![Kate Ceberano, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - My Life Is A Symphony (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/19/pv68lhs0iyfxa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Kate Ceberano, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – My Life Is A Symphony (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:43 minutes | 510 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ABC Music
Australian music royalty, Kate Ceberano, performs her personal favourites with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
My Life Is A Symphony is a breathtaking celebration of Kate’s four-decade career, from her own pop hits Brave and Pash to the iconic songs she has interpreted along the way – I Don’t Know How to Love Him, Mirror Ball and more.
From rousing anthems, to soulful ballads, witness the voice of a generation amid the grandeur of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
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Katarzyna Solecka – Alla Polacca (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:07 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci Classics
Alla Polacca is an invitation to delve into the world of sounds, scents and flavours of Poland and Polish folklore. What is presented here is a journey through Poland and Polish culture through the eyes of various European and Polish composers who lived, worked or traveled to Poland in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and whose compositions present elements of the Polish style.
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Katalyst, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Katalyst JID013 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:59 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz is Dead
Founded in 2014, Katalyst Collective has never been one for labels. Rather than strictly a live act, they’ve acted as an incubator for a fresh crop of local talent, helping hone the voices and talents of individual members, while collectively advancing like a phalanx. Each ‘Kat’ writes their own solo material, and everyone contributes and works together on each project, feeding off the communal energy.
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Kasper Tranberg – Nobody’s Heart (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 451 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © April Records & Music Co.
Renowned Danish trumpeter Kasper Tranberg reforms his delicate chord-less trio with Nils Davidsen (bass & cello) and Frands Rifbjerg (drums) for the release of ‘Nobody’s Heart’ (May 10th on April Records).
Active on the jazz and improv scenes since the early 90s, Tranberg has been described as a player of great heart and purpose. Inspired by the iconic improvisers of our time, the album explores the connection between their instrument, their body and their soul.
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Kasabian – The Alchemist’s Euphoria (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:11 minutes | 436 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Seventh studio album by the English rock band. Of the album, Serge Pizzorno comments: ‘One thing about this record I feel over the other ones, is it definitely feels like a body of work that belongs together. It was a beautiful moment in mastering hearing it as a piece. I think it really holds up in our seven albums..The Magnificent Seven’.
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Karl Stobbe – Bach & Bartók: Violin Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:59 minutes | 1004 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Leaf Music Distribution
Juno Award winner and violin soloist Karl Stobbe has released the album Bach and Bartok to illustrate the profound influence of Bach’s sonatas on the world of classical music. In the first half of the album, Stobbe presents his rendition of Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C Major for Solo Violin, BMV 1005, which is both serendipitously calm and dramatically tense. Listeners are often left longing for a resolving note, and when they finally reach it, they’re dragged back into a melody whose syncopations masterfully re-establish the anxiety of waiting. Listeners are rewarded for their patience in the last part of Bach’s sonata, whose incessantly quick pace demonstrates Stobbe’s fine control over his instrument.
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Karl Sanders – Saurian Apocalypse (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Metal, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Napalm Records Handels GmbH
The subterranean slumber of Nile mastermind Karl Sanders’ Eastern-ambient Saurian series finally ceases with the third chapter of his darkly hypnotizing saga, Saurian Apocalypse! The album’s musical and lyrical themes detail the vexing fictional journey of Dr. Eduardo Lucciani, one of very few survivors of mankind’s self-destruction, who descends into madness after discovering the violent horrors occurring at the hands of the Saurian Masters. Emphasized by unique instruments like the baglama saz (Turkish lute), Ancient Egyptian Anubis Sistrum, Dumbek (Middle Eastern goblet drum), glissentar and gongs, the album’s score weaves cinematic auras and deep grooves, accented by the tribal percussive stylings of original Nile drummer Pete Hammoura and returning Saurian vocalist Mike Breazeale.
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![Karl Böhm - Mozart, Beethoven & Others: Orchestral Works (Remastered 2023) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/19/ymr5n9xp35tra_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Karl Böhm – Mozart, Beethoven & Others: Orchestral Works (Remastered 2023) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 06:31:22 minutes | 3,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SWR Classic
The lasting fame of conductor Karl Böhm is based on qualities that were praised by listeners, musicians and critics throughout his long career: his discipline and meticulousness when rehearsing compositions as well as his modesty, his willingness to take second place to work and composer. After many years serving as principal conductor in several opera houses he left his administrative duties behind and embarked on an international career as an acclaimed guest, concert and opera conductor. He was regularly invited by the New York Met and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, to the festivals in Salzburg (as of 1938) and Bayreuth (as of 1962), he gave guest performances from Tokyo to Moscow, from Milan to Buenos Aires, and at the broadcasting corporations in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart where he was invited whenever there was something important to celebrate.
