Luka Šulić and Evgeny Genchev at No Borders Music Festival (HD 1080p)

Luka Šulić (cello) and Evgeny Genchev (piano) play popular melodies at No Borders Music Festival, at Fusine Lakes in Tarvisio, Italy, on July 25, 2020.

The No Borders Music Festival is a music festival which has become a unique "vehicle" in the Region and in the entire "Without Borders" area for black music, soul, unconventional jazz, afro-music, advanced dance, which attracts fans from all over the world, not just from Italy, but from all over Europe. The program aims to promote music as a form of culture and a means of communication which enriches and is understood by everyone, exceeding ethnic linguistic, social and political boundaries. The Festival is a vehicle of boundless musical experiences; it has no boundaries regarding the musical genre, ranging from classical music to jazz, or the social and geographical heritage of the invited artists.

1. Nuvole Bianche (Ludovico Einaudi, 2010) [0:00]*

2. Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, 2018) [5:24]

3. The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel, 1964) [9:02]

4. Nothing Else Matters (Metallica, 1992) [11:59]

5. Numb (Linkin Park, 2003) [15:16]

6. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen, 1984) [19:18]

7. Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone, 1988) [24:40]

8. Caruso (Lucio Dalla, 1986) [28:13]

9. Csárdás (Vittorio Monti, 1904) [32:24]

10. Hungarian Dance No.5 (Johannes Brahms, 1879) [36:35]

11. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen, 1975) [39:26]

12. Love of My Life (Queen, 1975) [45:32]

13. Chandelier (Sia, 2014) [49:09]

14. We Are the Champions (Queen, 1977) [52:38]

15. Bella ciao (folk song) [55:40]

Luka Šulić, cello

Evgeny Genchev, piano 

Directed and edited by Giulio C. Ladini

Video crew: Kleva Films

2nd Camera Unit: Hari Bertoja

Drone operator: Enrico M. Lucarelli

No Borders Music Festival, Fusine Lakes in Tarvisio, Italy, July 25, 2020

* Start time of each work

(HD 1080p)

Luka Šulić is a virtuoso cello player, well known throughout the world combining classical and crossover performances. Currently he's performing a solo classical project focused on  "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi, as he is the first musician in history to perform integrally The Four Seasons on the cello. His first solo album (Vivaldi Four Seasons) was released by Sony Classical on October 25th 2019 and it debuted at #1 of Billboard Classical Albums Chart in the USA. He has given a number of solo concerts in Europe, South America and Asia, in major venues such as Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Teatro dal Verme in Milan, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonic, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and many others.

As a member of internationally acclaimed super group 2Cellos, Luka has toured globally for many years with Sir Elton John, performing with him and opening his shows in massive arenas and stadiums. Apart from their own sold out arena tours 2Cellos have performed at prestigious venues and events such as Madison Square Garden, Paris Olympia, Sydney Opera House, Arena di Verona, Queen's Diamond Jubilee, UEFA Champions League Final, FIFA Ballon d'OR and the Emmy Awards to mention just a few. Onstage, their collaborators have included the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, George Michael, Zucchero, Steve Vai and Lang Lang. They also performed and recorded with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and appeared on major TV shows such as the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen DeGeneres Show (multiple times), TV Total with Stefan Raab, GLEE, Good Morning America and many others. Together with superstar pianist Lang Lang, they appeared on the CCTV New Year's Gala for more than 1 billion viewers.

Šulić began his musical education in Maribor when he was five years old. When he was fifteen, he became one of the youngest students ever to enter the Music Academy in Zagreb in the class of Professor Valter Dešpalj, where he graduated aged only 18. He continued his education in Vienna with Professor Reinhard Latzko. Šulić finished his master's degree with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2011. He won series of top prizes at the prestigious international music competitions including first and special prize at the VII Lutosławski International Cello Competition in Warsaw (2009), first prize at the European Broadcasting Union "New Talent" Competition (2006) and first prize at the Royal Academy of Music Patron's Award in Wigmore Hall (2011).

