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Alana Springsteen – TWENTY SOMETHING (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:54 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Country, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
A force-of-nature talent with the passion to match, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alana Springsteen is already an expert at crafting the kind of songs that imprint on your heart forever. After learning to play guitar at the young age of seven, the Virginia Beach native began penning her own songs at nine, and soon started trekking to Nashville to co-write with industry heavyweights. In the tradition of powerhouse female Country stars she grew up on, Springsteen instills her music with an irresistible mix of charisma, confidence, and warm yet fearless honesty.
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Ailish Tynan, Christopher Glynn, Ian Wilson, Katie Bray, Marcus Farnsworth, Mark Eden – Stephen Dodgson: The Distances Between, Songs, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:52 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM Recordings announces The Distances Between, the second volume of songs – including 17 first recordings – by Stephen Dodgson marking the 10th anniversary of his death. The Distances Between features soprano Ailish Tynan, mezzo-soprano Katie Bray and baritone Marcus Farnsworth, accompanied by Christopher Glynn (piano), Mark Eden (guitar) and Ian Wilson (recorder). All but Farnsworth are returning from Volume 1.
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SFJazz Collective – Music of Antônio Carlos Jobim & Original Compositions Live: Sfjazz Center 2018 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:47 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SFJAZZ Records
This limited edition two-disc set, recorded during the Collective’s four-night residency in October 2018 on the Miner Auditorium stage at SFJAZZ, documents the SFJAZZ Collective’s arrangements of the music of Antônio Carlos Jobim as well as their own stimulating compositions.
Featuring Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone), David Sánchez (tenor saxophone), Etienne Charles (trumpet), Robin Eubanks (trombone), Warren Wolf (vibraphone), Edward Simon (piano), Matt Brewer (bass), and Obed Calvaire (drums).
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Aerosmith – Greatest Hits (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:02:18 minutes | 3,97 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aerosmith P&D – Geffen
For the first time ever, 44 tracks spanning their five-decade career. Featuring Dream On, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion, Crazy, Cryin’, I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing and many more! Stunning live photography and band photos across their entire career.
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Adrienne Danrich – The Weary Blues: Drew Hemenger Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:47 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © HR Recordings
The Weary Blues is an exciting new recording of songs, resulting from a long and wonderful collaboration between American composer Drew Hemenger and African-American operatic soprano Adrienne Danrich. The two have been collaborating as artists and friends for more than a decade, and the artistic synergy between them shines through in Adrienne’s shimmering and empathic performances of Drew’s eclectic and melodic compositions. Their collaboration started with a set of songs on Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, all of which are included here, along with a gripping and sometimes harrowing song cycle, “Which Way Home?” based on the poems of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Anne Sexton.
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Activity – Spirit in the Room (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:53 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Gothic Rock, Darkwave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Western Vinyl
On their sophomore album Spirit in the Room, Activity is haunted.
Haunted by technology. Haunted by the loss of loved ones. By capitalism and humanity’s relentless death march towards environmental destruction. Produced by Psychic TV’s Jeff Berner, the album is an emotional seance held through an unearthly haze of menacing trip hop, ambient electronica, and synth-based noise rock.
The Brooklyn-based four piece of Travis Johnson (lead vocals/multi-instrumentalist), Jess Rees (guitar/vocals/keys), Bri DiGioia (bass/vocals), and Steven Levine (drums) began writing and recording the album during the pandemic, “to keep from losing our minds”, as Johnson explains. The inherent limitations of lockdown meant that the band had to strip down the process considerably, relying heavily on processed samples and drum machines to sketch early ideas and begin to process the collective trauma. It was also around this time that Johnson experienced a series of personal tragedies, namely the loss of his mother to pancreatic cancer.
“The grief was (and sometimes is) this colossal thing,” Johnson explains, “and I kept finding myself thinking of how I could find her or get in touch with her, like there was a phone number or address and I just had to find it.”
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Seventh Crystal – Delirium (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:42 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frontiers Records s.r.l.
Seventh Crystal, a stunning new rock band from the fertile Swedish music scene, was put together by singer Kristian Fyhr (Perpetual Etude). Initially, Kristian wanted to pursue a solo project. but when the songs started to take form, he realized he wanted to involve more musicians. So, he moved to vocals only and brought in Johan Älvsång (Pinstripe Conspiracy, Lamashtu) on keyboards/piano and Olof Gadd (Osukaru) on bass as the first key pieces, and then recruited Anton Roos on drums and Emil Dornerus on guitar to complete the line-up.
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Serj Tankian – Elasticity (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:50 minutes | 275 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
2020, The Year Of Our Pandemic: A year of social unrest, police violence and a monumental US election. The year of COVID-19 and its mounting death toll. A massive explosion and mass death in Lebanon. Political upheaval in Belarus. A spiraling world economy. Global protests. If ever a stage was set for new music from Serj Tankian, this is it. With his trademark eclecticism and one-of-a-kind vocal style, Serj delivers, Elasticity, a five song EP that run the gamut from hard-driving, electronically enhanced anthems like the title track to rallying cries for his beloved Armenia (“Electric Yerevan”) to the tongue-in-cheek political mash-up of “Your Mom.” Elasticity is comprised of songs originally intended for System Of A Down. But it didn’t quite work out that way. The EP will delight fans of System who have waited a long time for new music.
