Gerald Clayton – Bells On Sand (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:06 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
On his second Blue Note album, pianist Gerald Clayton wants to deal with the effects of the abstract power of time. Supporting him are none other than his mentor Charles Lloyd on saxophone, his father John Clayton on bass, Justin Brown on drums and, for the first time, MARO on vocals. You’ll hear originals, pieces by Catalan composer Federico Mompou and Gerald’s uncle Jeff Clayton, as well as two stunning solo piano versions of the standard “My Ideal.”
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Gidon Kremer – Weinberg: Sonatas for Violin Solo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series
Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer’s repertoire is so very wide and varied, and his collaborations so very generous, creative and non-standard – not least thanks to his championing of contemporary Russian and Eastern European composers – that there will have been any number of attention-grabbing programmes up his sleeve that would have done the job of marking his 75th birthday in the recording studio.
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Grace Davidson – Sacred Chants (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:05 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records
Grace Davidson presents her third release with Signum Classics, an intimate disc of Sacred Chants by Hildegard von Bingen, translations by Jeremy Summerly.
Hildegard was an extremely accomplished composer, as well as a scientist, a diplomat, a poet, and the founder of a religious community. Her melodies rise out of Gregorian chant, with wide voice ranges that are suited to trained singers. The florid imagery of Hildegard’s texts is matched by suitably florid tunes, whose calculated intervals suggest both vocal improvisation and carefully controlled composition. Hilde- gard had the ability to write tunes whose very essence is simultaneously spontaneous yet structured. And such was Hildegard’s character – on the one hand she was intensely practical, and on the other she was a vessel for dreams and visions.
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Gundula Janowitz – Beethoven: “Egmont”; Wellington’s Victory; Military Marches (1987/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:26 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Beethoven’s Egmont (the complete work, not just the famous overture) and Battle Symphony (aka Wellington’s Victory, aka Battle of Vittoria) are perhaps the best kept secrets in classical music. Egmont, in particular, features some highly original and beautiful music for solo voice (soprano) and orchestra. From the highly charged and Beethovenian-dramatic overture to the individual entr’actes to the two Lieders, the music is enjoyable and awe-inspiring. Karajan, at the height of his career at the time of this recording, brings out every magistical note of the piece.
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Gábor Farkas – Soirées de Vienne (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:06 minutes | 972 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Hungaroton
Entitled “Soirées de Viene” (Vienna Evenings), this recording contains music linked to the imperial city and the piano, and to the enviable bourgeois musical culture of these time periods. The album features Schubert’s piano pieces, the waltzes of Liszt and Schubert, and the waltzes of Johann Strauss re-imagined for the piano.
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Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann – J. S. Bach: Cantatas (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:20 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Accentus Music
Two cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach for Michaelmas in 1726 and 1728/29 respectively build the framework of this recording. They tell of the Archangel Michael‘s victory over Satan. At the center of the cantata „Es erhub sich ein Streit“ is the tenor aria „Bleibt, ihr Engel“ (Stay, ye angels), which gives this recording its name.
Read moreThe Danish Piano Trio – Gade, Lange-Müller, Langgaard: Danish Romantic Piano Trios (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:50 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dacapo
dramatic turn-of-the-century art of P.E. Lange-Müller, the album concludes with the beautiful single-movement Mountain Flowers from 1908 by the hyper-Romantic prodigy Rued Langgaard.
Read moreGabrielle Aplin – Light Up the Dark (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:17 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Indie Pop, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK
Gabrielle Ann Aplin is an English singer-songwriter. “Light Up the Dark” is the second studio album, released by Parlophone Records. Debuting at #14 in the UK Albums Chart, the album features the singles ‘Light Up the Dark’ and ‘Sweet Nothing’. This deluxe edition features six bonus tracks.
Read moreGabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy Deluxe (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:56 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Never Fade Records
This is a bonus version of the 3rd album by English singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin. It includes acoustic versions of all songs from the album which was released on 17 January 2020.
Read moreGabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:05 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Never Fade Records
Gabrielle Aplin releases her forthcoming third album Dear Happy on 17th January 2020.Dear Happy is an uplifting pop record that chronicles Gabrielle’s life, and theexperiences and cultures she has been inspired by whilst touring and travelling theworld over the past couple of years.The 14 tracks feature some of Gabrielle’s most personal lyrical moments alongside abreadth of music and influences not yet heard from her before. The record displaysthe wonderful diversity of Gabrielle Aplin as both a pop star and songwriter in 2019.Whether she is singing a stripped back piano ballad or a huge pop song, her lyricalcontent and emotive vocal delivery remain at the forefront of her music.
Read moreGabrielle – Under My Skin (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 968 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
2018 release, the first album in 11 years from the British vocalist. The release of Under My Skin marks 25 years since the release of her debut single, ‘Dreams’. The #1 single stormed the charts all over Europe and Australia, going gold in the UK and cementing Gabrielle as one of the most exciting new names in pop music. Two and a half decades later, Under My Skin, is sure to remind the world of Gabrielle’s signature, heart-warming, soul-stirring voice.
Read moreGabrielle – Do It Again (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:39 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd
Do It Again is the seventh studio album by English singer and songwriter Gabrielle. It was released on 5 March 2021 via BMG Rights Management and follows her 2018 collection Under My Skin. Primarily a covers album, Do It Again contains two new original songs and was officially announced on 7 February 2021. It was preceded by the release of lead single “Stop Right Now”, which received its radio debut on 8 February during The Radio 2 Breakfast Show hosted by Zoe Ball.
Read moreSimon Russell Beale, Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh – An English Coronation, 1902-1953 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:39:16 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Fans of the British crown’s splendour will certainly marvel at this double album that reproduces the coronation anthems of the four monarchs of the 20th century: Edward VII in 1902, George V in 1911, George VI in 1937, and current Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Very few of today’s ceremonies can reach such levels of grandeur.
Read moreGabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:50 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Tchaikovsky’s First Quartet, Borodin’s Second and Shostakovich’s Eighth are three of the finest quartets in the Russian repertory. They reveal that Russian composers were hardly less at home in the relatively private medium of the string quartet than when writing for the more spectacular full symphony orchestra. Both, the Tchaikovsky and the Borodin have received fame beyond the originals for their slow movements – the Tchaikovsky for its ‘Andante cantabile’ movement, the Borodin for its ‘nocturne’. The Gabrielis were one of the first ensemble to make stereo recordings of all three quartets and the Borodins’ 1962 recording (their original line-up) of the Borodin and Shostakovich quartets is one of the great chamber music recordings of all time.
Read moreGabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: Complete String Quartets (1977/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:23 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Although the orchestra was the most natural vehicle for Tchaikovsky s colourful and emotionally highly-charged music, in his string quartets (all dating from the 1870s) he showed a fine understanding of the medium and adopted a more purely musical train of thought deriving in part from his deep fondness for the classical world of Mozart without losing his own personality. Souvenir de Florence, his string sextet, dates from 1890 91 and Tchaikovsky confided in his friend Alexander Siloti that he feared he was thinking in orchestral terms before arranging his ideas for string sextet; the work is performed here in a version for string orchestra, from a much-praised Argo recording with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which went on to win an EDISON AWARD.
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