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Victoria Soames Samek – Rob Keeley: Chamber Music (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:01 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
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Rob Keeley considers chamber music to be the most direct and expressive medium for him as a composer.
The spirits of Haydn and Chopin can be heard in the Second Piano Trio, and there is a wink towards Mozart in the wonderful blend and agility to be found in the Clarinet Quartet. All of these works are the result of musical friendships, the faith and commitment of the players an integral part of each performance, with the remarkable sonorities of Distil as its still centre.
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Victoria de los Angeles – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:30 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in London by the end of 1689. Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell’s foremost theatrical works.[6] It was also Purcell’s only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, both in structure and in overall effect.
The influence of Cavalli’s opera Didone is also apparent. Both works use the prologue/three acts format and there are similarities between, for instance, Mercury’s solo in Didone and the solo “Come away fellow sailors” in Purcell’s work.
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Victoria Brawn, Diane Clarke, Orchestra of the Swan & Daniele Rosina – Labyrinths (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:15 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of their last album, “Timelapse”, this new album from Orchestra of the Swan is a collection of extraordinary works connected by ideas of pilgrimage, contemplation, exploration and enlightenment through the works of composers such as Richter, Respighi, Britten, Piazzolla, Brian Eno, Nico Muhly, Joy Division and more. As with “Timelapse”, the joy is to be found in discovering the surprising and delightful connections between culturally disparate and musically contrasting time periods.
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Nordic Voices – Victoria: Works for Six Voices (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:34 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Six-person a cappella group Nordic Voices presents motets by Spanish composer Toms Luis de Victoria, following their critically praised recording of works by Gesualdo and Palestrina. Approaching the intricate and technically demanding polyphony of Victoria’s music with flair, the Norwegian ensemble’s voices soar in this entrancing recording from Chandos.
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Victor Wooten – A Show Of Hands 15 [15th Anniversary Remaster] (1996/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:45 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Jazz
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‘A Show Of Hands’ is Victor Wooten’s solo debut, was originally released in 1996 on Compass Records and stands as one of the most critically acclaimed debut solo albums of all time. The release was groundbreaking in that it was recorded with ‘two hands, four strings, and no overdubs’ establishing Wooten as the new major talent to watch on electric bass. 2011 marked the fifteenth anniversary of that album’s release and the album was re-matered and re-released to celebrate this milestone. The new version includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks making this version a must-have for all Wooten fans.
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Victor Wainwright & The Train – Memphis Loud (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:49 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ruf Records GmbH
If you want to travel America, climb aboard e Train. As a GRAMMY-nominated kingpin of American roots music, Victor Wainwright’s 2020 release is a snapshot of the nation’s great cities and genres, embodying a connection between exciting unseen places with a modern twist.
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Victor Wainwright – Victor Wainwright and the Train (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Blues
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It had to be a train. The name of Victor Wainwright’s new band and the sleeve image of their debut album is also the most fitting of metaphors. In music folklore, the train might have associations with the freight-hopping bluesmen of yore, but with this restless boogie-woogie innovator stoking the furnace, this latest project is a charging locomotive – surging forward, crashing through boundaries of genre, sweeping up fresh sounds and clattering headlong past the doubters. As the man himself hollers in the ivory-pounding title track: “If you wanna boogie get aboard this train/Get yourself a ticket or get out of the way” At a sweet-spot in his career, where most established stars would rest on their laurels, Victor Wainwright & The Train instead rips up all that has gone before. These twelve tracks are originals in every sense, written by Wainwright, pricking up ears in a sterile music industry and stretching the concept of roots in bold directions. “I wanted to write this new music mostly on my own, as it was coming and speaking to me” explains this multiple BMA-winner and frequent infiltrator of the Billboard Top 10. “I believe that for roots music to grow, and reach out to new audiences, we have to push it forward.” The result is an album that walks a tightrope between scholarly respect and anarchic irreverence. You’ll hear Wainwright twist boogie-woogie tradition on barrelhouse thrillers like Healing and Boogie Depression, both driven by his visceral piano style. But you’ll also hear him fearlessly explore the gamut of genre, from the Latin flavours and New Orleans horns of Wiltshire Grave, to the mellow near-psychedelia of Sunshine. It’s a musical cocktail served up by Wainwright’s inimitable gravel-flecked vocal. His words can be hilarious, as on I’ll Start Tomorrow, on which he postpones his doctor’s clean-living advice. But they can also be heartfelt, on the gospel-tinged kiss-off of That’s Love To Me. “I’ve tried to write songs that remind us to love ourselves,” he considers. “It doesn’t matter who voted for who, what your religion is, who you love” On this white-knuckle ride, only The Train could keep the material on the tracks. “I ended up with a hit-squad of downright amazing musicians,” he reflects, “that shared my curiosity for all corners of the roots genre. We wanted to capture how we feel performing, right smack-dab on this record, and I believe we’ve done that. Now I just try to keep up”
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Victor Rosenbaum – Brahms – The Last Piano Pieces (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:15 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records
For pianist Victor Rosenbaum’s fourth CD on Bridge Records; the artist turns to the last three piano compositions of Johannes Brahms. Rosenbaum’s Schubert disc was described as a “powerful and poignant record of human experience”, and much the same can be said of these profound readings of Brahms’s late masterpieces.
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Victor Mechanick – Love Is Free (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 15:45 minutes | 325 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Mgmt France SARL
Victor Mechanick is not a beginner. Falling into music at a young age, this young Parisian integrates the conservatory at the age of 5, studying violin and trumpet, solfeggio and harmony. So the music, he knows and rather well. Later, the artist learns piano and guitar, creates his first bands and performs in France regularly. Victor Mechanick has been a part of Theo Lawrence & The Hearts.
