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Maria Reich – INTERDEPENDENZEN (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:29 minutes | 228 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Relative Pitch Records
INTERDEPENDENZEN is a selection of 11 solo improvisations that evolved during Maria Reich’s solo impro research. All pieces are uncut and were recorded in different places over 6 months on an iPhone. The situation, the material becomes audible, the wood, the bow hair, the room, the recording device, the musician. “There is no part of me that is alone….”
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Marek Janowski – d’Indy, Saint-Saëns & Chausson (2011/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:36 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
All the pieces included here are by French composers who lived during the impressionist period. D’Indy’s Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français is a sort of hybrid work, a mixture of a symphony and a piano concerto.
This work enables the highly regarded Martin Helmchen to demonstrate his musical and technical skills once again.
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Luke Stewart Silt Trio – Unknown Rivers (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:28 minutes | 569 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pi Recordings
Unknown Rivers is bassist Luke Stewart’s debut for Pi Recordings. An omnipresent and galvanizing force on the music scene, Stewart is a leader or co-leader of such bands as Irreversible Entanglements, Exposure Quintet, Blacks’ Myths, Heart of the Ghost, and Remembrance Quintet. He is also among the most in-demand collaborators, having performed with the likes of David Murray, Nicole Mitchell, Moor Mother, Jaimie Branch, Nate Wooley, Ken Vandermark and countless others. Stewart is also a curator and presenter of multiple concert series in New York and Washington, D.C., a writer, activist, producer and D.J.
Featuring his long-running Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor sax, and drummers Trae Crudup on four studio tracks and Chad Taylor on three live ones, Unknown Rivers sees the band pushing towards greater emphasis on rhythmic acuity, highlighting the different approaches to the music of the two drummers. Settles – a stalwart of the fertile Washington DC jazz scene – plays with a quiet intensity, possessing a sound that reminds of players from a distant past set against a modernist’s vocabulary. Stewart is the master of a deep, wide groove that cushions and propels, making every musical situation he finds himself in sound good. The Quietus has called the band “gripping… relies on subtlety and insinuation to register its uncanny power.” The Silt Trio is that magical juxtaposition of playing with raw spontaneity while maintaining the music’s intent and purpose.
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London Mozart Players – Kenneth V. Jones: Chamber Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:29 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lyrita
My first encounter with Kenneth V. Jones was in 2016 when our family moved to the village of Bishopstone in the Sussex Downs. Over the course of several months I was able to learn more of Kenneth’s musical life. As soon as he mentioned having once written a string quartet, it was decided to programme the work during the following Season of Seaford Music Society, of which Kenneth was a long-standing member and whose programming I had recently taken on. Such was the warmth of the reception upon hearing the work that it was decided to explore more of Kenneth’s chamber music output, and thus the idea for this CD was born. We have Kenneth to thank for the fact the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music made the decision, at his suggestion, to include contemporary compositions in their graded examination syllabuses. Several of the short character pieces that Kenneth wrote for the ABRSM remain in the syllabus to this day, and a selection of these is included on this recording. It gave me huge pleasure to be able to present to Kenneth the first edit of the current CD, just a few days before his death in December 2020. He was absolutely thrilled.
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Lawrence Foster – Salieri: Requiem in C Minor – Beethoven: Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt – Schubert: Intende voci (2010/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:16 minutes | 995 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
The Salieri Requiem is a forgotten work which Salieri composed for his own funeral ceremony 20 years before he actually died. This is a world premiere recording. Beethoven and Schubert were students of Salieri and were present at his funeral where the Requiem was first performed.
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Jordi Savall – Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:56:12 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alia Vox
For this new recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Jordi Savall conducts an all-female orchestra, as Vivaldi did in his time at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. The soloist Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin currently living in Salzburg, Austria. She is a multi-instrumentalist, parti- cularly in the field of folk music, playing violin, folk fiddle, kyl- kobiz, ghizzhak and similar instruments. She studied Baroque violin with Enrico Onofri (Palermo Conservatory) and Hiro Kurosaki (Mozarteum University), focusing on historically in- formed performance practices in the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoires. Such a profile made her the ideal candidate for a collaboration with Jordi Savall. She plays a Francesco Ruggeri violin, built in 1680 in Cremona, Italy. This double album sold at the price of a single new release of- fers the recording of the Four Seasons with and without the son- nets written by Vivaldi and four others concerti by Vivaldi. The version with read text sheds a particularly revealing light on Vivaldi’s work.
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Jean Doyen – Ravel: Complete Piano Works & Piano Concertos by Jean Doyen (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:14 minutes | 2,58 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Jean Doyen was a French classical pianist, pedagogue and composer. Doyen is best known for his interpretations of 19th and 20th century French music, notably in the works of Gabriel Pierné, Reynaldo Hahn and Vincent d’Indy and is considered one of the great interpreters of this repertoire and above all, of Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré. He also enjoyed playing Vincent d’Indy’s Fantaisie sur un vieil air de ronde française and Samazeuilh’s Trois Danses. However, he recorded Chopin’s waltzes, and premiered the Variations sur un thème de Don Juan.
