Uwe Grodd & Gould Piano Trio – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Arr. J. N. Hummel for Flute & Piano Trio) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:47 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven and Hummel’s relationship was one of fractious beginnings, but ultimately true friendship. Between 1825 and 1835 Hummel arranged his contemporary’s Symphonies Nos. 1–7 and Septet, Op. 20 for his favoured combination of pianoforte, flute, violin and violoncello. Beethoven would surely not have objected—arrangements were, after all, a perfectly normal part of the 19th-century musical landscape. To audiences today his symphonies need little introduction but, thanks to the musical sensitivity and sheer brilliance of Hummel’s arrangements, it is possible to experience the thrill of hearing these extraordinary pieces afresh.
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Ustad Abdul Karim Khan – Feb. 1935 – Dec. 1936 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:28 minutes | 251 MB | Genre: World, Indian Classical
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Abdul Karim Khan’s familial musical lineage is thought to have extended back to the end of the 16th century to Dhondu Nayak, a Hindu musician who was active in Gwalior and to a family of Sufi qawwali devotional singers and sarangi players who began as folk musicians and refined their music over generations. He was born Nov. 11, 1872, the eldest of four siblings to a Sunni family in Kairana in Uttar Pradesh. For at least 250 years, through a complex network of familial relations, Abdul Karim Khan’s family handed down the technology of music, from elder to younger, one note at a time.
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ulla – foam (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:23 minutes | 321 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
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Ulla returns with ‘Foam’, a surprise new album unlocking variants of ambient pop and looped jazz/dub styles coiled inside a glitched matrix that reminds us of Huerco S’ ‘Plonk’ as well as Ekkehard Ehlers fractal treatments and those incredible, smudged and disneyfied edits of Celine Dion released earlier this year by elusive outfit Romance. It’s an absorbing, quietly significant album for 3XL, on its most substantial release to date.
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Evgeny Konnov – Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 93-95 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:17 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Classical
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Antonio Soler is best known for his many keyboard sonatas. His training as a church musician and a post as organist at the royal palace and monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial brought him into contact with musicians such as Domenico Scarlatti from the court of Philip II. With the Op. 4 sonatas the influence of Scarlatti mixes with new styles emerging from Vienna. Soler’s Classical forms include lively dances to go along with elegant delicacy, solemnity and drama – all enhanced by his characteristic sparkling ornamentation and virtuoso technique.
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Eliesha Nelson, Shuai Wang, Brian Skoog, Mari Sato – Brouwer: Reactions (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:07 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Classical
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Margaret Brouwer’s music has for decades been admired for “inhabiting its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world” (The New York Times). These recently composed pieces reflect her musical representations of particular events: Rhapsodic Sonata charts an internal journey of love, whereas Declaration is a set of songs that addresses ideas of violence and war. Composed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, I Cry (Summer 2020) outlines a process of isolation and restriction. All Lines Are Still Busy is a satirical monologue that should intrigue anyone who has been placed “on hold” during a telephone call.
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Ensemble Fractales – Fractales (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:03 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this portrait album, which inaugurates their collaboration with Cypres, the Fractales ensemble has chosen to bring together four key pieces from their repertoire, four quintets in which the alchemy between the ensemble’s sound and the work of the composers is revealed, the fruit of numerous exchanges between musicians and creators. Saturated textures, erased melodies, extra-western inspirations and games of temporality are among other things on the programme of this adventure. Fractales symbolically evokes the vision that the ensemble has of today’s musical composition: a scene that is infinitely fragmented, irregular and plural, but in which each creation illustrates a common and shared search for the individualisation of musical languages. Their artistic work aims to highlight this diversity, while bringing together these writings in a spirit of sound exploration.
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Eric Heidsieck – Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 665 MB | Genre: Classical
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Éric Charles Heidsieck (born 21 August 1936) is a French classical pianist.
Born in Reims, Heidsieck gave his first recital at the age of nine and his first concert with orchestra a year later.
He studied with Marcel Ciampi then Alfred Cortot and followed Wilhelm Kempff’s lessons on Beethoven.
In 1959, he won the Grand Prix du Disque (EMI) for the recording of Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 and No. 24. The following year, he and his wife Tania, also a pianist, founded a duo that shone on stages around the world.
In 1969, Heidsieck was the first French pianist of the 20th century to give, by memory and in public, Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, which he recorded with EMI Classics between 1970 and 1974 and again ten years later, then in 1997. He specializes in the performance and recording of integrals.
