Fire Eater (1998) Pirjo Honkasalo, Elina Hurme, Tiina Weckström, Elena Leeve

Elina Duni Quartet - Matane Malit (2012) [Official Digital Download 24/88] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Nov. 5, 2023

Elina Duni Quartet - Matanë Malit (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 53:50 minutes | 744 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Matanë Malit" (Beyond the mountain) marks the exquisite ECM debut by the Elina Duni Quartet. The recording pays homage to Albania and finds a singer looking at her roots from a contemporary vantage point as a musician engaged in improvisational processes. Duni explores the region’s troubled history, uncovering songs filled with beauty and power. These traditional masterpieces arranged by Duni, tell the stories of lovers, heroes, workers, shepherds and exiles. Each track focuses on the shape of the sound and the composition’s structure. Absolutely riveting!

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Elina Mustonen - Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Partitas (2009) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at March 6, 2025

Elina Mustonen began playing the harpsichord at the age of eight. After completing her studies at the Sibelius Academy in 1983, she proceeded to the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam to study with Ton Koopman and was awarded a soloist diploma in 1988. In 2006 she obtained her Doctoral degree at the Sibelius Academy. The topic of her thesis was J.S. Bach's harpsichord pedagogy. Ever since her debut concert at the Jyväskylä Summer Festival in 1987 Ms. Mustonen has performed widely as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition to Finland, she has been heard in Estonia, Iceland, Germany, the UK, Italy, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and the United States. Ms. Mustonen has appeared as a soloist with most of the Finnish orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Sinfonia Lahti and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra. Her repertoire includes not only the major Baroque concertos but also the harpsichord concertos of Francis Poulenc, Bohuslav Martinu and Manuel de Falla. Ms. Mustonen has made several critically acclaimed recordings. Her latest achievement is a complete recording of the Six Partitas by J.S. Bach.

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Spock’s Beard - From the Vault (1998) Music

Posted by v3122 at Aug. 10, 2022

Spock’s Beard - From the Vault (1998)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Radiant Record, RA-0058 | ~ 460 or 169 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 9.30 Mb
Progressive Rock

From the Vault is a neat little rarities collection from Spock's Beard originally released in 1998. The CD contains demos, alternate mixes, live cuts, one Japanese bonus track, and two cover songs. For the Spock's Beard completist, From the Vault is a must have…

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Metallica - Acoustic Metal (1998) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 7, 2023

Metallica - Acoustic Metal (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 440 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 166 MB
1:10:58 | Rock, Acoustic, Metal | Label: Mégaphone

Metallica is one of the most important and most influential metal bands of all time, drafting the blueprint for thrash metal in their earliest days, then pushing the boundaries of mainstream metal and hard rock as they settled into their role as a popular legacy act as the decades went on. Between the meeting of raw energy and intricate speed metal compositions of their 1983 debut Kill 'Em All and the layered, radio-geared production of 1991's self-titled "black album," the band turned in classic album after classic album, each new chapter leading the development of metal on a global scale.

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Elīna Garanča, Karel Mark Chichon, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria - Sol y vida (2019) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Nov. 24, 2020

Sol y vida is Elīna Garanča’sjourney to the South, from Spain to Italy and Latin America, and is her first album focusing entirely on non core-classical repertoire. Be ready to expect a personal album from the mezzo-soprano, whose centre of life has been Spain for many years. A selection of songs, canzone and tango pieces, both mirroring and spreading a flamboyantly emotional array of beaming happiness, passionate longing and exuberant joy. A feast of vocal colours, and a firework of passion, from the well-known Granada to the intimate world of La Llorona.

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Mirka Malmi & Tiina Karakorpi - Other Finnish Works for Violin (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 10, 2022

Mirka Malmi & Tiina Karakorpi - Other Finnish Works for Violin (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 203 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 113 Mb | 00:49:01
Classical | Label: Alba Records

The “shadow of SIBELUS” has been unnecessarily comprehensive and long in Finnish music. Of course, male colleagues have come up, although not always very big. Instead, female composers have had to wait a long time, but fortunately now is their time too.

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Linda Suolahti, Tiina Karakorpi & Mari Viluksela - Unrecorded (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 26, 2024

Linda Suolahti, Tiina Karakorpi & Mari Viluksela - Unrecorded (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 49:26 minutes | 874 MB
Classical | Label: Alba Records, Official Digital Download

There have always been overlooked artists/ composers in classical music because of their gender, race and/or socioeconomic status. It is essential to acknowledge that we are not seeing and hearing the whole (her) story due to this sidelining and discrimination of certain voices. Finnish composers Ann-Elise Hannikainen, Helvi Leiviskä and Cecilia Damström have all contributed beautifully crafted works to the violin repertoire, which, unfortunately, are not widely celebrated.

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Elena Ballario, Camilla Patria, Franco Mezzena, Sergio Patria - Magnard: Cello Sonata, Op. 20, Piano Trio Op. 18 (2024) [24/44] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 26, 2024

Elena Ballario, Camilla Patria, Franco Mezzena & Sergio Patria - Magnard: Cello Sonata, Op. 20, Piano Trio, Op. 18 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 71:50 minutes | 704 MB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics, Official Digital Download

Albéric Magnard, born in Paris in 1865, was a pupil of Dubois, Guiraud, Massenet and D’Indy at the Paris Conservatoire, and he frequented the circle of César Franck. In 1896 he became a teacher at Paris’s Schola Cantorum. Then, from 1904, he settled in the countryside on his estate at Manoir des Fontaines in Baron (Oise), where he died in 1914, shot by German troops while attempting to defend the property, which was set on fire along with many of his as yet unpublished compositions. In addition to four symphonies, he is also the author of operas, but chamber music is the genre in which he best expressed himself and into which he poured the influence of Beethoven and the counterpoint of the Schola Cantorum.

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The Move - Movements: 30th Anniversary Anthology (1998) Music

Posted by v3122 at June 25, 2021

The Move - Movements: 30th Anniversary Anthology (1998)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Westside Records, WESX 302 | ~ 1252 or 487 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 64 Mb
Psychedelic Rock / Art-Rock

This may be more Move than the casual fan wants, but it's not just another rehashed collection. From the remastered sound to the presence of various outtakes (including lost live tracks), the 30th anniversary triple-disc Movements is as definitive a set as we'll ever have on this band, containing everything except for the Message From the Country album…

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Elīna Garanča - When Night Falls... (2024) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 18, 2024

Elīna Garanča reflects facets of night-time on her latest Deutsche Grammophon release “When Night Falls”. The soprano chose a selection of orchestral songs, as well as works for voice and piano or guitar, that she performs together with the Orquestra Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Berlin Music Ensemble and the DG artists Albrecht Mayer and Raphaël Feuillâtre, among others. Commenting on the spectrum of rich colours from sunset to the silence of the night, Garanča notes: "I hope this music will allow listeners to tune out the world for a few minutes and completely immerse themselves in the special magic of the hours of night.”

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