Ian Watson, Susanna Ogata – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 3 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Watson, Susanna Ogata – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 3 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:36 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical, Chamber Music, Romantic Era
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s acclaimed series on Coro Connections continues with the third album in their exploration of Beethoven’s Sonatas for fortepiano and violin. Written at a time when the composer was struggling to accept his growing deafness, the three sonatas on this volume were published together in 1803 as his Opus 30 and provide a remarkable trilogy – a collection of incredible variety and sophistication. The wide compositional range of this set demonstrates Beethoven’s prowess in creating bucolic, even humorous moments, contrasted with deep intensity, pathos and the truly sublime. Susanna Ogata has been praised for her ”totally convincing, spontaneous and free-flowing playing” (The Berkshire Review) and is a tenured member of the Handel and Haydn Society where she was appointed Assistant Concertmaster of the orchestra in 2014. Ian Watson has been described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as ”a conductor of formidable ability”, and by The Times in London as a keyboard performer with ”virtuosic panache and brilliantly articulated playing” and ”a world-class soloist.” He was appointed Associate Conductor of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society in 2016.

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Susanna Ogata, Ian Watson – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 4 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Susanna Ogata, Ian Watson – Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 4 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:30 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CORO Connections

Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s acclaimed series on CORO Connections continues with the fourth disc in their exploration of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin. The Opus 12 Sonatas that are explored on this final volume are among the most Mozartian of the sonatas. They are, however, filled with Beethoven’s inimitable voice, from the assertive Sonata No. 1, in the violin’s most brilliant and sonorous key of D major, to the pianistically brilliant No. 3 in E flat with its cascades of triplets and sextuplets. Unmistakably Beethoven!

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Ian Venables – Love Lives Beyond the Tomb (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Venables – Love Lives Beyond the Tomb (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:39 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Ian Venables studied composition with Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music, London and later with John Joubert, Andrew Downes and John Mayer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His works encompass many genres and he has added significantly to the canon of English art song. Described as ‘Britain’s greatest living composer of art song’ (Musical Opinion) and ‘a song composer as fine as Finzi and Gurney’ (BBC Music Magazine), Ian Venables has written over 80 works in this genre, including nine song-cycles.

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IAN SWEET – Crush Crusher (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

IAN SWEET – Crush Crusher (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:09 minutes | 797 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hardly Art

Ian Sweet, aka Jillian Medford, has announced her second album. ‘Crush Crusher’, the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Shapeshifter’, gets a released on October 26 through Hardly Art, home to the likes of Chastity Belt, the Julie Ruin, Protomartyr et al. The lead single, Hiding, starts off intimately with reverb-heavy vocals, before a tidal wave of guitars and percussion takes over. With a solid rhythm in the later verses, it’s a well-balanced song that deserves repeated listens.

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Ian Smith – Last Call (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Ian Smith – Last Call (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:34 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stockfisch Records

The newest horse in the stable of Stockfisch Records is already an old hand in the business: Ian Smith, an outstanding guitarist, singer and songwriter, with Scottish roots, from “Keadue Strand” in Donegal / Ireland, as sung in the song of the same name.

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Ian Shaw – The Theory of Joy (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Shaw – The Theory of Joy (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:46 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz Village

Ian Shaw – jazz singer, songwriter (plus stand-up comedian, radio presenter and producer!) – has returned to working with that classic jazz ensemble, the piano trio. A frequent and accomplished solo performer, for this new recording Ian craved a bit of company, and what company he found… the outstanding pianist Barry Green, distinguished bassist Mick Hutton and ace drummer Dave Ohm, three of the UK’s very finest players.

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Ian Scott, Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Robin White – From Russia: music for clarinet and piano (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ian Scott, Royal Ballet Sinfonia & Robin White – From Russia: music for clarinet and piano (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:53 minutes | 445 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Divine Art

Pure enjoyment is provided by this delightful new recording of popular Russian music arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Robin White. From Rimsky-Korsakov’s Clarinet Concerto – originally scored for military band – to the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet (a staple for arrangers for decades) this is a beautifully played album by one of Britain’s busiest orchestras. An interloper (but a welcome one) from Italy (but of Eastern European style) provides a superb finale. Ian Scott is the principal clarinet of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and has been guest principal with several top London orchestras. He has previously made premiere recordings of Clarinet Concertos for ASV and Dutton. Arranger and conductor Robin White has enjoyed a very busy and varied career; his first recording (1992, Chandos) was very popular and he has made other recordings of light music for several labels. He has managed his own orchestra and choir and appeared, with his choir, in a pivotal episode of the British TV drama series EastEnders. As an arranger of light music, his work has been broadcast by BBC orchestras many times.

