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Richard Barbieri – Under a Spell (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:27 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
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Richard Barbieri (Japan, Rain Tree Crow, Porcupine Tree) returns with his new album Under A Spell. The man whose illustrious career began in the late 70s with synth-pop visionaries Japan and more recently as a member of influential art-rock band Porcupine Tree follows up 2017’s Planets + Persona with new album Under A Spell.
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Richard Barbieri – Planets + Persona (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:11 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Ambient
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The Japan and Porcupine Tree keyboardist Richard Barbieri releases his most sonically expansive work to date, with a brand new album entitled Planets + Persona. It is the third Barbieri solo album, but the first to feature such a wide pallet of instrumentation. Vintage analogue synthesisers combine with acoustic performances and jazz elements. Twisted voices are always present, though not in a language we can recognise. Barbieri skilfully utilises the talents of a pan-European core of musicians to produce an album that marries synthesised sounds with organic instrumentation to conjure up vivid, colourful and allusive soundscapes. It’s a skilful commingling of texture and tone, mood and musicality.
Recorded in London, Italy and Sweden, this is Barbieri’s most ambitious solo work to date with a central theme of duality that runs through the album. The title alone – ‘Planets and Persona’ alludes to this, and the dialectic theme is a constant throughout the contrasting and shape-shifting sounds of the album. Take, for example, Night of the Hunter – inspired by Charles Laughton’s only directorial movie , the piece moves through subtle shifts of atmosphere and emphasis, through melodic, dream-like sequences through to harsher tones; it’s a piece that builds to a profound cumulative effect. Elsewhere, Solar Storm shifts gears artfully, with Percy Jones’ sometimes percussive bass work contrasting to the smoother synthesiser textures incisively. Barbieri’s purely solo Interstellar Medium shows that his ability to develop and realise a theme under his own auspices that underscores his innate creativity. It’s but one aspect of a thoroughly engrossing and immersive album.
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Richard Baratta – Music in Film: The Reel Deal (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:12 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
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“I always knew Richie was a great producer of films. When I got to sing some jazz numbers with him and his group I learned something else. The man is a fantastic jazz drummer and an incredible Latin Jazz musician. Enjoy this great music!” – Joe Pesci
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Richard Ashcroft – These People (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:08 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Pop
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Six years after forming the United Nations of Sound — a pseudo-group that lasted no more than a single record — Richard Ashcroft pushes himself back into the spotlight on These People, a 2016 album that finds the former Verve singer reuniting with Wil Malone, an orchestrator who worked on Urban Hymns and Northern Soul. Malone’s presence suggests These People may achieve a certain symphonic heft, yet Ashcroft sidesteps the churning psychedelia and progressive majesty of the Verve’s prime. In its place, the singer/songwriter taps into a certain insouciant sophistication, favoring insistent arena anthems and finely tailored Eurodisco. Often, Ashcroft’s intentions are apparent — it’s evident whenever he’s following the blueprints of “Bittersweet Symphony” and “The Drugs Don’t Work,” just as it’s clear that the dance beats and electronics are a bid for hip credibility — but he winds up with sounds that aren’t the ideal vehicle for whatever vague sociological protest Ashcroft attempts to mine here. If the music is separated from the message — which is fairly easy to do, due to its slippery shimmer — These People functions as a pleasing adult alternative record. True, it’s an album that favors mood over form but after several somnolent solo records, not to mention the botched ambitions of the United Nations of Sound, the cool assurance and shiny veneer of These People is quite welcome. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Richard Ashcroft – Acoustic Hymns, Vol. 1 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:35 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Indie Pop, Folk
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Richard Ashcroft has today (September 8) shared details of ‘Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1’, an album of newly recorded acoustic versions of his solo work and The Verve classics.
‘Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1’ will be released on October 29 via RPA/BMG. Fans can pre-order the record here, which gives them an instant download of The Verve’s re-recorded 1997 hit ‘Bittersweet Symphony’.
Among the 12 tracks is a completely reworked version of ‘This Thing Called Life’, which featured on the 2010 debut album by Ashcroft’s side project band RPA & The United Nations Of Sound.
Additionally, Liam Gallagher features on ‘C’mon People (We’re Making It Now)’, a single from Ashcroft’s 2000 debut solo album ‘Alone With Everybody‘. Per press material, the song has been a favourite of the pair since Ashcroft “originally played it to Liam on a piano somewhere in Majorca in 1998”.
