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Naomi Dumas, Caitlyn Koester, Amanda Keesmaat – Graupner : Intégrale des sonates pour violon et clavecin (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:02 minutes | 950 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATMA Classique
The duo AKOYA (violinist Naomi Dumas and harpsichordist Caitlyn Koester) makes its ATMA Classique debut with a recording devoted to violin and harpsichord sonatas of Christoph Graupner. Almost forgotten after his death in 1760, Graupner’s music has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years, thanks to the discovery of his compositions at the University of Darmstadt in Germany. Among his 36 chamber and keyboard sonatas, AKOYA along with Amanda Keesmaat, baroque cello, offer an impressive selection, including several that are recorded for the first time.
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Mr. Sun – Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:42 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Americana, Bluegrass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Adhyâropa Records
American Roots Music thrives on growing new branches from its grand traditions, and the band Mr Sun, and its individual members, have long been actively re-shaping the acoustic musical landscape. For Mr Sun’s tenth anniversary, this celebrated company of virtuoso string players has reinterpreted the legendary Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite, bringing this monumental reimagining of the iconic Tchaikovsky piece into the acoustic string band world.
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Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major “Symphony of a Thousand” (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:13 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
For its final concert of the 2021–22 season and Osmo Vänskä’s last as artistic director, the Minnesota Orchestra chose to present Mahler’s mammoth Eighth Symphony, which calls for one of the largest complement of performers in the history of music, a symbol of the communitarian spirit of collective cultural, social and religious-philosophical endeavour in what has been referred to as a ‘Mass for the Masses’. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony, unlike his others, reveals no contrary despairing voice. It is instead a monumentally affirmative expression of human spiritual achievement achieved through the union of two seemingly incompatible texts: the Latin hymn Veni Creator Spiritus and the conclusion of the second part of Goethe’s Faust. Its première in Munich in September 1910 gave rise to the greatest triumph of Mahler’s career, and a rollcall of European royalty and the artistic élite attended the final public rehearsal and the performances. The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä are here joined by Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner, Sasha Cooke, Jess Dandy, Barry Banks, Julian Orlishausen, Christian Immler as well as the Minnesota Chorale, the National Lutheran Choir, the Minnesota Boychoir and the Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir.
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MIKE SHINODA – THE CRIMSON CHAPTER (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 21:23 minutes | 270 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Records
Michael Kenji Shinoda (/ʃɪˈnoʊdə/; born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He co-founded the rock band Linkin Park in 1996 and is the band’s co-lead vocalist, as well as rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, primary songwriter and producer. Shinoda later created a hip-hop-driven side project, Fort Minor, in 2004. He has also served as a producer for tracks and albums by artists such as Lupe Fiasco, Styles of Beyond, and the X-Ecutioners.
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MIKA – Que ta tête fleurisse toujours (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 430 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Island Def Jam
La pop de MIKA prend pour la 1ere fois un gout 100% francophone. Dans cet album aussi joyeux qu’intime, aussi touchant que dansant, MIKA ouvre une porte sur ses souvenirs et ses émotions, sans perdre sa force pop si universelle. Il réussit le tour de force de faire vibrer la langue française sur ses envolées et ses mélodies incomparables. On y découvre le MIKA qu’on aime. Les tubes s’enchaînent (C’est la Vie, Jane Birkin, Apocalypse Calypso..) tout en laissant l’émotion et les frissons nous rattraper parfois (30 secondes, Passager, Moi Andy et Paris..).
MIKA a consacré plusieurs mois à l’écriture et à la production de cet album en prenant le temps de rencontrer et collaborer avec la jeune scène française. Un exercice libérateur qui donne un résultat exceptionnel. « Que ta tête fleurisse toujours » est un appel à la créativité et celle de MIKA est plus que jamais florissante.
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Michael Kaeshammer – KaeshammerLIVE! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:16 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music – Seven.One Starwatch
Something magical happens when Michael Kaeshammer sits at the piano. Sure, like all pianists, he plays 12 notes across 88 keys. But the musician and songwriter coaxes dazzling, kaleidoscopic sounds from his instrument in a way few can rival.
So, it’s no surprise that Turn It Up — Kaeshammer’s towering 15th album — is superb, a dynamic, rollicking collection though one stubbornly resistant to a single, catchall genre. “Eclectic yet accessible jazz-based pop” might come closest to the mark, but it doesn’t quite capture it all. Like his sprawling record collection, which houses everything from AC/DC to Erik Satie, Kaeshammer’s songs reflect his boundless appreciation of music in whatever form it takes.
For him, playing just jazz or just pop or just boogie-woogie instead of all three — sometimes with a classical instrumental piece thrown in — would be the aural equivalent of eating a cheese sandwich for lunch. Every. Single. Day.
