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.
Read moreSuyeon 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
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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.
Read moreSteven 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.
Read moreSibylle 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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