Wayne Marshall, Andy Miles & WDR Funkhausorchester – Wayne Marshall Born to Play Gershwin (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:51 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Classical
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Wayne Marshall was eight years old when, at home in England, he heard a Gershwin concert broadcast on the radio – a pivotal listening experience, as he recalled fifty years later in a WDR video clip. It may have set his life in a new direction, eventually leading to Cologne as Chief Conductor of the Funkhausorchester. It comes as no surprise that outstanding recordings from those six years at WDR include productions of great Gershwin works. And Marshall has already released a complete recording of Gershwin’s output for piano and orchestra with the Aalborg Symphony – assuming the double role of conductor and pianist like André Previn in the Concerto in F with the London Symphony Orchestra, a disc that made a lasting impression upon him.
Wayne Marshall called it to an end, after ten years of being chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchestra, the second orchestra of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk broadcast station. Wayne just wanted to look out for new challenges, internationally and worldwide, being an independent musician, mainly organ player. This CD is a document of his work with the WDR Funkhausorchestra.
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Lyambiko & WDR Funkhausorchester – Berlin – New York (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:53 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Die vierfache German Jazz Award-Preisträgerin und ECHO Jazz-Gewinnerin Lyambiko veröffentlicht Die vierfache German Jazz Award-Preisträgerin und ECHO Jazz-Gewinnerin Lyambiko veröffentlicht mit „Berlin – New York“ ein so persönliches wie politisches Album. Zusammen mit dem Arrangeur Max Knoth (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lou Reed, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Matthew Herbert) und dem WDR Funkhausorchester, dirigiert von Frank Strobel, beleuchtet sie die vielfältigen globalen Verbindungen der Musikkultur in der „zerrissenen Zeit“ der 1930er bis in die 1950er Jahre.
Read moreThe Manhattan Transfer, WDR Funkhausorchester – Fifty (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]
The Manhattan Transfer, WDR Funkhausorchester – Fifty (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:46 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Jazz
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GRAMMY Award-winning vocal group The Manhattan Transfer celebrate their 50th-anniversary with the new studio album, Fifty. Recorded with Germany’s WDR Funkhausorchester, it contains arrangements of some of their biggest hits, combining the orchestral sounds of WDR with their trademark harmonies. Included are new versions of “Chanson D’Amour,” and “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul,” plus arrangements of Artie Shaw’s timeless “The Man I Love,” and The Beach Boys’ classic “God Only Knows.”
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