Maria Callas – Puccini: Tosca (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas – Puccini: Tosca (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:48:54 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Franco Calabrese – Maria Callas – Dario Caselli – Alvaro Cordova – Tito Gobbi – Melchiorre Luise – Angelo Mercuriali – Giuseppe di Stefano – Chœur & Orchestre de la Scala de Milan – Victor De Sabata, direction.

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Mari Boine – Amame (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Mari Boine – Amame (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:09 minutes | 539 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © By Norse Music

Die ikonische samisch-norwegische Folk-Künstlerin Mari Boine ist bekannt als genreübergreifende Wegbereiterin mit einer Vorliebe für Jazz, Folk, Rock und World. Nach fünf Jahren kehrt sie mit einem neuen Album zurück und hat wieder etwas ganz anderes in sich entdeckt als alles bisher Gehörte. Das Album “Amame”, das sie gemeinsam mit dem norwegischen Jazzkünstler Bugge Wesseltoft geschrieben hat, zeigt eine andere und reifere Mari Boine, begleitet von Wesseltofts zartem und einfühlsamen Klavierspiel. Lieder mit Ernsthaftigkeit und Tiefe, gesungen von Mari Boine, erzählen Geschichten über Liebe, menschliche Verletzlichkeit, Ungerechtigkeit und Kampf, aber auch über Stolz und Würde.

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Makiko Hirabayashi – Meteora (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Makiko Hirabayashi – Meteora (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:29 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yellowbird Records

Makiko Hirabayashi, a Danish pianist who won the best album award at Denmark’s highest jazz award “Jazzper Award” for her last album “Weavers”, releases her stunning new album! The latest album by Makiko Hirabayashi, a pianist recognized in Denmark and Europe, is a long-awaited piano trio album featuring Klaus Hohmann (b) and Marilyn Mazur (ds,per), who has played as a sideman for Miles Davis and Jan Garbarek. The latest trio work by Makiko Hirabayashi, who weaves her own unique world view with her delicate touch and deep harmonies, is urgently released!

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Le Balcon, Maxime Pascal – Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L’opéra de quat’sous (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Le Balcon, Maxime Pascal – Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L’opéra de quat’sous (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:28:22 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

This album presents the songs from The Threepenny Opera in a new French translation by Alexandre Pateau. The recording was made at the 2023 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence during the run of the new production of the legendary work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann, which features the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise and the musicians of Le Balcon, conducted by Maxime Pascal with Thomas Ostermeier as stage director. In this parody of an opera, the songs are the driving force behind the action and the characters ape the bourgeois lifestyle of the audience, the better to denounce the period of moral confusion they are going through. With Maxime Pascal at the helm of a dozen multi-instrumentalists from Le Balcon, we hear a version based on that of the first performance – hard-hitting and as close as possible to the tremendous creative energy deployed by the two creators of the work in the summer of 1928 – acted and sung by the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise, who rise to all its challenges with brio. Other special features of this album are a previously unrecorded song on a text by Yvette Guilbert and the linking texts between the songs read in French by Ostermeier himself. As Diapason wrote of this production, ‘Almost a century after its premiere, The Threepenny Opera has lost none of its subversive power.’

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Lana Bode & Samantha Crawford – Dream.Risk.Sing: Elevating Women’s Voices (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Lana Bode & Samantha Crawford – Dream.Risk.Sing: Elevating Women’s Voices (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:40 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records

Conceived by soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode with the aim of telling often unheard stories about womanhood primarily through women’s own words and music, dream.risk.singbrings together songs about adolescence, bodies, love, work and legacy, while a palpable thread running throughout reminds listeners of the constraints on freedom that still exist in women’s lives.

ringing forward this subject matter – far from the staple of traditional song recitals – has involved Crawford and Bode in commissioning new music and reviving other, often unfamiliar repertoire, and the album includes a new song-cycle by Charlotte Bray, new arrangements of two songs from Judith Weir’s groundbreaking cycle woman.life.song, recent works by Helen Grime, Libby Larsen and others, as well as earlier twentieth-century contributions from Rebecca Clarke and Florence Price.

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Kurt Baker – Rock ‘N’ Roll Club (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kurt Baker – Rock ‘N’ Roll Club (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:12 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Wicked Cool Records

2023 release. Coming off the return-to-form underground success of 2020’s “After Party”, Kurt Baker is back with his best mates in the KB Band to bring you “Rock N Roll Club”. Perhaps Baker’s most ambitious record to date, the album finds him and the band ready to take on the world, with the intention to keep melodic and catchy Rock n Roll music a vital and enthralling sound for the generations to come. The 12 songs LP is a confident and energetic musical ride, balancing influences from 70’s punk new wave to 90’s Britpop and much much more. With “Rock N Roll Club”, Baker and his band have stated their claim as a force to be reckoned with, all the while, making the listeners and fans smile with the infectious music heard on this brilliant new record. Put on your leather jacket, grab a cold drink and see you down at the Rock ‘N’ Roll Club, where Baker’s new album will be in continuous rotation.

