Jonas Olsson – Skafte: 24 Preludes for Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:57 minutes | 322 MB | Genre: Classical
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The fascination of the Swedish composer Martin Skafte (b. 1980) with the 24 Préludes of Claude Debussy inspired 24 preludes from Skafte himself, with occasional oblique references to Debussy’s originals but using Skafte’s own musical language. Like Debussy, Skafte exploits the colours and sonorities of the piano but also he requires Lisztian virtuosity and pulls in a range of further influences, among them ragtime and Ligeti – and a sly sense of humour can often be detected in the background.
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Jonas Kaufmann – It’s Christmas! (Gold Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:32:32 minutes | 3,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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“It’s Christmas!” is the first Christmas album by the German world star. Jonas Kaufmann has selected his favorite Christmas songs from Germany and around the world and recorded them with fantastic musicians. The German Christmas songs Jonas Kaufmann chose are closely connected with his memories of happy Christmases with his family, that’s why on CD 1 there are not only well-known German Christmas songs like “Leise rieselt der Schnee”, “Alle Jahre wieder …”, “Vom Himmel hoch” or “Tochter Zion” on the album, but also special Bavarian folk tunes like “Es wird scho glei dumpa” and “Im Woid is so staad”. A highlight on the album is certainly the touching “Silent Night”, in which Jonas Kaufmann is accompanied only by a harp. American Christmas songs such as “White Christmas”, “O Holy Night”, “Let it snow” and “Winter Wonderland” are also among Kaufmann’s favorites, because his father often put on the legendary Christmas records by Bing Crosby, Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald after the presents at Christmas. In addition, CD 2 also features particularly beautiful French, English, Italian and Swedish Christmas songs in new arrangements.
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Jon Iverson – Many Worlds Interpretation (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:54 minutes | 357 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
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Many Worlds Interpretation is a collection of cosmic Americana for electronics, guitar, and percussion culled from Jon Iverson’s extensive home-studio archive.
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Johnny Lapio – Schiano Graffiti (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:38 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Schiano Graffiti is one of the winning projects of “Vivere all’Italiana in Musica”, a call launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to represent Italian cultural excellence in the world. The suite composed by trumpeter Johnny Lapio is inspired by the unforgettable figure of the intellectual and saxophonist Mario Schiano.
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Johnny Adams – South Side Of Soul Street: The SSS Sessions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:00 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Soul
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Celebrating Sun Records 70th anniversary, these Johnny Adams tracks have been remixed from the original multitrack tapes for optimal sound quality. The new album tracklist has never been printed on vinyl, inspired by his 1986 South Side of Soul Street. The offering includes his hits “Release Me” and “Reconsider Me” as well as previously unreleased or digitally-unavailable tracks: “Tender Side of Me – Alternate”, “Too Much Pride – Alternate”, and a brand new version of “Give Me A Chance”.
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John Williams – The Fabelmans (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:20 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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The Fabelmans is an American drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. The partly autobiographical work takes up the director’s childhood and accompanies the eponymous Fabelman family from the 1950s from New Jersey to Arizona and finally to California. For the main role of the teenage filmmaker, Gabriel LaBelle was hired, while his parents are embodied by Michelle Williams and Paul Dano. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. On 11. The Fabelmans is scheduled to be released in the US in November 2022 and in German cinemas on January 26, 2023.
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John Patton – Soul Connection (1983/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:19 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Jazz
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One of the most influential and underground Hammond organists of the 1960’s was “Big” John Patton as he was then known. If it was the groove that you wanted Patton was your Man and he made several albums for the legendary Blue Note label, many of which went on to sell for eye watering prices. As his style went out of favor, some of the recordings never saw the light of day until almost 20 years later and at the same time Patton slipped into the background. He resurfaced in the 1980s and went into the studio. Among his albums Soul Connection, originally released in 1983 on Nilva Records has now been re-released on what many consider to be the Re-Issue Label of these times; Jazz Room Records.
