Eugene Ormandy – Barati: Chamber Concerto – Rochberg: Symphony No. 2 (2023 Remastered Version) (1962/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:09 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
For more than 40 years, the Hungarian-born conductor led the renowned orchestra and together they created the legendary “Philadelphia Sound”
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Eugene Ormandy – Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (1963/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:02:59 minutes | 4,87 GB | Genre: Classical
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Among the 23 German documents included in UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” list, there are but two musical manuscripts: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor. The second one – an immense work of sacred music – is both exceptional and paradoxical among all those composed by the cantor of Leipzig. Written in the hope of securing the post of the court composer for the king of Poland and Lithuania, Elector of Saxony Augustus III, seems to crown Bach’s body of work, being a summa of his artistic mastery – paradoxically, as it is a Catholic mass, while Bach is one of the greatest composers of Lutheran sacred music.
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Dave Holland – Uncharted Territories (feat. Evan Parker, Craig Taiborn and Ches Smith) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:10:50 minutes | 2,29 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dare2 Records
UNCHARTED TERRITORIES reunites Dave Holland with saxophonist Evan Parker, a longtime friend from their early days in London. They are joined by Craig Taborn, on piano and electronics, and Ches Smith on percussion. In addition to quartet improvisations, they also broke off into every possible subset of duo and trio configurations. The group also recorded two compositions by Smith and one by Holland.The resulting 23 tracks present a series of deep, multi-layered conversations between the musicians, some of whom were interacting for the first time.
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Dâm-Funk – DāM-FunK Presents The Music of Grand Theft Auto Online Original Score (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Electronic, Funk, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rockstar Games
DāM-FunK Presents The Music of Grand Theft Auto Online Original Score — a brand new album of music from across the biggest and most beloved updates from GTA Online — is now available on all major digital music services.
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Clark Datchler – Journey Songs Two (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:34:32 minutes | 1,73 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Journey Songs Ltd
“Journey Songs Two” is the second solo album in a series of collected works by Clark Datchler. It contains 32 tracks which were written and recorded between 1993 and 2006 at various studios including Real World, Neptune’s Kitchen, Twin Peaks and Clark’s own solar-powered studio in Arizona.
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Chris Thompson – The Final Round: Live (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:01:40 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cherry Red Records
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band alum Chris Thompson bids farewell on his The Final Round tour, captured for history in this exciting live document!
At the beginning of 2020, one of the last remaining veterans of “classic rock” announced his official departure from the music business: Chris Thompson, who achieved world fame with his distinctive voice and the hits of Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, is retiring from live events. The Brit, who grew up in New Zealand, has set himself the goal of performing again in all the halls, clubs and festivals that have accompanied him over the last few years by his 75th birthday in March 2022.
“Nowadays hardly anyone believes that it is really a band’s last tour. Unfortunately, the term ‘final tour’ has become a marketing tool. In my case that is certainly not the case. The ‘to do list’ that needs to be completed after touring is still too big,” the 73-year-old recently assured at one of his concerts. And his list is long!
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Bvdub – Asleep in Ultramarine (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:06 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Ambient, Deep House
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dronarivm
In his return to Dronarivm five years since A Different Definition of Love, Brock Van Wey, aka bvdub, presents his second-ever full-length, monolithic work at just over 79 minutes, continuing his quest to blur all lines of genre and definition just as the barriers between sleep and waking life –imagined and real – continue to break down and disappear further by the day… a life of consuming madness continuing its guise as grand artistic vision.
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Budapest String Quartet, Hollywood String Quartet, Claude Debussy – Debussy: String Quartet Op. 10 by the Budapest String Quartet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:54 minutes | 636 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91), in 1893 when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy’s only string quartet.
Dances for Harp and String Orchestra, in full in the original, Danses pour harpe chromatique avec accompagnement d’orchestre d’instruments à cordes (Dances for chromatic harp with string orchestra accompaniment), is a 1904 work by Claude Debussy. There are two sections: Danse sacrée and Danse profane, and the work is sometimes billed accordingly. It is a two-movement work, of about ten minutes’ duration.
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Budapest String Quartet, Hollywood String Quartet, Maurice Ravel – Ravel: String Quartet in F Major by the Budapest String Quartet (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:27 minutes | 719 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Maurice Ravel completed his String Quartet in F major in early April 1903 at the age of 28. It was premiered in Paris in March the following year. The work follows a four-movement classical structure: the opening movement, in sonata form, presents two themes that occur again later in the work; a playful scherzo second movement is followed by a lyrical slow movement. The finale reintroduces themes from the earlier movements and ends the work vigorously.
