Au Louvre

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On this disc, recorded live during five concerts at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, several world-class soloists come together for the intimate give-and-take of chamber music; unhampered by technical limitations, they revel in their collaboration, and the results are spectacular. The host is Russian violinist Vadim Repin; putting his consummate virtuosity and ravishing, variable tone entirely at the service of the music, he captures the Debussy sonata's colorful impressionism, rhythmic freedom, languid, delicate atmosphere, grotesquerie, and changing moods; the Schubert duo's charm and joyful radiance, lilting, flexible phrasing and rhythm, ardor and simplicity of expression. Berezovsky and Gothoni aid and abet Repin's unerring feeling for style and idiom. In Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins, Barachovsky takes the first part, but both players' sound is so rich and soaring, their brilliance so scintillating, their approach so exuberant and impetuous, that one cannot tell them apart. The bluesy movement from Ravel's sonatina sounds gorgeous, and the final Hungarian piece with a gypsy band is a wild, unbridled run-around. A must for violin aficionados. --Edith Eisler

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Sonata For Violin And Piano In G-Minor: I. Allegro Vivo
Sonata For Violin And Piano In G-Minor: II. Intermede - Fantasque Et Leger
Sonata For Violin And Piano In G-Minor: III. Finale - Tres Anime
'Grand Duo' For Violin And Piano In A Major D 574 Op. 162: Allegro Moderato
'Grand Duo' For Violin And Piano In A Major D 574 Op. 162: Scherzo - Presto
'Grand Duo' For Violin And Piano In A Major D 574 Op. 162: Andantino
'Grand Duo' For Violin And Piano In A Major D 574 Op. 162: Allegro Vivace
Sonata For Two Violins Op. 56 In C Major: I. Andante Canabile
Sonata For Two Violins Op. 56 In C Major: II. Allegro
Sonata For Two Violins Op. 56 In C Major: III. Commodo (Quasi Allegretto)
Sonata For Two Violins Op. 56 In C Major: IV. Allegro Con Brio (Chant Du Monde)
Sonata For Violin And Piano (Excerpts): Blues (Redfield, Nordice, & Durand)
Hora Di Mars

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On this disc, recorded live during five concerts at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, several world-class soloists come together for the intimate give-and-take of chamber music; unhampered by technical limitations, they revel in their collaboration, and the results are spectacular. The host is Russian violinist Vadim Repin; putting his consummate virtuosity and ravishing, variable tone entirely at the service of the music, he captures the Debussy sonata's colorful impressionism, rhythmic freedom, languid, delicate atmosphere, grotesquerie, and changing moods; the Schubert duo's charm and joyful radiance, lilting, flexible phrasing and rhythm, ardor and simplicity of expression. Berezovsky and Gothoni aid and abet Repin's unerring feeling for style and idiom. In Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins, Barachovsky takes the first part, but both players' sound is so rich and soaring, their brilliance so scintillating, their approach so exuberant and impetuous, that one cannot tell them apart. The bluesy movement from Ravel's sonatina sounds gorgeous, and the final Hungarian piece with a gypsy band is a wild, unbridled run-around. A must for violin aficionados. --Edith Eisler

Du Mont: Grands motets pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV au Louvre /Ensemble Pierre Robert * Desenclos

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Du Mont: Grands motets pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV au Louvre /Ensemble Pierre Robert * Desenclos
Henry Dumont , Ensemble Pierre Robert , Frederic Desenclos , Christine-Maria Rembeck , Marcel Beekman , Robert Getchell , Robbert Muuse , and Marc Labonette
Manufacturer: Alpha Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0008191O2
Release Date: 2005-04-05

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