Source: lukasulic.com

Bulgarian pianist Evgeny Genchev (b. 1989) has been steadily gaining wider recognition and critical acclaim. He has given numerous performances across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and has won prizes at more than fifteen national and international piano competitions.

Evgeny has appeared on TV channels such as RTL, ARD, ZDF, Deutsche Welle, Pro7 among others. He has also performed on shows such as Heidi Klum's Next Top Model, MoMa, Willkommen 2017 (at Brandenburg Gate for over 800 thousand people), PaRus Festival, Dubai alongside Luka Šulić and Filip Kirkorov, Helene Fischer Christmas Show alongside Helene Fischer and Schlagerbooom  alongside Andreas Gabalier.

Genchev has performed in many renowned concerts halls: Kaufman Centre, New York; Philharmonie, Munich; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; Westfalenhallen, Dortmund; LSO St Luke's and Milton Court Hall, London; Glinka Philharmonic Hall, St Petersburg; Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw; National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing; and National Palace of Culture, Sofia.

In recent seasons he performed with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM) in Mexico City, the Polish Baltic Frederic Chopin Philharmonic in Gdansk, the LISMA Festival Orchestra in New York, OSUANL in Monterrey, and the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Massimiliano Caldi, Arkady Leytush, Jesus Medina, Yan-Pascal Tortelier and Jan Latham-Koenig.

Evgeny Genchev was born in Bulgaria and began his piano studies at the Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and Dance. On completion of his course, Genchev was presented with the Dobrin Petkov Grand Award for Achievements in Music. Genchev continued his education at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the International Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola, Italy. He has also finished the Artist Diploma programme at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London after graduating with distinction from the Master in Performance course.

Source: evgenygenchevpiano.com

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The Real Mrs. Hudson of 221B

The capture of Colonel Moran was made possible by Mrs. Hudson

A posting this week by Dave Price had me thinking about the redoubtable Mrs. Hudson.

As Dave pointed out, William Hyder’s 11-page article on “The Martha Myth” in the March 1991 issue of the Baker Street Journal effectively destroyed the idea that Mrs. Hudson was also Holmes’s “old housekeeper” in “The Lion’s Mane” and/or “Martha” the spy in “His Last Bow.” Rob Nunn did likewise on his blog last year: http://interestingthoughelementary.blogspot.com/2020/07/that-is-martha-last.html

The triple identity fantasy was born of the fertile mind of Vincent Starrett an d later adopted by others, including William S. Baring-Gould (who, let’s be honest, made a lot of stuff up).

• But what do we really know about Mrs. Hudson? A surprising amount!She is the landlady of 221B Baker Street, not a housekeeper (every Canonical reference).
• In that capacity, she “was a long-suffering woman” who “stood in the deepest awe” of Sherlock Holmes, whose “payments were princely” (DYIN).
•  She had cronies (FIVE).
• On numerous occasions she ushered in the clients or others (SIGN, VALL, BLAC, WIST), brought in a cablegram (DANC), or presented a card (GARR).
•  Although she is first mentioned by name in The Sign of Four, she most likely was the landlady right from the beginning in A Study in Scarlet with her “stately tread.” Nobody really knows who Mrs. Turner is (SCAN).  
•  “Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman” (NAVA).
• Those grubby Baker Street Irregulars freaked her out (STUD, SIGN), but who can blame her for that?
•  She was absolutely essential to Holmes’s plan for capturing Colonel Sebastian Moran as she turned the wax bust every quarter of an hour (EMPT). Undoubtedly she didn’t hesitate when asked.

In many ways, Mrs. Hudson was truly the woman in the life of Sherlock Holmes.

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Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, & Piano Quintet in E flat major | Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Isabelle Faust, Anne-Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyra, Alexander Melnikov (HD 1080p)

Isabelle Faust (violin), Anne-Katharina Schreiber (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean-Guihen Queyra (cello), and Alexander Melnikov (period piano), play Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47, and Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44, and Johann Sebastian Bach's Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, KV.405. Recorded at the 17th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, at Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, on August 18, 2021.

