Natasha Te Rupe Wilson – The Earth Child (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:49 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atoll
In remembrance of Katherine Mansfield, whose death occurred in Paris on January 9, 1923. The album is a flowing musical tribute to her memory, and launches the exciting duo of German-based soprano Natasha Te Rupe-Wilson and pianist Somi Kim. Includes the world premier recording of settings of five Mansfield poems composed by Jennings; the ravishing La chanson d’Eve of Gabriel Fauré, Parisienne contemporary of Mansfield, here given a performance that goes right to the top of available recordings; and Jennings’ settings of Ursula Bethell’s whimsical poems about gardens.
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Myron Elkins – Factories, Farms & Amphetamines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:21 minutes | 725 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Low Country Sound – Elektra
Myron Elkins didn’t set out to become a full-time musician. After graduating from high school, the then 17-year-old instead became a welder in his hometown of Otsego, Michigan and had every intention of making that his career. However, fate had other plans. Three years ago, a relative signed him up for a battle of the bands at a local venue, despite the fact Elkins’ only prior experience with live music was playing at church and a few bars in the small Michigan town where he grew up. With just three weeks’ notice, Elkins put a band together featuring three of his cousins and a friend. Although the group didn’t win (they came in second), the experience opened Elkins’ eyes to a very different career path.
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Musica Ficta – Reforming Hymns (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:52 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dacapo
Während der Reformation wurden Kirchenlieder verwendet, um das Weltbild der Bevölkerung zu verändern. In Dänemark wurden viele der Kirchenlieder aus mittelalterlichen Traditionen übernommen oder aus anderen Sprachen entlehnt. Infolgedessen wurden auch die Hymnen reformiert, um sie den protestantischen Zwecken anzupassen. Auf dieser Veröffentlichung mit 30 Titeln erforscht das Kopenhagener Vokalensemble Musica Ficta gemeinsam mit dem Musikwissenschaftler Bjarke Moe die dänische Reformationshymne aus einer internationalen Perspektive, mit Verbindungen zu europäischen Musikwerken aus dem 16. Jahrhunderts.
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Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:09 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR
Richard Strauss was in his element shortly after 1900 when he prepared to portray his now three-member family in a symphonic way: “Bubi” had expanded the cozy togetherness with his wife (and soprano) Pauline into a “trio con brio” since 1897 and the artist marriage was the greatest cheerfully mixed up. The press and the public were shocked: How could you write a symphony about yourself and divulge the most intimate secrets of your married life (musically)! Strauss, however, was convinced, like his great role model Goethe, that an artist fundamentally draws “from the poetic content of his own life” and was not at a loss to acknowledge the premiere of his “Sinfonia domestica” in the New York department store Wanamaker, which had been cleared out especially for this purpose, as ” and legitimate earning of a living for wife and child”.
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Mirsaeed Hosseiny Panah – I Wish I Were Water (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:20 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
Mirsaeed Hosseiny Panah is an Iranian composer and musician with Santoor as his main instrument – a trapezoid shaped string instrument played on with small hammers. His curiosity toward different genres of music motivated him to study classical and jazz music in addition to the heritage of Iranian classical music. His background gave him the conclusion that despite the contrast between these musical fields, there is still a musical language out there that stands as a combination of all three. In 2013 he graduated from Tehran University, and recently he graduated with his second master’s degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH). In addition to being invited as a soloist with different orchestras/bands, he has been given several commissions as a composer and arranger.
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Mimi Fox Organ Trio – One for Wes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:38 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Origin Records
As a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Wes Montgomery’s birth, guitarist Mimi Fox chose to dive deep into the iconic Hammond B3 trio sound. Her program of Montgomery-inspired originals displays her dazzling virtuosity while running the musical gamut from greasy blues and funk, to luscious ballads and blazing bebop. With her longtime Bay Area trio of organist Brian Ho and drummer Lorca Hart, Mimi rekindles her experiences from over the years with the late great Joey DeFrancesco and Barbara Dennerlein, delivering an inspired tribute to the genre and to the towering legacy left by Indianapolis’ finest.
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Miles Davis – Nefertiti (2023 Remaster) (1968/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:14 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Nefertiti is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1968. Recorded on June 7, June 22–23 and July 19, 1967, at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio, the album was Davis’ last fully acoustic album. Davis himself did not contribute any compositions- three were written by tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, two by pianist Herbie Hancock and one by drummer Tony Williams.
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Michel Corboz – Handel: Suites from Rodrigo & Il pastor fido (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:49 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Swiss conductor Michel Corboz heads the English Bach Festival Baroque Orchestra in this programme of works from George Frideric Handel, focusing on the Suite from Rodrigo, HWV 5 and Il pastor fido, HWV 8a.
