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Albert Ammons – All That Jazz, Vol. 13: Albert Ammons — Movin’ That Boogie (Remastered 2019) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:16 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Blues, Jazz
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American jazz and blues pianist. He played in Chicago clubs in the 1920s while in his teens. He became an influential soloist in the 1930s, a noted pioneer of boogie-woogie. Founded his own orchestra in New York in 1938 and eventually formed a piano duo with band member Pete Johnson, which played at the Cafe Society club in downtown New York for five years. Another famous piano player, Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis, joined the group on some occasions. Ammons’ famous compositions included “Nagasaki”, “Boogie Woogie Stomp” and “Suitcase Blues”.
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Albert Alan Owen – Following The Light (1982/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:11 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Electronic, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Libreville Records
Albert Alan Owen was born in Wales in 1948 to Welsh and Latvian parents. His family subsequently emigrated to Zimbabwe, where his father worked as a teacher. Here, he grew up profoundly influenced by the local music and culture, as well as American RnB and jazz. It was also during this time that Owen became aware of the violent inequalities of British colonial rule, forging a lifelong commitment to socialism and a hatred of racism.
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Melani Mestre, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Albéniz & Granados: Piano Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albéniz Concierto fantástico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the Iberian peninsula; the perennially popular Rapsodia española, on the other hand, throws all such classical models to the wind.
Granados never actually got round to writing his piano concerto, so our pianist here—Hyperion debutant Melani Mestre—has done it for him. And it’s a romp. The first movement is pretty much ‘echt’, from Granados’ sketches for a putative piano concerto, but thereafter it’s a hugely enjoyable what-if …
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Marc-André Hamelin – Albéniz: Iberia and other late piano music (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:05:52 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
The twelve extended pieces which make up Albéniz’ Iberia are not only the composer’s greatest work, but also the greatest piano work to come out of Spain. Fired by his discovery of the music of Ravel and Debussy, Albéniz transformed his earlier salon style, which essentially produced charming but slight ‘picture postcards’ of Spain, into a language which was much more complex—harmonically, texturally and pianistically—and which created a series of tone poems which capture the spiritual essence of Spain. The superabundance of the writing also makes the cycle one of the supreme virtuoso challenges, so who better to realize the beauty beyond the notes than Marc-André Hamelin who reveals here that the previous virtual monopoly of this work by Spanish pianists may have done more harm than good.
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Alban Gerhardt; Jukka-Pekka Saraste, WDR Sinfonieorchester – Shostakovich: Cello Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:24 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Alban Gerhardt writes admiringly of Rostropovich and the legacy of marvellous works he inspired, but on the evidence of these extraordinary accounts of two of them, he need fear no comparisons with his great Russian forebear.
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Alban Gerhardt – Bach: The Cello Suites (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:09:23 minutes | 2,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Those elusive qualities of ‘transcendental beauty paired with an enchanting simplicity’, eloquently glossed by Alban Gerhardt in his booklet note, might also be said to characterize his playing in this outstanding new recording.
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Alban Darche – Le gros cube #2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:42 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Yolk
Amongst all the machine-linked metaphors used in the history of large groups in jazz, that of Alban Darche’s Gros Cube (literally “Big Bike”) is unusual, but absolutely perfect for describing this brand new band. It can purr, snore, or roar in turn; it can even gleam and sparkle, but it never goes over the top. The impression it leaves is less one of a Formula 1 engine than that of a gleeful ballet of bikers out for a good time, swept along in a masterly choreography. Alban Darche succeeds in inventing the most improbable combinations of instruments out of the strictly classical instrumentation of the typical Big Band; he’s constantly putting sections together then dismounting them, as if it were all a musical meccano and he’s a child “screwing” the new sounds together with his particularly gifted hands.
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Alban Claudin – It’s a Long Way to Happiness (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:31 minutes | 377 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
Alban Claudin now presents his new album ‘It’s A Long Way To Happiness’ under his name. This is an opportunity to discover a unique young man, more rock & roll than he appears but above all proud of the musings of his piano. Alban Claudin is the young man stepping out onto the road to happiness in an enchanted universe.
