himself and the second in a reduction for four hands by André Caplet. The duo also chose works by Richard Strauss for this album: the Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera Salome and the Waltz Sequence from Rosenkavalierin arrangements by Johannes Doebber and Victor Babin. They have also recorded the famous symphonic poem Till Eulenspiegel arranged for four hands by Otto Singer. A fascinating recording presenting well-known romantic pieces in amazing arrangements, allowing them to be heard in a new light.
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Tal & Groethuysen – Beethoven’s World – Eberl, Dussek: Concertos for 2 Pianos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:28 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Classical
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With his acclaimed CD series “Beethoven’s world”, conductor Reinhard Goebel regularly proves that the era of Viennese classical music has much more to offer than the famous trio Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven. The fourth Album in this recording series features works by composers such as Jan Ladislav Dussek and Anton Eberl, who were equally acclaimed contemporaries of Beethoven. Together with the award-winning piano duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen, Goebel has recorded concertos by these two composers for two pianos and orchestra. These concerts are framed by Beethoven’s congratulatory Minuet for Orchestra in E Flat Major and-as a world premiere recording-a series of variations on the well – known “Follia”theme by Joseph von Eybler. Reinhard Goebel conducts the hr Symphony Orchestra.
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Tal & Groethuysen – Avec Esprit: Gouvy, Mélan-Guéroult, Saint-Saens, Ysaye (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:34 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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The piano works with which the multi-award-winning duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen once again underline their flair for rarities that are absolutely worth hearing come from the Francophone world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For the program “Avec esprit” the duo has selected pieces mainly by unknown composers, which were written between 1874 and 1910, and thus show a wide range of French high and late romantic music.
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