Today, Victor vogue solo, inspired by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Donovan and J.J. Cale. On September 22, he released his first EP titled Love Is Free and unveiled five warm pop songs.
In a melancholic universe, Victor Mechanick, with his songs, talks about love with humor and fragility, tells episodes of his life, his dreams… and above all, he reveals playful titles, such as Conversations, a real heady piece and dancing, but also sweeter, as with We Could not Be Elsewhere or Too Sad To Weep. The set is beautiful, full of charm, and in five titles, Victor Mechanick realizes a varied EP, sounds tasty Anglo-Saxon, which foreshadows a sequel full of promise to his career.
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Victor Julien-Laferrière & Jonas Vitaud – Rachmaninov, Shostakovich & Denisov (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:28 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
The winner of the very first Queen Elisabeth Competition for cellists in Brussels in 2017, Victor Julien-Laferrière also received the Victoire de la Musique Classique in 2018 in the category ‘Soloist of the Year’. His chamber recordings with the pianist Adam Laloum have won numerous awards, including a Diapason d’Or of the Year in 2016. Victor Julien-Laferrière now joins Alpha Classics for several recordings. The French cellist, who studied successively with Roland Pidoux, Heinrich Schiff and Clemens Hagen, has decided to record two peaks of his instrument’s repertory, the Sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich, alongside the pianist Jonas Vitaud, with whom he enjoys a close rapport. They have given this programme in concert together on many occasions. A rare piece by Russian composer Edison Denisov completes the recording: the Variations on a Theme by Schubert, composed in 1986.
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Victor Julien-Laferriere – Live at the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:20:38 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Queen Elisabeth Competition
Cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière (born 1990) was a follower of René Benedetti, Roland Pidoux and Heinrich Schiff, in a dazzling career which saw him take the 1st Prize at the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, after also having won 1st Prize at the 2012 Prague Spring International Music Competition. Since, his career has seen him play with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the National d’Ile de France and many others, as well as partnering with chamber musicians like Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Adam Laloum, Jonas Vitaud, Raphaël Sévère and Lise Berthaud. This is the recording, made in public, naturally, of the semi-final and final of the famous Belgian competition: the Second Concerto by Haydn, the Sonata in F Majorby Brahms alongside pianist Théo Fouchenneret, and then the formidable First Concertoby Shostakovitch, to which he brings an extraordinary energy and diabolical tension from the first to the last note.
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Victor Julien-Laferrière – Dvořák & Martinů: Cello Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:26 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics
Victor Julien-Laferrière, the very first winner of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cellists in Brussels, joined Alpha Classics in 2019 for several recordings.
After his first recital album, which he has dedicated to works by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich and Denisov together with pianist Jonas Vitaud, he now presents a cello concerto by Antonín Dvořák (the Second, Op. 104) and Bohuslav Martinů (No. 1, H. 196). He will be accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Liège under the direction of Gergely Madaras.
Victor Haynes – Take It To The Top (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:01 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Expansion Records
Veteran soul man Victor Haynes has enjoyed a long relationship Expansions, having first released on the long-serving UK label way back in 1993. “Take It To The Top” is his fourth album in total and first for five years. It contains 13 new songs penned by Haynes and produced by the artist in collaboration with Pete May. It’s a typically smooth affair, with Haynes delivering effortlessly soulful vocals atop tracks that variously touch on classic soulful house (“Take It To The Top”, “Strong Love”), jazz-funk (“Do I Qualify”), boogie (“Round & Round”), revivalist ’60s soul (“My Sweetest Temptation”), seductive slow jams (“Giving My All To You”) and acid jazz (the Incognito-ish Latin shuffle of “Help Me feel The Sun”).
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Victor Feldman – The Arrival of Victor Feldman! (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:10 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
For his second American release and debut for the Contemporary label, Feldman is completely in the spotlight. Joined by the brilliant bassist Scott La Faro (whose playing is a strong reason to acquire the album) and drummer Stan Levey, Feldman performs a mostly boppish set “. On All About Jazz Samuel Chell observed “Feldman’s piano is not as developed as his vibes work at this early stage in his career, so there’s lots of space (and solo room) for LaFaro’s majestic sound and unstoppable drive. In fact, it’s probably no exaggeration to say the date is as much LaFaro’s as Feldman’s. The latter makes a favorable impression; but the former puts on a clinic. Not to be missed by any acoustic bassist or admirer
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Vicente Cueva – Jorge Grundman: Shoah (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:27 minutes | 622 MB | Genre: Classical
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Shoah for Solo Violin and Sacred Temple was written by spanish composer Jorge Grundman (1961-) to homage the Victims of Holocaust. This release is a luxury Book CD which contains the World Premiere Recording of the longest partita for solo violin ever written. Recorded with the Stradivarius “Auer” 1691 by Vicente Cueva, the work contains six musical movementes and an additional one with words which is included in the book in three languages: English, French and Spanish. The ABC newspaper describes after the absolute premiere “”… A sum of emotions…Honoring the memory of the victims of the Jewish holocaust is the primary objective of this emotionally charged composition. But it does not stay there; the contained and transmitted emotion and the evocative power of the music transcend the own and tragic real history that counts and rises like a universal feeling, a superstructure, above the well-known individual or collective tragedies of determined spaces and times. “Shoah” is a prayer, a cry and a work, above any kind of belief…”. This work will be on worldwide tour through Jewish Museums, Synagogues and Cathedrals. The six movements of the partita are: Yom HaShoah, Getto Warszawskie, Terezín Through the Eyes of the Children, Babi Yar, Bergen-Belsen and The Last Breath. This work is about everything we did not do, but that ought to make us feel permanently ashamed.
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