MAYKE RADEMAKERS — La Furia : Passion, Fury and Melancholia (2016) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Mayke Rademakers: All my life, I’ve played a lot of Spanish music, and so has my partner and duo-pianist Matthijs Verschoor. Both of us have worked and studied in Spain. And I spent some time immersing myself in Buenos Aires, because I wanted to see the tango with my own eyes: how people perceived it, how they danced it in the streets and on public squares. At a certain point we got this sense of wanting to do something with it. We had a number of works on our repertoire and so we investigated how we could combine them with new pieces, music we still needed to discover, to produce a great CD. We found the music we were looking for. We put together an exciting combination of Spanish and South American music. In a nutshell: flamenco and tango.
Spanish music takes folk music as its starting point. La Furia is based on that idea. This music is about the heat, the poverty, about lifestyle and passion. La furia literally means anger or aggression. But in Latin, the word has very positive connotations. It means doing what your instincts tell you, acting with passion, giving it your all. The tango flamenco spread from Spain to South America. The tango is truly South American. Although it does show some flamenco influences, the tango definitely found its own form. Perhaps the biggest difference is that the tango is ‘urban’, because it arose in Buenos Aires. The flamenco is ‘rustic’, because it arose in the countryside. challengerecords.
Tracklist :
1.  Danza española no.5
 Enrique Granados
2-7.  Suite popular española 
 Manuel De Falla    
8.  No por amor, no por tristeza
 Antón García Abril
9-11.  Suite for cello solo
 Gaspar Cassdó
12.  La rosa y el sauce
 Carlos Gustavino
13-16.  Seguida española
 Joaquín Nin
17.  Le grand tango
 Ástor Piazzolla    
18.  Triste
 Alberto Ginastera
Credits :
Mattijs Verschoor - Piano
Mayke Rademakers - Cello

MARTHA ARGERICH — Edition Concertos (2011) 4CD BOX-SET | Martha Argerich Edition Series | Two Version | FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Martha Argerich Edition: Concertos is one of several box sets issued in 2011 in honor of her 70th birthday. These four discs gather ten complete concertos recorded between 1997 and 2009 for EMI. As an artist as well-known for her loyalty to particular repertoire and particular musicians, most of these works have been recorded by Argerich multiple times. Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3, one of the first concertos she ever recorded, is here in a 1997 performance with conductor Charles Dutoit, one of her best collaborators. The two recorded both Chopin concertos the following year, also included here. Others of Argerich's most frequent collaborators are found on Beethoven's Triple Concerto: Renaud Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, and Alexandre Rabinovitch. The recordings of fellow pianist Mikhail Pletnev's Fantasia elvetica and of Falla's Noches en los jardines de España come from her Lugano Festival, an annual event founded in 2002 where Argerich gathers friends -- her familiar collaborators and new, promising, young musicians -- for music-making. The collection unfortunately does not include Ravel's Concerto in G, the other concerto typically noted as one of Argerich's best interpretations. Yet, it should very well satisfy those who want to get to know Argerich's work in the concerto repertoire as a mature musician at the height of her talent. Patsy Morita
Tracklist :
CD1. (69:02)
 Chopin : Piano Concertos 1 & 2 
CD2. (70:10)
 Prokofiev : Piano Concertos 1 & 3
 Bartók : Piano Concerto No.3
CD3. (64:35)
 Beethoven : Triple Concerto
 Schumann : Piano Concerto
CD4. (77:20)
 Shostakovich : Piano Concerto No. 1
 De Falla : Noches em los Jardines de España
 Pletnev : Fantasia elvetica

PACO DE LUCÍA — Interpreta a Manuel De Falla (1978) Two Version | APE + FLAC (image+.tracks+.cue), lossless

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
1    Danza De Los Vecinos    3:07
2    Danza Ritual Del Fuego 4:21
Backing Band [Colaboración Del Grupo] – Dolores
Guitar [2nd] – Ramón De Algeciras
3    Introductión Y Pantomima    2:58
4    El Paño Moruno 1:26
Written-By – Pepe De Lucia
5    Danza Del Molinero    3:03
6    Danza    3:23
7    Escena    1:14
8    Canción Del Fuego Fatuo 4:04
Backing Band [Colaboración Del Grupo] – Dolores
Guitar [2nd] – Ramón De Algeciras
9    Danza Del Terror    1:47
10    Danza De La Molinera    4:00
Credits :
Adapted By, Arranged By, Flamenco Guitar – Paco De Lucía