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

♪ Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47 (1842) [7:06]*

i. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo 

ii. Scherzo. Molto vivace

iii. Andante cantabile

iv. Finale. Vivace

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

♪ Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), KV.405 (1782) [38:56]

i. Fugue in C minor, KV.405 No.1 (after BWV 871)

ii. Fugue in E flat major, KV.405 No.2 (after BWV 876)

iii. Fugue in E major, KV.405 No.3 (after BWV 878)

iv. Fugue in D minor, KV.405 No.4 (after BWV 877)

v. Fugue in D major, KV.405 No.5 (after BWV 874)

Robert Schumann

♪ Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op.44 (1842) [54:45]

i. Allegro brillante

ii. In modo d'una marcia: Un poco largamente – Agitato

iii. Scherzo: Molto vivace

iv. Allegro, ma non troppo

Encore:

Szymon Laks (1901-1983)

♪ Piano Quintet on Popular Polish Themes (1945) [1:28:15]

iii. Vivace non troppo

* Start time of each work

Isabelle Faust, violin

Anne-Katharina Schreiber, violin

Antoine Tamestit, viola

Jean-Guihen Queyra, cello

Alexander Melnikov, period piano

17th Chopin and his Europe International Music Festival, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, August 18, 2021

(HD 1080p)

Isabelle Faust fascinates audiences with her outstanding musical interpretations, imbued with profundity and intense playing. She dives deep into every piece, considering its historical context and suitable instruments. She complements this sense of authenticity with the need to approach a composition from the present.

After winning the renowned Leopold Mozart Competition and the Paganini Competition at a very early age, she began appearing regularly with the world's major orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Close and sustained collaborations with conductors including Claudio Abbado, Giovanni Antonini, Frans Brüggen, John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Andris Nelsons and Robin Ticciati have likewise evolved.

Isabelle Faust's artistic curiosity embraces all eras and forms of musical collaboration. As well as performing the major symphonic violin concertos, she also plays works such as Schubert's Octet on historical instruments, Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente with Anna Prohaska and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat with Dominique Horwitz. She is also committed to contemporary music and will give the premieres of works by Peter Eötvös, Brett Dean, Ondřej Adámek and Oscar Strasnoy over the coming seasons.

Her recordings have been unanimously praised by critics, as well as being awarded the Diapason d'Or, the Gramophone Award, the Choc de l'année du Monde de la Musique and various other prizes. Her most recent recordings include Bach's violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64 with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado. In 2018 a recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord was released in collaboration with Kristian Bezuidenhout. Isabelle Faust's other acclaimed recordings include Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas, as well as the Beethoven and Berg violin concertos with Claudio Abbado. She enjoys a long-standing collaboration with pianist Alexander Melnikov and their recordings include sonatas for piano and violin by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms.

This season, Isabelle Faust is artist in residence at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

During her studies in Freiburg with Rainer Kussmaul, violinist Anne Katharina Schreiber became a member of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in 1988, with whom she has given concerts around the world and recorded numerous CDs. She also continues to be active as a soloist, concertmaster and director of her own projects. She collaborates regularly with ensembles in both the Baroque and modern repertoire, including ensemble recherche, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Collegium Vocale Gent under conductors such as René Jacobs, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marcus Creed and Philippe Herreweghe.

She also has a great love of chamber music. For over 20 years, she has been a member of Trio Vivente, with whom she has recorded numerous highly acclaimed recordings. As well as works by Haydn and Schubert, her discs include piano trios by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, released in 2013, and a 2017 CD of piano trios by the long-forgotten Romantic composer Emilie Mayer, which demonstrated the Trio’s commitment to rediscovering neglected repertoire, as well as contemporary music. Anne Katharina Schreiber is also a sought-after chamber music partner for various other groups, collaborating with musicians such as Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel Sepec and Roel Dieltiens.

Anne Katharina Schreiber is frequently asked to conduct guest projects with the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz and the Norsk Barokkorkester Oslo. She is also the concertmaster of the Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent. She has been teaching at the University of Music in Freiburg since 2007.