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The Mozartists & Ian Page – Mozart in London (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Mozartists & Ian Page – Mozart in London (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:24:47 minutes | 2,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

programme which includes Mozart’s remarkable first symphony (composed when he was eight years old), along with his two other London symphonies and his first concert aria. The repertoire also explores the music that was being performed in London during Mozart’s stay, including works by J. C. Bach, Thomas Arne, Abel, Pescetti, Perez, George Rush and William Bates, many of which have not previously been recorded, and the large cast of soloists includes eight singers and harpsichordist Steven Devine.

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Ian Pace – Becomings (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ian Pace – Becomings (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:29:28 minutes | 682 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metier

This album features the first ever recordings of Sam Hayden’s complete music for solo piano, performed by contemporary music specialist and indefatigable champion of new music, Ian Pace, a pianist with a formidable reputation for mastering the most challenging of new repertoire. The centrepiece is Haydens monumental 7-movement cycle, Becomings (Das Werden) I-VII (2016-18), the most recent work on the album and the most ambitious and demanding in terms of scale and sheer virtuosity. Becomings is accompanied by two shorter acoustic works, still time (1990) and Fragment (After Losses) (2003). . A different soundworld is provided by Piano Moves (1990) for amplified piano. His solo piano works have in common constant transformation, existing at the extremes of gesture, polyphony, density, register, dynamic range and textual juxtaposition, very much reflecting an aesthetic alignment with modernist traditions and very much at the cutting edge of the avant-garde, while retaining an open and interesting experience for even less adventurous listeners. Hayden has received commissions from many ensembles and the BBC and is Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

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Ian Kelly – Long Story Short (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ian Kelly – Long Story Short (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:47 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunset Hill Music

Ian Kelly is a busy musician, producer and creator: solo career; M.Chandler group training (with veterans Rick Haworth, Mario Légaré and Sylvain Clavette); instigator of the Morin-Heights SuperFolk Festival. With Long Story Short, his sixth album, he offers us an album entirely sung in English, where almost every piece has a melody likely to cling to us. There is nothing abrupt here. That sweetness interpreted with this beautiful voice and mastered. A dawn record. From those days when we still believe that anything can happen.

Even when the music starts a little more, as on the excellent last play Hopeful Mind, tranquility continues to live. These new Kelly songs seem built primarily around the singer’s voice. This one whispers, flies on some of the chorus to go down a little further and mixes marvelously with that of the Toronto singer Sarah Slean on Let’s Just Be Together. In any case, it keeps us weightless.

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Ian Hultquist – I Love You, Now Die (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ian Hultquist – I Love You, Now Die (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:41 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Little Twig Records

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (OST) from the HBO film I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter (2019). The music composed by Ian Hultquist (Love & Bananas: an Elephant Story, The Gospel According to Andre, At the Heart of Gold). I Love You, Now Die (I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter) is a 2019 documentary film directed by Erin Lee Carr for HBO.

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Ian Hultquist – Axl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ian Hultquist – Axl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:54 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records

Soundtrack album for the sci-fi family adventure A.X.L. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation, The Gospel According to Andre, Animals, Ivory Tower, My Blind Brother).

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Ian Hultquist – Assassination Nation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Hultquist – Assassination Nation (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:10 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lakeshore Records

High school senior Lily and her three best friends live in a world of selfies, emojis, snaps and sexts. But when their town of Salem is besieged by a massive data hack, resulting in half the citizens’ private info spewed into the public view, the community descends into anarchy. Lily is targeted after being falsely blamed for the hack—and bands together with her friends to survive a long, blood-soaked night.

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Ian Holtham – Scarlatti’s Steinways at Melbourne (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Holtham – Scarlatti’s Steinways at Melbourne (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:05 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Move Records

The remarkable output of 555 Keyboard Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) remains one of the most original compositional contributions in Western Art Music. Pianist Ian Holtham has selected 23 of the sonatas sequenced into four baroque tonal groupings.

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Ian Hobson – Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ian Hobson – Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:02 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) wrote a considerable quantity of piano music, but it is generally remembered today only for a single piece, Étincelles, which Horowitz enjoyed playing. The early works on this first instalment in Ian Hobson’s survey of Moszkowski’s complete music for solo piano reveal a debt to Mendelssohn and Schumann, but the craftsmanship already justifies a later remark of Paderewski’s: “After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique”.

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