Christian-Pierre La Marca – Legacy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:59 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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The cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca always has something to surprise us with: hybrid programs mixing genres and pushing toward musical frontiers, guests who add to an already rich repertoire, and a keen, passionate vision of both music and the world. The title and the composers of his new album may appear “classical”, but his recording, effectively rooted in eighteenth century Vienna, nevertheless once again broadens the horizons and encourages us to see things differently. “I wanted this program to introduce new ways of listening to Haydn’s concertos,” he explains. “Legacy focuses on passing down rather than inheriting – the benevolence of one generation for the next, encounters between musicians who are also enablers, the progression of the instrument in the music.”
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Chickasaw Mudd Puppies – 8-Track Stomp (1991/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:05 minutes | 782 MB | Genre: Rock
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The Chickasaw Mudd Puppies originally from Athens Georgia made their mark in the late 80’s and early 90’s with two recordings White Dirt and this current re-release, 8 Track, Stomp produced by Michael Stipe and Willie Dixon. Despite their famous producers, who also backed up the duo in the studio, Chickasaw Mudd Puppies received little popular attention outside of Athens. Their use of traditional and “invented” percussion instruments, including the stomp board (invented), washboard, cowbells, and even cans, combined with the occasional dobro and lap steel guitars, gave their music an Americana sound.
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Gewandhausorchester – Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 / Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:18 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig continue their award-winning Bruckner cycle. This time the Symphonies are coupled with the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. There’s a consistently superb playing from all sections of the orchestra, but it’s the transparency of the strings that gives the textures such buoyancy; nothing is too emphatic or insistent.” – The Guardian
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Geneva Brass – Swiss Faces (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:04 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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For this record, we wanted to highlight Swiss creations by recording only original pieces for brass quintet by Swiss composers. So let the composers present their work to us.
Just like the famous Swiss army knife, the Geneva Brass chamber music ensemble is multi-purpose and multi-talented. Its warm distinctive sound shines while sharply interpreting a Bach fugue, sweetly whispering a Cosma ballad or gently humming a traditional Alphorn melody. The ensemble can be powerful when playing alongside an organ or a big band but can also be soft and tender when accompanying a choir, panpipes or even a harp.
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Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo – Beach: Complete Works for Piano Duo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Classical
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Now the famous and successful Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo turns to the American composer Amy Beach. Her compositional oeuvre marks a high point within the great phase of consolidation experienced by art music in the United States between the Civil War and World War I. Amy Beach was not the first American woman who composed or the first America woman who earned money with her compositions; but she created a stir in the music world by forging ahead into genres in which previously only men had distinguished themselves. However, it was above all the piano that was Amy Beach’s lifelong companion. She honored her instrument with solo compositions in a total of twenty-six opus numbers distributed equally over her entire compositional career from the 1880s to the 1930s. Even though her music for piano four hands or for two pianos is limited to a few compositions, they just as positively attest to their author’s talent as do her works for two hands. The original version of Amy Beach’s Variations on Balkan Themes op. 60 is her most extensive composition for piano two hands and the one that is the most challenging in playing technique. At the same time, the variations represent one of her most significant endorsements of folk music.
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Gemma Abrié, Josep Traver – Brown Gal (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:59 minutes | 376 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Singer and bassist Gemma Abrié and guitarist Josep Traver have come to present their first album as a duet, “Brown Gal”, where they pay tribute to women creators performing standard songs and some of their own songs so that jazz and song intertwine. On the album, the two artists convey light and joy to share their musical vision. Precisely this Sunday, January 23, they will present the album in concert at the Palau Robert within the Barcelona Jazz Festival.
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Geister Duo – Schumann – Brahms – Dvořák (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:48 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
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Dodging Dues is a startlingly expansive record “startling” in part because it’s relatively short (seven songs, all but one hovering around the four minute mark), but also because it traverses so many moods and styles: languid and dreamy one moment, surging and intense the next.