Antoine Tamestit is recognized internationally as one of the most important viola players. As a soloist and a chamber musician, he is known for his unsurpassed technique and the beauty of his sound. His broad repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present day. His engagement with contemporary music is reflected in numerous world premieres and recordings, including Thierry Escaich's La Nuit des chants, Bruno Mantovani's Concerto pour deux altos et orchestre and Olga Neuwirth's Remnants of songs... an Amphigory and Weariness heals Wounds. One of the works commissioned by Antoine Tamestit is Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto and he gave the premiere in 2015 with the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi. He has appeared as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the Czech Philharmonic, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, working with well-known conductors including Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Antonio Pappano, François-Xavier Roth, Emmanuel Krivine and Franz Welser-Möst.

In the 2020-2021 season Antoine Tamestit has been invited to perform with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre de Paris.

He founded the Trio Zimmermann with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Christian Poltéra. Other chamber music partners include Nicholas Angelich, Gautier Capuçon, Martin Fröst, Leonidas Kavakos, Nikolai Lugansky, Emmanuel Pahud, Francesco Piemontesi, Christian Tetzlaff, Cédric Tiberghien, Yuja Wang, Jörg Widmann, Shai Wosner as well as the Quatuor Ébène and the Hagen Quartet.

Antoine Tamestit records for harmonia mundi and recently released a CD of works by Brahms with Cédric Tiberghien. Other notable recordings include Jörg Widmann's Viola Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding, which was released in February 2018.

He plays a viola by Antonio Stradivari from 1672, loaned by the Habisreutinger Foundation.

The work of cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras is characterized by his curiosity, diversity and firm focus on the music itself, whether on the concert platform or on record. He learned his interpretative approach from Pierre Boulez, with whom he established a long artistic partnership.

He is as thorough in his approach to early music, including continuing collaborations with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as he is to contemporary music. He has given the world premieres of works by composers such as Ivan Fedele, Gilbert Amy, Bruno Mantovani, Michael Jarrell, Johannes Maria Staud, Thomas Larcher, Tristan Murail and Peter Eötvös.

The versatility of his music-making has led to invitations to be artist in residence at many concert halls and festivals, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, the De Bijloke Music Centre in Ghent and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.

Jean-Guihen Queyras was a founding member of the Arcanto Quartet and forms a celebrated trio with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov. He also works frequently with Alexandre Tharaud.

Jean-Guihen Queyras is a regular guest with such renowned orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He has worked with conductors such as Iván Fischer, Philippe Herreweghe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, François-Xavier Roth, John Eliot Gardiner and Roger Norrington.

Jean-Guihen Queyras's discography comprises many acclaimed recordings, including performances of cello concertos by Elgar, Dvořák, Philippe Schœller and Gilbert Amy. His CDs of works by C.P.E. Bach and Vivaldi was released in 2018. Jean-Guihen Queyras records exclusively for harmonia mundi.

Highlights of the 2020-2021 season include performances with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, as well as concerts with the Belcea Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann, Alexander Melnikov and Isabelle Faust. He was also artist in residence at Radio France.

Jean-Guihen Queyras holds a professorship at the University of Music in Freiburg and is artistic director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence Festival. He plays a 1696 instrument by Gioffredo Cappa, made available by the Mécénat Musical Société Générale.

Alexander Melnikov graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied with Lev Naumov. His most formative musical moments include an early encounter with Sviatoslav Richter, who regularly invited him to festivals in Russia and France.

Known for his unusual musical and programmatic decisions, Alexander Melnikov developed a career-long interest in historically-informed performance practice early on. His major influences in this field include Andreas Staier and Alexei Lubimov, with whom he has worked on numerous projects. He regularly performs with well-known early music ensembles including the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, musicAeterna and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

As a soloist, Alexander Melnikov has performed with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. He has worked with conductors such as Mikhail Pletnev, Teodor Currentzis, Charles Dutoit, Paavo Järvi, Thomas Dausgaard and Valery Gergiev.

