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New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti – Verdi: Aida [2 SACDs] (1974/2018)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:26:22 minutes | 5,87 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-85/6
https://www.discogs.com/release/30421091-Verdi-Montserrat-Caball%C3%A9-Placido-Domingo-Fiorenza-Cossotto-Piero-Cappuccilli-Nicolai-Ghiaurov-Royal
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Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe – Wagner: Lohengrin [3 SACDs] (1962-1963/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 03:37:46 minutes | 8,74 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Tower Records Japan – TDSA-142/4
https://www.discogs.com/release/30413546-Wagner-Jess-Thomas-Elisabeth-Gr%C3%BCmmer-Dietrich-Fischer-Dieskau-Christa-Ludwig-Gottlob-Frick-Otto-Wie
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London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra & Claudio Abbado – Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Scythian Suite, Lieutenant Kije (1977-1979/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:51 minutes | 3,17 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90258
https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/essg-90258/top
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Sviatoslav Richter – Piano Concertos [4 SACDs] (1969-1979/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 04:33:16 minutes | 11,02 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-196/9
リヒテルが旧EMIレーベルに収録したソロのピアノ協奏曲8曲を4枚組に集成。それぞれ名盤として名高い壮年期の重要な記録。
最上の音質を目指し新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化し最新復刻。
8曲目のモーツァルトは、新規でマルチチャンネルのマスターよりミキシングしマスタリング。
DISC4は世界初SACD化。新規解説付
リヒテルが1969年から79年にかけて4名の指揮者、5つのオーケストラと共演した旧EMIレーベルへのピアノ協奏曲8曲を収録。一部世界初SACD化。壮年期のテクニック溢れるリヒテルのこれらの録音はレコード史的にも重要な録音ばかりで、それぞれが名演として知られています。クライバーとの唯一の共演盤となったドヴォルザークを始め、自ら評価していたグリーグの圧倒的名演等、聴きどころが満載。今回、従来以上の192Khz/24bitのスペックであらためて本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープよりデジタル化を行った上で最新のマスタリングを施し、神髄に迫りました。SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリングしているのは従来通りです。新規解説付。永久保存盤です。(1/3)
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Emma Stevens – Bloom (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:02 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Emma Stevens Music Ltd
My new album Bloom comes out in two days and I’m so excited for the world to hear the songs!!! I have had SO much fun writing and co-producing this album. So many amazingly talented people have gone in to making this album what it is – especially @srbass who mixed it, as well as played on it and co produced it. All the musicians and collaborators – thank you so much for sharing your gift!
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Doppler Duo – Danish Concertos for Recorder and Organ (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Svitzer Music
Danish Concertos for Recorder and Organ contains world premiere recordings of four major original works and transcriptions by composer Thomas Koppel, composer and painter Martin Lohse, composer and jazz pianist Thomas Clausen and composer and organist Lars Kristian Hansen.
Thomas Koppel’s iconic symphonic work “Moonchild’s Dream” has been recorded by the two musicians with special permission from Annisette in this innovative and impressive version for recorder and organ.
The two soloist-trained musicians in Doppler Duo, recorder Monica Schmidt Andersen and organist Tina Christiansen, have both received awards at international competitions, and their extensive international careers have taken them far and wide to festivals, concert halls and cathedrals across large parts of Europe, as well as in Russia and Australia.
Together in Doppler Duo, they tackle some of the most demanding works with great energy and enthusiasm, and the duo’s many performances have caused great excitement in Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
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Billy Porter – Black Mona Lisa (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:11 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal-Island Records Ltd.
In 1997, having already made his Broadway debut, performing arts polymath Billy Porter released a self-titled album of smooth R&B that he has since noted deliberately hid his queerness. Over the next 25 years he maintained a presence on Broadway and released a trio of soul-styled, Broadway-themed albums. In the 2010s, he became a Tony- and Emmy-winning queer icon with his roles in Broadway’s Kinky Boots and on TV’s Pose. With Porter describing it as not only a celebration of life but a lifetime in the making, 2023’s Black Mona Lisa finds him at last expressing his authentic self on record with a series of reflections and affirmations drawing on his life experience, shifting outlook, and growing sense of empowerment. These take the form of old-school disco, house, and funk anthems (and the occasional ballad) penned with help from Grammy-winning non-binary songwriter Justin Tranter (Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande). “Broke a Sweat” sets the click track to 120 bpm and gets things going with a kiss-off to those who would push him into the background (“Clipped wings can grow back with good intentions/I’m tired of asking for their permission”). Next up, the Billboard-charting, “Lady Marmalade”-esque “Children” lights a fire under the younger generation (“Been there, done that, worn that dress”), and the strutting, half-rapped “Black Mona Lisa” employs a horn section to help demand his worth. Mixed in with these more celebratory, even preening moments are earnest sentiments concerning hard-won opportunity, expression, and transformation. It’s these songs, including “Not Ashamed” and the soaring piano ballad “Audacity,” that earn the cathartic release of the rest, including the closing reworking of “Children,” “Children (What Time It Is),” a triumphant duet with the album’s sole guest vocalist, Lady Blackbird. – Marcy Donelson
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Ariel Posen – Reasons Why (Redux) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 501 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ariel Posen
This is Ariel Posen’s 3rd set with “Reasons Why” produced by Murray Pulver (bgv) with Ariel (vocals/guitar/piano/synths). Recorded in Canada with a warm production approach there are plenty of idealistic passes in his music (“Learning How To Say Goodbye”). The vocals & music are well-applied. He even sounds loosely modeled after Jakob Dylan vocally in some tunes which makes it engaging.
