Corelli’s stunning La Follia, performed by Michala Petri on recorder and Mahan Esfahani on Harpsichord, brings the Italian maestro’s masterpiece to life in stunning DXD. This quality version of the recording is now available for download only at Promates Music Store.
Copenhagen, Denmark - November 25, 2014 /MarketersMedia/ —
Download a stunning version of Corelli’s masterpiece in the best ever digital format DXD only from Promates Music Store.
Regarded as one of the finest and certainly most influential composers of his generation, Arcangelo Corelli was one of the very first musicians to enjoy worldwide acclaim. Famed for their lyricism and resonant tonality, his 48 trio sonatas, 12 violin and continuo sonatas and 12 Concerti Grossi barely hint at Corelli’s importance as a composer, conductor and performer.
Of his impressive body of work, it is La Follia, his Opus 5 which arguably is his most recognisable. Transcribed for recorder and harpsichord, it is this epic piece that has been brought vividly to life by two of the world’s most talented musicians.
Michala Petri is currently working on a series of contemporary recorder concertos from around the globe and has been appointed Honorary Professor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. A glittering career as a performer has seen her cover many classical masterpieces as well as working alongside some of the world’s most talented performers such as James Galway, Claudio Abbado and Joshua Bell.
Playing alongside Petri on this recording is one of the greatest harpsichord players of all-time. Born in Tehran in 1984, Mahan Esfahani has devoted his life to mastering this famous Baroque instrument and his skills as a performer have played a key role in bringing harpsichord music back into the musical mainstream. So much so that Esfahani was the first person ever to perform a harpsichord recital during the famous British Proms concerts and he was also nominated as Gramophone magazine’s ‘Artist of the Year’ for 2014.
By bringing two illustrious performers together to record Corelli’s La Follia in DXD sound for the first time, OUR Recordings have produced something magical.
In order to do justice to both the quality of Corelli’s original work and the brilliance of both musicians, this latest performance was captured using state of the art DXD compatible sound equipment. Over a period of days, several recordings of Petri and Esfahani’s performances of La Follia were recorded and only the very best, have made it to the final DXD download.
There is no secret as to why DXD or Digital eXtreme Definition is the pinnacle of musical recording quality. With a sample rate of 352.8 kHz, and a resolution of 24 bits in the audio file it is the highest ever quality digital music format.
When a piece of music is recorded and then processed for packaging on a CD or similar, it is most often run through a converter which reduces the sample rate down, and thus the file size, to a more manageable level. Unfortunately, the upshot of this process is a loss of sound quality.
The beauty of DXD downloads is that it is the highest possible audio definition, so the audio quality has never been reduced.
For more information about DXD and sound quality and digital audio formats, please visit Promates Music Store for a detailed explanation of how and why DXD is the new industry standard for digital audio recording.
OUR Recordings version of La Follia was released in DSD on SACD in November 2014, but at Promates Music Store (click on this link), users can download this stunning version in DXD (352.8 kHz/24bit), 88.2 kHz/24bit and MP3 formats.
As a special offer, if a customer purchases the DXD or 88.2 kHz versions of an album, then they will be free to download the MP3 version too.
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