The Slight Delay – 50 Shades of Blues (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:31 minutes | 442 MB | Genre: Blues
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Originally in 1982 in Chur founded one made from 1989 to 2016 a small break. Now is the Bluesrockband again on tour. They are again on the way with Bluesrock-Covern from the sixty-year-old’s years and seventies. Thus they play various titles of Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, Yardbirds or Gary Moore. This is broken up by ZZ top and Bryan of Adam hits etc.
Read moreThe Sleep Eazys, Joe Bonamassa – Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:34 minutes | 387 MB | Genre: Rock
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Guitar master Joe Bonamassa once again hits it out of the park with his new all-instrumental project The Sleep Eazys and the group’s debut album Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell. The record comes out April 10th, 2020 via J&R Adventures and is a bit of a departure from the blues/rock sounds Bonamassa is known for. The record is a musical and spiritual tribute to the late Danny Gatton, an amazing genre-bending roots music picker often considered the world’s greatest unknown guitarist. Joe takes on a Gatton track here and reinvents a slew of other gems from Frank Sinatra, Tony Joe White, Hank Garland, King Curtis, Link Wray, and Jimmy Bryant. The lead single from Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell is Bonamassa’s take on John Barry’s 1969 James Bond theme “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” which will light up 007 fans with its blend of orchestral maneuvers and rock guitar.
Read moreThe Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Song of the Nativity (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:55 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Sixteen contrasts the dramatic intensity of music by some of today’s most admired composers with such traditional and modern carols as Boris Ord’s Adam lay ybounden and Henry Walford Davies’ version of O little town of Bethlehem. Much-loved modern classics including John Rutter’s There is a flower, Morten Lauridsen’s O magnum mysterium and James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn also appear on this beautiful album and there are many others which, in the course of time, will also become classics; every one of them by their unashamed simplicity, captures the joy and sincerity of this most wonderful of seasons. This album provides a perfect peaceful and uplifting antidote to the hectic pre-Christmas rush.
Read moreThe Theater of Music – An Evening at the Theatre (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:45 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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An Evening at the Theatre is a reconstruction of the musical part of a masque as it might have been performed in a London theatre around 1685. The English masque, inspired in part by the commedia dell’arte and French ballet, was a courtly entertainment combining instrumental music, dance, theatre, song and pantomime; it enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1560 and 1640, during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Charles I. English art music, John Playford’s country dances and Scottish folk music had their place in the same musical event. The antemasque, a ‘Spectacle of Strangeness’, where grotesque costumes and exaggerated gestures by professional actors were used to embody witches, furies and exotic animals, was played in the midst of the performance. Our programme bears the traces of this courtly musical heritage but is set in a later period during which musical styles were in transition.
Read moreCharles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following a fruitful first collaboration for Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 24, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen return this time with Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23. The works on this recording were composed by Mozart between 1783 and 1786, when the musician was approaching an important personal and professional turning point. First, the Concerto in A major, K. 488, was completed on March 2, 1786, two months before the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, a work that marks Mozart’s return to opera. While Concerto K. 466 is, with Concerto No. 24, the only one by Mozart in the minor mode, that also coincides with the arrival of his son Karl. The performance of the soloist and of the orchestra complement each other marvellously in these two masterpieces whose contrasts respond to each other magnificently.
Read moreCarel Kraayenho & Matangi Quartet – Beethoven vs Piazzolla (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:36 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
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In the program ‘Beethoven vs Piazzolla’ these two composers who do not always color within the musical lines and who do not allow themselves to be tamed by musical rules are being played. Together with the renowned bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof, we embark on a journey of discovery by connecting the progressive ideas of these musical rebels. We have played this exciting program before and the hopeful question always followed: “Did you also record this?”
Read moreCappella Romana and Alexander Lingas – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cappella Romana brings to life the music of Arvo Pärt as you’ve never heard it before, presenting the composer’s Orthodox choral works for the first time as an Orthodox Service of Supplication. Built around the singing of a Byzantine poem called a kanon, on this occasion it features three odes from Pärts monumental Kanon Pokajanen (Kanon of Repentance). Compositions by Pärt likewise comprise the other elements of this service: a Gospel reading marks its center (The Woman with the Alabaster Box) complete by psalmody, Orthodox hymns, and fervent prayers. Pärt’s transcendent “Prayer after the Kanon” eventually gives way to silence, to the prayer of the heart.
Read moreThe Teri Nelson Group – Sweet Talkin’ Teri (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 26:02 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Pop, Pop Rock
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Although the name suggests otherwise, this was not a group. By contrast it was named for Teri Nelson, a young female vocalist from Harlem, New York, who was managed by Steve Camhi. During the late 1960s, the Super K Production company offered the then eighteen year old soloist a one year contract. After recording a few singles, Nelson’s studio sessions were compiled into an album, which the Kama Sutra label released in 1968 purportedly without her knowledge and promoted it as a group effort (comparatively, the artists pictured alongside Nelson on the album’s cover are backing vocalists (actually The Crystals) from the recording sessions). Nelson withdrew from her arrangement thereafter.
Read moreThe Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Poetry in Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:49 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Does music add substance to words or is music inspired by them? Songs of departure and farewell are deeply rooted in the great tradition of British choral music, nourished by ancient myths of testing journeys, wayside transformations and homecomings. The transcendent nature of music and the power of poetry to challenge and alter perceptions of reality – harnessed by English composers over many centuries – flow through a programme that invites contemplation of life and death, of love and loss, creation and eternity. In a journey covering six centuries of musical history, The Sixteen performs a cappella anthems with powerful texts by writers as varied as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Fry and W.H. Auden.
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