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Natalie Clein, Andrew Manze, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Natalie Clein adds a remarkable collection of Saint-Saëns’ music for cello and orchestra to her impressive discography. Clein first came to prominence when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 1994; it is appropriate that she performs the music of an extraordinary child prodigy.
The first cello concerto has always been one of Saint-Saëns’ most popular pieces, Casals choosing it for his London debut in 1905. It is a gloriously playful piece that carries the listener along on a melodic and emotional rollercoaster, from the jaunty opening to the eloquence of the second movement minuet, with a persistent yearning threading its way throughout. The second concerto will be less familiar to listeners. The soloist for whom it was written, Joseph Hollman, was an energetic, muscular player and Saint-Saëns seems here to turn his back on the suave style of the first concerto. When Saint-Saëns’ pupil and friend Gabriel Fauré chose the concerto as a Conservatoire test piece, the composer was duly grateful, but admitted ‘it will never be as well known as the first; it’s too difficult’. This it certainly is, with many solo passages, huge leaps and runs that require two staves to accommodate them, and a large amount of doublestopping. Natalie Clein meets these challenges with marvellous technique, musicianship and the passion for which she has become so well known.
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Sergio Azzolini – Kozeluch: Concertos and Symphony (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:58 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
As one of the most respected Czech composers of his time, Jan Anton Kozeluch (1738-1814) composed around 45 masses and Italian operas, among other things, but was overshadowed by his cousin Leopold Antonín Kozeluch (1747-1818), with whom he is still often confused today. Kozeluch also wrote two bassoon concertos. The Bassoon Concerto in C major was one of the most frequently performed masterpieces for bassoon in the 18th century, and with it the Italian bassoonist Sergio Azzolini is now opening the Kozeluch album with the Camerata Rousseau under the direction of Leonardo Muzii. Azzolini is also the soloist in the first recording of the second bassoon concerto in B flat major, an equally brilliant work, but the authorship of which is not entirely clear – the work could also have come from his cousin Leopold Kozeluch. Sergio Azzolini plays the two bassoon concertos on an original instrument from around 1794 by Kaspar Tauber, which allows the soloist a soft singing and agility that are difficult to achieve on the modern bassoon. The two bassoon concertos are juxtaposed with the oboe concert by Jan Anton Kozeluch – the soloist is the Italian oboist Giovanni de Angeli, who plays on a copy of a Grenser oboe from Dresden. The stormy G minor symphony by Leopold Kozeluch concludes the interesting album.
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Sergey Khachatryan, Lusine Khachatryan – Brahms: Sonatas (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:46 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Sergey Khachatryan’s fifth recording on Naïve, and second with his sister, is dedicated to the three luminous and deeply romantic sonatas for violin and piano by Johannes Brahms. Spread over ten years, from 1878 to 1888, the three sonatas are contemporary with his four symphonies and are flanked by the Violin Concerto in D major (1878) and the Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor (1887).
A distinctive, gifted, often heart-rending violinist, Sergey Khachatryan has been establishing a brilliant career worldwide, in both recital and concerto fields. His recording of the Shostakovich concertos with the Orchestre National de France under Kurt Masur [v5025] was a Gramophone Choice.
Sergey’s exclusive recital partner is his sister, pianist Lusine Khachatryan, which whom the musical connection has always been very special. Together, they regularly perform at the most prestigious venues in the world, such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Cité de la Musique (Paris), Auditori Nacional Madrid, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall (New York) and Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
In early 2014, Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan will perform this Brahms programme at the Wigmore Hall and in other prestigious European venues.
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Sergey & Lusine Khachatryan – My Armenia – Dedicated To The 100th Commemoration Of The Armenian Genocide (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:37 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
Dedicated to the 100th commemoration of the Armenian genocide, My Armenia offers a very personal, touching and brilliant tribute to Armenian music from duo partners and siblings Sergey and Lusine Khachatryan. The album presents a large overview of some of the finest Armenian composers, especially those who have successfully incorporated Western Europe and folk influences, such as Komitas or Khachaturian.
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Sergei Kasprov – Exploring Time with My Piano (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:59 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
For his first recording on the Alpha label, Sergei Kasprov, a young Russian artist trained at the Moscow Conservatory, defies the laws of time. He has in fact chosen to create a dialogue between great Baroque geniuses and Russian Romantics: Rameau, Lully, Loeillet, Bach and Scarlatti revised by Tausig, Godowsky and Rachmaninov.
In the tradition of Marcelle Meyer, Glenn Gould or, more recently, Alexandre Tharaud, Sergei Kasprov pulls off the tour de force of freeing himself from ‘Baroque’ interpretative codes and, at the same time, from those of the 19th century, to better get back to the essential.
The excellent recording quality attests ideally to the discourse, respectful of the original counterpoint as well as unfailing digital dexterity necessitated by appropriate ornamentation and the amazing sound palette required by late Romanticism, all on a Steinway contemporary with Rachmaninov. A new talent, an Alpha discovery!
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Seraphic Fire & Patrick Dupré Quigley – Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo Virtutum (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:52 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Seraphic Fire Media
Seraphic Fire celebrates the release of its newest recording, Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum, with a performance of the work in a new production by lauded opera and Broadway stage director Francesca Zambello. The women of Seraphic Fire portray the struggle of the sweet-voiced Virtues against the songless, shouting Devil. Written in 1141, the Ordo virtutum has survived nearly 900 years through plagues, wars, schisms, reformations, and the dissolution of Hildegard’s convent. Celebrate as the women of Seraphic Fire bring this nearly millennia-old masterpiece back to life.
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