Matteo Cossu, Bruno Canino – Bartók: Works for Violin & Piano (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Matteo Cossu, Bruno Canino – Bartók: Works for Violin & Piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:10 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic

Bela Bartok’s friendship with violinists Joseph Szigeti and Zoltan Szekely allowed him to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the violin that informed his writing. Both Rhapsodies for violin and piano are structured in two parts, a Lassu and a Friss – a Moderato followed by an Allegro. The First Rhapsody draws on Bartok’s ethnological studies in its use of Romanian folk dances, while the Second is a more enigmatic work. The Violin Sonata No. 1 is an earlier piece full of atmospheric drama and grandiose gestures, impressionistic in places and concluding with rich Hungarian folk motifs.

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Luisa Sello & Bruno Canino – 20th-Century Middle European Flute Music (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Luisa Sello & Bruno Canino – 20th-Century Middle European Flute Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:35 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Classical
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These four central-European composers share a history of persecution and emigration but survived the worst excesses of the time. Their works for flute and piano reflect very different aesthetic positions. Schoenberg’s uncompromising Sonata for Flute and Piano is an arrangement of his Wind Quintet, Op. 26 of 1923–24 made a few years later by the Austrian composer Felix Greissle. The Suite by Ernst Křenek is delightfully neo-Classical, whilst the Czech Emil Burian crafted an eloquent, light-hearted work, heard here in its first recording. Paul Dessau’s Guernica was written for piano in 1937 and memorialises the tragedy of that bombed city.

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Germana Porcu Morano & Bruno Canino – Grieg: Violin Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Germana Porcu Morano & Bruno Canino – Grieg: Violin Sonatas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:27 minutes | 662 MB | Genre: Classical
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A beloved trio of Romantic violin sonatas in the passionate and assured hands of an exciting Italian violinist near the start of her career: an auspicious debut on Brilliant Classics. Winner of the 30th edition of Michelangelo Abbado violin competition held in Milan in 2009, Germana Porcu Morano studied in Bergamo, and has gone on to win several other national and international prizes included a scholarship funded by Claudio Abbado. She has performed as a soloist and in chamber ensembles across Europe and in China. She is a member of the Paganini String Quartet, with plans afoot to record the completequartets by Paganini.

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Johannes Brahms Sonaten op.78, op.100, op. 108 (2010/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Johannes Brahms Sonaten op.78, op.100, op. 108 (2010/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:36 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms was a severe critic of his own work, often assailed with uncertainty and reluctant to publish works he considered immature or incomplete. With the exception of the Scherzo in C flat for the Sonata F.A.e. he made his first violin solo work known to the public only at the age of forty five with the publication of the Concerto in D major, op. 77. Cheered by the great success he had had in the summer of that year, 1878, he set to work composing the first of his three splendid violin sonatas. They are the only ones we know, as three previous similar sonatas were destroyed by the composer himself. Brahms wrote these three masterpieces during three happy and fruitful summer holidays which he spent away from the city, inspired by the mountain scenery.

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Luisa Sello, Bruno Canino, Myriam Dal Don, Giuseppe Mari – Beethoven: Flute Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Luisa Sello, Bruno Canino, Myriam Dal Don, Giuseppe Mari – Beethoven: Flute Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic

The programme on this release is completed by the arrangement for flute and piano of the slow movement from the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15, a work Beethoven composed in 1798 and first published in 1800. The transcription is by Theobald Böhm (Munich, 17941881), a famous flute virtuoso and instrument maker, who developed a new type of metal flute which revolutionised the fingering system in use up to then and has remained virtually identical to this day. he programme on this release offers a comparison between two Serenades that Beethoven wrote for two different groups of instruments: the Serenade Op. 25 for flute, violin and viola and the Serenade Op. 41, which is a later version for flute and piano. Formally these two works are almost identical, but they differ in colour, phrasing and the role that was ascribed to each instrument.

