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Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops – Pops Christmas Party (1959/1994/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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This Boston Pops Orchestra holiday compilation, first released in 1959 then reissued in 1994, features some recordings that have become hallmarks of the holiday season, like Leroy Anderson’s arrangement of “Sleigh Ride”. Arthur Fiedler was the first conductor of Boston Pops and was famous for popularizing orchestral music.

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Richard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales – Bliss – A Colour Symphony: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Richard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales – Bliss – A Colour Symphony: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:40 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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This release follows the recent Stanford Songs of the Sea release (CHSA 5043) from Hickox and the BBC NOW, which was ‘Recording of the Month’ in Gramophone magazine and ‘Classical CD of the Week’ in both The Times and The Daily Telegraph. In this new recording of Bliss’s Violin Concerto, Lydia Mordkovitch, famous for her readings of British music, offers her own personal interpretation of the part made famous by Alfredo Campoli, for whom the work was commissioned. Mordkovitch wonderfully conveys the romance and beauty of this concerto, as well as the fiery nature of the gypsy theme prominent in the finale. This is the only available recording of the Violin Concerto, uniquely coupling with A Colour Symphony. A Colour Symphony illustrates four heraldic colours by means of striking ideas and original orchestral effects. Hickox and the BBC NOW provide a refined and idiomatic reading, confirming this as one of Bliss’s most inventive, striking scores, neglected in recent years.

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Arthur Crudup – Mean Ole Frisco (1962/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Arthur Crudup - Mean Ole Frisco (1962/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Arthur William “Big Boy” Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs “That’s All Right” (1946), “My Baby Left Me” and “So Glad You’re Mine”, later recorded by Elvis Presley and other artists.
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Arthur Adams – Midnight Serenade (1977/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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As house bandleader at B.B. King’s Los Angeles blues club, Arthur Adams cranks out searing blues for the well-heeled tourists who trod the length of Universal Studios’ glitzy City Walk. But the great majority of his transient clientele can’t begin to imagine the depth and variety of the guitarist’s career.

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Arthur Adams – It’s Private Tonight (1973/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Arthur Adams is perhaps one of the best jazz/blues guitarists no-one has heard of . Adams recorded the first of his seven solo albums It’s Private Tonight in 1972.

A recording that combines the complex rhythms of jazz with blues leads reminiscent of his friend B. B. King, while showcasing his sweet and soulful tenor voice (comparable to Aaron Neville), with lyrics and melodies that are solidly blues.

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Arthur Adams – Home Brew (1975/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Arthur Adams’ second album Home Brew may boast a production that’s a little too slick, but there’s no disguising the fact that the record is an appealing collection of driving blues, distinguished by some unpredictable jazzy flourishes that keep things interesting, even when the songwriting is uneven.

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Quatuor Artemis – Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos 5, 7 & Piano Quintet (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The origins of this album – the Artemis Quartet’s first recordings of Shostakovich – lie in the ensemble’s long-established relationship with the great pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. For years, the quartet had been wanting to record the Russian composer’s Piano Quintet with her.

It is coupled with Quartets No 5 and No 7, multi-faceted works which are expressive of the composer’s private persona.

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ARTEMIS – Artemis (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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All-star collective featuring Renee Rosnes, Anat Cohen, Melissa Aldana, Ingrid Jensen, Noriko Ueda, Allison Miller & Cécile McLorin Salvant release their debut album ‘Artemis’, a superb nine-song set that features material composed and/or arranged by each of the band’s six instrumentalists. ‘The group identity emerged organically’, Rosnes says, and Artemis discovered a thrilling collective vision early in its lifespan. ‘We are seven leaders, each with our own vision and personal point of view, but we play with a unified conception.’

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Artemandoline – Italian Baroque Mandolin Sonatas (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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The works that are featured on the present recording were all written during an extremely fertile period in the history of the mandolin. Complex and varied, the Baroque age set out to explore new means of expression and, first and foremost, novel timbres. The inventive inquisitiveness of Baroque musicians took them in the direction of the subtlest of sonorities, and no sound was more subtle than that of the mandolin. This was a time when aesthetic concerns were dominated by research into tone colour and into achieving greater and greater refinement.

