Evgeni Orkin – Der Wandervirtuose (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:53 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orkin Music Laboratory
born in Lviv (Ukraine) in 1977, Evgeni Orkin first studied clarinet with I. Pendischuk and composition with Yevhen Stankovych at the National Academy of Music in Kiev. Further studies followed at the music academies in Utrecht and Mannheim in the subjects clarinet with Herman Braune and Wolfhard Pencz, conducting with Melvin Margolis and composition with Ulrich Leyendecker and Ernst Bechert.
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Eugene Ormandy – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1,2,7 & Orchestral Works by Eugene Ormandy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:26:24 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Has any musical reputation in the classical music world suffered more than Ormandy’s? I doubt it. Collectors can sneer all they want at the outdated styles of playing that Karajan and Bernstein brought to the party, but they buy the endless reissues all the same. Toscanini still sets a gold standard for many, and Stokowski is weird and famous enough to continue capturing hearts and minds. I’m not sure what Ormandy did wrong; he was a champion of new music, possibly the world’s greatest accompanist, and loved the world over. And then he died. Maybe that was it. In all seriousness, his musical achievements are worth hearing, and he was a persuasive advocate of Sibelius, among others.
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Essential Logic – Land Of Kali (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:53 minutes | 630 MB | Genre: New Wave, Electronic, Art Rock, Post-Punk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hiss And Shake Records
The Land of Kali’ (co-produced by Youth), is the first new Essential Logic studio album in 43 years, and features the forthcoming new single ‘Prayer for Peace’, a re-imagining of the X-Ray Spex track from the tragically overlooked album, ‘Conscious Consumer’ (1995) on which Lora also played sax. “Poly Styrene and I were living in a Krishna community in Worcestershire in the early 80s.
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Esperanza Spalding – Radio Music Society (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
“With her new companion LP, Radio Music Society, the young virtuoso branches out sonically, injecting her jazz roots with some modern soul and pop juice, maybe even inspiring the Bieber faithful to check in on what all the fuss is about… At just 11 tracks, this record flexes serious range, but what’s even more impressive is that it rarely sounds overextended.”
– Okayplayer
Sylvius Leopold Weiss – Silvius Leopold Weiss: Sonatas for Lute, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:15 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No1 Music Group
Weiss probably wrote more than 1000 pieces for lute, from which about 850 attributed pieces survived, most of them grouped into ‘sonatas’ (not to be confused with the later classical sonata, based on sonata form) or suites, which consist mostly of baroque dance pieces. Weiss also wrote chamber pieces and concertos, but only the solo parts have survived for most of them.
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Espen Sørensen – Silvius Leopold Weiss, Sonatas for Lute (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:12 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © No1 Music Group
Weiss probably wrote more than 1000 pieces for lute, from which about 850 attributed pieces survived, most of them grouped into ‘sonatas’ (not to be confused with the later classical sonata, based on sonata form) or suites, which consist mostly of baroque dance pieces. Weiss also wrote chamber pieces and concertos, but only the solo parts have survived for most of them.
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Espen Berg – Early Works: Acres of Blue (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:43 minutes | 873 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NXN Recordings – Naxos Norway
Acres of Blue is the second volume of solo piano albums by Norwegian pianist Espen Berg, an organic extension of the most beautiful, Noctilucent (Atterklang, 2012). This time Berg chose to present a mixture of original compositions, improvised pieces, and arrangements of pieces that reference the breadth of his musical vocabulary and his formative influences—romantic compositions of Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Nordic pianists-composers as Esbjorn Svensson, Helge Lien and obviously, Keith Jarrett.
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Espen Berg – Early Works: Noctilucent (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:46 minutes | 755 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NXN Recordings – Naxos Norway
Noctilucent is the first album in a series of two re-releasing Espen Berg’s remarkable early works, originally released on Aklang. Espen has grown to become one of the most influental pianists on the Norwegian and European jazz-scene, constantly touring with different projects including his own piano-trio and his duo with singer Silje Neergard. NXN are proud to highlight this wonderful piano album, and present it to new listeners.
