BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Jonathan Berman – Franz Schmidt: The Symphonies (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Jonathan Berman – Franz Schmidt: The Symphonies (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:29:55 minutes | 3,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Accentus Music

“In conversations about Franz Schmidt the recurring theme emerging for many is that listening to a performance of his music at a young age became the turning point in their lives –the realization of how powerful music can be,” says Jonathan Berman, whose longtime love of Franz Schmidt’s work has its origins in a performance preparation for his Fourth Symphony. Berman’s passion for Schmidt’s work and the composer’s upcoming 150th birthday in 2024 were key reasons for the conductor to approach the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to record all four symphonies together – a major project that also marks Jonathan Berman’s CD debut. The recordings were realized between 2020 and 2022 at BBC Hoddinott Hall, the home of the BBC NOW in Cardiff. In November 2023, Accentus Music releases all four symphonies in a high-quality box set that will also be made available across all digital platforms. BBC Music Magazine wrote about the digital pre-release of the first symphony in March 2021: “Jonathan Berman and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales deliver a terrific performance which provides a fine alternative to the excellent version from Paavo Järvi. […] [W]hat really makes this new recording so enticing is the sheer energy and enthusiasm with which conductor and orchestra communicate the vigour and optimism of the opening movement.

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Antti Lötjönen – Circus/Citadel (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Antti Lötjönen – Circus/Citadel (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz

Finnish bassist Antti Lötjönen returns in February 2023 with his second Quintet East album on We Jazz Records. With Verneri Pohjola on trumpet, Mikko Innanen and Jussi Kannaste on saxes, and Joonas Riippa on drums, Quintet East is a hard-hitting ensemble of Helsinki scene A-listers. The new release sees the quintet work with Lötjönen’s inspired new music with remarkable spirit, spreading out on a quest for new sounds and ideas, and returning to base with a fresh batch of acoustic creative music, wild to the bone even when sounding completely in control.

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Alexander String Quartet, Paul Yarbrough – Mozart: The String Quintets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexander String Quartet, Paul Yarbrough – Mozart: The String Quintets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:52:21 minutes | 3,55 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Foghorn Classics

Mozart’s string quintets represent “some of his most sophisticated musical thinking … wonderful music, exhilarating to hear” (from the liner notes by Eric Bromberger). With this three album set, the Alexander String Quartet and Paul Yarbrough complete their Mozart compendium.

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A.K. Yeboah – Nde Yen Da (1985/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

A.K. Yeboah – Nde Yen Da (1985/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 28:01 minutes | 314 MB | Genre: Disco, Boogie, Highlife, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Africa

AK Yeboah- Antony ‘King’ Yeboah- began his career playing ‘classic’ highlife in the 1950s. Thirty years later, he hit upon the brilliant idea of writing songs in Pidgin, to attract a much wider listenership- especially among neighbouring Nigerians. Yeboah’s pan-African electric guitar style was a shoo-in for the 80s ‘burger’ highlife style, and equally popular with Colombia’s burgeoning ‘picotero’ DJ sound systems. In fact this record is probably the perfect calling card for that innovative sound. To this day, he remains a leading source of inspiration to budding Ghanaian musicians and recording artists the world over.

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Emmet Cohen & Houston Person – Masters Legacy Series, Volume 5: Houston Person (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emmet Cohen & Houston Person – Masters Legacy Series, Volume 5: Houston Person (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bandstand Presents

From its languid beginning, saxophonist Houston Person’s own warmly engaging “Why Not?,” to its closing, Etta James’ slinky seduction “Sunday Kind of Love,” Emmet Cohen’s Master Legacy Series Vol. 5 Featuring Houston Person is a decidedly laid-back affair, unlike much of its predecessors which featured Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, George Coleman, Benny Golson and Albert Tootie Heath.

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Elly Ameling – Bach: Cantata BWV 202 “Wedding Cantata” by Elly Ameling & Eugen Jochum (2023 Remastered, Amsterdam 1973) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Elly Ameling – Bach: Cantata BWV 202 “Wedding Cantata” by Elly Ameling & Eugen Jochum (2023 Remastered, Amsterdam 1973) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 22:58 minutes | 398 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (Dissipate, you troublesome shadows), BWV 202, is a secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was likely composed for a wedding, but scholars disagree on the dating which could be as early as Bach’s tenure in Weimar, around 1714, while it has traditionally been connected to his wedding to Anna Magdalena on 3 December 1721 in Köthen. It is one of Bach’s frequently recorded cantatas. The aria “Sich üben im Lieben” (“To practice sweet courtship, to joyously cuddle” or “To cultivate love”) is often performed as a concert piece.

