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Loris Barrucand – Rebel & Boismortier: Les caractères d’Ulysse. Suites pour deux clavecins (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:01 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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The discovery of Rebel’s (1666-1747) Dance Symphonies, a genre mixing dance and pantomime in which the narration is delivered by the dancer alone, was a defining moment in the passion of harpsichordist duo Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy. Rebel, the author of a single Lyric Tragedy, Ulysse (1703), and Elémens (1737) a suite of symphonies famed for its initial Chaos, was first and foremost a composer of symphonies that were made to be danced. Among them is Les Caractères de la Danse (1715), an uninterrupted succession of fourteen dances that enjoyed a dazzling success. Remaining faithful to his time, Rebel intended for them to be played “like a piece on the harpsichord”. So why not two? The mastery of four virtuoso hands brings the two historic harpsichords of the Château de Versailles alive, playing them as a duet for the first time. The ten year partnership of the two performers brings all the flamboyance of Boismortier’s Ballet de Village to Ruckers’ (1628) and Blanchet’s (1746) harpsichords, while distilling the lightness of Belle Danse and the rebellious Characters of Ulysse.
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Lorin Maazel – Britten: War Requiem (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:32:59 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Classical
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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid. The traditional Latin texts are interspersed, in telling juxtaposition, with settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, written in World War I. The work is scored for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, chorus, boys’ choir, organ, and two orchestras (a full orchestra and a chamber orchestra). The chamber orchestra accompanies the intimate settings of the English poetry, while soprano, choirs and orchestra are used for the Latin sections; all forces are combined in the conclusion. The Requiem has a duration of approximately 90 minutes.
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Lori Williams – Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There is a Season) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:03 minutes | 153 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Setlist unabashedly plays favorites, and Lori Williams is by any measure near the top of the favorites list. This D.C. vocalist’s instrument contains the kind of nuances that one could get lost in. She has the kind of attenuation and subtlety that we associate with jazz singing instantly—a kind of jazz-vocal ‘discipline,’ for lack of a better term. But Williams slips in hints—and sometimes dead giveaways—that she has packed away the kind of soul power that would make her a tremendous R&B or gospel singer. Perhaps it’s a sort of vocalist’s twist on Ernest Hemingway’s “iceberg theory”: What you hear on the surface is only about 10 percent of what’s really there. As it happens, what is there is crystalline clarity, perhaps the most precise articulation of any singer in town, and a range that will, when she runs it, produce shivers. “She’s got a soft-edged, creamy voice that’s a natural vehicle for introspection, but also one that you could happily curl up and get lost in. It’s stunning, supple subtle, sumptuous, soulful music – let’s call that the five Ss of Lori Williams, shall we?”
Michael J. West – The Washington City Paper
Lori Williams – Out of the Box (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:32 minutes | 800 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LoriJazz-CSI
DC Legend Lori Williams has a new project out called “Out Of The Box”. Although she’s been known in the Straight-Ahead Jazz ranks and is beloved in parts of Europe and Russia, this time, she’s going in a different direction as she looks to expand her audience here in the US and abroad. She’s not coming alone as she joins up with Tom Browne, Will Downing, Nathan East, and Maysa, to name a select few.
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Lori Williams – A New Book (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Lori Williams’ sensual surround sound vocals are like three lovers in your ears and mind at the same time.”
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Lori McKenna – The Tree (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:25 minutes | 712 MB | Genre: Pop
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Lori McKenna is quite something. Her influence in country folk is not to be taken lightly. Nominated several times for a Grammy Award, she became the first songwriter of the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2017. It’s not a senseless victory for McKenna, especially with this eleventh album The Tree, whose tone is rather feminist. Lori McKenna once again teams up with producer Dave Cobb. He had already helped her with her previous album, The Bird And The Rifle, which had won three Grammys. After all this time, McKenna has faced many changes. She is not this young woman who wrote texts and sung in small venues anymore. She has become a wife and a mother. The Tree is therefore a window on family life, the first love declarations and the importance of family. It’s not surprising then that her son, Christopher McKenna, takes part in the album by playing the mellotron… McKenna doesn’t make use of useless flourish or overrated coloraturas. She settles for simplicity and her love for country music, which is very present in the riffs of Young And Angry Again. A tender relationship is almost established here. Like with a rather wise woman, who tries to confess her life and that we listen to attentively. She highlights with A Mother Never Rests or You Can’t Break a Woman a rather melancholic and intense side that she manages to contrast with the dynamism of You Can’t Break a Woman. – Anna Coluthe
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Lori Lieberman featuring Matangi Quartet – The Girl And The Cat (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 637 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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When singer/songwriter Lori Lieberman wrote the worldwide hit ‘Killing Me Softly’ in the early 70’s, her life changed forever. She became part of the renowned West Coast scene that also featured artists like The Eagles, Joni Mitchell, John Stewart which led to collaborations with Leonard Cohen amongst others. Her new album ‘The Girl And The Cat’ sees her working with the Matangi Quartet, a Dutch string quartet well known for their groundbreaking collaborations with other musicians, both classical and popular. For this album, besides writing her lyrics and songs, she also arranged the scores and orchestrated for the string instruments with Stefanie Fife. The album release will be accompanied by a show in Carnegie Hall, followed by a Dutch tour.
