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Lavinia Meijer - Winter (2024)

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Lavinia Meijer - Winter (2024)

Lavinia Meijer - Winter (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 251 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 MB
56:22 | Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of a brand-new album from Lavinia Meijer, a pioneering and exciting musician and composer, and one of the most important harpists of her generation. Winter is the culmination of a year-long project taking inspiration from the changing of the seasons, and the effect climate change is having on them. The album, to be released on February 2, 2024, features two new compositions by Meijer alongside interpretations of works by, among others, Max Richter, Philip Glass, and Nils Frahm, and collaborations with violinist Nadia Sirota, the Wishful Singing ensemble, and Alma Quartet.

Lavinia Meijer - Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours (2012)

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Lavinia Meijer - Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours (2012)

Lavinia Meijer - Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 199 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 158 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism | Label: Channel Classics | # CCSSA33912 | 01:02:58

Since their first encounter in May 2011, Lavinia Meijer has worked with some frequency with Philip Glass, even though he has never written solo works specifically for the harp. However, many of his piano works and piano transcriptions, after minor adjustments, prove to be well suited to the modern pedal harp. Initially, Lavinia Meijer added Glass's five movement Metamorphosis to her repertoire, on the instigation of the undersigned, the Amsterdam gallery owner Robert Malasch and the American composer himself. After a first and successful performance (in the composer's presence) in the Amsterdam 'pop temple' The Melkweg, a first official recording was made for Channel Classics in June 2011 in the Dutch town of Schiedam. Since this recording was exclusively intended for a brief national marketing campaign, it has now been followed up by this complete Glass CD for international distribution. Lavinia Meijer is recognized worldwide as one of the most successful rising stars. Besides performing the standard harp repertoire Lavinia Meijer is very keen on playing modern music.

Lavinia Meijer - Passaggio: Ludovico Einaudi By Lavinia (2013)

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Lavinia Meijer - Passaggio: Ludovico Einaudi By Lavinia (2013)

Lavinia Meijer - Passaggio: Ludovico Einaudi By Lavinia (2013)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 199 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Label: Sony Classical | # 88883784082 | Time: 00:57:56
Modern Classical, Contemporary, Crossover, New Age

Passaggio, Lavinia Meijer's first release on Sony, is an album of the crossover music of Ludovico Einaudi, an Italian composer and pianist who encouraged the Dutch harpist to record some of his most popular pieces. The playing on this 2013 album is highly polished and appealing, and Meijer demonstrates considerable powers of concentration and precision in performances of her harp transcriptions of Einaudi's keyboard music. Some will find Meijer's renditions emotionally communicative and mood enhancing, and most of the credit for their effectiveness belongs to her, because Einaudi's modal harmonies and conventional patterns tend toward a bland prettiness, or pretty blandness, that's all of a piece. Simple melodies and repeated arpeggiated chords have the instant attraction of minimalist music, and simplicity is often a virtue in the proper context. Sony's recording is clear and close-up, and Meijer has presence in a fairly resonant studio space.

Lavinia Meijer - The Glass Effect (The Music Of Philip Glass) (2016) 2CDs

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Lavinia Meijer - The Glass Effect (The Music Of Philip Glass) (2016) 2CDs

Lavinia Meijer - The Glass Effect (The Music Of Philip Glass) (2016) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 410 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 295 Mb | Scans included
Label: Sony Classical | # 88985351432 | Time: 01:56:07
Classical, Minimalism, Contemporary

An album the majority of whose contents consists of harp arrangements of music by Philip Glass might seem a bit arcane for a major label, but it seems that Sony knows what it is doing here. The Glass Effect double album is one of those releases that succeed on two different levels, an explicit one and one that, although not mentioned, is perhaps even more important. The former level here is the one denoted by the title, as Meijer picks up the rather neglected theme of Philip Glass' influence by offering, on disc two, a group of works by younger composers who follow Glass in varying degrees but who, it's safe to say, wouldn't have the styles they do without Glass having gone before. Much of the album consists of arrangements by Meijer herself, and these include, at the end, a remix of music from Koyaanisqatsi that's delightful and would be spoiled by description. But there's also solo harp music: sample the Suite for Harp by progressive rock musician Bryce Dessner, who certainly seems to have absorbed Glass' style far enough to make it his own.

Lavinia Meijer - Salzedo, Caplet, Ibert: Works for Harp (2008)

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Lavinia Meijer - Salzedo, Caplet, Ibert: Works for Harp (2008)

Lavinia Meijer - Salzedo, Caplet, Ibert: Works for Harp (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 75:45 | 240 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Channel Classics | Catalog: CCS SA 28908

Korean-born Dutch harpist Lavinia Meijer states as her goal "to make the harp better known as a solo instrument, with all its possibilities which are often still unknown to the wider audience." With this release she accomplishes her goal, not so much technically as musically. The harp does not do so much here that the attentive listener to the big early film scores won't have heard before. But Meijer's album falls nicely into the group of releases that are reconstructing the virtuoso solo repertoire of a century ago, rediscovering gems that were swept aside by self-serving modernist imperatives.

Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere?: Meijer, Arnalds, Stréliski, Preisner, Lambert (2022)

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Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere?: Meijer, Arnalds, Stréliski, Preisner, Lambert (2022)

Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere?: Meijer, Arnalds, Stréliski, Preisner, Lambert (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 179 Mb | Total time: 50:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439946062 | Recorded: 2021

Four years in the making, "Are You Still Somewhere?" sees Lavinia Meijer combine original compositions with her long stated dream of interpreting modern composers and musicians for the harp. Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexandra Stréliski all feature, as do collaborations with Dutch pianist Pieter de Graaf and punk legend Iggy Pop. Over the years, Lavinia Meijer experimented with electronic music, jazz, theatrical music, and avant rock. It was these experiments that led her to the ideas behind "Are You Still Somewhere?", and provided inspiration for her own compositions.

Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere? (2022)

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Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere? (2022)

Lavinia Meijer - Are You Still Somewhere? (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 50:01 | 193 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

"Are You Still Somewhere?" sees Meijer combine original compositions with her long stated dream of interpreting modern composers and musicians for harp. Works by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ólafur Arnalds, and Alexandra Streliski all feature, as do collaborations with Dutch pianist Pieter de Graaf and punk legend Iggy Pop.

Lavinia Meijer & World Choir for Peace - Peaceful Choir: New Sound of Choral Music (2020)

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Lavinia Meijer & World Choir for Peace - Peaceful Choir: New Sound of Choral Music (2020)

Lavinia Meijer & World Choir for Peace - Peaceful Choir: New Sound of Choral Music (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 413 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 226 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:38:15
Classical, Choral | Label: Sony Classical

Peaceful Choir by harpist Lavinia Meijer and chamber choir World Choir of Peace is a relaxing musical journey through the manifold colors and sounds of contemporary choral music. Renowned international composers have contributed entirely new works or arrangements for this unique recording project, including Sir Karl Jenkins, Grammy-nominated composer and pianist Hauschka, San Fermin mastermind Ellis Ludwig-Leone, composer icon John Rutter, Estonian pop-violinist Maarja Nuut and German soundtrack composer David Reichelt (8 Days). The album includes 15 world-premiere recordings and music by house-hold names such as Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, Max Richter, Hans Zimmer and Arvo Pärt.