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Balázs Fülei, Zoltán Megyesi – Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:58 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hungaroton
A level of sensitivity such that nowhere is good or comforting, such that only in travel does the soul find calm, and hope for the peace of eventual rest: life is lonesome, and society alien. In this recording by Zoltán Megyesi and Balázs Fülei, Schubert’s most famous song cycle can be heard in the original ordering of Wilhelm Müller’s poems, which puts this epochal masterpiece into a new light.
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Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen, Hirundo Maris – El cant de la Sibil.la & Draumkvedet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:27 minutes | 2,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpe Diem Records
Mystical chants between the visible and the invisible: The great ancient mystery chants of Spain and Norway. Ensemble Hirundo Maris presents the enigmatic chants of the Middle Ages, Spain’s El cant de la Sibil.la and Norway’s Draumkvedet. Both convey profound, apocalyptic visions of the world’s end and the dawn of a new era, traditionally sung on Christmas night. This album evokes the mysteries of winter, blurring the boundaries to the otherworld, transporting the listener to mystical realms.
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Rudolf Serkin – The Lost Tapes – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21 & 23 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:46 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
On the occasion of Rudolf Serkin’s 120th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases Serkin’s last Beethoven recordings for the first time: The two piano sonatas ‘Waldstein’ and ‘Appassionata’, recorded in 1986 and 1989. Due to Serkin’s advanced illness, he was unable to finally approve the tapes at the time. This release of the great Beethoven pianist has now been made possible thanks to the support of Serkin’s daughter Judith Serkin, who also contributed a personal text for the booklet. The recording presents a very personal, wise and tender reading of Beethoven. In addition to numerous photos, the booklet also includes recording protocol and a letter to the recording producer. ‘Rudolf Serkin: Piano Sonatas’ is the first release in the new ‘The Lost Tapes’ series, which brings to light previously unreleased recordings from Deutsche Grammophon’s archives.
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Ray Gallon, Ron Carter & Lewis Nash – Grand Company (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:15 minutes | 1008 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
This is my favorite kind of trio playing – the inimitable and distinctive personal and collective sound of Ray Gallon, Ron Carter and Lewis Nash has transparency and clarity, where every note and gesture mean something. Ray Gallon’s music is informed, passionate, and personal. He possesses a unique rhythmic imagination and a wrought iron vocabulary. Grand Company is a milestone.
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Otto Klemperer – Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” by Otto Klemperer (2023 Remastered, London 1962) (1962/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:28 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
The Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. This symphony was one of Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime. It was his first major work that established his lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. In this large work, the composer further developed the creativity of “sound of the distance” and creating a “world of its own”, aspects already seen in his First Symphony. The work has a duration of 80 to 90 minutes, and is conventionally labelled as being in the key of C minor; the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians labels the work’s tonality as C minor–E♭ major. It was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine.
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Nicholas Angelich – Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:14:14 minutes | 2,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
Adored by the world’s greatest orchestras andconductors, Nicholas Angelich was the idealchamber music partner for countless artists. Butbeyond his unique career, he was outstanding for his quality of listening, his extreme attention toothers and his total benevolence. His passing leaves a huge void that his rich discography, his recorded concerts and his many interviews for various radio stations will help to fill. Mirare wanted to commemorate him by celebrating the 20th anniversary of this recording of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage.
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Mithras Trio – Eros: Bridge, Grime, Eröd & Ginastera (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:18 minutes | 962 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Winner of the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition (2019) and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists (2021-2023), Mithras Trio has gained recognition as one of the most engaging young piano trios. Its debut recording on Linn is a stimulating programme of works by Bridge, Grime, Erod and Ginastera. Titled Eros, it invites several associations with the Greek god of love: the allure of the female form is heard in Helen Grime’s sparkling Three Whistler Miniatures, as is the beautiful maiden in Alberto Ginastera’s Danza de la moza donosa. Frank Bridge’s Phantasie Trio drips with hyperromantic indulgence, while Ivan Erod’s Piano Trio No. 1, a nod to the title, is a work that marries Haydn and post-Bartok Hungarian folk influence, with some French Impressionist harmonies and no small element of jazz!
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Mario Carbotta – Mercadante: Quartets for Flute & Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:04 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic
During his student years in Naples, Saverio Mercadante wrote a sequence of flute quartets at a time when Italy’s musical landscape was dominated by opera. The first two quartets reflect his command of lyricism, thematic invention and use of embellishments. These examples of the quatuor brillant style are augmented by the concertante virtuosity of the Quartet in E minor in which all instruments have more decisive roles to play in music of gravity and excitement that even reflects the influence of Rossini. These are world premiere recordings.
