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LRotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Tchaikovsky: Pathétique (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:32 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin first heard Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique symphony live in Montreal at the age of eight. It was the work he chose for his debut with both the Orchestre Me´tropolitain du Grand Montre´al and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Conducting this quintessentially Russian music with the Rotterdam Philharmonic acknowledges his predecessor on the podium, Valery Gergiev, as well as showcasing the depth and refinement of the Dutch orchestra’s rich textures. Yannick Nézet-Séguin admires Tchaikovsky not just as a composer of heart-breaking melodies but also as a master symphonist. “The point for me is this work’s pervasive lust for life, and the lack of faith in humanity which is the implicit message of the end.”
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Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky – Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (1961/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:09:14 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
At the height of the Cold War, the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under its legendary principal conductor Evgeny Mravinsky visited Britain in September 1960, giving sensational concerts in Edinburgh and London which drew ecstatic responses from both press and public.
Since this virtuoso orchestra was then poorly represented in Western record catalogues, Deutsche Grammophon’s engineers astutely seized the opportunity to capture their playing in far superior sound to anything that could be produced by their Soviet counterparts. Among the most notable sessions taped in Wembley Town Hall was Mravinsky’s blazingly urgent account of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony.
Ever the perfectionist, the conductor was so pleased with the quality of this recording that two months later he and the orchestra agreed to record the last two symphonies for DG, this time in Vienna’s Musikverein. Initially released on three separate stereo LPs, these Tchaikovsky performances convey a highly-strung raw energy that remains undimmed up to the present day. The Finale of No. 5, delivered at a manically swift pace, is one of high points, guaranteed to take your breath away.
Swiss Piano Trio – Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:38 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audite Musikproduktion
In March 1881 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky received the news of the death of his friend Nikolai Rubinstein whilst he was in Paris – a great blow for the composer who had been engaged to teach at the newly founded Moscow Conservatory thanks to Rubinstein. Tchaikovsky decided to dedicate a piece of music to his late friend – not a classical work for choir or orchestra but one for piano trio. The memory of Rubinstein evidently enraptured him to the extent that he burst all dimensions with his Trio Op. 50. Two monumental movements make up a memorial work which, however, also has optimistic moments. Following an ‘Elegiac piece’ is a set of variations with a duration of nearly thirty minutes which comprises a slow movement, scherzo and finale, all under the roof of a simple Russian theme. Technically, this trio presents a challenge to every piano trio.
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Tal & Groethuysen – Colors (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:37 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music
The piano duo Tal & Groethuysen has thrilled classical music audiences for more than 30 years. They have received innumerable accolades worldwide for their recordings with Sony Classical. They have recorded for this new album Debussy’s famous orchestral worksPrélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and La Mer in four-hand versions full of evocative colours, the first arranged by the composer himself and the second in a reduction for four hands by André Caplet. The duo also chose works by Richard Strauss for this album: the Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera Salome and the Waltz Sequence from Rosenkavalierin arrangements by Johannes Doebber and Victor Babin. They have also recorded the famous symphonic poem Till Eulenspiegel arranged for four hands by Otto Singer. A fascinating recording presenting well-known romantic pieces in amazing arrangements, allowing them to be heard in a new light.
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TakeFive Ensemble – Songs of Longing (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:59 minutes | 607 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centrediscs
Songs of Longing is the result of composer Felipe Tellez’s intense work with TakeFive Ensemble. This recording features compositions that fuse Colombian folk music with Romantic era musical traditions of the West. Felipe’s work possesses a wide range of emotions and style, moody and tender at times, and intensely rhythmic and playful when least expected. The music is brought to life by TakeFive Ensemble – comprised of violinists Lynn Kuo and Csaba Kocz’o, Carolyn Blackwell on viola, Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron on cello, and Shoshana Telner on piano.
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Torn Sail – This Short Sweet Life (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:41 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cwm Saerbren
Torn Sail are led by Huw Costin – former frontman of Earth The Californian Love Dream as well as being a damn fine solo artist in his own right. Torn Sail’s music is so utterly timeless that it could have been released any time since the mid 1960s. Calling upon the likes of Tim Buckley, The Moody Blues and David Crosby, more recent acts like Verve (before they became The Verve), Sun Kil Moon and Talk Talk, as well as enduring influences such as Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams and Pink Floyd, it wears its heart on its sleeve unashamedly.