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Riccardo Muti, Wiener Philharmoniker – New Year’s Concert 2018 (Neujahrskonzert 2018 / Concert du Nouvel An 2018) [Live] (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:53:09 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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With nearly five hundred waltzes, marches, quadrilles, polkas and so on in Johann Strauss’ son’s repertoire, it is no wonder that the world-famous Vienna New Year’s Concert – conducted on the 1st January by Riccardo Muti, who is no newcomer to the event since he has led the orchestra in 1993, 1997 2000 and 2004 – still finds new pieces for their “New Year’s Concert creations”. This year, it’s Brautschau op. 417 and Myrthenblüten op. 395. Further novelties come from the Viennese cirlce: father Johann Strauss, with Marienwalzer and Wilhelm-Tell-Galopp, Alfons Czibulka (1842–1894) who kicks off the New Year with Stephanie-Gavotte, as well as a work from Josef Strauss, Wiener Fresken. And of course, as tradition goes, we find The Blue Danube and the inevitable Radetzky March to which the audience applauds in rhythm. By the way, this comes from J. Strauss the father, not from his more famous son. In fact, the concert version is actually an arrangement, very common nowadays, thanks to a certain Leopold Weninger. We would like to add that Harnoncourt performed two versions in 2001, Strauss’ version for the military brass band and Weninger’s version for symphony orchestra, and then again in 2005 in memory of the victims of the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean where the march was not played due to its overly festive nature.
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Riccardo Muti & Wiener Philharmoniker – Neujahrskonzert 2021 / New Year’s Concert 2021 / Concert du Nouvel An 2021 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:47 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Classical
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The 2021 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert takes place on January 1, 2021, under the baton of Riccardo Muti in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. After 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2018, this year’s concert will mark the 6th time that Riccardo Muti, whose close musical partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic has now extended nearly 50 years, conducts this prestigious concert event.
The 2021 New Year’s Concert will be broadcast in over 90 countries and followed by millions of television viewers around the world. The 2021 New Year’s Concert will take place without an audience.
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Riccardo Minasi, Maxim Emelyanychev, Federico Toffano – Haydn: Piano Trios (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:43 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Haydn’s piano trios are among the most harmonically adventurous of his works in any genre, often reaching into remote keys via enharmonic modulation. This album presents a selection both from the composer’s early trios and later efforts, which reflect the composer’s full musical maturity and are greatly admired by critics.
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Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly – La Scala: Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:31 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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After almost 40 years on Decca and over three million albums sold, in January 2017 Riccardo Chailly became music director of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the world’s most iconic opera house. Milanese by birth, Chailly made his conducting debut at La Scala in 1978 as assistant to Claudio Abbado. Chailly’s father Luciano had also served as artistic director at La Scala, completing a family dynasty. This Filarmonica della Scala album is a sonically spectacular recording celebrating three centuries of music first performed at La Scala: overtures, preludes and intermezzi from Verdi, Rossini, Puccini and many others, all new to Chailly’s discography.
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Riccardo Chailly & Filarmonica della Scala – Respighi (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:19 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ottorino Respighi is often thought of as a four-hit wonder for the so-called “Roman Trilogy,” plus the Ancient Airs and Dances, orchestral renditions of Renaissance lute pieces, one suite of which is heard here. However, he wrote a good deal of other music, including nine operas that would bear performers’ exploration. The listener surely has plenty of strong recordings of The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome to choose from, but there are several reasons to pick this 2020 release from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, a group with which Chailly has developed a close relationship. What makes the two tone poems enduringly listenable is their compactness and their quasi-symphonic structure, each with four movements falling into something like the traditional configuration, and with each of the movements unfolding according to an internal logic even as it memorably fills the programmatic bill. It’s this balance that Chailly gets: he never overdoes the pictorial aspect, but he delivers plenty of thrills to the listener as The Pines of Rome marches along the Via Appia, or the fountain of the Villa Medici quietly winds down the day. Further, Chailly offers a trio of early Respighi works that may be called rarities. From the first years of the 20th century, these pieces show Respighi’s melodic gift and the way he began to tailor it to larger structures, which is just the thing that makes the famous tone poems work. A delightful release that lives up to its single-name Respighi title, it gives a sense of the whole composer.
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Ricardo Gordo – Fado Metal Tour (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:16 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: World, Flamenco
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There are several shows from North to South of the country. Of these, we can highlight the participation in the Crato Festival, Fado Museum, Sines World Music Festival, Marvão International Music Festival and Casa da Música in Oporto. recorded your latest live record on CD and DVD.
