Hinrich Alpers – Rudi Stephan: Chamber Works and Songs (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hinrich Alpers – Rudi Stephan: Chamber Works and Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:34:12 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

The rediscovery of an outstanding composer, Rudi Stephan, who was born in Worms in 1887 and who is now almost completely forgotten. But Stephan, who died in 1915 in the First World War, left a body of works that is definitely worth rediscovering.

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Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hinds – The Prettiest Curse (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:45 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lucky Number

A Spanish lo-fi garage rock girl-band from Madrid – a strange combination that sounds, on paper, as if it would never work. And yet, Hinds’ boundless energy, sense of humour and mischievous side have won over critics from New Musical Express and Pitchfork as well as the ears (and more than that in some cases) of The Black Keys, Mac DeMarco and Bobby Gillepsie from Primal Scream. In 2014, the four girls were the opening act for The Libertines and Black Lips. Their third album, The Prettiest Curse, remains faithful to their joyously rowdy garage rock style, stringing together ten tracks with a sweet and sultry nonchalance, like the crazy and fun-loving Just Like Kids (Miau), and Burn, a track full of anger but harmless and light-hearted at the same time. They often bring to mind Courtney Love’s band, Hole, but without the Californian diva’s dark, dramatic side. Here, the music is fresh and fun, and you get the sense that this quartet is worth seeing live to fully appreciate its madness. – Yan Ceh

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Frank Peter Zimmermann, Enrico Pace, Paavo Jarvi – Hindemith: Vioolconcert, Vioolsonates (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Frank Peter Zimmermann, Enrico Pace, Paavo Jarvi – Hindemith: Vioolconcert, Vioolsonates (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:18 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical 20th Century
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

Frank Peter Zimmermann, who in 2010 was awarded the international Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau, makes a great case for these works. His Trio recently won the 2013 BBC Music Magazine Award for their Chamber recording of Beethoven’s Trio Op. 9. In the concerto Zimmermann teams up with Paavo Järvi, another recipient of the Paul Hindemith Prize and principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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Alexander Melnikov – Hindemith: Sonatas for… (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Alexander Melnikov – Hindemith: Sonatas for… (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:07 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Hindemith composed more than 30 sonatas for the most diverse instruments – all of which he was capable of playing himself! This fascinating selection of works written between 1935 (when he became persona non grata in Nazi Germany) and 1948 (the brilliant Cello Sonata for Piatigorsky) is played by some of today’s finest soloists, with the guiding spirit of Alexander Melnikov at the piano. How often does one hear a sonata for Althorn? Especially one published along with a poem by the composer?

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Hilyard – Furthermore (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Hilyard – Furthermore (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 453 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cryo Chamber

Hilyard brings his first solo album to Cryo Chamber with Furthermore. A deep space adventure that lets you float in zero-G and gaze upon the anomalies of the universe.

Escape from a tired and dying world into the realms beyond quasars. Journey in isolation through thick dark matter in search of answers. Drift in quiet melancholy, past the failed floating structures, gas giants and furthermore, into an endless horizon.

Sweeping electronic drones combine with analogue bass to create a multilayered space ambient album that is emotionally captivating and enlightening.

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Hillsong United – The People Tour: Live From Madison Square Garden (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hillsong United – The People Tour: Live From Madison Square Garden (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:57:32 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Pop, Gospel, Worship
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hillsong Music and Resources LLC

UNITED created “People” with this sole purpose: to bring unity amongst people everywhere. As a band, the purpose has been simple––to love God and love people as people loved by God. Touring the record has been nothing short of incredible as stadiums filled to the brim across the earth just before we’d face a crucial and testing time in our world due to a pandemic. “The People Tour: Live from Madison Square Garden” is a moment we want to invite everyone into. It brings us back to main purpose of this record: to champion people everywhere to remember the good grace of this unshakable Gospel we have.

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Hille Perl – Marais: Les Voix Humaines (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hille Perl – Marais: Les Voix Humaines (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi

A selection of brilliant character-pieces by Marin Marais. Central to this CD are works with programmatical and personal associations like “Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully” or “Le Tourbillon”, Labyrinth and Cloches et Carrillon.

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Hille Perl – Born to Be Mild (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hille Perl – Born to Be Mild (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:04 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © deutsche harmonia mundi

The spectacular crossover album one of the most unconventional and most versatile performers of early music – Hille Perl and his trio play and improvise with electro-acoustic instruments and explore an original repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque music to music of the legendary Jazz artist Charlie Haden. The artist will present Born To Be Mild live soon in Spain.

Hille Perl is one of the most successful artists of the viola da gamba and a brilliant and original musician who is not afraid to discover new worlds of sounds and musical territories. After experiencing as part of the rock band Santanas Lee, “Dead Poets”, Hille Perl and his daughter Martha Perl now play the electro-acoustic viola da gamba for the first time on a disk with the lutenist Lee Santana (who plays electric guitar).