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Takashi Niigaki, Tokyo Chamber Orchestra – Takashi Niigaki: Symphony ‘Litany’ (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:35 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UNIVERSAL MUSIC LLC
「私はあらためてもう一度オーケストラ曲を書かなければならないと思った。私自身の意思として、私自身の名に於いて。」
大きな悲しみ、絶望から小さな、だが確かな希望へ。新垣 隆の《祈りのシンフォニー》堂々完成。
ゴーストライター騒動から2年半の歳月を経て、この夏、作曲家・新垣 隆の新作交響曲が完成する。
交響曲 第1番《HIROSHIMA》から実に13年ぶりの交響曲となる本作品に、作曲家としての全精力を注ぎ、音楽に真摯に向き合う。新垣 隆はこの作品で新たな作曲家人生をスタートさせる。2016年8月15日、広島にて世界初演。
Fredrik Kronkvist – Live at Unity, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:01 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Connective Records
The powerful and soulful altoman Fredrik Kronkvist is considered one of Europe’s finest alto saxophonists and takes charge whenever he is in the spotlight.
Fredrik is an award-winning saxophonist and he has several albums out as a leader.
Both his writing and improvisational skills are on display when he gives the audience his experience in drawing the heat from a tune with his big sound.
He is leading his own band where he presents a quartet, consisting of musicians from the vanguard of today´s jazzscene.
His strong, creative spirit combined with a profound knowledge of the instrument and jazz has made him into one of Sweden’s international jazz stars.
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TAB Collective – BACK IN TOWN (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 715 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © H-Man-Records-Berlin
The TAB Collective comes around informally in its musical style. As casual as the title of the album Back In Town, so is it’s musical start. You get out of the cab with the first song and you find yourself in a sound world of warm grooves between soul and jazz. The TAB Collective does not even want to reinvent a genre, but plays the songs emphatically atmospheric and accessible. The music tells stories in different colors.
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Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet – Navigation (The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings) (2013/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:06:00 minutes | 3,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Firehouse 12 Records
The Complete Firehouse 12 Recordings, a four-album, multi-format set from cornetist and composer Taylor Ho Bynum. The project documents four different versions of Bynum’s modular composition Navigation, with two sets recorded live with his Sextet (featuring Jim Hobbs on alto saxophone, Bill Lowe on bass trombone and tuba, Mary Halvorson on guitar, Ken Filiano on bass, and Tomas Fujiwara on drums and vibraphone), and two sets recorded in studio with the 7-tette (which adds drummer and vibraphonist Chad Taylor). The music was recorded over two days, December 7 and 8, 2012.
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Taylor Acorn – Put It in a Song (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 17:17 minutes | 209 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Taylor Acorn
Need a catchy, upbeat jam that will have you skipping on your way to work? That’s what I found when I started listening to Taylor Acorn‘s “Put It In A Song,” the first single off her debut EP of the same title. The singer-songwriter left college after 2 years to pursue her dream of becoming a singer in Nashville, and has been working toward this moment since 2013. “This is everything that I’ve worked so hard on for the past 2 years. Before I even started recording anything, I was writing everything on my own in my bedroom,” Taylor shared with HollywoodLife.com. “These five songs I wrote myself. I’m just excited to see what people say and how they react. I mean, I put, really my whole heart into it.” From her hit love song “Put It In A Song,” to her sassy “Guys Like You,” Taylor shows off her buttery, emotive voice that will be impossible not to love. Not only that, but Taylor’s own lyrics are on par with Taylor Swift‘s raw honesty and relatability.
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Tax The Heat – Change Your Position (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:13 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast Entertainment
The Bristol band’s brilliantly received debut album, 2016’s Fed To The Lions, established them as one of the most electrifying new bands in the country. Change Your Position does more than just build what they achieved with that record. It pushes the Tax The Heat sound to the next level, adding a razor-sharp modern edge to their rock ’n’ roll approach. The influences they have drawn on – from groundbreaking modern icons QOTSA and White Denim to such eternal visionaries as Bowie and Prince – were uniformly contemporary, though the end result is uniquely Tax The Heat.
If an album is about capturing a band or artist at a certain point, Change Your Position might have happened at the perfect time. As a band we toured, found our sound, found our place and took inspiration from a world in utter chaos. With Change Your Position we pushed ourselves creatively as hard as we could and it took us further into ourselves than we expected – we hope it’s apparent to the listener.
