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Leifur James – Angel in Disguise (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:53 minutes | 373 MB | Genre: Future Jazz, Downtempo, Experimental
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Angel In Disguise, showcases a more experimental side to his production. Traversing through musicality, progressive synths and introspection, this first single unveils the producer’s distinct sound with disorientated vocals; speaking of the interplay between reason and emotion, the lyrics repeat “Wise old man in my brain, soul bursting through my veins”, opening the gates to this captivating electronically steered opus.
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Leif Ove Andsnes, Mahler Chamber Orchestra – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:10 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Over the next four seasons, the celebrated Norwegian pianist and newly-signed exclusive Sony Classical artist Leif Ove Andsnes will devote the majority of his performing and recording activities to the music of Beethoven.
„The Beethoven Journey“ is a collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, one of the world´s most acclaimed touring orchestras, on the move approximately 200 days each year. The 45 core members of the MCO come from 20 different countries and live all over Europe. The journey began with the live recording of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 at Prague Spring Festival in the historic Rudolfinum building, where Andsnes is not only playing the piano but also directing the orchestra. Although Andsnes has an extensive discography ‘The Beethoven Journey’ is his first Beethoven recording.
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Leif Ove Andsnes – The Beethoven Journey – Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:08:25 minutes | 3,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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2014/15 is the crowning season of the Beethoven Journey. Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra have now recorded all of the Beethoven piano concertos, they will be performing the works in 16 cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Full-cycle residencies in 2014/15 will include (in chronological order): Bonn, Lucerne, Vienna, Paris, New York, London, Shanghai. The Beethoven Journey is a four-year collaborative project between celebrated pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Together they have recorded all of the Beethoven Piano Concertos, as well as the Choral Fantasy, with Andsnes not only playing but also directing the orchestra. The series began with the live recording of the Piano Concertos 1 & 3 at the Prague Spring Festival in the historic Rudolfinum building. The second CD, Piano Concertos 2 & 4, was recorded in London in 2013, and the final album was recorded again live at the Prague Spring Festival. Leif Ove Andsnes has devoted the majority of his performing and recording activities in the last 3 years to the music of Beethoven. The first recording for the project was named iTunes’ Best Instrumental Album of 2012. The second recording enjoyed an outstanding reception from critics, with many heralding the release as one of the finest recordings of the 2 & 4 Concertos. Although Andsnes has an extensive discography “The Beethoven Journey” is his first Beethoven recording ever.
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Leif Ove Andsnes – Sibelius: Piano Pieces (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:31 minutes | 2,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sibelius’s piano music remains a secret – chronically neglected or approached from an entirely unsympathetic aesthetic standpoint. Sometimes, criticism is justified. “I will be the first to admit that Sibelius’s piano music is uneven in quality”, says Leif Ove Andsnes, pointing to the composer’s own cynicism towards his piano works as a possible reason for the neglect of the genuine gems. But Andsnes also professes in no uncertain terms that he is “on a mission” to bring Sibelius’s piano works out of the shadows. “I really believe in this music and I want people to hear it”, he says. After scouring every published note of the composer’s piano music, Andsnes has selected works for this recording that speak to him not just as a pianist but as a musician who for a long time has felt particularly close to Sibelius. Here are piano works in which Sibelius’s orchestral thinking advances the language of the instrument even if it can test the technical orthodoxies of the player. As may be imagined, Andsnes masters them with elegance and ease.
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Leif Ove Andsnes – Mozart Momentum – 1785 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:24 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following their widely acclaimed Beethoven Journey, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Leif Ove Andsnes join forces once again to explore two especially remarkable years in the history of classical music with Mozart Momentum 1785/1786, a new performing and recording project spanning four years (2019-2022). Through multi-year concert tours, festival formats, CD recordings for Sony Classical and Unboxing Mozart, these trusting partners explore the themes of artistic dialogue, individual responsibility and partnership in music and beyond.