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Carl Petter Opsahl – Mystery of Listening (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Carl Petter Opsahl – Mystery of Listening (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:18 minutes | 734 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Visions and Dreams

Opsahl is an award winning clarinetist and composer whose last album Kyrkja – with Oddrun Lilja and Ellen Brekken – received international acclaim and was hot-listed by Europe Jazz Network as one of the best jazz albums of 2022.

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Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – Heavenly Mozart (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – Heavenly Mozart (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:20 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Classic

The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra reinvigorates two of Mozart’s best-known works in its brand-new recording Heavenly Mozart with conductor Rachael Beesley and fortepiano soloist Neal Peres Da Costa, releasing 10 November for digital download or streaming via ABC Classic, and on CD on the ARCO label.

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Art Farmer – Portrait Of Art Farmer (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Art Farmer – Portrait Of Art Farmer (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:31 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Portrait of Art Farmer is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Contemporary label. It was recorded when Farmer was adjusting to moving from Horace Silver’s band, where he received a high level of rhythmic and harmonic support from the rhythm section, to Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, where there was no piano and only light backing.

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The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (2023) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Genre: Rock
Year Of Release: 2023
Duration: 00:48:34

Label: Rolling Stones Records
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Rip Type: folder
Bit Rate: 24/48
Format: Dolby TrueHD
Number of channels: 7.1
Other Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit

Hackney Diamonds, the hugely anticipated new album by The Rolling Stones, is released on October 20th on Polydor Records. Following the release of 2016’s Grammy Award winning Blue & Lonesome, which featured brilliant versions of blues tracks that helped shape their sound, Hackney Diamonds marks the band’s first studio album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. Limited edition boxset includes the standard 12-track album on CD, a Blu-ray disc with hi-res 24/96 audio and Dolby Atmos versions of the album, a 64 page book with exclusive essays and photos of the band, and lenticular cover art.

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Frank Zappa – Waka/Wazoo (Reissue) (2022) [4xCD + Blu-ray Audio Disc]

Genre: Rock
Year of Edition: 2022
Publisher (label): Zappa Records
Catalog Number: ZR20041

CD

Audio codec: FLAC (*.flac)
Rip type: tracks+.cue
Duration: 4:20:36

Blu-ray Audio

Container: BDMV
Rip type: folder
Bit Rate: 24/48
Format: Dolby TrueHD
Number of channels: 7.1
Other audio: English / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3979 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 384 kbps / DN -19dB), English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit

Waka/Wazoo is a boxset by Frank Zappa, released posthumously on December 16, 2022. It is a 4CD/1-Blu-ray set composed of various material recorded in 1972, during a period when Zappa was forced away from live performances due to injuries sustained during a concert on December 10, 1971. This includes recordings from the same Paramount Studios sessions which birthed the albums Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo, and live material from the following tours of the same year.

The first two discs consist of alternate takes, alternate mixes, and outtakes of songs from Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. The third disc consists of demo material of jazz keyboardist and band member at the time George Duke (including an early, instrumental version of the song “Uncle Remus” which would eventually be released with lyrics on Zappa’s Apostrophe (‘)), an unreleased September 24 recording of the piece “Approximate” at the Boston Music Hall from the Grand Wazoo tour (the same show featured on the album Wazoo (2007), performed by the 19-piece incarnation of the band), and the first two tracks of a nearly complete show recorded during the Petit Wazoo tour (with the 10-piece band). The fourth disc consists of the remainder of this show. Also included in the set is a Blu-ray Audio disc containing various higher quality mixes of Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazoo. (more…)

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Later. – Walking On the Line (Extended) (2023) [24Bit-44.1kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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Later. – Walking On the Line (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:24 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Vansind – Mørket (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

Vansind - Mørket (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️ Download

Vansind – Mørket (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:45:27 minutes | 612 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Trio Frizzante – Waltzin (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Trio Frizzante – Waltzin (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:55 minutes | 931 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Austrian Gramophone

With the album “Waltzin” we celebrate our 10th anniversary and would like to give you an in- sight into our colorful repertoire. We start with the trio by Martinů, which is one of the standard works in the combination of flute, cello and piano. Haydn’s F Major trio is very exciting in its form, as it consists of only two movements and remains gallant until the end rather than ending with a virtuoso finale. A youth work of the only 18-year-old Debussy follows: We find the sound of the flute very charming with this piano work – it rivals the violin provided for in the original. Only in very few places did Marlies have to make small arrangements of the violin part.

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Jimmy Buffett – Equal Strain On All Parts (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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Jimmy Buffett – Equal Strain On All Parts (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:53:05 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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