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![ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 Wagner (1873 Version, Ed. L. Nowak) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/20/f3o4e9eex0lda_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 Wagner (1873 Version, Ed. L. Nowak) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:57 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Bruckner revised his Third Symphony more than any other: There are three manuscript versions, two published versions from within his lifetime, a separate manuscript of the Adagio, and surviving revision fragments from 1874, 1875, and 1876. In its first version (here recorded), it is Bruckner’s longest and most overtly Wagnerian symphony. When Brucknerian extraordinaire Robert Simpson got to study Nowak’s edition of this version in 1977, he threw his hitherto held opinions overboard and declared it an “achievement… progressively maimed in successive versions.” As part of this completist cycle, Markus Poschner will present the work in all states of pruning, but this is the obvious point to start at.
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![Marina Tarasova - J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/10/b0v1qmma47hpb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Marina Tarasova – J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 1007-1012 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:21:45 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Divine Art
The Six Suites for Solo Cello by J S Bach composed around 1720, are generally regarded as the first and greatest masterpieces ever written for the instrument.Their scope is vast and ingenious. Although most of the time, only one note is played, occasional chords and masterful melodies imply harmony and counterpoint.The Suites have been performed and recorded countless times over the last 100 years, with a variety of interpretative approaches. These approaches, until recently, could often be rather academic and formal, as it used to be thought that baroque music was mostly about form. The present cellist takes a radically opposing approach, one which is inspirational and which infuses the works with vitality and spirit.Marina Tarasova is a world-renowned cellist with many recordings to her name for Musical Concepts and Northern Flowers among other labels, and this is her first recording for Divine Art. She has won international competitions in Prague, Florence and Paris and has a wide repertoire covering works of composers from the 17th century to the 20th century.
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Marlon Williams – My Boy (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:34 minutes | 727 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Alt. Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans
My Boy, the third solo record from New Zealand singer / songwriter Marlon Williams, announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice – in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting creature.
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![Margaret Fingerhut - Endless Song - Margaret Fingerhut Plays Encores for Piano (2014/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/09/osc0evel85wfc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Margaret Fingerhut – Endless Song – Margaret Fingerhut Plays Encores for Piano (2014/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:08 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Pianist Margaret Fingerhut presents a collection of encore-like pieces that explore the way in which composers have transformed the piano, in essence a percussion instrument, into one that can sing. A highly personal album, it has come about after a recent period of injuries threatened Fingerhut’s own ‘song’ – her ability to play the piano.
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Meredith Moore – Julian Brink: Utility Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:19 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sono Luminus
Julian Brink is a South African composer. Born in Johannesburg in 1989, he first picked up his mother’s guitar at the age of ten and grew up playing in rock bands. He discovered a love of contemporary classical music through the films of Paolo Sorrentino and Paul Thomas Anderson. Hearing Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will be Blood, in particular, was what led him to pursue composition. Although he didn’t learn to read music until he was 19, while studying guitar at undergraduate level, he went on to complete a master’s degree in film scoring through Berklee College of Music and relocated to California in 2015. Brink works in film music and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Maddie Hasson. His composer credits include the original scores for Amir Motlagh’s Three Worlds (2018) and No Longer Suitable for Use (2021), directed by Julian Joslin and produced by Sam Rockwell, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was featured in The New Yorker’s “The Screening Room”.
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Matthew Bengtson – Sierra: Piano Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:44 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © IBS Classical
The Estudios rítmicos y sonoros (Studies in Rhythms and Sonorities) of Roberto Sierra, harken back to the grand virtuoso tradition of piano pieces by Chopin and Liszt. Without question, the Estudios continue to push the envelope of technical demands for the performer, as important Etude composers had always done in the past. They demand the utmost not only in a player’s physical technique, courage, and sheer velocity, but also in their intellectual capacity. One must internalize the cross rhythms like a jazz drummer accurately enough to reveal the idealistic conception of the notation. The mysterious landscapes of the Piezas Líricas serve as a foil to the bustling excitement of the Estudios. The resonance and clarity of the acoustic in Auditorio Manuel de Falla offers the perfect ambience for these pieces, lending them the spiritual breadth they require. The inspiration of the Alhambra seems even to lend them a special aura of timelessness and mysticism. Album for the Young offers a striking contrast to both the turbo-charged virtuosity of the Estudios and the high-art sophistication of Piezas Líricas. The Album offers directness, charm, and even naïveté. The musical material represents scenes and ideas of childhood or family life, with folk-like simplicity. Unlike the well-known models, it is derived primarily from Latin-American musical elements.
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Maurizio Zaccaria – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Opp. 7, 14 & 22 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:29 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © OnClassical
Beethoven’s early sonatas were highly influenced by those of Haydn and Mozart. The first three sonatas, written in 1782-3 are usually not acknowledged as part of the complete set of piano sonatas, due to the fact that he was 13 when they were published. His Piano Sonatas No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 13, and 15 are four movements long, which was rather uncommon in his time.
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Monte Belknap, Barbara Allen – Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano & Violin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:58:29 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Tantara Records
The ten sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) for piano and violin span the fifteen-year period from 1797 to 1812, opus numbers 12 to 96. Found in these wonderful pieces is a world of musical colors and moods and abundant contrast of intensity—light and dark, simplicity and complexity of melodic and harmonic language—all within the beautifully constructed musical framework that is so characteristic of Beethoven’s work.
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Matei Varga – The Year That Never Was (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:26 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sono Luminus
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy memories feel more or less the same; but the unhappy times are experienced differently by each one of us. We’ve all had some really tough weeks, which sometimes turned into months, and (with a bit of bad luck) into years… I like to think that “off” years help us grow and prepare for the beautiful things that will undoubtedly come our way (I am an optimist at heart), but living through dark times is a complicated process.
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