Simone Kopmajer – New Romance (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:06 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
Austrian singer Simone Kopmajer’s (formerly known simply as “Simone”) new release from Venus Records is a fresh and thrilling encounter of classical music and jazz. Simone and lyricist Karolin Tuerk wrote the lyrics to well-known classical melodies by Liszt, Chopin, Ravel, Bach and others, and performed them with talented Viennese musicians. Surprisingly, these new “songs” sound natural and even familiar, as if they are jazz standards. A fascinating, new jazz vocal album!
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Rita Coolidge – Play Something Sweet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:29 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Time-Life Music
Coolidge has won numerous Grammy awards, provided a hit single for James Bond movie and promoted Native American music and heritage during her lengthy career. But this is the first time that she’s gathered together an incredible band, brought in the famous Waters family for background vocal support and produced a collection of tracks that is both full of hits and adds some great Southern funk to her repertoire. On an early June afternoon in 2010, AIX Records captured the amazing talents of Rita Coolidge in full HD-Audio and 3D video. If you’ve got the right equipment, Rita and the band are in your living room.
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Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Hungarian National Choir & Gergely Madaras – Franck: Les Béatitudes (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:59:28 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuga Libera
César Franck considered Les Béatitudes, for soloists, choir and orchestra, to be his greatest work. It was perhaps Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion that prompted him to begin a work in 1869 that too would be dominated by the voice of Christ. Franck worked on Les Béatitudes for ten years and created an original and deeply personal renewal of the oratorio form in 19th-century France. This is no simple musical depiction of a subject taken from the Gospel: Franck, a firm believer in the precepts of the Beatitudes, was here inspired to write a bold and personal work, driven by the ideal of justice that its music unforgettable portrays.
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Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra and Choir – Der fliegende Holländer live 1963 conducted by Karl Böhm (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:58 minutes | 2,20 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Walhall Eternity Series
The Metropolitan Opera is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented singers, conductors, composers, musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
Since the summer of 2006, Peter Gelb has been the Met’s general manager—the 16th in company history. Under his leadership, the Met has elevated its theatrical standards by significantly increasing the number of new productions, staged by the most imaginative directors working in theater and opera, and has launched a series of initiatives to broaden its reach internationally.
Los Romeros – Vivaldi Guitar Concertos (1965/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:57 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Los Romeros, The Romeros o The Romero Guitar Quartet, es un cuarteto de guitarra española conocido comercialmente como “La familia real de la guitarra”. Sus integrantes son todos de la familia Romero, originaria de Andalucía (España) y residente en California (Estados Unidos).
El cuarteto fue fundado en 1960 por Celedonio Romero, un guitarrista español nacido en Cienfuegos (Cuba) aunque siendo un niño se trasladó a Málaga, de donde era originaria su familia, hasta que emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1957, durante la dictadura de Francisco Franco. El cuarteto quedó conformado por Celedonio y sus tres hijos: Ángel, Celín y Pepe. En 1990 Ángel abandonó el grupo y fue reemplazado por Celino, hijo de Celín. Celedonio Romero murió en 1996 en San Diego y su lugar fue ocupado por Lito Romero, hijo de Ángel.
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Los Romeros – The World of Flamenco (1967/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:55 minutes | 3,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
The Romero brothers are classically trained sons of a master guitarist who build an “electrical crescendo” with their music that sometimes transforms the decorum of classical concerts into the explosiveness of a rock concert. Standing ovations are the norm.
Celedonio Romero and his family belong to a generation that, in the years following the Spanish Civil War, fled the cultural desert of the Franco regime, especially in regards to music. Along with the many other expatriates among whom I found myself, we had to open roads distant from Spain, but thanks also to this exile we could carry our art to the world and collaborate in creating an image of Spain that did not consist solely of bullfights and flamenco.
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Los Romeros – The Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar (1962/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:46 minutes | 1,75 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Few men have done as much to spread the music of the Spanish guitar as the late Celedonio Romero, virtuoso, composer and poet. His musical legacy lives on in the legendary guitar quartet he formed with his sons Celin, Pepe and Angel, and continues today with grandsons Celino and Lito.
Through captivating interviews, archival footage, and with evocative performances – from Bach to de Falla and Rodrigo – the one hour documentary chronicles the Romero family’s Spanish roots, their flight from Franco’s Spain to California in 1957, the birth of the quartet in 1960, and an evolving Romero dynasty of the classical guitar.
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Los Romeros – Rodrigo: Concierto Andaluz; Concierto de Aranjuez (1968/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:17 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Universal Music presents a stunning high-resolution transfer of Los Romeros 1968 programme of works from Joaquín Rodrigo, remastered for modern digital systems!
Los Romeros, The Romero Guitar Quartet, is a guitar quartet, sometimes known as “The Royal Family of the Guitar” — their personnel consists entirely of members of the Romero family.
The quartet was founded in 1960 by Celedonio Romero, who grew up in Franco’s Spain. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1957. All three of his sons, Angel, Celin and Pepe, had made their performing debuts by the time they were seven. In 1957, the Romeros moved to the United States, where they continue to reside. In 1990 Angel left the quartet, and was replaced by Celin’s son Celino. Celedonio Romero died in 1996, and was replaced by Angel’s son Lito.
