Porcupine Tree – Voyage 34: The Complete Trip (Remastered) (2000/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:44 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kscope
“Voyage 34: The Complete Trip” is a compilation album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. The individual tracks were recorded in 1992 or 1993, while the album itself was compiled and released in 2000, reissued in 2004, and then reissued again as remastered Hi-Res album in 2017.
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Pangaea Chamber Players – Three Perspectives (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 521 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
The piano trio Pangaea Chamber Players explores the fickle nexus between music and visual art in their Navona release THREE PERSPECTIVES. While the ensemble’s flute-cello-piano setup might evoke ideas of Baroque music, there are no such reminiscences to be found. Instead, the young trio presents three new compositions by contemporary composers. Although recent works, all pieces on THREE PERSPECTIVES are tonal – perhaps owing to their descriptive, illustrative purpose. The album’s title, after all, hints at the connections between musical and visual artistic expressions: music inspired by art, music inspired by artists, and art inspired by music.
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Paramore – After Laughter (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:38 minutes | 909 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fueled By Ramen
After Laughter is the fifth studio album by American rock band Paramore. After Laughter represents a departure from the usual punk pop and alternative rock sound of their previous releases. The album touches on themes of exhaustion, depression and anxiety, contrasting the upbeat and vibrant sound of the record. Upon release, After Laughter received critical acclaim from music critics, who praised the band’s new sonic direction and the 1980’s new wave and synth-pop sound on the album.
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Paolo Rigano – Boccherini, de Murcia, & Others: Music for Archlute, Baroque Guitar, Organ & Harpsichord (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:28 minutes | 886 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Tactus
Paolo Rigano ha studiato chitarra classica presso il conservatorio V.Bellini di Palermo. Dal 1979 si dedica allo studio ed alla interpretazione della musica rinascimentale e barocca. Ha studiato liuto e tiorba con H. Smith,E. Ferré, K. Frantzen, A.Damiani, F.Marincola ed ha partecipato ad importanti stages internazionali sulla tecnica liutistica e sulla interpretazione della Musica Antica.
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Pan American – The Patience Fader (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:57 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © kranky
The glacial distillation of Pan•American aka Mark Nelson’s “romantic minimalism” achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky collection, The Patience Fader.
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Palace – Shoals (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:47 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fiction
London-based Palace release their third album Shoals via Fiction. Shoals is a profound and pensive album, boldly exploring some of life’s greatest questions over its 12 mesmerising tracks. the album deftly explores three main existential dilemmas against a broader backdrop of wonder at the vastness and power of the ocean, concluding its arc with the stunning opus ‘where sky becomes sea’. through diving into themes of the subconscious, dreams and existentialism, Shoals is broadly a record about living with and processing fear. the album’s title is inspired by the seemingly unpredictable behaviour of shoals of fish, shifting rapidly in much the same way as our fears and anxieties of the world around us.
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Paavo Järvi, Orchestre de Paris – Sibelius: Complete Symphonies (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:51:47 minutes | 4,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Labels Inc.
Internationally acclaimed and Grammy winning conductor Paavo Järvi directs one of the worlds finest orchestra’s, the Orchestre de Paris, in this outstanding collection of all seven of Sibelius’ symphonies. As the music director of Orchestre de Paris (2019-2016), he has performed several works by Sibelius including the seven symphonies. In 2015, he was presented with the Sibelius medal by the Finnish Ambassador to France, Risto Piipponen, for his remarkable work in promoting the music of Sibelius throughout France. Sibelius: Complete Symphonies will be the first ever recording of Sibelius’ complete symphonies by a French orchestra. Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957) is recognized as one of the greatest composers of the late Romantic periods. He is the most noted composer of Finland, and his seven symphonies are regularly performed and recorded both in his home country and worldwide.
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Paganini Ensemble Vienna – Paganini: Quartets for Strings & Guitar Nos. 7, 14 & 15 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Dynamic
Niccolò Paganini’s Quartets for Strings and Guitar offer some of the best examples of his inexhaustible creativity, including ideas and themes that were later included in his more famous concertos. The Seventh Quartet combines mastery of form with endless melodic inventiveness, while the Fourteenth is more virtuosic, allowing its dedicatee to shine as a violinist with splendid effectiveness. The dark colour of the viola gives unique timbre to the Fifteenth Quartet which, with its moments of operatic expressiveness, is outstanding in Paganini’s chamber music output. Volume 1 of this edition (CDS7912) was considered “first-rate” in every regard by the American Record Guide.
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Pacific Chorale, Robert Istad – All Things Common (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:57 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Yarlung Records
The music of composer Tarik O’Regan is determinedly eclectic, with British, North African, and American sources of various kinds. Among its uniquely fascinating aspects is that he draws on the British choral tradition in which he was trained without being fully part of it. This collection of choral pieces gives a good idea of the variety of his style, and the performances by California’s Pacific Chorale under director Robert Istad add a new dimension, with a fine, warm acoustic. The program consists of religious works and pieces, drawn from various kinds of poetry that might be called spiritual. O’Regan has a strong ear for poetry like John Rutter, but his tonal palette is both more diverse and more bracing. Some of the pieces here are short, lyrical works of a transparent vein; try “I Listen to the Stillness of You,” a lovely D.H. Lawrence setting excerpted from a larger work for an ideally stable conclusion. Ecstasies Above, a setting Edgar Allan Poe, has a complex texture, including two vocal quartets and a string quartet that seems to draw on American folk music or bluegrass. The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis is an entirely different kind of piece, although it’s recognizably the music of the same composer. The work includes spoken passages and various kinds of choral treatments, including polyphony, chant, and minimalist passages, as well as a solo cello. The singers, a 24-person group extracted from the larger Pacific Chorale, are challenged with a quiet high C and execute it perfectly. A consistently interesting program and beautiful singing make this one of the strongest American choral releases of 2020.
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Paolo Fresu – Tango macondo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:42 minutes | 817 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tuk Music
Il venditore di metafores”, a show produced by the Stabile Di Bolzano that opens the 21/22 season.
Tango Macondo. Il venditore Di metafore ” is a show written and directed by Giorgio Gallione, freely inspired by the work “Il venditore di metafore” by Salvatore Niffoi (ed Giunti).
Interwoven with the narration provided to Ugo Dighero, Rosanna Naddeo and Paul Li Volsi, music composed by Paolo Fresu and performed live with Daniele di Bonaventura (bandoneon) and Pierpaolo Cow (organ), dance of the Deos Ensemble – Work Studio led by choreographer John Di Cicco, and the scenic elements of Marcello Chiarenza.
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Polina Osetinskaya – Bach & Scarlatti (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:48 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Melodiya
“A master jeweller. In her subtle, if not to say refined, refined interpretation the composer appeared as a philosophical intellectual, and it is thanks to these pensive and critical interpretations that Polina Osetinskaya proffers that Shostakovich’s music remains topical and even highly relevant art.”
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