Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (Deluxe Edition) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Grimes – Miss Anthropocene (Deluxe Edition) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:16 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 4AD

Much of Grimes’ fifth LP is rooted in darkness, a visceral response to the state of the world and the death of her friend and manager Lauren Valencia. “It’s like someone who’s very core to the project just disappearing,” she tells Apple Music of the loss. “I’ve known a lot of people who’ve died, but cancer just feels so demonic. It’s like someone who wants to live, who’s a good person, and their life is just being taken away by this thing that can’t be explained. I don’t know, it just felt like a literal demon.” Miss Anthropocene deals heavily in theological ideas, each song meant to represent a new god in what Grimes loosely envisioned as “a super contemporary pantheon”—“Violence,” for example, is the god of video games, “My Name Is Dark (Art Mix)” the god of political apathy, and “Delete Forever” the god of suicide. The album’s title is that of the most “urgent” and potentially destructive of gods: climate change. “It’s about modernity and technology through a spiritual lens,” she says of the album, itself an iridescent display of her ability as a producer, vocalist, and genre-defying experimentalist. “I’ve also just been feeling so much pressure. Everyone’s like, ‘You gotta be a good role model,’ and I was kind of thinking like, ‘Man, sometimes you just want to actually give in to your worst impulses.’ A lot of the record is just me actually giving in to those negative feelings, which feels irresponsible as a writer sometimes, but it’s also just so cathartic.” Here she talks through each of the album’s tracks.

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Grimes – Art Angels (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grimes – Art Angels (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:43 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Electronic, Alternative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 4AD

Claire Boucher aka Grimes’ fourth album, produced and engineered by herself. Spanning over 14 tracks, the new album features collaborations with Janelle Monáe and newcomer, Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes. It was recorded primarily in her home studio in Los Angeles, CA, where she relocated to in 2014. Like all of her previous albums, Art Angels was written and recorded entirely as a solo endeavor. The new album features more live instrumentation than ever before on a Grimes record. She plays piano, guitar and violin, continuing her evolution as a musician and a producer for her most ambitious album to date.

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Grigory Sokolov – Beethoven Brahms (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Grigory Sokolov – Beethoven Brahms (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:06:36 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

3 Years after his last recording Grigory Sokolov returns with a double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Focusing on early (Piano Sonata No. 3) and late Beethoven sonatas (Piano Sonatas Nos. 27 & 32) and Brahms’s autumnal piano pieces opp. 118 & 119, the “musical sorcerer” has fascinated audiences and critics across Europe: “Music making at the piano could hardly be more unaffected yet compelling…The music unfolds directly” ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ). “His pianism is stupendous…but Sokolov’s real magic occurs in the moment, in his fine art of making music live, transcending epochs, levitating, always mindful that our playing must end” ( Tagesspiegel Grigory Sokolov will turn 70 on April 18, 2020!

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Grigory Krotenko, Barocco Concertato, Ilya Mazurov & Maria Krestinskaya – Travels with Goliath, In the footsteps of Josef Kämpfer (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Grigory Krotenko, Barocco Concertato, Ilya Mazurov & Maria Krestinskaya – Travels with Goliath, In the footsteps of Josef Kämpfer (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:55 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RUBICON

The Goliath in question, as the kind reader might have guessed, is none other than the double bass, an instrument with which is admittedly harder to travel than a recorder. This is however what double bass player Joseph Kämpfer did from the 1770s to the 1810s: after resigning from the Austrian-Hungarian cavalry, he decided to learn the double bass (the market for pianists or violinists was already saturated) and once he became a virtuoso, he travelled throughout Europe accepting positions from time to time, but mostly giving concerts from Saint-Petersburg to Bratislava, from Munster to Salzburg, Vienna or even Paris, where his appearance at the highly famous Spiritual Concerts seems to have quite surprised the audience, unaccustomed to the double bass’ growling. His repertoire probably covered many of the works recorded here by Grigori Krotenko, concertos or sonatas from Hoffmeister, Vaňhal, Sperger and even Mozart! Because, yes, Mozart wrote in 1791 an aria sung by bass, solo double bass and orchestra, Per questa bella mano, which is in no way an adaptation or an apocryphal transposition. It seems that this colorful moment was created for the bass-baritone Franz Xaver Gerl and the double bass player Friedrich Pischelberger, both present during the world premiere ofThe Magic Flute. Splendid sonorities, probably highly uncommon, but who make you hope that this Goliath will never meet his David, as that would be too bad.

