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Patrick Deltenre & Ivan Paduart – Inner Travels (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:04 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pavane Jazz
Belgian label Pavane Records is proud to announce the launch of its brand-new jazz collection, and what better way to kick off this musical adventure than with the exceptional album Inner Travels recorded by the talented duo Patrick Deltenre and Ivan Paduart.
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Oslo Domkirkes Ungdomskor, Vivianne Sydnes, Kåre Nordstoga – Klinge skal et jubelkor (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:42 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
The annual Christmas concert series at Oslo Cathedral, ‘Klinge skal et jubelkor’, has long been a highlight of the pre-Christmas period in Norway’s capital city. Once every year, all of the choirs associated with the cathedral come together to perform a programme of Christmas music, from the youngest fledglings in the boys’ choir to the veteran choristers who have sung at the cathedral their whole lives. Together with brass, timpani, harp, and two organs, the choirs perform Christmas carols central to the traditions of the Church of Norway.
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Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2014
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 02:03:26
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3938 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.75 GB
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2014 New Year’s Day concert from the Musikverein, Vienna. Alongside waltzes, polkas and marches from the Strauss family, the programme features music by Richard Strauss.
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Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2013
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most
Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 02:03:04
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3821 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.75 GB
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2013 New Year’s Concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in the annual celebratory concert of waltzes, polkas and marches, this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst for the second time.
As well as popular works by members of the Strauss family, we hear from anniversary composers Verdi and Wagner as well as Lanner and Hellmesberger.
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Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2012
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Production/Label: Sony Music
Duration: 01:51:35
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 32400 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4037 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.45 GB
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2012 New Year’s Concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna featuring waltzes, polkas and marches. This years event is conducted by Mariss Jansons for the second time.
The works featured this year are by members of the Strauss family, as well as Tchaikovsky, Joseph Hellmesburger Jr and Hans Christian Lumbye.
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Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2011
Release Date: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most
Production/Label: Decca
Duration: 01:56:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 32400 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4037 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.45 GB
The first major TV event of the year on Blu-ray:
The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert – this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst
For decades, the Vienna Philharmonic has been presenting its audiences with a cheerful yet contemplative program from the rich repertoire of the Strauss dynasty and its contemporaries at the turn of the year. These New Year’s concerts are not only very popular in the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, but also enjoy a high degree of recognition and popularity at home and abroad thanks to worldwide television broadcasts, which now reach over 70 countries. Today, millions of people all over the world are touched by this sometimes light-hearted, sometimes profound music, giving them joy and optimism for a new year.
It is the wish of the Philharmonic Orchestra not only to offer musically valuable interpretations of the masterpieces of this genre, but also to convey a greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace to all people as musical ambassadors of Austria.
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Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2009
Release Date: 2009
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Production/Label: Decca
Duration: 01:56:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4091 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.38 GB
Neujahrskonzert / New Year’s Concert 2009 Review by Blair Sanderson
Daniel Barenboim led his first New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in 2009, thus becoming the 14th maestro in this series’ 69th year. This illustrious orchestra maintains a tradition of playing the most popular waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II, but there are two other composers honored on this program, Joseph Hellmesberger II, with his Valse espagnole, and Franz Joseph Haydn, with the Finale of the “Farewell” Symphony; the latter selection was picked to honor the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death. When it comes to Viennese light music, no ensemble plays it better, and the Vienna Philharmonic gives its all, no matter how frequently it has performed this extremely familiar repertoire. The audience contributes its own energy to the proceedings, and the recordings derive much of their fun from its participation, particularly in the rousing Radetzky March. There is really only one issue with this double-disc from Decca, pertaining to the bass-heavy audio quality that lends the music a thickness that runs counter to the bubbly spirit of the concert. But beyond that technical matter, which is due to the microphone positions, this is a relaxing and jovial celebration, and certainly a fine set of Strauss staples for beginners to explore.
Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2002
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Vladimir Malakhov & Vienna Operaballett, Spanish Riding School of Vienna
Production/Label: King Records (Jp)
Duration: 01:47:51 + 00:20:52
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 37943 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 2054 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 38.55 GB
Anyone still reeling from the revisionist austerities of Harnoncourt’s recent New Year’s concerts will be thrilled to hear these somewhat more traditional performances, in which Seiji Ozawa strikes an excellent balance between a healthy serving of Viennese Schlag and an altogether welcome rhythmic discipline. It helps that three of the most enjoyable pieces are making their New Year’s Concerts debut: Zivio (March) and Elisen (Polka francaise), both by Strauss Jr., and best of all the wonderfully energetic Danse diabolique by Joseph Hellmesberger II. This last is a real find. All three add sparkle to the usual fare, including a high-spirited Fledermaus Overture, lilting renditions of the Artist’s Life, Vienna Blood, and Blue Danube Waltzes, and of course the concluding Radetzky March. Anyone cynical about Ozawa’s credentials in Strauss et al will find in this disc a welcome corrective: he makes wonderful music with what is now effectively his orchestra (in its operatic incarnation), and if you think that these pieces play themselves, try some of Lorin Maazel’s New Year’s outings. Excellent sonics too, bright and neat, top off a thoroughly entertaining concert. Pass the champagne! –David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com (more…)
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Mark Viner – Alkan: Character Pieces & Grotesqueries (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:45 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics
Mark Viner’s survey of the complete solo piano music of Alkan continues to turn up discoveries and reveal previously little-known or misunderstood sides of a protean figure in late French romanticism. Viner himself regards Alkan as ‘the most enigmatic figure in the history of music as a whole’.
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Marco Mezquida – Tornado (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:55 minutes | 419 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Marco Mezquida
Marco Mezquida’s piano sparks when it meets Massa Kamaguchi’s double bass and Ramon Prats’ drums, three musicians who performed together ten years ago in a memorable concert and have come together again in “Tornado”. Marco Mezquida has tried to be the catalyst for the energy that is generated when the trio plays together and they have made an album that draws on free improvisation and jazz. The album includes twelve tracks that “are like a tornado passing over you, with its moment of calm after the storm included”. The force of nature is something close to Mezquida, who was born and grew up among the tramontanas in windy Menorca, as it is for the Japanese Massa Kamaguchi. The album shows the connection with nature of these two musicians and the versatile Ramon Prats, a drummer full of resources that enrich Mezquida’s scores.
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Maja S. K. Ratkje & Nordic Affect – RÖKKUR (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 863 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Øra Fonogram
Øra Fonogram announces the worldwide release of RÖKKUR, the joint album of Norwegian composer and performer Maja S. K. Ratkje and Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect (Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Marie Stockmarr Becker, Hanna Loftsdóttir, Guðrún Óskarsdóttir).
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Luca Sanzò – Reger: 3 Suites for Viola Solo (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:03 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Max Reger (1873–1916) is noted for his devotion to Johann Sebastian Bach. In the words of musicologist Massimo Mila, Reger was an “outstanding crafter of chamber music, who loved restoring ancient contrapuntal forms: fugues, passacaglias, chaconnes, suites, etc.” His 3 Suites for Viola Solo Op.131d – completed a year before his death – exemplify this contrapuntal restoration and reinvention. They belong to a collection of works with an ancient feel in the style of Bach (Op.131), which also comprises music for solo violin, for two violins and for cello. The three solo viola suites all emphasise the polyphonic nature of an instrument that to this day is still considered monodic.
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Laraaji – Segue To Infinity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:00:28 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, New Age
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Numero Group
The definitive collection of Laraaji’s earliest works, Segue To Infinity compiles his 1978 debut Celestial Vibration and six additional side-long studio sessions from previously unknown acetates from the same period. A lengthy essay by Living Colour’s Vernon Reid chronicles the origins of Edward “Flash” Gordon, illustrated with dozens of previously unpublished photographs that capture this beautiful and elusive young artist. Full of discovery and wonderment, Segue To Infinity is a miraculous chronicle of new age’s most fabled artist.
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La Quintina, Jérémie Couleau – Ymaginacions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
This new album is conceived as a mirror of our previous disc. Our aim is not so much to recreate a religious office but, rather, a concert programme in which the innovations of John Dunstable, Nicholas Ludford and William Whitbroke converse with our ymaginacions.
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Joe Jackson & Max Champion – What a Racket! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
Mr. Joe Jackson! “What A Racket!” features the work of 19th century Music Hall-era British artist Max Champion – for the first time in nearly 150 years. The album presents eleven of Max Champion’s songs for the first time in more than a century. According to producer Joe Jackson, “These were wonderful songs in their time, but they’re surprisingly modern, too. Sometimes it’s almost as if Max is speaking, from his London of the early 20th century, directly to us in the early 21st.”
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