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Lorenzo Ghielmi – Bach: English Suites, BWV 806-811 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:28 minutes | 3,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
Bach’s English Suites are entitled in a way that is as strange as it is hard to explain, at least at first glance. Contrary to what one might assume, these works are more closely related to French suites than to English music. The title is taken from the inscription “Fait pour les Anglois”, found on a manuscript owned by Bach’s youngest son. In addition to an extensive prelude and four traditional dances – Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue – each suite also contains “gallantries”, lighter dances that were fashionable at the time. In these dance movements, grace and melody play together with a compositional artistry that elevates them far beyond incidental music for courtly dances. After the Partitas published by Passacaille in 2021 (PAS 1105), Lorenzo Ghielmi, one of the most renowned Bach interpreters of our day, now releases the English Suites, recorded on a harpsichord built by Detmar Hungelbert after an instrument by Michael Mietke (ca. 1710 in Berlin).
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
Das verlangte Orchester ist groß, zur üblichen Besetzung mit dreifachem Holz kommt ein Altsaxophon (einer der wenigen Fälle eines Saxophons in der klassischen Musik), stark erweitertes Schlagwerk (3 Pauken, Tamburin, Triangel, Kleine und Große Trommel, Becken, Tamtam, Glockenspiel, 3 Glocken), Klavier und eine Harfe. Das Werk gilt in der Orchesterliteratur als anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Es ist dem Philadelphia Orchestra und seinem damaligen Chefdirigenten Eugene Ormandy gewidmet, die das Werk auch am 3. Januar 1941 uraufführten. Erst während einer Aufführung unter Dimitri Mitropoulos und dem Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra im November 1942 entdeckte Rachmaninow, dass in der Partitur des ersten Satzes statt Allegro ein Non Allegro gedruckt war; das Non wurde ausgestrichen. Bis heute findet sich Non Allegro aber häufig noch als Satzangabe. Die Aufführungsdauer des Satzes variiert nicht zuletzt daher beträchtlich zwischen einzelnen Aufführungen. Eine eigene Aufnahme, die Rachmaninows Sicht dargestellt hätte, war geplant, wurde aber nie durchgeführt. 2018 erschien ein Mitschnitt bei Marston Records, in dem Rachmaninow Eugene Ormandy in einer Version für Solo-Klavier das Werk erläutert. Das Tempo zu Beginn des ersten Satzes ist in dieser Erläuterung am Klavier mit 116 Schlägen minimal unter Allegro im oberen Moderato-Bereich.
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Luca Pianca – The Art of Resonance: Archlute & Theorbo Music of the Italian Seicento (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:51 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
At the beginning of the 17th century, music in Italy underwent a radical change. From the first experimental attempts in Florence to revive the musical practice of Greek antiquity, which had not been handed down in detail, the genre of the monody developed, in which the singer could finally express all the nuances of the text (the “affects”), freed from the strict constraints of polyphony. To accompany this monophonic singing, new types of plucked instruments emerged, such as the archlute and the theorbo, characterised especially by their powerful bass registers and intense resonances. The new expressive demands invited playing with timbres, (de)crescendi and agogics to convincingly portray human passions, elements that were also applied to purely instrumental music, as in the works on this recording. The rigour of polyphony gave way to a style based more on improvisation, an aspect particularly important to Luca Pianca in his interpretation of solo works for archlute and theorbo by Piccinini, Kapsberger, Melli and Raimondo.
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Les Abranis – Amazigh Freedom Rock 1973 – 1983 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:37 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: World, Psychedelic Rock, Funk, Disco, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques Bongo Joe
Les Disques Bongo Joe return to the scorching Kabyle rock of Abranis, the pioneering Algerian band that blended traditional Berber music with western rock, folk, disco, and funk, all the while proudly celebrating their Kabyle heritage.
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Lyris Quartet – Amazing Grace (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:59 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © MicroFest Records
World Premiere recording of BEN JOHNSTON’S last composition – OCTET: “Ashokan Farewell” featuring Lyris Quartet, who also plays his Quartet #9 and the world’s favorite, Quartet #4: Amazing Grace.
“More than 20 years ago, the music critic John Rockwell described Ben Johnston in the New York Times as ‘one of the best nonfamous composers this country has to offer.’ What has changed is that Johnston is now, I’d suggest, our best nonfamous composer.” (Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times)
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Wallace Roney – Stand (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:03 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Time-Life Music
Wallace Roney is a true giant in the world of jazz trumpet. A protegé of Miles Davis, Wallace carries on the tradition of bop with his amazing ensemble.
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The Nuts Bassoon Quartet – Fakturen: 4 Elements of Harmony (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:24 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MClassics
Four bassoons perform a fascinating art. Debut album by bassoon quartet “The Nuts”! This is the debut album by “The Nuts,” an ensemble of three bassoonists from the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra and one from the Aichi Chamber Orchestra. Featured is the Japan premiere of Köper’s concerto for bassoon quartet and orchestra, “Fakturen”. This concerto, written for four bassoons, is a rare work with a beautiful melody and colorful orchestration.
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