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Anna Wandtke – Ávarp: Icelandic Chamber Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:06 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUX
The Icelandic chamber music recorded on the album by Agnieszka Panasiuk (piano) together with Anna Wandtke (violin) and Pawel Panasiuk (cello) is characterized by varied expression, high emotional load and lyricism. The rich sound color comes to the fore, with a well-thought-out and coherent dialogue of instrumental voices. The piano is the central sound axis, shaping the character of the compositions presented on the album. Agnieszka Panasiuk is at ease with the use of a variety of expressive and virtuoso means, differentiating stylistically between compositions representing a number of trends present in the Icelandic music of the 20th century. The variety of colors, charisma and precision of the string instruments give the recipient a wide sonoristic image and complement the interesting whole. The album takes the listener into the world of the raw beauty of faraway Iceland and also encourages to reflect on the originality and uniqueness of the Icelandic musical language.
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Anna Volovitch, Christoph Croise, Heinz-Peter Linshalm – Contemplations (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:24 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gramola Records
Syrian-Emirati composer Somar Ajalyaqin (b. 1978) started his relationship with the arts at an early age in his hometown Damascus. After having studied both poetry and painting, he began his musical journey on his mother’s advice, as she advocated a holistic approach to artistic expression. This debut album with Anna Volovitch, piano, Christoph Croisé, cello, Heinz-Peter Linshalm, clarinet and the Santos String Quartet features a collection of compositions in varied styles and instrumentation: from the Five Piano Pieces with playful titles such as The Cat and the Wool Ball, Capriccio Andalucía or The Butterfly and the Flame, to the Sonata for Cello and Piano and the Fantasy for E-flat Clarinet and Piano ‘The Cricket in the Mirror’, a wide spectrum of sound and expression is represented here. The intensely touching String Quartet ‘Wuhan Oblivion’, the composer’s most recent work, paints not only a picture of our eerie streets, abandoned during lockdown, but mostly a picture of our inner lives as we fight to overcome this paradoxal moment of communal loneliness.
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Anna Vinnitskaya, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:33 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Serge Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto might never have seen the light of day had it not been for hypnosis: before the twenty-seven-year-old composer began work on it, he was on his last legs – financially, artistically and psychologically. Dr Nikolay Dahl hypnotised his patient every day, whispering to him: ‘You will write your concerto. You will work with great fluency. The concerto will be of excellent quality.’ The creative block disappeared, and the concerto’s premiere in Moscow in 1901 was a triumph for Rachmaninov, who played the solo part himself. Anna Vinnitskaya says she feels ‘a spring-like atmosphere’ in this work: throughout there is a sense of movement, of awakening. The music passes through the most contrasting psychological landscapes, but moves towards clarity and light. Rachmaninov composed the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in 1934, ten years before his death. Brahms, Liszt, Lutosławski and Andrew Lloyd Webber are among the remarkable roll call of composers inspired by Paganini’s theme. The Russian pianist and the Polish conductor Krzysztof Urbański have often played Rachmaninoff together, on every continent. The two artists, both of whom present here their third disc for Alpha, were reunited in the NDR studios in Hamburg to record this repertory that fits them like a glove.
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Anna Vinnitskaya – Chopin: 4 Ballades & 4 Impromptus (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:19 minutes | 811 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Anna Vinnitskaya adds to her award-winning discography with her first Chopin recording, which couples the four Ballades with the four Impromptus.
The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built up an impressive discography since her victory at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007: Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and of course the Russian composers with whom she has been familiar since her childhood in Novorossiysk, then her studies with Evgeni Koroliov.
The Russian pianist has won praise for her immaculate technique and abundant musicality, qualities in evidence on this captivating performance. This recording couples the four Ballades, a cross between the miniature and the sonata, with the four Impromptus Chopin composed at different periods of his life, between 1835 and 1842.
