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Lightnin’ Hopkins – Sings the Blues (Hd Remastered) (1961/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:37 minutes | 258 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reborn recordings
Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues, also released as Original Folk Blues, is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin’ Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM label. The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin’ Hopkins material recorded at Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of Jake Head Boogie was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings.
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Javier Perianes – Granados: Goyescas – El pelele (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:54 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Francisco Goya’s paintings have left a powerful imprint on the European imagination. It was undoubtedly Granados who best translated into music, with nobility and humour, this colourful universe where majos and majas dance to love and death in the twilight glow of a dying Ancien Régime.
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Henrique Gomide – Portais (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:13 minutes | 342 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records
Ein ganzes Album mit improvisierter Klaviermusik zu bestimmten Themen einzuspielen, ist für jeden Pianisten eine große Herausforderung. Henrique Gomide zaubert lyrische Phrasen voller romantischem Schwung auf das Instrument. Seine Interpretationen und Improvisationen werden nicht langweilig, sondern von Stück zu Stück spannender.
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Federica Napoletani – Mahler. The Wunderhorn World (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:40 minutes | 896 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci Classics
The initial inspiration for this project came to me while I was writing a monograph on Schönberg’s “Verklärte Nacht”, Il labirinto e l’intrico dei viottoli [The Labyrinth and the Tangle of Pathways]. Schönberg, like Mahler, was attuned to the relationship between music and venues for music, and in my research, I discovered that Mahler was particularly concerned with the chamber-music aspect of his own Lieder from the Wunderhorn collection. He had even conducted some of them in what was then known as the Small Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein (now Brahms Hall), a space only suitable for a chamber orchestra—too small for the ensemble required for some of these Lieder. I consequently wondered about the kind of adaptation Mahler had made for that performance, while I was already considering undertaking a similar operation myself.
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Doncaster Jazz Alumni – 50 Years (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:54 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ubuntu Music
The Doncaster Jazz Alumni (DJA) mark the golden anniversary of the Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra (DYJO), showcasing the remarkable journey and enduring legacy of its founder, John Ellis MBE, as well as their own individual and collective achievements. 50 Years was recorded with a special intention to try and help support students at the Doncaster Youth Jazz Association (DYJA). As proud Doncaster Jazz Alumni and former members of the association, their shared passion for jazz and the community is a motivating factor to give back to the next generation of talented musicians. While DJA operate independently from DYJA, their core values remain intertwined, and DJA remain steadfast in their commitment to support the Association’s current students. As a result, DJA aim to donate a substantial portion of the proceeds from the sales of this album to help inspire and assist these young musicians. DJA is most grateful for the public’s support of this project, which will have a direct and meaningful impact on empowering young musicians’ lives, allowing them to pursue their musical ambitions.
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David Korevaar & Capre Diem String Quartet – Luigi Perrachio, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Quintets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:14 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci Classics
Luigi Perrachio (1883-1966) and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) were both part of the flowering of Italian instrumental music in the first decades of the twentieth century. Perrachio was born in Turin, and spent his life in that city, performing as a pianist, composing, organizing concerts, and incorporating Piedmontese folk elements in his music. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was born in Florence, and also performed as a pianist; his music is suffused with a broad range of Italian popular influences, especially Tuscan. In 1938, he was forced to leave Italy as a result of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish laws, and he settled in the United States, where he became an important teacher to composers, including John Williams and André Previn. The musicologist Guido Gatti (1892-1973), who promoted both Perrachio and Castelnuovo-Tedesco in his prolific writings on Italian music of the period, writes of the effects of the upheaval of the first World War on music in Europe, and notes that Italian composers, by-and-large, resisted atonality and wrote music that was more accessible and attractive than many of their European contemporaries (Musical Quarterly, July 1932). Perrachio and Castelnuovo-Tedesco both composed music that never strays far from tonal norms and adheres to classical structures. They also share a love of the music of Bach and exhibit a strong sense of counterpoint in their writing, which is especially evident in the quintets presented here.
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Concentus König – Musikalische Exequien (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:13 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IBS Classical
In 2022, we celebrated Heinrich Schütz, a central figure of the album, on the 350th anniversary of his death. As a culmination of a series of projects around his person and work, this recording wants to serve as a tribute to an extraordinary musical legacy that found in Johann Sebastian Bach, its greatest supporter.
