Gilad Hekselman – Ask for Chaos (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:11 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Gilad Hekselman’s passionate artistry and complexity are at the forefront of his new album ASK FOR CHAOS. Named Rising Star guitarist in 2017 by DownBeat Magazine, on his sixth album he combines his melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic expertise, bringing together his two touring bands – his acoustic-based gHex Trio, and his electric-leaning ZuperOctave. The result is his most compelling and innovative sound to date.
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Gil Shaham, Eric Jacobsen & The Knights – Beethoven, Brahms: Violin Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:57 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Violinist Gil Shaham partners with The Knights, a Brooklyn-based ensemble conducted by Eric Jacobsen, for his first recording of the Beethoven violin concerto. Shaham was captivated growing up listening to David Oistrakh’s recording of the Beethoven over and over again, and it continues to inspire awe in him. Despite the 1000’s of times he played the Beethoven live in concert, the whole emotional journey is as fresh here on this recording as if he was playing it for the first time. In his own words “If there is ever music which changes and effects the soul, this is it.” This is arguably the most anticipated addition to his recorded oeuvre. The Brahms concerto was one of the last recordings Shaham made as a DG artist, a much lauded live performance with Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Gil Shaham – 1930s Violin Concertos, Vol. 1 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:05:09 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
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The 1930s was an incredibly rich decade for the violin concerto, thriving on what was the uncertainty of the age. Over 30 violin concertos materialized across the decade with well over a dozen, from Stravinskyand Berg’s through to Barber’s and Britten’s concertos all commanding iconic status within the violinist’s repertory.
Gil Shaham is the leading violinist of his generation. He was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, Gil was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, citing his “special kind of humanism”. Combine this “humanism” with a flawless technique and his generosity of spirit, and the musical results are nothing short of inspired.
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Gil Evans Orchestra – New Bottle, Old Wine (1958/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:31 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
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New Bottle Old Wine is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans recorded in 1958 by Evans with an orchestra. The album is a suite of songs written by and/or associated with major jazz musicians and composers, in original arrangements by Gil Evans (conceptually similar to several albums Evans made with Miles Davis, including Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain). Cannonball Adderley (Davis’ alto saxophone player at the time) is featured as the main soloist. The orchestra also featured a number of important players including Bill Barber, Frank Rehak, Johnny Coles, Art Blakey, and Paul Chambers (Davis’ bassist at the time).
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Gil Evans – New Bottle Old Wine – The Great Jazz Composers Interpreted by Gil Evans and his Orchestra (1988/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:14 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This is a neglected masterpiece, otherwise available only as on out of print Blue Note CD. The lack of a listing in the Penguin Guide reflects this state of neglect, which afflicts jazz records in general. This 1958 recording was Evans’ second release as a leader, and it proved that he could fly solo. The session consists of classic jazz standards
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Gidon Kremer, Nicolas Altstaedt – Sofia Gubaidulina: Canticle of the Sun (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:18 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Two major works by Sofia Gubaidulina comprise this album: “The Lyre of Orpheus” (composed in 2006), for violin, percussion and string orchestra, and “The Canticle of the Sun” (1997, rev. 1998), for violoncello, chamber choir, percussion and celesta. Both pieces were recorded at the Lockenhaus Festival in, respectively, 2006 and 2010.
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Gidon Kremer, London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado- Vivaldi: Four Seasons (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:35 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Classical
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Of all the world-renowned violinists born in the decade after World War II—an exclusive club that includes Pinchas Zukerman, Pierre Amoyal, and Kyung Wha Chung—Gidon Kremer has taken the least- expected path to lasting fame. Today he is best known as a passionate champion and performer of modern music, the founder of an iconoclastic chamber orchestra in his native Latvia, and a public critic of the glitzy marketing of classical music.
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Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica – New Seasons (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:43 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gidon Kremer returns to the Yellow label after more than a decade with the brand new reference recording of Philip Glass Second Violin Concerto The American Seasons. The album also features works of Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli two composers both closely associated with Gidon Kremer, and who are both set to celebrate milestone 80th birthdays this year. Gidon has added the short piece by the well-known Japanese film composer Shigeru Umebayashi as a tribute to his Japanese friends.
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Gidon Kremer, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Leonard Bernstein – Bernstein: Serenade, Fancy Free (Live) (1979/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:25 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Among the world’s leading violinists, Gidon Kremer has perhaps pursued the most unconventional career. He was born on 27 February 1947 in Riga, Latvia, and began studying at the age of four with his father and grandfather, both distinguished string players. At the age of seven, he enrolled as a student at Riga Music School where he made rapid progress, and at sixteen he was awarded the First Prize of the Latvian Republic. Two years later he began his studies with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. Gidon Kremer went on to win a series of prestigious awards, including prizes in the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and 1969 Montreal International Music Competition and first prize in both the 1969 Paganini and 1970 Tchaikovsky International Competitions.