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Alex Sopp – The Hem & The Haw (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:09 minutes | 528 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Amsterdam
On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem & The Haw (April 19, 2024) via New Amsterdam Records. Sopp has been praised by the New York Times as “exquisite” and “beautifully nuanced”, and is a founding member of yMusic, The Knights, NOW Ensemble, and the Berlin-based Between Worlds Ensemble.
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Ludovico Einaudi – Le Onde (1996/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:01 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ponderosa Music
Released in 1996, Le Onde “The Waves” was the first solo piano album released by Ludovico Einaudi. The incredible work featured the following quote from the man himself. “If it were a story it would be set on the seafront of a long beach. A beach without beginning and without end. The story of a man who walks along this shore and perhaps never meets anyone. His gaze lingers occasionally to look at some object or fragment brought from the sea. The footprints of a crab or a solitary seagull. I always take the sand, the sky, some clouds, the sea. Only the waves change, always the same and different, smaller. larger. Shorter. Longer.”
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Liliane Berton – Ganne: Hans, le joueur de flûte (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:35 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Hans, le joueur de flûte is a ravishing opera, loosely based on the legend of Hamelin’s pied piper popularized notably by the Grimm Brothers, composed by Louis Ganne and premiered in Monte-Carlo in 1906. Rarely recorded, its best rendition is undoubtedly this beautiful 1967 performance with the best French singers of their time, including Liliane Berton and the amazing baritone Michel Dens in the title-role.
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Laith Al-Deen – Dein Begleiter (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:14 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC
“Dein Begleiter”, das elfte Studioalbum von Laith Al-Deen, erscheint am 19. April 2024, passend zu seiner Frühjahrstour.
Laith bezeichnet es als “eine moderne Produktion. Ich habe in meiner Band fast ausschließlich Leute an Bord, die ich seit Beginn meiner Karriere kenne. Einige Texte sind äußerst autobiographisch. Andere wiederum stecken voller Anekdoten von Freunden und Menschen, mit denen ich Songs schreibe, die sowohl erlebt als auch fiktiv sind.”
Mit dem neuen Werk besingt die charismatische Größe des Deutsch-Pops mit der einzigartigen Soul-Stimme das Leben in all seinen Facetten. Die Albumankündigung wird von der Videopremiere zu Laiths zweiter Single “Dein Begleiter” begleitet und bietet einen exklusiven Einblick hinter die Kulissen.
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Erin Morley, Gerald Martin Moore – Rose in Bloom (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:34 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orchid Classics
Erin Morley is one of today’s most sought after coloratura sopranos, and her debut recital album presents a thoughtfully curated program which mirrors a stroll through a garden, delving into rich repertoire inspired by flowers, birds, and nature. Morley, known for her operatic roles, draws on connections to the natural world, offering a mix of well-known pieces, contemporary compositions, and hidden gems. A notable feature is the premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Huit Chansons de Fleurs,” a contemporary song cycle exploring themes of death, resurrection, fragrance, and the fleeting nature of beauty, adding a layer of poignancy to an album which features a diverse selection of vocal repertoire. Among the album’s highlights is Saint-Saens’s “La Libellule,” a rarely heard gem capturing the agile movement of a dragonfly. Sullivan’s “Rose-in-Bloom” stands out as the first to present the aria in its original key, the heights of the final cadenza just one example of Morley’s extraordinary performance of the repertoire. The program also includes compositions by Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky, and Milhaud, exploring further connections to the themes of blossoms and birds. “Rose in Bloom” is an exploration of nature’s influence on music, a testament to Erin Morley’s artistry and originality, and a delightful journey through a garden of musical encounters.
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