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Tasto Solo – Early Modern English Music: 1500 -1550 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 57:58 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
“The history of the organetto, the iconic small medieval organ, was lost during the course of the 16th century, leaving only few and scattered witnesses to its use. In just a few decades, the instrument fell into a deep slumber and disappeared from all musical activity for nearly five hundred years. When and why did this interminable period of lethargy begin? This question was discussed time and time again by the musicians of Tasto Solo, intrigued as they were by the transformation of the family of gothic keyboard instruments – including the organetto, but also the clavisimbalum or eschiquier – which underwent major changes of form and aesthetics in the early Renaissance, inexorably leading to their disappearance. Inspired by these matters, Tasto Solo started a research project in 2013, with the added ambition of making it a performance-laboratory capable of creating a concert programme that brought together the English repertoire of the first half of the 16th century and the organological and technical features of early keyboard instruments: a programme that searched for boundaries and, perhaps, outlined some of the answers. Early Modern English Music is the outcome of this exploration in time and the first volume of a series of Tasto Solo’s projects devoted to Early Modern music.” Works by R. Cooper, Henry VIII, H. Aston, T. Preston and anonymous early 16th century English composers.
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Tasmin Little – The Best of Tasmin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:39:39 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Following the announcement by Tasmin Little of her intended retirement from the concert platform, we wanted to create an album that would stand as both a tribute to, and celebration of, her outstanding career as a performer. What better way to do so than ask her to select her own, personal favourites from her recorded career? An exclusive Chandos artist since 2010, Tasmin has made a series of recordings that have proved a cornerstone of the Chandos schedules for a decade, and feature a range of composers and styles of quite breath-taking variety. The first disc concentrates on concerti, and features both Walton’s and Britten’s concertos with Edward Gardner, along with the slow movement of her award-winning Elgar recording with Sir Andrew Davis. The second disc features works from Vivaldi though to Shostakovich via Brahms, and includes (among many other gems) her recording of Vaughan Williams’s iconic The Lark Ascending. It also celebrates Tasmin’s recital partnerships with three outstanding pianists: Piers Lane, Martin Roscoe, and John Lenehan. As she writes in her booklet note: ‘I am very happy that this final, double-CD set should reflect so many aspects of me as a musician; and I remain full of gratitude for the tremendous opportunities I have been given to play and record with the greatest musicians of today. I hope you all enjoy this final release.’
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Teedra Moses – Cognac & Conversation (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:24 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Shanachie
It probably wasn’t by design that Teedra Moses released her second proper album — this one — over a decade after Complex Simplicity. Unlike D’Angelo and Bilal, fellow beloved R&B artists whose first and second albums were released after similarly protracted gaps, Moses was able to placate her cult audience with scattered singles, mixtapes, and an EP. The singer, songwriter, and arranger also kept it guessing with ever-changing album plans and by aligning with Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group. Revised titles and projected release dates ceased in August 2015, once R&B haven Shanachie issued Cognac & Conversation. As on the novel Complex Simplicity, Moses projects sweet vulnerability and streetwise swagger in a way, with minimal exertion, that recalls Teena Marie. Moses’ mix of classic and contemporary is correspondingly kept with help from a deep roster of producers. It should hit the spot for listeners who dig commercial R&B sounds and relate to some of the content but not the juvenile manner in which certain sentiments are expressed. Likewise, Moses’ hooks often sound nice on the first listen and brilliant by the tenth, and with the lightest of touches, she can switch from cutting a man down to size (as on “International Playboi”) to making him feel like royalty (“Skin Diver”). Apart from a handful of interludes Moses handled herself, not one of the collaborators — including Bink, Trackademics, Thaddeus Dixon, and Dwayne “DW” Wright — is connected to more than two tracks. Despite that, this set of songs does not seem hastily snapped together. Just as crucial, the guests don’t get in the way and just happen to appear on four of the high-quality cuts. Ross neither outshines nor weighs down two of them: the springy “All I Ever Wanted,” likely to bring Dynasty and/or Camp Lo to mind, and the title track, which enters like a slow-building club anthem but instead settles into a cunning slow jam. 3D Na’Tee strengthens the plush “Only U,” the album’s closest equivalent to the debut’s “Rescue Me,” while Anthony Hamilton is on the dazzling “That One,” a contender for duet of 2015. Here’s hoping Moses’ third album lands earlier than 2026. ~ Andy Kellman
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