Mark Knopfler – Local Hero (2022 MFSL UltraDisc UHR SACD) (1983/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:44:39 minutes | Full Scans included | 1,85 GB
Genre: Score, Soundtrack | Publisher (label): Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – MFSL UDSACD 2227
Three years removed from crafting Dire Straits’ third album, Making Movies, band leader Mark Knopfler elected to adhere to the record’s title and try his hand at doing just that in an aural way. Written and performed to accompany the film Local Hero, the iconic guitarist’s first soundtrack continues to serve as one of the decade’s most prized scores. No wonder the BAFTA Award-nominated work has long eclipsed the Bill Forsyth film in stature, merit, and popularity – and emerged as the basis of a stage musical that debuted in Scotland in 2019.
Read more![Quinn Sullivan - Midnight Highway (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/fi267ic1pgsyc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quinn Sullivan – Midnight Highway (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:35 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Provogue
Quinn Sullivan has been a music professional for more than 75 percent of his life. He’s shared the stage with Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Los Lobos, The Roots, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi and Joe Bonamassa, and he opened for B.B. King, who later invited him to play his treasured “Lucille” guitar. He has performed on concert and festival dates throughout the United States – including at storied venues like Hollywood Bowl, RFK Stadium and Madison Square Garden – traveled overseas – performing at both the Montreux Jazz Festival and India’s Mahindra Blues Festival – and played several editions of the Experience Hendrix Tour, backed by Jimi’s original bassist Billy Cox. He’s also appeared on national TV, with guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Oprah, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan and twice on The Ellen DeGeneres show.
Yes, Sullivan has packed some extraordinary experience into his decade-long career, and that’s even more remarkable when you consider that he’s only 17. His third studio album, Midnight Highway, will be released on January 27th in North America, and on March 24th in the rest of the world.
(more…)
![Quartetto Werther - Fauré: Piano Quartets, Op. 15 & Op.45 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/x1j03mnhb3q0b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quartetto Werther – Fauré: Piano Quartets, Op. 15 & Op.45 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:54 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Elusive masterpieces of late-Romantic chamber music newly recorded by a young, much-praised Italian ensemble.
(more…)
![Quinsin Nachoff - Pivotal Arc (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/doexdcf9fxrkc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quinsin Nachoff – Pivotal Arc (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:29 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
Saxophonist and composer Quinsin Nachoff’s career to date has delivered a boundary-crossing body of work that’s consistently unpredictable, fearlessly innovative, breathtakingly accomplished, and full of creative passion, constantly increasing its scope to encompass ever greater horizons.
(more…)
![Quartetto Klimt - Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Quartets (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/gau5fh4khs4ub_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quartetto Klimt – Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Quartets (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:38:12 minutes | 792 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Early, little-known, free-spirited chamber works from music’s supreme teenage genius.
By the time Felix Mendelssohn composed his first three opus-numbered works he had a substantial catalogue of chamber, vocal and orchestral works to his credit – all at the age of 15! This trio of piano quartets predates the miraculous Octet for strings, yet each of them holds its distinct appeal. A fluent grasp of form and voicing can be taken for granted in one already thoroughly schooled in compositional technique. Mendelssohn was still finding his own voice, melodically speaking, while emerging from the shadow of Mozart’s and Beethoven’s, but these are already pieces with his fingerprints and no-one else’s, even in 1824, when Beethoven and Schubert were still alive.
(more…)
Quatuor Modigliani – Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
![Quatuor Modigliani - Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/3760127223467_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quatuor Modigliani – Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:23 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare
It’s in a small comic filled with self-derision that the Modigliani Quartet describe their background, from the founding of the quartet in 2003 to its beginnings at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2017: First Prize Winners of the Young Concert Artists in New York, which opened the doors of the Carnegie Hall to them in 2006, Grand Prix Winners of Académie Charles Cros two years later with Haydn, artistic directors of the Evian Festival in 2014… An impressive and international pedigree for this quartet originally founded by four students of the Conservatoire de Paris keen to try their hands on the greatest chamber music repertoire. This new recording of the sole three quartets of Schumann, works created in one go in 1842 – two years after 1840, “the year of the Lied”, and one year before the two chamber masterpieces that are the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet. It’s true that in these quartets, Schumann doesn’t stray too far from Beethoven and even less from Mendelssohn (posthumously dedicatee), maybe the consequence of an inevitably more linear and contrapuntal writing, not as harmonic as the addition of a piano would allow. The fact remains that the Modiglianis capture these three singular works and restore their lines rather than looking for a dense, symphonic and pianistic texture that is not theirs.
