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Michele Di Filippo – Antonio Ruiz-Pipó: Complete Music for Guitar (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:30:42 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Born in Granada in 1934, Antonio Ruiz-Pipó learnt the guitar in his youth but trained as a pianist in Barcelona, where he was taught by Frank Marshall, doyen of the Spanish piano school made famous by Alicia de Larrocha. Further study in Paris refined Ruiz-Pipó’s compositional technique, and he taught at the École Normale from 1977 until his death in 1997.
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Vienna Symphony Orchestra & Hermann Scherchen – J.S. Bach: Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079 (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Roger Vuataz) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:54 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
The Musical Offering (German: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (King Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated. They were published in September 1747. The Ricercar a 6, a six-voice fugue which is regarded as the high point of the entire work, was put forward by the musicologist Charles Rosen as the most significant piano composition in history (partly because it is one of the first). This ricercar is also occasionally called the Prussian Fugue, a name used by Bach himself.
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Mari Kawamura – Ma: Space Between (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:59 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Furious Artisans
MA space between is a collection of works for solo piano which celebrate ma, an ancient Japanese concept concerning space and time, which literally means “interval” or “gap” in Japanese. It is a beautiful and philosophically nuanced word, which carries the implication of movements within silence or “empty” spaces. Ma has served as an essential element in Japanese traditional arts, and is often considered to be an original concept, unique to Japanese culture. In a polarized world where differences are often the focal point, Kawamura’s selection of works seeks to highlight similarities between seemingly contrasting compositions by Joseph Haydn, Lei Liang, Katharina Rosenberger, Toru Takemitsu, and Iannis Xenakis by uncovering the inherent ma-like structures contained within music from outside of Japan’s sphere of influence. Although the formalization of ‘charged stillness’ as “ma” is uniquely Japanese, the purpose of this project is to demonstrate that this is a global phenomenon and is in fact quite widespread.
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Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds Of The Western World (Deluxe Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:45:03 minutes | 2,55 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO)
The deluxe CD and LP releases for the 50th anniversary of Thin Lizzy’s third studio album “Vagabonds of the Western World” contain rarities that have never been heard before.
The album was originally released in 1973. It was the band’s last album with original guitarist Eric Bell and the first to feature artwork by Jim Fitzpatrick.
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Mariss Jansons, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks – R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:08 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
Superlatives should be used sparingly. Nevertheless, there is probably no work in the centuries-old genre of programme music that is easier for listeners to understand than An Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. Moreover, no composition in the long series of sonorous descriptions of nature, including bird calls, pastoral sounds and storm effects was probably ever scored for as many instruments as this highly eventful hike through the Werdenfelser Land in Bavaria. No orchestra in the world can, with its salaried musicians alone, present this piece the way Strauss ideally envisioned it and as he proposes in the score: the composer calls for some 130 instrumentalists, including at least 12 horn players and, ideally, even more. And no work that reproduces the realities and phenomena of nature – civilized nature, atmosphere, sunrise and sunset – in music has ever been treated with so much reserve with regard to its actual artistic content as this Alpine Symphony, a latecomer in Strauss’ symphonic work. This over-sensational depiction of what is, ultimately, a mere hike through the mountains sparked several arguments about whether the returns had justified the investment.
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Lorne Balfe, Ariana DeBose, Boy George – Argylle (Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:23 minutes | 798 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon
Argylle is a 2024 spy action comedy film directed and produced by Matthew Vaughn, and written by Jason Fuchs. Its plot centers on a reclusive author who realizes that a new spy novel she’s writing mirrors real-world events.The album features the film’s original score composed by Lorne Balfe (Mission: Impossible – Fallout & Dead Reckoning, Black Widow, Top Gun: Maverick, Black Adam, His Dark Materials, The Wheel of Time, The LEGO Batman Movie).
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Linus Roth – Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:05 minutes | 2,82 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Evil Penguin Classic
Violinist Linus Roth began studying music early in childhood, and became a student of Nicolas Chumachenco at the Music Academy of Freiburg at the age of 12. He pursued music studies in Lübeck, where he studied with Zakhar Bron, and later worked with Ana Chumachenco in Zürich and Munich. Roth was strongly influenced by Salvatore Accardo, Miriam Fried, and Josef Rissin, and a scholarship from Anne-Sophie Mutter’s foundation enabled him to complete his education. Roth has performed as a concerto soloist with the Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He has also performed with the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Orquesta de Cordoba, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, among several others. He has played chamber music with many artists, including Nicolas Altstaedt, Julius Berger, Gautier Capuçon, Kim Kashkashian, Albrecht Mayer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Jan Vogler, and frequent accompanist José Gallardo. Roth is the professor of violin at the Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum of the University of Augsburg. He has recorded for Challenge Classics, CPO, and EMI Classics.
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