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John Coltrane – Coltrane (1962/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:59 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero “Big Nick” Nicholas that Coltrane would record later the same year for his Duke Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The composition “Tunji” was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.
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Johannes Schmidt – Abendlieder beflügelt (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:07 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Classical
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As music director in his church congregation – the Freie evangelische Gemeinde Bonn – Johannes Schmidt organizes church services musically (such as the ZDF television service ) and promotes young up-and-coming musicians and bands.
He shares his concern to make the treasures of timeless melodies and meaningful song texts newly experienceable with his friend, the arranger, composer and pianist Christian Schnarr; for him he co-produced Schnarr’s film-musical project “Holywood” with the German Pops Orchestra in 2018. Actually, the recordings for pianist Johannes Schmidt’s album “Abendlieder beflügelt” were only meant as a nice memory and to help his just-born son Jonathan fall asleep
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Johannes Moser, Andrei Korobeinikov – Martinů: Cello Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 59:49 minutes | 2,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov present Bohuslav Martinů’s complete cello sonatas. These works belong to the most significant twentieth-century repertoire for cello and piano. Reflecting Martinů’s troubled existence, defined by wartime, emigration, longing for the homeland, yet also full of hope and life-affirming energy, the music seems entirely topical in our own troubled times. After their award-winning recording of works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff from 2016, Moser and Korobeinikov demonstrate their congeniality once more, fully realizing the extreme interdependence of cello and piano in these works.
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Johannes Moser – Bollon: The Unborn Grandchildren & The Secret Garden of the Cordania (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:44 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Classical
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This setting of Austrian Expressionist writer Georg Trakl’s poems by composer and conductor Fabrice Bollon is the first ever composition for classical singers and solo electric cello. As a result the work’s striking sonorities open unexpected and fascinating new directions for contemporary music. Evocative imagery and colourful writing for electric cello can also be heard in The Secret Garden of the Cordania – a work dedicated to Bollon’s cellist wife. This is our second release of music by Fabrice Bollon, the first of which included Four Lessons of Darkness which is the first ever concerto for electric cello, also composed together with Johannes Moser. American Record Guide described the recording as “high-octane eclecticism with excellent, committed performances all around”.
Read moreJohannes Koch – Joseph Haydn: Four Baryton Trios (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:34 minutes | 897 MB | Genre: Classical
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Johannes H.E Koch’s compositions include solo, choral, brass and other instrumental music and have been brought out by numerous publishers. Besides smaller pieces aimed at church service practice he also has worked in larger forms such as the oratorios Die Bergrede, Komm Ceist der Hoffnung, der Liebe und des Friedens and Daniel, a St. John Passion, the organ cycle Evocation Catalane or the Sinfonische Episoden for large orchestra. Numerous radio and recording projects as well as the live broadcasts of his “Public Singing” in the Westdeutsche Rundfunk have made Koch known as a composer and church musician well beyond his own area. He also completed the reconstruction of J.S. Bach’s Markus-Passion BWV 247 by Diethard Hellmann, by composing all the recitatives in the spirit of J.S. Bach.
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Johannes Eick – Music for Solo Six-String Double Bass (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Johannes Eick (born 22 April 1964) is a Norwegian bassist (double bass and electric bass guitar), the son of bassist and vibraphonist Jürgen Eick (b. 1937), and the older brother of musicians Trude Eick and Mathias Eick. In his youth he played in the band «Kix», with Elin Rosseland (1982–86), but is most known for cooperations with Karin Krog, John Surman, Vigleik Storaas, Christian Wallumrød, Sidsel Endresen and Hans Mathisen.
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Johanna Rose – 7 Movements: Johanna Rose (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:36 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Movements; three suites each with seven movements. In her intriguing new album, viola da gambist Johanna Rose places a prelude by Sainte-Colombe (father) in front of the six movement Bach suite in D minor and finished the D major Bach suite with a chaconne by Sainte- Colombe. The third ‘suite’ is an all family affair with music by both father and son, fashioned into a suite by Rose.
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