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Madness – Theatre of the Absurd presents C’est La Vie (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:54 minutes | 731 MB | Genre: Pop, Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
After a disparate couple of years which saw the band at their most polarised and fragmented, Madness reunited in an industrial unit in Cricklewood at the beginning of the year, where Suggs, Mark, Chrissy Boy, Mike, Lee and Woody realised that what united them was always bigger than what divided them. Emerging re-energised and reinvigorated with a fresh bounce in their nutty step, the result was their most harmonious recording experience to date. For the first time ever, a brand new album came into the world that they were all completely agreed on. Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’est La Vie is the band’s inaugural foray into self producing, working alongside engineer and mixer Matt Glasbey (Ed Sheeran, Maisie Peters, Rag’N’Bone Man). The governing principle behind Theatre Of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie, is: “let Madness be Madness”. The result is an album of typically timeless brilliance that also reflects the wonky years of its creation, these 14 songs representing the cream of the bumper crop of tunes the group cooked up, whittled down this punchy, focused set.
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Laurent Tixier – Utrique Fidelis – Vendée traditionnelle et baroque (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:28 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EnPhases
Eleven musicians, led by Laurent Tixier – singer and instrumentalist – and Miguel Henry – arranger, lute player and conductor, have selected and performed the finest musical works from the Vendee’s oral heritage, in an orchestration faithful to the spirit of Baroque music.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:42 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue
Provogue Records is proud to announce the brand new studio album from Kenny Wayne Shepherd entitled, ‘Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 1’ Hot on the heels of his critically acclaimed 2022 re-issue, ‘Trouble Is -25’ and follow up to the highly successful 2019 studio album The Traveler, Shepherd returns with a new project that builds upon his already legendary repertoire. Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 1 sees Kenny Wayne Shepherd catch eight shards of honest human emotion and serve them up raw for an audience that needs real music more than ever. “I just feel a responsibility to make the best music I can make,” he concludes. “And I’m really excited to see what’s gonna happen with these songs when we take them out on the road…”
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Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:04 minutes | 487 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © American Laundromat Records
ELO songs were always coming on the radio when I was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination (except for “Fire On High” which scared the heck out of me). With this album of covers I wanted to get my hands deep into some of the massive ‘70’s hits but I am also shining a light on some of the later work (“Ordinary Dream” from 2001’s “Zoom” album, “Secret Messages” and “’From The End Of The World”, both from the ‘80’s).
Thematically, I identify with the loneliness and alienation and the outerspace-iness in the songs I chose. (I have always felt like I am part alien, not fully belonging to or in this Earth world.) Sonically, ELO recordings are like an amusement park packed with fun musical games with layers and layers of varied, meticulous parts for your ears to explore; production curiosities; huge, gorgeous stacks of awe-inspiring vocal harmony puzzles. My task was to try and break all the things down and reconstruct them subtly until they felt like mine.
Overall, I stuck pretty close to the originals’ structures while figuring out new ways to express or reference the unique and beloved ELO string arrangements. An orchestra would have been difficult or impossible for me to manage to record, nor did I think there was any point in trying to copy those parts as they originally were. Why not try to reimagine them within my zone of limitations? In some cases, I transposed string parts onto guitars, or keyboards, and I even sung some of them (as in “Showdown” and “Bluebird Is Dead”).
Recording the album was a kind of complicated and drawn-out process since I was doing all of my tracks at home in my bedroom (drums and bass were done by Chris Anzalone and Ed Valauskas, respectively [in their own recording spaces]), and I kept running into technology problems that would frustrate me and slow me up. But eventually I got it all done. A labor of love. -Juliana
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Gabriele Baldocci – Liszt: Beethoven Complete Symphonies, Vol. 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic
Franz Liszt’s project of transcribing all of Beethoven’s symphonies took him 25 years to complete. His approach retains a deep fidelity to the original score with piano writing that is sumptuously rich and always perfectly suited to the instrument and its possibilities. A celebration of music as an independent and absolute language, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is considered the perfect utterance of his musical philosophy, while the Second Symphony looks to the future as it wrestles with the conventions of symphonic tradition. Gabriele Baldocci’s second volume in this edition (CDS7771) was admired in ClassicsToday.com, in which the ‘Beethoven/Liszt ‘Eroica’ symphony transcription conveys an impressive, multi-levelled pianistic sheen’.
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BIT20 Ensemble – Adams: Shaker Loops (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:47 minutes | 485 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
Shaker Loops is a 1978 composition by American composer John Adams, originally written for string septet. The original “modular” score, published by Associated Music Publisher, has since been withdrawn and replaced by a 1983 string orchestra version. This version was first performed in April of that year at Alice Tully Hall, New York, by the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. The string orchestra version can be played either by a septet of soloists or by a string orchestra of any size, where the violins are divided into 3 parts throughout.
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Andre Schoch & Stuttgarter Kammerorchester – Core (Baroque Trumpet Concertos) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:27 minutes | 514 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Es-Dur
Berlin Philharmonic trumpet player Andre Schoch will publish his first solo album with an ambitious repertoire with pieces from the baroque and early classical era by composers Michael Haydn, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Johann Melchior Molter, Leopold Mozart and Georg Philipp Telemann. The new album was recorded with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. The album title “CORE” represents the innermost sensation, soul and heart of this special music which has been accompanying Andre Schoch for a long time. On the one hand the artist is concerned with the “core”, the soul of the sound, which he wants to express on his instrument. On the other hand the works found on the album are precisely the central and “core pieces” of the 18th century repertoire.
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