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J. Pavone String Ensemble – Reverse Bloom (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:01 minutes | 407 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Astral Spirits
On the evening of July 13th, 2023, I trekked up to Arnold Hall for a very special performance at The Stone. I sat in the front row and took out my notebook then turned to my right and looked around the space. The dimly lit room buzzed with quiet activity and conversation. After a few more minutes, the lights went even lower and out walked three shadowy figures. Each clicked on a small bulb that lit their individual music stands.
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Stoned Jesus – Seven Thunders Roar (Anniversary Deluxe Version) (2012/2014/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:58 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Stoner Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Season of Mist
STONED JESUS hails from Kiev, Ukraine, and they are doubtlessly the biggest band to emerge on Eastern Europe’s stoner/psychedelic/doom scene recently. Started in 2009 by guitarist/vocalist Igor as his solo project, they toured Russia and Ukraine early 2010, releasing their highly-anticipated debut “”First Communion”” on the legendary Solitude Prod label few months later. 2011 saw them changing direction on “”Stormy Monday”” EP with more shows followed, confirming their reputation as one of the most spectacular bands to experience live. Recorded late 2011 in Moscow and Kiev, STONED JESUS’ second full-length “”Seven Thunders Roar”” showed their constant desire to reach beyond and push forward. Less doom and more psychedelic, it peaks with 13-min long “”I’m The Mountain”” epic, the most progressive and ambitious track from the band so far.
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Stefano Di Battista – La dolce vita (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:21 minutes | 537 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Music Central Europe
Even when music is notated relatively precisely, as in music, a performer must make many decisions because the notation does not specify all elements of the music. The process of deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is called “interpretation”. Interpretations of the same piece of music by different performers can be very different in terms of the tempos chosen, the style of playing or singing, or the phrasing of the melodies. Composers and songwriters who perform their own music interpret their songs in the same way as those who perform the music of others. The standard choices and techniques available at a particular time and place are referred to as performance practice, while interpretation generally refers to the individual choices of a performer.
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Roberto Prosseda – Mozart: Late Piano Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:32 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.
After the monumental integral dedicated to Mendelssohn, Roberto Prosseda concludes the complete cycle of Mozart’s solo piano works with non-equal tuning. Another great project that has received critical acclaim since the first album (Sonatas n. 1-6) released in April 2016.
Also for Late Piano Works Prosseda chose to record on a Fazioli F278 piano, at the Fazioli Concert Hall, tuned with the Vallotti temperament: a non-equal system, very widespread in Mozart’s time, which emphasizes the expressive differences between the keys. This particular tuning, very rarely used in the modern piano, makes Prosseda’s recording unique in Mozart’s piano discography.
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RIOPY – Meditation 333 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:54 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Meditation 333 is RIOPY’s latest meditation-themed album, continuing his series of piano music designed for healing and peace. The master composer-pianist delivers 3 meticulously crafted piano tracks – part music, part audio-tools – to guide listeners through a deep personal meditation.
The three tracks: Meditation 3, Twilight Meditation, and Meditation 33 are bound by a single repetitive structure, whilst each track’s harmonies and melodies develop and build throughout the album.
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Richard Anthony Jay – Solo Piano I (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:12 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Burning Petals Records
The release of my first compilation album, consisting of brand new recordings of my most popular solo piano tracks from the last 15 years. There are 17 tracks, including “Everything’s Going to be Fine” and “Swan”, clocking in at almost 50 minutes of music.
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Rachel Chinouriri – What A Devastating Turn of Events (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:30 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
Alternative indie pop artist Rachel Chinouriri announces her long-awaited debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events, out Friday 3rd May 2024 via Parlophone/Atlas Artists. ‘What A Devastating Turn Of Events’ is a culmination of the experiences, challenges and joys of Chinouriri’s life so far, explored through the prism of musical stylings honed through years of experimentation and creation. Ever-eclectic and brutally honest, the album traverses life’s light and shade, the writing and sharing a healing process for Rachel, and she hopes, her listeners.
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Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens – Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:21 minutes | 499 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
The second disc on Challenge Classics by duo Scholtes-Janssens presents one of the milestones of the European minimalism: Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt.
Canto Ostinato was premiered in 1979. It is a piece that creates has several themes and implications: a different form of concert; a social process arising from the freedom that the players have to decide on the number of repetitions; the question of and time and space.
In 1963, the composer wrote in his diary that he had it in mind that a concert should be an ongoing performance, with visitors wandering in and out at will. Ten Holt was also fascinated by social processes during these highly formative years. He became interested in time and space. This theme manifested itself in a piece for four keyboards, at the time still entitled Perpetuum. He embarked on this on 19 January 1973. Perpetuum was completed in 1976 but was revised in the period 1976-79 and was then renamed Canto Ostinato. During rehearsals for the premiere, in April 1979, all of the themes that had been occupying Ten Holt seemed to coalesce: small elements that together made up a larger whole; a different form of concert; social processes arising from the freedom that the players had to decide on the number of repetitions; and time and space. Ten Holt never consciously went searching for this form, but when Canto Ostinato began to conquer the musical world it became clear that his solitary quest had drawn something universal from the mists, something that many listeners and musicians would recognise.
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