Orchestra of the Swan – Earthcycle (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:39 minutes | 868 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following their acclaimed mix-tape series on Signum Classics, Earthcycle is the fifth album from Orchestra of the Swan and David Le Page. Earthcycle is an innovative and timely project which finds a compelling way to engage with humanity’s most urgent threat. Through three initial performances, a recording and a film, Earthcycle contemplates our impact on Earth’s environment and the disruption of its natural rhythms. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons they have commissioned a new version from our Associate Artist, baroque/jazz musician and composer David Gordon which is interspersed with traditional folk songs related to the theme of the seasons and performed by singer Jackie Oates. Earthcycle highlights the 21st century’s greatest concern whilst celebrating nature and our place within it. Following their acclaimed mix-tape series on Signum Classics, Earthcycle is the fifth album from Orchestra of the Swan and David Le Page. Earthcycle is an innovative and timely project which finds a compelling way to engage with humanity’s most urgent threat. Through three initial performances, a recording and a film, Earthcycle contemplates our impact on Earth’s environment and the disruption of its natural rhythms. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons they have commissioned a new version from our Associate Artist, baroque/jazz musician and composer David Gordon which is interspersed with traditional folk songs related to the theme of the seasons and performed by singer Jackie Oates. Earthcycle highlights the 21st century’s greatest concern whilst celebrating nature and our place within it.
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Orchestra of the Swan & Philip Sheppard – Echoes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:40 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Completing their cycle of mixtape albums, ‘Echoes’ is Orchestra Of The Swan’s third album on Signum Classics. Features works by artists including JS Bach, Philip Glass and Frank Zappa and some new arrangements by Artistic Director, David Le Page.
“Although you can listen to each track in isolation ‘Echoes’ is, first and foremost, a complete journey; the way a work ends and another begins is designed to create a frisson, a jolt of recognition or a feeling of surprise and satisfaction.
“‘Echoes’ explores landscape, light, water, dreams, birth and the slowly changing rhythm of the seasons; it also represents a callback to the days of vinyl when the act of listening to recordings was necessarily more involved and required all of your attention.
“Despite the ongoing march of music technology and the death of various beloved formats the mixtape has somehow survived and adapted It is unaccountably more popular than it has ever been.” – David Le Page
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Peter Donohoe, Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis – Shostakovich: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-2 & Piano Concertos Nos. 1-2 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:42 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Celebrated international pianist Peter Donohoe continues his series of Shostakovich releases with the contrasting pairs of Piano Concertos and Piano Sonatas, works covering some four decades of the composer’s creative life.
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Victoria Brawn, Diane Clarke, Orchestra of the Swan & Daniele Rosina – Labyrinths (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:15 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of their last album, “Timelapse”, this new album from Orchestra of the Swan is a collection of extraordinary works connected by ideas of pilgrimage, contemplation, exploration and enlightenment through the works of composers such as Richter, Respighi, Britten, Piazzolla, Brian Eno, Nico Muhly, Joy Division and more. As with “Timelapse”, the joy is to be found in discovering the surprising and delightful connections between culturally disparate and musically contrasting time periods.
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