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Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Yulianna Avdeeva – Weinberg: Chamber Music (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:47 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of the Weinberg Symphonies 2 & 21 with conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Deutsche Grammophon now features chamber music by Mieczysław Weinberg under the direction of Gidon Kremer.
Included among others are his “Three Pieces for Violin and Piano”, which Weinberg completed in the winter of 1934/35 when he was only 15 years old and had not yet received any compositional training.
What connects Weinberg’s works is not only their compositional perfection, but above all their constant commitment to beauty. It is a confession that in Weinberg’s music is above all pain and suffering.
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Gidon Kremer – Weinberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 67 & Sonata for 2 Violins, Op. 69 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:02 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Accentus Music
With 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 9 concertos, and 7 operas, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg left behind an extensive oeuvre. Musically, one can hear the composer’s close friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich, although Weinberg’s music is more lyrical and romantic in nature. Nevertheless, the composer was long forgotten and his music has only been rediscovered in the last ten years. Gidon Kremer has dedicated himself to the rediscovery and cultivation of Weinberg’s music. In February 2020, he performed Weinberg’s Violin Concerto op. 67 with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti as part of a series of concerts in honor of the composer’s 100th birthday at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Weinberg completed the concerto in 1959, the culmination of one of his most creative and successful phases of the 1950s. The work captivates with its large symphonic structure and its four movements, which are rather atypical for a concerto. Also in 1959, Weinberg composed the Sonata for Two Violins op. 69, which Kremer recorded with the Latvian violinist Madara Petersone, concert master of the Kremerata Baltica.
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Gidon Kremer – Beethoven & Chopin: Piano Trios (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Given that a concerto is usually a sure attention-grabber, it’s been notable how thin on the ground new recordings of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano have been during this big birthday year of his; at least in comparison to the flurry of new Violin Concertos that have appeared. Confirmation, perhaps, that for many it’s a rather problematic work, despite its big-boned drama, sense of fun, and indeed the theoretical attraction of uniting not one but three A-lister soloists. But now here are Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite and Georgijs Osokins with Carl Reinecke 1867 piano trio arrangement of it, recorded in the warmly supportive acoustic of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Concert Hall in Katowice.
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Giant Rooks – ROOKERY (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:09 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IRRSINN Tonträger
Five years after their first EP, Giant Rooks will release their long-awaited debut “ROOKERY” on August 28th, 2020. To complete their perfect debut, they will perform their album live on release day and share it with the whole world via zart.tv. For this world premiere, the band will create their own space where reality mixes with augmented reality to give the audience a new experience as close as possible to a real concert. The recording of the show with several high-quality cameras will have extended live features from the „ROOKERY” universe.
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Gianni Savelli Media Res – Que la Fête Commence (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:38 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alfa Music
La Gianni Savelli Media Res Ensemble trae la sua ispirazione da fonti così numerose e diverse tra loro che realmente si muove al di là di qualsiasi etichetta e categorizzazione. La loro combinazione di musica ampiamente scritta e di improvvisazione, intesa come fulcro della composizione, è assolutamente unica in un ensemble piccolo come questo. Formata da Gianni Savelli (sax tenore e soprano, flauto, flauto contralto e traversiere), Aldo Bassi (tromba, filicorno), Pierpaolo Principato (pianoforte), Luca Pirozzi (contrabbasso) e Marco Rovinelli (batteria e percussioni), l’ensemble propone una sua originalissima lettura dell’universo del jazz contemporaneo. Filtrata attraverso i suoni e ritmi di varie culture lontane fuse con le armonie jazz ed europee, la musica della Gianni Savelli Media Res Ensemble emerge come qualcosa di completamente originale e suggestivo che conduce l’ascoltatore in un viaggio immaginifico. Da questa volontà di abbattere confini e limiti nasce “Que la Fete Commence”.
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Gianmarco Scaglia & Paul Wertico Quartet – Dynamics in Meditation (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:10 minutes | 969 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records
“I think that music, in most cases, “speaks” much better than the words. This album reflects exactly my personality and my approach to life and to music itself. I am grateful to the musicians, to Paul, Simone and Mirko who shared this vision with me. A special mention to Stefano Amerio (Artesuono) for his precious professionalism.”
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