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Georg Michael Grau – E. Franck: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:52 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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The composer and pianist Eduard Franck was from an art-loving Breslau banker’s family and revealed his musical gifts at an early age. Later Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy became his teacher and even performed together with him. His friendly acquaintance with Mendelssohn and kindred musical spirits like Robert Schumann and William Sterndale Bennett showed Eduard Franck the way. However, he increasingly emerged from the shadow of his models, and today he is honored less as a follower and more as a mediator between the generations who in his time anticipated many a new development by great masters such as Brahms and Bruckner. Franck’s Piano Concerto in D minor op. 13, his first broadly dimensioned orchestral work, generates its appeal above with its imposing and stormy main themes and brilliantly virtuosic broken chords in the piano part. The second concerto recorded here was previously available only in a manuscript of the score and a piano reduction from 1879. The virtuosic interplay between the orchestra and the piano, as heard on the present recording premiere, in particular makes us sit up and take notice.
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George Vass, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Nova Music Opera Ensemble – Joseph Phibbs: Juliana (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:41 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Based on August Strindberg’s celebrated 1888 play Miss Julie, chamber opera Juliana (2018) unites composer Joseph Phibbs and librettist Laurie Slade in a modern tale about the power of money, immigration politics, drugs and the blurring of sexual boundaries. In confronting these issues head-on, the power of aristocracy is replaced by that of plutocracy.
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Geoffrey Fiorese – Terpsichore (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:42 minutes | 952 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Leading pianist and composer Geoffrey Fiorese has decided to build his Quartet project around the myth of “Terpsichore”, the muse of dance. This close relationship between music and dance invites us to receive a sound, a melody, not by simple listening, but through the prism of a global perception, where the whole body serves as a receptacle for sound harmony. A large amount of improvisation is left to the musicians who are thus able to react in the moment to an impulse, a feeling, like an imaginary dance that one would build continuously from impressions left by the senses. This project is about living the music, feeling it to the depths of your being, taking the spectator through a unique experience. Between long meditative musical poems and surging improvisations bordering free jazz, this project transcends the frontiers of jazz and thus gradually brings the listener to unknown territories where listening results in self-forgetfulness.
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Gary Peacock – Voices (1971) [Japanese Reissue 2007]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:03 minutes | Scans NOT included | 2,13 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans NOT included | 1,00 GB
After touring with Albert Ayler, Peacock took time off from music & moved to Japan in 1969, where he studied eastern philosophy & medicine. This album featuring a quartet composed of Peacock & 3 Japanese players. The music is at times very minimalist, with Gary Peacock’s bass dominating the pieces most of the time.
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Gary Karr – Adagio D’Albinoni (1982) [Japan 2014]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 36:14 minutes | Scans included | 1,63 GB
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Gary Karr, acclaimed as “the world’s leading solo bassist”, is, in fact, the first solo doublebassist in history to make that pursuit a full-time career. It is a career that adds new lustre to his already lustrous 1611 Amati doublebass which was given to him by the widow of Serge Koussevitzky. Since his debut with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1962, Karr has performed as soloist on six continents with orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Simon Bolivar Orchestra (Caracas, Venezuela), Jerusalem Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and with all the major orchestras of Australia. Gary Karr performs on this release with Harmon Lewis on pipe organ for a group of classical pieces by Beethoven, Bach, and more.
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Gary Burton, Chick Corea – Crystal Silence (1973) [Japan 2017]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:08 minutes | Scans included | 1,82 GB
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Released in 1973, Crystal Silence heralded the beginning of a long and productive association between Gary Burton and Chick Corea, even leading to a Crystal Silence sequel in 2008. The popularity of their collaboration far exceeded expectations for interest in a band consisting solely of piano and vibraphone; in fact Crystal Silence has gone on to become one of the most successful titles in the ECM catalogue.
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Gary Allan – See If I Care (2003)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:46 minutes | Scans included | 2,61 GB
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While Nashville hitmakers Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney rose from clunky B-level stars to bankable stadium fillers, Gary Allan quietly tapped his foot waiting for the rest of the world to get hip to his cool. On his fifth album, the California surfer/singer–finally nominated for the CMA Horizon award in 2003–gets back to the smoldering alt-country-goes-mainstream groove that made 1999’s Smoke Rings in the Dark so brilliant, but which he’d abandoned on 2002’s Alright Guy.
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