Most recently, it is Dulce Pontes who opens the doors of the world to Ricardo Gordo, inviting him to be part of his band in international concerts. The challenge of this collector of experiences and emotions is always: to seek his sonority (possibly in new alter-egos and musical heteronyms), break prejudices and touch what he feels … whether on an electric guitar or on a Portuguese guitar.
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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Hans-Christoph Rademann – C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat, Wq. 215 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Classical
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On 9 April 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a charity concert in Hamburg featuring three of his finest and most representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1 (1780), the Magnificat written in 1749 in the hope of succeeding his father as Kantor in Leipzig, and finally the stupendous Heilig (1776) for double choir, of which he wrote: ‘It will be my swansong of this kind, and will serve to ensure that I shall not soon be forgotten after my death.’ He was right: 300 years after his birth, this album with the same programme proves as much.
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RIAS Kammerchor & Justin Doyle – Britten: Choral Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:00 minutes | 546 MB | Genre: Classical
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Having dazzled the critics (Choc de Classica, the German Record Critics’Award) some 16 years earlier with its label debut featuringbest-loved twentieth-century English a capella works, the members of RIASKammerchor revisitone of their favourite composers, Benjamin Britten –this time,under the direction of the choir’s new chief conductor, Justin Doyle. A perfect occasion to discover his new reading of the composer’s enchanting setting of poems written in honour of the patron saint of musicians by W. H.Auden (he would later rename them ‘Anthem for St. Cecilia’s Day [for Benjamin Britten]’), alongside other choral settings comprising this glorious album entirely devoted to Britain’s greatest twentieth-century composer.
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RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs – Mozart : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:40:06 minutes | 2,79 GB | Genre: Classical
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Astounding modernity The 1782 premiere in Vienna of Die Entführung aus dem Serail brought Mozart unprecedented public and professional success. This dazzling triumph did not come by chance: with music placing the accent on exoticism and a libretto celebrating the ideas of the Enlightenment, the opera ran counter to contemporary prejudices concerning the Ottoman Empire. In championing a German national opera, Mozart gave an important place to the spoken dialogue, often severely cut, but fully restored and brought to life here to underline the astounding modernity of the text.
“Mari Eriksmoen was an charming and malicious Blonde with a light and elegant soprano well-suited to the fiery English maid. As Konstanze, Robin Johannssen’s soprano boasted a middle range with silvery tones. The male side of the cast was just perfect. As Pedrillo, Julian Prégardien allied both appealing singing and jubilatory acting. Maximilian Schmitt’s Belmonte impressed by his powerful and manly lyric sound and with aptly executed fioriturain “Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke”… The strongest performance however came from Dimitry Ivaschenko. The Russian bass, combining splendid deep tone with extreme flexibility, managed to convey the comical side of his character, without reducing it to the buffoonery that often mars other interpretations.
Totally at one with the theatrical approach to the performance, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin followed the maestro’s contrasted tempi and played superbly…this performance at the Concertgebouw took place a few days after Mr. Jacobs recorded the work in the studio with the same team of soloists and orchestra. Without the visual support, that recording will be a very different experience but I’d certainly be keen to see if it matches up to my memories.” Nicolas Nguyen, 21 September 2014, bachtrack.com
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Rémi Geniet – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:38 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
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With this programme of four sonatas, the young pianist Rémi Géniet presents a highly judicious selection that enables listeners to enter the exceptional world of Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, which Hans von Bülow described as the ‘New Testament’ for pianists, the ‘Old Testament’ being Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavie.
The choice of these four works offers a very representative sample of the solutions Beethoven brought to the question of the piano sonata. is genre, characteristic of the so-called ‘Classical’ style, was in gestation at the time of his musical training in the last third of the eighteenth century (Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770): among his first compositions were three sonatas which he dedicated in 1782-83 to the sovereign whose subject he was, namely Archbishop Maximilian Friedrich, Elector of Cologne (that is, one of the seven German princes possessing the privilege of electing the Holy Roman Emperor); he hoped thereby to attract his attention and solicit his protection and patronage. It was only ten years later, at the end of 1792, that the new Elector (since 1784), Archduke Maximilian Franz Xavier of Austria, brother of the Emperor Joseph II, agreed to send Beethoven, by that time a musician in his Kapelle, to complete his studies in Vienna by taking composition lessons with Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Haydn was then the great ‘Classical’ composer, the father of the string quartet, the master of the recently created genres of the sonata and the symphony, and a close friend of Mozart, who had just died (5 December 1791).
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