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Artemandoline – Concerti Napoletani per Mandolino (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Music has always been omnipresent in Naples. In the city’s opera houses, theatres and conservatories, it has found expression in a multitude of styles and genres, while also playing an important role in Naples’s innumerable salons and in the palazzi where the local clergy foregathered with music-loving patrons and other champions of the arts. Vocal and instrumental music was integral to most of the ceremonies and events in public life in every social stratum. Moreover, the outstanding reputation of the city’s conservatories, most of which had been established as orphanages in the 16th century, attracted only the most gifted students, laying the foundations for Naples’s exceptional reputation at this time.

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Artem Belogurov & Menno van Delft – Miscellanea (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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This album was recorded between 1 and 12 September 2019 at the historical site of Kasteel Amerongen (NL) and is a comprehensive document of selected keyboard music from the Christopher Hogwood collection. Spread across 3 volumes, Artem Belogurov and Menno van Delft take you through known and -mainly- unknown works for harpsichord, fortepiano, organ and clavichord. Many of these pieces have never been recorded before and are a testament to the timelessness of keyboard music.

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Angela Hewitt – Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2008) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

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Angela Hewitt – Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2008)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:18:18 minutes | 3,08 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:18 minutes | 974 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Source: SACD
~ Recorded in Das Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel, Dobbiaco, Italy, on 1-4 June 2006. ~

Hyperion’s Record of the Month for January takes multi-award-winning Baroque legend Angela Hewitt to the elegantly refined French court of the early eighteenth century.

Jean-Philippe Rameau topped the summit of the Musical Establishment—named Compositeur du Cabinet du Roi in 1745—yet his pedigree was hardly auspicious. For a time a travelling violinist, he held numerous undistinguished posts as provincial organist (rarely serving out his contract and on one occasion deliberately playing sufficiently badly to ensure his dismissal) before finally settling in Paris at the age of forty.

Something of a theorist—his treatise On the Technique of the Fingers on the Harpsichord makes for essential reading—Rameau’s intellectualism combines in his music to produce passion and tenderness, in his own words ‘true music … the language of the heart’. Some sixty keyboard works are known, gathered by key into five suites; Hewitt here performs three of them. Courtly dances (including the famous Tambourin) sit alongside more programmatic movements (such as Les sauvages—Rameau had just seen two Louisiana Indians performing at the theatre) in these engaging and deceptively catchy miniatures.

Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s acclaimed Bach and Couperin recordings will need no encouragement to sample these new delights.

Angela Hewitt was named Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2006, capping a year of unparalleled success and recognition.

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Art Pepper – The Intimate Art Pepper (1979/2003/2016) DSF DSD64

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In 1979 Art Pepper was recorded at two sessions that yielded two fine albums, So In Love and The New York Album. There was more first-rate material recorded in those two sessions than would fit on two LPs so difficult choices had to be made as to what material not to include on the albums released at the time. Those choices were not necessarily made on the basis of the quality of the performances but with respect to such considerations as length and congruence of repertoire within an album.

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Art Pepper – So In Love (1980/2016) DSF DSD64

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This deluxe release from the classy (but long defunct) Artists House label, as with all of Art Pepper’s recordings of his comeback years, is easily recommended. Actually all of the music on So in Love has been reissued in greatly expanded form in Pepper’s massive 16-CD Galaxy box set. The original LP has lengthy versions of “So in Love,” “Stardust,” “Straight No Chaser” and two Pepper originals (“Diane” and “Blues for Blanche”). Assisted by two equally talented rhythm sections (pianists Hank Jones and George Cables, bassists Ron Carter and Charlie Haden, and drummers Al Foster and Billy Higgins), Pepper is in excellent form throughout the album, giving these songs heart-wrenching interpretations. ~~ AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

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Art Pepper – New York Album (1979/2016) DSF DSD64

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New York Album is an album by saxophonist Art Pepper recorded in 1979 at the sessions that produced So in Love but not released on the Galaxy label until 1985.

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