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King Herd – King Herd (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

King Herd – King Herd (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:13 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © King Herd

King Herd has been rising pretty quickly from the sounds of it. Three singles were released this year all gaining airplay on major rock radio stations thus securing them support slots for Gun, Feeder, and Reef plus festival appearances. They’re doing something right. Hailing from the rock n roll capital of Birmingham King Herd shows all the right influences to make them stand out from the herd (sorry).

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Kilian Herold, Armida Quartett – Max Reger, Johanna Senfter: Clarinet Quintets (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Kilian Herold, Armida Quartett – Max Reger, Johanna Senfter: Clarinet Quintets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:22 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAvi-music

In March of 1908, 27-year-old Johanna Senfter went “on a pilgrimage” to visit Max Reger in Leipzig. Having studied piano and violin at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, she now wanted to learn composition. Reger, only six years her elder, had been in charge of a masterclass for musical composition at Leipzig Royal Conservatory for only a year.

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Juan Calderón Quartet – Fragmented Memories (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Juan Calderón Quartet – Fragmented Memories (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:43 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Centaur Records, Inc.

My musical language has been influenced by my teaching practice as well as the personal relationship I’ve developed with the guitar as an improviser. I dedicate two to three hours to composing and playing everyday and I spend an hour on each aspect of a particular project such as sketching ideas, notation and transferring to a publishing software. less

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John Ritz – Cycles of Formation (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

John Ritz – Cycles of Formation (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ravello Records

Cycles of Formation from John Ritz presents varying degrees of prescribed musical material and open-form elements. Each piece explores the potential interactions between human performance and interactive computer signal processing algorithms within a particular musical context. Featuring jazz pianist Gabe Evens, and classical percussionist Greg Byrne, and Ritz himself as the album’s composer, cellist, and analog synthesizer, this Ravello Records release delivers a stimulating world of electroacoustic sound, a smooth blend of suspense and innovation.

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Jessica Dodge-Overstreet and Wan Ting Yu – Root (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Jessica Dodge-Overstreet and Wan Ting Yu – Root (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:47 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ravello Records

On ROOT, classical saxophonist and music theorist Jessica Dodge-Overstreet harnesses the ethereal, almost-vocal timbre of the soprano saxophone. Accompanied only by pianist Wan-Ting Yu, Dodge-Overstreet performs music written by a culturally-diverse cast of female composers including Ika Peyron, Germaine Tailleferre, Dora Pejačević, and Teresa Milanollo. From the technically demanding Sonate Slave, with its stratospheric leaps high into the instrument’s uppermost register, to the playful Variations Humouristiques sur l’air de Marlborough for violin and piano which sets the popular folk tune Bear Went Over the Mountain, Dodge-Overstreet brings this versatile and too-often overlooked instrument into the limelight.

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The Mike Nock Underground – Between or Beyond (1971/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Mike Nock Underground – Between or Beyond (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:47 minutes | 733 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © IN+OUT Records

“Between or Beyond” from The Mike Nock Underground is a classic fusion of rock, funk and jazz that spins from soulful grooves all the way to the outer edge. A showcase for Nock’s virtuosity on piano and especially electric piano, the album had been unavailable on CD for many years. Nock is joined by the rhythm section from his band The Fourth Way, Eddie Marshall on drums and a superb Ron McClure on electric bass.

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The Marian Consort, The Illyria Consort & Bojan Čičić – Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Marian Consort, The Illyria Consort & Bojan Čičić – Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records LTD

In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.

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The Marais Project and Jenny Eriksson – Two (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Marais Project and Jenny Eriksson – Two (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:51 minutes | 666 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Move Records

The lute family, and the baroque guitar, have a wonderful solo repertoire spanning hundreds of years. Less so the gallichon, but Tommie arranged several pieces for this recording. The viola da gamba is also endowed with a rich treasure of solo works. For the first time in her career, Jenny has performed and recorded some of her favourite solo pieces, including the world premiere of a work written for her by Australian composer, Paul Cutlan. Finally, the music of Marin Marais is close to both our hearts. We have explored so many of his suites over the years and there is always a sense of achievement in committing another of the great man’s works to record. Tommie would like to dedicate his recording of Mozart’s Adagio to the memory of Swedish soprano Eva Nässén.

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Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra & Volker Hartung – Wagner: Opera Excerpts & Overtures (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra & Volker Hartung – Wagner: Opera Excerpts & Overtures (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:19 minutes | 449 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JPK Musik

‘The Flying Dutchman’, a romantic opera in three acts, was first performed in 1843. The story of the Dutch captain Bernard Fokke provided the material for the plot. Unlike many other sailors, he did not succeed in circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope. He tried to defy God and the forces of nature but did not wrestle them down because he cursed them and has since been doomed to cruise the world’s oceans forever with his ghost ship. Anyone who encountered this ship with a black mast and blood-red sails was destined for misfortune.

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