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London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham – Handel: Caio Fabbricio (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:22:12 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
The conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham brings back to life Handel’s pasticcio opera, Caio Fabbricio first performed in London in 1733 and based on an earlier opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1732). Caio Fabbricio is London Early Opera’s eighth album in the prestigious Handel Series with Signum Records and is a pasticcio opera, a brilliant and well-considered collection of some of the finest 18th century Neapolitan arias by different composers, including Leonardo Vinci and Leonardo Leo, selected and arranged by Handel who composed his own dramatic recitatives.
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Luke Combs – Growin’ Up (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:28 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © River House Artists – Columbia Nashville
“Growin’ Up” is the 32-year-old country singer’s third studio album and follows on from the 2019 longplayer “What You See is What You Get”.
Combs co-produced “Growin’ Up” with Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton. In the run-up to the album, he talked about this experience and the production process:
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Lorelei Ensemble, Beth Willer – James Kallembach: Antigone (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:41 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © New Focus Recordings
Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans were both active in the White Rose resistance during WWII: a nonviolent resistance group of several students and a professor from the University of Munich that wrote and distributed pamphlets denouncing the Nazi government. The White Rose began its activities in 1942. Sophie and Hans Scholl were sentenced to death and executed by guillotine in 1943. Their courageous resolve and persistence in their anti-Nazi views during trial and execution are well documented.
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Luisa Sereina Splett – Schubert: Late Piano Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:10 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © primTON
Luisa Splett is an internationally recognized Swiss pianist. Born in Winterthur in 1983 to a family of musicians, she launched her piano career at the age of five and gave her first solo performance at seven.
In 2004 she completed her undergraduate studies under Silvia Näsbom-Thellung and Karl-Andreas Kolly in Zurich at the Zurich Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), and in 2006 she graduated (with highest distinction) under Yelena Scherbakova at the Universidad Mayor de Chile in Santiago, Chile. In 2007 she moved to St Petersburg for postgraduate studies under the tutelage of Prof. Oleg Malov at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire. She obtained her degree in 2009 with highest distinction.
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Laura Tate – Smokey Tango (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:43 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Blues, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Heart Records
Laura Tate is a singer with a heart as big as Texas and a passion for singing that goes back to her childhood in Dallas. Her musical talent took her to Nashville and New York City, before she settled in Los Angeles and added acting on television to her music career. Her repertoire ranges from jazz and blues to rock and country. With the toughness of a torch singer and the tenderness of a lover, Laura sings new life into American standards and popular music while also introducing songs written for her.
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Lara Somogyi – ! (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:56 minutes | 485 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX
Pioneering electronic artist, harpist and composer Lara Somogyi has signed to Mercury KX to release her debut album, entitled ! (pronounced “Exclamation”). Lara Somogyi builds a new creative sound world based around the harp, its expressive capabilities and electronics, which is the result of a decade’s long dive into sonic exploration. “Every single sound you hear on the album comes directly from the harp,” explained Somogyi. “I wanted to express everything this instrument can do.”
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Lorenzo Ghielmi – Bach: English Suites, BWV 806-811 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:28 minutes | 3,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
Bach’s English Suites are entitled in a way that is as strange as it is hard to explain, at least at first glance. Contrary to what one might assume, these works are more closely related to French suites than to English music. The title is taken from the inscription “Fait pour les Anglois”, found on a manuscript owned by Bach’s youngest son. In addition to an extensive prelude and four traditional dances – Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue – each suite also contains “gallantries”, lighter dances that were fashionable at the time. In these dance movements, grace and melody play together with a compositional artistry that elevates them far beyond incidental music for courtly dances. After the Partitas published by Passacaille in 2021 (PAS 1105), Lorenzo Ghielmi, one of the most renowned Bach interpreters of our day, now releases the English Suites, recorded on a harpsichord built by Detmar Hungelbert after an instrument by Michael Mietke (ca. 1710 in Berlin).
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
Das verlangte Orchester ist groß, zur üblichen Besetzung mit dreifachem Holz kommt ein Altsaxophon (einer der wenigen Fälle eines Saxophons in der klassischen Musik), stark erweitertes Schlagwerk (3 Pauken, Tamburin, Triangel, Kleine und Große Trommel, Becken, Tamtam, Glockenspiel, 3 Glocken), Klavier und eine Harfe. Das Werk gilt in der Orchesterliteratur als anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Es ist dem Philadelphia Orchestra und seinem damaligen Chefdirigenten Eugene Ormandy gewidmet, die das Werk auch am 3. Januar 1941 uraufführten. Erst während einer Aufführung unter Dimitri Mitropoulos und dem Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra im November 1942 entdeckte Rachmaninow, dass in der Partitur des ersten Satzes statt Allegro ein Non Allegro gedruckt war; das Non wurde ausgestrichen. Bis heute findet sich Non Allegro aber häufig noch als Satzangabe. Die Aufführungsdauer des Satzes variiert nicht zuletzt daher beträchtlich zwischen einzelnen Aufführungen. Eine eigene Aufnahme, die Rachmaninows Sicht dargestellt hätte, war geplant, wurde aber nie durchgeführt. 2018 erschien ein Mitschnitt bei Marston Records, in dem Rachmaninow Eugene Ormandy in einer Version für Solo-Klavier das Werk erläutert. Das Tempo zu Beginn des ersten Satzes ist in dieser Erläuterung am Klavier mit 116 Schlägen minimal unter Allegro im oberen Moderato-Bereich.
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