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Tuomas Paukku Scription – Whirls (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:06 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eclipse Music – Supersounds Music Oy
Top class guitar driven jazz by Tuomas Paukku and his equally top class band consisting of the award winning Artturi Rönkä on piano, Emma award nominee Jori Huhtala and the drumming talents of Tomi Saikkonen.
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Tomasz Stańko – Wooden Music II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:53 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Astigmatic Records
The discovery of Tomasz Stańko’s archive recordings from 50 years ago at Radio Bremen demonstrated the dynamic development of this shrouded in mystery quintet, which was a blank spot in the history of Polish jazz. Released by Astigmatic Records, the album turned out to be a surprise and a huge musical treat for many fans who no longer remember such a fiery period in the career of the outstanding trumpeter. The record received much critical acclaim and sold out in a blink, and Jazz Forum magazine recognised Wooden Music I as the historic album of the year. Now the time has come for the 2nd and final installment of wooden music.
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Ádám Fischer – Mahler: Symphonie No. 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:15 minutes | 760 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Mahler’s Eighth is a special challenge for all participants: in rehearsals, in performance, and, of course, when making a recording. The challenge lies in freeing the music from all of the technical and logistical problems that come with it. Whenever new possibilities emerged in music history (such as new musical instruments), composers tended to introduce the novelty quite frequently in the first phase to show its potential. A good example was the Mannheim School in the 1700s.
The crescendo had just been invented: musicians no longer had to play dynamics in “terraced levels”. Mannheim pieces from that period are thus brimming with crescendos: musicians reveled in the new possibilities. Mahler, later on, wanted to explore the possibilities of an orchestra of unprecedented size, particularly in the Eighth. The effects made possible by such an enlargement should not become an end in themselves. That is the special challenge we have faced. If on this recording we have over 500 people singing and playing together, that is only a means, not an end.……
Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings, Ya-Fei Chuang – Mozart: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:45 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AAM Records
Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) continues an acclaimed project to record Mozart’s complete works for keyboard and orchestra, with this eleventh volume of the series. Renowned pianists Robert Levin and Ya-Fei Chuang join Laurence Cummings and AAM to present Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 7 and 10, the former of which is recorded here in Mozart’s own arrangement for two pianos. Also included is the Concerto Movement for Piano, Violin, and Orchestra, completed by Robert Levin.
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Robin Trower – Joyful Sky (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:18 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue
For six decades, Robin Trower’s career has been an act of quiet rebellion. Rewind the reels of the British guitarist’s backstory and you’ll find an artist who has always rolled the dice rather than take the path of least resistance. Fast-forward to 2023 and Trower’s new studio album, Joyful Sky, represents vindication for his latest flash of artistic instinct. Always receptive to singers who can elevate his emotive guitar touch, the 78-year-old heard a quality in the smoky power of the acclaimed New Yorker Sari Schorr that made him want to tear down and rebuild his songcraft around her.
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Zeitkratzer – Friedl: Scarlatti (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:48 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zeitkratzer
Reinhold Friedl’s new music ensemble tackle the work of Domenico Scarlatti, reflecting the composer’s radical unconventionality among his c.17/18th peers.
“zeitkratzer director Reinhold Friedl and his ensemble present new compositions, grounded on Domenico Scarlatti’s piano sonata F-minor K.466. Commissioned by the dance company Rubato and dedicated to Mario Bertoncini (1932-2019).
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Kristian Bezuidenhout & Freiburger Barockorchester – Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 238 & 503 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:01 minutes | 895 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
From the youthful Concerto no.6 (1776) to the almost testamentary Concerto no.25 (1786), Mozart’s style underwent considerable evolution. In ten years, the young prodigy gave way to a master fully aware that he was opening up new horizons for the genre. With this fourth album in their series, Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburger Barockorchester continue their exploration of a corpus visited so many times before; but with them, we have the impression we are rediscovering each note as if it were the first time.
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Konstantin Scherbakov – Godowsky: Piano Music, Vol. 15 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:14 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Marco Polo
Konstantin Scherbakov ( born June 11, 1963 in Barnaul, Siberia) is a Russian pianist.
Scherbakov studierte bereits kurz nach seinem Debüt mit Orchester im Alter von 11 Jahren bei Lew Naumow am Moskauer Konservatorium, später wurde er dessen Assistent. 1983 gewann er den ersten Rachmaninow-Wettbewerb in Moskau und 1991 wurde er Preisträger des Concours Géza Anda in Zürich; internationale Bekanntheit erlangte er bereits 1990, als er beim Kammermusikfestival in Asolo das gesamte Soloklavierwerk von Sergei Rachmaninow aufführte, mit einem beeindruckten Swjatoslaw Richter im Publikum.
