Zoe Modiga – nomthandazo (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:51 minutes | 746 MB | Genre: World, Africa
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2024 Yelloewax Pty Ltd, BandaBanda Agency
Palesa Nomthandazo Phumelele Modiga, professionally known as Zoë Modiga is a South African singer and songwriter. Modiga first gained recognition as contestant on The Voice South Africa 2016.
Modiga’s second studio album Inganekwane (2020), debuted number one globally.
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Stéphane Tétreault & Olivier Hébert-Bouchard – Claude Debussy: Images retrouvées (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:54 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Les Disques ATMA Inc.
Stéphane Tétreault and Olivier Hébert-Bouchard present Images retrouvées, the second volume of works by Claude Debussy transcribed for cello and piano. The series was inaugurated in 2023 with the first volume, Images oubliées.
Images retrouvées takes us back to Debussy’s immense contribution to the piano repertoire and delves deeper into the composer’s identity — patriotic, amorous, curious, thoughtful, and intrigued by novelty. Each work on the album opens a window onto a specific moment in Debussy’s life and career, covering almost all of his creative years from the age of 22 to the year of his death.
The Scherzo, L. 39 (1882) and Intermezzo, L. 40b (1882) are the only two pieces on the album originally composed for cello and piano. Rarely-recorded pieces such as Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (1916-17) stand alongside better-known works such as L’isle joyeuse (1904), an excerpt from Children’s corner L. 119a (1906-08), and Deux arabesques (1890-91), among many others.
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Six Organs Of Admittance – Time Is Glass (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 38:33 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Folk, Indie Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Drag City
Once again, Six Organs of Admittance showcases the intricate tangle of fingers on the fretboard and flash of lens flare slicing the air, as the future arcs 360 degrees around to become a part of the past as well. Oscillations in this glass bowl ripple outward eternally, but are rooted on the ground where all the creatures are moving and communing; humans too. An intimate cosmic expression, file under: rural-industrial psych, ecosystem goth.
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Sebastian Bohren, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Sergej Bolkhovets, Münchener Kammerorchester – In Evening Light: Vasks • Schubert (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:04 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AVIE Records
Sebastian Bohren’s world-premiere recording of “In Evening Light”, the second violin concerto by Peteris Vasks, comes 25 years after the celebrated Latvian composer’s first, “Distant Light”, one of the most successful, oft-performed and recorded concertos by a living a composer. “In Evening Light” seems certain to follow in its forebearer’s footsteps, destined to become another modern classic.
“In Evening Light” – a three-movement, 38-minute work – is beautiful and contemplative, evoking a twilit world immersed in muted colours and permeated with deep shadows and dramatic contrasts. The album ends as it begins, with another atmospheric Vasks work. “Lonely Angel” is an homage to his late mother who lived through practically the whole of the 20th century. The composer explains, “This piece is the vision of an angel flying alone above humankind, filled with grief at how cruel and aggressive we are to each other. Like a guardian angel he touches the earth with his wings and in that way offers us comfort and healing.”
Sandwiched in between is the contrasting, classical era Rondo in B minor by Franz Schubert, arranged for violin and strings. Preceding Vasks’ works by nearly two centuries, Schubert similarly revels in exploring ambiance and spaciousness.
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Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, Joyce DiDonato, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Puts: The Hours (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:57 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2022 with Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara as its stars, Kevin Puts’s The Hours was praised by The New York Times as “sincere and persuasive … fervent … and soaringly lyrical”. The opera returns to the Met’s schedule in May 2024. Based on both the award-winning 2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry and the original novel by Michael Cunningham, The Hours interweaves characters and events from three different periods of the 20th century. Joyce DiDonato, who takes the pivotal role of writer Virginia Woolf, says that: “Even though it deals with death head-on, the piece is life-affirming and tells a timeless story. The characters’ struggles are shared universally, and by highlighting them through the different personalities and periods, hopefully everybody can find a part of themselves in the story.”
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Nat Adderley – Work Song (1960/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:00 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Riverside
Nat Adderley led a double creative life at Riverside: featured on the highly successful working-group albums led by his brother Cannonball, and also devising several intriguingly different projects under his own name. Very possibly the most interesting was Work Song, which took its title from one of Nat’s most widely known soulful compositions, and took its instrumentation from the younger Adderley’s fertile imagination. Cornet, cello, and guitar make up a front line that will probably never be duplicated. The guitarist was his friend Wes Montgomery, just emerging towards jazz stardom; the cellist was the longtime bassist of Cannonball’s band, Sam Jones.
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Maxim Rysanov – Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:06 minutes | 595 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hungaroton
Shostakovich completed his Viola Sonata in 1975, just a few weeks before he died, making it his last composition, his swan song. The piece was written for the violist of the Beethoven Quartet, Fyodor Druzhinin, who received the score three days before the composer’s death. In this large-scale, three-movement sonata, the composer looks back over his oeuvre and the vicissitudes of his life, quoting from his unfinished opera (The Gamblers), his symphonies, and his Suite in F sharp minor, while the composition’s long, slow final movement stands as a memorial to Beethoven. The critic of the daily paper Izvestia wrote that the piece is “like the catharsis in a tragedy; life, struggles, victory, purification through light, and stepping into immortality.” We hear this heart-rending work in a perceptive performance by regular partners: the Ukrainian violist Maxim Rysanov, and the Armenian pianist Marianna Shirinyan.
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Matthias Reim – Zeppelin (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:30 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Germany, Schlager, Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hansa Local
Matthias Reim ist zweifellos ein großfühlender Mensch. Ein beneidenswert produktiver Zeitgenosse ist er sowieso. Vor bald 35 Jahren hinterließ der Vollblutmusiker und Songwriter einen Aphorismus von bleibendem Wert: „Verdammt, ich lieb’ dich“. Liedzeilen, die aus einer Laune heraus entstanden, formte der damals 32 Jahre junge Mann zu einem Mammut-Refrain, der zu einem Millionenseller gelangte. Er hat rund zwei Dutzend Studioeinspielungen veröffentlicht, etliche davon brachen in Gold- und Platin gegossen Verkaufsrekorde. Auf dem neuen Longplayer „Zeppelin“ präsentiert Reim seine 16 neuen Songs so frühlingsfrisch und auf den Punkt gebracht wie ein tatendrängender Newcomer. Einer, der sich gleichzeitig eines enormen Musikmacher- und Lebenserfahrungsschatzes ermächtigen kann. Anders lässt sich die gesteigerte Wahrhaftigkeit in „Zeppelin“ nicht erklären. Reims Rock klingt heute handgemacht-rockiger als je zuvor, die Refrains sind größer geworden und die Balladen balladesker. „Zeppelin“ ist kurzum der beste Reim aller Zeiten.
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Marina Kaye – Heavenbound (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:19 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TGIT Music & Twin Music
“Marina Kaye fait un grand retour avec son album « Heavenbound » Sur la plupart des titres de l’album, elle travaille avec son équipe de départ. A l’écriture et la composition Nina Woodford et Mathias Andermo (Wollo). Seuls deux titres ont été écrits et composés par d’autres. Nous retrouvons Tony Esterly et Autumn Rowe sur le deuxième single “Why do the bad things feel good”. Deux nouveaux auteurs compositeurs sont à mentionner sur le titre « The Beast » : Justin Gray et Shridhar Solanki. Ce panel de collaboration permet de retrouver l’univers Dark Pop de Martina Kaye avec des productions françaises par Meya Music qui savent si bien mettre en valeur sa voix exceptionnelle.”
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