Alicia Keys, Kris Bowers, Vitamin String Quartet – Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Covers from the Netflix Series) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:29 minutes | 328 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
The Bridgerton universe is dripping in glamour thanks to its sumptuous set design and intricate costumes. But one element really makes this world pop — the orchestral pop covers lighting up the soundtrack. Everything from Madonna’s 1980s hit “Material Girl” (covered by Kris Bowers) to Billie Eilish’s Gen Z banger “bad guy” (as performed by Vitamin String Quartet) has graced the Bridgerton ballroom.
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Alice Howe – Circumstance (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:09 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Americana, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Know Howe Music
On Circumstance, her second and latest album, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Alice Howe displays her vocal prowess and introspective writing in abundance, mining both her heart and her musical tastes for a deep, personal journey across an Americana soundscape dotted with blues, folk, country, soul and rock. Produced by her creative partner, iconic bassist Freebo (Bonnie Raitt) and recorded at legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Etta James and Wilson Pickett once shook the walls, the record channels their spirits with 11 stirring tracks that pull no punches diving into the vagaries of the heart and her own personal journey.
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Alfredo Campoli – Handel: Six Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 by Alfredo Campoli (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:47 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Alfredo Campoli (20 October 1906 – 27 March 1991) was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin. Campoli spent his childhood and much of his career in England.
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Alfa Mist – Variables (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:25 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Jazz
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On Variables, his second release for ANTI-, Alfa achieves his most fully realised, expressive musical work to date, coupling his keen ear for looping, memorably emotive piano melodies with intuitive grooves and a free-flowing jazz improvisation. Since the release of his first full-length project Nocturne in 2015, Alfa has established himself as one of the UK’s most focused, in demand and distinct musical voices. He has worked with the likes of Jordan Rakei and Tom Misch. Artists look to him for his unique blend of intimate bedroom production and expansive jazz group orchestration, since Alfa is yet to be boxed into a specific genre. His music spans everything from hip-hop beat-making to producing for artists such as rapper Loyle Carner, composing neo-classical works for the London Contemporary Orchestra, and reworking tracks from composer Ólafur Arnald’s and pioneering jazz label Blue Note.
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Alexandre Tharaud – François Couperin: Tic toc choc (Remastered) (2007/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:15 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
This album was first released in March 2007. Following a benchmark Rameau album, Alexandre Tharaud continued in 2007 his exploration of French Baroque music with a programme focusing on the idea of play: ‘Taking Le Tic-Toc-Choc, a colourful piece I often use as an encore, as the centrepiece, I gathered together Couperin’s most “pianistic” pieces, concentrating on the playful aspect of some of them.’ This sensitive, inspired interpretation has in its turn become a landmark in the catalogue.
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Alexandre Baldo, Mozaique – Caldara: Arias for Bass (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:00 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pan Classics
Antonio Caldara, a native of Venice, spent almost two decades at the beginning of the 18th century in the service of the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI as Vice-Kapellmeister.
His musical duties also included supplying the Vienna Court Opera with a constant stream of new works.
The present programme is based on extensive research by the bass Alexandre Baldo in the Vienna National Library.
In the manuscripts of Caldara’s vocal works, Baldo repeatedly came across bass arias that impressed him for their virtuosity and expressiveness.
Baldo discovered that Caldara had written them without exception for Christoph Praun, a highly esteemed bass player and member of the imperial court orchestra at the time.
For this recording, Alexandre Baldo presents a selection of arias composed by Caldara for Praun between 1717 and 1736.
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Alexander Melnikov – Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
lover of historical keyboard instruments, Alexander Melnikov has already successfully met the challenge of exploring ‘Four Pieces, Four Pianos’ on disc and in concert back in 2018. Today, he has chosen to perform seven emblematic works of the fantasia genre on harpsichord, fortepiano, tangent piano, early grands, and so on. In this journey through the keyboards of time, we can discover these pieces as they sounded at the time of their creation, but also grasp the invisible thread that links them to each other.
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Alexander Chance, Toby Carr – Drop not, Mine Eyes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:06 minutes | 981 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
British countertenor Alexander Chance (b. 1992) was named the winner of the 2022 International Handel Singing Competition (including the audience prize!). Drop not, mine eyes is a touching program of English lute songs full of melancholic warmth by Dowland, Campion, Danyel, Purcell and others. Toby Carr provides sensitive accompaniment on lute and theorbo.
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Alex Paxton – Alex Paxton: Happy Music for Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:26 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
‘In every moment of the piece’, says Alex Paxton, ‘I’m asking myself what is the most sonically sensual thing that can happen here, and here, and here.’ The result, from a multi-award-winning composer described as ‘unique, inventive, brave and arresting’, is an album of joyful music performed by orchestra, ensemble and improvisers.
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Alessandro Deljavan – Schumann: Album for the Young (Album für die Jugend), Op. 68 [Book 2] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:38 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OnClassical
Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan has been astonishing audiences for more than two decades. Acknowledgements began at the age of nine when he won the prestigious Concours musical de France (1st Prize, Paris, 1996). He is embraced for his remarkable prowess and emotional intensity by audiences and colleagues alike.
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Alessandro Deljavan – Schumann: Album for the Young (Album für die Jugend), Op. 68 [Book 1] (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 28:53 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OnClassical
Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan has been astonishing audiences for more than two decades. Acknowledgements began at the age of nine when he won the prestigious Concours musical de France (1st Prize, Paris, 1996). He is embraced for his remarkable prowess and emotional intensity by audiences and colleagues alike.
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Mao Fujita – Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:54 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Chopin turned the Scherzo into a new form of piano composition: an independent virtuoso work which he laced with drama, Polish folk song, tranquillity and nuance. With their rhythmic lilt and filigree ornamentation the Impromptus are infused with Romantic freedom, while the Allegro de concert, Op. 46 was originally conceived as a movement for a projected piano concerto but was instead revised for solo piano.
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Manuel Vilas – Compendio Numeroso (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:09 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty
“As a harpist specializing in the cross-strung harp, an Iberian harp so called for having two rows of crossing strings, the recording of the album culminates a lifelong project. My teacher Nuria Llopis mentioned Diego Fernández de Huete during my first cross-strung-harp lesson in the early 90s of the last century. The first piece I prepared as a student was none other than the gaita (track 17) and, from that moment, Huete’s music accompanied me, as much in my student years as in my professional recitals, which always include works by this composer.
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Manuel Tomadin & Manuel Staropoli – Telemann: Die Kleine Kammermusik (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
Telemann published the Kleine Kammermusik in 1716 in Frankfurt: his second published collection, intended for performance equally with violin or flute. His preface indicates that these pieces share a light and cantabile style particularly tailored to amateur performers on their respective instruments, with relatively narrow intervals in the solo part. Nonetheless, their unfailingly stylish melodies invite performance by professionals such as this trio of Italian musicians, experienced in period-instrument performance and with a catalogue of distinguished albums on Brilliant Classics to their credit.
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Manuel Tomadin – Van Noordt: Complete Organ Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:20:11 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics
The legacy of a notable successor to Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in new recordings on a historically significant organ.
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