Accept – Symphonic Terror (Live at Wacken 2017) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:00:01 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
Over the past few months, the German band has been anything but passive, instead they‘ve been finalising their latest project, their upcoming live release »Symphonic Terror – Live at Wacken 2017.
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Accentus, Laurence Equilbey – Gounod: Saint François d’Assise – Liszt: Légende de Sainte Cécile (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:17 minutes | 374 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve classique
It might be hard to believe that there could still exist a “discographic world first” when it came to the works of Gounod, and harder still to imagine that it could be such a substantial piece as this. And yet… Saint François d’Assise, a little oratorio in two parts first performed in 1891, has remained obscure up until now, to the point that its very existence has proved something of a surprise. And then all of a sudden, in 1996, the manuscript came back to light quite by accident: and here is its first recording, although several recordings had been made since its rediscovery. Gounod’s last oratorio, of rather more modest proportions than Rédemption or Mors et Vita, with its great unity and flavoursome, carefully-tailored archaisms, conjures up both Franciscan austerity and that fullness of sound for which Gounod had such a knack. According to the composer himself: “I wanted the first of the two tableaux to be a musical translation of that beautiful tableau by Murillo showing Christ on the cross leaning over to St. Francis and putting his arm around his neck. The second tableau would be a translation of that fine work by Giotto, The Death of St Francis, surrounded by his brothers. ” Let the listener be guided by his own lights. The album is rounded off with Hymne à Sainte Cécile, also by Gounod, and then Légende de Sainte Cécile by Liszt, written in 1874; and it should come of no surprise that the work is sung in French: it is, after all, the work’s original language.
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Accentus Austria – Johann Joseph Fux: Ave Regina (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:36 minutes | 1016 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi
Johann Joseph Fux served for many years as the imperial court’s Kapellmeister in Vienna, and is one of the best known and most important composers of that period. In times of the most fervent religious faith, during which the Habsburg Emperor considered piety the foremost virtue of a ruling sovereign as well as indispensable as the basis for organizing society, the roles of the Kapellmeister and court orchestra were of essential importance. Fux composed many sacred works for public church services that functioned as a visible sign of the close connection between church and state. In addition to Masses, Requiem Masses and Vespers, Marian antiphons and sonatas for performance at the Gradual took on special importance. Known for the precision of its historically informed performances, Accentus Austria and its conductor Thomas Wimmer have selected a musically absorbing and diverse program of sonatas and antiphons by Fux for this CD. The works by Fux featured on this disc are never monotonous – in fact, they surprise the listener with their musical refinement and wide-ranging tonal language. This new release includes wonderful Ave Regina antiphons in outstanding performances by soprano Hana Blažíková.
Read moreAccentus – Laurence Equilbey – The Freischütz Project (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Accentus – Laurence Equilbey – The Freischütz Project (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:35 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
“Beyond being a masterpiece, Der Freischütz marks a starting point as one of the first – if not the first – great German Romantic operas,” says Laurence Equilbey. She conducts highlights from Weber’s exhilarating, ground-breaking work in both audio and video format, recorded live in Paris. The vivid period instruments of the Insula Orchestra are joined by the Accentus Choir and a cast led with poetry and radiance by tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac and soprano Johanni van Oostrum. The stylish, suitably magical staging is by Clément Debailleul and Raphaël Navarro of Compagnie 14:20.
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Accademia Ottoboni – Boccherini: Cello Concerto, G. 480, Quintets, G. 451 & 436 & Sextet, G. 463 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:51 minutes | 1020 MB | Genre: Classical
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This recording follows a first collaboration between Zig-Zag Territoires and Marco Ceccato (Vivaldi sonatas), widely hailed by the press. It is devoted to two important aspects of Luigi Bocherini’s work: chamber music and the cello, of which he was a great virtuoso.
The two quintets and the divertimento feature the combination of the string quartet – of which Boccherini was, in a way, the co-founder with Haydn – sometimes with the guitar, sometimes with the flute having place of honour, and always with a delightful use of those instruments’ sound capabilities. And, of course, the cello is then to the fore in the Concerto in G major, a summary of virtuosity and lyricism.
Read moreAccademia d’Arcadia – Grandi: Celesti Fiori – Motetti (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Accademia d’Arcadia – Grandi: Celesti Fiori – Motetti (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:40 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana
Alessandro Grandi (born in Venice in 1590), regarded by scholars as “the greatest motet composer of his time”, was a prominent figure of the new Venetian style in the first half of the seventeenth century. An extremely precocious talent, he was considered by his contemporaries equal to Claudio Monteverdi, to whom he was appointed deputy in 1627 in Saint Mark’s Basilica. Yet our knowledge of his life and musical output is scanty, and thus he has remained mostly undiscovered. “Celesti fiori” (celestial flowers), a title taken from his Fifth Book of Motets, is the first complete monograph recording dedicated to this important composer. It consists of a selection of works, almost all recorded here for the first time, chosen from his books of motets, all published between 1610 and 1630, the year in which he was killed by the plague, along with his large family. Recorded in the extraordinary acoustics of the Basilica di Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Monteverdi worked during his long stay in the city, this project features the splendid voices of the Accademia d’Arcadia, an ensemble recently founded in 2018 for the purpose of performing Italian music of the seventeenth century.
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Academy of Russian Music Chamber Choir – Anatoly Lyadov: Complete Original Choral Works & Selected Russian Folksong Arrangements (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:01 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Lyadov’s handful of orchestral works have become concert favourites, but his choral music is as good as unknown. It falls into three main categories: religious chants, folksong arrangements and original compositions. All three confirm Lyadov’s status as a kind of Faberg’e of music: they blend exquisite craftsmanship and delicate beauty.
