Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata & Gábor Takács-Nagy – Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata & Gábor Takács-Nagy – Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 8 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:26 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Volume 8 of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s survey of Mozart’s piano concertos with Gábor Takács-Nagy and Manchester Camerata features two late concertos – Nos 26 and 27 – along with the overtures to Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), and La clemenza di Tito. Concerto No. 26, the ‘Coronation’, was completed in 1788, premièred in Dresden, and then played at the coronation of Leopold II as Holy Roman Emperor, in Frankfurt, on 15 October 1790. As Mozart did not prepare the score for publication, large sections of the left hand were left blank in the manuscript score. It’s not known who created the part for the first printed edition, although this has been widely accepted ever since. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has created his own version for this recording. Mozart premièred his final piano concerto, No. 27, in Vienna on 4 March 1791, in his last public performance. The album was recorded in Manchester’s Stoller Hall, Bavouzet playing a Yamaha CFX nine-foot Concert Grand Piano.

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I Fagiolini & Robert Hollingworth – Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

I Fagiolini & Robert Hollingworth – Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:41 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Coro

“The 17th century is surely the most interesting musical period to go rooting around in. While the 16th and 18th centuries are generally more stylistically uniform, in the mid-17th century you never know what you’re going to find. Yet digging up another ‘undiscovered masterpiece’ does require quality control. Some music is better left in libraries, falling out of use with good reason; Orazio Benevoli’s Missa Tu es Petrus mass is quite spectacularly not one of those pieces. At the recording sessions, the performers were amazed by its bravura, its invention and drama – and its very significant demands on them! This was also true of the motets by Benevoli’s Roman contemporary, Bonifazio Graziani. These miniatures go further than Monteverdi in some ways but have a similar intensity. We hope you enjoy discovering them.”

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Ghalia Volt – Shout Sister Shout (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ghalia Volt – Shout Sister Shout (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:13 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2023 – Ruf Records GmbH

2023 release. Joshua Tree, California. A place where rock ‘n’ roll mythology is made, for better and worse. It was under these same burnished skies that Gram Parsons’ stolen body was set ablaze. Where U2 announced their bid for global infamy. And as Ghalia Volt reminds us, exactly thirty years ago, it was here that near-mythical producer and Queens Of The Stone Age conspirator David Catching founded the fabled Rancho de la Luna studio that would bring a stream of dust-blown musicians to his door like moths to a candle.

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Frank Peter Zimmermann – Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Peter Zimmermann – Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:58 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

Since the mid-1980s, Frank Peter Zimmermann has earned recognition as one of the world’s leading violinists, admired not only for his technical skill and interpretive intelligence, but also for his versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire. His extensive discography ranges from Bach concertos and Beethoven sonatas to works by composers such as Martinů, Ligeti, Magnus Lindberg and Brett Dean. He waited until the fourth decade of his career, however, to take on Bach’s Sei solo a Violino senza Basso accompagnato, the six sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The first disc (BIS-2577) dedicated to this absolute pinnacle in the repertoire for the instrument was released in February 2022 to great critical acclaim. Now comes the much-awaited conclusion to this collection. Zimmermann compares these works to ‘a mighty tree, which protects me and crushes me at the same time’, the music giving him hope and strength at the same time as it confronts him with his limits as a violinist. On this new release, he now offers us the Sonata No. 1 in G minor, as well as the B minor Partita No. 1 and the Sonata No. 3 in C major.

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Flying Pooka! – The Ecstasy of Becoming (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Flying Pooka! – The Ecstasy of Becoming (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:54 minutes | 963 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alma Records HD

Juno-winning pianist Florian Hoefner and wind/vocal improviser Dani Oore unite in a transformative and spellbinding journey.

Sometimes the best musical collaborations are created by chance. Juno-winning pianist and composer Florian Hoefner took a leap of faith when he moved to remote St. John’s in Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 2014. While the beauty and remoteness of the place greatly inspired his artistic output, the size of its jazz scene at that time required Hoefner to mostly rely on his existing connections from his time in Berlin, New York City and Toronto for his musical projects. It was a great surprise when just before the pandemic, interdisciplinary wind and vocal improviser Dani Oore ended up in St. John’s for a posting as postdoc with IICSI (the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation). The two had briefly met once before and never played music together. At a brief informal jam the synergy between their musical concepts became immediately apparent and they began performing together as a duo. Being grounded on an island during the pandemic strengthened their musical bond, and they emerged with a recording of fully improvised music on the highest imaginative plane, something that felt whole, a story from beginning to end.

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Eric Ferring, Madeline Slettedahl and Quatuor Agate – We have tomorrow (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Eric Ferring, Madeline Slettedahl and Quatuor Agate – We have tomorrow (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:59 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos

The emotive young American tenor Eric Ferring delivers a moving and ambitious collection of art songs with a chamber music emphasis. In this follow-up release to his acclaimed debut album No Choice but Love (Lexicon Classics), Ferring is joined to great effect by pianist Madeline Slettedahl and the French ensemble Quatuor Agate.

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Ensemble Jacques Moderne & Joël Suhubiette – Vêpres romaines (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ensemble Jacques Moderne & Joël Suhubiette – Vêpres romaines (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:15 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare

From the mid-seventeenth century to the first two decades of the eighteenth century, Rome experienced one of the most brilliant musical periods in its history. In this recording, the Ensemble Jacques Moderne works composed for a Vespers service, one of the principal moments of the Liturgy of the Hours, which consisted of a sequence of psalms and antiphons concluding with a Magnificat.

