Giancarlo Crespeau – Melancholia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:03 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
Né en 1985, Giancarlo Crespeau découvre le piano à l’âge de neuf ans au Conservatoire Eric Satie de Paris, dans la classe de Mayette Constantin, dont la mère Henriette Faure (1904-1985) avait été une fidèle élève de Maurice Ravel et une concertiste internationale. Mayette Constantin a transmis à Giancarlo Crespeau les précieuses impressions et observations manuscrites que Ravel avait enseignées à sa mère.
Enfant prodige, il obtient à l’âge de 12 ans, après trois ans d’apprentissage, la médaille d’or et le Premier prix supérieur de musique de chambre de la ville de Paris. En 1998, il est reçu 3ème nommé au concours d’entrée du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSM). Il entre dans la classe du pianiste et pédagogue international Jacques Rouvier.
En 2001, il remporte le 1er Prix de Piano du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, mention Très bien et premier nommé à l’unanimité du jury. À seulement 16 ans, il est le benjamin de l’épreuve. Anne Queffelec, membre du jury, remarque “son intelligence, sa curiosité d’esprit, sa précocité, son enthousiasme, son amour de la musique lié à une capacité d’assimilation hors du commun, déjà reconnus en maintes occasions par des jurys ou par le public”.
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Gevorg Hakobyan – Arias of Love & Sorrow (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:01 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
Gevorg Hakobyan is a rising star on the international operatic stage. His deep, resonant voice brings drama and colour to every aria on this album. Three unusual selections in Armenian – including Mosi’s Aria from Anoush, the most important opera in the Armenian language – enhance this debut recording. Drawing from favorite operas such as Verdi’s Otello and Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades, Arias of Love & Sorrow joins recent Delos releases including Oksana Dyka’s In Questa Reggia, Oksana Volkova’s Poison D’Amour and Kristian Benedikt’s Tenore di forza in bringing new and captivating voices to fans of opera.
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Gemma Ray – Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bronzerat
Gamma Ray takes an unexpected detour from her acclaimed psych-soul and torch-song oeuvre with a hard-edged experiment in cinematic electronica. Epic despite its underlying simplicity and groove, Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang blends the funeral and the nasty with tenderness and yearning, with a dash of automaton-pop and a Dadaesque playfulness for good measure. Front and center is Gemma’s trademark stirring voice.
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Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:57 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gaz Coombes Ltd
‘Turn the Car Around’ is a record that I’ve been building up to for the last seven years’, says Coombes. It’s a record of feeling, an album that captures the ups and downs of modern life and all the small print in between. Written and recorded by Coombes in his gloriously ramshackle Oxfordshire outhouse Studio, he has emerged with the best work of his illustrious career. It’s an album that both taps into the sonic palettes and lyrical themes of its predecessors and marks the third and final part of a trilogy of records alongside 2015’s Mercury and Ivor Novello nominated sophomore album ‘Matador’ and 2018’s ‘World’s Strongest Man’. At the same time it carves a bold new way forward for one of the UK’s most gifted and cherished singer-songwriters. ‘There’s a lot of subject matter in there that I’ve played with and maybe not managed to see through in the past. I’ve evolved and I feel like I’ve got better at what I do’.
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Gaia Wilmer Large Ensemble – Folia: The Music of Egberto Gismonti (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:11 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
The magical music of Brazilian composer/guitarist/pianist Egberto Gismonti has enchanted generations of listeners. His celebrated blend of folkloric, jazz, and popular music has stationed Gismonti in the pantheon of Brazilian music. Composer/arranger Gaia Wilmer fell under Gismonti’s spell as a youngster and now honors him with her new large ensemble recording, Folia.
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Gabriel Schwartz – Solo (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:32 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © La Prûche Libre
Born and raised in Curitiba-Paraná-Brazil, Gabriel Schwartz had his parents’ incentive to dedicate his time to music and the musical influence of his maternal grandfather, clarinetist and music enthusiast Joaquim Melim Filho. Gabriel Schwartz successfully finished the Flute course with Professor Zélia Brandão in the Conservatory of Brazilian Popular Music in Curitiba in 2001, and obtained his bachelor’s degree in the Flute with Professor Giampiero Pillati in EMBAP – Art and Music School of Paraná.
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Gabi Hartmann – Gabi Hartmann (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:42 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
After selling out the Parisian jazz clubs on Rue des Lombards by word of mouth alone, Gabi Hartmann has stepped into the spotlight in recent years by opening for famous artists such as Jamie Cullum and Melody Gardot. She has now released her first album, which should consolidate her reputation as a young artist as it combines fresh inspiration with technical skill. Conceived in close collaboration with Jesse Harris (a New York guitarist, songwriter and producer renowned for his work with Norah Jones, Melody Gardot and Madeleine Peyroux), this signature album gives Gabi Hartmann the opportunity to lay the foundations of her own artistic path and make every facet of it shimmer by exploring highly refined nuances.
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Franziska Andrea Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Lieder us um Tal – An Homage to Swiss Art Song (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
The Swiss soprano Franziska Andrea Heinzen holds degrees with honours from the music universities of Zurich and Düsseldorf. She completed her vocal art by participating in masterclasses with renowned musicians across numerous disciplines, including vocal coaches (Hedwig Fassbender, Krisztina Laki and Konrad Jarnot), Early Music specialists (Andreas Scholl, Emma Kirkby) as well as various Lied masterclasses with Wolfram Rieger, Ulrich Eisenlohr, Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau and Hartmut Höll.