MANUEL DE FALLA : Complete Solo Piano Music (Miguel Baselga) (1996) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Before making this recording, Miguel Baselga compared the printed editions of all works (except Piezas españolas) with Falla's original manuscripts in Grenada. In consequence, numerous errors in the printed editions have been corrected in the performances recorded here. WEB
Tracklist & Credits

JACQUELINE DU PRÉ — The Complete EMI Recordings (2007) 17xCD Box-Set | APE (image+.cue), lossless

Here's a list of the works included:

Tracklist CD1
Elgar , Delius & Saint-Saens : Cello Concertos

Tracklist CD2
Dvorak, Schumann : Cello Concertos

Tracklist CD3
Monn, Haydn : Cello Concertos

Tracklist CD4
Chopin, Franck : Cello Sonatas

Tracklist CD5
Bach, Handel : Cello Suites & Sonatas

Tracklist CD6
Beethoven : Cello Sonatas

Tracklist CD7
Beethoven : Cello Sonatas & Variations

Tracklist CD8
Beethoven : Piano Trios

Tracklist CD9
Beethoven : Piano Trios

Tracklist CD10
Beethoven : Piano Trios

Tracklist CD11
Beethoven : Piano & Clarinete Trios
Couperin : Les Gouts-Réunis

Tracklist CD12
Strauss : Don Quixote
Lalo : Cello Concerto

Tracklist CD13
Brahms : Cello Sonatas
Boccherini : Cello Concerto

Tracklist CD14
Beethoven & Falla

Tracklist CD15
Brahms : Cello Sonatas

Tracklist CD16
Brahms : Cello Sonatas No.2 in F
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50

Tracklist CD17
Encore Recital

SCHUMANN • KABALEVSKY : Cello Concerto • DE FALLA : Suite Populaire Espagnol (Kondrashin • Shafran • Kabalevsky • Musynian) (1998) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Robert Schumann
1-3    Concerto For Cello And Orchestra In A Minor. Op. 129
Conductor – Kiril Kondrashin
Orchestra – State Orchestra of Russia

Dmitry Kabalevsky
4-6    Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 49
Conductor – Dmitry Kabalevsky
Orchestra – State Orchestra of Russia

Joseph Haydn
7-9    Divertimento In D
Piano – Nina Musynian

Manuel De Falla
10-15    Suite Populaire Espagnole
16    Ritual Dance Of Fire, From "El Amor Brujo"
Piano – Nina Musynian

 Daniel Shafran - Cello

CLARA HASKIL - Philips Recordings 1951-1960 Concertos & Sonatas (Beethoven, Chopin, Falla, Ravel, Scarlatti, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann) (2007) 7CD / APE (image+.cue), lossless

Romanian pianist Clara Haskil began her career as a child prodigy at the Bucharest Conservatory under Richard Robert at age 7, making her debut at the age of 10. Haskil ultimately graduated from Alfred Cortot's class at the Paris Conservatoire at 15 with the Prémier Prix to her credit. By the age of 18, however, Haskil was forced to endure the first of many physical setbacks that would hold back her career, in this case an attack of meningitis that kept her in a body cast for four years. Haskil did recover, making her New York debut in 1924 and her London debut in 1926. Although it was late in her career that her name was inextricably linked with the Mozart piano concerti, at this stage Haskil was associated with Romantic literature. Her performances of the Schumann concerto in Philadelphia with Leopold Stokowski were widely praised.

With the outbreak of war, Haskil was trapped in occupied Paris, but was able to escape to Marseilles. There she survived a surreptitious surgical procedure to remove a tumor from her optic nerve, and was then smuggled to Vevey, Switzerland, where Haskil settled for the rest of her days. With war's end she resumed her career yet again, and thereafter enjoyed her greatest successes with a busy concert and recording schedule that took her around the world. Despite her amazing stamina, she proved unable to survive a fall she suffered in a Paris railway station in 1960, and died one month short of her 66th birthday.