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Esbjörn Svensson – HOME.S. (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:27 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music
Esbjörn Svensson is certainly one of the most influential musicians in modern jazz history. Now “HOME.S.” is his first solo album, released 14 years after his tragic accidental death while diving.
The mere existence of Esbjörn Svensson solo recordings is considered a minor sensation. After all, the musician had concentrated virtually all of his creative energy on his groundbreaking work with his trio e.s.t.. The focus of all participants on “only” one musical project in a fixed constellation had been one of the special features of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio.
It was all the more surprising when nine solo piano pieces were discovered on a hard drive in the personal archive of his wife Eva. The Swedish pianist and composer had recorded them professionally on his own in his basement studio in the weeks before his sudden death in June 2008. Not even Åke Linton knew of the existence of these recordings, although the sound engineer had accompanied all e.s.t. albums and shows for years and, according to Svensson, was considered the fourth member of the band.
Whether the nine pieces, named after letters of the Greek alphabet, were improvised or composed remains as much a mystery as the plans Svensson had for them. But the fact is that the recordings now available are not only the first, but practically the only ones that show him in a setting other than that of the trio: intimate, concentrated and completely with himself.
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Ernst Simon Glaser – Echos of what will come – Conversations with J.S (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:55 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Simax Classics
Glaser has had a number of works written for him and he is currently working on his project “Conversations with J.S.Bach”. Glaser wants to explore the potential to connect the music of Bach with present-day approaches and has commissioned new companion pieces to be played alongside each of the Bach cello suites. Six different Norwegian composers have focussed on one Bach suite each. His hope is to create a unique meeting point between the past and the present; a conversation across timelines.
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Ernie Santella – The Whole Shabang (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:40 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Genesee Music
Debut album from blues guitarist/songwriter Ernie Santella. Nine brand-new, all-original rockin’ blues tunes. Featuring the great Mary Johanson on lead vocals.
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Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:32 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Freedom To Spend
Written and recorded between 1972 and 1982 in Western Oregon, Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album made by Ernest Hood during the same era as his near mythical album Neighborhoods. A visionary combination of field recordings, zithers, and synthesizers, Back to the Woodlands offers an unprecedented depth of access to this singular artistic mind.
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Erlend Viken, Jo Berger Myhre, Thomas Strønen – Djupet (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:39 minutes | 584 MB | Genre: World, Ethnic Jazz, Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OK World
“Djupet” began as a commissioned work co-composed by Jo Berger Myhre and Erlend Viken for the Ultima Festival and Riksscenen in 2020. Together, with dancers Ida Wigdel, Ådne Kolbjørnhus and Katja Schia, they explored the common ecstatic potential of, and the links between, folk, improvisational and electronic dance music. Thomas Pohlitz Strønen was producer, and when they recorded the music the week after the premiere, the duo became a trio.
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Erik Rohde – Sonic Apricity: New Music for Violin & Viola Duo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:48 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
What happens when you combine a love for uncovering new gems in classical music with two highly skilled performers? Violist Jacob Tews and Violinist Erik Rohde answer this very question with Sonic Apricity: an album consisting of works they have either commissioned or championed, and the namesake of their musical coalescence.
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Erik Griswold – Sunshowers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:33 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Modern Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Room 40
“Sunshowers” is a triptych exploring the resonance of the piano.
“Out of heart of light” (a fragment of text from T.S. Eliot) uses a rapid-fire rhythmic technique to sound out slowly changing tonal clusters. Chaotic repetitions of tones create unpredictable fluctuations in the sound colour, a kind of “glowing” effect.
“Ghosts” reveals a series of sustaining chords and amplifies imperfections in the decay. We hear the “ghosts” – the normally unheard details – inside the sound.
“Sunshowers” presents a sequence of cascading arpeggios, gently falling from right to left. As the harmonies gradually transform the resonance shifts across the colour spectrum like a rainbow.
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