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FROBERGER / CASPAR / COUPERIN / MUFFAT / etc
Pour passer la Melancolie Andreas Staier (anon. French harpsichord, late 17th century, Joseph Collesse, 1749, restored by Laurent Soumagnac 2000-4) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Baroque Instrumental |
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J. S. BACH
Early Works Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Who was the young Bach? A rebellious, provocative adolescent? A clever, stubborn careerist? An innovator, as gifted as he was prolific? Certainly a mixture of all three, replies the harpsichordist Andreas Staier in this selection of early works that... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Ein neuer Weg - Piano Sonatas Op. 31 & Variations Opp. 34 & 35 Andreas Staier (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "This stimulating disc, recorded on an instrument of 1810, illustrates Beethoven's "new path". The Op 31 sonatas show an unprecedented, almost improvisatory audacity of harmony." Sunday Times |
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W.A. MOZART
Piano Works (Incls sonatas K282 & K457) Andreas Staier (fortepiano) [ Harmonia Mundi Mozart Edition / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] "Staier is firing on all cylinders in this altogether invigorating keyboard recital. A superlative disc." (Gramophone Jan 2004) |
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SCHUBERT
4 Impromptus, D935 / Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D894 Andreas Staier (fortepiano Christopher Clarke) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "If you love this music, you'll want this interpretation. Staier is unquestionably one of the most probing and thoughtful musicians around today." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine Sept 2009 |
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HAYDN
Piano Concertos Andreas Staier (pianoforte), Freiburger Barockorchester [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 17/Jun/2016 ] "If you like your Haydn decorated, this sparkling disc could prove ideal. Now comes a splendid period-instrument recording that reinvests these wonderfully inventive pieces with a real sense of novelty" (Gramophone) |
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J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations [with FREE Harmonia Mundi catalogue] Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 15/Jan/2015 ] "The first thing that you will notice about his recording is the sound of this instrument, orchestral in proportion and almost overwhelming in its emotional proclivities, something that might well akin Bach to the romantics after all!" (AudAud.com) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hamburg 1734 Andreas Staier (harpsichord) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1-7 BWV1052-1058 Andreas Staier (harpsichord) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 12/Aug/2015 ] The seven fabulously inventive concertos for solo harpsichord and orchestra mark a key stage in the history of the concertante form. The set was compiled during Bach's Leipzig years, when he directed the city's Collegium Musicum, and requires... |
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C. P. E. BACH
The Keyboard Concertos Wq 43, Nos. 1-6 Andreas Staier (harpsichord) / Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans [ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2011 ] "Here is the world's finest Baroque orchestra eagerly joining with one of the world's best harpsichordists in concertos by a composer who right now seems to be winning new recognition as the giant musical personality he was" Gramophone Award WINNER... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Am Stein-vis-a-vis Andreas Staier, Christine Schornsheim (Stein-vis-a-vis) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Nearly 80 years after the invention of the fortepiano, the harpsichord was by no means relegated to antique status. On the contrary, the two instruments cohabited throughout the 18th century, to the point where several makers strove to combine them... |
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W. A. MOZART
Sonatas, Variations and a Fantasy Andreas Staier (pianoforte) [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Released for the first time in 2003 and 2005, this two-CD set combines two Mozart recordings in which Andreas Staier raises the questions of ornamentation and improvisation with a hefty dose of impishness in his interpretative options (as in 'his'... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3 & 5 Geister (with Hummel-Piano Trio No 4) Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Daniel Sepec (violin) Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] "Anyone who has heard and admired Andreas Staier's bracing performances of 18th- and early-19th-century solo piano works, on a variety of historically appropriate keyboards, will be at home with this highly charged chamber-music playing." (The Guardian) |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano Andreas Staier (pianoforte) Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "Staier and Coppola's characterful playing seeks out muted shadings, blends and balances that constantly surprise the ear." (Irish Times) |
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BRAHMS
Cello sonatas Andrei Korobeinikov (piano) Alexander Kniazev (cello) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Dec/2015 ] Arnold Schoenberg acknowledged Brahms' extraordinary skill in opening out classical forms to new horizons. Some 20 years separate the composition of the cello sonatas of this composer preoccupied with the inner existence, who for all his respect for... |
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MOZART
3 Violin Concertos Andrew English Concert/Manze [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Jan/2006 ] |
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LULLY / CAMPRA
'Choregraphie': Music for Louis XIV's dancing masters Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque triple harp) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] Raoul-Auger Feuillet's Choregraphie (Paris, 1700) changed ballet history forever with its pioneering use of dance notation. Virtuoso harpist Andrew Lawrence-King performs music by Lully and Campra in solo settings by d'Anglebert, chosen by Feuillet... |
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Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), The Harp Consort
El arte de fantasia: Renaissance Chansons, Dances & Fantasias [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 4/May/2004 ] " Andrew Lawrence-King's name is synonymous with many of the most exotic and beguiling recorded sounds of the pre-classical harp, whether as soloist or within a continuo battery." - Gramophone |
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Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr
Handel:complete Violin Sonatas [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 7/Apr/2003 ] |
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Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr
Mozart: Violin Sonatas [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |