Alaide Costa – Joia Moderna (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alaide Costa – Joia Moderna (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:12 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

A artista iniciou formalmente a sua vida profissional em 1955, ao assinar contrato de crooner com a casa noturna carioca Dancing Avenida, gravando no ano seguinte o primeiro dos mais de 20 discos de uma carreira que ultrapassa seis décadas. Nesta trajetória, participa da história da Música Popular Brasileira figurando entre os precursores da Bossa Nova; compondo com grandes nomes como Vinicius de Moraes, Johnny Alf e Antônio Carlos Jobim, gravando com integrantes do legendário Clube da Esquina; e imprimindo sua singularidade no cenário musical. Com voz suave e segura, pode ser considerada uma estilista da MPB e uma de suas maiores intérpretes, dona de um timbre personalíssimo, afinação sem deslizes e um repertório de extremo bom gosto.
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Alaide Costa – Canta Suavemente (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alaide Costa – Canta Suavemente (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:40 minutes | 552 MB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

The artist formally began her professional life in 1955, when she signed a crooner contract with the Rio nightclub Dancing Avenida, recording the following year the first of more than 20 albums in a career that exceeds six decades. In this trajectory, he participates in the history of Brazilian Popular music, appearing among the precursors of Bossa Nova; composing with great names such as Vinicius de Moraes, Johnny Alf and Antônio Carlos Jobim, recording with members of the legendary Clube da Esquina; and imprinting his uniqueness on the musical scene. With a soft and secure voice, she can be considered a stylist of MPB and one of its greatest interpreters, owner of a very personal timbre, tuning without slips and a repertoire of extreme good taste.
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Alaide Costa – Afinal…… (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Alaide Costa – Afinal…… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:58 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: World, Latin Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

A artista iniciou formalmente a sua vida profissional em 1955, ao assinar contrato de crooner com a casa noturna carioca Dancing Avenida, gravando no ano seguinte o primeiro dos mais de 20 discos de uma carreira que ultrapassa seis décadas. Nesta trajetória, participa da história da Música Popular Brasileira figurando entre os precursores da Bossa Nova; compondo com grandes nomes como Vinicius de Moraes, Johnny Alf e Antônio Carlos Jobim, gravando com integrantes do legendário Clube da Esquina; e imprimindo sua singularidade no cenário musical. Com voz suave e segura, pode ser considerada uma estilista da MPB e uma de suas maiores intérpretes, dona de um timbre personalíssimo, afinação sem deslizes e um repertório de extremo bom gosto.
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Aidan Mikdad – The Scriabin Ravel Connection: Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Aidan Mikdad – The Scriabin Ravel Connection: Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:17 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records

Pianist Aidan Mikdad contributes an interesting pairing to the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series. Scriabin and Ravel share some notable characteristics: both drew inspiration from poetry and both expanded the sonic and tonal possibilities of the piano. As such, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit has the characteristics of an orchestral transcription; Scriabin’s Prélude and Nocturne for the left hand gives the false impression of two busy hands; and his almost Impressionistic second sonata takes its inspiration from nature, akin to the French master. Aidan Mikdad is one of the exceptional artists, including Liam Bonthrone, Junyan Chen, Edvard Pogossian and Charlie Lovell-Jones, who are the recipients of the Academy’s Bicentenary Scholarships scheme for 2021/22.
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Ahmed Abdul Malik – Oud Vibrations (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Ahmed Abdul Malik – Oud Vibrations (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:39 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Reissue of two influential east-meets-west album experiments with oud and modal jazz dating to the late ’50s. Remastered from original tapes and accompanied by liner notes from MOJO’s Dave Henderson. Includes some really dope and psychedelic oud excursions** “Oud Vibrations brings together two complete albums from the late 1950s, which sit at the meeting point of eastern and western cultures, instruments and styles. Featuring Ahmed Abdul-Malik’s super rare ‘East Meets West’, (an evocative tapestry of structured raga-styled music set off against some classic jazz horn breaks) and the rare debut album ‘Come With Me To The Casbah’ from Charles ‘Chick’ Ganimian (a hybrid of Armenian and American cultures that touched on rock ‘n’ roll with the single ‘Daddy Lolo’ as Ganim And The Asia Minors, which was a minor US radio hit.) These vintage buried treasures from two unsung heroes of jazz create an intriguing set of sounds that should appeal to lovers of space age pop and exotica as well as jazz enthusiasts and fans of Yusef Lateef, Paul Horn, Alice Coltrane and Terry Riley. Cross-cultural unions and collisions of musical instruments always bring about intriguing other worldly ambiences. The oud’s distinctive sound, and its traditional swirling, percussive backdrop was a malleable commodity that dovetailed neatly into Jazz music and early rock ‘n’ roll. It sounded truly different when it was introduced to tackle old standards.
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Agata Igras-Sawicka, Mariusz Rutkowski – Szymanowski: Transcriptions for Flute & Piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Agata Igras-Sawicka, Mariusz Rutkowski – Szymanowski: Transcriptions for Flute & Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:38 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © DUX

This album is a perfect gift for all music lovers who adore Karol Szymanowski’s output. The second most prominent Polish composer after Chopin became known as a creator who would break patterns, look for new sounds and incorporate Polish music into the European trend. At the same time, like no one else, he was able to extract unique values from it, coming from the most interesting and best-preserved ethnographic regions – Podhale and Kurpie. In Szymanowski’s music, the raw beauty of the material drawn from folk music coherently combines with modern and uncompromising solutions of formal compositional art.
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Adriano Falcioni – J.S. Bach in Himmerod Abbey (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Adriano Falcioni – J.S. Bach in Himmerod Abbey (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:20 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

In 1731, Johann Sebastian Bach was commissioned to write a cantata to mark the inauguration of the new town council in Leipzig. The resulting piece, Wir danken dir, Gott begins with a Sinfonia, based on a transcription for organ and orchestra of the prelude from Bach’s own Partita No.3 in E major for solo violin BWV 1006. Marcel Dupré’s highly virtuosic organ arrangement of the work removes the orchestra and adds a pedal line, giving all the various parts to the solo organ.
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Accademia Vocale di Genova – Michael Haydn: Pro Festo Innocentium Masses & Vesper (1996/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Accademia Vocale di Genova – Michael Haydn: Pro Festo Innocentium Masses & Vesper (1996/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:50 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

From 1763 until his death in 1806, Johann Michael Haydn worked in the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg – almost as long a period of service as that of his brother Joseph to the princely family in Esterhazy. During the course of those 43 years, he bridged the stylistic gap between early Classicism and the Biedermeier style. Indeed, he was initially regarded by contemporaries as equal in talent to Joseph. Only the older brother’s steep rise to become the most important instrumental composer of his day somewhat overshadowed Johann Michael Haydn. In recent years his music has been rediscovered, and he has increasingly been recognized again.
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Accademia Ottoboni – Light and Darkness – C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Accademia Ottoboni – Light and Darkness – C.P.E. Bach: Flute Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Arcana

Manuel Granatiero presents his first solo album, following several successful concerto recordings with Amandine Beyer’s Gli Incogniti and Accademia Ottoboni, of which he is a founding member. Here, Manuel is joined by Yu Yashima and Marco Ceccato, as he turns his attention to the flute music of C.P.E. Bach. The outcome of this project is ‘Light and Darkness’, five sonatas chosen from the substantial oeuvre that the composer dedicated to this instrument. In addition to the famous sonata for solo flute, the programme includes two sonatas with harpsichord obbligato and two sonatas with basso continuo. Demonstrating a wealth of stylistic and writing variety, they represent the entirety of the period in which Bach composed his surviving flute sonatas: BWV1020 written in his youth at his father’s house in Leipzig, Wq124 written during his early years of study in Frankfurt, Wq128 and Wq132 during his service at the court of Frederick II, and Wq83 during his mature years in Hamburg. This is therefore a miniature exploration of the universe of the ‘Berlin Bach’ through some of his most intimate works that encourage us to experience the most diverse human emotions, from the darkest to the brightest ones.
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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:40:46 minutes | 2,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Hdb Sonus

The vigour and richness of the Concerto grossi, Op. 6, which Handel based on Corelli’s model, seems to have dictated this full-bodied and highly structured performance by the Accademia Bizantina (directed by Ottavio Dantone). Their vision isn’t some long, quiet road; rather, the listener is taken on a journey, discovering varied landscapes as they travel an often arid and meandering path.
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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:39 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Hdb Sonus

First of all, we can see that the form of the “Concerto Grosso” is almost absent in this collection, with a succession of movements more often reminiscent of the Dance Suite, the Overture or even the Concerto for several instruments. The featured soloists range from Violins, Cellos, Oboes, Bassoons, Flutes and even the Organ. But what most disconcerts and bewilders the scholar is the compositional technique.
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Abigail Fenna – Romance for Viola and Piano (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Abigail Fenna – Romance for Viola and Piano (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 07:13 minutes | 275 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

The album also features the Romance for viola and piano. Tthe ever popular The Lark Ascending in the original 1914 version for solo violin and piano; and the early but ambitious Piano Quintet of 1904, which was embargoed untill as late as the 1990s and scored for the same combination of instruments as Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet.
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Abe Rábade – Botánica (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Abe Rábade – Botánica (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:24 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Karonte

“Botánica” is Abe Rábade’s new album. 14 original compositions dedicated to the native vegetation of Galicia make up a field of vision open to the world that merges the rural with the urban.

