The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Song of the Nativity (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Song of the Nativity (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:55 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

The Sixteen contrasts the dramatic intensity of music by some of today’s most admired composers with such traditional and modern carols as Boris Ord’s Adam lay ybounden and Henry Walford Davies’ version of O little town of Bethlehem. Much-loved modern classics including John Rutter’s There is a flower, Morten Lauridsen’s O magnum mysterium and James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn also appear on this beautiful album and there are many others which, in the course of time, will also become classics; every one of them by their unashamed simplicity, captures the joy and sincerity of this most wonderful of seasons. This album provides a perfect peaceful and uplifting antidote to the hectic pre-Christmas rush.

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The Theater of Music – An Evening at the Theatre (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Theater of Music – An Evening at the Theatre (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:45 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ramée

An Evening at the Theatre is a reconstruction of the musical part of a masque as it might have been performed in a London theatre around 1685. The English masque, inspired in part by the commedia dell’arte and French ballet, was a courtly entertainment combining instrumental music, dance, theatre, song and pantomime; it enjoyed its greatest popularity between 1560 and 1640, during the reigns of Elizabeth I and Charles I. English art music, John Playford’s country dances and Scottish folk music had their place in the same musical event. The antemasque, a ‘Spectacle of Strangeness’, where grotesque costumes and exaggerated gestures by professional actors were used to embody witches, furies and exotic animals, was played in the midst of the performance. Our programme bears the traces of this courtly musical heritage but is set in a later period during which musical styles were in transition.

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Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions Analekta Inc.

Following a fruitful first collaboration for Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 24, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen return this time with Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23. The works on this recording were composed by Mozart between 1783 and 1786, when the musician was approaching an important personal and professional turning point. First, the Concerto in A major, K. 488, was completed on March 2, 1786, two months before the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, a work that marks Mozart’s return to opera. While Concerto K. 466 is, with Concerto No. 24, the only one by Mozart in the minor mode, that also coincides with the arrival of his son Karl. The performance of the soloist and of the orchestra complement each other marvellously in these two masterpieces whose contrasts respond to each other magnificently.

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Carel Kraayenho & Matangi Quartet – Beethoven vs Piazzolla (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Carel Kraayenho & Matangi Quartet – Beethoven vs Piazzolla (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:36 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matangi Quartet

In the program ‘Beethoven vs Piazzolla’ these two composers who do not always color within the musical lines and who do not allow themselves to be tamed by musical rules are being played. Together with the renowned bandoneonist Carel Kraayenhof, we embark on a journey of discovery by connecting the progressive ideas of these musical rebels. We have played this exciting program before and the hopeful question always followed: “Did you also record this?”

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Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas – Arvo Pärt: Odes of Repentance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cappella Romana

Cappella Romana brings to life the music of Arvo Pärt as you’ve never heard it before, presenting the composer’s Orthodox choral works for the first time as an Orthodox Service of Supplication. Built around the singing of a Byzantine poem called a kanon, on this occasion it features three odes from Pärts monumental Kanon Pokajanen (Kanon of Repentance). Compositions by Pärt likewise comprise the other elements of this service: a Gospel reading marks its center (The Woman with the Alabaster Box) complete by psalmody, Orthodox hymns, and fervent prayers. Pärt’s transcendent “Prayer after the Kanon” eventually gives way to silence, to the prayer of the heart.

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The Teri Nelson Group – Sweet Talkin’ Teri (1968/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

The Teri Nelson Group – Sweet Talkin’ Teri (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 26:02 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Pop, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Although the name suggests otherwise, this was not a group. By contrast it was named for Teri Nelson, a young female vocalist from Harlem, New York, who was managed by Steve Camhi. During the late 1960s, the Super K Production company offered the then eighteen year old soloist a one year contract. After recording a few singles, Nelson’s studio sessions were compiled into an album, which the Kama Sutra label released in 1968 purportedly without her knowledge and promoted it as a group effort (comparatively, the artists pictured alongside Nelson on the album’s cover are backing vocalists (actually The Crystals) from the recording sessions). Nelson withdrew from her arrangement thereafter.