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Griff – One Foot In Front Of The Other (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Griff – One Foot In Front Of The Other (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:28 minutes | 274 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records

One Foot in Front of the Other is the first mixtape by British singer-songwriter Griff. It was released on 18 June 2021 by label Warner Records. It follows Griff’s debut extended play (EP) The Mirror Talk (2019). The mixtape’s lead single “Black Hole” was released on 18 January 2021, which was performed at the 2021 Brit Awards in May 2021, where she was awarded the Brit Award for Rising Star. The single was followed by the release of the title track and “Shade of Yellow”. Originally set to be released on 11 June, the release was pushed back by one week.

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Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dana Ciocarlie, Christiane Baume-Sanglard – Grieg, Huber, Bruch, Winkelman: Invitation à la Danse (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records

Since their first encounter in 2007 during the Swiss festival Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Christiane Baume-Sanglard and Dana Ciocarlie have started working together and collaborating as a Four-Hands Piano Duo. The female duo has since played in numerous concerts and festivals all over Europe. Through their friendship, their contrasting personalities make for a vibrant mixture of energy, poetry and musical expressiveness.

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Glenn Gould – Grieg: Piano Sonata, Op. 7 / Bizet: Nocturne & Variations Chromatiques (1973/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Glenn Gould – Grieg: Piano Sonata, Op. 7 / Bizet: Nocturne & Variations Chromatiques (1973/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:00 minutes | 419 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Gould as an “incorrigible romantic.” Instead of Schumann, Chopin, or Liszt he selected two unimaginably obscure rarities, referring to Grieg as a personal ancestor (“the composer was a cousin of my maternal great-grandfather”) and to Bizet’s Variations chromatiques as “one of the very few masterpieces for solo piano to emerge from the third quarter of the nineteenth century.”

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New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein – Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 & No. 2 / Sibelius: Finlandia & Valse Triste & The Swan of Tuonela (1981/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein – Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 & No. 2 / Sibelius: Finlandia & Valse Triste & The Swan of Tuonela (1981/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:47 minutes | 529 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Bernstein – Remastered Edition: Sibelius – The Symphonies collects Bernstein’s complete Sibelius recordings, newly remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit / 96 kHz technology in a 7CD limited original jackets collection.

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Annerose Schmidt, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kurt Masur – Grieg: Klavierkonzert A-Moll Op. 16 / Weber: Konzerstück F-Moll Op. 79 (1969/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Annerose Schmidt, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kurt Masur – Grieg: Klavierkonzert A-Moll Op. 16 / Weber: Konzerstück F-Moll Op. 79 (1969/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © King Record Co., Ltd

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Nikolaï Lugansky, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Kent Nagano – Grieg & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Nikolaï Lugansky, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Kent Nagano – Grieg & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ambroisie – naïve

Accompanied by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin), one of the best German orchestras, conducted by Kent Nagano, renowned for interpretations of clarity, elegance and intelligence, Nikolai Lugansky performs a new album dedicated to two famous composers, Grieg and Prokofiev. The Russian pianist is still spectacular in these concertos.

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Joseph Moog, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Nicholas Milton – Grieg & Moszkowski: Piano Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Joseph Moog, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Nicholas Milton – Grieg & Moszkowski: Piano Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onyx Classics

Joseph Moog has established an enviable reputation as one of the most impressive virtuoso pianists of the younger generation. His catholic tastes embrace both the core repertoire and many works from its backwaters – works that were once warhorses, but have for no apparent reason fallen into unjust neglect. The Moszkowski piano concerto on this new CD is such a work. Overflowing with memorable tunes, the piano writing and indeed the handling of the orchestra marks this out as a very skilfully constructed work. Do not expect moments of profundity or an emotional roller coaster: just marvel at the fluidity and brilliance of Moszkowski’s writing. This is salon music of the highest order, and none the worse for that!

