![Forma Antiqva - Concerto Zapico, Vol. 2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/31/o99t754q75kfc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Forma Antiqva – Concerto Zapico, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:01 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Winter & Winter
In 2007 the Zapico brothers created «Concerto Zapico»; their most personal project. Through it they reached a longed for aspiration: to be able to make chamber music together. The problem is that none of them play any melodic instrument, but polyphonic, ideal for the solo repertoire or for the realization of the basso continuo, that is, the harmonic accompaniment of the melody. But, playing together?
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![Fount & Origin, James Tomlinson - The Sword & the Lily: 15th-Century Polyphony for Judgement Day (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/m68fa3i6zpjgb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Fount & Origin, James Tomlinson – The Sword & the Lily: 15th-Century Polyphony for Judgement Day (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:55 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Inventa Records
In their debut album, early music ensemble Fount & Origin present a musical meditation on the Franco-Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden’s altarpiece image of The Last Judgement at the End of time. This multi-panelled work survives as a monument of fifteenth-century art, relating in vivid detail and colour van der Weyden’s dynamic and terrifying account of the world’s final moments. The nine polyphonic settings recorded here were composed in Europe in the mid- to late-fifteenth century and include works by composers such as Johannes Ockeghem, Johannes Regis, Johannes Martini and Antoine Brumel, with each piece thematically tied to an element or figure in the painting.
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![François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille - Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/07/flh8sg73ek08a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles, Vannina Santoni, Julien Behr, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Jean Teitgen, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lille – Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:37:54 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Chief conductor of Les Siècles symphony orchestra, François-Xavier Roth has been revisiting French music from the beginning of the 20th century for several years now, taking care to honour both the original instruments and to find melodies that favour even greater clarity of timbre and attack. After his incredible recordings of Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky’s first work (special mention to the superb complete version of L’Oiseau de feu), everyone naturally expected the conductor to perform Pelléas et Mélisande, the opera he conducted at the very beginning of his career which is particularly close to his heart.
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![Fabio Bonizzoni - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Cembalo Obbligato Vol. 1 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/29/rov6deq0zbr9a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Fabio Bonizzoni – Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Cembalo Obbligato Vol. 1 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 858 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
A superb account of J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato by Ryo Terakado and Fabio Bonizzoni.
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![Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington - Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/06/utzprs3g8mgla_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington – Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:56 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Following their critically acclaimed first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos (CHAN 20234), Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington complete the set, once again with outstanding support from a reduced Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This cycle not only represents the first time Sir Roger has recorded these concertos, but the present album is also his final recording project. All five concertos were written before Mozart was twenty; nevertheless, his rapid development as a composer is evident in the progression from the first to the fifth, which has an unusual Adagio section within the first movement, an extensive slow movement, and of course the extensive ‘Turkish’ episode in the final movement (probably based on Hungarian folk music). Whilst given on modern instruments with metal strings, these are performances immersed in Norrington’s lifetime of experience in period performance practise. As The Sunday Times noted of the first album: ‘Pairing the veteran Mozartian Norrington – a pioneer of historical performance practice – with the young Italian-American soloist Dego proves inspiring in what promises to be one of the freshest of recent cycles of the Mozart concertos.’
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![Fukio Ensemble - Transcend (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/vkt880cl3ttya_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Fukio Ensemble – Transcend (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:17 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ars Produktion
With Transcend, the Fukio Quartet illustrates the experience and feeling of the global crisis that has strongly influenced their work over many months: The Corona Pandemic. Between cancelled concerts and an uncertainty if and when it will be possible for them to make music live again, this album was created. Within a transcendent time that was accompanied by open questions and vagueness. The state of limbo that in a way defines any crisis – the mood in which the next decision, the next turn, is not completely clear – represents a very essential core of the quartet’s work. Through the sound of the saxophone, they are able to transmit emotions that they cannot communicate in any other way. In the process, every little dissonance, every inner discord, every crisis is a significant part of what resonates with the recipients. It’s fukio.
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![Floris Mijnders, Roland Glassl, Nina Karmon, Daniel Giglberger - Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/06/xobxwh69zfkib_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Floris Mijnders, Roland Glassl, Nina Karmon, Daniel Giglberger – Frühling: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 30 & Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 35 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:45 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
It is frankly little short of a miracle that the name of Carl Frühling is still remembered today, since we know next to nothing about him. Scant biographical notes provide a few reference points rather than an orderly “résumé” of his life, and a mere handful of the hundred or more works he is thought to have composed is extant today. The main reason for his relegation to oblivion is a fact that Frühling kept secret; a fact that nevertheless had to be declared on official documents: he was Jewish. Even before the Nazis took power his religion had caused him problems, making it difficult for him to pursue a career as a composer. As a result, Frühling understandably tried to conceal his religious adherence. In 1907 he converted to Protestantism and in his CV of 1929 he stated that he was born in Vienna. The truth is however that he actually came from Lviv (the Germans called it Lemberg, and today, the city is in Ukraine), then a predominantly Jewish city, where he was born on November 28, 1868.
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