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Emile Naoumoff – Schumann: Carnaval Op. 9, Fantasie Op. 17 & Mondnacht Op. 39 No. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:12 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Melism
The great Bulgarian pianist and composer of Greek origin Emile Naoumoff who was Nadia Boulanger’s last disciple, continues his collaboration with the Parisian label Melism Records presenting a recital entirely dedicated to Schumann’s music. The program consists of two cornerstone works of German Romanticism, the Carnaval, Op. 9, a cycle of 21 “scènes mignonnes” set on four notes, and the Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17.
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Eddy Arnold – Sings for Housewives and Other Lovers (1972/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 29:31 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Country
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Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television’s 2003 list of “The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music.”
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Elio Villafranca, The Jass Syncopators – Caribbean Tinge: Live from Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:58 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Latin Jazz
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This recording finds Elio Villafranca leading an outstanding group of jazz musicians and with seamless transitions from latin jazz to straight ahead jazz.
Last Train to Paris is likely the most mellow of the tunes. Mambo Vivo is my favorite with a sensational piano solo from Villafranca and blazing solos from Vincent Herring and Terrell Stafford; a must for Perez Prado fans.
Flower by the Dry River provides the most inspired solo by Villafranca and is one of the more complex tunes. The Source in Between is Another interesting and complex tune starting with Villafranca’s piano solo, and also Willie Jones III on a super drums solo.
Expert musicians will likely appreciate and understand the rich music in this CD, and decipher the rhythms that are being fused. For the rest of us, a detailed description of the tunes was written by Villafranca. This description (“liner notes”) is helpful to understand the significant amount of research and preparation behind this album. The recording is based on a well planned fusion of Afro-Caribbean and jazz. Villafranca brings his native Cuban rhythms and also Puerto Rico’s bomba and makes a strong effort to include the entire Caribbean in this recording.
Overall a thorough fusion, a great step beyond the latin jazz category of recordings from yesteryears. This movement to seamless-exciting fusions appears to be a new initiative from this latest generation of jazz musicians.
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Ella Henderson – Everything I Didn’t Say (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:39 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Pop
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Ella Henderson releases her long-awaited second album, Everything I Didn’t Say – a diaristic, 16-track record and first since the extraordinary breakthrough success of her Platinum-selling, UK No. 1 debut album, Chapter One.
Everything I Didn’t Say includes Ella’s fifth UK Top 10, ‘Let’s Go Home Together’ with Tom Grennan, and new single ‘Brave’ – a powerful track about shaking the stigma of needing help and embracing someone’s support for you when you need them most.
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Erik Bosgraaf – Telemann: Trio Sonatas for Recorder and Viola da Gamba (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Telemann was renowned in his own day for the spontaneity and fluency of his music, which appealed to professional and amateur musicians alike. These qualities abound in his trio sonatas in particular. As he wrote in one of his autobiographies (1718): ‘In particular, people wished to persuade me that trios were my greatest strength, because I arranged them so that one voice would have as much to do as the other.’
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Emöke Baráth, Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky – Dualità (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
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Emöke Baráth, Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky – Dualità (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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In repertoire terms alone, there’s nothing very new about about this programme of nine Handel arias from Hungarian soprano, Emöke Baráth, when we’re talking about core repertoire gems such as Cleopatra’s “Se pietà di me non senti, giusto ciel” from Giulio Cesare and “Qual nave smarrita tra sirti” from Radamisto. However what Baráth and Jaroussky have then done with all this well-loved fare is thoroughly interesting, because when the operatic characters to whom these arias belong are a mixture of male and female, yet were all sung in Handel’s day by women, “Dualità” is an exploration of the female voice’s potential to characterise both heroines and heroes, while at the same time providing some insight into the careers of Baráth’s eighteenth century London counterparts.
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Enrico Pieranunzi, Valentina Ranalli – Cantare Pieranunzi (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:54 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Jazz
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On 14 October 2021 the theater located inside the MAV, virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum, hosted the concert “Valentina Sings Pieranunzi “, organized by the Association” Live Tones” chaired by Alberto Bruno as part of the I Edizione The first edition of the “festival diffuso dei Italianiazz Club Italiani”, includes over 60 events spread over most of the national territory that took place from 8 to 15 October which will be a special day, all in the name of J For this First Edition the theme “the meeting” was chosen, in reference to the fundamental moment of our existence, which we had to give up for a long time due to the pandemic. The clubazz club returns to be places of fundamental importance for musicaazz music; constant relationship between the public and the artists uniting the country in the name of musica
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Eugen Cicero, Decebal Badila – Bucharest 1994 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:45 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IN+OUT Records
With “Bucharest 1994” a very special live event is released on CD, which has created something unique in the mediation between classical music and jazz standards. This is the first concert with exceptional bassist Decebal Badila, which has been under lock and key for 28 years. “Bucharest 1994” contains entertaining and technically challenging material from the early work of a virtuoso musician and the late work of an exceptional artist, whom the jazz world lost far too early.
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