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Martin Stadtfeld – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 9, Pieces from London Sketchbook (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:42:50 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
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Für seine erste, sehr erfolgreiche Aufnahme mit Klavierkonzerten Mozarts hat Martin Stadtfeld von der Presse großes Lob bekommen. Jetzt widmet er sein neues Doppel-Album dem jungen Mozart. Zwei »Salzburger Klavierkonzerte« hat er mit dem Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg unter Mozart-Spezialist Ivor Bolten eingespielt: das erste Klavierkonzert KV 37 des 10-jährigen Mozart (von 1766) und das lange als »Jeunehomme« bekannte Klavierkonzert Nr. 9, KV 271, welches 10 Jahre später entstand und als erstes Meister-Konzert gilt. Für beide Konzerte schrieb Stadtfelld neue Kadenzen. Eine Entdeckung ist die auf der zweiten CD zu hörende Musik aus dem »Londoner Skizzenbuch« des erst 9-jährigen Mozarts, die am Ende einer Europareise des Wunderkindes von 1763 bis Ende 1766 entstand, an deren Ende ein 15-monatiger Aufenthalt in London stand. Dort entstanden die Skizzen, die Mozart wohl ohne die regelmäßige Hilfe seines erkrankten Vaters anfertigte. Stadtfeld hat die »magische Schatzkiste« dieser Londoner Skizzen geöffnet mit »Musik, die aus dem genialen Kind einfach so herausgesprudelt ist, nur seiner Lust und Eingebung folgend und uns direkt zu Herzen geht«. 36 Miniaturen, die das ganze Genie zeigen.
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Martin Stadtfeld – Handel Variations (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:00 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Classical
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Handel Variations is a collection of Stadtfeld’s very own favorite works by Handel, all newly arranged for and played on the piano. Stadtfeld himself says “I must confess that I find it hard to listen to a whole Handel opera or oratorio in large numbers. Nevertheless, I am convinced that individual “taken out” arias can unfold their effect and aura without their original emotional background. Maybe especially on the piano, which basically remains an abstract instrument.” The album contains Handel’s most famous melodies and hit arias such as “Lascia ch’io pianga” and “Ombra mai fu” as well as the famous “Sarabande” in new and unique piano versions and many more beautiful melodies.
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Martin Stadtfeld – Christmas Piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:35 minutes | 369 MB | Genre: Classical
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German pianist Martin Stadtfeld recorded a special Christmas album featuring well-known Christmas melodies such as “Stille Nacht” (Silent night), “In the bleak midwinter” and “Maria durch ein Dornwald ging” and “Vom Himmel hoch” which are newly arranged by Martin Stadtfeld himself for “Christmas Piano”. In addition, Stadtfeld contributed to “Christmas Piano” his own pieces, especially the eleven-part contemplative piano cycle “Christmas Time”, two variations after Praetorius’ “Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen” and two intermezzi after Praetorius’ “Vom Himmel hoch”. Already at the end of 2020, when no concerts could take place due to the pandemic, Stadtfeld had sent short musical Advent greetings to his audience via social media channels to cheer them up. The experience of this sharing and the positive response to his music gave him the idea for his new album. Right at the beginning, Stadtfeld’s “Christmas Time” sounds, consisting of 11 atmospheric miniatures. Titles like “Happy Time”, “Wish List” or “Anticipation” conjure up images of joyful anticipation and shining children’s eyes during Christmas times. Just as in his own piano cycle, Martin Stadtfeld let’s listeners participate in his Christmas imagination in his arrangements of traditional carols and pieces by classical composers. “Christmas Piano” also includes “Canonische Veränderungen über Vom Himmel hoch” (Canonical Changes on High Heaven) by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged for piano and trumpet, in which Martin Stadtfeld’s brother Stephan also makes a guest appearance on the trumpet.
