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Melissa Errico – Out Of The Dark – The Film Noir Project (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:42 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ghostlight Records
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, with all the world locked away in lonely rooms and only old movies to watch at midnight, singer and author Melissa Errico suddenly returned to one of her life-long obsessions – noir! That dark, disturbing sensibility of intractable fatalism that Paris existentialists discovered in American film in the nineteen forties, and that runs as a mesmerizing, mysterious current through modern movies and modern music alike. Along with her collaborator Adam Gopnik, she curated a series of film noir classics at New York’s FIAF, appeared in the New York Times with an essay on having a black sequined gown specially made to play the role of the femme fatale on stage and offered Manhattan a concert of noir songs.
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Melissa Aldana – 12 Stars (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:00 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
The GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist and composer is now also part of the Blue Note family as a soloist, having already been heard there in 2020 as a member of the ensemble ARTEMIS. Their Blue Note debut impresses with soulful, complex modern jazz of the first quality and was produced by guitarist Lage Lund. The exquisite quintet is completed by Sullivan Fortner on piano and Fender Rhodes, Kush Abadey on drums and Pablo Menares on bass.
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Edward Gardner, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Bartók: Four Orchestral Pieces, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:14 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Edward Gardner’s 2013 Chandos album of orchestral works by Béla Bartók is a tour de force, displaying some of the most brilliant music written in the early 20th century. The suite from The Miraculous Mandarin is a true showpiece for orchestra, because its incisive rhythms and plangent tone colors are wonderfully varied, and the searing passagework is highly virtuosic and viscerally exciting. On the richer and somewhat gentler side, the Four Orchestral Pieces is an atmospheric set strongly influenced by Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy, and Bartók’s orchestration is lush and vibrantly colorful. The high point of the program is the Music for strings, percussion, and celesta, a mature masterpiece that showcases Bartók’s many innovations in extended string techniques and offers some of his most memorable and influential effects. Gardner conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with vigor and attention to detail, and his musicians respond with extraordinary vitality and deliver a marvelous sonic feast. Recorded in multichannel sound and presented in the hybrid SACD format, this program is an excellent introduction to Bartók’s orchestral works, both for newcomers and seasoned audiophiles.
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![Melody Louledjian - Ariettes à l'ancienne (French Songs) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/03/23/e0rpxriahhs1b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Melody Louledjian – Ariettes à l’ancienne (French Songs) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:30 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Klarthe Records
Melody Louledjian and Giulio Zappa met ten years ago at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, during a production of a Rossini opera. It was love at first sight, both friendly and musical. Both of them have had careers that have taken them to some of the most beautiful international stages, but they meet regularly both in the city and on stage. For their first recording collaboration, they have chosen a program that embodies the history of their encounter, that of two linguistic, stylistic and musical cultures: Rossini’s Romances for voice and piano on French poems.
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Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:47 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Matador
Tuareg psych-rock artist Mdou Moctar released his last album, Afrique Victime, in May, and now, he’s back with nine previously unreleased tracks from the album. The digital deluxe edition of Afrique Victime is out now via Matador Records.
“These are a mix of demos from Niger and some live tracks from touring around the world, when we were still working out the songs together as a band,” bassist and producer Mikey Coltun said of the album. “These are fun and different early versions of the songs.”
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![McCoy Tyner - Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1986 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/05/11/d5cet9zjpcekb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
McCoy Tyner – Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1986 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:07 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzline
The start of the new Live At Fabrik Hamburg series on Jazzline in cooperation with the legendary venue and NDR Kultur – is this previously unreleased concert from jazz greats Freddie Hubbard and McCoy Tyner from 1986.
In the Altonaer Fabrik in 1986, the master trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was a guest in the trio of one of the most important pianists of contemporary jazz: McCoy Tyner, whose extremely powerful attack always added percussive power of the most energetic kind to his virtuoso playing.
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Max Richter – My Brilliant Friend, Season 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:52 minutes | 293 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L’amica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI and TIMvision. Named after the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante, it is set to adapt the entire literary work over four eight-episode seasons. The series is a co-production between Italian production companies Wildside, Fandango, The Apartment, Mowe and international film groups Umedia and Fremantle.On April 30, 2020, the series was renewed for a third season, based on the third novel in the series, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay. The eight-episode third season premiered on Rai 1 on February 6, 2022, and will premiere on HBO on February 28, 2022.
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![Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (Remastered) (1960) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/05/15/ycf4yglraldqb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (Remastered) (1960)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:15 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Candid
We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960. It contains a suite which composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. The cover references the sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, in addition to featuring it as part of its Core Collection.
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![Maximiliano Martin - Origines & Départs: French Music for Clarinet and Piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/03/23/usqqlg74co4oa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Maximiliano Martin – Origines & Départs: French Music for Clarinet and Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © 2022 Delphian Records Ltd.
