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Naoya Otsuka – J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 870-893 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:39:06 minutes | 4,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Waon Records
The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893, is two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer’s time clavier, meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of instruments, most typically the harpsichord or clavichord but not excluding the organ.
The modern German spelling for the collection is Das wohltemperierte Klavier. Bach gave the title Das Wohltemperirte Clavier to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, major and minor, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study”. Some 20 years later Bach compiled a second book of the same kind, which became known as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part Two.
Modern editions usually refer to both parts as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (WTC I) and The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (WTC II), respectively. The collection is generally regarded as one of the most important works in the history of classical music.
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Nora Cismondi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, John Fiore – Pierre Wissmer, Concertos et Œuvres orchestrales (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:24 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
While twentieth century Swiss composers often synthesize the Latin and Germanic sources of their country’s inspiration in their aesthetics, it is to France that Pierre Wissmer (1915-1992) is resolutely attached, both in his life’s journey as in his artistic ideals. Imbued at first with a post-Ravellian neoclassicism, over the years his style has shifted toward a more distanced relationship with tonality and a more inner language. However, the refinement of the contrapuntal writing and instrumentation will always remain a constant feauture of his art.
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Norah Jones – Come Away With Me (Super Deluxe Edition) (2002/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:29:15 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note/UMe
20 years ago, on February 26, 2002, a hard-to-categorize album by an unknown 22-year-old singer, songwriter, and pianist was released with modest expectations. Released by the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, it wasn’t a jazz album, nor did it resemble anything else on the pop landscape of 2002. But Come Away With Me, the debut album by Norah Jones, would go on to charm the world and introduce one of the greatest voices of our time. The album steadily grew into a global phenomenon, reaching #1 in 20 countries, selling nearly 30 million copies, and sweeping the 2003 GRAMMY Awards with eight wins including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
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National Male Choir Of Estonia – Galina Grigorjeva: Music for Male-Voice Choir (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:44 minutes | 660 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The choral music of Galina Grigorjeva – born in Simperopol in Ukraine in 1962 and based in Tallinn, in Estonia, since 1994 – is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Orthodox Church and in ancient Russian and Slavonic folklore. Although clearly by a contemporary composer, her works have a timeless, even hypnotic, quality that seems to reach back through the ages. She has been working with the Estonian National Male Choir – one of the finest in a country full of choirs – for some years now, and some of the works here were composed or arranged specifically for this recording.
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NNAMDÏ – Please Have A Seat (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:28 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: R&B, Alternative, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
NNAMDÏ has never been able to stay in one place. The Chicago multi-instrumentalist and songwriter set a blistering pace in 2020 with his critically acclaimed genre-fusing LP Brat, a punk EP Black Plight, and Krazy Karl, a full-length tribute to Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling. Add in his role as co-owner of label Sooper Records, as well as recent tours with Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, and black midi, and it’s an overwhelming schedule. However, his latest album, Please Have A Seat, is the result of a much-needed pause.
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