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Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodélicos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 37:02 minutes | 690 MB | Genre: Latin, R&B, Psychedelic
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Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas) presents Boleros Psicodélicos: a celebration of the super funky, slightly delirious and deeply soulful sounds that transcended the cultural boundaries of Latin America throughout the late ’60s and early ’70s. All twelve tracks were produced, engineered, mixed and largely performed by Quesada with vocals from former Calle 13 member iLe, Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Girl Ultra, Angelica Garcia and Gaby Moreno. Marc Ribot and Money Mark (Beastie Boys) also contribute.
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Adam Plachetka, Czech Ensemble Baroque, Roman Valek – Molieri (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka presents Molieri, a programme of opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, together with the Czech Ensemble Baroque under the baton of Roman Válek. Thanks to fictional works such as the film Amadeus, Antonio Salieri is often scapegoated as the man who allegedly caused Mozart’s untimely death out of professional envy. Despite the fact that this is obviously not true, Salieri’s popularity has suffered from this popular myth-making, and most of his operas have sunk into oblivion. Molieri brings the two composers together, focusing on bass-8 baritone arias from their opera buffas. Famous arias from Mozart’s Da Ponte operas are heard in a completely different light when paired to excerpts from Salieri’s Falstaff, Axur, La grotto di Trofonio and La scuola de’ gelosi. It also makes clear why Salieri enjoyed such success, as well as why great composers such as Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt all wanted to study with him. Given the importance of Prague for Mozart’s operatic successes, the music fits the players of Czech Ensemble Baroque like a glove, and Plachetka possesses the optimal combination of vocal authority and agility to sing these buffo roles.
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. The Czech Ensemble Baroque is one of the most important period instrument ensembles of the Czech Republic, and was founded by Roman Válek in 1998. Plachetka, Válek and the ensemble all make their Pentatone debut.
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A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head (2022 Remaster) (2009/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:09 minutes | 1,85 GB | Genre: Rock
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Following their eponymous debut in 2007, Exploding Head is A Place To Bury Strangers’ most notable record, garnering the New York noise rock outfit critical praise and a cult fanbase. Led by Oliver Ackermann, the band had a simple goal for ‘their first proper studio album’; “to create the craziest, most fucked-up recording ever.” Recorded at their Death By Audio studios in New York and released on Mute Records, the album was critically praised for its explorative sound, taking inspiration from shoegaze icons such as Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. Pitchfork described the album as “frustrated aggression, lacerating feedback… saturated with slender indie-pop melody.” The album has now been digitally remastered by Oliver Ackermann and is presented in three formats.
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A Bu – Nikolai Kapustin / A Bu: New Memories (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:52 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Wergo
The Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020), who died at the beginning of the pandemic-related cultural hiatus which has been unique with regard to world history, was able to experience considerable appreciation in his last two decades, which recently gained more and more momentum. Coming from the best Soviet aristocracy of piano teaching – Kapustin was a pupil of a pupil of Horowitz’s teacher Blumenfeld and then studied with the great Alexander Goldenweiser until 1961 – he was denied great recognition in the Soviet Union. As with many great piano composers since Chopin, the cycle of concert etudes from the middle of his life is particularly suitable for an introduction to this world of works. Kapustin’s typical reference to jazz, which probably kept him from greater success in the Soviet years, is based on the highly individual, deliberate adaptation of stylistic elements. He got to know jazz greats such as Ellington, Basie, Cole, Garner, Peterson and others through records and the radio and picked out what suited him. The extremely sensitive, not monotonously hammering as is so often the case, approach of the Chinese pianist A Bu, who is also trained in jazz, is pleasing with regard to interpretation, and he demonstrates his affinity for Kapustin’s music through two samples of his own work.
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Civitas Ensemble – Jin Yin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:13 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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Chicago’s Civitas Ensemble presents a spectrum of new instrumental works by living Chinese composers, each with a unique perspective on Western and Far Eastern musical sensibilities. Spearheaded by Shanghai-born violinist Yuan-Qing Yu, a Civitas founding member and assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jin Yin (“Golden Tone”) comprises world-premiere recordings of works by Yao Chen, Vivian Fung, and Lu Pei, plus specially made new arrangements of pieces from Zhou Long and Chen Yi.
