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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Justin Doyle – Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:14:25 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin and its chief conductor Justin Doyle present Handel’s Messiah, together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and an all-British quartet of outstanding soloists, consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Roderick Williams (bass). Messiah (1742) is not only Handel’s most famous work, but equally one of the cornerstones of British choral culture. Over the years, a tradition of mass performances full of pomp and circumstance took root, with the Hallelujah as a showstopper. This new period-instruments recording, however, aims to bring the piece back to the size and intimacy of the earliest performances.
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has a substantial PENTATONE discography, including Handel’s Concerti grossi Op. 6 and Op. 3, (released in 2019 and 2020), Telemann’s opera Miriways (2019) and CANTATA with Bejun Mehta (2018). The RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Justin Doyle, Julia Doyle, Tim Mead, Thomas Hobbs and Roderick Williams all make their PENTATONE debut.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck – Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 1-6 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Akademie für Alte Musik reveals its performance of Handel’s first six concertos from Opus 6 in true chamber music spirit, which sometimes brings Handel’s universe closer to that of his continental counterpart, Georg Philipp Telemann, whose work has often been played and recorded by the Berlin ensemble musicians (including several indispensable albums for the French label Harmonia Mundi). For this magnificently recorded first part of their Handel trilogy, which includes the two opuses 3 and 6, recorded in the Nikodemuskirche in Berlin between September 2018 and February 2019, the Akademie für Alte Musik paints rich, striking colours (already showcased in their album Water Music) while remaining attentive to polyphonies and phrasing. This record is a real pleasure throughout, and perhaps even more compelling than their recent album Water Music. – Pierre-Yves Lascar
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Bernhard Forck – Händel: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6 Nos. 7-12 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:13 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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This second volume of Handel’s Concerti grossi from Opus 6 was recorded by the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Frock, completing the first part published in July 2019. Once again, the sound recording is magnificently natural, brilliantly capturing the venue’s spatiality and the instruments’ full-bodied timbres.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Bernhard Forck – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:12 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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The almost encyclopedic undertaking that French label harmonia mundi has embarked on to celebrate the double anniversary of the birth and death of Beethoven between 2020 and 2027 has already proven itself to be captivating with its emphasis on contemporary works from the start of the 19th century. It also presents us with a version of Beethoven in direct contact with the works of his own era, a step away from the usual romanticised image of the solitary genius in his ivory tower.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Mozart: Gran Partita – Wind Serenades K. 361 & 375 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:45 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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When Mozart took up the popular genre of the serenade, it was to transcend it and lend it new lustre. A festive masterpiece of simplicity and emotion, his Gran Partita quickly became a genuine ‘hit’! Thanks to the distinctive, spellbinding timbres of their period instruments, the members of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin give a unique flavour to these two extraordinary serenades, over which there blows – as it were – a tremendous wind of freedom.
Blazers van de Akademie für Alte Musik hebben Mozarts serenades nr 10 (KV361) beter bekend als “Gran Partita” en nr. 11 (K.375) opgenomen. Beide werken worden uitgevoerd op authentieke instrumenten. Met name de luchtige “Gran Partita” werd in Mozarts tijd een ware hit. Zelfs tot op de dag van vandaag is dit werk nog steeds geliefd is én is het regelmatig op verschillende podia te horen.
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sophie Karthäuser – Bach: Dialogkantaten, BWV 32, 49 & 57 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:36 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Exquisite dialogue The church cantata very quickly came to occupy a privileged place in Bach’s output, but it was in his Leipzig period that he explored new stylistic possibilities for the genre in several cycles. The third of these, mostly scored for relatively small forces, features in these Dialogkantaten three fine examples of the ‘madrigalian’ type: in their arias, recitatives and chorales, the composer deploys a poetry that does not exclude audacity and an eloquence worthy of opera. These fervent musical conversations are here conducted con brio thanks to the rapport between two singers as moving as they are inspired.
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Aka Moon – Opus 111 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:59 minutes | 813 MB | Genre: Jazz
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In addition to being one of Beethovens most emblematic works, the Piano Sonata no.32 op.111 (1821-22) is a manifesto of radical modernity. It begins the process of disintegration of sonata form, a formal pillar for any composer of the preceding century, and introduces in its second movement a new method of constructing the musical phrase, to such an extent that some commentators regard it as marking the first stirrings of jazz. The innovations it presented, particularly in the field of rhythm, left most of the composers contemporaries perplexed. Here is an ideal space for the Aka Moon trio to occupy. It has called on three strong musical personalities for the occasion: the singer Fredy Massamba, who contributes his expressive power as an African storyteller; the rising star of the Portuguese accordion João Barradas, who adds a flavor of urban modernity with the added feature of playing both acoustic and electronic instruments; and the pianist Fabian Fiorini, a longstanding partner of the trio, who acts as the mirror musician for Beethovens sonata. It is through this nexus of meanings with multiple resonances that Fabrizio Cassol approaches Beethovens sonata, synchronizing emotional spaces that rise above periods, cultures and social or aesthetic viewpoints.
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Aka Moon, Fabrizio Cassol, Michel Hatzigeorgiou, Stéphane Galland – Now (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:54 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Since the group was founded 25 years ago, the career of Aka Moon has been punctuated by a myriad of original musical encounters. After their initiatory journey with the Aka Pygmies in 1992, an unappeased desire has always nourished the research of the three accomplices: the wish to share the knowledge, experience and secrets of other musicians from all backgrounds. Today, the necessity of the original trio is again expressed in NOW with the exceptional playing quality that has been acquired and refned over the course of numerous concerts. For although Aka Moon was undeniably born with a unique sound, the group has always made it evolve, absorbing, in particular, rhythms from the Orient, Africa or India.
