Cory Weeds – Home Cookin’ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:19 minutes | 781 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cellar Live
There are so many variables with recording, so many things that can affect the outcome. I put a lot of thought into Home Cookin’ and what would set me and the band up for success. A rehearsal, two nights performing the music live at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver and then into the studio. It was perfect! What could possibly go wrong?
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Christoph Croisé, Oxana Shevchenko – 1883 – R. Strauss, Grieg & Fauré (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:01 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AVIE Records
1883 was a fruitful year for cello composition as Christoph Croise’s new recording reveals. That year marked Edvard Grieg’s return to composition after a period of conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Sonata in A minor, his only work for cello and piano. Also that year, Richard Strauss was writing for the same combination at the age of just 19, producing his Sonata in F. Gabriel Faure embarked on a cello sonata in 1880; only the slow movement transpired and was published and premiered as the stand-alone piece Elegie in 1883. Christoph’s regular performing partner, Oxana Shevchenko, joins him in this beautifully balanced recording of works for cello and piano.
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Chase & Status – 2 RUFF, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:13 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Dance, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI
Chase & Status are representing the new wave of jungle and DBNB, well known for their singles ‘Baddadan’ with Bou, featuring Irah, Flowdan, Trigga and Takura on vocals and ‘Disconnect’ with Becky Hill. Both tracks are all-out anthems that took over many stages and sound systems during 2023’s festival season. ‘2 Ruff Vol.1’ treads the heels of the 2022 release ‘What Came Before’, which reached No. 4 on the charts and led to many sold-out headlining shows. Having reached 1.8 billion streams, being nominated for a Brit Award and being the first UK electronic group to headline the O2 Arena in London, The Other Stage at Glastonbury, and Reading and Leeds Festival, Chase and Status (aka Will Kennard and Saul Milton) show no signs of losing their winning streak. As well as an album announcement, Chase and Status will be going on tour playing London, Manchester and Cardiff in early 2024.
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Cat Power – Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:43 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co
In November 2022, Cat Power took the stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall and delivered a song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time. Held at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in May 1966—but long known as the “Royal Albert Hall Concert” due to a mislabeled bootleg—the original performance saw Bob Dylan switching from acoustic to electric midway through the show, drawing ire from an audience of folk purists and forever altering the course of rock-and-roll. In her own rendition of that historic night, the artist otherwise known as Chan Marshall inhabited each song with equal parts conviction and grace and a palpable sense of protectiveness, ultimately transposing the anarchic tension of Dylan’s set with a warm and luminous joy. Now captured on the live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, Marshall’s spellbinding performance both lovingly honors her hero’s imprint on history and brings a stunning new vitality to many of his most revered songs.
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Bruno Philippe, Tanguy de Williencourt, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Christoph Eschenbach – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 – Franck, Fauré & Poulenc (Bonus Track Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:40 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
From the overt Romanticism of Saint-Saëns to the nostalgia-laden modernity of Poulenc, Bruno Philippe takes us on a journey through (almost) a century of French cello music.Alongside Tanguy de Williencourt, he also performs the cello version of Franck’s famous Violin Sonata, one of the absolute peaks of nineteenth century chamber music.
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Bruce Brubaker – Eno Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:44 minutes | 306 MB | Genre: Classical Crossover
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © InFiné
Bruce Brubaker is one of the most exciting pianists in the contemporary American classical scene, according to Pitchfork. He is back with a follow-up to his 11th album Glass Piano an audacious reprise of compositions by his contemporary Philip Glass.
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Arthur Rubinstein – Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos by Arthur Rubinstein (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:54:57 minutes | 3,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Artur Rubinstein’s 1956 Beethoven concerto cycle lacks the forethought and stylishness of his ’60s remakes with Leinsdorf. These earlier versions, however, convey more of Rubinstein’s irrepressible stage presence. At times the pianist’s freewheeling spirit in the First and Fifth Concertos causes momentary finger slips, which matter not one whit. Rubinstein’s unruffled demeanor and languorous phrasing in the Third and Fourth Concertos, though, are better suited to Chopin.
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Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Phi
The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Philippe Herreweghe have enjoyed a close relationship since 1997, and the Ghent conductor regularly conducts and records with the Flanders orchestra. After the Second and Fourth Symphonies (LPH032), they are continuing their exploration of Schumann’s symphonies: ” The symphony has given me many hours of joy. I often give thanks to the beneficent spirit that enabled me to complete such an important work so easily and in such a short time ” says the tormented composer. He wrote his first symphony, “Spring”, in just four days and orchestrated it in three weeks. The third, known as the “Rhenish”, was inspired by a day Schumann spent with his wife Clara in the Rhineland.
