Darius

Jean-Marc Fessard, Frederic Pelassy, Eliane Reyes - Darius Milhaud: Chamber Music (2010)

Darius Milhaud: Chamber Music (2010)
Jean-Marc Fessard, clarinet; Frédéric Pélassy, violin; Eliane Reyes, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 303 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572278 | Time: 01:07:55

This is a nice little selection of the chamber music of Darius Milhaud featuring clarinet, violin, and piano in varying combinations, beginning with the brief Suite for all three instruments. There's a gentleness and wittiness in most of this music – although Milhaud could also be dolorous, for example in the introduction of the Suite's finale – primarily because he drew on themes from his stage music for the Suite, Scaramouche, and the Cinéma fantaisie d'après Le bœuf sur le toit, not to mention the presence of his trademark infectious Brazilian rhythms. The Violin Sonata No. 2 and the Clarinet Sonatina are slightly more serious in mood, and in the case of the Sonatina, more harmonically adventurous. The three musicians here – clarinetist Jean-Marc Fessard, violinist Frédéric Pélassy, and pianist Eliane Reyes – work excellently together to bring the music to life. Their ensemble work in the Suite is sharply precise. Even in the Sonata and Sonatina, there is a sense that it's not all just about the violin or clarinet. Pélassy and Fessard allow Reyes to bring out the piano part to show that the works are often more like true duets, for example in Scaramouche's dizzying opening or the Violin Sonata's Vif movement. The Fantaisie is a more of a duet almost by necessity because there's so much going on in it, but without a doubt it's the violin that gets the spotlight with some fancy effects (such as playing in two keys at once) and even a cadenza that's not in the original work. The three musicians also give detailed attention to coloring in a natural, instinctive-sounding way.
Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier - Francis Poulenc, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud: Orchestral Works (1992)

Francis Poulenc: Les biches, Suite; Jacques Ibert: Divertissement;
Darius Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit, La Creation du Monde (1992)
Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 295 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9023 | Time: 01:08:10

This programme of 1920s French music is in the hands of a conductor who gets right into the spirit of it, and plenty of spirit there is too. Apart from the Ibert, this is ballet music, and that work too originated as a theatre piece, having been incidental music for Eugene Labiche's farce The Italian Straw Hat. Poulenc's unfailingly fresh and bouncy suite from Les biches is very enjoyable although Chandos's warm and resonant recording takes some of the edge off the trumpet tone that is so central to the writing. The geniality of it all makes one forget that this is remarkable music in which (as Christopher Palmer's booklet essay points out) the twentieth-century French composer evokes eighteenth-century fetes galantes through the eyes of that greatest of nineteenth-century ballet composers, Tchaikovsky.

The Darius Brubeck Quartet - Live in Poland (2019)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Dec. 13, 2019
The Darius Brubeck Quartet - Live in Poland (2019)

The Darius Brubeck Quartet - Live in Poland (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 335 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 MB | 00:59:18
Jazz | Label: Ubuntu Music

Ubuntu Music is delighted to announce the signing of The Darius Brubeck Quartet (DBQ), led by pianist Darius Brubeck. The album, Live in Poland, was recorded at the prestigious Blue Note in Poznan, Poland.Born in San Francisco, Darius grew up in the artistic milieu of his famous father Dave and has enjoyed a lifetime of varied international experience as bandleader, composer, teacher and broadcaster."I was invited to Poland three times in 2018, the 60th anniversary of the 1958 classic Dave Brubeck Quartet's tour of this country. With the end of World War I in 1918, it was also the 100th anniversary of Polish independence.

Darius Owens - Love & Life (2020)  Music

Posted by shamanicus at Jan. 6, 2020
Darius Owens - Love & Life (2020)

Darius Owens - Love & Life (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | Front cover | 151 mb | 37:55 | MP3 CBR 320kbps | 55 mb
Jazz, Smooth Jazz | Label: Darius Owens

"Love and Life", Inspired by a lifetime of experience. This is officially my first album/EP, but with many more to come. Please join me on my quest to deliver music with a very positive, conscious, and inspirational message.
Darius Jones - Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2021) [Official Digital Download]

Darius Jones - Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 48:35 minutes | 490 MB
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Northern Spy Records, Official Digital Download

Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) harnesses the gamut of raw, unadulterated emotions — suppressed feelings that we’ve all been allowed to “feel” again in the wake of a global pandemic. Born out of a live performance in fall 2019, during the last stop of his tour in Portland, OR, saxophonist Darius Jones renders a solo effort that evokes sadness, rage, and confusion, all the while still holding for glimmers of hope for the future.
Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 51:58 minutes | 1,06 GB
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Northern Spy Records, Official Digital Download

Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of Black music.

Darius Jones - Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 22, 2022
Darius Jones - Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2021)

Darius Jones - Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 253 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 112 Mb | 00:48:40
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Northern Spy Records

Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) harnesses the gamut of raw, unadulterated emotions — suppressed feelings that we’ve all been allowed to “feel” again in the wake of a global pandemic. Born out of a live performance in fall 2019, during the last stop of his tour in Portland, OR, saxophonist Darius Jones renders a solo effort that evokes sadness, rage, and confusion, all the while still holding for glimmers of hope for the future.
Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (2023)

Darius Jones - fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 345 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 119 Mb | 00:52:04
Contemporary Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Northern Spy Records

Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of Black music.
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:59 | 326 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 066-2

The symphonies date from a more mature period of Darius Milhaud compositional life and confronts the listener with music he or she probably didn't expect if one is familiar with the more bizarre, witty, early music with its many influences by light music, like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and La Creation du Monde. The sixth symphony of Milhaud is definitively his greatest. It contains two slow and two fast movements. The slow movements (2/3rd of the music) are of an astonishing beauty! This music of wide open spaces is full of calmness, austerity, clarity, with beautiful changing harmonies and slowly spiralling melodies. The fast movements make a lively contrast to this.

Darius Rucker - Carolyn's Boy (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 5, 2023
Darius Rucker - Carolyn's Boy (2023)

Darius Rucker - Carolyn's Boy (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 311 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 108 MB
45:57 | Rock, Pop, Country | Label: Capitol Records Nashville

Darius Rucker's sixth country studio album, Carolyn's Boy, features 14 songs including the #1 hit "Beers and Sunshine" and his latest single "Fire Don't Start Themselves." The album title is named after his mother. Rucker embarked on a successful solo career, applying his versatile baritone to acclaimed R&B and country efforts like the platinum-selling Learn to Live (2008) and True Believers (2013).