The musical writing and piano of Abe Rábade meet the voice and traditional Galician percussion of one of today’s most prestigious figures: Davide Salvado.

Daniel Juárez on tenor sax, Virxilio da Silva on guitar, Ton Risco on vibraphone, Jimena Andión on cello, Pablo Martín Caminero on double bass and Naíma Acuña on drums complete a heterogeneous artistic group, based on the integration of various musical aesthetics and on nonjudgmental exploration.
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††† (Crosses) – PERMANENT.RADIANT (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

††† (Crosses) – PERMANENT.RADIANT (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 22:52 minutes | 262 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

A continuation of the sonics the group established with their self-titled album, ††† (Crosses) are back with their debut EP on Warner records.

Combining Chino Moreno’s (Deftones) vocals, lyrics and vocal textures with Shaun Lopez’s (Far) production and sound design this 6 track collection features the single ‘Vivien’ and follows on from their singles ‘Initiation/Protection’ that dropped earlier in the year.

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Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx – Live in Los Angeles (2014) Blu-ray 1080i AVC LPCM 2.0 + BDRip 1080p

Title: Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx – Live in Los Angeles
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Rock
Artist: Dennis De Young keyboards and lead vocals; John Blasucci keyboards and backing vocals; Craig Carter bass guitar and backing vocals; Jimmy Leahey guitars and backing vocals; Tom Sharpe drums and percussion; August Zadra guitars and lead vocals; Suzanne De Young backing vocals

Production/Label: Frontiers Records
Duration: 01:36:37
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24980 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2 (Interview): English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Size:22.44 GB

On March 18th, 2014; Dennis DeYoung, the legendary front man of Styx and author of five key songs that define that band’s career, returned to Los Angeles for the first time during his solo career to a sold out show at the El Rey Theater. Recorded live for AXS-TV and captured in pristine HD quality, the performance has been slated for release via Frontiers Records.

Los Angeles FM radio giant 100.3 The Sound aided in show promotion with morning show host Uncle Joe Benson offering tickets to listeners in limited supply, just 20 seats available to winning entrants. In just a few short hours of the show’s announcement, tickets sold out at an astounding fan appreciation price of just five dollars. With gratitude to fans that have supported DeYoung over the years, the show was truly a gift of thanks to long-time fans that haven’t seen him perform outside of Styx in Los Angeles, ever.

With doors opening at 8:00 pm, fans lined the sidewalk starting in the 6 o’clock hour on Wilshire Boulevard with tickets in hand and the buzz was about what songs the band might perform. Photos and reviews of the previous show in Joliet, IL had revealed guitarist August Zadra taking the vocal lead on select songs and fans shared the amazing sound of the band being so close to the record it was guaranteed hit all the right chords with lifelong fans! Still, what patrons would get tonight was an absolute surprise.

The amazing stage set was designed by DeYoung’s son and through the black backdrop shone multiple gemlike circles that glowed from one side of the stage to the other like a blanket of stars with the colors of the rainbow. Neon-like spots aimed both high and low rained down an array of light that swept over the audience. Packed from the front of the stage to the back of the house, the inside of the El Rey seemed more like a night at the Forum in 1985; just bigger than life and ready for broadcast.

Opening the show with “The Grand Illusion,” the band performed for an hour and a half, and had DeYoung interacting with the crowd. On two occasions he was handed items that from the audience that he shared with fans. One was a copy of the Styx “Paradise Theater” album, on vinyl, and another was a fan-made sign requesting a personal song favorite – “Desert Moon.”

Dennis and the members of the band took well over an hour of personal time upstairs at a VIP meet and greet with fans and Los Angeles based friends who attended the gala. AXS-TV brought in a 25+ foot boom arm and 8 cameras to capture the magic of the show and the house production offered simply the most crisp and well perfected tone the band could create for a night that fans are going to cherish on DVD for the “REST of Times.

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