Lucile Boulanger, Arnaud de Pasquale – C.P.E. Bach, Graun & Hesse: Trios for Fortepiano & Viola da gamba (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:44 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
For this second recording in duo, Lucile Boulanger and Arnaud de Pasquale propose a journey to 18th-century Germany, in the marvellous setting of the Sans Souci palace where Frederick II of Prussia had established his court.
This disc, reflecting the extraordinary conjuncture experienced by the court of Berlin under Frederick II, brings together some of the virtuosic works for viola da gamba and fortepiano by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Johann Gottlieb Graun or Ludwig Christian Hesse and attesting to the results of fruitful collaborations between the composers at that court.
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Arnaud De Pasquale – Orgues de Sicile (Organs of the World, Vol. 1) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:15 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
More than fifty years after the revelation of “Historical Organs of Europe”, which had greatly contributed to harmonia mundi’s fame, Arnaud De Pasquale has taken up the torch and invites us to hear instruments that have been preserved as close as possible to their original state — as if their sound had never changed for centurie s! This first journey takes us to Sicily, to discover the organs of Noto, Regalbuto, Castelbuono, Ficarra and Alcara Li Fusi.
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