luminatus & David Bray – O Beata Virgo Maria: Renaissance & Contemporary Choral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:43 minutes | 2,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album features relatively unfamiliar and previously unrecorded music written by contemporary female composers, and Renaissance composers. The repertoir features several texts based on a Marian theme.
Read moreJames Freeman – Chopin, Schumann & Others: Piano Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:16 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms: Capriccio in B minor, Op. 76 No. 2; Brahms: Intermezzi (3), Op. 117; Brahms: Intermezzo in E major, Op. 116 No. 4; Debussy: Préludes – Book 1; Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15.
James Freeman (born 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Music at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. He is also the artistic director and conductor of Philadelphia’s renowned contemporary music chamber orchestra and ensemble, Orchestra 2001, which he founded in 1988. He was trained at Harvard University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D), Tanglewood, and Vienna’s Akademie für Musik. He counts among his principal teachers pianists Artur Balsam and Paul Badura-Skoda and his father, double bassist Henry Freeman.
As a conductor, he has commissioned and given the first performances of many new works by American composers. In 1990 he was given the first Philadelphia Music Foundation’s award for achievement in Classical Music. Other honors include two Fulbright Fellowships, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Swarthmore College, the German Government, and Harvard University’s Paine Traveling Fellowship. He spent the spring of 1991 at the Moscow Conservatory as a guest conductor and lecturer on new American music.”
Read moreJacob Anderskov – I sang (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:27 minutes | 661 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © April Records & Music Co.
With over 25 albums to his name and numerous awards and accolades from international press, Danish pianist/composer Jacob Anderskov is recognized as a transformative force in contemporary music. His upcoming record ventures into engaging in dialogue with Denmark’s quintessential “Højskolesangbogen” — a beloved late 19th-century collection of singalongs, folk songs, and hymns which remains tightly woven into the fabric of Danish cultural identity.
‘I Sang’ is set to release on February 2nd on April Records.
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