Byron Fidetzis, Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, Tassis Christoyannis, Angelo Simos – Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:55:33 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos
Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition. By the time Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle was produced, Samaras was a well-established and much-admired opera composer in the Italian Romantic style. The narrative of the opera sees the mischievous plans of the Duke of Richelieu descending into a complex tangle of amorous deceptions, tests of faithfulness and the perils of duelling. The score for this world premiere recording has been painstakingly restored by Byron Fidetzis.
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Pacific Sounds – Aloha ‘Aina, Volume 3: Field Recordings of Hawaii (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:00 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Ambient, Field Recording
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aloha Got Soul
Field recordings of Hawaii. Captured in stereo on the islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui. Aloha ʻĀina means love for the land in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.
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Gabríel Ólafs – Lullabies for Piano and Cello (Deluxe Edition) (2023/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:58 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Classical, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Records US
Acclaimed Icelandic composer Gabríel Ólafs has released his new body of work, Lullabies for Piano and Cello, through Decca Records US.
The prolific composer’s international reputation has been growing since his 2019 album Absent Minded. The new ten-track set is inspired by an 1880 collection of melodies that Gabríel unearthed at an antique bookshop in his home city of Reykjavik. On the original composition “Fantasia,” he is accompanied by his close friend and collaborator, cellist Steiney Sigurðardóttir, on a song that exemplifies the essence of the stripped-back album, with a simple piano motif playfully ebbing and flowing amidst moments of airy cello.
This Deluxe Edition features 9 all-new bonus tracks!
Read morePepper Adams – Motor City Scene (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:59 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records
Motor City Scene, also released as Stardust, is an album by American saxophonist Pepper Adams and trumpeter Donald Byrd, recorded in 1960 and released on the Bethlehem label as BCP 6056 featuring Byrd and Adams with Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Louis Hayes. It is not to be confused with the identically titled 1959 album on United Artists Records (UAS 5025) that also featured Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers, along with Thad Jones, Billy Mitchell, and Elvin Jones.
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Benda Quartet – Quadrants, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:16 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
The award-winning Benda Quartet assembles on QUADRANTS VOL. 5 to deliver a stunning, razor-sharp collection of contemporary string works. Composers Christopher J. Hoh, Ferdinando DeSena, Christopher Brakel, Michael Murray, and Paul Halley offer a wide range of sounds and emotions in this body of work, ranging from warm, elegant expressions to high-octane passages and more.
Read moreAna Lua Caiano – Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:10 minutes | 317 MB | Genre: World, Electronic, Pop, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glitterbeat Records
Silence can be the perfect way to sharpen the senses. To let the world in, to allow thoughts to come to the surface. For Lisbon’s Ana Lua Caiano, those empty spaces – when she’s walking or can’t sleep – are when the ideas creep in. They’re her time to create. She takes them and moulds them into the songs that have poured out of her over the last two years. Initially for a couple of EPs (Se Dançar É Só Depois / 2023 & Cheguei Tarde A Ontem / 2022) that made a name for her around Europe and the world, and now on her debut album for Glitterbeat.
Read moreAgustin Muriago – Sur: Piano Music from Argentina (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:48 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Albany Records
Pianist Agustin Muriago has performed throughout the United States, Spain, China, Brazil, and his native Argentina, in venues such as Steinway Hall and Yamaha Artist Services in New York City, the Teatro Ópera in Buenos Aires, and the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. His repertoire ranges from standard piano works to contemporary music premieres, with an emphasis on Spanish and Argentine music. He has recorded for the Acte Préalable label and for NPR affiliates.
Read morePetits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal, Gilbert Patenaude – Pax cælestis: choral sacred works (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 52:52 minutes | 859 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Analekta
St. Augustine wrote: “If we sing together, we sing for the heart.” What a nice way to introduce the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal and their music director Gilbert Patenaude. On this new CD, they perform the most beautiful works of the sacred music repertoire, among them: Franck’s Panis angelicus, Busto’s Ave Maria and oeuvres by Saint-Saëns, Verdi and Brahms. An album which will bring inner peace, a celestial peace.
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– Back to Front Live in Prague 10.10.2013 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:20:09 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Peter Gabriel Ltd.
You may call it yet another sensation: Peter Gabriel will hit the road again this fall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of So. He will reunite most members of the old line-up. Every show is available as an official soundboard recording. Unlike the 2012 Encores, the new series is available directly from Peter Gabriel’s website.
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Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive! (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:34 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976. It is one of the best-selling live albums in the United States, and considered by many to be one of the finest live rock recordings of all time. Following four solo albums with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive! was a breakthrough for the artist.
Released on January 6, 1976, it debuted on the charts at 191. The album reached number one on the Billboard 200 the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of 10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 6 million copies in the US and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.
Frampton Comes Alive! was voted “Album of the year” in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on Billboard’s 1977 year-end album chart.
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Peter Cofield – What Exactly is a Friend (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:44 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metromedia Records
A very overlooked, under-the-radar album for those who enjoy early Glen Campbell and/or Bob Lind–-basically every song sounds like “Gentle On My Mind” or “Elusive Butterfly”, with high-pitched earnest singing, acoustic guitar picking, Floyd Cramer-like piano, outdoorsy orchestrations, etc., but lyrically more anti-war, social awareness, youth counterculture oriented. A sound from a very brief, specific moment in American folk/singer-songwriter/pop music, if you love that sound and that era you’ll love this.
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Peter Jablonski – Stanchinsky: Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:44 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ondine
Peter Jablonski’s second album on Ondine features a large selection of piano works by Alexey Stanchinsky (1888–1914), one of the most talented Russian composers of the early 20th Century. Stanchinsky was not only a talent but a genuine innovator who despite of his early death had a profound influence on the generation of composers to follow. Peter Jablonski is the perfect interpreter to these magnificent gems.
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Peter Brotzmann, Fred Lonberg-Holm – Ouroboros (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 390 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Astral Spirits
Recorded by Stefan Deistler at Loft Köln on January 18, 2011.
Faced with a daunting discography that tallies to triple digits, it’s easy to forget that Peter Brötzmann has also been a prolific visual artist for the entirety of his professional career. The two forms expression still regularly cross-pollinate in his work with original paintings and woodcut prints serving as album cover art and the vivid and visceral feelings conjured by his uncompromising music fueling the coarse and stark subject matter of said imagery. A painterly dynamic is particularly present in his many duo encounters. Most commonly with percussionists, but also increasingly with less intuitively-matched instruments that supply texture and color field focused canvases upon which he can scrawl and scribble in bold and often bruising strokes by way of his battery of reeds. Ouroboros is a vinyl document of one such dialogue, recorded at The Loft in Köln, Germany in early 2011 and pressed to just 300 copies.
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Pearl Bailey – Pearl’s Pearls (1971/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:14 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the all-Black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of “Takes Two to Tango” hit the top ten in 1952. She received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom on October 17, 1988.
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