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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pierre Boulez - Ravel: Piano Concertos (2010)

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pierre Boulez - Ravel: Piano Concertos (2010)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Pierre Boulez - Ravel: Piano Concertos (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:49 | 278 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 14764

Two musicians frequently recognized for their passion for hard-edged modern and contemporary music take on the music of modern pioneer Maurice Ravel. The Ravel piano concertos come off as brilliant and sparkling in the hands of Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Pierre Boulez, along with the Cleveland Orchestra. Boulez and the orchestra make Ravel's orchestral writing sparkle in the Concerto for Left Hand, and in the Concerto in G they highlight not only the sassy jazz references, but also the references to Stravinsky, and do it without drawing attention away from the rest of the music.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen - Bartók: Piano Concertos (2023)

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen - Bartók: Piano Concertos (2023)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, San Francisco Symphony & Esa-Pekka Salonen - Bartók: Piano Concertos (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 289 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 185 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:25
Classical | Label: Pentatone

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.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set
Debussy, Ravel, Boulez, Berg, Ives, Messiaen, Ligeti, Carter, Beethoven, Liszt

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.2 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 973 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 66044-8 | Time: 07:03:59

Released between 1991 and 2005, the selections in The Warner Recordings encapsulate the period when Pierre-Laurent Aimard was signed to Erato and Teldec, performing mostly 20th-century fare and some music from the 19th century. Aimard is famous for his contributions to the modernist catalog, and his performances of works by Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, György Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen are regarded as scrupulously executed and authoritatively interpreted. Aimard also recorded early 20th century pieces by Charles Ives, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy, as well as Romantic masterpieces of Beethoven and Liszt. A pianist's pianist, Aimard is well-rounded in his repertoire and a true master of keyboard technique, yet he has received considerably less fanfare than many of his flashier colleagues. Yet connoisseurs of piano recordings know that Aimard is indispensible, especially for his special feeling for French music, and his recordings are important documents that serious students and newcomers should appreciate.

Tamara Stefanovich & Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Visions (2022)

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Tamara Stefanovich & Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Visions (2022)

Tamara Stefanovich & Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Visions (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 224 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:45
Classical | Label: Pentatone

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.

Kent Nagano - Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ; Poèmes pour Mi; Chronochromie (2021)

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Kent Nagano - Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ; Poèmes pour Mi; Chronochromie (2021)

Kent Nagano, Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ; Poèmes pour Mi; Chronochromie (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 594 Mb | Total time: 145:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BR Klassik | # 900203 | Recorded: 2017-2019

Few performers are more familiar with the musical language of the French composer Olivier Messiaen than the American conductor Kent Nagano. Nagano has had Messiaen's orchestral works and oratorios in his programme for several decades now, and he also participated in the world premiere of 'Saint François d'Assise', Messiaen's only opera. During the year 1982 Nagano spent his time with Messiaen in Paris, where not only an artistic relationship but also a close personal one developed between the two musicians.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Aimard at Carnegie Hall (2002)

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Aimard at Carnegie Hall (2002)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Aimard at Carnegie Hall (2002)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 272 MB | 01:14:45
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics International

This is the real raw thing, a live recording of a hot performance–pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard tackling a rangy and demanding program without benefit of retakes or sonic airbrushing. Not only do we feel the excitement of the occasion, but we also reap the benefits of intelligent playing and first-class engineering. Aimard plays with a fierce, thoughtful lyricism and punchy fluidity, and if at times he’s a little clipped, it’s to greater rather than lesser effect–it becomes something of a trademark. The concert opens with the Alban Berg`s sonata, difficult and thick stuff, but in Aimard’s capable hands every note is audible; the chilling ending is made even more so through his careful workings.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasia, Rondo in B flat (2004)

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Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasia, Rondo in B flat (2004)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Choral Fantasia, Rondo in B flat (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:04:02 | 313 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | Catalog: 2564 60602-2

Go ahead, play rough and tough with Beethoven. He can take it: he's made of marble and stone and it'd take more than a couple hardcore eccentrics to ruin his reputation. This is not to say that gard-core eccentrics Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Nikolaus Harnoncourt don't give it their best shot. Like their earlier recording of the complete Piano Concertos of Beethoven, Aimard and Harnoncourt do what they like with his Triple Concerto, Rondo in B flat major, and Choral Fantasy to consistently terrible results. With violinist Thomas Zehetmair and cellist Clemens Hagen, Aimard and Harnoncourt turn in an ungainly and graceless recording of the graceful and gracious Triple Concerto.