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Ibrahim Electric – Time Machine (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:39 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stunt Records
During the last couple of years Ibrahim Electric has been one of the most popular European jazz groups… These 3 personal instrumentalists have – besides the popularity with this group – made a name for themselves as some of the most striking on their respective instruments in Scandinavia.
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Aziz Ibrahim – Risonanze: Music for viola da gamba (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © First Hand Records
”Risonanze” is the debut solo album of London-based viola da gamba player Ibrahim Aziz. Aziz is considered to be one of the greatest performers of the instrument of his generation. This recording is a performance of immense expression, expertly delivered on a viol made by English string maker Barak Norman in 1712 and which features the premiere recordings of three works.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien – Schubert: Complete works for violin and piano (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:57:37 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
The luminous partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien returns to Hyperion for this double album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. Their intelligence and technical prowess, their seamless and intimate connection as performers and their profound understanding of the music combine in magical performances.
While still in his teens, Schubert wrote four works for violin and piano that could have been given the label ‘sonata’, yet none of the four was published with that title. The first three, completed in 1816, bear instead the designation of ‘Sonatina’, perhaps to appeal to the amateur market. But these are highly accomplished works by the teenage composer and there is little ‘domestic’ feeling in the extended, mysterious unravellings of D385 which hint at compositions yet to come.
The later Violin Sonata in A major, D574 (now described as a ‘Duo’), urges the violinist on to greater virtuosic feats, and the Rondo in B minor even more so, with the piano sometimes treated as a surrogate orchestra. The extensive Fantasy in C major, written in the last year of Schubert’s life, is a masterpiece: the composer’s greatest achievement in this genre, which combines poignancy with sheer joy in life itself.
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Ibibio Sound Machine – Live at Earth (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:27:35 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Merge Records
This was the biggest show on our recent UK tour and also our biggest London headline show to date. It’s always really special playing to your hometown crowd, and this gig was no exception. It was the culmination of our 2019 touring following the release of our third album Doko Mien. Looking back, it all seems like a world away, even though it was only about 9 months ago. Hopefully days like this will return soon!
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Iberian & Klavier Piano Duo – Springtime (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:39 minutes | 937 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Amadeus Arte
I&K performs The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, the same version that Stravinsky premiered with his friend Debussy in a private recital for a group of friends before writing the orchestral version. The repertoire of the album is magnificently surrounded by pieces of Debussy, Saint- Saëns, and Ravel, who enjoyed the première of that incredible piece at the newly constructed Theâtre des Champs-Elysees on 29th May 1913. This date would go down in history as one of the greatest musical scandals of all time. Saint-Saëns left the hall outraged, Debussy asked the most reluctant to listen to the music, and Ravel exclaimed: Genius, genius!”.
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Iberian & Klavier Piano Duo – El Piano del Maestro Alonso (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:44 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ibemusik
Francisco Alonso López was born in Granada on 9th May 1887. As a child he demonstrated great musical skills and curiosity, beginning his training with Antonio Segura Mesa and later with Celestino Vila de Forns, a composer and also the choirmaster of the Cathedral of Granada. Alonso soon became a major figure in the cultural life of the city thanks to his compositions and his work as conductor of two important ensembles: the Powder Workers of El Fargue Band (Granada), and the Choir of Granada Philharmonic Society.
His early works include pieces for two-hand and four-hand piano: Pilar Op.1 (dedicated to his mother), El carnaval, Ola de amor and ¡Mi adiós a Granada! The vocal genre would also be present, especially in his initial compositions for voice and piano: ¡Ingrata!, ¡Ricordate di me!, Triste amor and Venus, among others.
However, it was undoubtedly the première of his first operettas and farces in the former Cervantes Theatre in Granada which played a decisive role in his early artistic activity. Working alongside local poets and playwrights, he was able to stage his first big successes: Adriana, Castillitos en al aire, El primer beso de amor, La Cruz de los Ángeles, La Gloria, La instantánea de Perico, La niña de los Cantares and Un patio del Albaicín.
In 1911, Alonso moved his residence to Madrid, which would mark a turning point in his career. From this moment on, he would enjoy continuous premières and triumphs on the most important stages in Ma- drid, all performed before a public enthused by his operettas, reviews and musical comedies.
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Daniel Lentz & Ian William Craig – In a Word (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 416 MB | Genre: Experimental, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RVNG Intl.
In a Word, the sixteenth installment of the intergenerational collaboration series FRKWYS, brings together postminimalist composer Daniel Lentz with vocalist and sound artist Ian William Craig for an album that embraces erosion and the fertility of the loam left behind. A document of shared transformation, Lentz’s elegant piano figures and Craig’s trembling tenor are wilted, warbled, and looped through manipulated tape machines in a real time composition that evokes a strange warmth and layered beauty.