The artists explore an original repertoire that includes compositions and improvisations of pieces of renaissance and baroque periods of Diego Ortiz, Marin Marais, Tobias Hume, Antoine Forqueray, Lee Santana himself and jazz legends such as Charlie Haden, among others.

A repertoire spanning seven centuries, providing new and spectacular sounds and instrumental colors, Hille Perl transforms the viola da gamba in a truly timeless instrument.

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Hila Fahima, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michele Gamba – Donizetti & Verdi: Opera Arias (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hila Fahima, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michele Gamba – Donizetti & Verdi: Opera Arias (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:54 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo

Having joined the ensemble of Deutsche Oper Berlin at the age of 22 and the ensemble of Wiener Staatsoper in 2013, Israeli-born Hila Fahima presents a mix of well-known selections and rediscovered treasures on her debut album: Donizetti’s Lucia, Norina, Linda di Chamounix, Adina, Marie from La fille du regiment, plus Verdi’s Gilda – she will be starring in this role at this year’s Bregenz Festival – and also Amalia from his I masnadieri, as well as arias from Donizetti’s little-known operas Rosmonda d’Inghilterra and Emilia di Liverpool.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mary Magdalene (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hildur Guðnadóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson – Mary Magdalene (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Milan Records

Milan Records will release the official soundtrack album for the biblical drama Mary Magdalene. The album features the film’s original music composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir (Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Strong Island) and Jóhann Jóhannsson (Arrival, The Theory of Everything, Sicario, Prisoners). The soundtrack will be released digitally overseas, March 23. Mary Magdalene is directed by Garth Davis (Lion) and stars Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tahar Rahim. The movie tells the story of Mary, a young woman in search of a new way of living, who defies her traditional family to join a new social movement led by the charismatic Jesus of Nazareth and soon finds a place for herself within the movement and at the heart of a journey that will lead to Jerusalem. The drama was released in several European markets earlier this month. No word yet on a domestic release date.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:33 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WaterTower Music

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the film Joker (2019). The music composed by Hildur Gudnadottir (Chernobyl, Mary Magdalene). The Joker (or simply Joker) is a 2019 American action crime thriller film, based on the DC Comics character. The film is written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver, directed by Todd Phillips, stars Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy. The film will premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2019.

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Hildur Guðnadóttir – Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hildur Guðnadóttir – Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:42 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hildur Guðnadóttir has composed the music for the TV series Chernobyl, a co-production between HBO and Sky. Written by Craig Mazin, the five-part miniseries dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — the April 26, 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in then – Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic — and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The project is currently in production, with a cast including Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jared Harris. Hildur has recently composed music for feature film Sicario: Day Of The Soldado, scheduled for release in June 2018, and collaborated with the late Jóhann Jóhannsson on the score for Garth Davis’s Mary Magdalene.

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Hildegunn Øiseth – Manana (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hildegunn Øiseth – Manana (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:34 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OK World

Today, the most powerful voice in a domain often referred to as “the Nordic sound” belongs to Hildegunn Øiseth. When she lifts the goat horn to her lips, she fills the room with the musical power of a master, while at the same time expressing a poetic warmth that is uniquely hers.

Those of us who crave our daily dose of ethno- electronica are equally enthusiastic when Hildegunn Øiseth this time around also tries out her electro- nically adapted trumpet sound in an unusually responsive acoustic band. Manana embraces more of Hildegunn Øiseth’s dynamic universe than her previous releases, while allowing her sensitive and down-to-earth personality to shine as vulnerably as ever. – Ivar Orvedal

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Hirundo Maris, Arianna Savall, Petter U. Johansen – Hildegard von Bingen: Vox cosmica (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Hirundo Maris, Arianna Savall, Petter U. Johansen – Hildegard von Bingen: Vox cosmica (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:41 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpe Diem Records

Hildegard of Bingen was one of the most prominent women in medieval Europe. Her political, spiritual and artistic legacy has remained unique to this day. For good reason, she is still known to a wide public almost a thousand years after her death. The interest in Hildegard gained momentum after Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her a Doctor of the Church. It is therefore to be welcomed that a young generation of musicians is exploring her works. Thanks to the Sequentia ensemble, Hildegard’s entrancing music has made it into the pop music charts since 1980. Initially, the aim was mainly to unveil the treasure of Hildegard’s compositions. As time has passed, not only has a great deal of knowledge about early music reading and performance practice been acquired, but also young musicians nowadays feel much more relaxed about developing their own views and interpretations of masterpieces, thus making valuable contributions from both a philological and musical standpoint.

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Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen – Red Lips, Knuckles and Bones (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen – Red Lips, Knuckles and Bones (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:52 minutes | 513 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ozella

Norwegian singer-songwriter Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen takes you on a sensory journey to the serene musicality of a Scandinavian metropolis on ‘Red Lips, Knuckles and Bones’, with the beguiling spirit of the Paris of the 1920s. Ten albums and fifteen years into her remarkable career, this may well be her most personal work.

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