The Alex Hiele Paris Jazz Combo – Somewhere in Time (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
The Alex Hiele Paris Jazz Combo – Somewhere in Time (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:00:22 minutes | 619 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Alex Hiele Paris Jazz Combo consists of founder, arranger and producer, Alex Hiele on bass, Steve Rice on keyboards and accordian, David Stier on drums and Rob Hencke on Trumpet. The quartet have released three albums: Once Upon A Summertime, I Love Paris and French touch. The albums all feature unique jazz arrangements of popular music from well known composers including George Gerhwin, Michel Legrand and various French composers. The quartet has played at numerous jazz venues, country clubs, senior living facilities and at private events in the Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey areas.
Read moreTatjana Ruhland & Oliver Triendl – La Flute à L´Ècole de Paris (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:36 minutes | 627 MB | Genre: Classical
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After the signal event that was World War I, gifted young composers trooped into the French metropolis full of hope. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term L’École de Paris (‘The Paris School’) in reference to the foreign composers then living in Paris, principally the Hungarian Tibor Harsányi (1898–1954), Poland’s Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), Bohuslav Martinů from Czechoslovakia (1890–1959), Russia’s Alexander Tcherepnin (1899–1977), and the Romanian Marcel Mihalovici (1898–1985), all of whose works he specialised in disseminating. These composers came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martinů [and Swiss composer Conrad Beck (1901–1989)], died there. All five initially addressed the difficult task of translating their countries’ folk music idioms into standard musical notation. Several works on this programme are heard in their world premiere recordings.
Read moreZürcher Sing-Akademie, Zürcher Kammerphilharmonie, Florian Helgath, Zürcher Sing-Akademie – Fritz Stüssi, A Swiss Romantic (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:17 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Fritz Stüssi (1874 – 1923) attended the Gymnasium in Zurich as well as the Zurich Music School, from which he graduated as a pianist and composer.
He then continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin (counterpoint with Reinhold Succo, composition with Max Bruch).
After his return to Switzerland, Stüssi took over the direction of various choirs in Wädenswil, where he also took up residence in 1898. In 1902 he was elected organist and from then on had a lasting influence on musical events in and around Wädenswil. Stüssi’s oratorio “Vergehen und Auferstehen” was performed in 1914 and the “28th Psalm” in 1921. Between 1898 and 1912, Stüssi also took over the direction of other choirs and orchestras in Uster, Männedorf, Rapperswil, Lachen, Richterswil, Thalwil and Zurich. He was thus a kind of music king around Lake Zurich.
Read moreZoltán Kodály – Kodály/Sonata for Solo Cello & Chopin/Cello Sonata (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:06 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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The sonata was written in 1915 but its premiere was delayed due to World War I It was premiered by Jenő Kerpely [hu] (1885–1954; sometimes seen as Eugène de Kerpely) in Budapest on 7 May 1918. Kerpely was the cellist of the Waldbauer-Kerpely Quartet, which had premiered the first four string quartets by Bartok. It was published by Universal Edition in Vienna in 1921.
Read moreYungchen Lhamo – One Drop of Kindness (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:26 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: World, Female Vocal
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Imagine a life based on unconditional love. A life filled with compassion, lived in service of others. A life of prayers and offerings and song.
Now imagine a voice so unique and beautiful, so utterly compelling, that it brings birds to roost in trees and makes wild animals stop in their tracks and listen. A voice as pure as a singing bowl. A voice with a range that astonishes and a force, a vibration, that uplifts and restores.
Then welcome — welcome back — the wonder that is Yungchen Lhamo.
“I sing to help transform people’s minds and make them better human beings,” says the globally renowned Tibetan singer. “We are living in difficult times. But together, bit by bit, we can change the world.”
Read moreYuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:01 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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As part of this year’s Rachmaninoff 150 celebrations, Yuja Wang joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel over two consecutive weekends in February to perform all four of the composer’s piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. A DG team was there to capture their sold-out and critically acclaimed performances live at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The resulting album will be released on 1 September.
Read moreYekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir & Andrei Petrenko – Great Music of Small Forms (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:51 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir (artistic director and conductor Andrei Petrenko) presents Great Music of Small Forms, an album of works by Russian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. These include works by Varlamov and Glinka as representatives of the St. Petersburg school, by Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakirev and Cui (The Mighty Handful), and by Arensky, Anton Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky. Whilst these composers were primarily known for their large-scale compositions, here they reveal themselves as consummate masters of the choral miniature, finding their inspiration in the masterpieces of Russian poetry, in folk songs and in salon romances. Listeners will here discover not only world-famous works by these composers but also original choral arrangements of their music that were made especially for this recording.
Read moreYazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 666 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul, Female Vocal
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Yazmin Lacey is a singer-songwriter who knows something about coming into her own. She came to music late, she says – “It’s never late, but late in the perspective of that I’m doing it now,” – almost as if by fate. And throughout her time in the music scene, the 33-year-old has used her music as an exercise in capturing those moments and putting them into song, as if a snapshot of the intimate parts of her own life.
Read moreWynton Marsalis – The Magic Hour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:26 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Magic Hour is Marsalis’ first jazz ensemble studio recording since 1999′s Marciac Suite. His last album was All Rise, an extended composition for big band, gospel choir and symphony orchestra. “All Rise was such a huge piece involving over two hundred people. I wanted to produce my next recording with a smaller group,” says the trumpeter, who settled into Right Track Studios in New York for two days last June to record the new album. “I wanted to restate my basic love of jazz music in a quartet format,” says Marsalis.
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