Aurora Orchestra, John Rutter – Rutter: Visions & Requiem (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Aurora Orchestra, John Rutter – Rutter: Visions & Requiem (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:45 minutes | 926 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records

This new album couples John Rutter’s most recent work with one of his most popular. Visions celebrates the utopian ideal of heavenly peace in in four movements written specially for the solo violin of Kerson Leong, string ensemble and the boy choristers of the Temple Church choir. The Requiem of 1985 receives a vital new recording under the guidance of its composer.

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Ruth Meyer & Helge Lien – Memnon Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ruth Meyer & Helge Lien – Memnon Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:29 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ozella

‘Memnon’ is built around an equally simple and striking ambition: Keeping the music as pure as possible. Relying on nothing but voice and piano, Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer and Helge Lien are eliminating the delay between the moment of creation and an emotional response in the listener. The very moment their music is released into the world, it is immediately perceptible as a tangible physical sensation.

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Misha Rachlevsky, Russian String Orchestra – Richard Danielpour: Talking to Aphrodite, Symphony for Strings & Kaddish (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Misha Rachlevsky, Russian String Orchestra – Richard Danielpour: Talking to Aphrodite, Symphony for Strings & Kaddish (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:19 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

These three recordings cement the bond between the award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and the conductor Misha Rachlevsky, one of the composer’s most dedicated and perceptive interpreters. It was Rachlevsky who gave the American premiere of Symphony for Strings, a transcription of the Sixth String Quartet – a work saturated in farewells, complete with a hymn and variations. Talking to Aphrodite is the result of a collaboration between Danielpour and the writer Erica Jong, while Kaddish addresses the eternal issues of life, death and eventual peace.

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra – Stravinsky Ballets (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra – Stravinsky Ballets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:56:37 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

Stravinsky sent shockwaves through classical music in the 20th century. His first three ballets -The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, all composed between 1909 and 1913 – brought a new and frenzied sense of rhythm, so distressing to audiences that it caused uproar; The Rite of Spring even caused a riot. And it’s not hard to see why. Is there any moment in music more demonic than the opening to The Firebird, a terrifying rumble of strings that would make Jaws tremble? There are few pieces more unsettling than The Rite of Spring with it’s carnal, tribal rhythms; or Petrushka with it’s impish Punch and Judy puppets. A notable voice of authority on the works of Stravinsky, Sir Simon Rattle masterfully brings these three creations to life in this dramatic performance, recorded live in the Barbican Hall as part of his inaugural season as LSO’s Music Director.
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Russian Money – Nothing For You There (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Russian Money – Nothing For You There (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:51 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Spectra Music Group

Russian Money is a band from Los Angeles, California with a classic blues/rock feel that has a darker side. The band is made up of vocalist/guitarist Ryan Dean, lead guitarist John Harley Bell, bass guitarist Mario Teixeira, and drummer Matt Hopson. Russian Money has already had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such acts as Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters as well as country star Craig Morgan. With the release of their debut album ‘Nothing For You There’ the group plans to continue to spread their dark, melodic take on rock, blues, and soul music to listeners around the world.

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Russell Watson – 20 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Russell Watson – 20 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 278 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd

Album ‘20’ is set for release in October, twenty years on from Russell Watson’s acclaimed and hugely successful debut album ‘The Voice’. With his voice stronger than ever, album 20 will mark a celebration of Russell’s journey over the last twenty years and the next step in his award-winning career.

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Marina Kosterina, Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasiliev – Elcock: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Marina Kosterina, Siberian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Vasiliev – Elcock: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:47 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

This third volume of orchestral music by the Anglo-French composer Steve Elcock (born 1957) features two symphonies and a quasi-concerto. Over the course of its two movements, the Sixth Symphony, which bears the title “Tyrants Destroyed”, moves from grief to outrage, rising to a grimly triumphant conclusion. The one-movement Seventh – with some of its material derived from the words of a song Elcock heard in a dream – runs a gamut of emotion, from anger to heartbreak, in its impassioned narrative. Manic Dancing, a piano concerto in all but name, inhabits a complex world of driving rhythms, nostalgic flashbacks and hectic dance music – buoyant and good-natured, like Martinů on speed.
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Stephen Waarts, Can Çakmur and Ivo Dudler – Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Piano Concerto No. 8 KV. 246 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Stephen Waarts, Can Çakmur and Ivo Dudler - Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Piano Concerto No. 8 KV. 246 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Stephen Waarts, Can Çakmur and Ivo Dudler – Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 KV 207, Piano Concerto No. 8 KV. 246 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:29 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for more than thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a complete series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s solo concertos. The best soloists of the young generation have been selected under the artistic direction of Howard Griffiths, a renowned Mozart conductor, who considers that playing his music is like “looking in a mirror: you can hear if everything is right, musicality, intonation, rhythm, phrasing”. These albums will immortalize this unforgiving challenge and reveal the great virtuosos of tomorrow. Performing concertos for violin, piano and horn, with Camerata Schweiz, are Stephen Waarts, Can Çakmur and Ivo Dudler.
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Anda Eglīte – Dreaming Under the Moonlight (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anda Eglīte – Dreaming Under the Moonlight (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:05 minutes | 896 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prima Classic

Dreaming Under the Moonlight is a selection of lullabies from northern Europe, particularly Latvia and the Baltics—a region with an incredibly vast tradition of songs, many of them having as a theme the forest, fairies, ancient trees and the moonlight.

