Tasmin Little

Tasmin Little – The Best of Tasmin (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 15, 2023 · Comments off

Following the announcement by Tasmin Little of her intended retirement from the concert platform, we wanted to create an album that would stand as both a tribute to, and celebration of, her outstanding career as a performer. What better way to do so than ask her to select her own, personal favourites from her recorded career? An exclusive Chandos artist since 2010, Tasmin has made a series of recordings that have proved a cornerstone of the Chandos schedules for a decade, and feature a range of composers and styles of quite breath-taking variety. The first disc concentrates on concerti, and features both Walton’s and Britten’s concertos with Edward Gardner, along with the slow movement of her award-winning Elgar recording with Sir Andrew Davis. The second disc features works from Vivaldi though to Shostakovich via Brahms, and includes (among many other gems) her recording of Vaughan Williams’s iconic The Lark Ascending. It also celebrates Tasmin’s recital partnerships with three outstanding pianists: Piers Lane, Martin Roscoe, and John Lenehan. As she writes in her booklet note: ‘I am very happy that this final, double-CD set should reflect so many aspects of me as a musician; and I remain full of gratitude for the tremendous opportunities I have been given to play and record with the greatest musicians of today. I hope you all enjoy this final release.’

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Tasmin Little, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis – Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 14, 2023 · Comments off

Tasmin Little, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis – Goossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:22 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sir Andrew Davis and his Melbourne forces turn to Goossens’s Second Symphony and the Phantasy Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Tasmin Little as soloist.

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Tasmin Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Szymanowski & Karlowicz: Violin Concertos (2017) MCH SACD ISO

SACD / DSD By admin · October 13, 2023 · Comments off

This SACD recording brings together some of Chandos’ greatest artists in a spellbinding programme.

It follows performances that The Guardian described as ‘a thrilling show of ferocity and feistiness’, given by the same forces in January at the Barbican. After widely acclaimed recordings of Walton’s and Lutosławski’s violin concertos, Tasmin Little again joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner, in intensely expressive interpretations of the concertos by the Polish composers Karłowicz and Szymanowski.

All were written within the space of a generation (1902, 1916, and 1933), and yet they belong to quite different worlds. One was composed at a time of national occupation, another in the throes of wartime, and yet another at a time of national renewal. The first inhabits the lyrical tradition developed by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, the second escapes towards Debussy and the exoticism of Mediterranean influences, while the third is imbued with the folk culture of the Tatra Mountains.

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Tasmin Little, John Lenehan – C. Schumann, D. E. Smyth & A. Beach: Works for Violin & Piano (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 13, 2023 · Comments off

Tasmin Little returns with a line-up of three women composers whose lives share some features but also significant differences that illustrate the complex lives of female musicians. Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth, and Amy Beach all came from families that encouraged their musical interests but balked, in varying degrees, at professional training and engagement. All three composers draw on the influence of Robert Schumann and Brahms; Beach and Smyth, in particular, were fond of metrical and motivic manipulation. Tasmin Little plays this music, so close to her heart, with her usual warmth and dexterity. The manuscript of Clara Schumann’s final chamber work, Three Romances, declares it ‘for piano and violin’, an ordering reflected in the relative complexity of the parts, the florid passagework here played beautifully by Little’s long-term collaborator, John Lenehan.

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Tasmin Little – British Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 13, 2023 · Comments off

Tasmin Little and Piers Lane complete their three album overview of British violin sonatas with works by York Bowen, John Ireland, William Alwyn, Eric Coates, and the world premiere recording of James Francis Brown’s The Hart’s Grace. Composed for the inaugural Hertfordshire Festival of Music, the work was premiered by Tasmin in Hertford in June 2016. The central premise of The Hart’s Grace is the emotional transformation experienced by a restless observer when encountering the almost magical, elusive freedom of the deer.

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Tasmin Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Szymanowski, Karłowicz: Violin Concertos (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · October 4, 2023 · Comments off

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Tasmin Little – Britten, Ferguson, Walton: British Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2013/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 4, 2022 · Comments off

“Howard Ferguson’s oeuvre is modest in extent but distinctive in character. His Second Violin Sonata of 1946 is concise and strongly argued, and Little and Lane give a fine performance … Walton’s Sonata is nearly contemporary with the Ferguson and shares its strongly tonal language while being more expansive and sensuous. This performance is finely paced, with a sense of momentum that allows the listener to appreciate Walton’s mastery of large-scale form, and Tasmin Little’s full expressive tone seems ideally suited to the work’s sinuous melodies.”

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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner, Tasmin Little – Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 5, 2022 · Comments off

Edward Gardner, a Chandos exclusive artist, conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two masterpieces by William Walton, the Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 1.
Walton burst onto the British musical scene in his twenties, the success of works such as Façade, the Viola Concerto, and Belshazzar’s Feast establishing him in both the avant-garde and the mainstream of British composers. The obvious next step for Walton was to compose a symphony and he was duly commissioned to do so by Sir Hamilton Harty in 1932. The first complete performance of his Symphony No. 1, in 1935, was a triumph, immediately gaining the work an honoured place in British music which it has never lost. It is a highly virtuosic work with a remarkable expressive range, in turns powerful and broad, malicious, melancholic, and majestic.

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Tasmin Little – Tasmin Little Plays British Violin Concertos (2015/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 22, 2022 · Comments off

Following on from the acclaimed Elgar and Moeran concertos, Tasmin Little and Sir Andrew Davis continue their special affinity for British music with this exciting new recording featuring the music of Coleridge-Taylor, Wood, and Delius.

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Tasmin Little & Piers Lane – British Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2016/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 21, 2022 · Comments off

The atmosphere established by this original collection is best described by the violinist herself: ‘Now that the disc is complete, the shape of it feels very right and I love the combination of these works – opening with exuberance, and continuing with drama, wistful lines, folk elements, and romance. I always take into account the key structure when planning a disc of varied works, and the way that I have planned this disc gives me one of my favourite moments: the ‘Pastorale’ by Vaughan Williams dies away in the key of E minor, after which our disc segues seamlessly into the E minor introduction to William Lloyd Webber’s piece, which in its turn blossoms into E major as the violin line makes its entrance.

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