Yom – Alone in the Light (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:29 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Planètes Rouges
In this intimate, nocturnal album, Yom heads out in search of an ancestral heritage buried deep within himself. Unseen shadows shrouded by history who leave an atom of themselves in each of us, who shape us and sometimes find expression with or through us. In the company of shadows, and yet, alone… Alone in the Light follows the path of a long inner quest that explores secrets, time lost and found again. But while he may sometimes rage violently in response to storms and tragedies, Yom’s clarinet opens a voluptuous path towards a tranquil light. Like the promise of a peaceful dawn…
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Natalia Jiménez – ANTOLOGÍA 20 AÑOS (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:34 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Latin Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Latin
“I wanted to collect all my work and all my hits on one album, to be able to reverse them and listen to them the way I feel now. Now I’m twenty years into my career – I’m already 40 – and obviously, the way I feel about my songs now, after having sung them so many times and having performed them in so many places, it’s different.” With these words Natalia Jiménez announced weeks ago that she was going to celebrate her 2 decades of music with a new record project.
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Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Jan Lewtak, Jakub Jakowicz, Maciej Frackiewicz – Mikołaj Piotr Górecki: Orchestral Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:10 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CD Accord
The Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, under the artistic direction of its founder, Jan Lewtak, is proud to present an album of chamber music by the Polish composer Mikołaj Piotr Górecki. Mikołaj Piotr Górecki, who now lives in the United States, is an esteemed composer of contemporary Polish music. His works not only refer to the musical legacy of his father, Henryk Mikołaj, but also reflect a unique artistic path, displaying a wealth of aesthetic influences. The five works by Górecki recorded on this disc were composed over a period of almost a quarter of a century, between 1998 and 2022. They are Three Fragments, Op. 6, Concerto-Notturno, Op. 13, Overture, Op. 16, Divertimento, Op. 23 and Concerto for Accordion and Strings, Op. 61. The last work, dedicated to Maciej Frąckiewicz, who has given first performances of more than 90 compositions, is making its debut on disc. The solo part in the Concerto-Notturno for solo violin and orchestra was recorded by the outstanding Polish violinist Jakub Jakowicz. The Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra’s new album, with chamber music by Mikołaj Piotr Górecki, demonstrates the musicians’ aspiration to promoting both performances of the highest quality and also notable works of Polish chamber music.
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Musikkorps der Schutzpolizei, Berlin – Preußische & Österreichische Traditionsmärsche (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:47 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Classic
They are relicts of a bygone era: the traditional marches of the former Prussian and Austrian regiments, and yet a large number of these works can still be found in the standard repertoire of the German Bundeswehr, for example. This “classical stock” of pieces of music goes back to the time of Frederick the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven contributed his York March, and legendary military bandmasters such as Johann Gottlieb Piefke or Carl Teike wrote classics such as “Prussia’s Gloria” or the “Königgrätzer Marsch”. A selection of the 25 best-known Prussian and Austrian traditional marches can be heard on this new album in their original instrumentation. A piece of music history all about “music with history”.
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Munich Composers Collective – Digital Code (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:22 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yellowbird Records
Overcoming genre boundaries and creating a connection between avant-garde, groove and improvisation – we are 17 composers from Munich who have joined together to form an ensemble to work together on our music.
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Martina Frezzotti – Amy Beach: Piano Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:34 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
Amy Beach (1867-1944) was a pioneering American composer and pianist. She was the first female composer in the United States to achieve significant recognition, and her works were frequently performed during her lifetime. Beach’s piano works are an important part of her legacy and are a testament to her virtuosity as a performer and her innovative approach to composition. Her style is marked by her ability to capture the essence of folk music while incorporating her own unique musical style. Her piano music is full of complex rhythms and harmonies and requires great technical skill. Beach composed numerous works for solo piano, including preludes, waltzes, and nocturnes. These pieces feature rich harmonies, lyrical melodies, and intricate textures. They attest to Beach’s ability to create evocative musical landscapes and are documents of her status as one of the most important American composers of her time. In addition to a selection of shorter character pieces, this CD presents the extensive Variations on Balkan Themes, a masterpiece of its genre. Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman at the Imola Piano Academy and later with Elisso Wirsaladze at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where she received her doctorate in music with full marks in 2012 – the first Italian in the history of this prestigious university. Also in 2012, she made her debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Her first CD for Piano Classics with piano works by Fanny Mendelssohn (PCL 10238) received many excellent reviews, 5 stars and the “Recording of the Month” award in the Italian magazine Musica.