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Abraham Marder – Sound of Metal (Music from the Motion Picture) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:06 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The original motion picture soundtrack for the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning film Sound of Metal is available on all digital service providers via Nonesuch Records today. Winner of two Academy Awards—for Sound and Editing—Sound of Metal’s soundtrack, which features a score by Abraham Marder and Nicolas Becker, highlights the film’s extraordinary sonic design and includes music written specifically for the project as well as pre-existing works such as “Rejoice, Beelzebub!” by Thomas de Hartmann and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff; “Cet amour me tue” by Arthur H, performed by Arthur H and Martha Wainwright as well as by the film’s actors Olivia Cooke and Mathieu Amalric; and two songs by Margaret Chardiet. The world-renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie is featured on three of the album’s pieces; other performers include Marder, Becker, and the film’s lead actor Riz Ahmed.
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Abir – HEAT (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:47 minutes | 255 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fez’s Finest, LLC
My new EP, HEAT, is OUT NOW on all digital streaming services! ’Yallah’ is one of my favorite records on the project and is a song for anyone who stands for something that goes against what’s expected of them — specifically interfaith, interracial, and LGBTQ relationships. The word ‘Yallah’ in Arabic means ‘Let’s go’ or ‘Come on,’ and is my way of expressing…
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Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn – Echo In The Valley (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 910 MB | Genre: Country
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2017 album from the multi-talented couple dubbed “King & Queen of the banjo”. Features “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” & “If I Could Talk To a Younger Me”.
With one eye on using the banjo to showcase America’s rich heritage and the other pulling the noble instrument from its most familiar arena into new and unique realms, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn’s second album Echo in the Valley is simultaneously familiar and wildly innovative.
Echo in the Valley is the follow up to Béla and Abigail’s acclaimed, self-titled debut that earned the 2016 Grammy for Best Folk Album. This time around, the mission was to take their double banjo combination of three finger and clawhammer styles “to the next level and find things to do together that we had not done before,” says Béla. “We’re expressing different emotions through past techniques and going to deeper places.” The results are fascinating, especially considering their strict rules for recording: all sounds must be created by the two of them, the only instruments used are banjos (they have seven between them, ranging from a ukulele to an upright bass banjo), and they must be able to perform every recorded song live.
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Abendmusiken Basel & Jörg-Andreas Bötticher – Balthasar Erben: Sacred Concertos from Danzig (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:18 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
Born in Danzig in 1626, Balthasar Erben was a cosmopolitan. When he applied for the position of Kapellmeister of the main church of St. Marien in his hometown at the age of 27, the council granted him a generous scholarship so that he could “look around the world and perfect himself as a composer”. For five years, Erben traveled throughout Europe, visiting all the centres of musical culture of the time, including Rome. His compositional style, which was developed during this time, is correspondingly distinctive: a combination of different influences, cleverly interwoven. The Abendmusiken Basel offer an impressive collection of instrumental and sacred works by the composer who is unfortunately little known today.
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Abel Label – Blues Overthought (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:19 minutes | 414 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abel Label
The former drummer of Kispál, Borz and Kiscsillag produced his second solo album within a year, with a record number of contributors. Hear what it has become! Ábel Mihalik has been saying goodbye to the bands of András Lovasi for four years, and has been on his way ever since. Although he still plays in a number of bands, he is also active as a songwriter and singer. Abel Label’s solo project, called Won’t give a funk, has been in operation since 2017, and premiered last November.
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Abel Korzeniowski – The Nun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:19 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WaterTower Music
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from a film The Nun (2018). The music composed by Abel Korzeniowski (Nocturnal Animals, Penny Dreadful). The Nun is a 2018 American gothic supernatural horror film, the fifth installment in The Conjuring series. The film written by by Gary Dauberman and James Wan, directed by Corin Hardy, stars Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Charlotte Hope, Ingrid Bisu, Bonnie Aarons.
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Abekejser – Floating Through the Universe (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:32 minutes | 413 MB | Genre: Electronic, Nu Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AMP Music & Records
Welcome to the surprising sonic jungle-world of hip hop influenced Danish group Abekejser. It’s jazz music you can dance to. It’s live electronica with sharp snares and experimental beats. It’s power-music cut through with heavy jazz harmony. Captivating melodies on flaming synthesisers and distorted guitars. The result of two years work, their debut full-length album Floating Through The Universe takes you on a journey from cinematic soundtrack-like themes through to hard-hitting rock riffs and danceable disco jazz, complete with vocoder on lead vocals. And with references as diverse as such as Herbie Hancock, Daft Punk and Robert Glasper, this forward-thinking music is presented with a scattering of nostalgic vibes.
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Abekejser – Blueprint (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:29 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Electronic, Nu Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzhaus Records
The sound of Danish quartet Abekejser works pretty similar to the eclectic playlists of young digital natives – no one really cares about genre boundaries anymore, as long as the ingredients are fun: Heavy Hip Hop Beats meet gnarly synth sounds, reverb drenched Rock Guitars and a room filling bass. The result is a highly danceable mix of Jazztronica and Neo-Soul, whose catchy melodies and hooks reveal their complex structures only after several listens. “Abekejser”, in English the “Monkey King”, has already accompanied the band since their foundation as a musical, somewhat tipsy, perhaps even spiritual mentor and runs like a thread through their music.
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