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Quartetto Raro – Kempff: Chamber Music (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
The pianist Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991)belonged to that tradition of German musicians –notably including conductors such as Furtwangler, Klemperer and Walter – for whom composition hardly less essential a component of their musical personalities than performing, even if it was an activity they largely undertook privately. Working day to day with imperishable masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, they did not expect to meet such standards, yet their own creative voices required an outlet through more than recreation of others. Left cold by the musical innovations and developments of their own time in the work of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, they wrote in a heightened Romantic idiom, and in genres –especially song and chamber music – which lay separately from their own professional activity as performers.
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Quintetto a Plettro Giuseppe Anedda – Rossini: Overtures arranged for Mandolin Quintet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:15 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
New recordings presenting a fun and unique perspective on the riotous, effervescent, surreal world of Rossini. Rossini was one of the most popular and successful composers of the beginning of the 19th century. His operas were performed all over Europe, and the overtures enjoyed immense success as concert pieces. He usually penned them down the day before the premiere, to the exasperation of the concert managers and the musicians.
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The KVB – Tremors (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:03 minutes | 418 MB | Genre: New Wave, Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Invada Records UK
Cold wave duo The KVB are back with news of their new album ‘Tremors’ which is being released on 5 April via Invada Records (Gazelle Twin, Beak, Billy Nomates). This news comes after a brand new single and video lifted from the record, ‘Labyrinths’, on which The KVB return to the darker sound that embodied their earliest releases whilst retaining the infectious pop of their last album ‘Unity’ which MOJO described as having a “sense of wonderment throughout”.
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The Choir of Royal Holloway, David Goode. Onyx Brass & Rupert Gough – Dan Locklair: From East to West (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Convivium Records
Discover this collection of sacred music by the American composer Dan Locklair, much of it based on ancient and treasured texts, poems and hymn words. The recording includes Locklair’s Brief Mass, a simple yet deeply symbolic setting of the words of the liturgy.
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Pet Shop Boys – Dancing star (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 24:53 minutes | 307 MB | Genre: Electronic, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
At the end of the month, Pet Shop Boys are releasing a new album, Nonetheless, their follow-up to 2020’s Hotspot. They shared lead single “Loneliness” from it back in January, and today they’re back with another song, “Dancing Star,” which was inspired by ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961.
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Marsyas Baroque – Dieupart & Bach – A Suite Connection (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © GWK Records
A suite connection between J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and Charles François Dieupart (1667-1740) is claimed by the young, multi-award-winning baroque ensemble Marsyas Baroque with its debut CD. The juxtaposition of two English Suites by Bach and two Suittes de Clavessin by Dieupart, who is virtually unknown today, shows not only that the French composer is still underestimated, but also that Bach was inspired by the work of his colleague.
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Marc Mezgolits – Unchanging (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:40 minutes | 266 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © u n i t
the title suggests. Contrary to the expectations associated with such an album, Mezgolits is not oriented towards a virtuoso, note-rich aesthetic. Rather, he is committed to a style that gets by without fast lines and – with one exception – without overdubs.
A solo album makes sense insofar as Mezgolits has always concentrated on reducing the ensemble, as on his quartet album Mostly Love Songs, which is without drums, as well as in the duo Bathyscaph with Domenic Landolf on bass clarinet.
Mezgolits plays his own pieces in an almost purist manner, proving that Unchanging is more than just an album title. Rather, it is a commitment to his own compositions to interpret them as sonorously as possible and not to place his own technical skills in the foreground. This results in ten pieces that are partly rubato, partly rhythmic, partly balladesque, but are all oriented towards song forms and are singable without being sung.
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Guillaume Bellom – Richard Strauss: Piano Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
We know him as epic, modernist, excessive, melancholic, operatic, post-Romantic. But just before entering adulthood, Strauss entrusted to the piano some often intimate and delicate thoughts, which know what they owe to his heroes of the moment. Guillaume Bellom sketches the young man at his keyboard, as heir to Beethoven, Schumann and Mendelssohn.
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Eric Schuijt – Eric meets Buddy Rich at BIMHUIS, Amsterdam (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:33:11 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 6426648 Records DK
Amsterdam drummer Eric Schuijt takes on the role of his great role model Buddy Rich. With a new big band, which swings in the style of the drum legend. The American jazz drummer Buddy Rich (1917-1987) is still unsurpassed. This applies to his energy and technique, but also to the way he managed to push his big band to great heights.
Eric Schuijt has been intensively studying the style and techniques of Buddy Rich for years. In his big band we recognize musicians from Ploctones, Cubop City Big Band, Nueva Manteca and Jong Metropole. The program features works by renowned Buddy Rich arrangers such as Don Menza and John LaBarbera.
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Dresdner Philharmonie & Marek Janowski – Schumann: Complete Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:10:13 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PENTATONE
Marek Janowski presents Schumann: Complete Symphonies, a comprehensive collection recorded together with the Dresdner Philharmonie. After a fruitful decade as a composer for piano and voice, Schumann then began writing symphonic works, marking a new phase in his life. Recorded between 2021 and 2023, Janowski interprets Schumann’s symphonies with great vitality and intensity in this release that celebrates the culmination of his appointment as chief conductor with the orchestra.
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Bruno Montrone – Unaware Beauty (Studio) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A.MA RECORDS
A.MA Records’ high quality Jazz output continues with Unaware Beauty, the new album from the Bruno Montrone Trio. An album that fuses straight Jazz with new interpretations of standards and Montrone’s original compositions, Unaware Beauty pulls strands together and weaves a fine cloth. An Italian/US collaboration of musicians Bruno Montrone on piano, Giulio Scianatico on double Bass and near legendary Joe Farnsworth on drums. It is perhaps the latter name that will ring many a bell with New Yorker Joe’s previous works touring with the likes of Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, McCoy Tyner and Pharaoh Sanders and a veteran of over 100 recordings as leader and sideman. Bruno Montrone is a young pianist who is somewhat of a prodigy with a performance and recording CV that belies his young years. Similarly Giulio Scianatico has built a huge reputation for himself in Italian Jazz, not least with his playing on Enrico Le Noce’s Social Music album also released by A.MA. Joined by guests New Yorker Sarah Hanahan, a graduate of the Jackie McLean Institute and of Juilliard, on Saxophone and Sarah Grittani on vocals, Unaware Beauty is an album that can be best understood in the context of its bold improvisations, impeccable swing and blend of the contemporary with nods to the greats that came before. Try to listen to the title track Unaware Beauty featuring Sarah Grittani’s haunting vocals and the innovative interpretation of Harold Mabern’s Edward Lee which is given a fresh and invigorating take, not least with Sarah Hannahan’s breathtaking Sax solos and you’ll see what we mean.
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