The manifest bond between both composers here is seen in the way in which death is shaken and beaten for later, collected from within our soul, be restored and sublimated by two artistic personalities capable of transcending a rich amalgamation of religious, cultural, and musical aspects around the ars moriendi of his time.
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Choir of St. John’s College Cambridge & Andrew Nethsingha – Advent Live, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:57 minutes | 572 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
The sublime Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge return with the second voluume in their Advent series – celebrating the advent season from within the Christian tradition; a season celebrated since at least the sixth century.
his splendid live recording, from within the Chapel of St. John’s College itself, features Christmas favourites, including Britten’s Deo Gracias from A Ceremony of Carols as well as gorgeous performances of lesser known works by modern composers including Jonathan Dove, Arvo Pärt and Paul Manz.
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Chico Buarque – Que Tal Um Samba? (Ao Vivo) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:46:29 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz, MPB, Samba
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Biscoito Fino
Each record of Chico Buarque’s show frames a clear portrait of the artist’s time and Brazil’s time. How about a samba? Live-album released today, November 24-sparks flash from a country in turmoil. When the show arrived on the scene in September 2022, the script exposed the despondency of the most attuned people of the ungoverned nation that went off the rails every day.
When the tour entered 2023, the show was breathed by the good breeze that blew in Brazil from January to (try to) turn an unfortunate page in the country’s history. It is at this time more airy than the show how about a samba? it was captured, on February 3 and 4, in presentations made at Casa Vivo Rio, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), in front of a crowded audience on the track, and not in the traditional chairs that accommodated the audience of previous presentations.
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Andrea Chezzi – Bernardo Pasquini: Harpsichord Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:32 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Urania Records
Whoever has had the good fortune to practise or study under the school of the famous Signor Bernardo Pasquini in Rome, or whoever has at least heard or seen him play, will have been able to know the truest, most beautiful and noble manner of playing and accompanying; and in this full manner will have heard from his cymbal a marvellous perfection of harmony.
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Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir – Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:19 minutes | 393 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fuga Libera
The Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir approached one of the heights of the Russian sacred music – Sergei Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (1915). “It was completed in less than two weeks,” the composer wrote about it.
The All-Night Vigil is a service of the Russian Orthodox Church performed on the eve of Sundays and religious holidays. The dramaturgy of it – from the darkness to the light – was as significant for Rachmaninov as the use of the authentic melodies of the Znamenny, Greek and Kiev chants. The composer managed to find the ideal balance between the quiet contemplation and the passionate expression, the Orthodox canon and the creative freedom. The image of the Mother of God, most prized in the Orthodoxy, goes through the entire composition.
It is wonderful that the modern global audiences have an opportunity to experience the moment of the highest rise of thought and circumcision brought to them by the Rachmaninov’s work.
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London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole – Sacred Treasures of Spain: Motets from the Golden Age of Spanish Polyphony (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:49 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
Music to illustrate the Golden Age: a selection of motets from sixteenth-century Spain culminating in Alonso Lobo’s great funerary ode for Philip II, ‘Versa est in luctum’.
“The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks. The effect is impressively mature and well blended, the bright, sweet top-line sound balanced to and shaped by the lighter lower voices.”
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The Knack – Countdown 1980 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 23:32 minutes | 293 MB | Genre: Power Pop, New Wave, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sound City Records
This is a very rare 1980 live set from LA’s power pop icons The Knack, on the music show Countdown. “Baby Talks Dirty,” “Good Girls Don’t,” and their hit single “My Sharona,” the #1 song of 1979. Their debut album Get the Knack sold over six million copies worldwide. Their signature combination of pop melodies and irresistible rock beats broke the stranglehold of Disco and changed the course of popular music for the next decade.
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Stephanie J. Block – Merry Christmas, Darling (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:27 minutes | 579 MB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Club44 Records
Tony winner Stephanie J. Block, recently seen as Norma Desmond in the Kennedy Center staging of Sunset Boulevard, signed with the Nashville-based Club44 Records earlier this year and releases her debut holiday recording November 3.
Entitled Merry Christmas, Darling, the new recording features both secular and sacred seasonal classics, including a song written for her by Club44 co-founder Wayne Haun and Tony-winning lyricist David Zippel. The album also features a duet with her husband, actor Sebastian Arcelus, as well as one with their daughter, Vivienne Arcelus.
Merry Christmas, Darling is produced by Haun and Block with Joel Lindsey and Sharon Terrell serving as executive producers.
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