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City Of The Sun – To The Sun And All The Cities In Between (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:40 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Rock
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Beginning their journey in scattered regions of the world and coming together performing in the subways and streets of New York City, City of the Sun draws its roots from across the world as well as across the genres. On their debut album, experience music that will leave you in trance. A mix of modern post-rock ambiance and frenetic flamenco style guitar work, to the sun and all the cities in between crosses the generational gap and proves you don’t need vocals to captivate.
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City of London Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton – The Nation’s Favourite Carols (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:55 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
The Nation’s Favourite Carols presents the best of Christmas as chosen by you. In conjunction with Classic FM, the album will be released at the same time as the radio station’s countdown to ‘The Nation’s Favourite Carol’ – show of the same name.
The Nation’s best-loved Carols as chosen by you.
Features special guests Bryn Terfel, Grace Davidson, Trystan Griffiths and the City of London Choir conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton and accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2 – Nos. 2 & 6 & Italian Overtures (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:53 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
For the second volume in his Birmingham Schubert symphony cycle, Edward Gardner turns to the Second and Sixth Symphonies. Composed between December 1814 and March 1815, the Second Symphony is not only a response by Schubert to the works of Beethoven, and especially the Prometheus Overture, but also strives to push the conventional symphonic boundaries, most notably in the extended exposition of the first movement. Completed in February 1818, the Sixth Symphony was the first to be titled “Große Sinfonie” (grand symphony) by Schubert, a mark of his growing confidence in his work in the symphonic idiom. The two Overtures were composed at the same time as the Sixth Symphony, and are clearly modelled on the overtures of Rossini, whose music was all the rage in Vienna at that time.
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Mendelssohn – in Birmingham, Vol. 5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:53 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Edward Gardner’s Mendelssohn in Birmingham series continues with an album that collects eight overtures.
As on the previous volumes, a reduced-size CBSO joins Gardner in Birmingham’s Town Hall, where Mendelsohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres of his own orchestral works.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:55 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra continue The British Project with the release of works from William Walton’s opera Troilus and Cressida. The recording comprises the four-movement Symphonic Suite reworked and arranged from the original operatic score by Christopher Palmer. The CBSO and its charismatic conductor convey all the charm, swagger, and sumptuous sonorities of this music in a performance captured live at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.
Troilus and Cressida contains some of William Walton’s most seductive music, as can be heard in the new e-album from Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and the CBSO – their second for The British Project on Deutsche Grammophon. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla has enjoyed exploring British music since her appointment as the CBSO’s Music Director five years ago. Her recent Birmingham seasons have featured scores by composers who worked with the CBSO in the decades following its foundation in 1920, from Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett to Ruth Gipps and Thea Musgrave. She and her orchestra launched The British Project last October with an interpretation of Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem.
William Walton, born in 1902, forged a strong relationship with the CBSO. He conducted the orchestra in the world premiere recording of his Sinfonia concertante two months after the end of the Second World War and his music remains central to its repertoire. In 1947 he began work on his first grand opera, Troilus and Cressida, a tragic love story based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s eponymous poem and set during the tenth year of the Trojan War.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project – Walton: Troilus & Cressida (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:36 minutes | 542 MB | Genre: Classical
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Tragic love story: Following her acclaimed album of Benjamin Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem”, Lithuanian star conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s latest release is dedicated to a composition by William Walton that has hardly caught the eye in this country so far: the opera “Troilus and Cressida”. The stage work is full of energy, drama and surprising twists. Premiered in 1954 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, the opera soon fell into oblivion and is no longer present on the schedules of the big houses. The publisher of William Walton must have guessed what was in the work, because after the composer died in 1983, his publisher encouraged the music writer and arranger Christopher Francis Palmer to an orchestral suite with the musical highlights of the opera.