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Los Romeros – Baroque Concertos And Solo Works (1965/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:53 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Los Romeros, The Romeros o The Romero Guitar Quartet, es un cuarteto de guitarra española conocido comercialmente como “La familia real de la guitarra”. Sus integrantes son todos de la familia Romero, originaria de Andalucía (España) y residente en California (Estados Unidos).
El cuarteto fue fundado en 1960 por Celedonio Romero, un guitarrista español nacido en Cienfuegos (Cuba) aunque siendo un niño se trasladó a Málaga, de donde era originaria su familia, hasta que emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1957, durante la dictadura de Francisco Franco. El cuarteto quedó conformado por Celedonio y sus tres hijos: Ángel, Celín y Pepe. En 1990 Ángel abandonó el grupo y fue reemplazado por Celino, hijo de Celín. Celedonio Romero murió en 1996 en San Diego y su lugar fue ocupado por Lito Romero, hijo de Ángel.
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Jimmy Uller Bluesband – Jimmy Uller Bluesband (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:42 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Riverside Records
Jimmy Uller Blues Band har en gedigen tradition att spela Blues tillsammans med storheter som Mats Ronander Göran Lagerberg och inte minst Linköpings egen Ola Engström. Även utanför Östergötland sätter de spår i Blues-himlen med en mix som alla bluesfantaster älskar att höra. Jimmy Uller själv har ett förflutet inom teater och film samt är även idag en känd profil i nya och kommande teateruppsättningar och filmer.
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Jakob Brenner and Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie – Zieritz: Orchestral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © haenssler CLASSIC
This CD – significantly only the second CD dedicated exclusively to von Zieritz – presents a longitudinal section of her oeuvre. It begins with the Japanese Songs, written in 1919, here in the version for soprano and chamber orchestra from the 1980s. The centrepiece is Le Violon de la Mort, composed in 1953 for violin and piano and arranged for violin, piano and orchestra in 1957, as well as the trumpet double concerto of 1975, the final piece and, as it were, a satyr play.
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Hermann Scherchen, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Vienna Symphony – J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:04:05 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
Véritable électron libre inclassable, ce chef d’orchestre et champion de la musique de son temps a bousculé les habitudes et défrayé la chronique par ses prises de position politiques et musicales hors de la routine et des idées communes. Son rôle fut déterminant pour le développement et la propagation de la musique d’avant-garde dodécaphonique et électroacoustique. Né à Berlin en 1891, Hermann Scherchen est un autodidacte dont l’instinct musical est très développé. Très jeune, à 16 ans, il est altiste de l’orchestre Blüthner avant d’entrer au Philharmonique de Berlin jusqu’à sa rencontre avec Arnold Schönberg, auprès duquel il fait ses premières armes de chef d’orchestre lors des répétitions du Pierrot lunaire en 1912.
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Eddie Higgins Trio – Christmas Songs (2004/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:33 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Venus Records, Inc.
Spend a wonderful Christmas evening with Eddie Higgins’ laid-back jazz piano trio playing heart-warming Christmas classics such as the romantic “White Christmas”, the slightly sentimental “Little Town of Bethlehem” and the delightful “Sleigh Ride”!
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Wanchi Huang – Imagining Worlds (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:22 minutes | 527 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Praised for her “incisive technique and an exceptionally rich and beautiful tone,” violinist Wanchi Huang performs a fascinating group of compositions written by a beautifully curated selection of noted composers on IMAGINING WORLDS from Navona Records. Huang’s virtuosic performance takes listeners on a dynamic voyage through the elegant grandeur of the baroque era to the historic hilltops of Italy, passing through reflections on our darkest moments and soaring towards the brighter days that lie ahead. Featuring new music by composers John Corigliano, Adolphus Hailstork, Jeffrey Mumford, Judith Shatin, and Meira Warshauer, IMAGINING WORLDS is a stunning showcase of Huang’s artistry and the compelling voices in contemporary American music.
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Various Artists – Nippon Acid Folk 1970-1980 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:57 minutes | 405 MB | Genre: Folk, Acid Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Time Capsule
A counterculture movement united by an expansive, experimental and deeply soulful sensibility, Japan’s rebel protest music challenged the status quo and changed the country’s music industry in the process.
The birth of Japan’s nascent acid folk scene was rooted in the messy and invigorating political climate of the late 1960s. It is a story of Dadaists, communists, pharmacists and cult leaders, led by a young generation of upstart students, artists and dreamers hellbent on turning their world upside down. Born on the campuses of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, and centred around newly formed independent label and left-wing stronghold URC, this uniquely Japanese form of folk expression provided an outlet for musicians who were tired of aping Western sounds and instead found ways to sing in Japanese and integrate traditional forms in new ways. At the forefront of this movement was Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haroumi Hosono, a polymath innovator whose band Happy End released the first Japanese language rock album, and whose influence would go on to be felt across Japanese music for decades. Alongside, and informed by the Kansai scene’s Takashi Nishioka and Happy End collaborator Ken Narita, they experimented with cadences and accents of the Japanese language to open the door for others to experiment with their own forms of psychedelic folk too.