Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, David Robert Coleman & Elisaveta Blumina – Walter Kaufmann: Piano Concerto No. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:05 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Classical
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Who the devil is Walter Kaufmann? Sorry that the cloven-hoofed one is summoned right at the start in a prominent place. But it is true – Armin Kaufmann is an Austrian composer, known at least for the title of one of his orchestral works, Erotikon. Dieter Kaufmann is an Austrian composer, pioneer of electro-acoustic music, co-founder of the society for electro- acoustic music. So far, so good.
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Elisaveta Blumina – Kancheli: A Little Daneliade, Valse Boston, 18 Miniatures & Largo & Allegro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:20 minutes | 634 MB | Genre: Classical
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German pianist Elisaveta Blumina is an Echo Klassik Awards prizewinner and artistic director of the Hamburg International Chamber Music Festival. She belongs to a generation of musicians who put the music centre stage, and is steeped in the great Russian piano tradition of Heinrich Neuhaus.
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Elisaveta Blumina – Frid: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:13 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
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Grigori (Grigory) Samuilovich Frid was a distinguished member of the generation of composers born in Russia just before the Revolution of 1917. Frid’s significant corpus of piano music can trace its lineage to Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky, and his skill in conjuring entire worlds in music can be heard throughout this recording. His albums of Children’s Pieces are rich in gems that evoke poetic nostalgia, seasonal moods and witty pictorial descriptions that genuinely transcend their didactic purpose. In these world première recordings, distinguished pianist Elisaveta Blumina reveals Frid’s extraordinary character – a gifted composer, pedagogue and artist who lived his life to the full, despite many personal setbacks and difficulties.
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