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Martin Stadtfeld – Beethoven für Kinder (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:05:46 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Begonnen hat die Laufbahn von Martin Stadtfeld mit einem Klavier vom Räumungsverkauf. Schon mit sieben Jahren steht sein Berufswunsch fest: Konzertpianist. Früh erkundet er die Regeln und Geheimnisse von Kontrapunkt und Harmonielehre; als Jungstudent kommt er in Frankfurt in die Klasse von Lev Natochenny. Es beginnt die Zeit, in der Stadtfeld bei Wettbewerben für Furore sorgt, er gewinnt Preise in Paris, in Bozen – und in Leipzig. Den dortigen Bach-Wettbewerb kann Martin Stadtfeld im Jahr 2002 als Gewinner des ersten Preises für sich entscheiden.
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Martin Stadtfeld – Bach: Englische Suiten 1-3 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:44 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mit der Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach wurde Martin Stadtfeld zum bekanntesten und erfolgreichsten deutschen Pianisten der jungen Generation. Die neue CD von Stadtfeld ist wieder ganz der Musik von Bach gewidmet. Nach dem Bestseller mit Bachs Wohltemperierten Klavier hat Stadtfeld in der faszinierenden Akustik des Konzerthauses Dortmund die Englischen Suiten 1,2 und 3 aufgenommen.
Als Bonustrack erklingt auf der CD Bachs berühmte Air aus der Orchestersuite Nr. 3 in D-Dur (BWV 1068) in der Klavierbearbeitung von Alexander Siloti.
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Martin Rummel, Roland Kruger – Reinecke: Complete Works for Cello & Piano (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:53 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Carl Reinecke’s melodic gift, mastery of counterpoint, and idiomatic command of chamber repertoire, in particular, exemplify why he was acclaimed as one of the great representatives of German High Romanticism. His Cello Sonatas were composed over four decades. The First teems with freshness and a Schumannesque lyricism, while the Second is a more experimental work, with a notably quizzical slow movement. Virtuosity, solemnity and caprice are features of the Third Sonata, while the Three Pieces, Op. 146 offer an enticing contrast of songfulness and dance. Austrian cellist Martin Rummel is not only the last pupil of the legendary William Pleeth, but with the release of nearly 50 albums, one of the most distinguished cellists of his generation. He continually gains worldwide praise for his recordings of previously undiscovered music. First Prize winner of the prestigious Concours de Geneve in 2001, Roland Kruger has performed in venues such as the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, and the Kolner Philharmonie festival. As a soloist, he has worked with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre National de Belgique and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, among others.
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Martin Rummel – Popper: Complete Cello Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:58 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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David Popper was one of the most important cellists of the 19th century and is remembered for the etudes of his High School of Cello Playing. Popper premiered chamber works by Brahms and championed Schumann’s Cello Concerto, and his own four concertos span an illustrious 50-year career. Each shares a lyrical Romantic spirit: the playful First Concerto, an enjoyable prelude to the more dramatic and virtuosic Second, and the single-movement Third, a masterpiece in melodic compactness. The Fourth Concerto was dedicated to ‘my great colleague’ Alfredo Piatti and is recorded here in its version with piano.
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Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – The Discipline of Assent (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:13 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: Jazz, Fusion
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Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) team up for a genre-defying record that was recorded during an exceptional session on March 3rd 2020. Martin brought his Double Bass, Acoustic & Baritone guitar into the studio of Causa Sui, where Jakob’s drums were already miked & prepped by soundwiz Jonas Munk, freshly tuned from the new Causa Sui recordings. The music they played ranges from sprawled out pre-fusion electric jazz to psychedelic folk ragas. After the sessions, the hours of free floating music was edited & dubbed by Jakob Skøtt into shorter cohesive segments, but maintaining the improvised vibe of these first takes.
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Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo – The Dichotomy of Control (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:16 minutes | 486 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Rock
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The collaboration between Danish musicians Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt has proven to be most fruitful. The mixture of Rude’s open guitar tunings and double bass with Skøtt’s fluid drumming and ethereal synths and electronics gave their debut LP The Discipline of Assent an epic, galactic jazz western feel. A soundtrack to some retro-futuristic Leone film that only exists in the strangest of fever dreams. It truly was one of the more exciting musical trips I’d taken this year.
