Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid and Marzena Diakun – Brahms Orchestral & Vocal Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid and Marzena Diakun – Brahms Orchestral & Vocal Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:08 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical

The Brahms vocal compositions (for their quality and abundance – over 400 of them) made Brahms a “worthy heir to Beethoven” in Germany, throughout Europe, and finally in France, where Ravel was the first and one of the few to admire “the beauty in his melodic ideas, their quality of expression and above all the brilliance of his orchestral language”. Schoenberg also later praised the innovation of his musical language in his Style and Idea.

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Orchestre Pasdeloup, Marzena Diakun – Polish Heroines of Music (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Orchestre Pasdeloup, Marzena Diakun – Polish Heroines of Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 648 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Polska Sp. z o.o.

Does music need parity? Probably not, it defends itself. But it is worth noting and emphasising the artistic advantages of outstanding contemporary composers and their unforgettable predecessors – women in Polish music are a voice as separate as it is expressive. The album is the result of cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and more specifically the Polskie Heroiny Dźwięku (Polish Heroines of Sound) program conducted by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the wider Polska Music campaign. It aims to create and popularise a new canon of works by Polish composers. In this case, they are “Sonosphère V. Wanda Landowska” by Elżbieta Sikora, “Aisthetikos” by Hanna Kulenty, “In the Shade of an Unshed Tear” by Agata Zubel and “Contradizione”, a classic by Grażyna Bacewicz.

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