Born in the Canary Islands and resident for many years in Scotland, clarinettist Maximiliano Martín follows up his Delphian solo debut – a collection of concertante works recorded with the symphony orchestra of his native Tenerife – with a programme for clarinet and piano that similarly explores the ways in which music can express national character as well as tracking more personal life journeys.
Maxi’s infectious personality is reflected in this deeply personal album, a joyous exploration of French repertoire (from the tenderness of Saint-Saëns’s clarinet sonata to the playfulness of Poulenc’s) that is supplemented by recent works from the two places he calls home: exquisite miniatures from the Scottish composer Eddie McGuire and the Tenerife-born Gustavo Trujillo.
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Maxim Bernard – Hommage à Horowitz (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:48 minutes | 613 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
On his PENTATONE debut album Hommage à Horowitz, pianist Maxim Bernard revives Vladimir Horowitz’s legendary 1986 Moscow concert with a programme containing gems by Scarlatti, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Moszkowski, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. While Horowitz’s wife Wanda Toscanini called the Moscow concert the summit of her husband’s career, Maxim Bernard sees it as “a defining moment of his existence, in which charm, elegance, poetry and bravura are marvellously brought together.” Bernard compares Horowitz’ carefully curated musical programme to the way one prepares a gourmet meal, and aims to give it a second wind, presenting it from a new angle, in light of his own personality. Maxim Bernard is a versatile musician who adores challenges, and is praised for his original ideas and innovative thematic concert programmes.
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Maurizio Zaccaria – Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:15 minutes | 881 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OnClassical
After a diploma in piano at “Niccola Piccinni” Conservatory of Music in Bari under the guidance of Gregorio Goffredo and a master at “Nino Rota” Conservatory of Music in Monopoli under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo, he attended the masterclasses of Marisa Somma, Cristian Zaccarias, Joaquin Achucarro, Francois J. Thiollier, Konstantin Bogino et Aldo Ciccolini.
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Mauricio Kagel – Maurico Kagel: Ludwig Van (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:17 minutes | 920 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Mauricio Kagel’s Ludwig Van features an arrangement of fragments of Beethoven’s works, modified as if heard by the deaf composer himself; it is distinct from Kagel’s 1970 composition “Ludwig van, Hommage à Beethoven”.
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Mauro Righini – Ariosti: 6 Lessons for Viola d’Amore and Continuo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:48 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
The violinist, organist, composer and librettist Attilio Malachia Ariosti was born in Bologna in 1666. His career took him to Mantua and Venice, the most enlightened musical and artistic centers of northern Italy at the time, then to Berlin and finally Vienna in 1703. Expelled from the Papal State for moral reasons, by 1716 he was living in London where, together with Bononcini and Handel, he became a permanent composer of the Royal Academy.
His Six Lessons for Viola d’Amore, published in London in 1724 and dedicated to King George, were as the name implies composed expressly to teach violinists to play the viola d’amore. They are written in scordatura with a system of movable keys to indicate the different positions and fingerings of the left hand up to the fourth position.
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![Matteo Fossi - Bartók: Danses populaires roumaines (2021-12-24) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/21/z0kludmvmqzaa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Matteo Fossi – Bartók: Danses populaires roumaines (2021-12-24)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © HORTUS
A pioneer of modern ethnomusicology, Béla Bartók unflaggingly studied the folk traditions of Central Europe. His intent was twofold: to study and promote these musics he loved so much, but also to nourish his own language as a composer. This appropriation came about on the most superficial plane, via arrangement (Three Popular Songs from Csik, Romanian Folk Dances, Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs) or imitation of peasant tunes (Two Romanian Folk Dances). But music of the people came to penetrate into increasingly deeper fibres of his style – harmony, rhythm, melody and even musical structure – giving rise to the Allegro barbaro no less than the to the unsettling poetry of the Two Elegies. A trip to Algeria in 1913 left its mark on the Suite op.!14. Complex Bulgarian rhythms inspire the final six pieces of the Mikrokosmos cycle. This folklore, constantly surfacing, is what makes Bartók’s music so human, and his voice so singular.
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![Matteo Bisbano Memmo - Metalknife: Music for Modern Piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/21/yll99zqms2kjb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Matteo Bisbano Memmo – Metalknife: Music for Modern Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:27 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records
Explore this exciting debut commercial recording of standards, original compositions, transcriptions and covers, performed by pianist Matteo Bisbano Memmo.
This disc represents a curiosity box of virtuosic jazz piano playing showcasing the agility and musicality of Matteo Bisbano. Standards share a table with original compositions, transcriptions and exciting new covers which span a breadth of styles and genres. Bisbano projects breathtaking, dare-devil brinkmanship which pushes the boundaries of rhythm and celerity in modern piano music.
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