泽野弘之：夜曲集

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Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music.

Zhu Xiao-Mei is a Chinese classical pianist and teacher, now based in Paris, France.

DECCA 《Ultimate》系列包括多套5CD一组的主题选集，着重地介绍了各个时代的大师们最有影响力、最广为流传的古典音乐作品，其中包括贝多芬、巴赫、肖邦、柴可夫斯基、莫扎特、舒伯特等的必听之作。此外，该系列还以不同体裁作为类别划分，加入了古典小提琴、大提琴、钢琴、钢琴协奏曲、休闲古典、巴洛克、歌剧等主题选集。虽然这个系列中某些选曲的录音年份有些久远，但演绎者中不乏宗师级的人物，故欣赏价值也是颇高的。全系列由环球公司下属的德国EDC压片生产，品质优良，而封面设计则简约而不失典雅。该系列比较适合初涉古典音乐的朋友欣赏、收藏，通过这套入门级的CD能对古典音乐有一个基本的、初步的认知和了解。而已是古典音乐爱好者的乐友，或许也能从中找到一些自己可能还没有听过的演绎版本。
《ULTIMATE CLASSICAL PIANO》，它收录了由不同的钢琴演奏家演绎的著名钢琴古典曲目。中文曲名仅供参考，如有谬误请予以指正。英文曲目按作曲家、曲名、演奏者、录音年份这个顺序排列。

Comprising three centuries of noted composers' "minor" works, Lubimov's Der Bote (The Messenger) bears out its title with short, introspective pieces that capture thoughts of nostalgia, mourning, and meditation. The first work, C.P.E. Bach's 1787 Fantasy, sounds amazingly avant-garde, full of surprising darts and turns. And the experimental 20th-century composer John Cage's "In a Landscape" is an even bigger surprise. Instead of random keyboard plink-plunks, it's a diaphanous Debussyan tone poem, bound to startle party guests playing Name That Composer.
Liszt's otherworldly "Abschied," Glinka's achingly beautiful Nocturne "La Separation," and Bartók's bleak "Vier Klagelieder" (Four Dirges) are highlights, but so are virtually all the other selections--especially Lubimov's moving interpretation of Chopin's neglected Prelude op. 45. Valentin Silvestrov is represented by his stark Elegie, and the fascinating "Der Bote," which vainly attempts to recall the lost world of classicism through Mozart quotations that fragment into shards. This is a concept album that works, each short gem casting refracted light on the others. Despite the New Age implications of an album of short, contemplative music, there's solid substance and stunning pianism here. --Dan Davis

Metamorphosis was written in 1988 and takes its title from a play based on Kafka's short story. Numbers three and four are from Glass's incidental music to the play. Numbers one and two use themes from Glass's soundtrack to the acclaimed Errol Morris film The Thin Blue Line. Mad Rush was written for the occasion of the Dalai Lama's first public address in New York City, in the fall of 1981. Originally an open-structured or open-ended piece, it was first performed by Glass on organ during the Dalai Lama's entrance into the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Wichita Vortex Sutra is the result of a chance meeting between two long-time friends, Glass and poet Allen Ginsberg, in St. Mark's Books, a popular bookstore in the East Village.

Reconnu comme l’une des figures incontournables de la musique de notre temps et comme l’un des interprètes majeurs des classiques du répertoire pianistique，PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD mène une carrière internationale hors des sentiers battus。 Il se produit dans le monde entier chaque saison avec les plus grands orchestres，sous la direction de chefs tels PIERRE BOULEZ，NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT，SEIJI OZAWA，SIR SIMON RATTLE ou ESA-PEKKA SALONEN。 Alors qu’il multiplie les résidences prestigieuses，les tournées，les ateliers，le pianiste，l’une des très rares stars internationales du clavier de nationalité française，enregistre l’un des monuments de la littérature pianistique : L’ART DE LA FUGUE de JEAN-SÉBASTIEN BACH。 ATTENTION c’est le premier enregistrement de L’ART DE LA FUGUE par un pianiste de réputation internationale depuis la version de Sokolov parue en 1982。 L’ART DE LA FUGUE est la dernière grande oeuvre de BACH，vaste synthèse de 18 fugues et quatre canons sur un même thème，qui exploite les milles possibilités du contrepoint。 Il y a adéquation totale entre BACH et son interprète ; le long détour du pianiste par le contemporain prend ici tout son sens: il éclaire les classiques de l’intérieur，non dans une vision froide et analytique，mais par le feu d’une passion maîtrisée。

以二重奏演绎多首作品，提琴钢琴配合天衣无缝，顶级录制音色通透靓绝！
「醉人感觉」（Til Trost）由艾吉瓦班与爱尔克莱卫（Aage Kvalbein & Iver Kleive）分别演奏大提琴与钢琴，属於疗癒系音乐。延续这个概念，「醉人感觉」想要带给听者大海一般的沉静、静心，为此KKV特地将两位音乐家带到全球最北端的录音室，往外望去即是一片雪白洁净的北极海景观，让音乐家的精神融入天地之间。您会发现艾吉瓦班和爱尔克莱卫演奏如巴哈「Air」、「Ave Maria」、孟克的「O bli hos meg」等多首古典或是跨界小品，散发出比以往更纯粹、更深邃的气味。

关于DECCA的《Ultimate》系列：
DECCA 《Ultimate》系列包括多套5CD一组的主题选集，着重地介绍了各个时代的大师们最有影响力、最广为流传的古典音乐作品，其中包括贝多芬、巴赫、肖邦、柴可夫斯基、莫扎特、舒伯特等的必听之作。此外，该系列还以不同体裁作为类别划分，加入了古典小提琴、大提琴、钢琴、钢琴协奏曲、休闲古典、巴洛克、歌剧等主题选集。虽然这个系列中某些选曲的录音年份有些久远，但演绎者中不乏宗师级的人物，故欣赏价值也是颇高的。全系列由环球公司下属的德国EDC压片生产，品质优良，而封面设计则简约而不失典雅。该系列比较适合初涉古典音乐的朋友欣赏、收藏，通过这套入门级的CD能对古典音乐有一个基本的、初步的认知和了解。而已是古典音乐爱好者的乐友，或许也能从中找到一些自己可能还没有听过的演绎版本。

Award-winning Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has premiered the first song from his new album 'The Chopin Project' - a collaboration with German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott - on The Line Of Best Fit.

The track is titled 'Verses', and gives us a taste of what is to come on March 16th, when the album in full will be released.

Arnalds utilised vintage equipment and techniques to create this stunning, melancholy new reimagining of Chopin's work.

"Verses is a new composition by me which uses the famous right hand motif from Piano Sonata No3 (Largo) and is followed by that part of that Sonata in its original version played on the piano by Alice," Arnalds explained to Line Of Best Fit. "So you hear the motif first recomposed arranged for a string quartet and then just a couple of minutes you will hear it in it's original state played on the piano.

"With this I wanted to show listeners quite clearly what I was doing with 'Verses', which they might not realise is composed around a motif from the sonata unless they hear the original sonata next to it."