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Nelson Goerner – Liszt: Sonate en si mineur, Sonetti di Petrarca, Valse oubliée No.2, Étude “La leggierezza”, Rhapsodie hongroise No.6 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:40 minutes | 1,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
This is pianist Nelson Goerner’s twelfth recording for the Alpha Classics label. He devotes his new album to the solo piano works of Franz Liszt, with the famous Sonata in B minor as the centrepiece; nearly twenty years after his first CD of the sonata, he felt the urge to re-record it, following a series of critically acclaimed concerts. His talents as a storyteller and as a virtuoso with an eye for nuance are heard to marvellous effect in this monumental work, a veritable ‘musical action’ that undoubtedly belongs in the pantheon of the finest literature for piano. The programme is completed by excerpts from Liszt’s major cycles, including the Petrarch Sonnets from the Années de pèlerinage and the Hungarian Rhapsody no.6, along with the spectacular concert étude La leggierezza.
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Maya Beiser – Maya Beiser x Terry Riley, In C (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:04 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: Classical
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Cellist and producer Maya Beiser’s latest solo album reimagines Terry Riley’s epic In C as a series of ever-evolving cello loops and drones. In her multi-cello solo version, the C string – the cello’s lowest, most resonant string – forms the depth and sonic architecture of the album. Enveloped by live drumming by Shane Shanahan and Matt Kilmer, Maya creates a hypnotic, rapturous soundscape that re-envisions this epic minimalist masterpiece.
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Markus Stockhausen – Celebration (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:47 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Jazz
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As a trumpet soloist, improviser and composer at home in jazz as well as in contemporary and classical music, Markus Stockhausen is one of the most versatile musicians of our time internationally and is known as a musical border crosser – always in search of new forms of expression. After “Wild Life” and “Tales”, “Celebration” is now being released. On their third album, the Markus Stockhausen Group celebrates the life, music and friendship of their quartet with six wonderful guest musicians from many different countries. As the previous album “Tales” (o-tone music) already showcased many facets of the group, this time they really want to “celebrate” and enrich their music with the extraordinary musicality of those guest soloists.
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Marie Rosa Günter, Stanislas Emanuel Kim, Leonid Gorokhov – Postscriptum (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:01:53 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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The city of Petersburg has a complex history, merging diverse cultural influences into a distinct profile. The forces generated amid the constant interplay of repression and the yearning for freedom find expression in experimentation. This led the Günter-Kim duo to explore the cosmopolitan city in search of traces. In the process, the cello-piano duo has discovered various compositions related to Dmitri Shostakovich: Boris Goltz, Galina Ustvolskaya, Boris Arapov… and, as a world premiere recording, Leonid Gorokhov. The duo’s arrangements of Shostakovich’s Spanish and Jewish songs symbolize a thoughtful approach to foreign cultures. This stands in stark contrast to the current somber reality: Petersburg, once the gateway to Europe, is on the brink of closing itself off.
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Lennart Ginman, Thomas Blachman, Carsten Dahl – What’s to Come! (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:34 minutes | 900 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The three renowned Danish jazz artists, bassist Lennart Ginman, drummer Thomas Blachman and pianist Carsten Dahl, are collectively known under the moniker GinmanBlachmanDahl. Bearing the title, “What’s to Come!”, this record is a testament to the power of spontaneity, unpredictability, and collaboration in the realm of jazz. The combination of these three masterful musicians has resulted in an album that simply oozes swing, timing, dexterity, and imagination. They are simply put – some of the most visionary and innovative Danish jazz musicians and composers, and their music reflects their never-ending quest to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Unlike a conventional studio recording, this album was born out of raw spontaneity and creative synergy within the trio – every note, every chord, every rhythm was created in the spur of the moment. The result is a sonic journey into the heart and essence of improvisation.
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Kristjan Randalu – Schumann: Dichterliebe (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:25 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Classical
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Kristjan Randalu releases a newly arranged piano version of Robert Schumanns famous song cycle “Dichterliebe”. As a jazz and crossover pianist he has put is own fingerprint on the pieces, improvising here and there and presenting the well-known melodies in an unheard of jazzy style.
