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Katherine Jenkins – Christmas Spectacular – Live From The Royal Albert Hall (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:52 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE presents a magical and unique Christmas musical from the iconic Royal Albert Hall, bringing joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world in the holiday season. With unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue, the Welsh singing sensation performs seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour. Katherine is joined by friends including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more, to share an unforgettable and enchanting Christmas experience.
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Katherine Hunka & Irish Chamber Orchestra – Piazzolla, Schubert & Schnittke: Works for Violin & Chamber Orchestra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
“A dazzling programme of music for violin and orchestra performed by The Irish Chamber Orchestra, featuring Katherine Hunka (violin/director) and Nicola Sweeney (violin – Schnittke).
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Katharine McPhee – I Fall in Love Too Easily (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 426 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG
Modern pop music never treated Katharine McPhee especially well. She hit the Billboard Top 40 only once, when her 2007 post-American Idol debut, “Over It,” went to 29. Given this, a move to the Great American Songbook makes sense, and 2017’s I Fall in Love Too Easily is indeed a classy affair. Produced by Don Was and recorded at Capitol Studios, the place where Frank Sinatra cut so many of his classic records, I Fall in Love Too Easily is a smoky, subdued set of standards. McPhee and Was don’t opt for the unexpected, preferring songs that are well-known and sturdy, withstanding decades of renditions: “All the Way,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Night and Day,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to His Face.” McPhee doesn’t radically reinterpret these warhorses, preferring to follow the contours of the songs exactly, so a lot of the weight on I Fall in Love Too Easily rests on the production. While there are strings and the occasional drum, the focus is always on McPhee and her pianist, giving this album the cozy, intimate feel of a nightclub.
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Katharine Dain – Regards sur l’Infini (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records
Challenging times called for something desirous. The COVID-19 pandemic lead soprano Katharine Dain (US) and pianist Sam Armstrong (UK) to immerse themselves deeply into the excessive musical world of Messiaen, Debussy and three robustly related other composers: Dutilleux, Delbos and Saariaho.
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Katharina Uhde – Joseph Joachim: Two Fantasies Rediscovered (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:04 minutes | 968 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Soundset
Katharina Uhde, Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University, is an internationally acclaimed violinist and musicologist. She is the author of The Music of Joseph Joachim (Boydell & Brewer, 2018). She holds a DMA degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Musicology from Duke University. As a soloist, quartet and piano trio member she has won first prizes in international competitions in Czech Republic and Germany. She has also won the 2004 Concerto Competition of the University of Michigan, where she studied with support of a Fulbright grant. She has released a CD Brasilianische Kammermusik and several online videos with world-renowned pianist Bruno Canino, with whom she performed the Beethoven cycle in 2017. Uhde just recorded a full-length CD with virtuoso works for violin and orchestra by Joseph Joachim, with the acclaimed Polish Radio Orchestra Warsaw. This CD was generously supported by Valparaiso University (VU music department; the Provost’s Office, and the Office of International Programming). Uhde has also just released a Bärenreiter edition with works by Joachim, which she has also performed with orchestra in Ann Arbor (2018), Valparaiso, IN (2018), China (May 2019), and in Warsaw (October 2019). The premiere of two newly rediscovered Fantasies on Hungarian and Irish Themes by Joachim took place on July 12, 2019 in Baden-Baden, with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Goettinger Musikfreunde Orchestra, the Marburg University Orchestra, the UFRN Orchestra Natal, and the Belgrade University Orchestra. As a violin soloist, she has worked with conductors Kenneth Kiesler, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Dennis-Friesen Carper, and Pavel Baleff.
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Katharina Thalbach, Cappella Aquileila & Marcus Bosch – Georg Anton Benda: Medea (Ein mit Musik vermischtes Melodram, Version von 1784) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:12 minutes | 457 MB | Genre: Classic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coviello Classics
In 1778 Mozart attested “the most wonderful effect” to the melodrama Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg Anton Benda (1722-1795). Indeed, the combination of spoken texts with dramatic music unfolds a high emotional intensity here. Especially when a voice as incisive as that of the famous actress Katharina Thalbach breathes life into the text. The fast, delicate interplay of text and music makes it possible to develop a conflict-laden and contradictory character psychogram with an unusual presence. Marcus Bosch and the cappella aquileia accompany this new discovery of classical music theater with their usual precise and transparent sound.
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Katharina Sellheim – Graham Waterhouse: Skylla und Charybdis (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:18 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Farao Classics
These are the two sea monsters from Greek mythology guarding each side of the Strait of Messina. Odysseus and his sailors navigated this notorious stretch of water they had to steer a middle path between the monsters to avoid coming too close to the shore and in doing so, risking losing their lives.
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Katharina Kang Litton, Andrew Litton – Kornauth & Fuchs: Works for Viola & Piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:23 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Musique de chambre
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
In the spring of 2020, the Covid pandemic caused turmoil in the concert diaries of most musicians, including the conductor Andrew Litton and his wife Katharina Kang Litton, principal violist of New York City Ballet. To find an outlet for their musical expression they began to explore the repertoire for viola and piano together. Having played the Sonatas by Brahms they came across the music by two other Viennese composers, Brahms’ near-contemporary Robert Fuchs and his student Egon Kornauth. Fuchs – who the less-than-effusive Brahms called “a splendid musician” – had a long and distinguished career at the Vienna Conservatory where his other students included such composers as Mahler, Wolf, Sibelius, Zemlinsky and Korngold.