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Leif Ove Andsnes – Chopin : Ballades – Nocturnes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:26 minutes | 695 MB | Genre: Classical
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Leif Ove Andsnes’ last release of rare Sibelius piano works was universally acclaimed by critics worldwide. Now comes a release of very popular solo piano works by Chopin. The album includes all four famous Ballades interspersed with shorter Nocturnes.
Andsnes intentionally inserted the Nocturnes between the Ballades to serve as a ‘breather’ to the epic nature of the Ballades. In doing so he breaks with the tradition of performing and recording the ballades as a cycle.
This recording is a long-held dream come true for Andsnes, who has wanted to record the Ballades ever since discovering them as a teenager and instantly falling in love with them. These epic works have accompanied him and his career ever since. This is his first recording of Chopin works in 25 years.
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Leif Ove Andsnes – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
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The series continues with Beethoven concertos No. 2 & 4. The celebrated Norwegian pianist continues his multi-annual journey in collaboration with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, dedicated to Beethoven´s five piano concertos. The recording series began with the live recording of the Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 at Prague Spring Festival in the historic Rudolfinum building and is now followed by the Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4. Andsnes is not only playing the piano but also directing the orchestra.
The journey will continue with the live recording of the Piano Concerto No. 5 and Choral Fantasy again at the Rudolfinum in Prague. “The Beethoven Journey” is a composite work of Leif Ove Andsnes with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The Berlin based orchestra is one of the world´s most acclaimed touring orchestras, on the move approximately 200 days each year. The 45 core members of the MCO come from 20 different countries and live all over Europe.
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Leib Glantz – The Man Who Spoke to God (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:07 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Leib Glantz was a world-famous Jewish cantor, composer and writer who had a great influence in the world of religious and spiritual music. This album includes highlights from two CDs released as a companion to a book of the same name published by Glantz’s son, Dr. Jerry Glantz. The cantor’s most important musical compositions are all here.
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Le Trio Joubran – The Long March (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:24 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: World
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The sixth album of Le Trio Joubran, a landmark and a new landscape in their musical convictions. Through their mesmerizing music, they honour the struggles and oppression of indigenous peoples around the world and especially affirm that their music should be a part of the struggle of the Palestinian people for recognition and liberation. Le Trio Joubran and the former Pink Floyd legendary Roger Water’s co-wrote the track “Carry The Earth” and dedicated it the four young cousins who were murdered whilst playing football on Gaza Beach. The title of this track is from a poem by the great Mahmoud Darwish The dead who die to carry the earth after the relics are gone”.
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Le Roi Angus – Est-ce que tu vois le tigre ? (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:42 minutes | 364 MB | Genre: Indie, French Pop, Chanson
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Rares sont les groupes qui parviennent à véritablement concilier l’évidence de la pop à la profondeur de la poésie. Le Roi Angus est de ceux-là. Les genevois livrent avec « Est-ce que tu vois le tigre ? » un deuxième disque sous forme d’invitation à la curiosité et à la réflexion. Un album où prose et arrangements élégants côtoient des chansons imparables, pleines de groove… / Rare are the bands that manage to truly reconcile the evidence of the pop to the depth of the poetry. King Angus is one of those. The geneva engaged with “Is that you see the tiger ?” a second disk in the form of an invitation to curiosity and reflection. An album where prose and arrangements elegant mix of songs unstoppable, full of groove…
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Le Ren – Leftovers (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:41 minutes | 611 MB | Genre: Folk
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The debut album, produced by Chris Cohen, reveals tender beauty and lively grace of the folk singer, who is usually equipped with little more than an acoustic guitar played beaten or plucked, whose large vocal spectrum within the barren instrumentations is all the more remarkable because with her encouraging, virtuosically performed melody with her crystalline vocal timbre, she shows a clarity that, Vashti Bunyan or Karen Dalton or Adrienne Lenker and yet represents American folk songwriting in the now. The album offers equal parts melancholy, deep love and exhilaration to cheer up mourners. A patchwork of personal songs about different relationships, sometimes accompanied by pedal steel, banjo, violin and also drums and bass, to which Buck Meek (Big Thief) or Tenci contributed with recorded parts. *Secretly Canadian
