Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Mozart Piano Concertos 11 12 & 13 (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:38 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classique, Musique symphonique, Symphonies
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – The Beethoven Connection, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:32 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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In the 250th Beethoven anniversary year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has chosen this programme of works by contemporary composers to illuminate and contextualise Beethoven’s extraordinary output for piano. In his explanatory note for the album, the pianist writes: ‘Just as a mountain peak is always surrounded by other perhaps less lofty but no less fascinating summits, the major works of Beethoven are not isolated rock formations rising from the desert, but, as it were, “Himalayas”, forming part of a range in which other mountains might be the best pieces by contemporaries such as Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, and Wölfl. These composers all knew Beethoven well and were in contact with one another. It is essential to know and to make known their music in order better to understand and more thoroughly appreciate the lingua franca of the music of the time, which in turn is part and parcel of the “spirit of the age”, and to be aware of that which unites them, as well as to recognise that which differentiates them and renders each unique. In this year of plentiful Beethovenian commemorations, it appears to me natural, indeed essential, to pay admiring and enthusiastic homage to these composers, each of whom, in his own way, followed his route to the summit.’
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:01:34 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs all five of Prokofiev’s formidable piano concertos in partnership with Gianandrea Noseda conducting the BBC Philharmonic.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Plays Haydn Piano Concertos (2014/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:28 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical
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Of the profusion of Haydn keyboard sonata recordings that have appeared in the 21st century, the modern-piano versions by French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet came almost out of nowhere and have been regarded as among the very best. Bavouzet’s Haydn is almost preternaturally alert to detail at both the micro and macro levels; he can both make listeners laugh out loud and marvel at the intricacies of Haydn’s movement structure in even little-known works. The question was whether Bavouzet could do it again in Haydn’s three keyboard concertos, little-known works in which, in lesser recordings, the composer seemed unmoved by the dramatic quality intrinsic to the concerto form. The answer is that Bavouzet is as brilliant as ever, and he has essentially rewritten the book on these pieces. He nails the madcap humor of the folkish finale of the Piano Concerto in G major, Hob. 18/4, and the harmonic density of the slow movements. He also brings together the opening movements, the way they deepen from almost inconsequential material, in a way that perhaps no one else has done before. It gives the effect of a kind of mind meld, and Bavouzet is accompanied with extreme agility by the Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy. Superior Haydn.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:13 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following his acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s Concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet returns to his exploration of Haydn’s Sonatas, described by the magazine Gramophone as “a major modern recording landmark in the Haydn discography”.

As in previous instalments, Bavouzet has programmed sonatas from Haydn’s early, middle, and late periods, giving added interest to the recital. Sonatas No. 10 and No. 2, dating from the 1750s and ’60s respectively, share the key of C major, but differ in form. The short No. 2 was almost certainly written for pupils whilst Haydn was working as a teacher. No. 10 is more ambitious and extensive.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:09 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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After leaving the boys’ choir of St Stephens Cathedral in Vienna, one of the ways the young Haydn found to support himself was as a harpsichord teacher. The three early sonatas featured on this recording were almost certainly intended for his students: short, light pieces with few technical demands. The two larger sonatas, both in the key of E flat major, were written some twenty years later and are far more extensive. Both require significantly greater prowess from the performer, and represent Haydn’s ingenuity and skill to the full.

The two additional works included here, whilst single-movement compositions, are substantial pieces. The Adagio ma non troppo would become the slow movement of Piano Trio No. 36, whilst the Variations on ‘Gott erhalte’ is based on the second movement of the ‘Emperor’ Quartet (Op. 76 No. 3), which is itself a set of variations on an anthem composed by Haydn at the request of an Austrian politician for the 29th birthday of the Emperor, and intended as a patriotic hymn comparable to ‘God Save the King’ in England – and a response against the Marseillaise.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Bavouzet Plays Schumann (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:26 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following his recent acclaimed recordings of Haydn and Beethoven Sonatas, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet turns from the Classical to the Romantic era, and the works of Schumann. The programme is built around the Grand Sonata (no.3). This impressive, large-scale work was originally composed in 1834, later revised in 1853 and eventually premiered (6 years after the composer’s death) by Schumann’s young protégé Johannes Brahms. Jean-Efflam first discovered the work though a recording by Vladimir Horovitz in the 1980s, and got to play it to and discuss the work with Horowitz in Paris in 1985. Like Horovitz before him, Jean-Efflam combines elements from both the original and revised versions of the work on this recording. Bavouzet has chosen to couple this with another early work – the “Faschinsschwank aus Wein” – and then the much later work the “Drei Fantasiestücke”. He closes with the ‘Gesange der Frühe’ which were among the last compositions that Schumann wrote before his attempted suicide and incarceration in February 1854. As always with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s albums, the booklet features an insightful personal note by the performer.
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