Moog couples the Moszkowski with one of the concertos in the repertoire whose fortunes have not waned – the evergreen Grieg concerto which never fails to impress the listener.

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Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland – Grieg & Grainger: Cello works (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andreas Brantelid, Christian Ihle Hadland – Grieg & Grainger: Cello works (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:33 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

Although they were born forty years apart on opposite sides of the world, Edvard Grieg and Percy Grainger have much in common. The aim to become pianists and composers more or less forced both of them to leave their native countries – Norway and Australia respectively – in order to gain access to the great central European tradition that so dominated musical life during the second half of the 19th century. Grieg enrolled at the Leipzig conservatory in 1858 and Grainger at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1895, but their experiences were in many ways strikingly similar: both made progress as pianists, but neither of them found the German approach to the teaching of composition fruitful. Grieg’s strong attachment to Norwegian folk music made it difficult for him to compose in a way that conformed to the Germanic ideal, while Grainger some forty years later withdrew from the composition class at the conservatory in order to study privately. He too would find his greatest inspiration in folk music traditions, as exemplified in La Scandinavie for cello and piano, a suite of arrangements of Scandinavian folk songs. The two composers met in 1906, in London, and not surprisingly they got along famously. The meeting led to Grainger visiting Grieg in Bergen the following year, only two months before the older composer passed away. The Danish-Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid and his Norwegian chamber music partner Christian Ihle Hadland have teamed up in this programme of cello works by the two composers, opening with Grieg’s celebrated Cello Sonata. They also include less well-known pieces, however, such as the composer’s arrangement of the Allegretto from his third violin sonata, and an Andante con moto intended as part of a never completed piano trio, in which they are joined by the violinist Lars Bjørnkjær. Discovered after Grieg’s death, the piece would have to wait more than 70 years before receiving its first performance.

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Daniela Cammarano, Alessandro Deljavan – Grieg: The Violin Sonatas, Opp. 18, 13 & 45 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Daniela Cammarano, Alessandro Deljavan – Grieg: The Violin Sonatas, Opp. 18, 13 & 45 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:44 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ÆVEA

The 3 Violin Sonatas by Edvard Grieg are a mixture of German and Austrian traditions with the Nordic folk. The experience at the Leipzig Conservatory, where the strong influence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann was felt, and the trips to Italy, especially Rome, where Grieg met Franz Liszt, contributed greatly to the formation of the style of the Norwegian composer. Similarly of crucial importance were the years he spent in Copenhagen where he completed his studies under the guidance of the Danish composer Niels W. Gade.
The complete Sonatas for violin and piano are included in this album signed by the well-matched couple Cammarano-Deljavan who has already recorded the works by Johannes Brahms and Anton Rubinstein. The 7-mic recording by Alessandro Simonetto is fully dynamic and realistic.

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Javier Perianes, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Grieg: Piano Concerto & Lyric Pieces (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Javier Perianes, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Grieg: Piano Concerto & Lyric Pieces (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:01 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Miniatures and large forms.The work of a young musician of 25, the celebrated Concerto of Grieg combines the great Romantic tradition (Liszt was one of its most fervent admirers) and Norwegian folk music, with the halling and springdans of its thrilling finale. Yet the composer never wrote another, for he felt more comfortable writing in miniature forms. In 35 years he produced no fewer than 66 Lyric Pieces, every one a gem, from the truculent March of the Trolls to the poetic meditations of Homesickness and Remembrances.

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Emil Gilels – Grieg: Lyric Pieces (1974/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Emil Gilels – Grieg: Lyric Pieces (1974/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:15 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Late Russian pianist Emil Gilels, considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, lovingly recorded these 20 selections from Grieg’s oeuvre of 66 short Lyric Pieces in 1974. The programme opens and closes with Grieg’s first and very last lyric pieces and includes Butterfly, one of Grieg’s best known compositions.

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