Rodrigo (HWV 5) is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel. Its original title was Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria (“To overcome oneself is the greater victory”). The opera is based on the historical figure of Rodrigo, the last Visigothic king of Spain. The libretto was based on Francesco Silvani’s II duello d’Amore e di Vendetta (“The conflict between love and revenge”). Dating from 1707, it was Handel’s first opera written for performance in Italy, and the first performance took place in Florence late in 1707.
Il pastor fido (“The Faithful Shepherd”) (HWV 8) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was set to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on the famed and widely familiar pastoral poem of the ‘Il pastor fido’ by Giovanni Battista Guarini. It had its first performance on 22 November 1712 at the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
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Michel Corboz – Gabrieli: Sacrae symphoniae (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:34:46 minutes | 3,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Warner presents Michael Corboz leading various ensembles in presentation of Giovanni Gabrieli’s “Sacrae symphoniae” as part of the continuing re-release series of his entire Erato catalogue.
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Michel Corboz – Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243 & Cantates, BWV 58 & 78 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:01 minutes | 2,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Warner presents Michael Corboz leading the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in presentation of Bach’s “Magnificat, BWV 243” & “Cantates, BWV 58 & 78” as part of the continuing re-release series of his entire Erato catalogue.
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Michael Barnes Octet – Out from Under (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:19 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AMP Music & Records
The musical adventure is fantastic based on his amazing talent, musical contribution, and success against all odds. His continuing impact on jazz and musicians in general is evidence. Lots of information on his oeuvre and his fellow musicians over his sadly limited professional life.
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Mette Henriette – Drifting (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:15 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Eight years after her double-length self-titled ECM debut, the Norwegian Sami tenor saxophonist Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg has returned with an album of brief musical haikus, introductions and unfinished thoughts—shadowy free jazz/contemporary music meant to provoke endings to her short moody statements. While half of her debut featured a big band, Henriette is now joined only by a pair of players, both of whom are leaders in their own right: pianist Johan Lindvall (who appeared on that first album) and versatile Australian cellist Judith Hamann.
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Metropolitan Jazz Octet – The Bowie Project (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:50 minutes | 753 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Origin Records
Chicago’s Metropolitan Jazz Octet partners with the acclaimed vocalist Paul Marinaro to create an inspired tribute to the durability and pure magic of David Bowie’s songwriting legacy. Reinterpreting without replicating, due in no small part to Marinaro’s riveting vocals paired with creative arrangements, the octet palette reveals transparency and intimacy, coaxing nuanced colors more indicative of a larger orchestra, laying out an inventive complement to Bowie’s lyrics. The MJO was originally founded in the ’50s by saxophonist/arranger Tom Hilliard and documented first in 1959’s The Legend of Bix on Argo Records. Its re-awakening in 2014 by Hilliard’s former student, Jim Gailloreto, extends the rich legacy of Hilliard’s library of compositions and devotion to this elegant chamber ensemble.
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Mel Lewis, Benny Barth, Sonny Payne, Ray Mosca, Armando Peraza – More Drums On Fire (Analog Source Remaster) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:48 minutes | 334 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali
In an era when big band drummers were expected to be showmen who drove their ensembles with aggressive timekeeping and fast, furious fills, Mel Lewis defied the trend and served the music by supporting the band rather than by calling attention to his own playing.
The warm sounds of his “old K’s” and his calf-headed bass and snare drums served as a cushion for the band’s sound, blending with the other instruments rather than cutting through them. As Lewis sat calmly behind a small drumkit that looked more appropriate for a combo than a big band, the hint of a smile was often visible at the corners of his mouth as he led the band with the authority of his time feel, which was all the more impressive by virtue of its understated quality. Indeed, Lewis could swing a band just as hard with brushes as with sticks.
Mel sometimes complained that to most people, “chops” meant “speed.” He could handle fast tempos with no problem, but he was never one for playing blazing fills and solos. For him, “chops” had to do with control of the instrument, a sense of color, and above all, the ability to swing.
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Maurice Gendron – Bach: The 6 Cello Suites by Maurice Gendron (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:18:36 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Maurice Gendron studierte am Konservatorium in Nizza und am Pariser Konservatorium. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch die erste Aufführung des Cellokonzerts op. 58 von Prokofjew in Westeuropa, zusammen mit dem London Philharmonic Orchestra unter Walter Susskind. Mit Yehudi Menuhin und dessen Schwester Hephzibah Menuhin spielte er während 25 Jahren im gemeinsam gegründeten Trio.
Ab 1954 war Gendron als Professor der Meisterklasse in Saarbrücken und ab 1970 in Paris tätig. Außerdem unterrichtete er an der Yehudi Menuhin School.
Gendron spielte ein Antonio Stradivari zugeschriebenes Instrument aus dem Jahr 1693, das unter der Bezeichnung Ex-Gendron nach ihm benannt ist. Es wurde später zeitweise von Maria Kliegel gespielt.
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