Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel, Camerata Salzburg, Giovanni Guzzo – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (Extended Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:43:52 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by the Romantic storyteller E. T. A. Hoffmann’s eccentric alter ego, Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana is a work Hélène Grimaud has known since she was a teenager and has recorded once before – yet, as she says, “you can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always find something new”. In revisiting it here, she’s paired it with two pieces by Schumann’s protégé, Johannes Brahms, including a set of songs in which Brahms distilled his unrequited love for Schumann’s widow Clara, and for which Grimaud is partnered by sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. The Extended Edition of her album For Clara complements pianist Hélène Grimaud’s recording of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Brahm’s Op. 117 Intermezzi and Op. 32 songs with a recording of her 2022 performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Camerata Salzburg at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. The second movement, which is now available, gives a first impression of Hélène Grimaud performing one of the most widely recorded piano concertos from the Romantic period.
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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel – For Clara: Works by Schumann & Brahms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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On her new album, pianist Hélène Grimaud explores the rich universe of German Romanticism, combining Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana op. 16 with Brahms’ Intermezzi op. 117 and Lieder und Gesängen op. 32. Grimaud has known Schumann’s Kreisleriana for most of her life. “You can spend a lifetime with a piece like this and always discover something new,” the pianist says. Her special relationship with the German Romantics is evident on her album “For Clara,” which focuses not only on the pianist’s relationship with the music of Robert Schumann and his protégé Brahms, but in particular on the two composers’ connection to Clara Schumann.
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Hélène Grimaud – The Messenger (Extended Version) (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:09 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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For her most recent concept album, The Messenger, H’el`ene Grimaud created a fascinating pianistic dialogue between Mozart and the Ukrainian-born contemporary composer Valentin Silvestrov. The recording sessions for The Messenger took place at the start of this year at an historic Mozart site in Salzburg, the Great Hall of the University, where H’el`ene Grimaud was joined by the Camerata Salzburg. The album includes three works by Mozart: the unfinished Fantasia in D minor K 397, the famous Piano Concerto in D minor K 466, and the Fantasia in C minor K 475. They are presented in chronological order of composition and all three are among the relatively small number of works in Mozart’s vast output written in minor keys.
On this new Extended Edition, Grimaud adds another work from Valentin Silvestrov with the third movement of “3 Bagatelles, Op. 1”!
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Hélène Grimaud – The Messenger (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:43 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hélène Grimaud has announced her new studio album, The Messenger, will be released on 2 October 2020. For her latest concept album Hélène Grimaud has created a fascinating pianistic dialogue between Mozart and the Ukrainian-born contemporary composer Valentin Silvestrov. Watch the video for the first single, the third movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, released today.
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Hélène Grimaud – Memory Echo (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 26:32 minutes | 261 MB | Genre: Classical
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23 OCTOBER 2019 (TORONTO, ON) – Memory Echo sees Nitin Sawhney return to music and ideas he began exploring in 2018 with Hélène Grimaud for her Memory album. For this new release Sawhney has woven together four of his original compositions – The Fourth Window, Picturebook, Time and Breathing Light (performed by Hélène Grimaud) – with haunting remixes of Satie’s Gnossienne No.1, Debussy’s Clair de lune and Rachmaninov’s Vocalise, Op.34 No.14. By refining the essence of his collaboration with the French pianist, he has created the seven-track Memory Echo, set for release in digital-only format on 25 October 2019.
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Hélène Grimaud – Memory (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:36 minutes | 876 MB | Genre: Classical
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Music has been described as a way of saving that which has been lost: a simple but strong idea, and one which has influenced Hélène Grimaud’s artistic expression.Her new album Memory deals with music’s power to bring back to life the images of the past in the present, its ability to vividly and piercingly evoke a specific time and a place. It explores the essence of memory through a series of refined miniatures for piano. The choice of repertoire covers a vast, diverse range, from the reveries of Chopin and Debussy to the timeless, folky melodies of Valentin Silvestrov.