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 526, 296, 305 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 526, 296, 305 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 481, 303 – Variations KV 359, 360 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 481, 303 – Variations KV 359, 360 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:27 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 379, 380, 547 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 379, 380, 547 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:04 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 376 ,377, 372, 402, 404 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Piano KV 376 ,377, 372, 402, 404 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

“Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart.” With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at the same time masculine powerful character, which expresses itself with inventiveness and a mastery perhaps only comparable to Bach. That is why it is so difficult to play Mozart’s music “correctly”, as it often expresses the deepest with the smallest number of notes. Technical mastery alone is not enough. There must also be the ability of the heart to feel and create music as a form of genuine, loving communication with fellow human beings. No other classical composer, for example, entitled a movement with the epithet “amoroso” (Mozart’s designation for the Andante of the B flat major Sonata K. 281).

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A.MOZART KV 454, 301, 306 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A.MOZART KV 454, 301, 306 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:08 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © fonè Records

Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.

At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.

Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.

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Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A. MOZART KV 378, 302, 304, 403 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Salvatore Accardo & Bruno Canino – W.A. MOZART KV 378, 302, 304, 403 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:45 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Salvatore Accardo was born in Turin in a family coming from the South of Italy: his father Vincenzo, artist engraver of cameos was passionate with music and his mother was a primary school teacher.

At 3 he asked for a violin and began to play to ear, at 5 he began his studies in Naples with the musician and pedagogue Luigi D’Ambrosio, later he entered the Naples Conservatorio of San Pietro a Majella where at 13 he graduated full marks playing for the first time Paganini’s Capricios.

Admitted ad honorem at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena, Accardo studied there with Yvonne Astruc, former pupil and assistent of George Enescu, starting to be friends with his classmates: Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Maurizio Pollini, etc.

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Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Canino – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2001) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Canino – Brahms: Violin Sonatas (2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:36 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fonè Records

Internationally acclaimed violinist Salvatore Accardo pairs with pianist Bruno Canino for a brilliant delivery of Brahms’ sonatas for violin and piano on this expertly recorded audiophile album.

Brahms was a severe critic of his own work, often assailed with uncertainty and reluctant to publish works he considered immature or incomplete. With the exception of the Scherzo in C flat for the Sonata F.A.E. he made his first violin solo work known to the public at only the age of 45 with the publication of the Concerto in D major, op. 77. Cheered by the great success he had had in the summer of that year, 1878, he set to work composing the first of his three splendid violin sonatas. They are the only ones we know, as three previous similar sonatas were destroyed by the composer himself. Brahms wrote these three masterpieces during three happy and fruitful summer holidays which he spent away from the city, inspired by the mountain scenery. Sonatas op. 78, 100 and 108 are full of lyricism and a lied quality which rarely gives way to virtuosity (in particular the first two), although they clearly reveal Brahms’ mastery in shaping thematic material, while at the same time creating a harmonious balance between the violin and the piano. The composer felt supremely confident with the piano and the instrument often takes the lead in melodic construction.
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Alessio Bidoli, Bruno Canino, Massimo Mercelli, Nicoletta Sanzin – Rota: Chamber Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Alessio Bidoli, Bruno Canino, Massimo Mercelli, Nicoletta Sanzin – Rota: Chamber Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:48 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

Nino Rota is famous for his unforgettable film music but he also devoted himself a lot to chamber music which, in the exchange of his production, is of great importance. This album features some of the most significant pieces, many of which are authentic rarities, which show the great mastery of writing inherited from his famous masters, Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella.

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Igor Stravinsky – Divertimento, Suite italienne, Duo concertant – Itzhak Perlman, Bruno Canino (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Igor Stravinsky – Divertimento, Suite italienne, Duo concertant – Itzhak Perlman, Bruno Canino (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:11 minutes | 1,0 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Digital booklet | © Warner Classics
Recorded: Abbey Road Studios, London, 8–10 June 1974

Although Itzhak Perlman has appeared live with the Italian pianist and composer Bruno Canino on many occasions over the years, this Stravinsky recital is the only album they have ever made together — a unique and treasured record of their work together. Five years after setting down the Prokofiev sonatas for RCA (1969), and while he was still putting together his complete set of the Beethoven sonatas for Decca (1973–75), Perlman recorded this repertoire for EMI in what is one of the finest gems of his discography, and one of his own favourite albums.

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