Szymon Krzeszowiec – Saint-Saëns, Martinů & Krzeszowiec: Orchestral Works (Live in Wrocław) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:27 minutes | 435 MB | Genre: Classical
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The composer, virtuoso pianist, organist, critic and essayist Camille Saint-Saëns lived long enough to become a unique witness to an era of revolutionary changes in music. Recognised as a child prodigy by Gioacchino Rossini and Hector Berlioz, in his late years the author of Danse macabre had a chance to become acquainted with the early works of New Music. Atonality did not fire him with enthusiasm, which comes as no surprise, considering the fact that even Claude Debussy’s musical poetics proved quite alien to his tastes (Debussy felt the same about Saint-Saëns’ style). Extolled by Franz Liszt and the late Romantics, he was mostly dismissed by the modernists as eclectic and conservative. The appraisal was, however, far from unequivocal. From among eminent 20 th -century composers, both his pupil Gabriel Fauré and Fauré’s pupil Maurice Ravel admired Saint-Saëns, thus mapping out the lineage of the French Neoclassicism.
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Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra – Holiday For Soul Dance (1970/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:59 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Holiday For Soul Dance is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra recorded in Chicago, mid-1960 and originally released on his own Saturn label in 1970. The album was reissued by Evidence on Compact disc in 1992. Within Ra’s catalogue, Holiday For Soul Dance is considered a bit of an oddity as it lacks any tracks written by Sun Ra, although a song written by Phil Cohran, the Arkestra’s cornet player, is included. The record is one of a trio of albums recorded between 1959 and 1961, featuring jazz standards, that Ra released in the early 1970s. The others were Sound Sun Pleasure!! (recorded 1959 and also released in 1970) and Bad and Beautiful (recorded 1961 and released in 1972).
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