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![Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe - Broken Branches (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/19/ha1h76fkg4spb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Karim Sulayman, Sean Shibe – Broken Branches (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:14 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
Programs mixing Eastern and Western materials are common enough, and even those showing the deep interwovenness of East and West, such as those of Jordi Savall, have become more common. Still, it is hard to top this release by tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe for sheer ambition. The booklet notes by Olivia Giovetti amplify the idea in a dozen different ways, with extensive reference to Edward Said and to the Arabic ancestry of the guitar, but the basic premise is that “shoehorning things into a forced binary of ‘East’ and ‘West’ eliminates a spectrum of identities more slippery than settled.” Nearly everything here cuts both ways, from a Dowland song accompanied by guitar in the role of the lute (oud), to Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs, to a popular song by vocalist Fairuz that draws on Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. One key idea is that musical borrowings are always filtered through the borrower in a kind of imperfect recollection, something explicitly affirmed by Benjamin Britten in connection with his Songs from the Chinese. Many of these strands converge in the Sufi Dance of Jonathan Harvey, a work that the album offers as underrated; listeners will be ready to agree. One might not necessarily choose these players as interpreters of the individual works here, but the album, as a whole, is compelling and thought-provoking.
– James Manheim
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![Kari Ikonen, Vincent Houdijk, ADDA Simfònica, Josep Vicent - Fight for Light (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/05/yp20fe9916orb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Kari Ikonen, Vincent Houdijk, ADDA Simfònica, Josep Vicent – Fight for Light (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:28 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
On FIGHT FOR LIGHT, Dutch composer Jesse Passenier explores the peripheries of jazz and classical, marrying the two genres together through symphonic music. The music presents a struggle for strength, goodness, and clarity, in which moments for great energy and urgency give way to quiet purity. Containing three works by Passenier: Piano Concerto No. 1 “Levensdrift” (a Dutch word meaning “the primal urge to live”); Vibraphone & Marimba Concerto No. 1 “Becoming the Colour”; and Duo for Vibraphone & Piano “Unraveling Confusion,” these pieces taken together as a whole reveal Passenier’s breadth as a composer, offering a musical commentary on the realities we face in today’s society.
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![Karen Geoghegan, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda - Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2009/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/05/hkk31huotre4b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Karen Geoghegan, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2009/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:18 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Italian orchestral music with a disc of works by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, which is the Chandos March Featured Release. Wolf-Ferrari was the son of a German painter and his Italian wife and although acknowledged as an Italian composer, he was perhaps better known in Germany. Wolf-Ferrari achieved his greatest success with a string of operatic works, especially Il segreto di Susanna. The recording includes orchestral excerpts from five operas, together with the Suite-Concertino for bassoon and orchestra. The bassoonist in Karen Geoghegan, runner-up on TV’s ‘Classical Star’ programme and now a Chandos artist. Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music obviously very close to his heart.
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Karen Elson – Green (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:53 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Yellow Dog Music
The singer-songwriter has also announced her third studio album ‘Green’ which will be released via Big Yellow Dog on April 29. She’s referred to the contemplative new track, as an “autobiographical song” adding: “the lyrics poured out of me.” “‘Broken Shadow’ is about recognizing that we’re all flawed, complicated, and a little bit fucked up and making peace with that,” Elson said. “It’s about loving the broken parts of yourself.” The single also features on the Warner Brothers sci-fi romantic comedy, Moonshot.
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Kåre Nordstoga, Nils Henrik Asheim, Oslo Domkor – Nils Henrik Asheim: Salmenes bok (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:17:15 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
After aging the past 24 years, Nils Henrik Asheim’s work “Salmenes bok” (“The Book of Psalms”) has now been released. The hour-long work was written for the dedication of Oslo Cathedral’s new Ryde & Berg organ in 1998. It features both organs in the cathedral (with Kåre Nordstoga on the choir organ and Asheim playing the main organ) to create a surround sound around the choir singing 21 texts from the biblical Psalms in a rich tonal language equally rich in contrast. The result is a unique listening experience, a magical fusing of voices and organ.
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Karan Armstrong, Roland Hermann, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen – Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:15 minutes | 638 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Orfeo
Alexander Zemlinsky composed his Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 for soprano, baritone and orchestra during his time as musical director of the New German Theatre in Prague, where he had moved in 1911 from Vienna. It was generally regarded as his corresponding equivalent to Mahler’s Lied von der Erde and is based on Nobel Prize laureate and most important representative of modern Indian literature Rabindranath Tagore. The work is combined with the befriended and three years older “phantasmogorist” Franz Schreker’s Prelude to a Drama, which is a version of the overture of his Die Gezeichneten. It might be considered symptomatic for the most notable characteristic of Schreker’s music: the dominance of chordal sounds over the melodic element.
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![Karolina Errera, Lilit Grigoryan - Songs of Rain (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/30/afqta1dxdim6a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Karolina Errera, Lilit Grigoryan – Songs of Rain (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:14 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Genuin
A cloudy sky and raindrops beating on the window: this itself is practically music, and for centuries, the sound of rain from the clouds has inspired not only painters but also poets and composers. On her debut GENUIN release, violist Karolina Errera and her piano partner Lilit Grigoryan present a selection of highly emotional music from John Dowland to Benjamin Britten. The prizewinner of numerous international competitions has placed a wide range of original works and arrangements on the program of this album – moving works that are best suited by both the warm sound of viola and piano, as well as the playing culture of the two interpreters!
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