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Loretta Lynn – Still Woman Enough (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:14 minutes | 425 MB | Genre: Country
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The American music icon’s 50th studio album (excluding her 10 studio duet collaborations with Conway Twitty), Still Woman Enough celebrates women in country music. From her homage to the originators, Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Family (via her cover of “Keep On The Sunny Side”) through a new interpretation of her very first single, “I’m A Honky Tonk Girl,” Loretta Lynn acknowledges her role in the continuum of American country music with a special collaboration with Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood (“Still Woman Enough”), and duets with Margo Price (“One’s On The Way”) and Tanya Tucker (“You Ain’t Woman Enough”), sharing the musical torch with some of the brightest lights and biggest stars in contemporary country music. The album premieres 13 new Loretta Lynn recordings, intimate and electrifying performances of a career-spanning selection of songs illuminating different aspects of her repertoire. The collection is centred around Loretta’s original compositions – from new songs like “Still Woman Enough” (which shares its title and attitude with her 2002 autobiography and was cowritten with her daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell) through fresh interpretations of classics including “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl” (her first single, originally released March 1960), “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (the title track for her first #1 Billboard Hot Country Album in 1966), “My Love” (from 1968’s Here’s Loretta Lynn), “I Wanna Be Free” (1971) and a deeply emotional “Coal Miner’s Daughter Recitation,” commemorating the 50th anniversary of the release of her signature song (October 5, 1970) and album (January 4, 1971).
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Loretta Lynn – Full Circle (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:54 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
Full Circle is the first new studio album in over ten years from American music icon Loretta Lynn. Produced by Patsy Lynn Russell and John Carter Cash, and recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Full Circle takes listeners on a journey through Loretta’s musical story, from the Appalachian folk songs and gospel music she learned as a child, to new interpretations of her classic hits and country standards, to songs newly-written for the project. Drawing inspiration from personal memories and deep connections to American music, Lynn’s 13 new recordings capture the essence of these songs in intimate new performances. The album is volume one of the Cash Cabin recordings, a series of new album projects imagined and created at the storied Cash Cabin Studio.
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Lorenzo Vitolo – Changing Shapes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Changing Shapes is Lorenzo Vitolo’s debut recording project whose songs were written during different moments of his musical and artistic growth. The thread that links these compositions is the continuous change of shapes and notes, of spaces and times, of thoughts and feelings.
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Lorenzo Nardocci Trio – Secondo Me (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:52 minutes | 696 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
This is the second album from Lorenzo Nardocci Trio: awesome!
It includes six new compositions developed during the last year through great interplay with Andreas and Terje. Themes are based on life´s everyday moments and on important people in my life: This is, in fact, the essence of the album title Secondo Me (According to me). That is also the way the album opens: Secondo Me is a light C-major melody on a sweet samba, a reflection on how much I love life, music, and this beautiful instrument with its endless sounds and expressions.
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Lorenzo Naccarato – Nova Rupta (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:17 minutes | 362 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Lorenzo Naccarato is back, with his trio. His second opus, “Nova Rupta”, is worthy of the promises that had been raised by the first, in 2016. Better, the whole has matured. In cohesion. Without giving up an iota of what was already his power of seduction. Namely, it immediately devastates the listener. Take him on a dreamlike journey. An enchanted world – and enchanting. A music in movement. Kinetic, or kinematic.
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Lorenzo Ghielmi & La Divina Armonia – Frescobaldi: Motets and Organ Works (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:25 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
The Monteverdi contemporary Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) is now unfortunately almost exclusively seen as an important and influential composer of works for keyboard instruments, but he also composed both sacred and secular vocal music throughout his entire creative period. The Italian Lorenzo Ghielmi and his ensemble La Divina Armonia show in their recording with PASSACAILLE that sacred vocal music is no less important and in connection with his organ works even results in a particularly charming program. La Divina Armonia was founded by Lorenzo Ghielmi in 2005. All the musicians involved in the Italian group have distinguished themselves for many years in the performance of Baroque music as soloists and musicians in several of the most renowned ensembles in this field. In La Divina Armonia theyre coming together to play music from the Baroque up to the early Classical period, playing extraordinarily vividly, but in a beautifully cantabile manner at the same time.
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Lorenzo Ghielmi & Ensemble Biscantores – A Late Medieval Mass on the Rysum Organ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
In the German village of Rysum, in East Frisia, a precious instrument is preserved: an ancient organ, built in 1442/1513, which still has most of the original pipes. Lorenzo Ghielmi and the vocal ensemble Biscantores present a sort of “organ Mass”, where organ pieces and liturgical chant alternate according to the practice of the time. A journey between the late Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance – this is how you could describe this musical programme, set up in collaboration with the musicologist Konrad Küster, which perfectly illustrates the unique sounds of this instrument.
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Lorenzo Ghielmi – Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, BWV 1021-1024 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:18 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
With its recording of Handel organ concertos Op.4 (PAS944), the ensemble La Divina Armonia under Lorenzo Ghielmi impressively demonstrated that they can add new tunes to well-known standard repertoire, which requires interpretative taste, superior technology and exceptional natural musicality. The musicians prove that they have all of this in abundance with their recording of three Bach concertos which experienced a makeover by the performers, without distorting the works.
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