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Kool & The Gang – As One (1982/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:57 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Records
Digitally remastered of the R&B band’s 1982 album. Kool & the Gang need no introduction. They were the top selling Soul group of the ’70s and ’80s having sold over 70 million albums worldwide and have received countless awards. As One, their 16th studio album, went on to become a U.S. Certified Gold album in November of 1982 helped by it’s Top 30 position on the U.S. charts, and Top 50 in the U.K. while also climbing all the way to #5 on the U.S. R&B album chart. The legendary Grammy Award winning pianist, Eumir Deodato would once again take hold of production duties, assisted by Kool & the Gang.
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Konzerthausorchester Berlin & Christoph Eschenbach – Brahms: The Symphonies (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:53:52 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Christoph Eschenbach goes into raptures when he speaks about recording Brahms with his Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin:” They were the ideal partner for the Brahms cycle! A lot of ideas, which I was happy to incorporate into my overall concept, derived from the musicians themselves. And they in turn were interested in my approach.” Eschenbach sees the musicians of the orchestra as the perfect counterpart to his love of Brahms. “The Konzerthaus Orchestra has fabulous soloists, especially in the woodwinds and the horn department. Furthermore, their string sound is very ‘Brahmsian’. We very quickly came to an agreement as to how Brahms should sound.”
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Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin – Weber (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:31 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
200 years ago, on May 26th 1821, today’s Berlin Concert Hall was inaugurated as “Königliches Schauspielhaus”. Destroyed as “Preußisches Staatstheater” during World War II, the building, located in eastern Berlin, was rebuilt during GDR times and reopened as “Konzerthaus” in 1984. The premiere of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz on June 18th 1821 was a highlight of the opening year. The work became his most popular opera and one of the key works of the 19th century. A few days later, the composer (who died at the age of only 40 in 1826), had another piece premiered at the “Königliches Schauspielhaus”: his brilliant “Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra op.79”. This year the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, with its principal conductor Christoph Eschenbach, will be celebrating these historic events. Weber holds a special place in the life of the great German conductor and pianist, as Der Freischütz was the first opera he saw at the age of ten. Eschenbach is being joined in this program, which combines overtures, arias and the famous concert piece, by two artists who reside at the Konzerthaus Berlin and are also Alpha artists: soprano Anna Prohaska and pianist Martin Helmchen.
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Konstantin Scherbakov – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 7 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:24 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
Konstantin Scherbakov is an internationally renowned member of the modern piano world. His artistry and contribution to the piano repertoire and recording catalogue are highlighted in his uncompromising responsibility and selfless dedication to music and piano repertoire throughout his thirty-five-years-long career.
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Konstantin Scherbakov – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:45 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
Steinway & Sons’ series of Beethoven’s complete Piano Sonatas continues with Volume 3. These performances by Konstantin Scherbakov include a thrilling performance of the “Pathétique” sonata, one of Beethoven’s early masterpieces.
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Konstantin Scherbakov – Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:51 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
We have come to the final installment of Steinway & Sons’ complete Beethoven Sonata series with the great pianist Konstantin Scherbakov.
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Konstantin Scherbakov – 24 Transcendental Etudes (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:18:22 minutes | 3,71 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons
For his latest album, available April 5, 2019 from the Steinway & Sons label (STNS 30098), pianist Konstantin Scherbakov pairs Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Études — an ambitious, difficult group of pieces composed with the goal of moving around the circle of fifths twice — with twelve études by Sergei Lyapunov that both complement and complete the rotations that Liszt started. Both sets of études move through the same keys within the circle of fifths, with Lyapunov’s first études picking up where Liszt’s last piece ended.
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Konstantin Reymaier – The New Organ at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:20 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music GmbH
„The New Organ at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna”. For centuries, Vienna’s St Stephan’s Cathedral has cultivated a strong musical tradition and to glance at the list of musicians linked to the cathedral’s history we discover Paul Hofhaimer, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Caspar Kerll, Johann Joseph Fux, Joseph and Michael Haydn, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and Anton Bruckner, to cite only a few.
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Konstantin Reinfeld – Algiedi (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:15 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mons Records
Harmonica and jazz? It would be hard to come up with more than a few names that have brilliantly combined these concepts together. The Belgian Toots Thielemans, a living legend on the chromatic harmonica would be leading the way, together with Stevie Wonder, with whom the instrument has gained access into the world of soul and pop.
