Suyeon Kang, Karolina Errera, Andrei Ioniţ, Catalin Serbană – Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:29 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the ‘Ars Gallica’ idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. Fauré didn’t entirely escape the influence of Brahms however, and both he and his pupil George Enescu share a spiritual closeness to German late Romanticism in the melancholy complexity of expression in these chamber masterpieces. The monumental first movement of Enescu’s First Piano Quartet contrasts with the rhythmic momentum of the last, in a work that integrates French impressionism with the unmistakable folk music characteristics of his native Romania.
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Suyeon Kang, Stephen De Pledge – Bloch & Bartók: Works for Violin & Piano (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:09 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording is an element of the First Prize of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, won by Suyeon Kang in 2015. The competition aims to recognise and encourage musical excellence and artistry, and to expand performance opportunities for young violinists from all over the world.
Suyeon Kang particularly admires the two composers on this CD, Bartok and Bloch, specifically valuing how they pursued their own paths in music, mixing folk qualities into their compositions and producing repertoire for violin and piano that she describes as “powerful and daring, searching and rebellious.”
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