Together with Andreas Staier, Alexander Melnikov recorded an all-Schubert programme of four-hand pieces, which they have also performed in concert. Another essential part of his work is his intensive chamber music collaborations with partners such as cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Concerts with his long-standing duo partner Isabelle Faust are also extremely important to him. Their complete account of the Beethoven violin sonatas on harmonia mundi has become a benchmark recording and was awarded the Gramophone Award and nominated for a Grammy. Their recording of the Brahms violin sonatas was released in 2015, followed by the Mozart sonatas in 2018.

During the 2021-2022 season Alexander Melnikov presents his Many Pianos project, a solo recital performed on different instruments that reflect the periods in which the works were written. Other highlights include appearances at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, recitals in Dortmund and Tokyo and concerts with the Cuarteto Casals, Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Biographies, Source: salzburgerfestspiele.at

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INFORMAÇÕES

Selo:Spotlight Records – M0630120076-7

Formato:CD Compilation

País:Brazil

Lançado:2007

Genre:Electronic

Estilo:Freestyle Italodance

Faixas do Álbum:

01-Gottsha (Freestyle)

02-Playahit (Miami Mix)

03-Red Velvet (Freestyle Mix)

04-Cindy Lauper (Freestyle Mix)

05-Plus Staples (X-Plosion Remix)

06-Gottsha (Melody Mix)

07-Le Click (Freestyle Remix)

08-Dr[1].Alban (Freestyle Mix)

09-La Bouche (Freestyle)

10-Fragma (Freestyle Mix)

11-Kasino (Freestyle Mix)

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País:Australia

Lançado:1993

Genre:Electronic

Estilo:Eurodance Trance

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01 Fanatical

02 Get Down! (Cos I'm In Love)

03 Take Me Up

04 Stargazing

05 The Way We Groove

06 Utopia

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 – Isabelle Faust (HD 1080p)

On Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020, the exceptional violinist plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005, in the empty St Thomas Church in Leipzig. In these unusual and challenging times, her Bach interpretation exudes calm and confidence.

"In her concentration, the violinist acts like a medium through which this unique music reaches us today", says the NZZ about Isabelle Faust's interpretation of the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. "What Faust is searching for on the inside is [...] a truthfulness that results not only from the study of passed down conceptions of aesthetics, but also from today's attitude towards life. Such a positioning between the fronts makes Faust's violin playing as interesting as it is unique." 

Source: accentus.com

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Bach had an easy solution for the problem of combining the violin with the keyboard: he simply dispensed with the keyboard and wrote six sonatas and partitas (three of each) for violin alone. He did the same for the cello with six suites for that instrument without accompaniment.

All 12 works were composed during the time he was conductor of the court orchestra at Anhalt-Cöthen, where his patron, young Prince Leopold, was a skilled musician. Bach himself was a violinist of no small attainment, yet it seems likely that the solo cello and violin pieces were written, around 1720, for Leopold – high tribute indeed to the Prince for his musical taste and, if he could negotiate the demonic pieces, for his performing ability. For these bold works are difficult in ways that most other virtuosic string pieces are not: they demand not only unfaltering facility in matters of digital and rhythmic dexterity and preciseness of pitch, particularly in the multiple stoppings, but also the keenest musical insights and inner-ear sensitivity to implied polyphonic and harmonic textures. In short, they strip a performer naked, as it were, forcing the executant to recreate incredibly diverse Bachian worlds with only a wooden box, four lengths of string, and a bow.

Of the six violin works, the present one stands alone on a lofty summit, and this by virtue of the towering Chaconne that is its final movement. Preceding this finale are four dance movements that comprise the traditional Baroque suite: allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. Although they are splendid examples of their genre, they end by being an introduction to the monumental Chaconne, which is a set of more than 60 variations on a simple bass theme.

In a lengthy description of the Chaconne, the great Bach scholar Philipp Spitta ends with these memorable words, "This Chaconne is a triumph of spirit over matter such as even Bach never repeated in a more brilliant manner". Enough said.

