Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Golz – Mozart’s Mannheim (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:16 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
The Freiburger Barockorchester and Deutsche Grammophon inaugurate their new partnership with an album of works related to the famous Mannheim court orchestra. The recording captures the spirit of a city whose musical life had a lasting impact on the young Mozart. ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ pairs precious little-known rarities with works Mozart wrote during his formative visit to Mannheim.
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Freiburger Barockorchester – Bach: Brandenburg Concertos – Freiburger Barockorchester (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:30:53 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EuroArts Music International
When Bach was in the service of Prince Leopold in Coethen, he had his own orchestra and was contracted to compose a great deal of instrumental music. This gave him an opportunity to try new techniques and to develop his own instrumental style. The six Brandenburg Concertos belongs to these masterpieces for a small ensemble.
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Fred Again & Brian Eno – Secret Life (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:53 minutes | 304 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Text Records
Brian Eno and Fred Again.. are releasing a collaborative album, Secret Life, this Friday via Four Tet’s label Text Records. The surprise drop has been dubbed “the most beautiful album of 2023” by Four Tet on Twitter when announcing the release.
Secret Life was written between 2020 and 2022, and was mastered by Kieran Hebden (Four Tet).
The duo met when Fred Again.., aka Fred Gibson, joined an a cappella group based at Eno’s studio as a teenager. They’ve also previously worked together on Brian Eno’s albums, Someday World and High Life, with Gibson credited as a songwriter (High Life only) and co-producer.
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Franz Silvestri – Certamen Musicum, Vol. III (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:10 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urania Records
Franz Silvestri was born near Milan in 1974. As a child he started his musical studies with a special interest for piano and organ playing. He was barely nine years old when he had his first post as a church organist. When he was thirteen he was awarded first prize at an international piano competition. He has devoted himself to the study of various keyboard instruments. He currently collaborates with several important ensembles such as the Ensemble Festeggio Armonico (also as director), Ensemble Baschenis, Symphonic Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milan, LaBarocca, Mailänder Kantorei, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Silete Venti and Ensemble Isabella Leonarda, with performances and tours in Italy and all around Europe. He has played with remarkable singers such as Sonia Prina, Karina Gauvin, Stefanie Iranyi, Cyrill Auvity, Christian Senn, Klaus Kuttler, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Céline Scheen, Filippo Mineccia, Angelo Manzotti and many others. He has reviewed original manuscripts and editions, and has recorded different programs of baroque and symphonic music. In the 2015 he started a series of concerts in the Protestant Church in Milan, playing the complete harpsichord works by J.
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Franz Silvestri – Certamen Musicum, Vol. II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:27 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urania Records
Franz Silvestri was born near Milan in 1974. As a child he started his musical studies with a special interest for piano and organ playing. He was barely nine years old when he had his first post as a church organist. When he was thirteen he was awarded first prize at an international piano competition. He has devoted himself to the study of various keyboard instruments. He currently collaborates with several important ensembles such as the Ensemble Festeggio Armonico (also as director), Ensemble Baschenis, Symphonic Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milan, LaBarocca, Mailänder Kantorei, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Silete Venti and Ensemble Isabella Leonarda, with performances and tours in Italy and all around Europe. He has played with remarkable singers such as Sonia Prina, Karina Gauvin, Stefanie Iranyi, Cyrill Auvity, Christian Senn, Klaus Kuttler, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Céline Scheen, Filippo Mineccia, Angelo Manzotti and many others. He has reviewed original manuscripts and editions, and has recorded different programs of baroque and symphonic music. In the 2015 he started a series of concerts in the Protestant Church in Milan, playing the complete harpsichord works by J. S. Bach.
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Franz Silvestri – Certamen Musicum, Vol. I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:43 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urania Records
Franz Silvestri was born near Milan in 1974. As a child he started his musical studies with a special interest for piano and organ playing. He was barely nine years old when he had his first post as a church organist. When he was thirteen he was awarded first prize at an international piano competition. He has devoted himself to the study of various keyboard instruments. He currently collaborates with several important ensembles such as the Ensemble Festeggio Armonico (also as director), Ensemble Baschenis, Symphonic Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milan, LaBarocca, Mailänder Kantorei, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Silete Venti and Ensemble Isabella Leonarda, with performances and tours in Italy and all around Europe. He has played with remarkable singers such as Sonia Prina, Karina Gauvin, Stefanie Iranyi, Cyrill Auvity, Christian Senn, Klaus Kuttler, Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, Céline Scheen, Filippo Mineccia, Angelo Manzotti and many others. He has reviewed original manuscripts and editions, and has recorded different programs of baroque and symphonic music. In the 2015 he started a series of concerts in the Protestant Church in Milan, playing the complete harpsichord works by J. S. Bach.