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Francisco Lelo de Larrea – Ataraxia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:55 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonarte Latino S.A. de C.V.
All the songs composed, produced and arranged by Francisco Lelo de Larrea. Featuring: Antonio Sanchez, Scott Colley, Elliot Mason & David Binney. Recorded on June 15, 2022 at Atomic Sound Studios. Recording and mixing: Fernando Lodeiro, Mastering: Oscar Zambrano. Co-executive producer: Alfredo Gómez Pérez. Graphic Design: Crow Valdés, Photo: David Valles.
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Francine Kay – Things Lived and Dreamt (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:07 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions Analekta Inc.
Die kanadische Pianistin Francine Kay wird von der Fachpresse für die Schönheit ihres Klangs sowie für die Intensität und Tiefe ihrer Interpretationen gelobt. Auf diesem neuen Album widmet sie sich bedeutenden tschechischen Komponisten und hebt die reiche Musikkultur des Landes hervor: stimmungsvolle Melodien, inspirierte Harmonisierung, tänzerische Rhythmen und eine Vielzahl von Stimmungen.
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Focus – Focus 11 (2018/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:46 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © In And Out Of Focus Records
Brandneues Studio-Album der Rock-Legende Focus! Die Rockmusik von Focus wird mit verschiedensten Stilrichtungen angereichert. Die Herkunft vom Jazz und die klassische Ausbildung der Musiker tritt in vielen Stücken zu Tage. Die Musik ist voll von Versatzstücken, Zitaten und Bearbeitungen klassischer Komponisten wie Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms und Béla Bartók. Man findet Anspielungen auf den gregorianischen Gesang, Volksmusik und Barockmusik bis hin zum Funk oder fernöstlicher Musik.
Cherry Red Records veröffentlicht nun das elfte Studio-Album der niederländischen Progressive Rock-Band.
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Fiorenza Cossotto, Pedro Lavirgen – Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Excerpts) [Remastered 2022] [Live] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:32:24 minutes | 3,59 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMEC – HD Remastered
Fiorenza Cossotto hatte kein sehr großes Repertoire und war auch keine vielseitige oder gar „neugierige” Sängerin, die sich auf Wege in bislang weniger erschlossene musikalische Welten begeben hätte. Jedoch war sie ohne Zweifel in den 60er und 70er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts ein Star, sang an den berühmtesten Opernhäusern der Welt und ist noch heute unvergessen als eine der großen Persönlichkeiten des italienschen Alt- und Mezzo-Fachs vor allem in Opern von Verdi und Bellini, jedoch auch als dramatischer Sopran in der Rolle der Santuzza.
Es gibt von ihr eine Vielzahl von Aufnahmen, so dass wir uns diskographisch gut einen Eindruck von der Fülle und Schönheit ihres Materials, dem Umfang und der Kraft ihrer Stimme sowie der Verve ihrer Darstellung machen können – wie etwa in dem Film-Mitschnitt von „Adriana Lecouvreur”, mit ihrem Mann Ivo Vinco und vor allem Mirella Freni, in der Scala oder der Filmaufzeichnung als Lady Macbeth unter Muti sowie im Verdi-Requiem unter Karajan mit Leontyne Price, dem jungen Pavarotti und Ghiaurov. Technische Mittel erlauben es uns heute, hörend und sehend das Abenteuer der Entwicklung auch dieser Sängerin zu verfolgen.
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Fabrizio Chiovetta – Schumann: Fantasie, Arabeske, Kinderszenen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:48 minutes | 877 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté
Die späten 1830er-Jahre waren zwar eine schwierige Zeit im persönlichen Leben von Robert Schumann, doch es entstanden auch einige sehr brillante Klavierwerke. Fabrizio Chiovetta stellt hier drei von ihnen vor, die verschiedene Aspekte des poetischen Stils des Komponisten illustrieren. In der Liszt gewidmeten Fantasie ist Schumann frei und leidenschaftlich, in der Arabeske lyrisch und intim, in den Kinderszenen einfach und zart. Schumann selbst bezeichnete diesen Zyklus als »Rückspiegelungen eines Älteren und für Ältere«, als Darstellung der Kinderwelt aus der Perspektive des Erwachsenen.
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Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, State Choir Latvija & Neeme Järvi – Neeme Järvi in concert: Mozart, Wagner, Brahms & Reger (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 756 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Legendary Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday this summer in Tallinn, where he also gave a series of concerts with his beloved Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. This album on CHANDOS serves not only as a reminder of those wonderful concerts, but also as a ringing personal calling card for this remarkable musician.
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Erik Then-Bergh – Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto in B Minor (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:28 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
The Symphonic Concerto for piano and orchestra in B minor by Wilhelm Furtwängler was composed between 1924 and 1937. Its world premiere took place in Munich on 26 October 1937, with Edwin Fischer as soloist; Furtwängler conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In January 1939 there was a radio broadcast which has survived as the only complete recording of the original version of the concerto.
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