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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Pierre-Laurent Aimard - Homage a Messiaen
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s tribute to Olivier Messiaen coincides with the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth on 10 December 2008 - A highlight of the Messiaen year Aimard has a strong personal connection to Messiaen: he studied piano with the composer’s wife Yvonne Loriod from the age of twelve and won the Messiaen Competition in 1973. He has been a champion of Messiaen’s music throughout his career, one of the few pianists to keep this repertoire alive in the concert hall and bring new admirers to it For this anniversary album, Aimard has selected the early 8 Préludes (1928–29), the tense Quatre Études de rythme (1949–50) and excerpts from the cycle Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956–58), showcasing the broad spectrum of Messiaen’s piano works. Aimard is widely acknowledged as being the pre-eminent interpreter of contemporary music with links to many of the greatest masters of our age, among them Boulez, Carter and Ligeti In 2008 Aimard performs Messiaen’s repertoire in concerts all over Europe, the US and Japan. His readings have indisputable authority because of his personal association with the composer. He is the curator of the Southbank Centre's Messaien season which runs through to the beginning of 2009, and during his time in London he will also give concerts at the Wigmore Hall. In 2009 he will also take over the artistic direction of the Aldeburgh Festival. | 
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) “Staggering technique, searching intellect and fantastical imagination” (New York Times) “…what Aimard offers is perhaps one of the most intellectually rigorous piano versions available. No contrapuntal density defeats his forensic brain or articulate fingers. He does find lyricism and exhilaration, but there is an evenness of purpose which is both a strength... and a weakness when set against the pronounced poetry of Koroliov or MacGregor.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 **** “This is Bach-playing to listen to every day, Fresh, spry and well modulated. If spirituality is to be found in The Art of Fugue, Aimard seems to say, it will not be through slow tempi, dynamic extremes or the quasi-religious trappings… Perhaps no pianist since Charles Rosen has no persuasively demonstrated that this contrapuntal encyclopaedia is to be heard as well as read.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Recorded live at the Konzerthaus, Vienna “On his own, Aimard combines virtuoso panache with a limpid touch.” Daily Telegraph, Jan 2005 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Piano), Sophie Cherrier (Flute), Alain Damiens (Clarinet) Ensemble InterContemporain | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Antoine Tamestit (viola), George Benjamin (piano) This disc includes the World Premiere recordings of Shadowlines, written for its performer here, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in 2001, and the Three Studies for Piano, written during the early 1980s and played here by the composer. Coupled with these are Viola, Viola, written in 1997 and now one of George's most frequently performed works, and the classic recording of the Piano Sonata, written in 1979 and recorded shortly after. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bartók - Concertos
The living legend: still innovative, radical and original. Pierre Boulez concludes his acclaimed Bartók Concertos project, which has received the highest accolades, with an album featuring the Viola Concerto, Violin Concerto no.1 and the Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra For this recording, Boulez has once again gathered an extraordinary team of musicians: Yuri Bashmet, Gidon Kremer, Pierre-Laurent Aimard – with his long-term recital partner Tamara Stefanovich – and two of the world’s most esteemed ensembles: the Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra DG is particularly delighted that its exclusive artist Pierre-Laurent Aimard teams up with Pierre Boulez, with whom he shares a strong artistic partnership. The combination of two such insightful musicians as Aimard and Boulez with one of the world’s great orchestras promises to be something very special A recording that brings together some of the greatest musicians of the modern age in their admiration for the Hungarian master composer of the 20th century: Boulez’s Bartók cycle has all the ingredients to become the benchmark recording of this repertoire |
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| |  | Vienne 1900Celebrating the flowering of the arts in Vienna at the turn of the last century
Berg: | Quatuor Op. 3 - Langsam Variations on a theme of Schumann, Theme and Variations for violin and piano | Brahms: | Intermezzo in E flat major, Op. 117 No. 1 Ballade in G minor, Op. 118, No. 3 String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 111 - Adagio | Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (from Rückert-Lieder) Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz | Schoenberg: | Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 Quartet in D major (Allegro molto) String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10 | Schreker: | Gesänge für tiefe Stimme (Die Dunkelheit sinkt schwer wie Blei, Sie Sind so schön) | Strauss, J, II: | Rosen aus dem Süden, Op. 388 | Strauss, R: | Also sprach Zarathustra (introduction) Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28 Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 6: Andante ma non troppo | Webern: | Langsamer Satz, (slow movement), Op. post. (1905) Five movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 (1909) | Zemlinsky: | Eine Florentinische Tragödie Op. 16 - Overture |
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Anne Gastinel (cello), Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Andrea Bonatta (pianos) Arditti Quartet, Alban Berg Quartet members, Accentus Chamber Choir, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Armin Jordan, Bernard Haitink (2 CDs for the price of 1) | | Naive - V5039 (CD - 2 discs) Normally: $17.49 Special: $13.99 |
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt “As a whole, this performance is close to ideal.” (BBC Music Magazine) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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(+ Bonus CD - illustrated talk in English, French and German) “What is so amazing about this pianist is not his technique – virtuosic with second-nature fluidity – but that he plays in the present moment with a swirling palette, making poetic statements even in the simplest of passages.”
(Washington Post on Aimard’s performance of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit at the Kennedy Center in January 2004) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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