Mickey Jupp – Up Snakes, Down Ladders (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:58 minutes | 481 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Conquest Records Limited
This is Mickey’s first album release of new recordings in nearly forty years. That’s quite some time. Just think what you were up to forty years ago and what’s happened to you since! He is quite often referred to as the godfather of pub rock and was once referred to as a “white Chuck Berry” by a DJ.
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Marian Kittner – Requiem (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 684 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © tsARTmusic
The world premiere of the Requiem by the Slovak composer and arranger Marián Kittner, who gained a reputation mainly for his arrangements for seven years of the prestigious Christmas project in Bratislava. The inspiration for his composition was the famous Requiem of Antonín Dvořák, whose 180. the anniversary of the birth is commemorated this year. The Requiem is dedicated to the memory of Peter martinček, an important Slovak composer who died in February this year and with whom the composer M. Kittner intensively consulted this work. Given the extraordinary situation in the world marked by the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the work reflects cultural and spiritual values in the form of a kind of inner silence and pacification. The Requiem, which we present at a time when we commemorate our loved ones with the memory of the deceased, will be performed by the acclaimed opera conductor Rastislav štúr with famous opera singers and the Lúčnica choir.
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Mogwai – Black Bird (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:15 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rock Action Records
In exciting music news, Scottish rock band Mogwai has been tapped to provide the score for the upcoming Taron Egerton–Paul Walter Hauser limited series Black Bird, which will premiere July 8 on Apple TV+, an individual familiar with the project has told Below the Line.
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Maria Narodytska – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 32, Opp. 7 & 111 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:30 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
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Maria Narodytska is a pianist of Ukrainian origin. Her international concert activity includes such venues as Laeiszhalle in Hamburg; Sala Maffeiana in Verona; Casa da Musica in Porto; Ruth Taylor Recital Hall in San Antonio; Hylton Performing Arts Center in Virginia as well as theaters and concert halls all over the world.
In 2019 an album with Maria Narodytska playing Brahms was released under the label OnClassical for further worldwide distribution by Naxos of America. This work has already got a positive review at Rai Radio 3 – one of the most important radio stations in Italy, devoted to classical music. Her second album for Nationalux as a winner of “The most beloved artist” prize at Richter IPC was released on the 18th of September 2020. Her third album devoted to Schubert appeared under OnClassical, published by Naxos of America in March 2021.
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Maria Martinova – Debussy, Ravel & Zanon: Nuit et Jour (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:50 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RUBICON
A wonderfully and sensitively curated recital of piano music with light and darkness, or night and day as the central theme. Water, fantastical dreams and visions also inhabit the world conjured by Maria Martinova from the music of Debussy, Ravel and the contemporary Swiss composer Gregorio Zanon, who’s two movement work gives this album its title. Martinova’s pianism is by turn dazzling, tender and dramatic as she interprets the vivid sound world of these composers.
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Marek Szlezer – Chopin: Piano Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:11 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © DUX
This new recording presents selected piano works of Fryderyk Chopin, and the return of pianist Marek Szlezer to, as he himself writes, the “piano house”, which for him is the oeuvre of one of the most famous composers in the world.
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Miklós Rózsa – Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:19 minutes | 719 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Miklos Rozsa’s final soundtrack on new 2-CD set! Released as part of the ongoing Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection and in honor of Rozsa’s 115th birthday (April 18, 1907), Intrada presents Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid, the composer’s masterful tribute to his own scoring style of the Golden Age and his very final film soundtrack. Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin in this 1982 homage to film noir, replete with murder, mystery and romance. Rachel Ward co-stars with a treasure trove of famous “cameos” by Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Burt Lancaster, Alan Ladd and others in bits from White Heat, The Lost Weekend, The Big Sleep, The Postman Always Rings Twice, This Gun For Hire and other classics. Miklos Rozsa has a most unusual opportunity to compose a rich symphonic score tipping his hat to the edged, aggressive dynamics of his earlier Double Indemnity and The Killers as well as paying tribute to his lush romantic vernacular. In signature fashion, Rozsa writes an angular motif for the suspense in the movie, full of interval leaps and intensity. Getting equal attention in the other direction is his warm, ravishing love theme, itself full of dips and swirls. Both ideas permeate the score throughout with a degree of forward motion and pace. Keeping the orchestra in tempo is noted film music composer Lee Holdridge, who was brought in to conduct Rozsa’s “swan song” to the art form he so excelled at and earned three Academy Awards in the process. Intrada’s presentation of this splendid work has been assembled and mastered from the 1/2” three-channel stereo scoring session masters vaulted in pristine condition in the Universal archives. CD 1 contains Rozsa’s entire 62-minute score, CD 2 presents additional scoring cues and alternates. Footnote: Besides being the last soundtrack scored by Miklos Rozsa, this film was also the last to feature the incomparable costume designing of Edith Head. Score recorded in January 1982 by Robert Fernandez at The Burbank Studios. Lee Holdridge conducts, Miklos Rozsa composes. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain!
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Mona Krogstad – Virgo Sun (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:16 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Øra Fonogram
Mona Krogstad is a saxophonist and composer, graduated from Jazzlinja at NTNU in Trondheim and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Mona thinks music is one of the most beautiful forms of communication we humans create with each other, and is fascinated by the fact that the language of music can contain so many images, feelings and moods.
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