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Helene Grimaud – Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 (1998) [Japan 2013]
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Japanese Remastered Reissue ‘2013 / Esoteric Company, Japan # ESSW-90083
Hélène Grimaud, who has lived with the early D minor Concerto for decades, has called Brahms’s Op 15 ‘a piece I need to survive’. Indeed, she recorded it with that kind of urgency for Erato back in 1997 with Kurt Sanderling and the Staatskapelle Berlin, her passion making up for the lack in sheer power you’d find in accounts by the likes of Brendel or Pollini.
This reissue of classical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using hybrid SACD technology to improve sound quality. These new audio versions feature ESOTERIC’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.
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Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel – Silvestrov: Silent Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:21 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hélène Grimaud pays homage to Ukraine’s greatest living composer with an album of songs by Valentin Silvestrov. Joined by the young baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud presents the gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through this album. “Silent Songs” blends the voices of classic Russian, Ukrainian and English poets together o create a “harmony of mysterious power”, as a line from the Baratynsky poem by that opens the album has it. Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Songs includes contemplative settings of verse by Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Zhukovsky, Yesenin and Mandelstam, Ukrainian lyrics by Taras Shevchenko, and Russian translations of poetry by Keats and Shelley. Grimaud discovered Silvestrov’s Silent Songs almost 20 years ago when she received a recording of the complete song-cycle as a birthday gift. Enchanted by the composer’s music, she soon added a number of his piano pieces to her repertoire and began a long search for the ideal voice to partner in Silent Songs. Her search came to an end when she was introduced to German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel. “It is music which I find deeply touching in its authenticity and transparency of feelings,” observes Hélène Grimaud. “It is utterly poetic, never pretending to be something else. I am always happy to see how much it resonates with people.”
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Sol Gabetta, Hélène Grimaud – Duo: Hélène Grimaud & Sol Gabetta (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:08 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two of today’s most passionate and inspirational artists join forces in the recital programme that brought audiences to their feet at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad in Summer 2011. The chemistry between Hélène Grimaud and Sol Gabetta left critics and audiences nothing short of euphoric and this first duo recording captures the revelatory magic of their collaboration
The album reprises the same programme the duo performed in Gstaad: Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Johannes Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 in E minor and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano.
Hélène’s recordings have been best-sellers on the Yellow Label with more than 800,000 units sold altogether to date. Sol is also a best-selling, chart-storming artist, who is regarded as one of the great cellists of our day.
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Hélène Grimaud – Hélène Grimaud plays Valentin Silvestrov (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:49 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Classical
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Known for her poetic expression and peerless technical control, French pianist Hélène Grimaud is one of the most sought-after artists performing with leading orchestras, in chamber music, and in solo recitals internationally and is an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist. A multi-faceted Renaissance woman with a deep dedication to her musical career, Hélène also nurtures passionate environmental, literary, and artistic interests.
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Hélène Grimaud, Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:16 minutes | 939 MB | Genre: Classical
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French pianist Hélène Grimaud has been called a Glenn Gould for our time, the creator of highly original, technically superb readings that are either brilliant or idiosyncratic, depending on your personal reaction. You might consider that a red flag for Brahms, for Gould was at his worst in Romantic repertory, seeming to push against the structures the composer intended. Here Grimaud comes out all right, however. Yes, the readings are unusual. The opening movement of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15, is taken extremely slowly, with each note and each detail almost hammered out. It’s very much the interpretation of the young woman who, as Grimaud once said in an interview, broke down and cried after playing the concerto for the first time. You may or may not like this way of approaching the work, but objectively you’ll likely have to admit that she pulls it off. This is in no small part due to the work of conductor Andris Nelsons, who lays out a lengthy orchestral exposition that Grimaud plays off of in many ways. The second and third movements are more straightforward. The orchestra for the first concerto is the Bavarian Radio Symphony; for the second you get the Vienna Philharmonic, again under Nelsons, and even more capable of delivering the ripe, Romantic mood Grimaud sets out. The precise, intellectual Brahms so prized by some listeners is nowhere in evidence here, but this is a charismatic, exciting recording. Deutsche Grammophon’s engineering is a plus in Munich’s Herkulessaal in the first concerto, a major plus in the second, where they set up shop in Vienna’s Musikverein. They must have recorded there hundreds of times, and the orchestra played there just as often. But nothing at all here is done by rote.
