Christophe Rousset – Jacques Duphly – Pieces de clavecin (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Christophe Rousset – Jacques Duphly – Pieces de clavecin (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:07:41 minutes | 2,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aparté

Christophe Rousset’s performances as a harpsichordist had soon attracted the attention of the international press as well as record companies. Lighting this orchestra in fire with his enthusiasm as a conductor and researcher, he was soon among the front runners of Baroque, acclaimed in the world. Through this recording Christophe Rousset has attempted to restore the virility of Jacques Duphy’s compositions as well as the severity of some features, the sincerity of the composer’s gesture, all this greatly inspired by the beautiful sound of the Kroll harpsichord, kindly made available to us by its owner and restorer Marc Ducornet.

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Rias Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Christmas! Noël! Weinachten! (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Rias Kammerchor, Hans-Christoph Rademann – Christmas! Noël! Weinachten! (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:09 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

The great painters have always known how to combine the different perspectives of the Nativity into a single picture. Here the RIAS Kammerchor tells the Christmas Story in music: Mendelssohn frames the painting, to which the darkness and the promise of promise of heavenly light form the background. The Virgin Mary leads us to the heart of Christmas Night and to rejoicing at the Savior’s birth. We come full circle with the Four Motets of Poulenc, which sum up all the facets of Christmas and its emotions.

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The Boys of St. Paul’s Choir School, John Robinson – Christmas In Harvard Square (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Boys of St. Paul’s Choir School, John Robinson – Christmas In Harvard Square (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:02 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AimHigher Recordings

Prepare to be captivated by the angelic sounds of The Boys of St. Paul’s Choir School.A timeless collection of 19 gorgeous songs for Christmas entitled Christmas In Harvard Square. Christmas-time is a beautiful opportunity for the contemplation of the wonder of the Nativity of Our Lord.

This recording has been a blessing and an opportunity to share our special community at St. Paul’s Choir School, the only Catholic boys choir school in the US. Having just celebrated our 50th anniversary of founding, in the midst of the great renaissance that is taking place at our school, sharing this music allows us to collaborate in the great endeavor that is the New Evangelization. Through this music we invite you the listener to be transported to Harvard Square to share in the angelic beauty of the centuries old tradition of the boys choir as we celebrate together Christmas in Harvard Square.

Recorded May 7-9, 2014, at the Church of St. Paul’s in Cambridge, MA.

Producer and editing engineer: Blanton Alspaugh
Recording, mixing and mastering engineer: Mark Donahue

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Various Artists – Linn Records – Xmas Gifts 2015 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Various Artists – Linn Records – Xmas Gifts 2015 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:29:13 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records

Get in the Christmas mood with free Studio Master downloads – the highest quality available anywhere.

Each week in December, we’ll be giving away a different collection of stunning, hand-picked Studio Master tracks from Linn Records’ diverse and talented roster of artists.

Each collection has its own theme and offers the perfect introduction to high quality Studio Master downloads, giving you the chance to explore and expand your musical tastes with the wide variety of genres on offer throughout the month.

http://news.linn.co.uk/news/2015/11/24-bits-of-christmas—discover-more-from-music.php

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Christine Tassan Quintette – Voyage intérieur (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine Tassan Quintette – Voyage intérieur (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:57 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions des Imposteures

Well known to jazz lovers manouche for more than 20 years with her band Les Imposteures, Montreal guitarist Christine Tassan continues with her new jazz album, Voyage intérieur, the refinement of her clear and expressive playing. It is with her new quintet that the Montreal artist invites us to follow her in this unexpected musical quest, between Europe and America, between Bolero and swing, through bossa and funk.

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Christine Tassan et les Imposteures – Django Belles (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine Tassan et les Imposteures – Django Belles (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:04 minutes | 464 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Productions des Imposteures

Ça y est ! Le voici, DJANGO BELLES, notre nouvel album, tout beau comme une première neige! Deux soirées/lancements auront lieu au Dièse Onze les 6 et 7 décembre dès 18 h 00. Infos. Communiqué complet. Écoutez-le et commandez-le là ou encore mieux directement sur notre site. Une célébration de l’hiver sous … / That’s it ! Here it is, DJANGO BELLES, our new album, Beautiful as a first snow! Two parties / launches will take place at the Dièse on December 6 and 7 from 18: 00. Info. Complete press release. Listen to it and order it there or better directly on our site. A celebration of the winter under …

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Christine Rice, Stuart Skelton, The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Verklärte Nacht (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Christine Rice, Stuart Skelton, The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Verklärte Nacht (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:35 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Hot on the heels of their acclaimed recording of Britten’s Peter Grimes, Stuart Skelton and Edward Gardner join forces with Christine Rice and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for this fascinating programme of early twentieth-century works. Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht needs no introduction, but far rarer is Oscar Fried’s contemporaneous setting of the same poem.

Composed in 1901 for soloists and orchestra, Fried’s version is a true setting of (as opposed to Schoenberg’s reflection on) the text by Richard Dehmel. Lehár wrote Fieber in 1915 as the closing part of his song cycle Aus eiserner Zeit – he then made the orchestral setting a year later. Korngold’s Lieder des Abschieds (“Songs of Farewell”) date from the early 1920s, whilst he was still in Vienna, and shortly after he had completed the opera Die tote Stadt. Setting poetry by Christina Rossetti, Edith Ronsperger, and Ernst Lothar, the cycle is a poignant reflection on the Great War.

