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Holger Skepeneit – Holger Skepeneit: Music for Piano & Strings (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:57 minutes | 484 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Willowhayne Records
The compositions on this album have been described as emotional and alluring, classical yet contemporary and with a certain cinematic quality. The sense of storytelling is all-pervasive and flowing piano textures, lush string writing and lyrical melodic lines alternate with moments of solitude and contemplation.
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Øystein Wingaard Wolf – Midtpunkt i verden (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:26 minutes | 337 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Barth Records
Øystein Wingaard Wolf (born 17 April 1958) is a Norwegian poet and author, living and working in Oslo.Since his debut in 1980 (Morderleken), he has published numerous books of poetry, as well as three music albums. He was awarded the Mads Wiel Nygaards Endowment in 1986.
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Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal – Miles Smiles | Wayne Shines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:57 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal
Captured in concert on September 14, 2019, under the direction and arrangements of Jean-Nicolas Trottier, theOrchestre National de Jazz de Montréal paid tribute to the legendary quintet formed by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, as well as to the sublime moments that these virtuosos were able to create between 1965 and 1968, particularly engraved on the mythical albums that are ESP, Miles Smiles and Nefertiti. At the head of this quintet, invigorated by the drums of the very young Williams, Davis and his collaborators gradually broke away from established formats to create a new music, exciting in its coherence and freedom.
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Orchestre Consuelo, Victor Julien-Laferrière – Brahms: Sérénades (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:58 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
Der Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière gründete 2019 L’Orchestre des Amis de Brahms. Der Name änderte sich bald in Orchestre Consuelo nach einer Romanfigur der Chopin-Gefährtin George Sand.
Mit ihrer Debüt-Aufnahme kehren die Musiker nun zum ersten Namensgeber zurück. Johannes Brahms’ Serenaden werfen einen sehnsüchtigen Blick in die musikalische Vergangenheit. Der kaum 25-jährige Komponist war nach seinem märchenhaften Aufstieg zur europäischen Zelebrität in eine schwere künstlerische Krise geraten. Nachdem er mit dem d-Moll-Klavierkonzert vor dem Publikum gescheitert war, tauchte er mit den Serenaden in die stilistische Welt Mozarts, Haydns und Beethovens ein.
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Orchestra of the Munich State Opera – Wagner: Orchestral Works (Remastered 2023) [Live] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:36:23 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
The Bavarian State Orchestra is one of the most traditional orchestras in Germany and one of the best orchestras in the world today. It has been voted Orchestra of the Year for the tenth time by 50 international critics in surveys conducted by the magazine “Opernwelt”.
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Olivier Temime – Inner Songs (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Day After Music
Is it possible to mix John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, Oxmo Puccino and Duke Ellington? With Inner Songs, Olivier Temime proves it and makes himself the heir of a cosmopolitan Jazz, nourished by the upheavals of his time, by essence mixed and powerful.
Whether it is arranging and improvising on a speech by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, harmonizing the singing of a blackbird or starting from a lullaby tune to the solemn expressiveness of a bugle solo, Temime composes a very melodic, emotional music and also based on the interaction with the members of this new formation, a mixture of young shoots and great wines.
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Norichika Iimori – 〈Haydn:Symphonies Vol. 18〉No. 3, No. 15 & No. 5 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EXTON
A big project with the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra and the chief conductor Norao Iimori! High Quality Hide Symphony Collection Vol. 15.
The “Hidon Marathon” was started by the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra with the chief conductor Norao Iimori is a major project to play all the symphonies of Franz Joseph Hynn. The product is a live record of the 16th concert.
Iimori and the Japanese Century-Hibari, which has built a reliable relationship through multiple performances, plays an elegant Hindon with fine construction and a sense of attention to detail. The soft and sunny and graceful play is exactly what they are true to their heart.
