I really want to see you in a concert; are you planning to come to Barcelona, someday?? 🙏🙏

Study Music

Flute: Cristina Polis
Acustic Guitar: Ricardo Marui

Gabriel FAURE - Pavane Opus 50

#1 iTunes Classical (9.22.14)

Steinway artist, Chad Lawson, introduces a new spin on 10 beloved Chopin works. With the undeniable resurgence in classical/instrumental music, Lawson felt compelled to show how Chopin's masterpieces are as spellbinding in most simplest form as they are in their original nature.

Disc One (tracks 1-10)
Chad Lawson - piano
Judy Kang - violin
Rubin Kodheli - cello

Disc Two (tracks 11-21)
Chad Lawson - solo piano

iTunes

Chopin Prelude in E Minor-Op. 28, No. 4 (Variation Arr. for Piano, Vioin and Cello) - Chad Lawson

A set of classical guitar ensemble pieces by students of the Bangalore School of Music. 

- Arjun, Sriram, Satish, Siddharth, Shishir, Robby 

Check out the entire Album here:
http://www.reverbnation.com/arjunshounak/album/84469-classical-guitar-duetstriosquartets

G. Bizet- Habanera from Carmen - Arjun, Sriram, Robby, Siddharth

A collection of Max's recent filmscore work, together with some tracks from the albums which have recently been featured in various feature films.

Colours Of Piano

Richter: Horizon Variations

WALTZ WITH BASHIR / Ari Folman - The Haunted Ocean 1

IMPARDONNABLES / Andre Techine - End Title

HOW TO DIE IN OREGON / Peter Richardson - Endings

Me playing the opening movement of Beethoven's Pastoral sonata. LVB walking through nature, wrestling his demons, being all immortal... Hope you like.

Beethoven Piano Sonata In D Major, Op. 28 - 'Pastoral'  I. Allegro

Played live at Cello Akademie Rutesheim 2011 with our five tutors:
Wen-Sinn Yang, László Fenyö, Claudio Bohórquez, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz.
More information about the masterclasses and concerts:
http://www.cello-akademie-rutesheim.de

Camille Saint-Saens "the swan" for 5 cellos

TEASER track. 

More to come if we see some love. 

Ray Chen & Luca D'Alberto "Bach-Teaser"

A. VIVALDI: Concerto for Strings and B.C. in G minor RV 156, Bach Consort Wien

Johan Sebastian Bach: Adagio for violin solo in G minor, Sonata 1

Monti-Csardas

For more information visit: http://www.klassikakzente.de/recomposed/home 

Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.” Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.”Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist, Daniel Hope. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. Daniel is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge. I think he did a wonderful job. He brought to it a deep engagement with the original, but he was fully prepared to cut this new swathe through the text.”


Eine Klassik für Sich 2012

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 3 (2012)

Download

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major, 'Emperor' - Adagio un poco mosso

Ernesto Cortazar - Beethoven's Silence

Winner of the Queen Elisabeth (2009) and Yehudi Menuhin Competitions (2008), Ray Chen is among the most compelling young violinists today.   “Ray has proven himself to be a very pure musician with great qualities such as a beautiful youthful tone, vitality and lightness.   He has all the skills of a truly musical interpreter,” said the great Maxim Vengerov.
Ray has released two critically acclaimed albums on Sony: a recital program “Virtuoso” of works by Bach, Tartini, Franck, and Wieniawski, and the Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky concertos with Swedish Radio Orchestra and Daniel Harding.   Following the success of these recordings, Ray was profiled by The Strad and Gramophone magazines as “the one to watch”.   “Virtuoso” was distinguished with the prestigious ECHO Klassik award.   He is currently working on his third, all-Mozart album with Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, slated for release later this year.
Ray continues to win the admiration of fans and fellow musicians worldwide.   In 2012, he became the youngest soloist ever to perform in the televised Nobel Prize Concert for the Nobel Laureates and the Swedish Royal Family.   His Carnegie Hall debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo, as well as his sold-out Musikverein concert with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly were met with standing ovations.   Since the 2012- 13 season, Ray has been invited to join Konzerthaus Dortmund's series “Junge Wilde,” which presents young and groundbreaking artists in Germany.   Later this season, Ray will make his San Francisco recital debut at the SF Jazz Center. He also looks forward to his upcoming recital tour of Australia and his debuts with the Orchestre National de France and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Followed by over 500,000 people on SoundCloud, Ray Chen looks to expand the classical music audience by increasing its appeal to the young generation via all available social media platforms.   He is the first ever classical musician to be invited to write a regular blog about his life as a touring soloist for the largest Italian publishing house, RCS Rizzoli (Corriere della Sera, Gazzetta dello Sport, Max).   In his unstinting efforts to break down barriers between classical music, fashion and pop culture, he is supported by Giorgio Armani and was recently featured in Vogue magazine.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists.   He plays the 1702 "Lord Newlands" Stradivarius violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Ray Chen & Luca D'Alberto "Bach-Teaser"

Ray Chen Violin

Recent comments

Marylandaqualogic

Paulo Ciceri

masoud hosseini

masoud hosseini

Related tracks