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AJR – Neotheater (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Pop
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AJR is an American indie pop band composed of multi-instrumentalist brothers Adam, Jack and Ryan Met. The band is a DIY pop group who write, produce and mix their own material in the living room of their Chelsea apartment. Their top 5 successful songs include “Weak”, “Turning Out”, “100 Bad Days”, “Burn the House Down” and “Sober Up”. Their music style has been described as “electric”, combining elements of pop, doo-wop, electronic, and dubstep.The band name “AJR” comes from the first initials of the three brothers, Adam, Jack, and Ryan.
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Ajeet – Voices Like Rain (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:43 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Folk
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“Voices Like Rain”, our first ever live album, is now yours on all platforms!! Thank you for lending your hearts and voices to these concerts — this album could not be without you in it!
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Aitzol Iturriagagoitia & Enrique Bagaría – Violin and Piano Sonatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:34 minutes | 2,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two leading artists team up and bring together a selection of violin and piano masterpieces, performed in an outstanding and insightful way. Debussy’s sonata, composed in the last years of the French composer’s life, is full of sensuosity, while Janáček’s four-movement sonata is full of nationalistic feelings and of intense fragmentary gestures. The recording closes with Richard Strauss’s monumental and overtly romantic sonata, composed by the great German composer when still in his early twenties.
We can unashamedly say that Iturriagagoitia and Bagaría give one of the finest performances of these works and we truly believe this recording is a must have!
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Aisslinn Nosky – Mozart Violin Concertos, Vol. I (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:39 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mozarts Violin Concertos need little introduction from No. 3 in G major featuring the 19-year-old Mozart at his elegant, witty and beguilingly changeable best, to the Sinfonia Concertante the string concerto masterpiece with its masterly mixture of noble strength and tender lyricism, these are some of Mozarts most well-known and best-loved works. Handel and Haydn Society with their inspirational Concertmaster, Aisslinn Nosky, bring Mozarts musical magic to life in these live recordings from Bostons glorious Symphony Hall.
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Aisha Syed Castro & Martin Labazevitch – Heritage (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Violinist Aisha Syed Castro (b.1989) may well be one of the most remarkably gifted musicians to come from the Dominican Republic and the team at Divine Art are tremendously excited to have signed this young virtuoso for an album of works with principally American and Latin roots. She has been described as a ’virtuoso’ by the press on three continents, and has not only engaged in a busy and highly successful performing career but is tireless in her work for the underprivileged. Aisha is the Honorary Cultural Goodwill Ambassador of the Dominican Republic and works devotedly through charitable ventures (some of which she founded) to bring classical music to the underprivileged and socially disadvantaged.
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Aisha Burns – Argonauta (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 30:41 minutes | 324 MB | Genre: Alternative
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Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and currently residing in Beverly, Massachusetts, violinist, vocalist and songwriter Aisha Burns began playing violin when she was 10 years old, and has been touring and recording since 2006. Soon after moving to Austin in 2005, she gained her start with folk-rock outfit Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, and joined the instrumental ensemble Balmorhea on violin in 2007. After years of secret singing, she released her solo debut Life in the Midwater in 2013. Called “twisting, ethereal…arresting” by Dazed Magazine, and praised for its “delicate intimacy” by NPR, Life in the Midwater explored mortality and relationships with candor and wisdom. Her new album Argonauta, is a collection of songs about her struggle with the grief of losing her mother, while also navigating a new relationship, and ultimately trying to figure out what the new normal is for her life.
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Airwaves – Multiverse (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:24 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
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The late Oscar Menzel, who recorded as Airwaves, left a significant legacy that the electronic music community has routinely failed to acknowledge or come to grips with. An admirer and obvious colleague-in-spirit to pioneers Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Robert Schroeder, Pete Namlook, and so many other recognized synthi boffins, Menzel’s small but important catalog bristles with enough ideas to fill dozens of albums, accomplishing within a mere handful of recordings what lesser artists spend a lifetime attempting. The follow-up to his earlier Carpe Sonum issue Biomechanical, Multiverse represents his unreleased fourth work, and as part of his broader oeuvre, will undoubtedly go down as one helluva swan song. Utilizing a vast array of then-contemporary equipment—his gear list reads like a portfolio of the finest analog creations birthed by Moog, Korg, Ensoniq and Roland—Multiverse is a synth fetishist’s wet dream, a kaleidoscopic trip down the alleyways of both Menzel’s soundmakers and his hyperkinetic-embodied imagination. Gear aside, none of these pieces in any way act like demonstration tracks for would-be weekend synth warriors; there’s a devilish muse at work here, a symbiotic relationship between player and module, a literal man-machine. The high-energy photons Menzel prods from his devices are nothing short of astounding, the actual compositions bordering on revolutionary—never one to become merely a sum of his influences, Menzel literally ignites these dazzling excursions with a deft sweep of hand, diamond-sharp prisms fragmenting every blip, bleep, bulge, and blush into a million points of interplanetary light. Travelling the spaceways like no other, both Multiverse and the entire Airwaves catalog sports a cadre of visionary achievements that are utterly magical to behold.
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