Uniquely Latvian is also the Kokle, the clear and soft-sounding 33-string table harp plucked by the renowned Anda Eglīte.

Anda is a virtuosa performer, composer and arranger, professor, musicologist and head of the Kokle and Guitar class at the J. Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Rīga, Latvia.

This wonderful music selection will transport the listener to the calm, secluded, and millenary forests of the Baltics, bathed in dreamy tales and silver moonlight.

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Sandro Gibellini – The Boy Next Door (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sandro Gibellini - The Boy Next Door (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Sandro Gibellini – The Boy Next Door (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:52 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ritmo&Blu Records

In 2016, during the “Maniscalco meets Gibellini” sessions, the legendary jazz guitarist Sandro Gibellini and the multi-instrumentalist/composer Emanuele Maniscalco were recorded together for the first time at the Studio Ritmo&Blu. Five years on, the same studio welcomes them once again for a “jazz standards revisited – stage 2” session, that is poised on the same point of balance between tradition and experimentation.
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Sasha Cooke, Kirill Kuzmin – How Do I Find You (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Sasha Cooke, Kirill Kuzmin - How Do I Find You (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Sasha Cooke, Kirill Kuzmin – How Do I Find You (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:04 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone

“how do I find you” is a collection of newly composed songs commissioned, curated by mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who performs them, together with pianist Kirill Kuzmin. Cooke offered 17 composers a “carte blanche” to create what spoke most to them during the ongoing pandemic. With themes ranging from harried parents working from home to societal injustice and the California wildfires, these songs provide a slice of life in challenging times. Taking its inspirations from folksong-style, jazz and minimalism, and ranging from great lyricism and lush harmonies to austere means, the music featured here provides a fascinating cross section of contemporary art song.
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BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

BLK JKS – Abantu / Before Humans (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:42 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Experimental Rock, World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Glitterbeat Records

BLK JKS are a seminal force in the South African underground. After an extended hiatus the Johannesburg foursome, championed by The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio (amongst many others), return with a groundbreaking new album.

Monster grooves meet guitar and brass driven afro-rock. Echoes of spiritual jazz, post-apocalyptic funk, renegade dub and kwaito. Features Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and Beastie Boys accomplice Money Mark on the track “Maiga.”

“This South African art-rock band traffics in complexity, cross-hatching not only rhythms and textures but also the signifiers of genre” – Nate Chinen (The New York Times)

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Xavier Parés & Patricia Siffert – Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Xavier Parés & Patricia Siffert – Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:28 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded here document his fascination with dance, including a flirtation with jazz and ragtime, although the apparent innocence of the music conceals a striking degree of metrical and rhythmic complexity, cast in a style not so far from Debussy and Fauré – and animated by the blithe spirit of Chabrier.

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Véronique Mathieu & Stephanie Chua – Invocation (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Véronique Mathieu & Stephanie Chua – Invocation (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:41 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

Véronique Mathieu and Stephanie Chua present INVOCATION, a collection of works for violin and piano written by female-identifying composers of unique heritages, backgrounds, and cultures. With a wide range of aesthetics and a variety of compositional eras, INVOCATION presents a collection of wonderfully animated performances that provide a fantastic model for the exploration of these composers’ works.

Mathieu and Chua carry on the ever-growing tradition of bringing female-identifying composers from all musical eras out of the shadows. Their delicate, tender, and thoughtful iterations of these compositions solidify INVOCATION as a function of its title; a message to the women of this collection to step forward and shine.

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River Town Duo – For Claire & Philip (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

River Town Duo – For Claire & Philip (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:37 minutes | 876 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Furious Artisans

River Town Duo’s debut album, For Claire & Philip, features newly commissioned works written by six compelling 21st century American composers. Performed by double bassist Philip Alejo and harpist Claire Happel Ashe, this captivating recording shares the beguiling sounds of a unique chamber music pairing. For Claire and Philip is the culmination of River Town Duo’s collaborations with composers Caroline Shaw, Whitney Ashe, Derick Evans, Hannah Lash, Evan Premo, and Stephen Andrew Taylor.

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