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Raquel Camarinha & Yoan Héreau – Rencontre (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:43 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Raquel Camarinha and Yoan Héreau began working together in 2012 and since then their desire to develop and deepen their collaboration as a duo has prompted them to embark on many new projects. They studied individually at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, after which, in 2016, they obtained together a master’s degree in chamber music with distinction, by unanimous decision and with the congratulations of the jury.
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Redi Hasa – The Stolen Cello (Deluxe) (2020/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:16 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Having worked for many years as part of Ludovico Einaudi’s touring group and performing on Einaudi’s Seven Days Walking project, cellist Redi Hasa releases his first solo album, The Stolen Cello. Inspired by Hasa’s own story of escaping with little more than his instrument from turmoil in his native Albania to Italy in the `90s, the album showcases the “singing” nature of the cello, exploring its human-like voice on 12 original compositions and collaborations with contemporary composers.
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Raphaela Gromes – Offenbach (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Only few cellists are as inspiring as Raphaela Gromes: her cello playing is virtuosic and vibrant, full of passion and technically brilliant, versatile and charming at the same time. She fascinates her audience as soloist as well as duo-partner or member of a wind-quartet, her performance being fantastically challenging and extraordinarily light-footed.
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Raphaela Gromes – Hommage à Rossini (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:39 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Gioachino Rossini died 150 years ago. This leading light of Italian opera wrote one of the most frequently performed and most famous operas in the whole history of music: Il barbieredi Siviglia. Now the star violoncellist and exclusive SONY Classical artist Raphael Gromespays tribute to Rossini with her latest album. Her Hommageà Rossininaturally features UneLarme(A Tear), Rossini’s only original work for violoncello and piano, but it also includes a number of arrangements of Rossini arias for violoncello and orchestra or piano and a set of variations on a theme from Rossini’s Mosèin Egittowritten by the Czech composer BohuslavMartinů. But pride of place goes to a world-premiere recording of a piece by Jacques Offenbach, his Hommageà Rossinifor violoncello and orchestra. Long thought to be lost, this fantasy, dating from 1845, has now been reawokenfrom its Sleeping-Beauty-like slumber thanks to the musicological researches of RaphaelaGromesand can be performed again in time to mark Rossini’s sesquicentenary –173 years after it was composed. For this discographic sensation Raphael Gromesis accompanied by the WDR Fukhausorchesterunder Enrico Delamboye. In the pieces for violoncello and piano, conversely, her accompanist is the pianist Julian Riem, who is also responsible for the arrangements.
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Raphaël Sévère and Trio Messiaen – Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:43 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
The Quatuor pour la fin du Temps is one of the most fascinating works of the twentieth century. Its ability to embody many of the historical traumas and cultural revolutions that have influenced our world right down to the present day is unique.
Complex rhythms, refined polyphony and passages of the most extreme sweetness place us before an existential question: how to create a religious and avant-garde work in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp?
Contrasts of style, mixtures of timbres, and expressive power are the hallmark of Court Studies (2005) by Thomas Adès, which completes the programme.
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Red Norvo Combo, Hank Jones, Jimmy Rowles – Vibes a la Red (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:28 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD
Red Norvo was one of jazz’s early vibraphonists. An unusual star during the swing era, he helped establish the xylophone, marimba and vibraphone as jazz instruments. His career began in Chicago in 1925 with a band called “The Collegians”. He subsequently played with many other bands, including, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, and Woody Herman. Norvo had a quieter yet no-less fluent style than Lionel Hampton. He recorded with Mildred Bailey (his wife), Billie Holiday, Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. Norvo and his wife were known as “Mr. and Mrs. Swing.”
This 2xHD remastered album contains recordings from two sessions made in New York, NY and Hollywood, CA
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Raphaël Pidoux, Stradivaria & Daniel Cuiller – Jean-Louis Duport: Concertos pour violoncelle (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:04:37 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
At the very dawn of the Romantic Era, a dandy called Duport gave the French cello school a number of virtuoso cello concertos brimming with charm and elegance. The vivid dialogue between Raphaël Pidoux and Stradivaria in these recordings on period instruments invites us to discover a galant world at the height of Classicism.
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Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon – J. S. Bach: Köthener Trauermusik BWV 244a (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:58 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
When Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen died in 1728, his former Kapellmeister had not forgotten the five brilliant years he had spent in the prince’s service. He dedicated to his memory a mourning cantata almost entirely based on the music of two major works of the mid-1720s, the Trauer-Ode and the St Matthew Passion. Although the score is lost, the wordbook and other sources of information have now made it possible to reconstruct the work. In his first recording for harmonia mundi, Raphaël Pichon invites us on an exciting musical treasure hunt.