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City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla – The British Project – Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:11 minutes | 342 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla ist zweifelsohne eine der spannendsten Künstlerinnen der Gegenwart und hat sich mit ihren brillanten Interpretationen längst einen Namen gemacht in der Dirigentenszene. Erst jüngst wurde ihr Album “Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 2 & 21” mit dem City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gidon Kremer und der Kremerata Baltica bei den Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 als “Album des Jahres” ausgezeichnet; gerade erhielt sie zudem den OPUS KLASSIK-Preis als “Dirigentin des Jahres”. Nun erscheint beim gelben Label ein weiteres Album der aufstrebenden litauischen Dirigentin mit dem Titel “The British Project”. Es spielt das City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, auf dem Programm steht Brittens “Sinfonia da Requiem”. Das digitale Album ist ab 16. Oktober erhältlich.
Benjamin Brittens “Sinfonia da Requiem” – Ein klingendes Abbild ihrer Zeit
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City Light Symphony Orchestra & Kevin Griffiths – Spotlight On John Williams (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:40:13 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
The City Light Symphony Orchestra, founded in Lucerne in 2018, presents its debut album with the 100-minute program “Spotlight on John Williams“. For the project acclaimed soloists such as Valentine Michaud, Reinhold Friedrich and Paul Meyer could be assigned. Together with the 90 musicians of the City Light Symphony Orchestra and the up-and-coming conductor Kevin Griffiths, they recorded a selection of film music masterpieces by Hollywood icon John Williams in the concert hall of the KKL Luzern in September 2020 – with a deliberate focus on his great stylistic diversity.
Recording sessions in the concert hall of the KKL Luzern with its world-class acoustics
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City Light Symphony Orchestra – Star Wars – The Force Awakens (Suite for Orchestra) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 17:38 minutes | 335 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
The 90-strong City Light Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its Spotify debut with the massive, 4-part “Suite for Orchestra” from John Williams’ rousing film music for “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens”.
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Daniel Binelli, Polly Ferman, Leanne Nicholls, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Germán Augusto Gutiérrez – Tango in the Night (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:19 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
The Binelli-Ferman Duo and oboist Leanne Nicholls join City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong conducted by Germán Augusto Gutiérrez in this exhilarating compilation of tango arrangements by Daniel Binelli. Each work on this album holds a chapter in the evolution of the tango, from its waterfront roots in the night-time taverns of the Río de la Plata (Buenos Aires and Montevideo) to the concert halls of today. Moreover, the bandoneón, the instrument that symbolizes the tango and permeates its history, takes the spotlight. The journey begins with Ángel Villoldo’s El Choclo, the best-known tango from the early 1900s and the era known as ‘La Guardia Vieja’ (The Old Guard). Here we experience a type of habanera blended with European music. Palomita Blanca, a waltz with lyrics by Francisco Garcia Gimenez, represents the romantic phase of the 1920s and 1930s when the great poets started writing words for the tango. During this time tango became immensely fashionable in European society. We then move to the 1940s when the grandiose dance halls became a hub for the big-time tango orchestras of Aníbal Troilo, Osvaldo Pugliese, Carlos di Sarli and Juan D’Arienzo. Around this period the sound of the bandoneón became inextricably linked to tango. In the 1950s Mariano Mores introduced new instruments to the tango including organ, keyboard, drums and bass. Horacio Salgán, a classically-trained pianist, became a transitional figure between the classic tango of the 1940s and the avant-garde style. Liberated from the need to please dancers, he achieved a brilliant balance between tradition and innovation, and further established the importance of the piano in tango music. In the 1960s the great Astor Piazzolla emerged as a revolutionary force in the tango world. He blended elements of classical and jazz in his music and shocked the traditionalists with his revolutionary ‘tango nuevo’ for the concert hall. From the 1990s we have Daniel Binelli who is the torchbearer of Piazzolla. His works represent the sound of tango today. Our tango journey ends fittingly with a step backwards to 1917 in Matos Rodríguez’s La Cumparsita, a tango traditionally played as the last dance of the evening.
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