Tedi Papavrami – Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:18:56 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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“One does not create by adding, but by subtracting”, said the film director Robert Bresson, quoted by Jacques Drillon in the booklet that accompanies this new recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Tedi Papavrami, seventeen years after a first version that already made quite an impact on the discography. Tedi Papavrami decided to start working on them again when he was in lockdown, and these pieces – which, in truth, he had never stopped playing – gave him new sensations: “something more alive, more sparkling appeared to me”… A more refined vision too: “Unquestionably, Tedi Papavrami did not want to be left behind. He too has become radicalised. He has dispensed with vibrato, aside from a few rare and delightful exceptions, and has renounced the emphatic basses, the brilliant high notes, and all the grandstanding effects that violinists usually indulge in, and which have characterised the most renowned interpretations, so much so that they are considered to be immutable “traditions”. Clearly, he has chosen to resort solely to phrasing and sonority in order to achieve expression”, says Jacques Drillon.
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Tedi Papavrami, Nelson Goerner – Franck & Fauré: Sonates pour violon et piano (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:56 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two great interpreters, poets and lovers of the French repertory and chamber music join forces here: the violinist Tedi Papavrami and the pianist Nelson Goerner. They have chosen to devote this programme to the two violin sonatas of Gabriel Fauré and the Sonata of César Franck. It was in 1875 that Fauré composed his First Sonata for violin and piano, characterised by its originality and its formal design, which marked the start of a new era for French chamber music. In 1916, having continued to write for small ensembles all his life, he composed the Second Sonata, imbued with both heartfelt lyricism and complexity. Nine years after Fauré’s Sonata no.1, Franck – less prolific in the intimate chamber genre – composed his only sonata, now one of the most frequently played of all works for violin and piano.
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Tedi Papavrami & Francois-Frederic Guy – Beethoven – Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:40:44 minutes | 3,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two fabulous artists, accustomed to wining international awards (Gramophon, Editor’s Choice, Diapason d’Or) release the long-awaited complete recording of Beethoven’s Piano and Violin Sonatas: the pianist François-Frédéric Guy and the violinist Tedi Papavrami dive with brio into the composer’s sound maturity demonstration and exploration of the technical limits of the instruments.
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Tedi Papavrami, François-Frédéric Guy – Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:40:44 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two fabulous artists, accustomed to wining international awards (Gramophon, Editor’s Choice, Diapason d’Or) release the long-awaited complete recording of Beethoven’s Piano and Violin Sonatas: the pianist François-Frédéric Guy and the violinist Tedi Papavrami dive with brio into the composer’s sound maturity demonstration and exploration of the technical limits of the instruments.
The late sonatas allow François-Frédéric Guy to spread out the powerful sensibility of his interpretation. For his part, Tedi Papavrami thrives in an ardor as tempestuous as his playing is elegant.
But “The Spring” and “Kreutzer”, the most famous sonatas, don’t outshine the early scores which are played with the same talent by the two musicians. Their fraternal and flexible dialogue respects the balance Beethoven achieved in this unequalled monument of chamber music.
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Tedi Papavrami, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Emmanuel Krivine – Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Major, Sz. 112 & Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:14 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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After two first recordings released by Zig-Zag Territoires and devoted to Ravel, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, Emmanuel Krivine and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra devote this CD to two emblematic works from the end of Bartók’s life: the Violin Concerto No.2, first performed in 1939, and the Concerto for Orchestra, premiered in 1944. These are absolutely major works both in Bartók’s catalogue and from this period in the history of music, and are, moreover, close to the universe of Emmanuel Krivine. For the Violin Concerto, it is Tedi Papavrami who was invited by both the Orchestra and by Zig-Zag Territoires. Let us recall the astonishing recording that Tedi Papavrami recently made of Eugène Ysaÿe’s complete violin sonatas for this label.
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