Richard Galliano & Prague String Quintet – Tribute To Michel Legrand (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Richard Galliano & Prague String Quintet – Tribute To Michel Legrand (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks

Under the artistic direction of Richard Galliano, the greatest artists of Jazz and Song will gather on stage to celebrate in music the memory of the composer. Accompanied by Michel Legrand’s big-band, Natalie Dessay, Michel Portal, Ibrahim Maalouf, Bireli Lagrene, Sylvain Luc, Nana Mouskouri, Marie Oppert and many others will pay homage to his incomparable career and share their emotion in music.

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Richard Galliano – Vivaldi (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Richard Galliano – Vivaldi (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:37 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France

At first blush, Richard Galliano’s performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons may seem to be a novelty recording, but to describe it that way would be a disservice to his extraordinary virtuosity and impressive comprehension of the music. The accordion may not be to everyone’s liking, as its status in both popular and classical music has always been subject to taste, but no one could seriously question this French accordionist’s prodigious abilities with the instrument, which he treats as nimbly and as expressively as a violin. Of course, choosing Vivaldi’s greatest hit as a vehicle is a pretty safe bet to attract a new audience, and Galliano seems to relish the opportunity to make this perennial favorite a part of the accordion’s repertoire. This is Galliano’s second album of classical music on Deutsche Grammophon, following his 2010 Bach album, and while he is perhaps better known for his recordings of jazz standards and film themes, most notably on his 2011 CD of the music of Nino Rota, his affection for Baroque masterpieces is sincere and it shows in his meticulous playing. For filler Galliano also performs arias from Vivaldi operas Il Giustino and Arsilda, regina di Ponto, backed by continuo. But as attractive as these pieces are, most listeners will return again and again to hear the Four Seasons, which is a tour de force for the instrument.

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Richard Galliano – Valse(s) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Richard Galliano – Valse(s) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:19 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France

Richard Galliano expresses himself in all musical fields, from classical to jazz. He is nowadays the only accordion player to record for the prestigious classical music label “Deutsche Grammophon”.

Richard Galliano has recorded more than 50 albums under his own name and collaborated with an impressive number of artists.

It was his friend Astor Piazzolla who gave Richard Galliano the crucial advice for his career: why does he play so much American jazz instead of drawing from his own background? This impetus resulted in the “musette neuve” style which, in its creator Galliano, also found its master. The accordionist has long been a legend, having renewed the repertoire by harking back to French folk music.

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Richard Galliano – The Tokyo Concert (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Richard Galliano – The Tokyo Concert (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Milan Records

A rare and fabulous tête-à-tête between the accordion and its maestro
Richard Galliano is the uncontested master of jazz accordion worldwide. The inventor of “new musette” – a mix between jazz and popular music – has been feeding off French chanson and musette, American blues music, and Brazilian forro. In May 2018, the accordionist played three concerts in Tokyo, alone on stage with his precious Victoria, the accordion that was gifted to him by his grandmother on his fourteenth birthday, upon the advice of his father. Three nights whose intensity was such that it called for a live album, featuring a repertoire cherished by Richard Galliano that combined jazz and classical music. Valuing melody above everything else, he takes a thousand kinds of liberty: from Debussy’s Clair de lune on the barrel organ to a medley tribute to Michel Legrand, via a Mediterranean tango for his friend Claude Nougaro but also works by Chopin and Bach, and a nod to Brazilian music and the gifted accordion players born in this country. Richard Galliano offers us a lesson in improvisation and freedom. To celebrate his career’s fiftieth anniversary, the virtuoso promises to keep the freshness of his latest album. And what could be more luxurious than the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church, which recently unveiled its beautiful décor, to host a concert both intimate and grandiose?

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Richard Galliano – Piazzolla Forever (2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Richard Galliano – Piazzolla Forever (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:24:03 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dreyfus Jazz

Accordion and Bandoneon Virtuoso, Composer – Richard Galliano expresses himself in all musical fields, from classical to jazz. He is nowadays the only accordion player to record for the prestigious classical music label “Deutsche Grammophon”. Richard Galliano has recorded more than 50 albums under his own name and collaborated with an impressive number of artists.