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Le Poème Harmonique, Les Cris de Paris, Vincent Dumestre – Son of England (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 984 MB | Genre: Classical
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Henry Purcell died on 21 November 1695 at the age of thirty- six. The music he had written for the funeral of Queen Mary only eight months earlier was performed again for his burial service. Soon afterwards, several composers paid tribute to Purcell by writing odes in his memory. Jeremiah Clarke’s homage to ‘Orpheus Britannicus’ in his Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell is a deeply moving token of the younger composer’s admiration. Alas, Clarke too was destined to die in his prime, and we can only imagine what the destiny of British music might have been if their lives had been prolonged. After an acclaimed production of Dido and Aeneas, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique continue their exploration of the world of Purcell and seventeenth-century English music. Constantly keeping an ear out for multiple musical ramifications, from Dowland to Lully by way of the Elizabethan masques, this new programme spotlights the genius of Jeremiah Clarke, whose sadly premature death makes us regret all the marvels he might have produced. Here is a collection of masterpieces coupling two of Purcell’s most popular works with an exceptional discovery. (c) Alpha Classics
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Le Poème Harmonique, Ensemble Aedes, Vincent Dumestre – Lalande: Majesté (Collection Château de Versailles) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:32 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 1682, Versailles became the main residence of Louis XIV and it needed new assistant chapel masters; in the end, the King imposed his choice, and that was Lalande, the King’s favourite, a young man of 26 who would become Versailles’s great composer of religious music. Bringing a new vision of the orchestra after the inflexible Lully, he dared to create completely new musical architectures, with new orchestral combinations that his predecessors never attempted, foregrounding some rarer solo instruments. In this sense, he represents the missing link between Lully and Rameau, the last scion of the French baroque orchestral tradition. For this record, a little stone in the monument to Lalande’s 77 great motets, Vincent Dumestre and his Poème harmonique have chosen to showcase his first sallies in writing for the Chapelle Royale with Ecce nuncfrom 1683 and above all the grandiose Deitatis majestatem from 1681, and the record runs up to the final corrections – Lalande incessantly edited his work – of the Te Deum. This work provides the most striking sonic image of majesty: the Te Deum, composed in 1684, was re-written many times up until the 1720s, the date of the final signed edition. This version, which shows the later development of Lalande’s writing, is also made remarkable because in it the composer has noted the precise duration of each verse! This gives us a precise idea of the metronomical tempos that he used – and what a precious tool for today’s musicians. This album, recorded in public at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles, follows this demanding and unflagging rhythm to within a few dozen seconds.
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Le Poème Harmonique – Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:08 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Allegri’s Miserere, its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices: sheer Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed the piece, then jealously guarded by the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema. From the Renaissance onwards, musicians dressed up the finest secular tunes of their time in sacred words. The most famous example of all, the Pianto della Madonna, in which Monteverdi transferred to the Virgin Mary the mournful strains of his Lamento d’Arianna, illustrates these exchanges between repertories. Similarly, his famous Sì dolce è ’l tormento is here transformed into Sì dolce è ’l martire with the help of the mysterious Virgilio Albanese. Other masters of the period, such as Rossi, Mazzocchi and Marazzoli, also adapted their works to sacred texts. With this programme, which builds on the experience of the album Nova Metamorfosi (ALPHA 039), one of Le Poème Harmonique’s major triumphs, Vincent Dumestre celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble.
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Le Petit Trianon & Olivier Riehl – Buffardin: Sonates & Concerto (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar
Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin, a French-born flautist, was active at the court of Dresden. He is known to have been the teacher of Johann Joachim Quantz and a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote a few concertante arias for him in his cantatas. He was considered one of the greatest virtuosos of his time. This recording is the world premiere of a recently discovered collection of sonatas. Accompanied by the Concerto `a cinq parties, these sonatas represent for the flautist Olivier Riehl and the ensemble Le Petit Trianon a recreational area conducive to enjoyment, combining virtuosity, energy and expressiveness to produce a recording rich in colour and novelty.
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