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Title: Helene Grimaud – Woodlands and beyond…
Release Date: 2020
Genre: Classical
Production/Label:C MAJOR
Duration: 59:57
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29887 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3207 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 17.13 GB
Together with her creative and life partner, photographer Mat Hennek, French star pianist Helene Grimaud comes up with a multimedia concert project at the Grand Hall of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Grimaud’s virtuoso piano performance is accompanied by Hennek’s highly praised photo series Woodlands, which depicts genuine portraits of trees, the results of numerous hikes through various forests in Europe and the USA. With works by romantic and impressionist composers, such as Luciano Berio, Nitin Sawhney, Tōru Takemitsu, Franz Liszt and Claude Debussy, Grimaud leads her audience into the enchanting world of those various Woodlands and even beyond … “Grimaud is completely at ease, showing flawless clarity in her interpretations” (Die Welt).
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Title: Vladimir Jurowski Conducts The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe With Helene Grimaud – Strauss & Ravel
Release Date: 2010
Genre: Classical, orchestral, piano
Production/Label: Ideale Audience International / EuroArts
Duration: 81 min
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG2
Audio codec: LPCM, DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 21960 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9
Audio 1: German / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: German / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4256 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 20,63 GB
This programme captures the musical encounter between one of the most talented conductors of his generation with arguably the best chamber orchestra musicians. They are joined by worldwide renowned pianist Hélène Grimaud in a programme featuring Strauss and Ravel, a perfect combination of familiar repertoire and works that deserve to be discovered.
Vladimir Jurowski surprises the listener by a fresh style and approach. In combination with the charming and incisive Grimaud, he invites us to drift away with this extraordinary performance. Both artists are very thoughtful about the music they make and create a pure enjoyment for ear and eye.
The award-winning Hélène Grimaud presents a lively rendition of Ravel’s concerto. Together with the orchestra lyricism and sonorous harmonies are expertly teased out.
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Сomposer: John Corigliano (b.1938), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
Artist: Hélène Grimaud, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Title: Hélène Grimaud – Credo
Genre: Classical
Label: © Deutsche Grammophon is a Universal Music Company
Release Date: 2003/2013
Recorded: September 2003 at Sveriges Radio, Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:08:30
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 2569 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3725 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2965 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Credo by Hélène Grimaud is one of the most effectively sequenced discs ever released. The movement from the hazy postmodernism of John Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato for solo piano and the passionate Romanticism of Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata for solo piano, then on through the Enlightenment ecstasy of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia for piano solo, orchestra, and chorus, and culminating in the nihilist excesses of Arvo Pärt’s massive Credo for piano solo, orchestra, and chorus, is musically and dramatically overwhelming. Individually, the effectiveness of her performances is debatable. Is her Corigliano Fantasia melancholy and pensive or slightly narcissistic? Is her Beethoven Tempest individualistically radical or almost eccentric? Is her Beethoven Choral Fantasia with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Choir brilliantly postmodern or just strange? And is Grimaud and Salonen’s Pärt Credo anything but a metaphor for life itself: mostly boring, sometimes unbearable, and occasionally very beautiful? Taken all together as a single aesthetic act, Grimaud’s Credo is nevertheless completely compelling while it’s happening, and what more can one ask of a work of art? Deutsche Grammophon’s sound has never been more translucent and immediate. –James Leonard, AllMusic
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