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Konstantin Lifschitz – Beethoven: 32 Sonatas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 11:53:54 minutes | 6,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
In a world like ours, shaped by centrifugal forces, even a monumental corpus like Beethoven’s thirty wo piano sonatas can appear in a new light. Chronological examination of its genesis reveals fascinating parallels. – The Sonatas op.2 were published in the last year of the French Revolution. The ensuing wave of political migration reached Vienna and also affected Elector Maximilian Franz, who was not only the brother of Marie Antoinette and Emperor Joseph II but had also been Beethoven’s employer in Bonn. – Beethoven gave compositional form to the triumph and downfall of a tyrant who brought war to Europe and occupied Vienna. – After the international peace conference of 1815, he vigorously embarked on writing modernistic late works in opposition to the emerging police state and its postmodern entertainment culture. Konstantin Lifschitz applies strict criteria in order to realise the groundbreaking compositional dynamics of these works. He shows his musical independence by supplementing the cycle of sonatas with the Allegretto WoO 53, and still has much to tell us about it, defying past and present fashions. The fact that he recorded the massive cycle live on eight consecutive days also makes this set a monument in its own right.
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Konstantin Krimmel & Doriana Tchakarova – Saga (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious “Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs” in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha Classics for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of Lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to ‘tell a story’ for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because ‘they are genuine operas in just a few minutes… mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom’.
Among the great poets present here are Schiller, Goethe and Heinrich Heine. As to the composers, alongside the indispensable Schubert and Schumann, this programme presents a great master of the genre, Carl Loewe, who wrote several hundred ballads: the works recorded here, inspired by Scots poems or Danish legends, are especially eloquent.
There is also a chance to discover the much more rarely recorded Adolf Jensen, a great admirer of Wagner, whom he met in 1861: ‘To translate Wagner’s ideas of Beauty and Truth to smaller forms has been my aim in all my later compositions’.
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Konrad Ruhland – Isaac – Missa super “O praeclara”, Motets & Songs (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glossa
Konrad Ruhland (19 February 1932 – 14 March 2010) was a German musicologist. He was born in Landau am Inn (Germany/Bavaria)
He studied history, medieval Latin, theology, and liturgical history which helped him to gain extensive background knowledge for his musicological research. Under the Ruhland’s leadership, a group of enthusiastic students in Munich formed a “Capella Antiqua” in 1956: known as the Capella Antiqua Munchen, this group was one of the first to tackle the problems of reviving Early Baroque and Renaissance music using a scholarly approach.
Until his death Ruhland continued to communicate his theoretical knowledge and the practical experience to students in numerous courses, music weeks and summer schools, including the summer school at the University of Philadelphia. He was also a much sought-after choir director and had extensive experience in this field.
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Konrad Ruhland – De la Rue: Requiem – Elegies and Occasional Motets (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:22 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Pierre de la Rue was a contemporary of Josquin, and spent most of his career in the service of the Dukes of Burgundy. Here is the earliest recording of his Requiem, the third known musical setting of the mass for the dead in music history after those by Dufay (lost) and Ockeghem. Performed by a precursory ensemble of the Capella Antiqua M”unchen, it is accompanied by elegiac motets of the same period, such as Vinders’ O mors inevitabilis mourning the death of Josquin, or Vaet’s Continuo lacrimas, a lament on the death of Clemens non Papa.
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Varduhi Yeritsyan, Liana Gourdjia, Mariam Dam, Lussine Levoni, Araik Bartikian – Letters From Armenia: Music by Komitas & Khachaturian (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:38 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty Productions
“A composer’s mother tongue is the first music he hears; it therefore determines the “genetic inheritance” of the musician’s sound world. The founding father of Armenian art music was Komitas Vardapet. This recording is released in the centenary year of the 1915 genocide. The pieces in this recital may be animated, contemplative, tender, or solemn, but they are very rarely gloomy or woeful. A sort of trust in the future characterises the “Armenian spirit”. Music is synonymous with hope, it is a way of fighting against annihilation, a tool of resistance. As I contemplate my ancestors who vanished a century ago, I would like this recording to bear witness to the faith in justice that has never fled my native land.” –Varduhi Yeritsyan
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Mikael Ayrapetyan, Vladimir Sergeev – Komitas Vardapet: Piano and Chamber Music (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:08 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano
KOMITAS was one of the first Armenian musicians to undergo classical Western musical training, in Berlin, in addition to music education in his own country. He published both folksong collections and writings on Armenian church melodies, and his work laid the foundations for the development of a clearly defined national musical style. The Seven Folk Dances evoke the specific timbres of Armenian instruments, the Seven Songs for Piano are fleeting and lyrical while the Twelve Children’s Pieces based on folk-themes are beautifully crisp. Msho-Shoror is one of the most ancient of all Armenian dances.
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