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Michel Corboz – Bach: Ode funèbre, BWV 198 & Cantates, BWV 11 “Oratorio de l’Ascension” & 187 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:32:08 minutes | 3,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Michel Corboz besuchte zuerst in Freiburg (Schweiz) das Lehrerseminar bei Pierre Kaelin und studierte dann am dortigen Konservatorium KF Gesang bei Juliette Bise und Musiktheorie bei Aloÿs Fornerod sowie am Institut Ribaupierre in Lausanne Komposition bei Pierre Chatton. 1961 gründete er das Ensemble vocal et instrumental de Lausanne, dessen Leiter er auch war und mit welchem er zahlreiche Konzerte im In- und Ausland gegeben sowie Plattenaufnahmen gemacht hat. Als Dirigent dieser Formation gelang ihm mit Einspielungen der Marienvesper und des Orfeo von Claudio Monteverdi 1965 und 1966 der internationale Durchbruch. Ab 1969 leitete er zusätzlich als Chefdirigent den Chor des Gulbenkian-Orchesters in Lissabon.
Von 1976 bis 2004 lehrte er Chorleitung am Genfer Konservatorium.
Sein Repertoire reichte von Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms über Verdi, Puccini, Fauré, Duruflé bis zu Frank Martin und Arthur Honegger. Mit seinen Ensembles in Lausanne und Lissabon, die er bis 2019 leitete,hinterließ Corboz über 100 Einspielungen, vor allem auf dem Label Erato. Im Juni 2021 gab er ein Abschiedskonzert in Genf.Er starb am 2. September 2021
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Max Barros – Guarnieri: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:49 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Considered the most important Brazilian composer next to Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri had an inestimable impact on the musical life of his country, with a body of piano music that represents the composer’s most distinctive stylistic features. Guarnieri was a consummate improviser and many of his piano works reflect a sense of ease and intimacy, giving the impression that they were composed in a flash of instantaneous inspiration. This is particularly true of the ‘character pieces’ in this volume, from the autobiographical Improvisos and Momentos, to the intimate nostalgia of the Valsas. Volume 1 of this edition can be heard on Naxos 8.572626–27.
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Mark Padmore – Schubert: Schwanengesang (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:21 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Two masterful Schubert interpreters, tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Mitsuko Uchida record Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Beethoven’s ‘An Die Ferne Geliebte’ for the first time. With a lifetime of experience with this music, Uchida and Padmore are the perfect duo to interpret this magnificent repertoire.
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Maria Milstein & Nathalia Milstein – Prokofiev: Violin Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:33 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Channel Classics
Celebrated Dutch violinist Maria Milstein performs Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 together with Otto Tausk and PHION, Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel. Maria Milstein: “Prokofiev’s music contains boundless fantasy and richness. The first time I heard Oistrakh’s recording of the First Concerto it made an indelible impression on me. The two concertos are extremely different and represent separate stages in Prokofiev’s life. The poetic, heavenly mood of the First Concerto is an invitation to a land of dreams. The second concerto sets an earnest and somber tone from the opening melody.” She won the prestigious Dutch Music Prize in 2018 and released the critically acclaimed album ‘Ravel Voyageur’ in 2019. She plays a violin by Michele Angelo Bergonzi and a bow by Nicolas Léonard & François Xavier Tourte, on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.
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Malcolm Potter – My Inspirations (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:41 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Jazz
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In this album Malcolm Potter rearranges great songs from artists that inspired him, sharing and maybe sometimes helping to discover them. This album is the answer to the previous one “Made to measure”, exclusively containing originals. It is also the perfect place to invite many musicians and friends.
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Lucia Veintimilla – Origins, Works for Solo Violin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:55 minutes | 540 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ARIA Classics
“Origins” ens endinsa a l’interior dels fascinants i singulars mons sonors de quatre compositors actuals com són Jorge Muñiz, Francisco Coll, Dario Marianelli i Eugène Ysaÿe. Les seves obres, totes escrites per al violí contribueixen a engrandir el repertori d’aquest gran instrument. A través de la música d’aquests compositors, la violinista espanyola Lucía Veintimilla ha volgut fer un petit recorregut autobiogràfic-musical per aquells llocs que han estat crucials en el seu desenvolupament personal i musical.
Lucía Veintimilla, nascuda a la Manxa, va començar a tocar el violí a l’edat de quatre anys i uns anys més tard es va traslladar a Anglaterra on va completar el grau superior i màster amb les més altes qualificacions a la Guildhall School of Music and Drama de Londres. És reconeguda per la seva versatilitat oferint concerts com a recitalista, músic de cambra i solista. Ha actuat a les principals sales de concerts d’Europa i Àsia i és convidada regularment a participar en festivals de música de tot el món. Les seves interpretacions han estat retransmeses per Radio Nacional de España, la BBC Radio 3 d’Anglaterra i a Televisió Espanyola, entre d’altres. A més, ha estat seleccionada per formar part d'”Art on the move”, un llibre que retrata cinquanta dels millors artistes espanyols establerts a Londres.
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Lorraine Desmarais – Street Beat Suite (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions Analekta Inc.