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Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio – Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:49:31 minutes | 3,81 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
The Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio’s highly anticipated BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE PIANO TRIOS (BRIDGE 9505A/C three CDs) is now available. The stellar New York City based trio (Yael Weiss, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello) offer deep, beautifully rendered interpretations of eight immortal masterworks.
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Mozarteumorchester Salzburg & Riccardo Minasi – Strauss: Metamorphosen & Wind Sonatina No. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:00 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
“Strauss: Metamorphoses & Wind Sonatina No. 1” is the second album in a series of six that the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg will release on the Berlin Classics label until 2025. For this album, the orchestra has chosen the internationally renowned conductor Riccardo Minasi. Originally, a concert under his baton was to take place at Salzburg’s “Großes Festspielhaus” in the 2020/21 season, but like so many events, it had to be canceled. Instead, the decision was made to record with repertoire whose instrumentation sizes were appropriate to the conditions: Richard Strauss “Metamorphosen” for 23 solo strings and the first Sonatina for 16 wind instruments. The repertoire thus selected highlights the individual sections of the orchestra, strings and winds, and illustrates the orchestra’s flexibility in seemingly effortlessly realigning itself for the repertoire at hand. It further demonstrates that the orchestra’s constant preoccupation with its core repertoire informs its approach to the music of later eras – impressively heard on the current album of High Romantic music by the late Richard Stauss.
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Mayer Hawthorne – For All Time (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 34:56 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © P&L Records
Mayer Hawthorne’s fifth studio album, For All Time, is the full length that goes the full length. Mayer delves deep into the depths of the human heart, exploring the complexities of love and the raw emotions that accompany it. It’s a seductive blend of dark, sexy vibes that will transport you straight into a smoky, art deco jazz club.
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Matteo Bevilacqua & Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble – Perosi: Piano Quintets Nos. 3-4 & String Trios (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:44 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Puccini once said, ‘there is more music in Perosi’s head than in mine and Mascagni’s put together’. Priest-composer Lorenzo Perosi achieved international celebrity by the late 1890s for his sacred music, and he also composed a fine selection of chamber works that are little known today.
Known primarily as a composer of choral music, Lorenzo Perosi was also a priest and much admired by Puccini. Stellar Italian pianist Matteo Bevilacqua is joined once again by members of the Roma Tre Orchestra in these 20th-century Italian chamber music discoveries. Includes world premiere recordings.
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Massimo Pupillo – Our Forgotten Ancestors (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:17 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glacial Movements
Massimo Pupillo is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, mostly known for being a founding members of Zu, with whom he released 18 albums and played more than 2000 shows around the world.He has also kept a very open and multidisciplinary approach that led him to work with some of the most acclaimed figures in today’s world of arts: Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi (of legendary avantgarde theatre group Societas Raffaello Sanzio), american choreographer Meg Stuart, french opera star Marie-Agnes Gillot, contemporary dance group Dewey Dell, world reknown dancer Yaman Okur, etc.He has collaborated live and on record with avant-garde musicians and composers such as Alvin Curran ( founder of Musica Elettronica Viva in 1966) , with world-famous piano duo of Katia & Marielle Labeque , with classical music virtuosos such as Viktoria Mullova and Giovanni Sollima. He has also recorded with Canadian soprano and orchestra conductor, Barbara Hannigan. Working with Katia Labeque he has had the huge honour of an album artwork designed by Storm Thorgerson, founder of Hipgnosis , probably one of the most important designers in music. With Katia Labeque, he has played and arranged tracks of an album of Moondog music that was released on the most important classical label ever, Deutsche Grammophon. Also with Katia Labeque he presented a special project at Paris’ Philharmonie in 2016, working, between others, with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National).
Massimo Pupillo’s Prayer for the Survival of the North Is a Haunting Ambient Masterpiece. Massimo Pupillo’s Our Forgotten Ancestors takes the Sámi peoples of the Arctic Circle as its theme and inspiration for an instrumental tour-de-force.
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Marius Neset, London Sinfonietta & Geoffrey Paterso – Geyser (Live at Royal Albert Hall – BBC Proms) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 764 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
When I started work on Geyser last autumn I had decided I was done composing music that reflected the pain of the pandemic. This new piece was to be instead a celebration – of music, its welcome return and that unique atmosphere created by musicians when they meet to perform. Its mood was to be predominantly joyful and optimistic, while its title was a metaphor for the music’s underlying rhythmic energy, unleashed intermittently in ecstatic outbursts – like explosions of water and steam from a pressurised geothermal spring. (This idea of tension, boiling under the surface, is a theme I return to in a lot in my music.)
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Mahan Esfahani – Martinů, Krása & Kalabis: Harpsichord Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:37 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Mahan Esfahani’s first concerto album for Hyperion is everything the listener could wish for: definitive performances of three marvellous—and unexpected—works by three of the last century’s Czech masters.
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