(more…)
![Quatuor Debussy - Debussy… et le jazz (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/sufe1t6pgfonb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quatuor Debussy – Debussy… et le jazz (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:52 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
A century after his death on 25 March 1918, many harmonia mundi artists are eager to pay tribute to Claude Debussy, the magician of melody and timbre, the great ‘colourist’ and father of modern music. We also wished to honour the composer of Pellas as one of those creative artists who, long before Louis Armstrong and Bill Evans, had a determining influence on certain harmonic colours of jazz. Let us therefore salute the initiative of the appropriately named Quatuor Debussy, which, with the friendly collaboration of leading jazz personalities, has revisited the Prludes in its own way. And at the end of the work, what title would Debussy have inscribed? ‘… note bleue’?
(more…)
![Quique Sinesi - Corazón Sur (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/29/c8492nv794z4b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quique Sinesi – Corazón Sur (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:50 minutes | 874 MB | Genre: Acoustic Guitar, Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Acoustic Music Records
This is top-drawer guitar artistry from Argentina. Quique Sinesi’s own compositions are sensitive and technically intricate, and they bring together the wide spectrum of Latin American music with samples of folklore, world music and jazz.
(more…)
![Quatuor Molinari - Glass: Complete String Quartets - String Quartets Nos. 1 - 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/14/kmlaiuhbcvzpa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quatuor Molinari – Glass: Complete String Quartets – String Quartets Nos. 1 – 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:17 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ATMA Classique
Volume 1 of the complete string quartets of Philip Glass is the latest recording by the multi award-winning Molinari Quartet. This digital-only release features string quartets 1 to 4 and will be followed by a second volume to be recorded next year. The complete set of eight quartets will eventually be released as a box set.
(more…)
![Quatuor Saguenay - Mendelssohn, Ravel, Sollima (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/03/04/pp08xb5erfvva_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quatuor Saguenay – Mendelssohn, Ravel, Sollima (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:30 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.
Mendelsson | Ravel | Sollima marks Marie Bégin’s inaugural recording as first violin with Quatuor Saguenay. Born after the quartet’s founding, Marie brings a freshness and colour to this album that is particularly well suited to the quartets of Mendelssohn and Ravel, who were in their late twenties when they composed these works. This recording also includes Federico II, the folk-inspired first movement from Giovanni Sollima’s 2000 cycle, “Viaggio in Italia.”
(more…)
![Quatuor Van Kuijk - Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/20/pefzpaozw0fqa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Quatuor Van Kuijk – Mendelssohn: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:57 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
After the first volume, which was highly praised by the press and was awarded an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone, among others, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes its complete recording of Mendelssohn’s string quartets with op. 44 Nos. 2 and 3 as well as the quartet op. 80. The latter is under the impression of the sudden death of his sister Fanny, who died in 1847 at the age of only 42 and to whom he was very close. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: The Act of Resistance that the Quartet op. 80, which arose in a single eruption in the summer of 1847 and whose overwhelming “No, not that, not you!” the last completed work of the composer was to be shouted by four instruments for 25 minutes. The four movements of this “Confrontation with Grief” (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although this designation never appears in the score. In addition, Brigitte François-Sappey is quoted as saying: “This ‘Requiem for Fanny’ could also be called ‘Death and the Young Woman’. As in Schubert’s last two quartets, the strings in tremolos shake over ostinate organ points, like deathbells.
(more…)
Trio Boccherini – Hungarian String Trios (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
This recording brings together four Hungarian composers who, each in their own way, contributed to the development of a new national musical style at the beginning of the twentieth century. They managed to write music that was respected internationally and that both nurtured them and raised the general standard of music in Hungary. Although Leo Weiner’s (the ‘Hungarian Mendelssohn’), and Erno Dohnanyi’s string trios were composed during their student years, both works have become significant milestones in the restricted repertoire for this instrumental combination. Elegant and sometimes reminiscent of Brahms, they also feature subtle touches of local folklore. Zoltan Kodaly, along with Bela Bartok one of the most important Hungarian musicians of the century, composed little chamber music but his Intermezzo, also an early work, is reminiscent of the folk music that the composer had begun to collect for his ethnomusicological research. The least familiar and youngest of the composers represented here, Laszlo Weiner, suffered a tragic fate. His Serenade, composed while he was studying with Kodaly, reveals the exceptional talent of a composer whose oeuvre is too small. Less ‘Magyar’ than the other works presented here, his Serenade is reminiscent of the intense and concentrated atmosphere of Viennese ‘modernist’ works.