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Ron Blake – Mistaken Identity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:05 minutes | 1014 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7tēn33 Productions
Saxophonist Ron Blake returned to the recording studio for the first time in 15 years to make his new album Mistaken Identity.
The tenor and baritone player partnered with guitarist Bobby Broom (who also serves as producer), enlisting a rhythm section comprising bassists Nat Reeves and Reuben Rogers and drummer Kobie Watkins. The album especially showcases the chemistry between Blake and Broom, who have collaborated for more than a quarter century.
Recorded in two sessions in 2018 and 2021, the nine-track collection includes two original songs along with a selection of standards and compositions by jazz greats that have personal meaning for Blake, including songs by Duke Pearson, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Benny Goldon, and Bobby Broom himself.
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Robin Pharo & Anaïs Bertrand – The Waves (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:09 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Scala Music
The viola da gamba was the preferred instrument of the Baroque era and is therefore not necessarily associated with contemporary music. “The Waves” presents new repertoire for the instrument, compositions and transcriptions. Imagine if Debussy had written some of his Préludes for the melancholy sound of the viola da gamba. In 2023, the young composer Fabien Touchard uses the old sounds for a new work. The gambist Robin Pharo turns the viola da gamba into a contemporary instrument.
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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig – Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor “No. 0, Die Nullte” – Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Rienzi Overture by Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:16 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
For the first time, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 0 (“The Zeroth”) can now be heard in the interpretation by Nelsons and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Bruckner completed nine numbered symphonies (10 if the so-called Symphony No 0, ‘Die Nullte’, is included). The best known is probably Symphony No 7, first performed in Leipzig in 1884; the work includes in its scoring four Wagner tubas, instruments that were a newly developed cross between the French horn and tuba. Symphony No 4, ‘Romantic’, has an added programme—a diffident afterthought. All the symphonies, however, form an important element in late-19th-century symphonic repertoire.
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Geoffrey Madge – A Cathedral of Sound: The Bach Busoni Transcriptions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:57 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zefir
In past centuries, almost the only way to get to know musical masterpieces from other genres than the piano, was through transcriptions. Orchestral concerts were rare. It was not so easy to hear performances. Just imagine, if you didn’t live in the same city as Bach you might have to travel by horse and carriage to hear his works and then possibly only one performance. You would have to travel far in the most uncomfortable and dangerous manner to hear a cantata. Or, in a later era, for instance a symphony. The radio and recording industry has changed everything, it’s impossible for us today to imagine what an enterprise it was!
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Title: Tarja Turunen – Act II
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Rock, Symphonic Metal
Artist: Tarja Turunen
Production/Label: EARMUSIC
Duration: 03:31:05 + 00:41:12, 01:58:24
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM, AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 20.0 Mb/s / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#3: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Audio#4: Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps (bonus)
Size: 46,04 GB + 26,04 GB
No other voice and artist influenced and basically created the female fronted symphonic metal genre as much as Tarja. A pioneer in goth- and symphonic metal, the classically trained Finn rose to fame with the band Nightwish, whose face and voice she had been for 9 years. Tarja, whose vocal range goes as far as three octaves, started her solo career after stepping out of Nightwish in 2004. Filmed during Tarja’s world tour ‘The Shadow Shows’, during which the influential heavy rock singer circled the world 7 ½ times and played over 200 shows in 40 countries in front of 1 million people, ‘Act II’ consists of the singer’s very intimate 75 minute set filmed and recorded live at the Metropolis Studio in London, UK and the breathtaking live performance of one of her shows in Milan, Italy, and previously unreleased interviews and photo galleries. The theatrical rock adventure ‘Act II’ combines two incredible, yet slightly different live performances on video: The first chapter, ‘Metropolis Alive’, has been filmed two months prior to the release of Tarja’s 2016 success The Shadow Self . 20 winners from all over Europe were lucky to witness Tarja’s intimate, yet rocking 75 minute set at renowned Metropolis Studios in London, UK where the singer performed songs from her then unreleased album for the first time in front of an audience. Available on 2 CD, 3LP (180 Gram Vinyl) + Download Card, DVD, BluRay and Digital
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Title: Tarja Turunen – Act I
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Rock, Symphonic Metal
Artist: Tarja Turunen
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 01:48:20
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC3
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 23989 kbps / 1920*1080i / 25 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit
Audio#2: Dolby Digital 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Audio#3: Dolby Digital 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Act 1 is Tarja’s first ever solo live video product in her rock/metal outfit – probably her most spectacular release ever. The main content was filmed and recorded over two nights in March of 2012, at the Teatro El Círculo, in Rosario, Argentina, a beautiful and breathtaking theater setting.
