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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Schubert: Ländler (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:01 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Star pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard presents Ländler, a collection of charming dances by Franz Schubert. These rustic and cheerful miniatures reveal a fascinating side of Schubert’s musical personality. Their simplicity is deceptive, for these dances are often shaken by Schubert’s harmonically wandering soul, yet remain lyrical, picturesque and melodic. For Aimard, there is a kinship between Schubert’s Ländler and Kurtág’s Játékok, pieces he often performs side by side and which share a combination of playfulness and modernism that is also reminiscent of the great 20th century miniaturist Anton Webern. Avoiding almost any repetition, Aimard is more reminiscent of a sleepwalker’s journey than a series of dances.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 “Hammerklavier” & 15 Variations & Fugue “Eroica” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:58 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Irresistible and insurmontable challenge. After his acclaimed interpretation of Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard records Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and “Eroica” Variations. The Hammerklavier Sonata is one of the pinnacles of Beethoven’s creative output, and arguably one of the highest mountains to climb for any pianist. To Aimard, it poses one of the most frightening tests of a performer’s life, but one that is as irresistible as it is insurmountable. The dazzling “Eroica” Variations are nicknamed after Beethoven’s iconoclastic Third Symphony, and employ the melody he would later use as the main theme of the symphony’s finale. Beethoven’s fondness for this melody is evident, as he also used it in his ballet music for The Creatures of Prometheus, as well as in the seventh of his 12 Contredanses.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux, I-42 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:54 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Renowned French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard kicks off his exclusive engagement to PENTATONE with a recording of Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux (1956-1958). The pianist had intimate ties to the composer himself and his wife, Yvonne Loriod, for whom Messiaen wrote the Catalogue. Praised by The Guardian as “one of the best Messiaen interpreters around,“ this is Aimard’s first recording of Messiaen’s most extensive, demanding and colourful piano composition.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen – Bartók: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:25 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins forces with the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen for a recording of Bartók’s complete piano concertos. A pianist himself, Bartók imbued his three concertos with multiple aspects of his compositional persona, ranging from complex and innovative (the First) to exuberant (the Second) and serene (the Third). The result is a fascinating slice of his musical life. This all-Bartók release marks the first Pentatone collaboration between Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, an ensemble he has reshaped through creative performance concepts and expansive new media projects.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:31 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Classical
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[a] brilliant pianist — one of those daunting Frenchmen clearly born with three brains . . . the C major prelude starts us off, the notes light and limpid, the graceful pace ebbing when Bach’s harmonies veer from the straight and narrow . . . Aimard has clearly thought deeply about the collections’s kaleidoscopic structure . . . The F sharp minor fugue is a mysterious wonder, as if the music were feeling its way in the dark; the G major prelude sparkles with gaiety . . . –Geoff Brown, The Times
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Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Vassos Nicolaou: 15 Klavieretüden & Frames (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:12 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Classical
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On Etudes & Frames, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents the music of contemporary master Vassos Nicolaou. In his etudes, Nicolaou uses virtuosity as a means to explore forms consisting of complex rhythms, great speed, and multi-layered sound. Each of the fifteen etudes has a meaningful title and focuses on specific geometric choreographic movements of the hands on the keyboard as well as a basic acoustic idea. For Stefanovich, this set has a structural integrity not seen since Ligeti’s etudes. Nicolaou’s etudes are paired with Frames for two pianos, in which Stefanovich is accompanied by Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Stefanovich studied with Nicolaou and has been a major proponent of his music ever since. Dedicating an entire album to his music is a dream come true.
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Tamara Stefanovich & Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Visions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:45 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Visions offers Tamara Stefanovich and Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s return to Pentatone, presenting a programme revolving around Messiaen’s intoxicating Visions de l‘amen for two pianos. This centrepiece is surrounded by Enescu’s Carillon nocturne, Knussen’s Prayer Bell Sketch and Clock IV from Birtwistle’s Harrison’s Clocks. The works performed all share a fascination for the sound of bells, and Stefanovich and Aimard invite the listener on a mesmerizing acoustic journey.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard – J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:23:44 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Classical
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Once again Pierre-Laurent Aimard demonstrates that he is not only one of the most technically gifted pianists around today, he is also one of the most intelligent. Musical intellect shines through every bar in this account of “The Art of Fugue”, as Aimard eschews any sense of wallowing for a speedy, alert traversal of the score. It sounds so natural that it is something of a surprise at the end to realise how affecting it all is . . . This is Bach-playing to listen to every day, fresh, spry and well modulated . . . Perhaps no pianist since Charles Rosen has so persuasively demonstrated that this contrapuntal encyclopedia is to be heard as well as read. –Peter Quantrill, Gramophone
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