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Anna Tsybuleva, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Ruth Reinhardt – Anna Tsybuleva: Brahms (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:40 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Signum Records present an exciting new collaboration and a debut recording with Leeds International Piano Competition Winner (2015), Anna Tsybuleva, of music by Johannes Brahms together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Ruth Reinhardt.
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Anna Thorvaldsdottir : Aerial (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:44 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer who frequently works with large sonic structures that tend to reveal the presence of a vast variety of sustained sound materials, reflecting her sense of imaginative listening to landscapes and nature. Her music tends to portray a flowing world of sounds with an enigmatic lyrical atmosphere.
This album presents six world-premiere recordings featuring ensembles of different sizes and configurations. Aeriality is a work for a large instrumental force, written in 2010/2011, consisting of vast sound-textures combined and contrasted with various forms of lyrical material. The title refers to the state of gliding through the air with nothing or little to hold on to as if flying and the music both portrays the feeling of absolute freedom gained from the lack of attachment and the feeling of unease generated by the same circumstances. Aeriality can be said to be on the border of symphonic music and sound art. Parts of the work consist of thick clusters of sounds that form a unity as the instruments of the orchestra stream together to form a single force a sound-mass. The sense of individual instruments is somewhat blurred and the orchestra becomes a single moving body, albeit at times forming layers of streaming materials that flow between different instrumental groups.
The other works on the album have similar relationships to space, sound and nature. Each is a unique sound world that Anna has created allowing the listener to become completely immersed in different landscapes.
With a growing reputation in North America and Europe, her works are frequently performed and have been featured at several major venues and music festivals such as Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival with the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Composer Portraits Series at NYC’s Miller Theatre, ISCM World Music Days, Nordic Music Days, Ultima Oslo Festival, Klangspuren Festival, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Tectonics, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
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Anna Ternheim – A Space for Lost Time (Extended Version) (2019/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management GmbH
This is Anna Ternheim’s seventh album, and A Space For Lost Time fits the popularity of today’s Nordic pop, thanks to this mixture of sweet melodies, refined vocals and subtly poppy arrangements. This project with a Proustian title sees the Swede supported by uniquely fine instrumentalists: the string quartet that accompanies her suave singing on Remember this; the tentative piano (and the evanescent Tina Dico) on Walk Your Own Way, and the spirited guitar on When You Were Mine. But Anna Ternheim is more than bubbles and sweetness. A lively piece like Everytime We Fall shows off her skill with retro-tinged, affecting pop. The production work by Bjorn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn & John) lends this album a fresh, energetic feel. Recall that Yttling has also worked with other stars like Robyn and Likke Li. A sort of Scandinavian Suzanne Vega, Anna Ternheim’s lofty poetry is on display throughout this album, and the listener is gripped from start to finish. This release is an extended version of the album with 8 extra tracks. – Nicolas Magenham
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Anna Ternheim – A Space for Lost Time (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:32 minutes | 414 MB | Genre: Pop, Singer-songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management GmbH
Swedish artist Anna Ternheim will release new album ‘A Space For Lost Time’ on September 20th.
The experienced songwriter has been through some changes of late, departing from her major label home to truly embrace her independence.
New album ‘A Space For Lost Time’ was constructed between Stockholm, New York, and Echo Park in Los Angeles, yet it sounds resolutely, absolutely like Anna Ternheim.
New single ‘This Is The One’ leads the way, and it finds Anna crossing paths with Bjorn Yttling from Peter Bjorn & John.
Sonically it dips into early 70s singer-songwriter climes, a kind of Lauren Canyon hymn re-imagined for an icy Nordic temperament.
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Anna Szałucka – A Century of Polish Piano Miniatures (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:33 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grand Piano
‘A Century of Polish Piano Miniatures’ takes us on a fascinating journey through a golden era in Polish music, from the great patriot Paderewski via Szymanowski, Bacewicz and Gorecki, to present day composers. This essential collection coincides with Poland’s centenary of independence in 2018 with each work representing significant moments in the country’s musical and political history. It pays tribute to the bravery of composers who stood up for freedom in art and culture during times of great political turmoil.
