Tamsin Waley-Cohen & James Baillieu – CPE Bach: Complete Original Works for Violin & Keyboard (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:33:06 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in Weimar, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the fifth child and second surviving son of JS Bach and his first wife Maria Barbara. By his own account he had no other teacher for composition and keyboard except his father. Nevertheless, the majority of Emanuel’s earliest works owe more to the influence of Telemann and other exponents of the new galant style, while already suggesting his own progressive instinct.
At the age of twenty-four, after seven years studying law, Emanuel decided to devote himself to music. In 1738 he accepted the position of keyboard player at the court of the Prussian crown prince – the future Frederick the Great. After nearly thirty years of royal service he left Berlin and moved to Hamburg, where he occupied the positions of Music Director and Cantor until his death.
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen & Huw Watkins – Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5 & 8 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:39 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins return with the start of a Beethoven Violin Sonata Cycle here recording the 1st, 5th and 8th sonatas. Gramophone Magazine said The heart gives a little leap at the prospect of…a duo as engaging and intelligent as Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins. This cycle is sure to be one of the highlights of Signums year, as well as of Beethoven 250. Beethovens twelve violin sonatas add up to a comprehensive exploration of the possibilities and potential of writing for the two instruments on equal terms possibilities that he was ideally placed to understand. The three sonatas on this recording are waypoints on a journey, crafted by a composer who was both violinist and pianist, and who never ceased exploring the practical possibilities of the instruments for which he wrote.
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Huw Watkins – Bohemia (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:04 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen is joined by pianist Huw Watkins for a new disc exploring folk-inspired Bohemia from before the First World War – featuring works by Antonin Dvořák, Josef Suk and Leoš Janáček.This disc followsTamsin’s recent critically-praised disc of Roy Harris and John Adams’ Violin Concertos with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, as well as previous discs with Huw Watkins exploring some lesser-known gems of the violin and Piano repertoire.
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Tamsin Waley-Cohen, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton – Roy Harris & John Adams: Violin Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:20 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen continues her series of concerto recordings on Signum with two contrasting works by American composers.
Already considered by many to be a modern classic, John Adams 1993 Violin Concerto was described by the composer as having a ‘hypermelody’, in which the soloist plays longs phrases without stop for the duration of the 35 minute piece.
Although composed in 1949, the first performance of Roy Harris’ Violin Concerto didn’t occur until 1984. Since then it has been championed for its “luminous orchestration and exalted tone” and has been rarely recorded.
For this recording Tamsin Waley-Cohen is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under American conductor Andrew Litton.
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