Source: Orrin Howard (laphil.com)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

♪ Sonata No.3 in C major for Solo Violin, BWV 1005 (1720)

i. Adagio [00:17]*

ii. Fuga. Alla breve [05:44]

iii. Largo [16:23]

iv. Allegro assai [19:38]

Isabelle Faust, violin

St Thomas Church Leipzig, April 5, 2020

(HD 1080p)

* Start time of each movement

The German violinist Isabelle Faust (b. 1972, Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg) received her first violin lessons at the age of 5. Her father, then a 31 year old secondary school teacher, decided to learn the violin. He took his young daughter along: the father's talent was not especially stellar, but his infant daughter was able to learn the technical fundamentals of violin playing correctly and at an unusually early age, quickly herself becoming the star pupil. Shortly after that her brother also began to take lessons and when Isabelle was 11 the parents created a family string quartet for which several masterclasses were later organised with some of the leading string players of the time. The early start was, for both the children, the basis for musical careers; Boris Faust has become a viola professional.

By the time she was in her teens, she studied with Christoph Poppen and Dénes Zsigmondy. After winning the Paganini Competition, and keen to broaden her experience, she moved in 1996 to Paris where she lived for the next 9 years. She began entering major international competitions and in 1987 won the International Leopold Mozart Competition of Augsberg (Leopold Mozart's hometown). Although she was the youngest entrant, she won the First Prize. In 1990, the City of Rovigo granted her its Premio Quadrivio Prize. In 1993, she entered the Paganini Competition of Genoa and took First Prize, becoming the first German violinist ever to win it. busy concert career ensued.

It was in France that her first CD appeared, featuring music by Béla Bartók. Isabelle Faust attracted plaudits as an interpreter of Gabriel Fauré. Faust later commented ruefully that it probably did no harm to her career that, because of her French first name, many French listeners assumed she was French. It was also in France that she met her husband.

Isabelle Faust is one of the most impressive violinists of the generation that emerged in the 1990's. She is known for exceptional technique and strong interpretive instincts. She captivates her listeners through her insightful and faithful interpretations, based on a thorough knowledge of the historical context of the works as well as her attention to current scholarship. She has performed as guest soloist with most of the world's major orchestras., including the Philharmoniker Hamburg under Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester-Berlin, Münchener Kammerorchester, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Freiburger Barockorchester, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hannover, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Prague Philharmonia, Weiner-Szász Chamber Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. She made her USA debut in 1995 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Silverstein. 2016 marks her first year as Artistic Partner with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Over the course of her career,she has regularly performed or recorded with world-renowned conductors including John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, Daniel Harding, Bernard Haitink and Andris Nelsons. During recent years Isabelle Faust developed a close relationship with the late Claudio Abbado and performed and recorded under his baton.

Isabelle Faust performs a wide-ranging repertoire, from J.S. Bach all the way through to contemporary composers such as Ligeti, Lachenmann and Widmann. To highlight this versatility, in addition to her mastery of the great symphonic violin concertos, she also performs works such as György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments with the soprano Anna Prohaska, and Schubert’s Octet on historical instruments. She is a proponent of new music and has given world premieres of works by, among others, Olivier Messiaen, Werner Egk, and Jörg Widmann. She will premiere several new works for violin and orchestra during the upcoming seasons, including concerti by the composers Ondrej Adamek, Marco Stroppa, Oscar Strasnoy and Beat Furrer.

Isabelle Faust is also an avid recitalist and chamber musician and has performed in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Bonn, Bratislava, Brussels, Zürich, Milan, Tokyo, London, and Osaka and locations in the United States and Israel. Among her recital partners have been Clemens Hagen, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Bruno Canino, Steven Isserlis, Bruno Giuranna, Boris Pergamenschikov, and Joseph Silverstein. One of her regular partners – both in performance and in recordings – is pianist Alexander Melnikov.