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Ketevan Sharumashvili – Connected (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:26 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this CD, Ketevan Sharumashvili chose piano transcriptions partly because she likes the transformative process behind them. Before you can listen to these compositions many transformations have occurred. Composers, influenced by their emotions, transformed their ideas into compositions which they wrote down on paper. The transcribers of these compositions have added another layer of ideas and emotions. A performer and the recording of it again transforms the music. Finally in the listener the soundwaves are transformed into an emotional experience. The music on this cd is connected through times like a string of pearls from Bach and Rachmaninoff to Gershwin who, in turn, inspired Wild and Volodos. Most pieces are related to the theme of love in its many forms. Love, a force both profound and mysterious, finds its most poignant articulation through melodies and lyrics. Auf dem Wasser zu singen by Schubert and Where beauty dwells by Rachmaninoff are about spiritual connections of our souls with nature, God and the universe. Schubert’s Ständchen and Gershwin’s Embraceable you are about romantic love between two people just as Liszt evoked the love between Lohengrin and Elsa as composed by Wagner. In April in Paris by Trenet the coming of spring brings love in the air.
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Jack Liebeck & Anna Tilbrook – The Music of Frederick Laurence (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:11 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Classical
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“The Music of Frederick Laurence” is an intriguing new album featuring many previously unknown works from the British composer Frederick Laurence, performed by two of the country’s best-known musicians, violinist Jack Liebeck and pianist Anna Tilbrook. This unique collection exhibits Laurence’s avant-garde writing for solo piano, as well as violin and piano duo, promising a rediscovery of his distinct contributions to early 20th-century British music. The album showcases Laurence’s transformative journey, marked by experimental compositions and a name change in the aftermath of World War I. The composer’s rich early works include the unconventional Interludes for Pianoforte, Op.11, and the daring Phases, Op.18. Noteworthy is the Sonata for Violin and Piano, a work reflecting Laurence’s peak creative period. As a prominent figure in film accompaniment history, Laurence’s legacy unfolds through his original score for the Russian fairy tale film Morozko (1924). Violinist Jack Liebeck, renowned for collaborations with leading orchestras worldwide, and pianist Anna Tilbrook, a regular in major concert halls, celebrate a composer whose influence extends from classical stages to pioneering film scores.
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Hamrå Orkester – 32,8 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:03 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophone Records
In 2023, the newly formed band Hamrå Orchestra stepped into the Tonkontroll studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, and recorded nine newly composed compositions with sound engineer Åke Linton. After mastering by Hans Ohlsson at Svenska Grammophonstudion, the music is now released by Prophone Records/Naxos.
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ARUNDOSquintett – Saga (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:11 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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The ARUNDOSquintett shines with virtuosic expressiveness and rich sounds in the classical formation of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. With its second CD, “Saga”, the ensemble brings to life four varied soundscapes that immediately stimulate the imagination.
Claude Debussy’s colourful re-creations of a bygone ideal, Carl Nielsen’s playful take on the diversity of human characteristics and Lalo Schifrin’s own interpretation of the New Orleans style have long been part of the ensemble’s repertoire, becoming firm favourites. As for its much acclaimed debut CD, “Origin”, the ARUNDOSquintett has once again commissioned a new work, this time from the US composer Kevin Beavers: the “saga” continues…
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Arte dei Suonatori & Marcin Świątkiewicz – Instrumental Theatre of Affects (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:22 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following their critically acclaimed recording of Johann Gottfried Müthel’s keyboard concertos (BIS-2179), Polish ensemble Arte dei Suonatori and Marcin Świątkiewicz, who conducts from his instrument, perform the six Hamburg symphonies by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach interspersed with solo fantasias for keyboard. The music of C.P.E. Bach has always been a source of fascination for the listener with its great variety of atmospheres, captivating melodic ideas, irresistible contrasts, surprising interweaving of voices, eccentric harmonies, and extreme dynamic transitions. The six symphonies featured here are no exception, displaying a truly ‘subversive’ musical style expressed through extreme contrasts. Owing to the richness of their ideas, the virtuosity and the acuity of the compositional work, these works are considered the crowning achievement of C.P.E. Bach’s output. Since these symphonies can be considered as intimate chamber music, they are here performed by a compact ensemble where each musician participates in the interpretation on an equal footing, and everyone is heard. Thanks to the historically oriented performance practices followed here, the Hamburg symphonies and fantasias of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach thus regain the impact they originally had, inspiring awe, and moving hearts.