Read more
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Matthias Herrmann – Helmut Lachenmann: My Melodies (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR Klassik
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024, the BR-KLASSIK label is now making previously unreleased recordings of concerts worth listening to available on CD and as a stream. The six-part composition My Melodies for eight horns and orchestra was composed between 2016 and 2018, revised for the first time in 2019, and then again in 2023 as the musica viva Munich version. It was commissioned by Bavarian Radio’s musica viva with the support of the Friends of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra e.V. This is a live recording of the premiere of the Munich 2023 version of June 23, 2023 from the Herkulessaal, again as part of BR’s musica viva concert series, with the horn section and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Matthias Hermann. Helmut Lachenmann, born in Stuttgart in 1935, is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied piano, music theory and counterpoint in Stuttgart and composition with Luigi Nono in Venice. The first public performances of his works took place in 1962 at the Venice Biennale and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He taught composition in Hanover (1976-1981) and in Stuttgart (1981-1999), and gave numerous master classes in Germany and abroad. His works are performed by internationally renowned players and orchestras all over the world. Helmut Lachenmann has received numerous awards, most recently the GEMA German Music Authors’ Prize for his life’s work (2015). The phenomenon of melody has long preoccupied Helmut Lachenmann. He went to study in Venice at the end of the 1950s with Luigi Nono, a teacher who strictly insisted on a critically reflective approach to musical material. Nono had objected to any trace of linear progression in Lachenmann’s compositional sketches as a “tonal cell” – a melodic object that was seen as a recourse to a romanticising tonal language that had to be overcome. The impetus for the scoring of My Melodies came from a rehearsal of Lachenmann’s opera The Little Match Girl in Madrid in 2008: eight horns forming a homogeneous yet at the same time complex instrument. The premiere took place ten years later. In 2023, My Melodies was extended by 77 additional bars since that first performance, with Lachenmann drawing on further sketch material. It is rare for the composer to alter his own works after their premiere – but the sound ideas for the eight horns seem to have retained a special fascination for him. The bonus tracks offer short excerpts from this concert recording of My Melodies. They present characteristic passages of the work, inviting listeners to detect specific noises or sequences and to familiarise themselves with Lachenmann’s world of sound.
Read more
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Heinz Wallberg – Richard Strauss: Die Schweigsame Frau (Scenes) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:31 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024, the BR-KLASSIK label is now making previously unreleased recordings of concerts worth listening to available for the first time on CD and as a stream. Excerpts from Richard Strauss’s comic opera “Die schweigsame Frau” (“The Silent Woman”) were pre-produced as studio recordings for a television programme in November 1960. The impressive cast was almost identical to that of the opera production at the Salzburg Festival in 1959 under the premiere conductor Karl Böhm: Hans Hotter (Sir Morosus), Hermann Prey (Barber), Fritz Wunderlich (Henry) as well as Ingeborg Hallstein (Aminta) and many others sang. Here, Heinz Wallberg conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in contrast to the live recording from Salzburg, which is marred by the clearly audible stage noises of a turbulent production, the outstanding cast of singers in this recording is more effective. The BR-KLASSIK label is now marking the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024 by making this previously unreleased studio production available for the first time on CD and as a stream. After the death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Strauss thought he had reached the end of his operatic career – but then he found a librettist of equal calibre in Stefan Zweig, who provided him with “the best libretto for an opéra comique since Figaro” (Strauss). The comic opera was written between 1932 and 1935 and, despite the fact that Zweig was a Jewish librettist (who had since emigrated), Strauss managed to have the opera premiered in Dresden on June 24, 1935, conducted by Karl Böhm. However, because the composer insisted on printing Zweig’s name on the posters and in the programme, the Nazis boycotted the performance. And after the Gestapo intercepted a letter that Strauss had written to Zweig expressing his delight at the successful premiere, the composer finally fell out of favour. The opera was taken off the programme after only three performances, and was not performed at any other German theatre until 1946. Strauss resigned from the presidency of the Reich Chamber of Music “for health reasons”. Strauss endowed “Die schweigsame Frau” with an overabundance of musical ideas, turbulent ensembles and individual tone colours; light comedy and grand arias alternate. He casually quotes himself and a dozen other composers, including Rossini, whose “Barber of Seville” was the model for his talkative and manipulative barber. Music connoisseurs appreciate the many musical allusions in the work.
Read more
Sophia Weidemann & Tinka Kleffner – Fanny Hensel: Das Jahr, H-U 385 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:41 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genuin
Pianist Sophia Weidemann and actress Tinka Kleffner present a musical-literary encounter with the exceptional composer Fanny Hensel in their new GENUIN album, “Das Jahr” (The Year). The album includes a remarkable piano cycle along with letters and diary entries to and by Hensel. Through their interpretation, these two highly acclaimed artists offer a high-level, intimate glimpse into the life and work of one of the most significant 19th-century female composers and enlightened thinkers, Fanny Hensel. Hensel’s piano cycle covers a whole year, and the chosen and thoughtfully read excerpts mirror the emotionally rich and skillfully constructed music in the most delightful way!
Read more