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The Vaccines – Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:34 minutes | 399 MB | Genre: Rock
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Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines – Justin Young (lead vocals, guitars), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, vocals) and Yoann Intonti (drums) – are back with their sixth studio album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations. The title comes from a misheard lyric from Don McClean’s “American Pie,” a song that for Young fittingly evokes the death of innocence and the American Dream. After he moved to Los Angeles – a city the band has grown up being captivated by – he was forced to wrestle with the disillusionment that comes when expectations, dreams, and reality don’t quite meet. Yet, though Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations is an album about reconciling with loss, it’s also filled with gratitude for the people and places we once loved.
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Suyeon Kang, Karolina Errera, Andrei Ioniţ, Catalin Serbană – Mélodies Infinies: Fauré & Enescu Piano Quartets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:29 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the ‘Ars Gallica’ idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. Fauré didn’t entirely escape the influence of Brahms however, and both he and his pupil George Enescu share a spiritual closeness to German late Romanticism in the melancholy complexity of expression in these chamber masterpieces. The monumental first movement of Enescu’s First Piano Quartet contrasts with the rhythmic momentum of the last, in a work that integrates French impressionism with the unmistakable folk music characteristics of his native Romania.
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Steven Devine – Krebs: Keyboard Works, Vol. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:28 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Classical
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Keyboardist Steven Devine continues this complete survey of Johann Ludwig Krebs’ significant contribution to the keyboard genre with the third volume in this series dedicated to the composer’s keyboard works. Featuring one of the three surviving Partitas from a presumed set of six, this album also includes the world premiere recording of Krebs’ Six Keyboard Sonatas (Krebs-WV 832-837), that only came to light during the historic restoration of the archive of the Sing-Akademie to Berlin following its removal to Ukraine during the war in 1943. With a compositional style that points to a period later in Krebs’s life, these charming, witty and sometimes quirky works clearly demonstrate the composer’s confident yet straightforward charm.
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Sibylle Mahni – Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:09 minutes | 886 MB | Genre: Classical
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Studies with Prof. Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt/Main, graduation with concert exam; scholarship holder with the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) and the “Villa Musica”; prizewinner at numerous international competitions, among them the ARD Music Competition in Munich.
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Ryoko Morooka, Stepan Simonian, Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, Gil Sharon, Niklas Schmidt, Fine Arts Quartet – Dvořák: String Quartet No. 2, Bagatelles & Rondo, B. 171 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Classical
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Antonín Dvořák is revered as one of the greatest composers of late 19th-century Romanticism. He is celebrated for the kind of poignant melodies redolent of Czech folk music found in the utterly charming Bagatelles and Rondo – the haunting tunes and harmonic twists of which represent the distinctive style that brought him international fame. Less known is that during the years 1868–70 Dvořák composed in a style so wild for the time that it foreshadowed the modernistic innovations of Schoenberg and his contemporaries. Dvořák’s Second Quartet reveals fascinating examples of early experimentation before his transition into the harmonious Slavic style for which he is so beloved.
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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Jean-Luc Tingaud – Franck & Chausson: Symphonies (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:58 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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César Franck’s only symphony came at a time when the French music world was seeking to rival the great Austro-German tradition. The ‘darkness-to-light’ narrative of the Symphony in D minor owes a debt to Beethoven and there is a unique power within its distinctive themes, innovative cyclic form and general gravitas. Franck’s student Ernest Chausson was no doubt inspired by his teacher’s thematic metamorphoses, but the anguished influence of Wagner is also ever present. The published score of the Symphony in B flat major includes many errors which conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud has meticulously corrected after careful study of Chausson’s autograph manuscripts.
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Ronald Woodley – Luminos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:40 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metier
A captivating anthology of British clarinet compositions curated and performed by versatile musician Ronald Woodley and pianist Andrew West. This collection explores British musical modernism, featuring both new and underappreciated pieces from the twentieth century by composers Elisabeth Lutyens, Liz Dilnot Johnson, Angela Elizabeth Slater, Morris Pert, Christopher Fox, and Edward Cowie. Woodley’s deep-rooted fascination for the basset horn, inspired by Lutyens, drove him to rediscover the world of British musical modernism, revealing its complexities and dynamics.
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NeBeLNeST – NeBeLNeST (1999/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Rock
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NeBeLNeST were one of the most adventurous and energetic young bands to emerge on the international post-rock / avant-progressive scene in the late 90s. The young French band was noted for its dark symphonic rock music influenced by King Crimson, Shylock and Univers Zero/Present, laced with psychedelia and improvisation, and played with a riveting level of energy and intensity derived from the hardcore and noise scenes. In the words of the Chicago Tribune: “these French sound sculptors chisel out large-scale instrumentals that pair up the weird sonics and improvisational bent of mid-period King Crimson with a Gong-like space fusion ambience…[They] borrow bits and pieces of old school art rock and arrange them into a singular sound awash in dissonance and strangely mutated guitar/keyboard tones.”
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Martin Jones – Elisabeth Lutyens: Piano Works, Volume 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:30 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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In this, the final volume of his landmark survey of the piano works of Elisabeth Lutyens, pianist Martin Jones presents further world premiere recordings from this undeservedly neglected composer. Featuring works from across the span of Lutyen’s career, the earliest works to be included on this album are the short pieces Overture, Berceuse, Barcarolle and Dance Souvenance from 1944. The unpublished Holiday Diary from 1949, Helix from 1967, and Three Books of Bagatelles from 1979 complete the set.
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Markus Poschner, Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5 & No. 6 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:26:32 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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Markus Poschner studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Hermann Michael. His mentors and patrons included Roger Norrington, Colin Davis and Jorma Panula.
From 2000 to 2006, Poschner was chief conductor of the Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt. He then held the position of 1st Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin. There he worked with directors such as Hans Neuenfels, Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki and Sebastian Baumgarten. In 2007, Poschner joined the Bremen Philharmonic and Theater Bremen as General Music Director. He has been chief conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana since 2015.
He has led the Bruckner Orchestra Linz since 2017. At the Landestheater Linz, he took over the opera productions Die tote Stadt by Korngold and Wagner’s Meistersinger von Nürnberg in the 2022/2023 season. In February 2023, it was announced that Poschner will lead the Basel Symphony Orchestra as chief conductor from 2025 and has signed a five-year contract
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Kali Uchis – ORQUÍDEAS (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:19 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen Records
Das Release für das vierte Studioalbum der Grammy Gewinnerin Kali Uchis »Orquídeas« ist angekündigt. Das Album ist eine Hommage an ihre kolumbianischen Wurzeln – rein spanische Songs und eine Reise durch die lateinamerikanische Musikkultur. Inspiriert von der sinnlichen Anziehungskraft der kolumbianischen Nationalblume, der Orchidee, durchquert »Orquídeas« mehrere lateinamerikanische Genres, darunter Reggaeton, Dembow, Bolero und Salsa. 2023 bringt sie »Orquideas« auch auf LP raus.
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Judy Whitmore – Come Fly With Me (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:44 minutes | 881 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tiger Turn
Vocalist, pilot, and best-selling author Judy Whitmore introduces her rendition of “Come Fly With Me,” the title track from her upcoming album, slated for release in 2024.
“Come Fly With Me” integrates two of Judy’s greatest passions: traveling the world and continuing the legacy of the Great American Songbook. Recorded with a full orchestra at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, the forthcoming album reveals a lavish elegance, immediately enveloping the listener in its lush, soaring surfaces.
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