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Nora Kamm – One (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:16 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DUYA music
Born in Frankfurt, Nora Kamm operates in the border area between jazz, afro and fusion. Kamm began playing the flute at the age of twelve, discovered the saxophone five years later and studied jazz at the Lyon Conservatory. She released two albums with the band Dreisam and played with musicians such as Michel Benita, Manu Dibango, Andy Sheppard, Cheick Tidiane Seck and Erik Truffaz. After moving to Paris in 2018, she intensified her interest in East African sounds and rhythms.
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Nicolò Ricci – Bellissima (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:27 minutes | 1022 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ZenneZ Records
Nicolò Ricci’s trio was formed in Amsterdam, where the Milanese saxophonist currently resides, and consists of young musicians already active on the European scene. The group’s main characteristics are interplay and total communion of intentions: musically, a nostalgic look at the most creative expressions of jazz from the past is combined with the curiosity to explore the boundaries between genres. The result is a colourful mix of original music made up of unconventional forms, including elaborations of classically derived harmonies, melodies that often draw inspiration from Italian songs and more.
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New Order – Low-Life (Definitive) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:17 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Pop Rock, Punk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © WM UK
Many people consider it the best album New Order ever made, with its various changing moods and songs. Together with the album “Technique” it will be included in the “1001 albums you must have heard before you die” books.
It reached position seven in the UK album charts, but surprisingly failed to place in Germany.
Both the vinyl album and CD are packaged in the original tracing paper sleeve – unavailable since the very first pressing, and the first time ever for the CD.
CD 2 contains 12 previously unreleased mixes and alternate versions, including the instrumentals Love Vigilantes and Sub-Culture, as well as Sooner Than You Think in full and unabridged.
The two DVDs include rarely seen live performances from the Rotterdam Arena (Netherlands), Koseinenkin Hall (Tokyo, Japan) and the International Centre (Toronto, Canada), as well as a BBC session and three tracks recorded at the Hacienda in 1985
The set also includes a beautifully designed hardback book with rare photos and a new interview with the band.
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Mono Inc. – Ravenblack (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:40:24 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nocut
»Ravenblack« – das sehnsüchtig erwartete 12. Studioalbum der Dark-Rocker markiert einen weiteren Meilenstein in der Bandhistorie.
Nachdem der Vorgänger den Hamburgern nach bereits sechs Top Ten-Platzierungen erstmals den Nummer-1-Erfolg bescherte, folgt nunmehr ein Album, das seines Gleichen sucht. »Ravenblack« fokussiert sich auf den Kern von Mono Inc. und ist ein treibendes Album mit insgesamt 11 Titeln, garniert mit knackigen Metal-Riffs, hymnenhaften Melodiebögen und tiefen, Mono Inc.-typischen Lyrics – auf Wunsch der Raven Community endlich auch wieder mit zwei deutschen Titeln.
Ein Album, das absolute Evergreen-Qualitäten mitbringt, so hätte doch jeder Song für sich das Potential, als Single ausgekoppelt zu werden. Das ist wahrscheinlich einer von sehr wenigen positiven Effekten, den die Pandemie mit sich gebracht hat, denn durch die dringend benötigte (Zwangs-) Pause und die fulminante Europa-Tour mit über 30 Shows und über 40.000 hungrigen Fans im Frühjahr des Jahres sprudelten die Ideen aus Sänger und Mastermind Martin Engler jetzt nur so heraus.
