Jean-Claude Pennetier – Fauré: Intégrale de l’œuvre pour piano, Vol. 4 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
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For the final volume in his complete recording of Fauré’s piano works, Jean-Claude Pennetier immerses us in the fascinating world of the late nocturnes and barcarolles. The desolate songs of a man who could barely hear any more, dreams of a chimeric horizon: the Fauré of the last years is a traveller in search of unprecedented experiences.
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Jean-Claude Pennetier – Fauré: Intégrale de l’oeuvre pour piano, Vol 3 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:10 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
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A taste for clarity of thought, sobriety and purity of form, sincerity, disdain for grandiose effects’: that was how Gabriel Fauré, the creator of a quintessentially French art, summed up his artistic and spiritual creed. In his output for piano, of which he was particularly fond, he followed the trail blazed by Chopin, fearlessly using the boldest strokes of harmony to colour his music with a highly individual charm.
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Jean Claude Pennetier, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Christoph Poppen – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 21 & No. 24 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Classical
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With these two piano concertos, Jean-Claude Pennetier establishes the authenticity of Mozart’s gift. The tenderness and fire of No. 21 mirror the anguish and inner intensity of No. 24. The two pieces are close to perfect and prove, as Mauriac put it, that: “As long as men inhabit the earth, just a few bars of Mozart can remind us of the paradise we lost, a paradise that may still exist as long as we can hear the echoes of its laughter and tears in such divine music.”
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