![Sinfonieorchester Des Hessischen Rundfunks, Sonja Gornik, Christopher Ward, Aachen Opera Chorus - Blech: Complete Orchestral Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/01/ii0dnrp8hjxlb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Sinfonieorchester Des Hessischen Rundfunks, Sonja Gornik, Christopher Ward, Aachen Opera Chorus – Blech: Complete Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:46 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Rarities of a Forgotten Late Romantic: The closest Leo Blech (1880–1959) gets to fame these days is being mistaken for Ernest Bloch, although some might still remember his seminal work as an opera conductor in Berlin, where he worked for almost half a century (except for the Nazi years). But his compositions – either operas or involving the voice in some other way – have disappeared from the repertoire, which is a pity because his music, while less probing than that of his contemporary Bloch, is very much charming in the style of, say, Humperdinck or Rheinberger.
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![Samuel Liégeon - Leguay, Liégeon: Confluences, improvisations à deux pianos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/21/vw55bqsk1f8jc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Samuel Liégeon – Leguay, Liégeon: Confluences, improvisations à deux pianos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:06:56 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © HORTUS
At the heart of Conferences, a threefold encounteramong Jean-Pierre Le guay, Samuel Liégeon and Stephen Paulello, the imaginative designer and maker of pianos. But also that of two creative artists with two Paulello grand pianos whose dimensions and fundamentally retooled architecture extend the sound horizon. In their improvisations the two musicians share a common urge to shape the present instant, a longing for adventure, a fulfilment in conversation.
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Sachal Vasandani – Still Life (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:06 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Edition Records
In 2020, as the pandemic spread across the globe, both Sachal and Romain found themselves confined to New York with all their touring cancelled and their artistic expression put on hold. When they were allowed to do so, these friends and neighbours met for walks and for coffee to talk about life, Art, Politics, the craziness of the world, and music. The idea of collaborating emerged, with no thought beyond finding a way of channeling their anxiety and anger.
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![Saleem Ashkar - Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 4, 9, 18, 25, 29 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/06/f5kd1s4dqajsa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Saleem Ashkar – Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 4, 9, 18, 25, 29 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:03:17 minutes | 1014 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
Berlin-based Israeli-Palestinian pianist Saleem Ashkar made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 22 and has since gone on to establish an international career. Recent and future concerto highlights include the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig and the St Louis, Vancouver and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras.
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![Sam Gendel - Cicada Lite (Live in Texas) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/01/gg7tsbpa24lvc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Sam Gendel – Cicada Lite (Live in Texas) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Unseen Worlds
Top drawer material from the most prolific artist of our era, “Cicada Lite” is an evocative outdoor recording that finds the Los Angeles jazz shapeshifter duetting with birds and insects. RIYL Jon Hassell, Gonçalo F Cardoso, Lieven Martens.
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Soccer Mommy – Sometimes, Forever (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:35 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loma Vista Recordings
“Sometimes, Forever refers to the idea that the good and bad are both temporary and always returning. Feelings of sorrow and emptiness will pass but they will always come back around, as will feelings of joy. This album explores many ups and downs. It moves from the high of love to hopelessness and disconnect. A frustrated loss of control over life and a disconnect from the self reoccur throughout the record, only to circle back to a willingness to let go and be free, whether through love (shotgun, with u) or blissful ignorance (don’t ask me). It’s a coexistence of light and dark, not only lyrically but tonally. Dan once called it the angels and demons record lol.”
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![Soweto Kinch, London Symphony Orchestra, Lee Reynolds - White Juju (Live) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/29/oak36dxhf4htc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Soweto Kinch, London Symphony Orchestra, Lee Reynolds – White Juju (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live
Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Serious, White Juju is made up of six new works for jazz quintet and chamber orchestra. Beginning with the deafening silence of quarantine in 2020, it conjures sounds such as a bird call in Central Park, and the statue of a slaver crashing into Bristol’s River Avon, interwoven with Kinch’s barbed lyrics. The piece is deliberately danceable and intentionally seeks to subvert expectations of orchestral music.
Kinch’s music melds his distinct approach to jazz and hip hop with Classical music: drawing broad inspiration from European folklore, the African Diaspora and myth to create a contemporary tone poem.
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![Sofie Vanden Eynde - Vanishing Point (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/07/08/nq7ts4wa3umgb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Sofie Vanden Eynde – Vanishing Point (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:56 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Antarctica Records
In 2016, lutenist Sofie Vanden Eynde put her instrument aside for nine months to recover from a severe burnout. Five years later, she felt the need to look back. Would it be possible to articulate the inner reality of a burnout musically: to make a burnout audible, tangible, understandable and – who knows – avoidable?
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