Stéphanie Varnerin & L’Astrée – Opera Arias in Turin in 18th Century (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stéphanie Varnerin & L’Astrée – Opera Arias in Turin in 18th Century (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:10 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO

Beginning in the 1680s, with a considerable delay when considered in relation to the principal theatrical venues of the Italian Peninsula, the capital of Savoy finally gave up its resistance, surrendered to the opera, and in 1740 went so far as to provide itself with a theater, the Teatro Regio, that was worthy of immortalization in the pages of the Encyclopédie and obtained the status of a magnet for illustrious travelers and visitors. During the mid-1760s Joseph-Jérôme de Lalande regarded it as »the most studied, the best composed, the most complete that we see in Italy…the most richly and nobly decorated that there is in the modern genre.« Some years later it seemed to Charles Burney to be »very large and elegant« and worthy of being regarded among the most beautiful in Europe.

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Shuann Chai – Extemporize (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Shuann Chai – Extemporize (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:35 minutes | 267 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cobra Records

Schubert’s Impromptus are not without their quirks and curiosities, and Shuann Chai used this recording as an opportunity to delve deeper into them. In doing so she was also introduced to the two delightful Fugues (D 24a and D 24c ) that accompany the impromptus on this album.

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Peter Maffay – live-haftig Loreley 2013 (Live 2013) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Peter Maffay – live-haftig Loreley 2013 (Live 2013) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:34:00 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Red Rooster

Peter Maffay (* 30. August 1949 in Brașov, Volksrepublik Rumänien; bürgerlich Peter Alexander Makkay) ist ein deutscher Sänger, Gitarrist, Komponist und Musikproduzent.

Zu Beginn seiner Karriere wurde er durch Schlager bekannt, danach wechselte er zum Deutschrock. Mit 20 Nummer-eins-Alben und über 50 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern ist er der erfolgreichste Künstler in den deutschen Charts. Darüber hinaus ist er Miterfinder der Märchen- und Zeichentrickfigur Tabaluga.

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Özgür Hazar – WAY BACK HOME (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Özgür Hazar – WAY BACK HOME (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:59 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Blues
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Ozgur Hazar was born in 1976 in Influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, BB King, Matt Schofield, and other Blues legends. Lived in the US – Philadelphia between 2004 – 2006 and played with several bands in clubs. Played many concerts and clubs in Istanbul with his band. Has moved to Leuven/Belgium in March 2018. The first single ‘Sad and Blue’ was included in BRR album sampler 11th edition, together with great artists such as Allman Betts Band, Samantha Fish, Laurence Jones Band, Danny Bryant, Ken Valdez, Savoy Brown, and others.His band Ozgur Hazar’s Blues Syndicate came together in 2020 and played many shows and concerts in Belgium

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:43:37 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Death Metal
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Rituals of the Dead Hand-The Wretched and the Vile-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2024-MOONBLOOD

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:40:20 minutes | 456 MB | Genre: Metal
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:38:05 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Black Metal
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:43:45 minutes | 372 MB | Genre: Ambient
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:59:53 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Metal
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:47:25 minutes | 649 MB | Genre: Death Metal
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Mr Mibbler – Falling Ladder (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Mr Mibbler – Falling Ladder (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:10 minutes | 362 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NXN Recordings

The 2021 album Leave Your Thoughts Here (NXN4005) was described as ‘clearly a major recording event of the year’ (JazzViews, UK) and ‘ten mouth-watering pieces of music’ (UK Vibe) and was embraced by listeners worldwide. As usual, Mr Mibbler continues to surprise and delight, and their follow-up Falling Ladder contains two longer pieces of music. Though this is not in the traditional song format, you will recognise the sounds and ambience that characterise the releases from this exciting Norwegian three-piece music collective.

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Mathis Rochat – CPE Bach · Johann Gottlieb Graun: Viola Concertos (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mathis Rochat – CPE Bach · Johann Gottlieb Graun: Viola Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:54 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CPO

Alongside the flourishing musical life of Germany’s numerous courts and princely seats, which were of equal cultural eminence with the autonomous »free cities« of the Holy Roman Empire, the country’s cultural landscape became further enriched in the last two-thirds of the 18th century by a burgeoning enthusiasm for concert-going among the middle classes. The Prussian capital, Berlin, came to play a special role in this respect because the young kingdom had in Frederick II (the third monarch to be honoured with the sobriquet »the Great«) a ruler who was particularly fond of music. However, the capital subsequently lost out when, long before he became known as »old Fritz«, the young Frederick transferred his courtly household from Berlin to Potsdam. There he presided over a men’s music club and »put on chamber concerts every evening, in which he usually played flute concertos composed by himself«, as described in Nikolaus Forkel’s biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, where we read of the visit by »old Bach« to his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, then employed as »chamber harpsichordist« to the Prussian king.

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Johannes Moser – Live at the Concertgebouw (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Johannes Moser – Live at the Concertgebouw (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:09 minutes | 908 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon

Hailed by Gramophone magazine as “one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists”, German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms, London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Tokyo NHK Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras with conductors of the highest level including Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Franz Welser- Möst, Christian Thielemann, Pierre Boulez, Paavo Jarvi, Semyon Bychkov, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Gustavo Dudamel.

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George Szell & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 by George Szell (1964/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

George Szell & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 by George Szell (1964/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:46 minutes | 760 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1901 to 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He began writing the symphony in winter 1901 in Rapallo, Italy, shortly after the successful premiere of the popular Finlandia. Sibelius said, “My second symphony is a confession of the soul.”

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Florence Millet – Key Words: Piano parlando, Vol. 1 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Florence Millet – Key Words: Piano parlando, Vol. 1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:22 minutes | 372 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion

K E Y W O R D S , the title of this two-part concept album, uses the English word “key” ambiguously: it stands for both the piano key and the key. With one exception, key words from piano music of the 20th and 21st centuries can be found here, in a very personal selection with some first recordings. They want to pursue a fundamental question of musical interpretation and composition, “how to address people with music.” This does not mean the idea of somehow making music speak. Rather, they are “speaking” works themselves, i.e. piano music that contains specific or hidden messages, refers to poems, includes language, words or syllables, has dialogues and dialogues, can be read as a diary or tells entire stories. And it is also the piano instrument itself that appears in “voices” – whispering, stuttering, calling, hesitating.

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