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Boy George – This Is What I Do (Deluxe Version) (2013/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:16 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Pop
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This Is What I Do is a 2013 album by Boy George, produced by Richie Stevens. With this release, it was the first time since the mid-1990s that a sober George had taken the time to complete a full-length album. It gained positive reviews, with The Guardian calling it “the best comeback of the year”. It was Boy George’s first solo album to reach the UK Top 40 since his 1987 debut Sold. The album features singles “King of Everything”, “My God” and “Nice and Slow”.
The Deluxe Edition features 3 all-new bonus tracks!
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Bodacious D.F. – Bodacious D.F. (2023 Remaster) (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Bodacious DF is a 1973 rock album, the only release by the short-lived band of the same name. After leaving Jefferson Airplane in 1971, founder Marty Balin produced an album by the band Grootna in 1972. He then formed the band Bodacious DF with Grootna members Vic Smith and Greg Dewey (also from Country Joe & the Fish), as well as Mark Ryan (from Quicksilver Messenger Service) and Charlie Hickox.
The band broke up shortly after the album was released; Balin joined Jefferson Starship in 1975, and frequently performed the Bodacious songs “The Witcher” and “Driving Me Crazy”. Hickox and Smith collaborated with him on songs for Jefferson Starship’s album Spitfire (1976), and Greg Dewey’s brother Nicholas Dewey wrote a song for Earth (1978).
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Arabs In Aspic – Victim of Your Father’s Agony (Remastered) (2015/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:36 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Karisma Records
Victim of your Father’s Agony is the fifth album from Trondheim’s finest prog band Arabs in Aspic. Originally released by the Italian label Black Widow Records in 2015, this album may be their most diverse to date, due to the large number of songwriters compared to the other records.
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Roberto Gini, Ensemble Concerto – Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Di Arianna E Altre Musiche A Voce Sola – Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:31 minutes | 662 MB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aulicus Classics
Two of the major works that made Claudio Monteverdi the innovator of the musical world of his time were concentrated between 1607 and 1608 in Mantua: Orfeo, Favola in musica in 5 acts (24th February 1607, libretto by Alessandro Striggio Jr.) and Arianna, Tragedia in a single act (28th May 1608, libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini). The disappearance of any of Arianna’s scores remains an unsolved mystery. We do not know what the musical style of the opera was, but from Rinuccini’s libretto, we can guess that it was a development of the Florentine model of the Musiche di Iacopo Peri […] sopra l’Euridice del signor Ottavio Rinuccini (Florence, 6th October 1600).
The libretto, from the opening in which Venus and Cupid converse with each other, leads back to the style of the Ballo delle Ingrate, staged the week after L’Arianna (4th June 1608), which Monteverdi published thirty years later as the conclusion of the VIII libro di madrigali (1638).
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Amatis Trio – Enescu: Piano Trio in G Minor / Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67 / Britten: Introduction and Allegro (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:14 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
As a piano trio, we find it particularly interesting to discover music that is seldom recorded or performed. We enjoy the artistic challenge of interpreting such works using our own individual approach and it enables us to offer interesting and diverse programming. The idea of uncovering and recording lesser known pieces for our first CD led us to include a wonderful early work by George Enescu, his Trio No. 1, along with the youthful Benjamin Britten’s Introduction and Allegro. Finding our own voice with these scores, free from preconceived musical ideas or influences, is a process that inspires us. It is an exploration that we regard as an invaluable experience. Both Enescu and Britten found inspiration through Ravel’s music and this in turn led us to his Piano Trio in A minor, hailed as one of the great masterworks of the 20th century.
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Al-Fajer Group – Al Fajer (The Dawn) (1988/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:50 minutes | 825 MB | Genre: World, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Majazz Project
Al Fajer Group was established in Kuwait in 1987, co-founded by four artists: Sima Kanaan (Vocals), Bashar Shammout (Guitar) Jameel Saraj (Oud and Guitar) and Nizar Alyan (Percussion). Al Fajer Group became known for their unique frequencies and the transparency of their sound. The band is rooted in acoustic oud, guitar and percussion and they never used any electronic equipment during their sets. When they were first established they would perform Palestinian patriotic songs, related to the Palestinian liberation struggle. They released their launch album, recorded on reel tapes, during the First Intifada in 1988, after which they began composing and writing their own original music. They were unable to release this due to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when all the band members were forced to leave the country and could not reunite to release the second album. During the limited time in which they were able to work together, they participated in multiple tours in Kuwait, Iraq, Germany and other locations.
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