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Raphaël Jouan & Flore Merlin – Sérénade (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:22 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Initiale
2020 is the 150th anniversary of the Cello Sonata by Louis Vierne. The young cellist Raphaël Jouan and the pianist Flore Merlin have chosen to associate it with the 3 pieces by Nadia Boulanger, his former student and the works of two of the most important personalities of that time: Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy. This program highlights a striking diversity of artistic identities in France in a very short period of time. Flore Merlin plays a 1903 Erard piano that belongs to the Paris Conservatoire: its very rich, woody and colorful sonority is particularly well suited to the musical language and the aesthetics of this period.
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Raphaël Imbert – Oraison (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:13 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Outnote Records
Oraison is a musical meditation on memory, history and time, articulated in a jazz idiom. Raphaël Imbert bases his reflection on his own experience as a resident of a village in Haute Provence, Oraison, which is the only village in France to have given its streets the names of soldiers who died in combat during the Great War, or in an act of resistance during the Second World War. The name ‘Oraison’ is thought to have Provençal origins and to mean ‘the place where the wind blows’. Where the spirit blows! Oraison, a series of original compositions which take the form of a textless secular oratorio, is an opportunity for Raphaël Imbert to propose a spiritual and narrative journey with a precise plan, a series of evocative portraits, a different way of remembering, a means of living and reliving through a memory enriched by creation. A deep and communicative emotion that can flower to the full in the ‘classical’ quartet format of sax-piano-double bass-drums, in the company of some of the most innovative improvisers on the French jazz scene.
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Raphaël Imbert – Music Is My Hope (Bonus Track Version) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 729 MB | Genre: Blues, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village
Album after album, Raphaël Imbert is writing a long and peerless musical novel. With Music Is My Hope, the saxophonist tackles jazz by different routes. Including by way of spirituality, and the spirit of the blues. With different voices hailing from far-flung places, Imbert is building bridges between the genres, the better to underline the deep cross-pollination that exists within the south of the USA. This time, Imbert invites Marion Rampal, Aurore Imbert, Manu Barthélémy and Big Ron Hunter to sing reflections and revolts, the holy and the political alike. Above all, this celebration of a history and a heritage never comes off as saccharine. Everything here is alive! Even when Raphaël Imbert and his accomplices cover Joni Mitchell’s The Circle Game or a spiritual as famous as Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel. A straight-shooting offering which even takes in an Occitan rendition of Vaqui lo polit mes de mai… All this lively, highly-symbolic material is magnified by the saxophonist’s grand design, which he worked up with his virtuoso musical wingmen: Pierre-François Blanchard on keyboards, Jean-Luc Di Fraya on drums, Pierre Durand and Thomas Weirich on guitars. There can be some chaotic moments here or there, like in a fight; and other moments have the solemnity of a confession. But however they play it, it is always spirited. Magnificent.
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Raphaël Imbert – Music Is My Home: Act 1 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:31 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Blues, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village
Along with iconic American musicians – Big Ron Hunter, Alabama Slim, Leyla McCalla, Sarah Quintana… and young French artists, mostly from Compagnie Nine Spirit, the saxophonist suddenly evolves into an ethno-musicologist, taking us on a journey to the American “Deep South”. With his unique understanding of groove, he takes us to the heart of Creole and the current state of our ever- evolving oral cultures. He also considers our links with blues, jazz and our roots in a playful and original adventure. He expresses personal experience and musical contacts in tune with this fertile musical ground. That is the full meaning of the improvised musical welcome brought up to date here in Music is My Home.
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Red Baraat – Sound the People (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:07 minutes | 476 MB | Genre: World Fusion, Jazz, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhyme & Reason Records
Famously dubbed “the best party band in years” by NPR, Red Baraat turns that celebration into a full-blown infiltration with their newest project, Sound The People. The band draws upon vast influences, from bhangra music to free jazz, hip-hop to psych, all coalescing to create an album that’s at once important, rebellious, and fun.
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Reckless Kelly – Bulletproof Live (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:24 minutes | 648 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No Big Deal Records
Texas mainstays Reckless Kelly will reprise their breakthrough 2008 album Bulletproof with a new live recording set to be released in June. The first release from the new project, “You Don’t Have to Stay Forever,” is out now. Bulletproof Live, a track-by-track recreation of the original, was recorded during the band’s 2018 West Coast tour as they were celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Bulletproof. That album, issued by Yep Roc, landed at Number Two on the Billboard Heatseekers chart upon its release. With “You Don’t Have to Stay Forever,” they’re in fine form — brothers Willy and Cody Braun harmonize while the rest of the band cranks out the scruffy country-rock that made them such a popular draw in the fertile Texas and Oklahoma music scenes.
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Rebelution – Free Rein (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:34 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Reggae, Dub
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Easy Star
Rebelution follows up their Grammy-nominated 2016 album Falling Into Place with another amazing studio album full of their signature take on modern reggae. Free Rein features a band at the top of its game, delivering anthems that will rock their core audience at their sold-out live shows, while also exploring new sounds, like the acoustic “Healing,” the moody “Constellation,” and collaborations with two of the hottest young Jamaican producers around, Phillip “Winta” James and Don Corleon.
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