Michał Szałach – Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz: Violin Chamber Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sagittaria
Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz:
Polish composer, musicologist and music educator
Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz (ur. 17 października 1916 w Sierpcu, zm. 21 listopada 1998 w Warszawie) – polski kompozytor, organista i pedagog.
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Miriam K. Smith – Momentum (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:22 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Azica Records
Cellist Miriam K. Smith (b. 2006) is rapidly gaining recognition as an immensely talented and charismatic soloist with orchestras across the United States.
Her meteoric rise has included the release of two full-length albums: Ignite, which won a 2018 Global Music Award; and Flair, recordings of works by Barber, Falla, Piazzolla, and Tchaikovsky, out now on MSR Classics and all digital platforms. Of her playing, Maestro J.R. Cassidy, Music Director of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, said, “I would go so far as to say, I have never heard the depth of artistry at such an age. Her command and control, her shaping of phrases, dynamic range, intonation are truly beyond her years.”
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Markus Zwink – Passionsspiele Oberammergau 2022 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:46 minutes | 757 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hook Music
“The music should drive the play” – that is the top priority in his workshop. Markus Zwink has been musical director and conductor for four Passion Play decades. During this time, he has increasingly acted as composer; when there is a need for text, he is also replacing the librettist for the first time for 2022. That wasn’t always the case: “I can still remember how I rewrote a transition in a musical number in 1990. Eight bars only, but I had real qualms about it, it was all so sacred and so predetermined and so determined.” But a change had to come – that was already clear to him ten years earlier. In the 1980 play, Markus Zwink is the bass soloist, Christian Stückl sings in the chorus – “and we both thought that it couldn’t really go on like that, because it just felt like a repetition of 1970, 1960, 1950”. Six years later, there was an “almost landslide turnaround” – and finally the opportunity to take action himself.
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Motionless In White – Scoring The End Of The World (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:57 minutes | 689 MB | Genre: Metal, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Roadrunner Records
The album fully encompasses the expanse of the band’s dynamic, deep, and dark vision, and marks the band’s first full-length body of work in three years since 2019’s ‘Disguise’. The latter has quietly made a major impact on rock music and culture.
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Monet Quintett, Trio Tricolor – Dorothee Eberhardt: Magma (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:25 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Genuin
Dorothee Eberhardt’s fifth portrait on Genuin is made up of new and recent works for unusual instrument combinations. First-class ensembles and musicians such as the Monet Quintet, the Trio Tricolor (Korbinian Altenberger, violin, Christoph Eß, horn, and Boris Kusnezow, piano), Zoltán Kovács (clarinet) Axel Gremmelspacher (piano), and Catherina Lendle (violin) take part.
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Monster Magnet – Test Patterns : Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:27 minutes | 567 MB | Genre: Space Rock, Stoner Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © God Unknown Records
The track Tab was originally released back in 1988 on the demo ‘Forget About Life, I’m High On Dope’. This is a 2021 mix of the original demo. with both tracks being over 24 minutes each. It’s viewed as an influential track with psychedelic / heavy psych / space rock and stoner rock fans and will sit nicely alongside Sleep’s ‘Dopesmoker’.
Julian Cope described the original release as distilling Hawkwind, Sabbath and The Stooges into a lysergic soup of brown acid and bathtub meth, and ultimately cultivating a “Altamont vibe”; that is, the negative end of the psychedelic spectrum.
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Matthieu Mazué – We Stay Still (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:07 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzdor Series
We Stay Still is Mathieu Mazué Trio’s intriguing follow up to Cortex (2021). The album, made up entirely of original compositions and presented with as much discipline as freedom, passes the idea of ‘through-composed’ momentum.
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Matthias Kirschnereit, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn – Haydn: The Complete Piano Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:46 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
Perhaps Mozart sings more, but Haydn speaks, he chatters, he rejoices and talks about the really important things in life”. After Matthias Kirschnereit’s exploration with the Radio Hesse Symphony Orchestra of the middle ground between the Classical and Romantic eras in works by Hummel, Weber and Mendelssohn, the pianist now turns to Haydn. And that means he is entering the terrain, somewhat neglected even now, of the great Austrian’s piano concertos. All nine keyboard concertos that were definitely written by Haydn are now being released with Matthias Kirschnereit and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn, which he directs from the instrument. Included is the Double Concerto in F major with Lena Neudauer on the violin. As a “chamber music treat”, Matthias Kirschnereit also had the Piano Trio in G major arranged and recorded. The recording is a co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
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Marina Rebeka, Mathieu Pordoy – Voyage (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:24 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prima Classic
Some musical objects resist scholarly classifications. Straddling two genres or requiring an unusual membership, they escape the boxes in which we like to lock each score before carefully storing it in a thematic catalogue. The same goes for mélodies composed by French people on foreign texts: should they be considered as French mélodies? Are they losing their French character? Are they even still mélodies or do they become lieder, songs, or any other form specific to the language used?
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Mitch Murder – Selection 6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Electronic, Synthwave
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 555620 Records DK2
Another selection of sporadic uploads and unreleased tracks from the past couple of years…
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Mats Bergstrom – Portfolio (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:29:20 minutes | 4,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos Sweden – Mats Bergström Musik AB
Mats Johan Bergström (7 March 1961) is a Swedish guitarist and composer principally focused in the genre of chamber music.
Borne in Gävle, Sweden, he received his MFA from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1982, and did post-graduate study at the Juilliard School, 1990–92.[1] He made his debut in 1983 at Wigmore Hall in London and has since been a freelance soloist, accompanist and ensemble musician.
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