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Anna Stéphany, Labyrinth Ensemble – Berio, Ravel & Falla: Black Is the Colour (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:38 minutes | 955 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Alpha continues its collaboration with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and its Academy, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2018. We invite you to discover artists of great talent who take us on a trip to Auvergne, Sicily, Armenia and Azerbaijan thanks to Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, to Andalusia with Falla’s Psyché on a poem of Georges-Jean Aubry, and to the world of Jules Renard with Ravel’s Histoires naturelles. The last-named are recorded in a version for chamber ensemble: ‘Since Ravel gave Manuel Rosenthal to make an arrangement for large orchestra which we found rather overblown, we set out to find a “chasseur d’images” (to quote the title of one of Renard’s Histoires naturelles poems) who could transcribe the work without losing its intimate, delicate aspect. . . . We hope you will be as charmed as we are by Arthur Lavandier’s work, which beautifully conveys the immensely refined timbres and nuances of Ravel’, says the oboist Clément Noël, a member of the Swiss Ensemble Labyrinth. Anna Stéphany is a true revelation, performing this programme with the technique, the sensuality and the emotional impact that earned her a huge triumph in Mozart at last summer’s Glyndebourne Festival.
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Anna St. Louis – If Only There Was a River (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:00 minutes | 389 MB | Genre: Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Woodsist – Mare
If Only There Was A River is the first full-length studio album from Anna st. Louis. The songwriter, who originally hails from Kansas City, began writing songs after moving to Los Angeles five years ago and has previously released a cassette of recordings on Woodsist / Mare Records, appropriately titled First Songs. The tape received notice from NPR: All Songs Considered, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. On her proper debut, St. Louis spreads her wings and expands on the promise hinted at on First Songs. To achieve that end, she enlisted Kyle Thomas (King Tuff) and Kevin Morby to produce the album, which was engineered by Thomas in his home in Mount Washington, LA. The collection of eleven songs also features Justin Sullivan (Night Shop) on drums and multi-instrumentalist Oliver Hill (Pavo Pavo). While hints of influences like Loretta Lynn, John Fahey and Townes Van Zandt peek out of the corners of the songs, this album is not a nostalgic affair. Rather it marks the emergence of an artist fully coming into their own.
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Anna Serova & Filippo Faes – Filippo Faes : Nostalghija (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:19 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca/Universal Music
A unique figure on the international scene both as soloist and chamber musician, the violist Anna Serova has several compositions dedicated to her in recent years by some of the most important contemporary composers. In fact, by writing for her they have created a new genre in composition uniting the form of the concert piece with the action of an opera.
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Anna Ratto – Tantas (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:41 minutes | 352 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Biscoito Fino
Brazilian singer-songwriter Anna Ratto brings a new sense of pop music to the Brazilian music scene in her album Tantas. She combines elements from mainstream pop and Brazilian traditional music, specifically on tracks like Dom and Nicho.
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Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini – Serpent & Fire: Arias for Dido & Cleopatra (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:08 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
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The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens – Dido & Cleopatra – and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery such as Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari. For this programme built like a tragedy around the queens of Egypt and Carthage, whom she interprets with the passion and fervour that have made her reputation, Anna Prohaska is accompanied by one of today’s finest Baroque ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico; under the inspired guidance of their director Giovanni Antonini (who is also a dazzling recorder soloist in some of the arias), they keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish. A top star in Germany, Anna Prohaska also sings on the world’s leading operatic stages, from La Scala to Convent Garden by way of Aix en Provence and Salzburg.
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Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake – Paradise Lost (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:58 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré’s Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell’s Sleep, Adam, sleep with its references to Genesis.
But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms’s Salamander, Wolf’s Die Bekehrte or Ravel’s Air du Feu. In Das Paradies und die Peri, Schumann conjures up the image of Syria’s rose-covered plains. Bernstein also transports us to the desert with Silhouette..
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