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Martin Rost – Orgel in St. Jakobi zu Stralsund (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:10 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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The large baroque organ of the Jakobikirche in Stralsund, whose case we still see today, was built in 1741 by Christian Gottlieb Richter From Stettin. In 1779-1783 Ernst Marx from Berlin and in 1870-1877 Friedrich Albert Daniel Mehmel from Stralsund built a new Instrument using numerous old components. In 1945 the Jakobikirche suffered a bomb hit at the southwest corner of the aisle. The damage made it possible to penetrate into the church. The organ was robbed of almost all metal pipes in the following time and furthermore severely damaged in all areas. The Dresden organ workshop of Kristian Wegscheider built a new, three-manual organ with a 51-sounding voices in a consistent Production and sound aesthetics of the 18th century. Century. This organ is at the same time a new, but also a historical Instrument, because it takes the best organs of the 18th century as its model in the conception and craftsmanship of the present time. In the course of the restoration of the instrument, which began in 2017 and could be completed in 2020, the case has also been completely restored and reconstructed in its old Dimension and construction with all the carvings.
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Martin Phipps – The Crown: Season Three (Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:08 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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From Beethoven to Bowie, the soundtrack to the third season of The Crown has been full of musical surprises. As the third season of Netflix’s The Crown graces our screens, we turn our attention to the music in the royal drama. Aside from Hans Zimmer’s majestic opening theme, the new season also treats us to some piano music by Beethoven and Chopin – as well as some Welsh folk songs, and music by David Bowie and Frank Sinatra. What’s the music in the season 3 trailer? As Netflix introduces us to a new Elizabeth (Olivia Colman), we hear a stripped back, slightly chilling cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ by musician Fort Nowhere.
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Martin Phipps – The Aftermath (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:19 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the film The Aftermath (2019). The music composed by Martin Phipps (Black Earth Rising, Victoria, The Crown). The Aftermath is a 2019 war drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Rhidian Brook. The film written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, directed by James Kent, stars Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard, Jason Clarke.
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RVG – Brain Worms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:45 minutes | 446 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Female Vocal
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A pivotal record for contemporary times; bright, free, adamant, optimistic. Brain Worms is RVG’s fullest, most pristine album yet.
All throughout Brain Worms, it’s apparent that this is a band in very fine form. Album opener ‘Common Ground’ sets the tone for what’s to come; a shiny, thrilling, punch of an album, with all the beloved RVG hallmarks. Vager’s voice is unfiltered and commanding as ever when delivering her clever, not-quite-ironic lyrics. Here, though, those lyrics feel so much less resigned to yearning, and so much more defiant and joyous.
‘Tambourine’ is the only Covid song Vager wrote when “trying not to write Covid songs”, and it’s a painfully honest portrait of grieving mid-isolation. ‘Brain Worms’ tells the all-too-familiar story of a person falling down the internet rabbit hole and finding comfort in conspiracies. ‘Nothing Really Changes’ is a keys-heavy new wave-ish thing, while closer ‘Tropic of Cancer’ sparkles with Vager’s self-assured new manifesto: I know what I’m like, and I know how I get. If you think I’m strange, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
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Rupert Marshall-Luck – Eroica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:59 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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The new recording from EM Records features works by Edward Elgar, whose fiery and technically complex tudes caractristiques date from the early part of his career; and Donald Francis Tovey, who, in his emotionally wideranging Sonata eroica, pays homage to Bach. The disc also presents a selection of the Virtuosic Studies by Albert Sammons, the violinist who made benchmark recordings of Elgar’s Violin Sonata and Concerto and who made a highly significant contribution to British violin-playing in the early years of the twentieth century. These are being recorded here for the first time.
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Ruggiero Ricci – Sarasate: Danzas Españolas & Pieces by Ruggiero Ricci (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:42 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Ruggiero Ricci (* July 24, 1918 in San Bruno, California; † August 6, 2012 in Palm Springs) was an American violinist.
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