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Frans Douwe Slot – 24 Preludes for Piano – opus 15 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:59 minutes | 2,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aliud Records
In 1901, Edvard Grieg encountered many ‘Chopinesque’ elements in the latest work of the Zeeland-born (i.e., Dutch) composer and painter Gerard von Brucken Fock. The 24 preludes from opus 15 were played to him in Norway by Julius Röntgen, a respected (half) Dutch pianist and composer. From that moment onward, Grieg spoke – in jest, according to Von Brucken Fock – of ‘the Dutch Chopin’.
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François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley – Cylene Suisse Redux (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:51 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Editions Mego
Cylene Suisse Redux documents François J. Bonnet and Stephen O’Malley’s Switzerland tour in December 2019, following the release of their first album, Cylene. The two musicians chose to entrust sound material recorded on the tour to the expert ears of two friends and great musicians Jim O’Rourke and Ryoji Ikeda, giving them carte blanche, and each in turn chose a distinct personal approach. For Ryoji Ikeda, it was a question of finding a moment, circumscribing a fragment of time through his listening, with minimal intervention. For Jim O’Rourke, on the other hand, the live recordings became material to be deconstructed and reassembled, to tell, according to his musical sensibility, a path of metamorphosis for Bonnet and O’Malley’s music. Cylene Suisse Redux is a prismatic substrate of a series of concerts surrounded by friendship, lakes, mountains, and by nightfall.
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Franck Masquelier & Marc Grauwels – Mozart: Il Mio Tesoro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:47 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Indésens Calliope Records
Marc Grauwels and Franck Masquelier offer us in this album a selection of the most famous arias from Mozart’s operas, arranged for a flute duo. This formation, fashionable since the 18th century, has largely contributed, thanks to a considerable number of arrangements and adaptations, to popularizing the arias of operas which constitute an inexhaustible source for transcribers and arrangers.
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Francesco Tristano – Bach Stage (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:57 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Scala Music
Eighteen years after first recording the Bach piano concertos, Francesco Tristano revisits three of these classics in partnership with Leo Margue as the conductor and the Bach Stage Ensemble, set up, especially for the project. Recorded for the label Scala Music, this new version has historically been documented but never set in stone. Three composers were also given the opportunity to write Cadenzas for these concertos. Francesco Tristano plays while standing with great spirit and energy! The pianist shakes up musical habits with this album. We have never heard these concertos with such an obsessive and forceful rhythm as the Concerto in A Major BWV 1055. The piano section radiates with its succession of arpeggios while the string ensemble punctuates the dialogue with incisive and rhythmic interventions.
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Francesco Bearzatti, Danilo Gallo, Stefano Tamborrino – Post Atomic Zep (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:40 minutes | 805 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © doKumenta Music
Francesco Bearzatti, an acclaimed Italian saxophonist known for his boundary-pushing approach to jazz, is back with a brand new album that pays homage to the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. Joined by a talented trio of musicians on bass, drums, and live electronics guitar effects, Bearzatti delivers a fresh and electrifying take on some of Led Zeppelin’s greatest hits. With influences ranging from free jazz to rock, the album promises to be a must-listen for fans of adventurous music and artists like John Zorn and The Bad Plus.
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Francesca Massey – Carnival – Francesca Massey – The Organ of St.Edmundsbury Cathedral (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:00 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Priory
Francesca Massey is an outstanding British organist who at the age of 19 had gained all the top prizes in the Followship in the Royal College of Organists’diploma and was subsequently awarded the WT Best Memorial Scholarship and Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and the Musicians Benevolent Fund’s Ian Fleming Award.
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Frances Madden – Beautiful World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:51 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frances Madden
Featuring eight exceptional original tunes and two unique covers, recorded with some of Australia’s finest musicians. Frances’ second studio album ‘Beautiful World’ has just been released by ABC Music, distributed by in Australia and New Zealand by Universal Music. UMG Japan will also release ‘Beautiful World’ later this year. The album was produced by ARIA award winner Chong Lim AM (John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, David Campbell).
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Foetus – Dystonia (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:31 minutes | 914 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cantaloupe Music
‘Dystonia’ is an album of JG Thirlwell’s string quartet compositions performed by Mivos Quartet. Recording took place at Shiny Things Studio in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn with Mike Tierney recording and engineering.The sleeve notes were written by composer Michael Gordon.
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Foals – Life Is Dub (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:23 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
On this year’s Record Story Day (April 22), Foals have a particularly nice release in preparation for their fans: the current album “Life Is Yours” will be released as a dub rework “Life Is Dub”. Responsible for the Reworks is Dan Carey, label boss of Speedy Wunderground and producer (including Wet Leg, Slowthai, Fontaines D.C.). A first greeting from the kitchen is already available in the form of the song “2am” in the new dub version, to be heard below.
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