At the height of her art, the composer and jazz pianist Lorraine Desmarais offers a new work that celebrates the estuary of St. Lawrence River, connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Reminiscences of landscapes surveyed and loved, of people met and appreciated feed the movements of the music suite with pictorial accents. Requisitioning the full potential of the piano, an instrument that is at once melodic, harmonic, and percussive, Lorraine Desmarais paints a fresco with an extensive palette, sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract.
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LLYNCH – We Are Our Ghosts (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:01 minutes | 440 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Crazysane Records
„We Are Our Ghosts“ hat mich vom ersten Moment an fasziniert, gepackt und dann wieder rausgeschmissen, nur um im nächsten Hördurchgang das gleiche Spielchen von vorne durchzuziehen. Was die Saarbrückener auf ihrem Debütalbum fabrizieren, lässt sich dem Genre Postcore zuordnen, doch haben die Jungs ihrer Musik einen eigenen Stempel förmlich eingebrannt. Es gibt ungewöhnliche Rhythmen, völlig unerwartete Tempowechsel und auch mal disharmonische, ruhige Zwischenspiele. „Komplex“ ist der Begriff, der einem hier schnell in den Sinn kommt und den man kaum widerlegen kann.
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Little North – Wide Open (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:12 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © April Records & Music Co.
Following two critically acclaimed albums in the space of just two years, contemporary Danish piano trio Little North continue their quest with upcoming album, ‘Wide Open’, set to release on January 27th on April Records.
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Les Solistes de l’orchestre de Paris & Maurice Bourgue – Gounod & d’Indy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 34:26 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Calliope
After the 1870s war, Parisian musical life was reversed at the detriment of the theatre and to the advantage of the concert with the creation of the National Society of Music, and the “Society of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments”, founded in 1879 by flautist Paul Taffanel. With its creation, this association gave birth to works for small homogeneous ensembles reconnecting with Mozart and Beethoven and located on the edge of chamber music and chamber harmony. A little bit later, Charles Koechlin, then Saint-Saëns, would defend the right for wind instruments to play great sonatas like the piano, the violin and the cello.
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Gyula Babos – Balance (2015/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:24 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records
“Gyula Babos is a motionless traveller. He is seeking for the origin of music in himself with continuous enthusiasm, energy and story- telling desire, but while adapting several outside effects, he always returns to his roots. In the beginning of his musical career as a leader of Rákfogó and Saturnus bands he was interested in the flourishing jazz-rock, which still determines his music as a so-called fusion, meanwhile he has sounded his own musical legacy in it from the beginning.” (Barbara Bércesi)
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Gysler, Pérez, Nick – Neptus (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:01:04 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TCB The Montreux Jazz Label
A clever mix of inspiration, discovery and lightness, wrapped in a frenzied dynamic, reflects the originality of the trio of confirmed artists. Swiss bassist Cédric Gysler, pianist Evaristo Pérez and drummer Raphael Nick meet around contemporary improvisations inspired by the musicality of EST, Brad Mehldau and Enrico Pieranunzi.
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György Vashegyi, Orfeo Orchestra – Rameau – Dardanus (Revised 1744 Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:48:28 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa
The complete edition of 1744’s Dardanus by Rameau did not come out on record until the present release (almost three hours of music) was made in Budapest. Closely linked to the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, György Vashegyi presented the work alongside some unpublished pages, including the poignant “Amour, cruel auteur du feu qui me dévore” which opens Act III, a sumptuous lament sung by the baritone Tassis Christoyannis.
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György Vashegyi – Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6-8 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:38 minutes | 753 MB | Genre: Classical
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founded in 1761, the year Joseph Haydn entered the service of the Esterházy family, for which he would remain for more than thirty years, Symphonies No. 6, 7 and 8 form a unique trilogy in the history of music and are, according to musicologist Marc Vignal, Haydn’s first masterpieces in this field, and probably even for the genre of the symphony in general.
It must be said that Haydn had put all his science and know-how into it, at the time when he was still on trial with the prince, with an overwhelming specification that would give nightmares to all musicians today. In these three jewels of a concise and virtuoso writing, Haydn distributes solos to all the musicians of the orchestra, including the double bass and the bassoon, who are not accustomed to this kind of exercise. It is a festival of sound garlands, as found in the ancient Baroque “concerto grosso”, alternating with dark pages of a moving gravity.
The subtitles, the only ones given by Haydn himself to his symphonies, ” le Matin “, ” le Midi “, ” Le Soir “, were suggested to him and even commissioned by prince Paul Anton to describe an allegory of the “hours of the day” and, above all, of the three ages of life.
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Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra & György Vashegyi – Graun, Telemann & J.S. Bach: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:53:57 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa
The conductor György Vashegyi and his ensembles, the Orfeo Orchestra and the Purcell Choir, are fluent in various fields of baroque and classical music, with a particular predilection for French baroque opera. But one of their favourite lines of work is Lutheran sacred music, and a good example of this is this beautiful work, “Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt”, a period pasticcio with pieces by various composers. Graun (a composer at the court of Frederick II who was greatly admired by his contemporary colleagues), rubs shoulders here with Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as with a mysterious unknown, who wrote several of the most impressive passages in the work.
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