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Tapiola Sinfonietta & Janne Nisonen – Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:40 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine
First volume in a new cycle by Tapiola Sinfonietta under Janne Nisonen presenting the symphonies of Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838), Beethoven’s only acknowledged composition pupil, close friend and biographer. Often remembered in music history as Beethoven’s ‘right hand’, these new recordings by the Tapiola Sinfonietta are showcasing a remarkable and talented early 19th century symphonist with a voice of his own.
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Rob Halligan – Standing On The Edge (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:55 minutes | 511 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blatant Promotions – Rob Halligan
The BBC once described Rob Halligan as “Bruce Springsteen having English tea with Billy Bragg”. It’s been a good comparison although you could maybe invite more people along to the party, as Rob has been compared to Neil Diamond, Martyn Joseph and John Mayer and many others. A professional musician for over 15 years, Rob is an award-winning singer/songwriter and has toured across the world, gaining a reputation as a passionate and engaging performer.
In 2002 Rob left his ‘real job’ to pursue music as a profession. With a desire to use music to make a difference, his down to earth faith, honesty and storytelling connects with audiences everywhere and having lived a colourful life, “his songs and stories pack a powerful punch” (Rock’n’Reel). The BBC’s Paul Gambaccini commented “These are some of the strongest songs I have heard”.
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Nidaros domkor, Petra Bjørkhaug, Karen Haugom Olsen – MOR (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 50:12 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L
MOTHER – a word that evokes associations – memories – emotions. Which mother do you think of? A loving mother with a newborn baby in her arms. Intimacy. A despairing mother in deep grief over a lost life. Emptiness. Through words and music our lives are woven together with Mary’s life and perhaps we sense that a mother’s pain and sorrow, a mother’s strength and endurance, a mother’s warmth and love are the same now as they were two thousand years ago.
Petra Bjørkhaug and Ragnhild Jepsen’s SÅRMERKT interleaved with Domenico Scarlatti’s STABAT MATER.
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Moritz Winkelmann – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 10 – 13 – 27 -53 – 79 – 101 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:53:13 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Pianist Moritz Winkelmann has set out to record and release all of Beethovens legendary piano sonatas in Dolby Atmos. This is the first release in a series which will include all of Beethovens Piano Sonatas. Moritz Winkelmann is part of an educational linneage that can be traced back directly to Beethoven himself.
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Miriam Davis & Michael Bulychev-Okser – Ode to Lost Time (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:39 minutes | 2,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records Ltd.
Discover this album of music for violin and piano by late 19th and early 20th-century French composers Eugène Ysaÿe, César Franck, Claude Debussy and Ernest Chausson.
“In Marcel Proust’s 1913 masterpiece “In Search of Lost Time”, he aims to recreate through literature, the period of French history in which he lived. Inspired by Proust’s unparalleled ability to express in words the psychological effects of music on the heart and soul, this CD presents works by contemporaneous composers whom Proust heard, knew and loved.”
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Marc Coppey & François Dumont – Fauré Authentique (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © audite Musikproduktion
Atmospheric salon pieces and sonatas from the composer’s late period: Marc Coppey invites you on a promenade through Fauré’s works for cello. François Dumont accompanies him on an Érard grand piano which was very close to the composer’s heart – “Fauré authentique”!
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Evgenia Rubinova – Tchaikovsky’s Testament (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:29 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
Peter Tchaikovsky’s Testament: These are the 18 Pieces, Op. 72, which the great Russian composer crafted for the piano just a year before his death – and they transcend any sense of idealism or otherworldliness. They are vibrant, soulful musical character portraits, brought to life anew on a new GENUIN album and under the magical fingers of the internationally acclaimed pianist Evgenia Rubinova. This final, comprehensive piano opus by Tchaikovsky comprises a treasury of miniature masterpieces, unfairly overshadowed by the global fame of works like the “Pathétique” and the “Nutcracker”, both of which emerged during the same period: from nostalgic reveries to homages to great colleagues and even to outright miniature ballets!
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Emma Tring, BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Martyn Brabbins – John Pickard: Symphonies 2 & 6; Verlaine Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:51 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
John Pickard is best known for his powerful orchestral and instrumental works, and his music has been widely praised for its large-scale sense of architecture and bold handling of an extended tonal idiom. This recording brings together three works composed over a period of almost forty years, providing a glimpse of the composer’s creative range. The Second Symphony, completed when Pickard was 23, is an extremely impressive and concentrated work. Its starting point was John Hersey’s book Hiroshima, which describes how vegetation quickly reasserted its presence amid the city’s ashes. The Verlaine Songs feature six poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine. Chosen for their broad range of expression, the poems were grouped in an order that provides dramatic contrast and an overall progression of mood. The cycle was composed for the soprano Emma Tring, with her particular vocal characteristics very much in Pickard’s mind. The Sixth Symphony, which completes this recording, was composed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is dedicated to Robert von Bahr, founder of BIS Records. After a first movement dominated by a feeling of unease, the second offers relief from the darkness. This recording was the work’s first performance.
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Eija Kankaanranta – Osmo Tapio Räihälä: Zensolence (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 598 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © KAIROS
Osmo Tapio Räihälä is a Finnish composer of art music. His output focuses mostly on instrumental music: he has written several works for the symphony orchestra, concertos, chamber music and solo works. In 1998, he formed the Uusinta Ensemble, which has premiered many of his works. He has been commissoned and/or performed by the likes of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus, London Sinfonietta, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Nuova consonanza, Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Helsinki Chamber Choir, nearly all Finnish orchestras, major festivals and musicians – but the most important performance is always the next one. His music is published by Sikorski Musikverlag.
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Clive Osgood, Excelsis, London Mozart Players – Clive Osgood: Magnificat (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:45 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records Ltd.
This new large-scale setting of the Magnificat has been written as a companion piece to J.S. Bach’s famous setting (BWV 243). Although making use of a more contemporary musical language, it uses similar instrumentation, follows the same framework of chorus and solo movements, and makes use of a number of features that are typical of Bach’s music.
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Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra & Louis Langrée – American Dreams (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:01 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fanfare Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced the release of its newest recording, American Dreams, conducted by Music Director Louis Langrée. American Dreams features live performances from Langrée’s final two seasons and was specially curated and released to celebrate his finale season as the Orchestra’s Music Director. This digital-only release includes Night Creature by Edward K. “Duke” Ellington (trans. David Berger) featuring pianist Courtney Bryan, An American in Paris by George Gershwin (ed. Mark Clague) and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront.
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