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Alban Berg Quartett – Webern, Haubenstock-Ramati & Urbanner: String Quartets (1976/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:36 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Alban Berg Quartet was founded in 1971 and within a decade was established as one of the finest string quartets in the world. It was known for its large recorded sets of the complete quartets of many masters of the genre.
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Alban Berg Ensemble Wien – Alban Berg Ensemble Wien (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:21 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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On 17th July, Deutsche Grammophon will release the debut album of the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien with a tailor made repertoire. Together with Anton Webern’s arrangement of the Schoenberg Chamber Symphony will be two new arrangements made exclusively for the ABEW by Martyn Harry: the Rosenkavalier Suite and the Adagio of the Mahler 10.
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Alban Beikircher, Philharmonie Pilsen, Chuhei Iwasaki – Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 712 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion
It is regrettable that the music of the German-Italian Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) is largely forgotten today. Yet until the 1930s he was considered a legitimate successor to Verdi and Puccini and was one of the most frequently performed opera composers in the world. Not only did the First World War and fascism in Italy and Germany plunge him into a creative crisis, musical history overtook his tonal language, which then seemed finally obsolete after the Second World War. A Wolf-Ferrari renaissance is still pending, but the present successful recording with instrumental music will contribute to an overdue revision.
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Alba Molina – El Beso (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:50 minutes | 410 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The new self-produced album by the Sevillian artist Alba Molina placeholder image, daughter of the mythical Lole and Manuel, after five years. It is published this November 13 through the Black and White seal, with the theme ‘They say’ as the first single, which can be heard in advance here: In this new album, the ninth in her career and the first in 5 years with new material, the gypsy singer fuses flamenco, pop and jazz. It is made up of ten songs composed for Alba Molina by artist friends such as, among others, Alejandro Sanz (‘Tú’, where his son Anyelo and Andreas Lutz from the O’funk’illo group also collaborate), Dani Bonilla, Fran Cortés Chiquetete and Jairo de Remacha, author of ‘Dicen’, the first single that also features the Cordovan musician Lin Cortés.
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Al Cohn – The Progressive Al Cohn (1956/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:32 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Al Cohn’s Tones (also released as The Progressive Al Cohn) is an album by saxophonist composer and arranger Al Cohn comprising two sessions, one recorded in 1950 and the other from 1953, which was released on the Savoy label in 1956.
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Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan – In Session (1999/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:51 minutes | 2,88 GBGenre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Universal Music Mexico
In Session is a blues album by Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded live for television on December 6, 1983, at CHCH-TV studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, when Vaughan was 29 and King was 60. It was released as an album on August 17, 1999 and re-released with a supplemental video recording on DVD on September 28, 2010. It has also been released on CD and SACD.
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Alberto Rigoni – Songs for Souls (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:30 minutes | 389 MBGenre: Instrumental, Fusion, Progressive Rock
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Born in Montebelluna (Treviso, Italy) in 1981, bass player Alberto Rigoni in 1998 founded, together with drummer Enrico Buttol, a well-known progressive-metal cover band, “Ascra”, performing mainly songs by Dream Theater. In 2003 he joined the emerging band “Twinspirits” (progressive rock metal), led by Daniele Liverani (Genius Rock Opera, Khymera, ex-Empty Tremor). The band’s debut album “The Music That Will Heal The World” was released worldwide in 2007 by Finnish label Lion Music and received remarkable feedback. Besides Twinspirits, Rigoni followed a very personal artistic way, composing a solo album entitled “Something Different”, released by Lion Music on February 15th 2008 with worldwide distribution. At the same time Alberto shot a video of his hit song “BASSex” (working with Italian company “Solingo Visual Arts”) directed by Elia Cristofoli. The video was broadcast on some television networks such as RockTV….
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