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Christine and the Queens – La vita nuova (Deluxe version) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine and the Queens – La vita nuova (Deluxe version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 29:17 minutes | 345 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Because Music

Some of King’s details about the evil car were incorrect in the novel. The French artist’s album has been named our best of 2018. She wrote, “My highly skilled clutch-pushing actually made it into the movie.”. When he gets out to fix it, Leigh begins to choke on a hamburger. The battle continues until they repeatedly drive back and forth over the car, damaging Christine so much that it is unable to immediately regenerate. According to Carpenter, Christine was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as “a job” as opposed to a “personal project.

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Christine and the Queens – La vita nuova (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine and the Queens – La vita nuova (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 22:17 minutes | 270 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Because Music

With stellar albums from Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek, Selena Gomez and Grimes over the past few months, it’s been a hot stretch for the genre inaccurately but conveniently labelled “alt-pop” — and joining the group is this surprise release from France’s Christine and the Queens, who recently collaborated with two of the above artists.

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Christine and the Queens – Chris (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine and the Queens – Chris (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:32:44 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: French Pop, Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Because Music

Chris is the second studio album by French singer Christine and the Queens, released on 21 September 2018 in both English and French versions through Because Music. It was preceded by the release of two singles, each of which were released in both English and French versions: “Girlfriend” / “Damn, dis-moi”, featuring Dâm-Funk, and “Doesn’t Matter” / “Doesn’t Matter (Voleur de soleil)”. An English-language single, “5 Dollars”, was also released alongside an S&M-inspired video, followed by the French version of “La Marcheuse”.

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Christine and the Queens – Chaleur humaine (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christine and the Queens – Chaleur humaine (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Synth-pop, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Because Music

Christine & The Queens is the alt-moniker of French singer/songwriter/actress Heloise Letissier and her debut album „Chaleur Humaine“ (‘Human Heat’) is an impressive first outing in the Listening World. Ms Letissier makes a pretty noise; an approachable and tuneful take on electro-pop which might also appeal to admirers of Imogen Heap. There are eleven songs in the set, some sung in her native tongue and others in English, so a dictionary comes in handy here and there. The album has been released as self-titled (Christine and the Queens) in the United States.

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Christina Skjolberg & Albert Castiglia – Come And Get It (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christina Skjolberg & Albert Castiglia – Come And Get It (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 503 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Twanky Records

For years, they called her Norway’s best-kept secret. She hit the stage each night in a blur of blonde hair, gutsy vocals and stinger riffs, converting the crowd with charisma worthy of the man tattooed on her left shoulder (Jimi Hendrix). Night after night, club after club, always the same question. Who’s that girl…?

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Christina Pluhar – Rossi: La lyra d’Orfeo & Arpa Davidica (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Christina Pluhar – Rossi: La lyra d’Orfeo & Arpa Davidica (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:39:34 minutes | 3,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato – Warner Classics

Christina Pluhar has long been interested in the vocal music of the 17th century, in particular that of composer Luigi Rossi born around 1597 in the beautiful province of Puglia. He was the titular composer to the Medicis in Florence before taking a job with Cardinal Barberini in Rome. In France, Cardinal Mazarin commissioned him to produce the first Italian opera written specifically for the French court. In a manner of speaking, Rossi is at the root of the productions that another Italian, Lully, would later write for Louis XIV.

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Christina Pluhar – Music for a While – Improvisations on Purcell (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Christina Pluhar – Music for a While – Improvisations on Purcell (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:19 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics International

After the intoxicating heat of Mediterraneo, released in 2013, Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L’Arpeggiata – again in the company of countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, soprano Raquel Andueza and alto singer Vincenzo Capezzuto – now head to the cooler climes of England with Music for a while, an album based on the haunting, graceful and sometimes deeply moving music of Henry Purcell.

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Christina Pluhar – Los Pajaros Perdidos (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Christina Pluhar – Los Pajaros Perdidos (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:39 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Since founding L’Arpeggiata in 2000 as an early music ensemble, Christina Pluhar has taken it in some directions not usually associated with the rarified world of historically informed performance practice, particularly into the traditions of Southern European folk music and jazz. In Los Pájaros Perdidos: The South American Project, she ventures even further afield into the world of modern Latin American popular song and folk song. She argues persuasively that the Renaissance and Baroque instruments the Spanish introduced to the New World in the 16th and 17th century remained essentially the same, while back in Europe they developed in entirely new directions so that the difference between the sound of an early music ensemble and a popular South American instrumental group is less significant than one might expect. Based on the sound of this album, she seems to be right. She uses both European and Latin American instruments and although the results are clearly not exactly the same as they would be with either group on its own, they’re awfully close, certainly close enough to make the project entirely persuasive. Each of the songs or instrumentals uses instruments from both worlds and the blend is often magical. The addition of the European psaltery and distinctive American percussion in particular expand the traditional sound of either culture. The singers are all members of L’Arpeggiata and succeed in varying degrees in hitting the swing of the Latin rhythms. Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky is perhaps the least effective, although his singing is consistently beautiful. It’s only in contrast to Lucilla Galeazzi, Luciana Mancini, Vincenzo Capezzuto, and Raquel Andueza, who sound like they have this idiom in their blood, that Jaroussky sounds less that fully effective. Mancini is especially impressive; her gutsy alto is ideally suited to fiery, passionate songs like Montilla, while Capezzuto shines in the sunnier songs, and Galeazzi and Andueza excel in the languid, achingly poignant ballads. Andueza’s yearning Besame mucho is one of the highlights of the album. L’Arpeggiata and the quartet of Latin American instruments headed by Quito Gato play their hearts out. Virgin Classics’ sound is immaculate, finely detailed, and warmly intimate. Highly recommended.

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