With this 2021 remaster of Galliano’s live performance Piazzolla Forever, the artist revisits a high moment of his career, presenting the greatest bandoneon works of Astor Piazzolla!

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Richard Galliano – New Jazz Musette (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Richard Galliano – New Jazz Musette (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:25:28 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ponderosa

Already 30 years that his first album as a band leader, «Spleen», was released with the “New Musette” Quartet. Already 30 years that he restored the image of a so called old fashioned instrument, bound to play for Saturday nights ballrooms. Already 30 years that he is navigating in all kinds of musical styles, flirting with salsa, merging with tango, without losing his soul, deeply anchored in his French-Italian roots.

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Richard Galliano, South Czech Philharmonic, Miran Vaupotic – Richard Galliano: Madreperla (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Richard Galliano, South Czech Philharmonic, Miran Vaupotic – Richard Galliano: Madreperla (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:44 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

The accordion surely is an evocative instrument, its mere timbre conjuring mellow images of the Italian Riviera or cobbled Parisian streets. One would expect it to be quite out of place in the relatively formal environment of the classical concert hall – and be sorely mistaken, as far as Richard Galliano is concerned. The versatile French composer and accordion virtuoso sets out to elegantly shatter expectations – and his new album Madreperla proves him right.

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Richard Galliano – Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series Vol. 47 / Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio, Cully 2022 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Richard Galliano – Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series Vol. 47 / Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio, Cully 2022 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:41 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TCB The Montreux Jazz Label

“The jazz approach of New Tango like that of New Musette has always been obvious for me. Jazz, Musette, Tango all feed on the same ingredients, relating to dance, strong melodies, precise and refined harmonies. The most important thing is the style (according to Astor Piazzolla). In the presence of Sébastien Giniaux (guitar and cello) and Diego Imbert (double bass), we will approach this New Tango and New Musette repertoire with a jazzistic approach, playing each concert in a totally free way, sometimes away from the score but never from the soul of the composer.”

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Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum II (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum II (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:20 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, French accordionist Richard Galliano and Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren form the trio “Mare Nostrum”. This band forges connections between the discrete musical cultures of its three protagonists. This new album marks the return to the studio of a European supergroup. And they’re on top form.

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Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum III (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano & Jan Lundgren – Mare Nostrum III (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Their first collaboration, entitled Mare Nostrum in 2007, was really rather magical. So, it was hardly surprising that Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano and Jan Lundgren returned with Mare Nostrum II in 2016, an album that was just as superb as the last. The Sardinian trumpeter, French accordionist and Swedish pianist once again displayed their natural sense of lyricism and poetry in their highly refined jazz through reinterpretations of pieces by the likes of Satie and Monteverdi… But good things always come in threes; after having recorded Volume I in Italy and Volume II in France, it seemed only logical that this album was recorded in Sweden to complete the trilogy. In the middle of Winter 2019, Fresu, Galliano and Lundgren met up once again to mix their personal compositions together for Volume III as well as integrating two covers of soundtracks – Norman Jewison’s The Windmills of Your Mind by Michel Legrand for The Thomas Crown Affair and Quincy Jones’s Love Theme from The Getawayfrom Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway. Their partnership reaches new heights, the spaces feel even more comfortable and the musicality of their improvisations is multiplied tenfold.  – Clotilde Maréchal

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Richard Galliano & Thierry Escaich – Aria (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Richard Galliano & Thierry Escaich – Aria (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:29 minutes |  1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download  – Source:Q0buz | Booklet, Front Cover  | © Milan Records

Richard Galliano’s new collaboration with organist Thierry Escaich. An unexpected collaboration between two major instruments, the organ and the accordion. Two virtuosos, Thierry Escaich and Richard Galliano, compete with complicity and imagination to offer us this inspirational and magical program.

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Richard Galliano – Mozart (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Richard Galliano – Mozart (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:49 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Digital Booklet | © Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: Studio Sequenza, January 11th-15th 2016

Mozart meets the accordion and bandoneon? A rarity, perhaps! Richard Galliano finds, however, that the music of Mozart, as well as that of Bach, sounds especially beautiful on his favourite instrument…

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