Alina Ibragimova

Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Vierne & Franck: Violin Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:27 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Franck sonata—one of the best-loved works in the entire Romantic violin repertoire—is one of a trio of delectable Franco-Belgian treats on offer from the acclaimed pair. A bonne bouche from Lili Boulanger completes a particularly enticing recital.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Violin Sonatas K305, 376 & 402 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:39:05 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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The earliest music here dates from when Mozart was just six years old, the latest from his rst years as a freelance composer resident in Vienna. The distinguished advocacy of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, in a second volume of the complete violin sonatas, is equally persuasive in both.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K301, 304, 379 & 481 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:43:53 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mozart’s violin sonatas span his entire career—the early ones are billed as piano sonatas with optional violin accompaniment—and they develop over the years into the first triumphs of the modern genre. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have been enthralling audiences worldwide with these works, and now the first instalment is available as a highly desirable 2-for-1 album.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano (2013)
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The luminous partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien returns to Hyperion for this double album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. Their intelligence and technical prowess, their seamless and intimate connection as performers and their profound understanding of the music combine in magical performances.

While still in his teens, Schubert wrote four works for violin and piano that could have been given the label ‘sonata’, yet none of the four was published with that title. The first three, completed in 1816, bear instead the designation of ‘Sonatina’, perhaps to appeal to the amateur market. But these are highly accomplished works by the teenage composer and there is little ‘domestic’ feeling in the extended, mysterious unravellings of D385 which hint at compositions yet to come.

The later Violin Sonata in A major, D574 (now described as a ‘Duo’), urges the violinist on to greater virtuosic feats, and the Rondo in B minor even more so, with the piano sometimes treated as a surrogate orchestra. The extensive Fantasy in C major, written in the last year of Schubert’s life, is a masterpiece: the composer’s greatest achievement in this genre, which combines poignancy with sheer joy in life itself.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K303, 377, 378 & 403 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:59:18 minutes | 2,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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This is a series which continues to redefine the standards by which these works should be performed. As before, the music spans most of Mozart’s life, from 1763—when he was just seven years old—to 1782, and (another) unfinished present written for his new wife Constanze.

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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K296, 306, 454 & 547 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:23 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Classical
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The third of the ongoing series from the ‘nigh-on ideal’ partnership (Gramophone) of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien. As before, the programme mixes the early—two works by the precocious ten-year-old—with the mature, and includes Mozart’s final violin sonata.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Mozart: Violin Sonatas K302, 380 & 526 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:49 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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The fifth and final instalment of this landmark series cements both artists’ reputations as two of the leading Mozartians performing today.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:06 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Matchless accounts of Brahms at his most lyrically reflective, plus a benedictory encore by Clara Schumann: this is another outstanding release from today’s pre-eminent violin and piano partnership.
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