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Miriam Altmann – Dussek: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:10 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was a cosmopolitan piano virtuoso who studied with C.P.E. Bach, lived and performed in one European capital after another in a tumultuous progress across the continent, and wrote huge quantities of eclectic music which has largely been forgotten. Dussek’s music for his own instrument may now be much better known than half a century ago – not least thanks to the first period-instrument edition of his piano sonatas, produced by Brilliant Classics – but he wrote almost 80 violin sonatas which also deserve revival as the product of a fluent and always inventive mind working on the cusp of eras we now identify as Classicism and Romanticism. The three sonatas gathered here as Dussek’s Opus 1 were published around 1780. Each of them is cast in two movements: a lively Allegro in sonata form, followed by a Rondo or (in No.1) a set of variations, gentle and even meditative in character, in which Dussek’s originality shines through the occasional, recitative-like episodes. The six sonatas of Op.28 belong to the genre of ‘accompanied piano sonatas’ in which the musical substance is conceived principally for the keyboard instrument, with an obbligato melody instrument (such as the violin or flute) adding or doubling a top line if convenient. By the time he wrote them in 1795, Dussek had been a celebrity of London musical life for six years, having fled revolutionary Paris in a hurry. The dedication to ‘Miss Shaw’ refers to one of the daughters of the composer Thomas Shaw, and one may imagine the father on the violin accompanying and encouraging his daughter on the piano in Dussek’s vivid evocations of rural life and the lively march of a tin-soldier regiment. Dussek’s sonatas are played here in new recordings by the German duo of Julia Huber and Miriam Altmann in polished and historically informed performances, using an authentic 1780 fortepiano. Huber has worked with German period-instrument ensembles such as L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, La Stagione Frankfurt and the Collegium Cartusianum in Cologne.
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Mike Dillon – Inflorescence (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:25 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Funk, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Royal Potato Family
Mike Dillon & Punkadelick makes its recorded debut with Inflorescence, an album of heady, instrumental rock highlighting a band deep in the throes of creative freedom, road tested and wild. Consisting of 10 tracks in 42-minutes, it’s an expansive, focused and fearless collection, representing a world where Duke Ellington and Augustus Pablo rub shoulders with crate-digger exotica, the freak-funk of Parliament and the ‘anything fits’ outsider ethos of acid-fried punks like The Meat Puppets.
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Michel Corboz – Bach: Ode funèbre, BWV 198 & Cantates, BWV 11 “Oratorio de l’Ascension” & 187 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:32:08 minutes | 3,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Michel Corboz besuchte zuerst in Freiburg (Schweiz) das Lehrerseminar bei Pierre Kaelin und studierte dann am dortigen Konservatorium KF Gesang bei Juliette Bise und Musiktheorie bei Aloÿs Fornerod sowie am Institut Ribaupierre in Lausanne Komposition bei Pierre Chatton. 1961 gründete er das Ensemble vocal et instrumental de Lausanne, dessen Leiter er auch war und mit welchem er zahlreiche Konzerte im In- und Ausland gegeben sowie Plattenaufnahmen gemacht hat. Als Dirigent dieser Formation gelang ihm mit Einspielungen der Marienvesper und des Orfeo von Claudio Monteverdi 1965 und 1966 der internationale Durchbruch. Ab 1969 leitete er zusätzlich als Chefdirigent den Chor des Gulbenkian-Orchesters in Lissabon.
Von 1976 bis 2004 lehrte er Chorleitung am Genfer Konservatorium.
Sein Repertoire reichte von Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms über Verdi, Puccini, Fauré, Duruflé bis zu Frank Martin und Arthur Honegger. Mit seinen Ensembles in Lausanne und Lissabon, die er bis 2019 leitete,hinterließ Corboz über 100 Einspielungen, vor allem auf dem Label Erato. Im Juni 2021 gab er ein Abschiedskonzert in Genf.Er starb am 2. September 2021
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Max Barros – Guarnieri: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:49 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Considered the most important Brazilian composer next to Villa-Lobos, Camargo Guarnieri had an inestimable impact on the musical life of his country, with a body of piano music that represents the composer’s most distinctive stylistic features. Guarnieri was a consummate improviser and many of his piano works reflect a sense of ease and intimacy, giving the impression that they were composed in a flash of instantaneous inspiration. This is particularly true of the ‘character pieces’ in this volume, from the autobiographical Improvisos and Momentos, to the intimate nostalgia of the Valsas. Volume 1 of this edition can be heard on Naxos 8.572626–27.
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