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James Brandon Lewis – Eye Of I (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:27 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Jazz
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James Brandon Lewis is a New York-based jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His instrumental voice marries the emotional power of gospel and the grit and groove of blues and R&B to the modal and vanguard influences of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins’ expressive melodic and tonal discipline. Moments, his 2010 debut, was followed by two outings for Sony Masterworks’ revived OKeh imprint: Divine Travels in 2014 and the widely celebrated Days of Freeman the following year. After working American stages and clubs, he toured European and Asian festivals. Radiant Imprints, a duo outing with drummer Chad Taylor, appeared in 2018 and was followed by the quintet offering An UnRuly Manifesto a year later. In 2021, after he was selected as the “Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist” in the Downbeat International Critics Poll, Lewis issued The Jesup Wagon, his debut for Tao Forms. Along the way, Lewis drew the attention of many improvising artists, most notably the saxophonist and jazz deity Sonny Rollins, who doesn’t offer effusive praise very often. Moved by Lewis’ deep, spirit-seeking sound, Rollins said “When I listen to you, I listen to Buddha, I listen to Confucius … I listen to the deeper meaning of life. You are keeping the world in balance.” Eye of I opens with 44 seconds of gritty, high-throttling low-down groove, an ear pulverizing opening designed to cleanse all traces of ordinary from the palette. From there, Lewis offers a prayerful cover of Donnie Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free” and then the first of his disarmingly addictive originals, “The Blues Still Blossoms” in addition to many others.
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Jah Wobble – The Bus Routes of South London (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Jazz, Reggae
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ALL THESE TRACKS WERE WRITTEN ON BUSES GOING TO, THROUGH OR FROM SOUTH LONDON. MAINLY SOUTH WEST LONDON.. I USED MY IPAD AND TENDED TO WORK IN QUIETER PERIODS OF THE DAY/NIGHT. I FOUND THE EXPERIENCE ENTRANCING, FOR THE MOST PART ANYWAY.
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Il Pomo d’Oro & Maxim Emelyanychev – Mozart: The Beginning & The End (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:20 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Maxim Emelyanychev’s affinity with Mozart is well known, especially when it comes to piano works. In 2018, the conductor and keyboardist treated us to a recording that not only displayed his virtuosity and musicianship, but also revealed his remarkably close understanding of the composer’s music. Today, the symphonies are the focus of his first long-term project with Il Pomo d’Oro, an ensemble he has been working with as it’s conductor since 2013. As he points out, this project, aiming eventually to provide a complete set of the Mozart symphonies, is unlike anything he has recorded with the ensemble hitherto on period instruments. The approach here is original: each volume will feature an early symphony by Mozart, together with one of his great mature symphonies, which will enable the listener to perceive his many facets, revealed in the course of his development. Each volume will also include a bonus work, featuring a special guest. Inaugurating the series, Maxim Emelyanychev himself provides the hors d’œuvre with Concerto o.23 K.488, played on a fortepiano, before going on to conduct Mozart’s Symphonies Nos.1 and 41.This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.
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Iggy & The Stooges – Raw Power (Bowie Mix – 2023 Remaster) (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:52 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Rock
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Iggy Pop reformed the Stooges in 1972 after receiving a new recording contract through David Bowie’s mediation. Mercifully, he had the Asheton brothers play with him again, but Ron had to switch from guitar to bass.
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Hopkinson Smith – Bright & Early (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:44 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Hopkinson Smith, gefeiert als der »oberste Poet der Laute« (Gramophone), schafft auf seinem neuesten Album einen subtilen, intimen Dialog zwischen Dalza und Spinacino, die mit ihren Werken die blühende Kultur des Instruments in Italien zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts bezeugen. Seit über 40 Jahren der unermüdliche Pionier, erforscht er in dieser Einspielung, untermauert von seinem historisches Wissen und seiner profunden Intuition, die ersten Notendrucke für Laute.
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Holland Baroque – Bachs Königin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:23 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Holland Baroque presents Bachs Königin, an album full of masterful organ works by J.S. Bach, transcribed for the orchestra by Judith and Tineke Steenbrink. These creative interpretations add unique colours and a fresh spirit to baroque monuments. Here is yet another chance to enjoy Bach’s genius.
Holland Baroque is an original and innovative baroque orchestra that approaches baroque repertoire through a fresh and contemporary approach, with a focus on improvisation and collaborations with outstanding artists from different traditions. Bachs Königin is their fifth Pentatone album, after having released Minne (2022) Brabant 1653, Polonoise (both 2021) and Silk Baroque (2019) with the label.
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Het Collectief – Transfigurations: Schönberg – Berg (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:41 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Schoenberg’s famous Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), inspired by Richard Dehmel’s poem in which a woman announces to her companion that she is pregnant by another man, is presented here in its version for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann: ‘This brilliant pianist, the creator of many of Schoenberg’s pieces, brings the story to life by entrusting the dialogue between the man and the woman to cello and violin alone’, says Thomas Dieltjens, pianist of the group Het Collectief. Anton Webern made a transcription of Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie op.9 in 1923 for the same forces as Pierrot Lunaire . This miniature orchestra, consisting of just two wind instruments (flute, clarinet), two string instruments (violin, cello) and a piano, ‘preserves great clarity in the polyphonic line’. Het Collectif asked the young composer Tim Mulleman to transcribe for the same ensemble the Piano Sonata op.1 of Alban Berg, who himself made arrangements of some of his own works, including the famous Adagio from his Kammerkonzert , also presented in this programme.
