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Samson François – Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Samson François (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:00 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Tomb of Couperin. Ravel completed the composition of Le Tombeau de Couperin, a cycle dedicated to the piano, in November 1917. This tribute to eighteenth-century French music includes six parts: Prelude, Fugue, Forlane, Rigaudon, Minuet and Toccata. At the origin of this Tomb (Ravel drew with his hand a funeral urn which is printed on the cover page of the original edition), the musician pays tribute to the fallen during the war. Moreover, it evokes the refinement of French classicism, that of Rameau and the Couperins. Ravel’s aim is therefore to magnify the Great Century that he revered.
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Sorceress – Beneath The Mountain (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:03 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © King Volume Records
Sorceress was a band that existed from 2008-2011 in Salem, Oregon, inspired by the mid-2000’s stoner-rock/doom-metal explosion. Formed out of the wake of its predecessor, Love Machine (2006-2007), its same four members sought to continue down a road of stoney heaviness hinted at by the final track, “Sorceress,” on Love Machine’s only full-length album, Red Love White Magic. Similarly, Sorceress wrote and recorded only one full-length album, Beneath the Mountain, in 2009, which was effectively the last thing we did as a band. Shortly after the release of the album, I moved to Germany and the band went on hiatus.
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Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting – Chopin Piano Favourites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:50 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Classical
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Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting was born in Yokohama, Japan, and completed her piano studies at the Tokyo Conservatory.Further studies took her to Germany at the Detmold University of Music and the Robert Schumann University inDsseldorf. Her teachers include Roberto Szidon, Detlev Kraus, Naoyuki Taneda and Willem Brons. Her concertactivities have taken her to Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan.With this third recital album, Sachiko Furuhata-Kersting takes up selected works by Frdric Chopin. With the famousetudes, the nocturnes and waltzes, different moods are singled out and compare so that an independent Chopin portraitis drawn.
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Sadie Harrison – Pasture & Storm (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:26:31 minutes | 696 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ASC Records
The Pasture & Storm Project brings together the composer Sadie Harrison, three pianists in Nicholas McCarthy, Sophia Benton and Tomáš Klement, the singer Peyee Chen, flautist Stephanie Gilbert, violinist Roger Huckle, and the Bristol Ensemble, conducted by John Pickard. The CD includes 8 new works written to celebrate the unique talents of the left-hand-only pianist.
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Sa Chen – Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2008/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:27 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
PentaTone is proud to present their first release featuring the spectacular new pianist Sa Chen. Already a star in her native China, Sa Chen has won the Leeds Piano Competition (1994) The Chopin Piano Competiton (1996) and the Van Cliburn in 2005.
This SACD comes packaged with a DVD featuring Sa Chen interviewed by James Jolly (Editor in Chief of Gramophone) and footage from the recording sessions showing one complete movement from each concerto. Sa Chen will be featured as “One To Watch” (special page in Gramophone, November issue) and also BBC Music Magazine. We are all aware that Deutsche Gramophone is releasing an album comprising exactly the same works performed by Lang Lang. Actually it is an interesting phenomenon that two young Chinese artists record the same works and we hope and expect that the media will compare both albums.
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Russian National Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (2011/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:17 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
This recording marks the start of a new complete Tchaikovsky symphony cycle for PentaTone from Mikail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra. To hear such dramatic Tchaikovsky compositions performed by a top Russian orchestra is a real treat, and when the recordings are of such high quality, even more so. The Evening Standard wrote of the Russian National Orchestra’s Prom debut; “They played with such captivating beauty that the audience gave an involuntary sigh of pleasure”.
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