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Ed Sheeran – Autumn Variations (Fan Living Room Sessions) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Ed Sheeran – Autumn Variations (Fan Living Room Sessions) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:32:49 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Gingerbread Man Records

Imagine if Ed Sheeran just showed up at your house and asked if he could play a show in your living room. Well, for 14 lucky Sheerios that is exactly what happened and now their jaw-on-the-floor reactions will be forever thanks to the Autumn Variations (Fan Living Room Sessions) album.

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Duo Anthemis – Le Printemps dans l’âme (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Duo Anthemis – Le Printemps dans l’âme (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:32 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Paraty

Le Printemps dans l’âme reflects the spirit of a beautiful artistic and human encounter. This exciting programme mirrors our duo : voluble, emphatic and sometimes festive, it is also made up of moments of thinking, dreaming, like ‘breaks’ into a whirl of playful virtuosity.

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Deutscher Kammerchor & Rainer Held – Markus Fricker: Chorwerke a Cappella (Music for Choir a Cappella) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Deutscher Kammerchor & Rainer Held – Markus Fricker: Chorwerke a Cappella (Music for Choir a Cappella) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:34 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rondeau Production

The Deutscher Kammerchor with its conductor Rainer Held present the world’s first album exclusively with works by the Swiss composer Markus Fricker (*1943). The album shows the versatility and range of this composer, who is very well known and highly popular in Switzerland and has already won numerous prizes for his works. It contains sacred and secular pieces, arrangements of folk songs from various countries as well as original compositions for mixed choir and men’s choir. Fricker does not rely on rhythmic or even arhythmic avant-garde, but wants to create a tangible sense of togetherness with his music, especially for the listeners who sing in a choir themselves.

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Daniel Villarreal feat. Jeff Parker & Anna Butterss – Lados B (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Daniel Villarreal feat. Jeff Parker & Anna Butterss – Lados B (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:47 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © International Anthem

On October 15th and 16th, 2020, drummer Daniel Villarreal was joined by guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Anna Butterss for two afternoons of recording in the backyard of Chicali Outpost in Los Angeles. For all three musicians, it was the first ensemble recording session they’d done in-person since the pandemic locked the world down just seven months prior. Some choice moments from these sessions made it onto Villarreal’s critically-acclaimed 2022 album Panamá 77, but most of the music remained unreleased.

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corto.alto – Bad With Names (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

corto.alto – Bad With Names (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:30 minutes | 476 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Soil

Corto.Alto is the brain-child of award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer Liam Shortall. Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, this genre-defying producer brings together influences from Hip-Hop, Broken Beat, Electronica, Dub and Punk with an informed Jazz sensibility.

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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Howard Arman – Angelus ad Pastores – Weihnachtsgeschichte (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Howard Arman – Angelus ad Pastores – Weihnachtsgeschichte (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:24 minutes | 399 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

In the Revelation of James, an apocryphal gospel that was not included in the Bible, events and details surrounding the birth of Christ are reported that do not appear in the better-known versions of the Christmas story from the gospels of Matthew and Luke. In particular, it portrays very real people, full of emotions and conflicting feelings. Mary, not Jesus, is the focus of the narrative. The Christmas story is presented by James in a vivid, dramatic and almost theatrical manner. Howard Arman’s Christmas Story follows the tradition of works such as Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, where newly-composed settings of the Gospel alternate with chorales. Here, Gregorian and polyphonic chorales as well as several motets from the 17th century are woven into Arman’s composition and form a second narrative level. They frame the episodes of the Christmas story and can also be understood as musical reactions to the narrated events. This new BR-KLASSIK CD is complemented by the chorales from Peter Maxwell Davies’s Christmas cantata O magnum mysterium.

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Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – All shall be Amen (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – All shall be Amen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:55 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ulysses Arts

Caritas Chamber Choir, directed by Benedict Preece, releases its next album, All Shall be Amen, on 6 October 2023, in partnership with Platoon. All Shall be Amen is Caritas’ sixth album: it presents music by composers including Cecilia McDowell, Eric Choate, Benedict Preece, Gabriel Jackson, Sarah Cattley, Phillip Cooke and Neil Wright, that Caritas has regularly performed and recorded, alongside new exciting collaborations with David Conte and Andrew Smith. The album’s sacred theme is broad, demonstrating an omnium-gatherum of new works, and contemporaneously, championing many fantastic living composers. The majority of its works are world première recordings.

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Benjamin Appl, Munich Radio Orchestra & Oscar Jockel – Franz Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Benjamin Appl, Munich Radio Orchestra & Oscar Jockel – Franz Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:52 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

Time and again, composers – well-known and lesser-known – have arranged Franz Schubert’s piano songs for orchestra. These versions are not in any way intended to cast doubt upon the powerful quality of the originals, they merely place them in a different light, and/or attempt to make them easier to perform on a larger scale – when an art song cannot be performed in an intimate salon or chamber music hall, it can also make an impact in a large concert hall. Baritone Benjamin Appl has compiled nineteen such arrangements from the 19th and 20th centuries for this new CD from BR-KLASSIK. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester, conducted by Oscar Jockel, provides accompaniment that is subtle and in keeping with the work.

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