Andrew Brownell – Shades of Night (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Andrew Brownell - Shades of Night (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Andrew Brownell – Shades of Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:15 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Divine Art

Step back to a time when the night was an antithesis to the clarity of illumined day. In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when the world gave itself over to mystery and magic.

These works explore the “otherness” of night and its potential for strangeness. The album also focuses on the theme of passion, mostly from the Romantic period.

In the especially fertile imaginations of the 19th-century Romantic composers, this was a time when, shielded from the gaze of the Almighty, the world gave itself over to mystery and magic: lovers met for forbidden trysts, revelers drank and cavorted through the small hours, and spirits walked the earth.
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Sarah Pring, Chilingirian Quartet, Andrew Brownell – Ronald Corp: Letters from Lony (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sarah Pring, Chilingirian Quartet, Andrew Brownell – Ronald Corp: Letters from Lony (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:47 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

Letters from Lony tells the story of Leonie (‘Lony’) Rabl in her own words. A German- Jewish exile from Nazism, she ran the Café de Paris in Amsterdam, writing when she could to her daughter and family, safe in England; two further letters survive from after her deportation, on the journey that took her via Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. Ronald Corp sets Lony’s letters as accompanied arioso, all the more moving for its understatement.

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