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Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 27, 2024
Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)

Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 192 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 98.229 | Time: 01:15:27

The music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures, that freely alludes to the entire history of music. "I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists," Silvestrov has said. Beginning his creative career in the radical Soviet Avant-Garde, Silvestrov demonstrated an almost painful sensitivity to the intimacy that music can create between performer and listener. Silvestrov would later refute his modernist roots, saying “the most important lesson of the Avant-Garde is to be free of all conceived ideas, particularly those of the Avant-Garde” and began composing a series of works entitled “Postludium” that initiated the elegiac, poetic and highly personal relationship with silence which has come to characterize his most recent music. Haenssler Classic is proud to present pianist Jenny Lin in the World Premiere Recording of Silvestrov’s “Three Postludes”, a work composed especially for her.

Frederik Köster & Sebastian Sternal - Canada (2015)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Dec. 1, 2015
Frederik Köster & Sebastian Sternal - Canada (2015)

Frederik Köster & Sebastian Sternal - Canada (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 44:07 min | 102 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Traumton

They both belong to the most distinguished musicians and composers of the current German jazz scene, have received many awards, among other things, with jazz echoes, and playing for ten years in changing formations together: Frederik Köster, born in 1977, and Sebastian Sternal, born in 1983. But so intimate, as in their first duo album "Canada", the musicians were together never to hear.
Germaine Thyssens-Valentin - Fauré: Complete Piano Works by Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (2023)

Germaine Thyssens-Valentin - Fauré: Complete Piano Works by Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:08:15 | 570 Mb / 1 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

Germaine Thyssens-Valentin was a classical pianist of Franco-Dutch parentage, noted for her performances of French music. She studied under Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and in the 1950s, after a long absence from performing while she raised a family of five children, she recorded a series of discs of Fauré's music that have been reissued on compact disc to considerable acclaim.

Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRD-9769}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Oct. 31, 2010
Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRD-9769}

Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRD-9769}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U+MD5+TAU | Covers | 310MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz,Fusion

Flutist Dave Valentin's 16th album for GRP is one of his best. His regular group (a quartet with pianist Bill O'Connell, bassist Lincoln Goines, and drummer Robbie Ameen) is augmented by two percussionists and an excellent seven-member horn section that consists of the reeds of Dick Oatts, Mario Rivera, and David Sanchez; trombonist Angel "Papo" Vasquez; and three trumpeters, including Charlie Sepulveda. All of the horns get their opportunities to solo and the result is a particularly strong Latin jazz session. Valentin continues to grow as a player and he cuts loose on several of these tracks.

Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRP}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Dec. 11, 2019
Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRP}

Dave Valentin - Tropic Heat (1994) {GRP}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 337MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 109MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz, Fusion

Flutist Dave Valentin's 16th album for GRP is one of his best. His regular group (a quartet with pianist Bill O'Connell, bassist Lincoln Goines, and drummer Robbie Ameen) is augmented by two percussionists and an excellent seven-member horn section that consists of the reeds of Dick Oatts, Mario Rivera, and David Sanchez; trombonist Angel "Papo" Vasquez; and three trumpeters, including Charlie Sepulveda. All of the horns get their opportunities to solo and the result is a particularly strong Latin jazz session. Valentin continues to grow as a player and he cuts loose on several of these tracks.

Dave Valentin - Pied Pipe (1981/2019) {Vocalion}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Nov. 29, 2019
Dave Valentin - Pied Pipe (1981/2019) {Vocalion}

Dave Valentin - Pied Pipe (1981/2019) {Vocalion}
WEB | FLAC tracks | Covers | 302MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 119MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Latin Jazz

Dave Valentin at the perfect point in his career – coming off some great initial work on the New York Latin scene, and some key time in the studios – really finding his voice as a leader, with all the best elements of his previous work firmly intact! Dave mixes Latin elements with the soulful fusion sound of the GRP label right in their great early, pre-commercial years – and he gets help here form labelmates Dave Grusin and Bobby Broom, plus Marcus Miller – who all join Dave's combo with a sound that's way hipper than the GRP groove of the smooth fusion years. There's some female chorus vocals at a few points, but also loads of great solo work on flute from Dave – and arrangements are by Valentin, Dave Grusin, and Oscar Hernandez. Titles include "Pied Piper", "Los Altos", "Shamballa", "Dragon Fly", "This Time", and "Seven Stars". CD features bonus 7" mixes of "Pied Piper" and "Shamballa".