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Anshel Brusilow & The Chamber Symphony of Philadelhia – Anshel Brusilow Conducts the Chamber Symphony Of Philadelphia: The Complete RCA Album Collection (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:38:29 minutes | 10,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Red Seal
Anshel Brusilow was for many years the celebrated concertmaster of the legendary Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. In 1965 he founded the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia with whom he recorded six albums for RCA Victor until 1968, now available for the first time, freshly restored and as a 24-bit remaster. The wide-ranging repertoire of the carefully selected musicians extends from symphonies by Haydn and Cherubini to the First Serenade by Brahms and the Fourth Suite by Tchaikovsky to works by Arensky, Ibert, Wolf, R. Strauss, Ravel, Francaix and a haunting cantata by Richard Yardumian (a composer whom Eugene Ormandy also supported).
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Anne-Sophie Mutter – Bach, Bologne, Previn, Vivaldi, Williams (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:02 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
‘Stupendous brilliance, breathless virtuosity. Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Virtuosi thrilled at the Vienna Musikverein’ (Die Presse). In June 2023, star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gave an impressive concert in Vienna with her Virtuosi ensemble. Based on this, a varied album has now been created, with music by Antonio Vivaldi, J. S. Bach, Joseph Bologne, André Previn and John Williams. ‘Growing up, I’m on the trail of storytellers,’ Mutter says of her work with the Virtuosi, a rotating ensemble of current and former Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation scholarship holders. Under Mutter’s professional and musical direction, the ensemble is tailor-made for baroque and classical music. This is now evident on this album with Vivaldi’s Concerto for Three Violins, RV 551, the Presto movement of ‘Summer’ from the Four Seasons, J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, and the Violin Concerto by Mozart’s contemporary Joseph Bologne. But the repertoire also reflects Mother’s love of contemporary works: The Virtuosi perform André Previn’s Nonet dedicated to Anne-Sophie Mutter. The music of Hollywood legend John Williams can also be heard, and two works are arrangements from Cinderella Liberty and Schindler’s List, reworked especially for the Virtuosi.
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Anna Serova – Walton: Cello Concerto (Arr. for Viola & Orchestra by Anna Serova) – Roberto Molinelli: Lady Walton’s Garden (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:31 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
With his distinctive blend of incisive drama and lyrical expressiveness, Sir William Walton was one of the greatest English composers of the 20th century. He and his wife Susana made their home on the Italian island of Ischia where he composed the Cello Concerto – a work he considered to be the best of his three concertos for string instruments – heard here for the first time in a stunning transcription for viola by Anna Serova. The Italian composer Roberto Molinelli pays homage to Susana’s Argentine roots and the beautiful garden she created, La Mortella, with his concerto Lady Walton’s Garden, displaying a colourful use of South American and Neapolitan instruments. William’s Rock and The Missing E are also dedicated to La Mortella. This fascinating project marks the 40th anniversary of Sir William Walton’s death, and it presents four world premiere recordings, all composed on and celebrating the island of Ischia and the Walton’s famous Giardini La Mortella, still regarded today as one of the most captivating gardens in the world.
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Andrea Buccarella – Fantasia from Andrea Gabrieli to Johann Sebastian Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:23 minutes | 2,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar
After a first recital devoted to the Toccata, Andrea Buccarella, winner of the MA Festival competition in Bruges in 2018, now presents an album devoted to the Fantasia. This album follows the same anthological principles as the first and includes both Italian and German compositions from the origins of the genre in Venice at the beginning of the 17th century to its apogee in the following century with Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli, Virginia Bocelli – A Family Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:36 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)
Following the runaway success of their first album together, The Bocelli Family announce the deluxe edition of A Family Christmas via Decca / Capitol Records. A Family Christmas (Deluxe Edition) features four brand-new recordings including the new single ‘Let it Snow’, plus five additional bonus tracks. On the album, the internationally renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli teams up with his 25-year-old son Matteo Bocelli and his 10-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli. Additionally to ‘Let It Snow’, A Family Christmas (Deluxe Edition) features exclusive new tracks ‘Silver Bells’, ‘E’ Natale!’ and ‘Winter Wonderland’, which were not available on the original version. Five bonus tracks are also available, including ‘Do you Hear What I Hear’ recorded with one of the most innovative, inventive, and inimitable vocal groups of all time,
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Alex Hitchcock – Dream Band: Live in London (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:31:49 minutes | 2,90 GB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Whirlwind Recordings
Concert recordings have long been important in the history of jazz because they often capture something previously unheard. The stage can conjure an energy that is not found in the most adequate of studios. An audience, with its focus and engagement, is part of the performance, especially if it is positioned at close quarters to the players.
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36 – Ablyss (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:33:38 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 3six Recordings
Loops have always been at the very center of everything I’ve ever made. They are the beginning and the end of my music. I’m obsessed with the idea of creating something you can play for 60 seconds or 60 minutes, where the listener enters that hypnotic flow state, where you become detached from time and space.
While compositionally, these are perfect loops, it’s worth noting that the production chain naturally created so called imperfections, which will sometimes become audible. These could be simple wow/flutter artifacts from tape, or slight changes in dynamics from the compressor. Maybe nothing actually changes at all and it’s simply your ears discovering new sounds within the loop?
To be very clear, these are absolutely not unfinished ideas, sketches, nor are they the foundation for anything more than what they already are. They exist purely on their own terms, within their own space. Feel free to get lost in them whenever you need them.
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