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Aapo Häkkinen – Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:49 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine
“[Bach] speaks to us in his work in such clear terms that we may quite well call these fugues poems. (…) These have warmth, quiet joy, love. And running through all the poems, dressed in different guises, is the main theme, creating order, binding the work as a whole together: it is a safe bond in all its diversity. Over all lies the proximity of death.” (Enzio Forsblom). In this new recording, Bach’s final magnum opus is played by Aapo Häkkinen on a harpsichord built in 1614 by Andreas Ruckers the Elder (1579–?1652) and which belonged to the composer John Blow (1649–1708), organist of Westminster Abbey and former teacher of Henry Purcell. A tradition exists that G.F. Handel had also played this harpsichord.
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Quatuor Girard – Beethoven: Quatuor No. 2, Op. 59 – Hersant: Quatuor No. 4 ” The Starry Sky” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:59 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Word Premier Recording – Fourth Quartet “The Starry Sky”The title of Philippe Hersant’s 4th Quartet, The Starry Sky immediately informs the listener that this piece alludes to Beethoven, since the starry sky is an emblematic Beethovenian topos. It appears in the following quote by Kant “the moral law within us and the starry sky above our heads” which Beethoven wrote in his personal journal in 1820 (aphorism No. 146). It is explicitly or implicitly present in many of his pieces, such as the song Abendlied Unterm gestirnten Himmel (Evening Song under the Starry Sky) and in the slow movement of his Eighth Quartet, Opus 59 No. 2 which, according to one of Beethoven’s confessions to Schindler, would be a “meditation under the starry sky”. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that these two pages are written in the key of E major, which Beethoven seemed to consider a mystical key.
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Quartet Maliniak – Quatour pour la fin du Temps (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 911 MB | Genre: Classical
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Trained as a violinst and conductor at the music conservatory in Warsaw Jewish musician Jacob Maliniak and his wife Mathilde Dorothea (née Halpern) moved to Berlin where their daughter Maryla was born in 1910. Little is known about these years. However, he was scheduled to perform Arnold Schoenberg’s world-famous piece “Pierrot Lunaire”, opus 21 but was replaced was by Emil Telmányi just before the premiere. To escape the confusions of World War I, the young Maliniak family moved from Berlin to Sweden, where Jac received the offer to become the musical director in Trondheim’s luxurious Hotel Britannia in 1917. In the following happy years, Jac became a central figure in Trondheim’s music life and also conducted the local symphony orchestra regularly.
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Quatuor Voce – Poétiques de l’instant II: Ravel & Mantovani (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:22 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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This second instalment of our long-term project Poétiques de l’Instant (Poetry of the Moment) combines two masterly string quartets with a range of other instrumental colours, unpublished transcriptions and first performances. Alongside the famous Quartet by Ravel, the Voce Quartet have commissioned a new quartet from Bruno Mantovani – his fifth – which develops around a crucial note in Ravel’s Quartet. They have also drawn on the multiple talents of harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, who enhances the programme with a magical chamber transcription of Ravel’s famous Mother Goose suite. For this arrangement, as well as for Ravel’s equally superb Introduction and Allegro for septet, the Quatuor Voce are joined by three outstanding artists: flautist Juliette Hurel, clarinettist Rémi Delangle and harpist Emmanuel Ceysson.
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