Dave Valentin - Sunshower (1999) {Concord CCD 4872-2}  Music

Posted by tiburon at June 25, 2011
Dave Valentin - Sunshower (1999) {Concord CCD 4872-2}

Dave Valentin - Sunshower (1999) {Concord CCD 4872-2}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U+MD5 | Full Scans 300dpi | 345MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz,Fusion

Valentin's Concord debut, Sunshower , is the first recording under the flautist's name since 1996's Primitive Passions. Like many of the 18 albums he recorded for GRP between 1979 and 1996, Valentin here weds jazz, pop and r & b with his own particular blend of smooth Latin sounds. In essence, the man knows how to craft a purely pleasurable listening experience.

Valentin Silvestrov - Leggiero, Pesante (2002)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 28, 2025
Valentin Silvestrov - Leggiero, Pesante (2002)

Valentin Silvestrov - Leggiero, Pesante (2002)
Rosamunde Quartett; Anja Lechner, cello; Silke Avenhaus, piano;
Simon Fordham, violin; Maacha Deubner, soprano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 220 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 169 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1776, 461 898-2 | Time: 01:10:30

Valentin Silvestrov is hardly a household name in the United States; however, in the Ukraine, he enjoys a similar standing to that of his Estonian counterpart Arvo Pärt. But that is where the resemblance ends. Whereas Pärt in his holy minimalism reinvents techniques that derive from Renaissance practice, Silvestrov's roots are planted in late Romanticism. His music is steeped in all of the emotion and drama that such a stylistic association would imply. Leggiero, pesante is a collection of Silvestrov's chamber music, and as an introduction to the musical world of Silvestrov, this ECM New Series release admirably fits the bill. Most impressive are the performances of the Sonata for violoncello and piano (1983) and the third Postludium by cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Silke Avenhaus. In these works, Silvestrov strives toward a synthetic union between the two instruments. Lechner and Avenhaus achieve this end spectacularly well and manage to blanket the performances in an emotional sensitivity that gives voice to Silvestrov's intentions, yet retains the personality of the performers.

Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at March 10, 2021
Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs

Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 779 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 532 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Дух і Літера | # None | Time: 03:46:57

Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov "one of the greatest composers of our time”. He is also one of its true originals; though a leading figure in the former Soviet Union’s avant-garde in the 1960s, he subsequently came to realise that "the most important lesson of the avant-garde was to be free of all preconceived ideas – particularly those of the avant-garde." Silvestrov was born in Kiev in 1937 and studied the piano at Kiev Evening Music School, then composition, harmony and counterpoint at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His early experimental orientation meant that his work received official criticism in the Soviet Union and, despite prizes and some prominent champions, recognition in his homeland and beyond was hard won. Over time, Silvestrov’s compositional practice evolved into what he would come to call his “metaphorical style” or “meta-music.” The composer wishes his works to be seen as “codas” to musical history because “fewer and fewer texts are possible which… begin at the beginning”. He has declared that “I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists.”

Dave Valentin - Musical Portraits (1992) {GRP}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Aug. 17, 2018
Dave Valentin - Musical Portraits (1992) {GRP}

Dave Valentin - Musical Portraits (1992) {GRP}
EAC 0.95b4 | FLAC Image level 8 | Cue+Log | Full Scans 300dpi | 343MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 134MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Latin Jazz, Fusion

Joined by his usual sidemen of the period (a rhythm section led by pianist Bill O'Connell), flutist Dave Valentin is the main soloist on an appealing if not particularly unique program of Latin-tinged and generally funky jazz. When he stretches out, as on "Firecracker," Valentin shows that he could become one of the best jazz flutists, but thus far he has not quite lived up to his potential. Still, this is, overall, a pleasing effort.