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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Poetry in Music (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers – Poetry in Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:49 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Does music add substance to words or is music inspired by them? Songs of departure and farewell are deeply rooted in the great tradition of British choral music, nourished by ancient myths of testing journeys, wayside transformations and homecomings. The transcendent nature of music and the power of poetry to challenge and alter perceptions of reality – harnessed by English composers over many centuries – flow through a programme that invites contemplation of life and death, of love and loss, creation and eternity. In a journey covering six centuries of musical history, The Sixteen performs a cappella anthems with powerful texts by writers as varied as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Fry and W.H. Auden.

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Kodak Black – When I Was Dead (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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Kodak Black – When I Was Dead (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:51:32 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Rap
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Trent Reznor – The Killer (Original Score) (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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Trent Reznor – The Killer (Original Score) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:52:31 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Film, Bandes originales de films
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Ben Pearson – Spinning (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ben Pearson – Spinning (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:48 minutes | 292 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Ben has actively fuelled his passion for playing and writing music ever since the initial spark when he started on the piano at eight years old. His commitment to sharing the life-changing message of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been at the very heart of his motivation on his musical journey.

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Andrea De Carlo – Sonatae a Viola da Gamba & Cembalo Obligato (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Andrea De Carlo – Sonatae a Viola da Gamba & Cembalo Obligato (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:07 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fineline

This musical project was born in the very first meeting with Luca Guglielmi, the night before a concert in Geneva when, through the music of J. S. Bach, a sincere human and musical affinity was revealed that needed neither words nor looks. Now, at a distance of a time made fluid by the hours of listening to the tracks, I see that we had met in Bach’s profound italianness, in the singing of the melodies that danced in counterpoint, in the rhythmic undulation of his writing, but above all in the composer’s human and eternal spirituality. Although in the manuscripts the three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba are accompanied by the harpsichord, we imagined the Viola da Gamba conversing with different keyboard instruments that Bach had at his disposal: Matthias Griewisch copy of a Mietke harpsichord (kindly loaned by the Bach Museum in Leipzig), Kerstin Schwarz copy of a Silbermann piano and the organ in the Frankenstein Dorfkirche, built by Gottfried Silbermann in 1753, few years after Bach’s death.

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Alexandre Tharaud – Ravel: Concertos – Falla: Noches en los jardines de España (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexandre Tharaud – Ravel: Concertos – Falla: Noches en los jardines de España (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:13 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The music of Ravel is especially close to Alexandre Tharaud’s heart. Now, in partnership with the Orchestre National de France and conductor Louis Langrée, he has recorded both the composer’s piano concertos, pairing them with Noches en los jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain), Manuel de Falla’s sumptuous three-movement work for piano and orchestra. All three of these works have been part of Tharaud’s life since he was a teenager. Taking his connection to Ravel a step further, in 2024 the French pianist will be seen in a film based by director Anne Fontaine on the composer’s life, entitled Boléro.

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Alexandra MacKenzie, Ingrid Sawers – Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexandra MacKenzie, Ingrid Sawers – Beyond Twilight: Music for Cello & Piano by Female Composers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:37 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

Faced in 2020–21 with an unexpected break from concert life, cellist Alexandra Mackenzie and pianist Ingrid Sawers devoted much time instead to furthering their longstanding interest in unfamiliar repertoire.Trawling through libraries, both online and in person, they unearthed a treasure trove of short pieces by female composers, some hiding behind bland initials such as ‘A. E. Horrocks’.

Dating from the 1880s to the 1950s, these intimate, quietly powerful works include miniatures by the Scottish cellist Marie Dare and two delightful songs by Gwendolen – later Avril – Coleridge-Taylor, here newly transcribed for cello. A total of fourteen works are presented here, all but five in premiere recordings.

Every one of them deserves to be better known.

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Cannons – Heartbeat Highway (2023) [24Bit-48kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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Cannons – Heartbeat Highway (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:39:01 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Alternatif et Indé
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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The Beatles – The Beatles 1967 – 1970 (2023 Edition) (2023) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️

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The Beatles – The Beatles 1967 – 1970 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:23 minutes | 2,73 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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