With Haskil, musicianship came first and technical matters were irrelevant; she had enormous hands and could play a 12th in her left hand with a fingering of 2-5. Haskil reputedly had an amazing memory, and could accurately play back a piece of music she'd heard only once, even after the passage of several years, without ever having seen the score. The Clara Haskil Prize, awarded once every two years in Vevey, Switzerland, was established in 1962 as a memorial to the pianist. by Uncle Dave Lewis
Tracklist :
CD 1    Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) Sonata In E Flat Major K.193 - Sonata In B Minor, K.87 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Nine Variations In D, K.573 On A Minuet By J.P. Duport - Piano Sonata No.10 In C Major, K.330 - Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) Sonatine, M. 40 For Piano - Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Bunte Blätter, Op.99 -
CD 2    Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Kinderszenen, Op. 15 - Waldszenen, Op.82 - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest" - Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 -"The Hunt"
CD 3    Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) Piano Sonata No. 21 In B-Flat Major, D. 960 - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Sonata No. 17 In D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "The Tempest" - Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3 -"The Hunt"
CD 4    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Piano Concerto No. 9 In E Flat Major, K.271 - "Jeunehomme" - Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor, K. 466
CD 5    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor, K. 466 - Piano Concerto No.24 In C Minor, K.491 - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 37
CD 6    Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 37 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K.488 - Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Piano Concerto In A Minor, Op. 54
CD 7    Manuel de Falla Matheu (1876 - 1946) Noches En Los Jardines de España - Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) Piano Concerto No.2 In F Minor, Op.21

FILOMENA MORETTI - Filomena Moretti plays Albeniz, Bach, Barrios, De Falla, etc. (2002) APE (image+.cue), lossless

MANUEL de FALLA : Complete Piano Music (2004) 2CD / FLAC (tracks), lossless

Benita Meshulam has an affinity for Iberian music, and this two-disc set is her interpretation of the music of Manuel de Falla. It includes Falla's original works for piano as well as his transcriptions of a few of his works for orchestra or other instruments. What comes out most in Meshulam's performance is the enormous influence that French composers had on Falla. She plays with a generally calm demeanor, even in the dances from Falla's stage works, which brings out the colors in the harmonies of the music, so that instead of vivid, showy dances, these are more translucent and evocative. That Impressionistic sound is especially evident in the shorter works, such as the Mazurka and Nocturno. The Canto de los remeros del Volga is Falla's setting of the Russian folk song using the modal harmonies of Debussy. The larger pieces, the Fantasía Baetica and the Allegro de concierto, show the influence of the orchestral writing of Saint-Saëns and Chabrier as much as the influence of Spanish folk music. Meshulam plays Andaluza with dense drama, but otherwise shies away from being extravagantly theatrical in favor of an expression that is more suggestive of emotions, which fits with the sound of the pieces. Hers is a more sultry than fiery Falla.  by Patsy Morita

ALICIA DE LARROCHA - Icon : The Complete EMI Recordings (2010) 8xCD BOX-SET / RM / FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

EMI's eight-CD box set of Alicia de Larrocha's early recordings is entirely devoted to the works of Spanish composers, whose music she championed for decades. Most of the tracks were originally recorded on Hispavox in the 1960s, though an additional recording from 1992 helps round out the package, while the final disc offers her 1971 Hunter College recital with soprano Victoria de los Angeles. For the most part, the compilation is a generous survey of piano music by Antonio Soler, Enriqué Granados, Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Joaquín Turina, and a piano concerto by Xavier Montsalvatge; the song recital also includes selections by Antonio Literes, Blas de Laserna, and Gerónimo Giménez, so the presentation covers Spanish compositions from the Classical to the modern eras. De Larrocha was greatly admired for her dedication to this repertoire, and her legacy starts with these recordings, which have been remastered to have the best possible sound. The crispness of the reproduction reveals the precision and delicacy of de Larrocha's playing, and the closeness of the recordings in many cases gives her realistic presence. While de Larrocha is perhaps best remembered for the music offered here, her discography on other labels includes her great recordings of works by Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, and Debussy, so this package only gives a partial view of her numerous accomplishments.  by Blair Sanderson  
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ALBÉNIZ-DE FALLA-GRANADOS - Spanish Piano Music (Sanchez-Meshulam-Ortiz) (2002) 6CD / Mp3