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Katharina Deserno – Suites & Roses (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:24 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kaleidos Musikeditionen
On her solo album Suites & Roses German cellist Katharina Deserno combines cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach with works by Romanian composer Violeta Dinescu (*1953) to whose music she has a close connection.
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Kath Bloom – Bye Bye These Are The Days (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:21 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dear Life Records
It can be hard to write about Kath Bloom’s songwriting without drawing on a vocabulary that could diminish her. There is a nakedness to her writing, a beguiling, wondrous quality, as if we might cast her as the Mary Oliver of music.
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Kateřina Kněžíková, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava & Robert Jindra – Phidylé (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:13 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Supraphon a.s.
Kateřina Kněžíková’s lyric coloratura soprano has delighted audiences in numerous music centres worldwide, both at opera houses and concert venues. She has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, etc. under the baton of conductors of such renown as J. Bělohlávek, S. Baudo, M. Honeck, J. Hrůša, T. Netopil and R. Ticciati. The highlights of her career include the invitation to portray the title role in Janáček’s opera Katya Kabanova in Glyndebourne.
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Kateřina Englichová & Vilém Veverka – Impressions / Ravel, Debussy, Sluka: Works for Oboe and Harp (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:57 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Supraphon a.s.
On their previous Supraphon recordings (SU 4185 – Musica per arpa, SU 4188 – Vivaldi, Telemann, Bach, SU 4121 – Telemann, Britten ad.), harpist Kateřina Englichová and oboist Vilém Veverka sufficiently proved their outstanding performance qualities as well as informed interest in such mutually remote music worlds as the Baroque and the 20th century modernism. The present recording – their first made in dues – reflects more than twelve years of their performing together in concerts. The not-so-common combination of oboe and harp provides an endless scale of timbres and the resulting impression is marked both by frailness and confident virtuosity. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin is the crucial piece on the album and represents the composer’s memories of his friends lost in the First World War. Little musical gems written by Ravel and Debussy resound here in sensitive arrangements which have enriched the compositions by new timbre qualities. Primavera composed by Luboš Sluka was composed explicitly for the Englichová – Veverka duo and appears here in premiere recording.
The musical world of Kateřina Englichová and Vilém Veverka: entrancing timbre scales, frailness and virtuosity
“The playing is exceptional – there is strong evidence is of interpretative sympathy between the two instrumentalists. The recording quality is very clear and uncluttered.” (MusicWeb International)
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Kate Westbrook – Earth Felt the Wound (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:32 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Westbrook Records
b. Kate Barnard, Guildford, Surrey, England. Westbrook initially studied as a painter, exhibiting in the UK, Europe and the USA, before joining her future husband in the Mike Westbrook Brass Band (1974). Self-taught as a musician she sings and plays a variety of wind instruments, as well as composing and writing lyrics for many of Mike Westbrook’s groups. Independently, she was a guest soloist with the RAI Orchestra in Rome and the Zurich Radio Orchestra during the 70s, and in the 80s worked on projects with Lindsay Cooper. She sings in French, German, Greek and Italian and has performed from the works of poets and songwriters as diverse as D.H. Lawrence, William Blake, Cole Porter, Rossini and Lorca. In conjunction with Mike Westbrook, she organized many multi-media events involving music, performance and painting, which have been performed on television and the theatre. With such a wide variety of experience it is hardly surprising that she has complained: ‘I think we’ve got some way to go before there’s an understanding in the musical world of this thing greater than any category: music’.
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Kate Todd – Anywhere With You (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Country, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kate Todd
The title track and debut single for Kate Todd’s latest album, Anywhere With You, is more than just an ode to the ideal romantic relationship. It’s passionately hopeful tone could also be said to be emblematic of the way Kate herself has plunged headlong into pursuing her musical dreams. “It’s about having such a deep connection to someone; having such faith in them that you would follow them anywhere; the same goes for your passions and desires to follow dreams. It requires this kind of faith,” said the multi-talented, Toronto-based country music sensation.
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Kate Tempest – The Book Of Traps And Lessons (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:03 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Electronic, Spoken Word
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Republic Records
Passionate spoken words and lyrical prose match with beats flooding in on a wave of emotion.
Poet, performer, lyricist, rapper, artist, writer and playwright Kate Tempest has received and been nominated for multiple awards (including the Mercury / Brit Awards / the Ted Hughes prize…) This is the third studio album from Kate Tempest, built over the last five years with Rick Rubin and Dan Carey. These are the teaches of Tempest – evocative vocals serve up a slice of grimy everyday life. Words flow turning the mundane into poetry and a flowing lyric-garden of beauty. The distinctive tones of Kate Tempest are augmented with jazz and beats musical bits and pieces into a sprinkling of gritty 100s and 1000s.
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