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Frank Dupree – Kapustin: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72, Concerto for 2 Pianos & Percussion, Op. 104 & Sinfonietta for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 49 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Classical
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When western audiences discovered the music of Nikolai Kapustin, they were truly shocked: Who was this Soviet (!) composer, whose music sounded more like an Oscar Peterson improvisation than anything else – but who wrote detailed scores, black with notes? As we discover more and more of his music (and there’s so much more yet to discover), a very distinct, always wholly charming voice emerges, whether in a freewheeling outright-jazzy work like his Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion, the more symphonic Fifth Piano Concerto, or the frisky Sinfonietta which transports us into a smoky 1940s bar in Manhattan.
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Eunho Chang – Eunho Chang: Sensational Bliss (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 600 MB | Genre: Classical
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Eunho Chang’s passion is to express, with contemporary techniques, the various spontaneous timbres, patterns and gestures originating from traditional Korean music. Also, emulating the aesthetic lines of oriental painting, he tries to express musically the freedom and autonomy of each painted brush stroke. This is the conceptual core of his works.
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Elina Vähälä, Jonathan Roozeman, Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts – Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Cello Concerto No. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:18 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Born in the United States in Iowa City, Iowa, Vähälä began violin studies at the age of three, following her family’s return to Finland, at the Lahti conservatory. Her teachers at Lahti included Seppo Reinikainen and Pertti Sutinen. She also studied at the Kuhmo Violin School with Zinaida Gilels, Ilya Grubert and Pavel Vernikov. At the Sibelius Academy Vähälä’s teacher was Tuomas Haapanen.
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Eldbjørg Hemsing – Arctic (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:22 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Sony Classical debut album “Arctic” by the internationally acclaimed Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing is a musical journey through the Arctic with new music by star composers Jacob Shea (“The Blue Planet”) of Bleeding fingers Music and Frode Fjellheim (“Frozen”), among others Sony Classical’s collaboration with the young concert violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing kicks off with an album that is extraordinary in both music and content: “Arctic” is a musical journey through a unique region, celebrating the fragile and largely undiscovered beauty of an ecosystem threatened by climate change on an unprecedented scale “The Arctic is often misjudged as a rugged, uninhabitable place, yet it is a region of unparalleled beauty and full of life, fascinatingly illustrating how everything is interconnected in fragile cycles.
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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – Cookin’ With Jaws And The Queen: The Legendary Prestige Cookbook Albums (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:41:27 minutes | 6,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Released to celebrate tenor jazz saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ Centennial, “Cookin’ with Jaws and the Queen” showcases the influential soul-jazz partnership of Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Organist Shirley Scott. Bringing together the Prestige albums “Cookbook, Vol. 1-3,” “& “Smokin’”.
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DUO “Les Brumes”, Enea Luzzani & Tommaso Mazzoletti – Music for Flute & Organ, Martin, Bédard, Kropfreiter, Langlais, Baker, Roth (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:07 minutes | 899 MB | Genre: Classical
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A unique recital on record, for a hauntingly beautiful instrumental combination, featuring several first recordings.
The duo of trumpet and organ is a well-established one, having attracted composers from the early Baroque period onwards. The combination of flute and organ, while requiring careful balancing so that the organ does not overwhelm the flute, is no less attractive in its way, and has drawn from composers a more varied palette of expression. This new album is made by a duo of Piedmontese musicians who have explored the riches of the flute-and-organ repertoire to come up with a balanced selection of pieces written by 20th- and 21st-century composers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Dresden Chamber Soloists – Fontanelli & Beethoven: Chamber Septets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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A young ensemble backed with over 400 years of history is releasing its debut album with GENUIN: the Dresden Chamber Soloists are all members of the Sächsische Staatskapelle, one of the most tradition-rich orchestras in the world. The album proves, however, that for the top musicians, tradition is not merely a matter of maintaining the legacy but of passing the torch. On this album, the ensemble combines Beethoven’s famous Septet (the composer’s most successful piece of his lifetime!) with a new work written for the same instrumentation, Simone Fontanelli’s gestural Dresden Septet – Homage to Beethoven. A worthwhile world premiere recording!
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Dora Deliyska – Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti & Kapustin: Ètudes & Préludes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:46 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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“It was an exciting and challenging process to record the complex structure of 24 Etudes & Preludes. Some of the Etudes are among the most difficult pieces in the piano literature, and the Preludes have great musical potential. I decided to record the pieces in a short period of time to preserve the spontaneity of the interpretation. I am very grateful to the Teldex team (René Möller and Jakob Bötcher) and piano technician Gerd Finkenstein for sharing this musical experience together and creating an exciting recording.”
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