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Jazzrausch Bigband – Mahler’s Breakdown (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:37 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Mahler’s Breakdown is the extraordinary arrangement of the band’s chief composer, Leonhard Kuhn, and turns the symphony upside down: 110 years later, Mahler’s departure towards a new musical language is skilfully continued, just as his wish to fill the parts with soloists. In the 50-minute techno version of the ‘Sinfonia Maledetta’, as an Italian copyist expressed it, Jazzrausch Bigband unleashes its instrumental versatility and sheer momentum. Through their energetic improvisations, the 15 musicians take Mahler’s and Kuhn’s music into the here and now. A rave to enjoy listening to, a symphony to dance to.
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Irma Curry – Love Is A Necessary Evil (1965/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:17 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Irma Curry may not be a familiar name to you, but in the early 1950s she was a star vocalist in Lionel Hampton’s band. In 1962, she recorded a stupendous album for Columbia called Love Is a Necessary Evil.
Irma also recorded several singles with Benny Carter in 1964 and with the Alan Simon Trio in 1985. In between, she performed at clubs in New York and Hollywood, including gigs with Louis Jordan. A few weeks ago, when Fresh Sound’s Jordi Pujol told me he was re-issuing Love Is a Necessary Evil and that Irma was still around, I tracked down a number for her and we spent time on the phone. Irma has the most lyrical phone voice and she is as sweet and as gracious as can be. (All photos of Irma Curry courtesy of Kim, Irma’s daughter.)
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Il Pomo dOro, Maxim Emelyanychev, Ivan Podyomov – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 40 – Oboe Concerto (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:04 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro continue their uncommon Mozart symphony cycle. The idea is the following: put together great symphonies of the late Mozart and youth pieces. Maxim Emelyanychev, who has already gathered the first and the last symphonies – the beginning and the end –, has chosen to record the symphony no. 29 and the legendary no. 40 in the present volume. The ensemble makes us follow Mozart, from Salzburg to Vienna, in the yearning for liberty his life was. Perfectly suited to this repertoire, Maxim Emelyanychev uses the exceptional and period-instrumented sonority of Il Pomo d’Oro to deliver a dramatic and powerful Symphony no. 40, while rendering all the lyricism and contrasts of the no. 29. The Oboe concerto, interpreted by the soloist Ivan Podyomov, first oboe at the Royal Concertbouw Orchestra, adds a concertante supplement to this programme.
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Igor Markevitch – Debussy: Danses pour Harpe, La Mer by Igor Markevitch (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:25 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Igor Borisovich Markevitch was a Russian-born composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Markevitch settled in Italy during World War II. After the war, he moved to Switzerland. He had an international conducting career from there.
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Ian Gindes – Rachmaninoff: Piano Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:46 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Pianist Ian Gindes presents a captivating elucidation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s solo piano works on RACHMANINOFF, a new album of discerning artistry. With meticulous care and interpretive insight, Gindes navigates the rich tapestry of Rachmaninoff’s compositions, peeling back the layers on their emotional depth and their technical intricacies.
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Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi – Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:03 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. Dario Salvi continues his exploration of Marschner’s overtures and stage music in this second volume featuring a programme of all world premiere recordings. Salvi conducts the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra in its first recording on the Naxos label.
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Gülru Ensari, Herbert Schuch – Go East! Stravinsky, Brahms, Hindemith & Manav (2017/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:03 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The pianists Herbert Schuch and Gülru Ensari have been playing as duo only since 2014/2015 but no matter if four-handed or on two pianos, the German-Turkish duo has already convinced on numerous international concert stages, such as the BOZAR in Brussels or at the Antalya Piano Festival. After first recordings by major broadcasting institutions as the Austrian ORF, the duo is invited for the season 2016/17 to play at the MiTo Festival in Milano and Torino, with the Folkwang Kammerorchester in Essen, at the Kölner Philharmonie and in Salzburg.
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Galya Bisengalieva – Polygon (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:42 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © One Little Independent Records
Kazakh-British artist Galya Bisengalieva returns this October with her second studio album for One Little Independent, Polygon. Like Galya’s 2020 debut album Aralkum the composer, producer and musician returns to stories from her home country of Kazakhstan. While Aralkum was about the shrinking of the Aral Sea, Polygon tells the tale of one of the darkest episodes in Kazakh history.
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Fritz Hauser & Pedro Carneiro – Pas de Deux (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:20 minutes | 740 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Clean Feed
Despite both artists enjoying remarkably intensive careers which have seen them collaborate with many of the finest talents operating in free-improvisation, experimental and classical music, Pas de Deux marks the auspicious first ever encounter between Swiss drummer Fritz Hauser and Portuguese marimba maestro Pedro Carneiro.
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Elmar Frey – Seven Colors (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 658 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Privave Records
“Contemporary Soul Jazz” is probably the best way to describe Elmar Frey’s music. This brand-new septet presents bluesy and melodic compositions played with a lot of verve, underpinned with a rich groove and peppered with cheeky brass arrangements.
Elmar Frey, a sought-after sideman in the jazz scene as a drummer, steps out of the shadows with “Seven Colors” and once again acts as bandleader, composer and arranger. He has expanded his earlier sextet (“News From The Past” 2005), with another horn player, which makes the band sound even fuller and more colourful. An illustrious horn section meets a hard-swingin’ rhythm section.
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Cut Circle, Jesse Rodin – Josquin : I. Motets & chansons (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:54 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Musique en Wallonie
Josquin des Prez: the name evokes beautiful, brilliant, even magical music–but more than five centuries since he composed his last note, we are still discovering how to hear him. In this album, originally conceived to mark the composer’s quincentenary in 2021, Cut Circle strives to treat Josquin not as a sleepy relic of the distant past but as a stylish, sensitive, playful, ecstatic composer. We foreground his revolutionary precision and drive while embracing reactions to the music that are visceral and emotional.
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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Ivan Repušić – Giuseppe Verdi: I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:05:21 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
Ivan Repušić made his debut as principal conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra in September 2017 with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”. It was followed by “I due Foscari” in October 2018 and “Attila” in October 2019 (the complete recordings have already been released by BR-KLASSIK on CD 900323, 900328 and 900330). His successful cycle of early masterpieces by the Italian opera composer continues with the recent concert performance on April 23, 2023 of Verdi’s stage work “I Lombardi” – also at the Prinzregententheater in Munich. Authentic fluidity and vocal splendour are provided here once again by outstanding performers and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. The Munich Radio Orchestra plays under the direction of Ivan Repuŝić. – This highlight of Munich’s musical life from the early part of this year has now been released by BR-KLASSIK as a double CD.
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Catrin Finch and Aoife Ni Bhriain – Double You (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:52 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © bendigedig
Dublin native Aoife Ni Bhriain is one of her generation’s most versatile and gifted violinists, a dazzling musician who commands both the classical world and her Irish traditional heritage – From across the Irish Sea and the west coast of Wales, harpist Catrin Finch has also built an impressive classical career and ventured into uncharted musical territory, most notably through her international award-winning collaborations – Double You, their debut album as a duo, features an exquisite collection of new compositions that draw inspiration from various genres, taking listeners on a captivating journey on the wings of the bees across the Irish Sea and inspired by the cultures of their home countries.
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