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Mark Prihodko and Viktoria Korolionok – Cerdanyenca (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:29 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical
The hour-long emotional tour-de-force with cellist Mark Prihodko and pianist Viktoria Korolionok evokes a soul-searching journey that spans a century of romantic repertoire following the music-making traditions of Ysaye, Gershwin, and Rachmaninov. Almost four years in the making, the album’s program selections relate less to each other than they mint each of the young cellist’s artistic phases, becoming an integral part of who Prihodko is, as a musician. Cerdanyenca takes its title from the eponymous sonata, written by Catalan composer Marc Migó Cortés, who dedicated this masterwork to Prihodko, his great friend.
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Marianne Beate Kielland & Nils Anders Mortensen – Sigurd Lie: Songs, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
The songs on this release – volume 2 – continue the chronological list from volume 1.The album begins with the remarkably special cycle Wartburg, encompassing an enormous range of singing pathos. The text by Theodor Caspari has to do with Wartburg Castle, with its sweeping history. Martin Luther sought refuge there from May 1521 to March 1522. Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia resided there from 1211 to 1228, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the castle several times, and, notably, the famous “minstrel contest” at the castle was an inspiration for Wagner when he composed his opera Tannhauser. So it is not so unusual that Theodor Caspari was also inspired by the castle’s history and reputation when he wrote his Wartburg texts.
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Luca Pianca – Narcisse au Parnasse: Works for Lute and Theorbo from the French “Grand-Siècle” (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Passacaille
In this recording Luca Pianca explores the enchanting world of 17th-century French music. He introduces the listener to the unique and refined musical style of the Grand Siècle, where the lute and theorbo reigned supreme.
Ennemond Gautier le Vieux, a notable lutenist and composer, left an indelible mark on the French lute tradition of the time. His work laid the groundwork for future musicians, including luminaries like Robert de Visée, who would go on to craft their own musical masterpieces.
The timeless elegance of these compositions perfectly illustrates the glorious musical landscape of 17th-century France.
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László Borbély, Savaria Symphony Orchestra & János Kovács – Concerto III for Piano and Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 24:02 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hunnia Records
For a pianist, Béla Bartók’s piano concertos are a central reserve of power. These works are worth the almost forty years that were spent wearing down the piano chair. These works are essential building blocks of ‘pianism’.
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Kate Rusby – Light Years (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Pop, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pure Records
‘Light Years’, released a few days before Kate’s 50th birthday, is Rusby’s 7th Christmas record and features vocals by Alison Krauss and Ron Block. Her love of Christmas music and upbringing on a rich tradition of ‘local carols’ is no secret to her many fans.’ Light Years’, a lyric in one of the albums songs, is full of Rusby-fied versions of carols and well-known songs which depict in her own words, “Joyful memories of music, family, community, warmth and happiness – and a little wine!”
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Kammerchor der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg – Motetten. Von Heinrich Schütz bis Fritz Werner (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:01 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carus
From Schütz to Bräutigam by way of Schumann, Reger, Mauersberger, Poulenc and Werner – this recording by the Chamber Choir of the Freiburg University of Music under the direction of Morten Schuldt-Jensen takes the listener through the entire history of the motet. All of these compositions have one thing in common: their uniquely personal expressive force. The Drei Paulusmotetten by Fritz Werner, a contemporary of Poulenc, appear for the first time on HIGHRESAUDIO. These brilliant motets reflect the period and events of the time of their creation. The works by Werner and Mauersberger, for instance, were composed during the horrors of the Second World War.
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Jens Joneleit – Planet Edge (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:56 minutes | 762 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © yatak records
“The basic gesture of the record is a continuous flow of an almost psychedelic nature, which explains why I enjoyed playing the record again and again, but kept drifting off in my thoughts. The permanent feeling of being in an alchemical laboratory, in which it bubbles continuously and strange acoustic smells rise up (i.e. this typical Muppet laboratory of Dr. Bunsen-Honeydew, in which the ball-headed master of ceremony with glasses mixes colourful liquids according to aesthetic feeling rather than exact experimental setup), doesn’t let go of you – or rather me in this case. The result: for some it’s gold, for others it’s Jazz-Por-Zell-An-Bruch etc. And Beaker like this: “mimimi.””
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Henrik Meierkord – Zeitreisen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:36 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Ambient, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Projekt Archive
Sweden’s Henrik Meierkord’s main instrument is the cello, though he incorporates other stringed instruments and effect pedals to create his modern minimalistic ambience. ZEITREISEN is understated and graceful. The beautiful and mysterious string-fused soundscapes find emotional stimuli and tension within a melancholic soul.
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Gabriele Bonolis – Maderna: Serenata per un satellite, Venetian Journal & Other Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:33 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic
Unlike many modern composers of his day, Bruno Maderna did not renounce the memory nor the traditions of the past, seeing contemporary music as having the same expressive and linguistic goals as old music but organised in a different way. The works in this recording represent the important role melody had in Maderna’s aesthetic, the lyrical significance of Widmung and Aulodia per Lothar seeing their recurrence in later pieces. Serenata No. 2 recalls the spirit of Webern, Serenata per un satellite is like a musical game, and the multi-stylistic Venetian Journal is a merciless social, human and musical satire.
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