Isabelle Faust has appeared at several major music festivals, including the Lockenhaus, Bad Kissingen, Berlin, Delft, Colmar, Schleswig-Holstein, the Rheingau Music Festival of Wiesbaden, Schwetzingen, Lyon, Sarasota (Florida), and Lanaudière Canada.

In 2004 Isabelle Faust was appointed Professor of violin at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives in Berlin and is the mother of a teenage son. Since 1996, she has performed on the "Sleeping Beauty" Stradivarius violin of 1704, on loan from Landesbank Baden-Württemberg. She has also performed with Baroque-style violins and bows.

Isabelle Faust made her debut album in 1997, playing the Béla Bartók Solo Violin Sonata and Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano, with Ewa Kupiec, on the Harmonia Mundi label. This recording won the Gramophone Award of that year for "Young Artist of the Year", citing her "combination of musical intuition and technical finesse. Harmonia Mundi followed that success by engaging her to record other Béla Bartók violin music, including the Second Violin and Piano Sonata. She recorded the complete Haydn Violin Concertos on the PAN Classics label with the Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Christoph Poppen (her former teacher), and planned to record the complete violin sonatas of Robert Schumann. In addition to the above mentioned above and recordings listed below under "Awards and Prizes", she has recorded works of Antonín Dvořák, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms (including the Violin Concerto), Alban Berg, Bohuslav Martinů, André Jolivet and others. JameR. Oestreich from The New York Times counted her recording of W.A. Mozart's violin concertos among the best recordings of 2016. She has recorded many discs for harmonia mundi with her recital partner Alexander Melnikov. These include their latest album with the Johannes Brahms' Sonatas for violin and piano, as well as Robert Schumann’s piano trios. Both, her recording of W.A. Mozart violin concerti with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, as well as J.S. Bach’s harpsichord sonatas with Kristian Bezuidenhout will be released in 2016-2018.

Source: bach-cantatas.com

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Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, & Piano Quintet in E flat major | Johann Sebastian Bach: Five Fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Vol. 2, arrangement for string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Isabelle Faust, Anne-Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyra, Alexander Melnikov (HD 1080p)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No.2 in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 – Isabelle Faust (HD 1080p)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partitas for Solo Violin – Gidon Kremer (HD 1080p)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 – Hannah Morrison, Meg Bragle, Nicholas Mulroy, Peter Harvey, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (HD 1080p)

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor – Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Zehetmair (HD 1080p)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67, conducted by Thomas Zehetmair and performed in Yekaterinburg by the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2020 Be@thoven Festival.

Beethoven's Fifth is amongst the most well-known symphonies of all time. Its opening, four-note motif made history in and of itself – Ludwig van Beethoven reportedly saying of it "Thus, fate knocks at the door!". This bon mot gave rise to the popular name "Fate Symphony" for Beethoven's Fifth. The Symphony No.5 also stands out formally, however – within its traditional four-movement structure, for the first time the emphasis is shifted from the first movement to the final movement, resulting in a mounting intensification across the entire work, culminating in a triumphant finale. This effect is underscored by the amplification of the instrumentation in the fourth movement – Beethoven additionally utilizing the trombone, contrabassoon, and piccolo.

Beethoven made his first notes for this symphony in 1800, more detailed sketches date from 1804, and the composition was then laid out and completed between April of 1807 and the spring of 1808. The premiere took place in that same year on December 22. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has long remained one of the composer's most popular works.

From the Be@thoven Festival 2020 in the Russian cultural metropolis of Yekaterinburg, the performance of Beethoven's Symphony No.5 is one of the highlights – not least on account of the concert being held at all. While almost all of the anniversary events for Beethoven's 250th birthday had to be cancelled owing to the coronavirus pandemic, the Yekaterinburg concert went ahead – adhering to strict hygiene regulations. DW was the project's media partner.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

♪ Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 (1807-1808)

i. Allegro con brio [00:17]*
ii. Andante con moto [07:27]
iii. Scherzo: Allegro [15:55]
iv. Allegro [20:31]

* Start time of each movement

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair

Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Philharmonic, November 26, 2020

(HD 1080p)

Thomas Zehetmair enjoys enviable international acclaim not only as a violinist, but also as a conductor and chamber musician. He is Chief Conductor of Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and Musikkollegium Winterthur.

