London Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss – Wagner: Orchestral Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss – Wagner: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:00 minutes | 305 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski – Vladimir Martynov: Utopia (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski – Vladimir Martynov: Utopia (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Martynov’s Utopia Symphony is a musical tribute to Singapore from a son of the Russian avant-garde of the 1970s. Martynov skillfully combines influences from American minimalism and Russian Orthodox chant with a libretto inspired by the ancient text of the Tao Te Ching to create a sound world which seeks to reimagine the concept of utopia. This world premiere recording was made at London’s Abbey Road Studios, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra – Music From Great Film Classics (1970/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Philharmonic Orchestra – Music From Great Film Classics (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Another spectacular soundtrack compilation from London Records’ Phase 4 Stereo. The scores are for the movies: Citizen Kane, Jane Eyre, The Snows Of Killimanjaro, and The Devil and Daniel Webster.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen – Mahler: Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen – Mahler: Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:04:23 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Andromeda

Hermann Scherchen was a figure of central importance in twentieth-century musical life, his continuing espousal of new music making him one of its foremost proponents in Europe. As a conductor he held a deep respect for the composer’s written text, for instance seeking to perform Beethoven’s symphonies at the tempi indicated in the manuscripts, an unusual practice for the time. Technically he believed that a conductor should commence work with an orchestra only when every aspect of a score had been completely memorised, and could be rehearsed from memory. Film of Scherchen conducting shows him to have possessed a very simple and clear beat. Yet he could summon up performances of raw power as well as of great character. He saw the conductor’s job very much as animating the music beyond the notes, writing in 1935, ‘A music devoid of any emotion, of any aesthetic pleasure or spiritual clarification may be of interest to the professional, but has no meaning whatsoever to the normal listener.’

On this classic record, he conducts Mahler’s mounmental 1st and 10th Symphonies at the head of the London Philharmonic Orchestra!

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London Philharmonic Orchestra – Boult Conducts Butterworth, Warlock, Hadley & Howells (2007/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

London Philharmonic Orchestra – Boult Conducts Butterworth, Warlock, Hadley & Howells (2007/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lyrita

The reputation of George Butterworth, whose life was tragically cut short in WWI, rests on a handful of works including the orchestral pieces on this recording. Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) left just three orchestral works, including An Old Song. Hadley’s One Morning in Spring was written for his teacher Vaughan Williams. Herbert Howells’s early orchestral and chamber works have ravishing pastoral beauty.

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The London Orion Orchestra – Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here Symphonic (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

The London Orion Orchestra – Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here Symphonic (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:29 minutes | 550 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Released to mark the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s legendary Wish You Were Here, this album features the London Orion Orchestra performing a symphonic interpretation of the album, recorded at Abbey Road Studios where Pink Floyd did the original. From the world of rock, keyboardist Rick Wakeman and singer Alice Cooper kick things off with the vocal version of Wish You Were Here, while guitarists Stephen McElroy (Steve Mac) and Dave Fowler from tribute band the Australian Pink Floyd Show bring their best Floydian fretwork to the instrumental version. For good measure, the album programme concludes with Eclipse taken from another iconic Floyd album, Dark Side of the Moon.

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London Music Works – Re:Scored – Epic Classical, Vol.2 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Music Works – Re:Scored – Epic Classical, Vol.2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:49 minutes | 399 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Silva Screen Records

Out now to stream and download, Silva Screen Records releases ‘Re:Scored – Epic Classical Volume 2’ by London Music Works

The Re: Scored series introduces fresh, thoughtful and contemporary film score reworkings of established genres. On Epic Classical Vol. 2, composer Antonin Roux re-arranges classical favourites in “epic” film score mode.

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London Grammar – Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Deluxe) (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

London Grammar – Truth Is a Beautiful Thing (Deluxe) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:22 minutes | 850 MB | Genre: Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ministry of Sound Recordings

“Truth Is a Beautiful Thing” is the second studio album, written and conducted by British dream pop trio London Grammar. It follow the critically acclaimed, platinum selling debut ‘If You Wait’. New album features production from Tim Bran, Paul Epworth, Jon Hopkins, Roy Kerr and Greg Kurstin.

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London Grammar – Californian Soil (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

London Grammar – Californian Soil (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:22 minutes | 477 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ministry of Sound Recordings

Electro-pop heroes London Grammar release their highly anticipated third album, Californian Soil. Front-woman Hannah Reid said of the project:

“This record is about gaining possession of my own life. You imagine success will be amazing. Then you see it from the inside and ask, ‘Why am I not controlling this thing? Why am I not allowed to be in control of it? And does that connect, in any way to being a woman? If so, how can I do that differently?’”

“Misogyny is primitive, which is why it is so hard to change. But it is also fearful. It’s about rejecting the thing in yourself which is vulnerable or feminine. Yet everybody has that thing.”t allowed to be in control of it? And does that connect, in any way to being a woman?’”

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London Concertante – Christmas Baroque (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Concertante – Christmas Baroque (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:57 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CMG

If you’re looking for a romantic candlelit experience, want to enjoy some classical music greats from the baroque period, in a gorgeous setting or simply fancy something Christmassy – then this is the concert for you! UK based chamber orchestra London Concertante regularly performs up to and over one hundred concerts per year, making it the busiest ensemble of its kind in the country. With their numerous recordings reaching great critical acclaim, the ensemble is continually regarded as one of the finest groups in Europe since its founding in 1991.

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London Bridge Trio – The Leipzig Circle, Vol. 2 (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

London Bridge Trio – The Leipzig Circle, Vol. 2 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:23:37 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the second volume in the London Bridge Trio’s revealing exploration, recorded live, of the influential musical fraternity known as The Leipzig Circle. Delving deeper into the coterie that coalesced around the husband-and-wife composers Robert and Clara Schumann as Leipzig flourished into becoming the centre of European music making in the 1840s.

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London Bridge Trio – The Leipzig Circle, Vol. 1 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

London Bridge Trio – The Leipzig Circle, Vol. 1 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:07 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings

This outstanding release is first to couple music by the sister and wife of two great Romantics – incredibly gifted women who were also fine composers, whose music has remained little-known for almost 175 years.

This unique collection proves that composers Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann weren’t the only outstanding creative musicians in their families.

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London Brass, Rumon Gamba – Music of the Angels (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Brass, Rumon Gamba – Music of the Angels (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:20 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Edward Gregson began composing from a very early age, and his extensive output covers a wide range of musical sound-worlds. Music for film, television, and theatre sits alongside choral pieces and works for full orchestra. Having played in a brass band as a teenager, he has shown a special affinity in his compositions for brass throughout his career – both for brass band and for symphonic brass, which we celebrate with this new album. His seminal Quintet for Brass, Three Dance Episodes, and Aria for Philip mark his connection to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

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Lomond Campbell – Black River Promise (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lomond Campbell – Black River Promise (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:23 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Heavenly Recordings

Lomond Campbell put together his debut album “Black River Promise” in the manner of several lonely-eyed young men before him: by decamping to somewhere remote (in this case, an abandoned school in the Scottish Highlands) to be alone with his thoughts and his music. The pop-folk results are deep and remarkable, augmented with a ten-piece string ensemble.

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Lomelda – Hannah (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Lomelda – Hannah (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:06 minutes | 453 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY

At its core, Lomelda is a project about shyness – that it’s okay to feel it, how to embrace it, and laying it all out to be examined in its primary elements. Over the last few years, Hannah Read has sang about introversion in simple terms, and her latest album continues to showcase her no-fuss, contemplative songwriting. Fittingly named after herself, Hannah is taken straight from the mind of a wallflower, apprehensive and always low-key.

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