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Noriko Ogawa - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (1997)

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Noriko Ogawa - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (1997)

Noriko Ogawa - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (1997)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 1:20:09 | 288 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-900

Lovers of Rachmaninov's Second and Third Piano Concertos should rush to buy, while it's still available, this magnificent CD by Noriko Ogawa, Owain Arwel Hughes, and the Malmo [Sweden] Symphony Orchestra. The Ogawa-Hughes-Malmo recording belongs alongside legendary performances by Argerich, Ashkenazy, Horowitz, Janis, Kapell, and the composer himself, and it is second to none in overall excellence.

Noriko Ogawa, Malaysian PO, Kees Bakels - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol; Piano Concerto; Sadko, etc (2004)

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Noriko Ogawa, Malaysian PO, Kees Bakels - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol; Piano Concerto; Sadko, etc (2004)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol; Piano Concerto; Sadko;
The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Suite; Russian Easter Festival Overture (2004)
Noriko Ogawa (piano); Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra; Kees Bakels, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 302 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 179 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1387 | Time: 01:16:40

One major popular composer of Romantic orchestral music whose work, outside of his ubiquitous symphonic suite Scheherazade, is not terribly over-recorded is Russia's Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. That, and a tendency toward what for him was an "orientalist" strain in harmonic practice and orchestration, makes Rimsky-Korsakov an ideal choice for the recordings on BIS of a relatively new ensemble, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1997 by conductor Kees Bakels. It is a testament to the skill of Bakels as an orchestra builder that he has raised such a fine musical organization in just eight years. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol is intended as a follow-up to the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of Scheherazade, already issued, and as an added bonus, the great Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa joins the orchestra as guest in Rimsky-Korsakov's all-too-seldom-heard Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 30. The music, recorded at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas Hall in Kuala Lumpur, is both very well played and recorded. The Capriccio Espagnol gets off to a great start, with Bakels the orchestra is strongly sympathetic to the piece, though careful ears can pick out some raggedy ensemble in the last section. Ogawa alone is enough to make the Piano Concerto shine, and thankfully Bakels provides comfortable and gracious support to Ogawa's magisterial artistry.

Noriko Ogawa - Yoshihiro Kanno: Light, Water, Rainbow... (2015)

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Noriko Ogawa - Yoshihiro Kanno: Light, Water, Rainbow... (2015)

Noriko Ogawa - Yoshihiro Kanno: Light, Water, Rainbow… (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2075 | Time: 01:12:09

Born in 1953, Yoshihiro Kanno studied at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and is currently a professor at Waseda University's Department of Intermedia Arts and Science. In his compositions he bases himself on three idioms: Western instrumental music, Japanese traditional instruments, and computer music. Combining these various elements freely, he creates scores for Japanese instruments and computer as well as for Western and Japanese instruments, such as the recent work Himiko – Memories of the Sun Goddess which fuses Western classical music and Japanese traditional music with Kabuki and Japanese classical dance. The pianist Noriko Ogawa, acclaimed for a wide-ranging discography comprising music by composers from Mozart and Debussy to Takemitsu and Graham Fitkin, is a champion of Kanno's music and has commissioned three of the works on the present disc, the so-called 'Particle of Piano' series. In each work, the pianist is required also to create sounds on a Japanese instrument, respectively a small iron wind chime, a pair of metal chopsticks made of the same steel as the fabled samurai swords, and a set of metal bells used in Kabuki performances. All three of these possess particular acoustical traits which affect how their sounds interact with that of the piano.

Noriko Ogawa - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 10-12 (K 330-332) (2012)

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Noriko Ogawa - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 10-12 (K 330-332) (2012)

Noriko Ogawa - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 10-12 (K 330-332) (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 246 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-1985 | Time: 01:16:00

While its unpretentious cover photo and small text don't proclaim it as an important recording, Noriko Ogawa's 2012 SACD of Mozart piano sonatas is the kind of sleeper album that quietly asserts its value and convinces purely through the beauty of the music. The three piano sonatas presented here also have that kind of unassuming quality. Mozart composed them as teaching pieces, suitable for players of modest skills, yet they have become extremely popular and rank among his best loved works. Ogawa plays them with a light touch that suits their simplicity, and her interpretations of K. 330, K. 331 (famous for its Rondo alla Turca), and K. 332 are transparent and almost naïve, but for the subtlety of attack, balanced phrasing, and shaded dynamics that reveal her artistry. BIS provides nearly ideal sound quality for Ogawa, offering clean reproduction and reasonably close microphone placement that make listening effortless.

Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 5 – Esoterik Satie (2022)

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Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 5 – Esoterik Satie (2022)

Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 5 – Esoterik Satie (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 199 MB
1:15:25 | Classical | Label: BIS

For the fifth volume in her series of Erik Satie's piano music, Noriko Ogawa reaches back to an early period in the composer's life. A large part of the programme comes from Satie's so-called mystical period. Influenced by medieval plainsong and avoiding all pathos, Satie resorted to austere melodies based on rhythms and harmonies simplified to the extreme; he turned away from the concepts of development and variation in favour of simple repetition of perfectly symmetrical phrases. In other words, he broke completely with the classical-romantic tradition. In its purity and abstraction, Satie’s music from this period seems surprisingly modern by comparison with that of his contemporaries.

Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

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Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)
Gordon Hunt, oboe; Martin Fröst, clarinet; Noriko Ogawa, piano; Danish National Opera Choir
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 296 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1176 CD | Time: 01:18:06

Something of Vagn Holmboe's approach to writing concertos may be discerned in his numeration: they are not grouped according to the solo instrument (e.g., Piano Concerto No. 1), but counted merely as Concertos in the sequence of their composition, regardless of the featured instruments. This suggests that the soloist's role is somewhat altered: still central as a leading part, but frequently incorporated into the orchestral mass as a coloristic instrument among many others. The Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op. 17 (1939), clearly demonstrates Holmboe's procedure, for the piano switches back and forth between lyrical solos and more emphatically rhythmic passages as a percussion instrument. Holmboe's Concerto No. 3 for clarinet and orchestra, Op. 21 (1940-1942), also presents interesting mixtures of the instrument's distinctive tone with other timbres, most strikingly with the brass section. The Concerto No. 7 for oboe and orchestra, Op. 37 (1944-1945), is most beguiling in the many chamber-like, concertino combinations of the oboe with other woodwinds. Pianist Noriko Ogawa, clarinetist Martin Frost, and oboist Gordon Hunt strike the right balance with conductor Owain Arwel Hughes and the Ålborg Symphony Orchestra, since all give prominence to the leading part where Holmboe indicates, but equal attention to the ever-shifting background textures.

Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2021)

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Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2021)

Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 230 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:58
Classical | Label: BIS

For the fourth instalment in her acclaimed Satie cycle, Noriko Ogawa has gathered music written for the stage – from the pantomime Jack in the Box (1899) to the ballet Relâche (1924) – one of Satie’s last works. Several of the pieces exist in different scorings, but the piano versions heard here are all Satie’s own. Throughout the programme, what comes across strongly is the influence of music hall and cabaret; composed in 1900, Prélude de « La mort de Monsieur Mouche » even offers a hint of the ragtime, one of the first appearances of the genre in European music.

Michael Collins & Noriko Ogawa - La clarinette parisienne (2021)

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Michael Collins & Noriko Ogawa - La clarinette parisienne (2021)

Michael Collins & Noriko Ogawa - La clarinette parisienne (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:38
Classical | Label: BIS

Up until around 1900 the clarinet repertoire was dominated by music from the German-speaking lands, largely due to the influence of three outstanding clarinetists. Inspired by Anton Stadler, Heinrich Bärmann and Richard Mühlfeld respectively, Mozart, Weber and Brahms composed some of the finest clarinet works ever written.

Noriko Ogawa, Musikkollegium Winterthur - Richard Dubugnon: Klavieriana, Op. 70 & Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2021)

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Noriko Ogawa, Musikkollegium Winterthur - Richard Dubugnon: Klavieriana, Op. 70 & Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2021)

Noriko Ogawa, Musikkollegium Winterthur & Thomas Zehetmair - Richard Dubugnon: Klavieriana, Op. 70 & Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 251 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:05
Classical | Label: BIS

Born in 1968, the Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon writes music that has been described as 'driven by a playful modern sensibility' (New York Times). His work list includes all genres, from solo pieces to large orchestral works, such as the Helvetia Symphony, scored for the same forces as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)

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Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)

Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 81:44 | 307 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BISCD975

Noriko Ogawa and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra return to the works of Rachmaninov with a disc featuring his first and fourth piano concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Rachmaninov’s first concerto was written while he was a student at the Moscow Concervatory, but underwent considerable revisions up to 1917. His fourth piano concerto was written after a considerable break from composition as he was kept busy as a touring performer in the USA. The unsuccessful first performance again led to considerable revisions.