With its elaborate track listing, Act 1 provides the full-fledged bill of fare to any Tarja fan. The track listing consists of Tarja’s greatest solo tracks, some Nightwish classics like Nemo, and cover versions of Over The Hills And Far Away (Gary Moore) and Phantom Of The Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber). The Blu-Ray also includes the song Tired Of Being Alone, which Tarja wrote with Schiller – or to make it short: a unique blend of music selection.
The set up of these concerts meant an incredible amount of extra work and effort in the live production – with an impressive result, but also an emotional roller coaster ride. Says Turunen: Those two nights in Rosario were a huge emotional drive to me personally.
The artist herself admits, she was ready to burst into tears many times.
This Blu-Ray is being released simultaneously with a 2CD set as well as a 2DVD.
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Title: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Live At The Chicago Theatre
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Progressive Rock
Production/Label: Cleopatra
Duration: 02:53:13
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM,DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 16496 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Size: 21,59 GB
After a thirty-year-plus hiatus, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia graced the Chicago Theater stage, with the hopes of promising fans an extraordinary, other-worldly concert experience. The original 70’s-formed band established a stellar reputation for stretching the prog rock/pop envelope and infusing their mostly original material with verve and state-of-the-art technique. Rundgren has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often-unorthodox music, flamboyant stage outfits, and his later experiments with interactive entertainment. He also produced innovative music videos, pioneered forms of multimedia, and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies.
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Christian Tetzlaff – Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra, Partita (Version for Violin & Orchestra) & Novelette (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:54 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine
This new album conducted by Nicholas Collon continues Ondine’s award-winning series of orchestral works by Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994) together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The series has gathered several accolades, including a Grammy nomination, a BBC Music Magazine Awards nomination, as well as several recording of the month awards and best recordings of the year nominations. This album includes the composer’s early hit, his folklorish masterpiece Concerto for Orchestra, which is among his most performed compositions. The album also includes Partita for Violin and Orchestra (with Christian Tetzlaff as soloist), a virtuosic 5-movement work which in its orchestral version is not short of a Violin Concerto. The rarity in the album is Lutoslawski’s Novelette from 1979, which, although fragmentary, is already pointing toward the ideas of his 3rd Symphony.
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Chloe Flower – Chloe Hearts Christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:45 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Masterworks
Experience holidays like never before, as pianist, composer & producer Chloe Flower puts her spin on classic carols, festive favorites & contemporary holiday hits with the stunning new holiday album Chloe Hearts Christmas. As the first classical instrumentalist to perform solo at the annual Disney Holiday Special and Magical Christmas Day Parade, Chloe now achieves a life-long dream of releasing a Christmas album. – The album features Chloe’s unique interpretations of Holiday favorites from V of BTS, Ariana Grande, Sia, Joni Mitchell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Faith Hill, and more with drummer, record producer, DJ, filmmaker Questlove as a guest artist on many of the tracks. Chloe Hearts Christmas will be available on CD November 17th, just in time to set the stage for your Holiday magic.
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