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Ian William Craig – Red Sun Through Smoke (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:04 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Ambient, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 130701
‘Red Sun Through Smoke’ was recorded over two cataclysmic weeks in August 2018 in Kelowna, whilst the city was encircled by the forest fires which, under a warming climate, now regularly rage through British Columbia in summertime. With smoke engulfing the landscape, it was recorded from start to finish in the living room of a small house owned by his grandfather, who was moved into palliative care and tragically died halfway through the recording, his lungs filled with fluid as a result of the smoke.Forged in trauma and an intense, bewildering slew of mixed emotions, Ian William Craig has created an album of incredible beauty, sadness and depth. ‘Red Sun Through Smoke’ is a profoundly moving album, a standout record in a prolific body of work that shows no sign of faltering.
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Ian Watson, Susanna Ogata – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 3 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:36 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical, Chamber Music, Romantic Era
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro
Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s acclaimed series on Coro Connections continues with the third album in their exploration of Beethoven’s Sonatas for fortepiano and violin. Written at a time when the composer was struggling to accept his growing deafness, the three sonatas on this volume were published together in 1803 as his Opus 30 and provide a remarkable trilogy – a collection of incredible variety and sophistication. The wide compositional range of this set demonstrates Beethoven’s prowess in creating bucolic, even humorous moments, contrasted with deep intensity, pathos and the truly sublime. Susanna Ogata has been praised for her ”totally convincing, spontaneous and free-flowing playing” (The Berkshire Review) and is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society where she was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the orchestra in 2014. Ian Watson has been described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as ”a conductor of formidable ability”, and by The Times in London as a keyboard performer with ”virtuosic panache and brilliantly articulated playing” and ”a world-class soloist.” He was appointed Associate Conductor of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society in 2016.
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Susanna Ogata, Ian Watson – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 4 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:30 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CORO Connections
Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s acclaimed series on CORO Connections continues with the fourth disc in their exploration of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin. The Opus 12 Sonatas that are explored on this final volume are among the most Mozartian of the sonatas. They are, however, filled with Beethoven’s inimitable voice, from the assertive Sonata No. 1, in the violin’s most brilliant and sonorous key of D major, to the pianistically brilliant No. 3 in E flat with its cascades of triplets and sextuplets. Unmistakably Beethoven!
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Ian Venables – Love Lives Beyond the Tomb (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:39 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Ian Venables studied composition with Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music, London and later with John Joubert, Andrew Downes and John Mayer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His works encompass many genres and he has added significantly to the canon of English art song. Described as ‘Britain’s greatest living composer of art song’ (Musical Opinion) and ‘a song composer as fine as Finzi and Gurney’ (BBC Music Magazine), Ian Venables has written over 80 works in this genre, including nine song-cycles.
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IAN SWEET – Crush Crusher (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:09 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hardly Art
Ian Sweet, aka Jillian Medford, has announced her second album. ‘Crush Crusher’, the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Shapeshifter’, gets a released on October 26 through Hardly Art, home to the likes of Chastity Belt, the Julie Ruin, Protomartyr et al. The lead single, Hiding, starts off intimately with reverb-heavy vocals, before a tidal wave of guitars and percussion takes over. With a solid rhythm in the later verses, it’s a well-balanced song that deserves repeated listens.
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Ian Smith – Last Call (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:34 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stockfisch Records
The newest horse in the stable of Stockfisch Records is already an old hand in the business: Ian Smith, an outstanding guitarist, singer and songwriter, with Scottish roots, from “Keadue Strand” in Donegal / Ireland, as sung in the song of the same name.
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Ian Shaw – The Theory of Joy (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:46 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village
Ian Shaw – jazz singer, songwriter (plus stand-up comedian, radio presenter and producer!) – has returned to working with that classic jazz ensemble, the piano trio. A frequent and accomplished solo performer, for this new recording Ian craved a bit of company, and what company he found… the outstanding pianist Barry Green, distinguished bassist Mick Hutton and ace drummer Dave Ohm, three of the UK’s very finest players.
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Ian Scott, Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Robin White – From Russia: music for clarinet and piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:53 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art
Pure enjoyment is provided by this delightful new recording of popular Russian music arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Robin White. From Rimsky-Korsakov’s Clarinet Concerto – originally scored for military band – to the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet (a staple for arrangers for decades) this is a beautifully played album by one of Britain’s busiest orchestras. An interloper (but a welcome one) from Italy (but of Eastern European style) provides a superb finale. Ian Scott is the principal clarinet of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and has been guest principal with several top London orchestras. He has previously made premiere recordings of Clarinet Concertos for ASV and Dutton. Arranger and conductor Robin White has enjoyed a very busy and varied career; his first recording (1992, Chandos) was very popular and he has made other recordings of light music for several labels. He has managed his own orchestra and choir and appeared, with his choir, in a pivotal episode of the British TV drama series EastEnders. As an arranger of light music, his work has been broadcast by BBC orchestras many times.
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