Zehetmair has appeared as a conductor and violinist with orchestras including Seattle Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Eighteenth-Century, Budapest Festival Orchestra and Hamburger Philharmoniker. He was Chief Conductor of Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Artistic Partner of St Paul's Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of Royal Northern Sinfonia with whom he continues his association as Conductor Laureate.

In the 2020-2021 season, Zehetmair conducts the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and returns to Royal Northern Sinfonia and Irish Chamber Orchestra. He is soloist with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (Weigle), gives a solo recital at Toppan Hall Tokyo and performs with Zehetmair Quartet in Amsterdam, Germany and the UK.

Thomas Zehetmair has an extensive and varied discography as a violinist, conductor and with the Zehetmair Quartet. His recording of the Paganini Caprices attracted a Midem Classic Award and his rendition of the Elgar Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder received a Gramophone Award in 2010. Recent recordings include Brahms Four Symphonies and Bruckner Symphony No.3 with Musikkollegium Winterthur.  His latest CD release is Bach Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, selected by the New York Times as one of "The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019", named by Die Zeit as one of their favourite recordings of 2019 and winner of the Opus Klassik 2020 for the best solo recording.

Source: askonasholt.com

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor – Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (HD 1080p)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor "Choral" – Lauren Fagan, Hanna Hipp, Tuomas Katajala, Shenyang, Oslo Philharmonic Choir & Orcestra, Klaus Mäkelä (4K Ultra High Definition)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor "Choral" – Ricarda Merbeth, Sophie Koch, Robert Dean Smith, Samuel Youn, Choeur de Radio France, L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (HD 1080p)

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INFORMAÇÕES

Selo:Dancing Shoes – none AW Music Entertainment Group – AWP 2002

Formato:15 x Arquivo MP3 Album Deluxe Edition Stereo

País:....

Lançado:2017

Genre:Electronic

Estilo:Euro House Happy Hardcore Eurodance

Faixas do Álbum:

1-Feel What You Feel

2-Dream Of My Heart (The Golden Stag Edit)

3-The Rhythm Of Love (Album Version)

4-The First Touch (Album Version)

5-Deep Sensation

6-World Of My Fantasy (Part I)

7-Lost Paradise

8-I'm Watching You (RMX)

9-Don't Push Me

10-Rave Station

11-Moving

12-Everyday Rhythm (Extended)

13-I'm Watching You (Cool Down Edit)

14-I'm Watching You (Radio Edit)

15-World Of My Fantasy (Part V More Radio)

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INFORMAÇÕES

Selo:Columbia – 850.282 Columbia – 2-479301

Formato:CD Album

País:Brazil

Lançado:1996

Genre:Electronic Latin Pop

Estilo:Freestyle Latin

Faixas do Álbum:

1-Balança Brasil

2-Amar É Lindo

3-Onde O Sonho Mora

4-Mal De Amor

5-Embala Ê

6-Pot Pourri

6.1-Cuando Calienta El Sol

6.2-Quizás, Quizás, Quizás

6.3-Perfídia

7-Aleluia Aleluia

8-Cheiro Do Pecado

9-O Beijo Dela

10-Ai, Ai, Ai Coração

11-Depende De Você

12-Ama Eu 

13-embala e (remix) bonus

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CD Peter Gelderblom - Waiting 4 [PR016439] [2007]

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INFORMAÇÕES

Selo:Spinnin' Records – PR016439

Formato:CD Single

País:Netherlands

Lançado:2007

Genre:Electronic

Estilo:House Electro House

Faixas do Álbum:

01- Waiting 4 (Radio Edit) 

02- Waiting 4 (Original Rmx) 

03- Waiting 4 (Dub Mix) 

04- Take It Down 

Download Link CD:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7qr7rznlj1g0gxf/0078.rar/file

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