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Angela Hewitt - Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (2014) 2CDs

Angela Hewitt - J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) (2014) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 275 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67980 | Time: 01:29:40

Even though Angela Hewitt's repertoire is quite extensive and diverse, encompassing the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and modern eras, her true specialty is the music of J.S. Bach, which she has recorded almost exclusively for Hyperion since the 1980s. With this recording of The Art of Fugue, Hewitt completes her long-running series of piano renditions of the solo keyboard works, and while not everyone is convinced that Bach composed this study of fugal techniques for the keyboard, Hewitt's performance is credible and satisfying. She controls the often unwieldy counterpoint by regarding the lines as if they were vocal parts, and her phrases are shaped by natural breathing points, as well as the different emotional qualities she brings to each fugue and canon. The Art of Fugue can be daunting for both performer and listener because its persistent tonality of D minor and monothematic material can be quite tedious in the wrong hands.

Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 15, 2022
Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)

Angela Hewitt - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Keyboard Suites (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 192 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67597 | Time: 01:18:16

Rameau on the piano? It's not altogether unheard of – there were a handful of classic recordings made by Robert Casadesus back in 1952 – but, despite many recordings of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti on the piano in the digital age, there's been precious little Rameau on the piano until this Angela Hewitt recording of three complete suites from 2006. By choosing the Suite in E minor from the Pièces de clavecin of 1731 plus the Suites in G minor and A minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Hewitt has for the most part stayed away from the more evocatively titled works and stuck to the standard stylized Baroque dance forms of the allemande, courante, and gigue. Justly celebrated for her cool and clean Bach recordings, this strategy works well for Hewitt. Without seeming to resort to the sustain or the mute pedal, she floats Rameau's lines and melodies, and without seeming to exaggerate the accents or dynamics, she gives Rameau's rhythms a wonderful sense of lift. In the deliberately evocative movements from the G minor Suite – "La poule," "Les sauvages," and especially "L'egiptienne" – Hewitt seems to bring less to the music – her interpretations are remarkably straight – and to get less out of it – her performances are remarkably bland.

Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Variations (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Aug. 31, 2023
Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Variations (2023)

Angela Hewitt - Beethoven: Variations (2023)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 196 MB
1:19:12 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

This album is the last of my many recordings for Hyperion made using my own Fazioli F2781009 (every recording since October 2003, with just two exceptions for which I used other Faziolis). When the present recording sessions were over, the movers accidentally dropped it, and the piano came to an untimely end. The loss was devastating, as I loved it so much and it did everything I wanted it to do. May this recording be a testament to its huge range of colour that always served the music so well.

Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 20, 2023
Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)

Angela Gheorghiu – Diva (2004)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:53 | 350 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 57706

Diva is an entertaining and attractively packaged compilation of Angela Gheorghiu's EMI recordings made between 1996 and 2002. All of the selections have appeared on previous releases, but some of them only in the context of complete operas. As a one-disc snapshot of Gheorghiu's career so far, Diva does pretty well, and it would make a good first choice for anyone looking to get to know her work.
Angela Hewitt - Frederic Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes & Impromptus (2004) 2CDs

Angela Hewitt - Frédéric Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes & Impromptus (2004) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 365 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 305 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67371/2 | Time: 02:12:53

Angela Hewitt has applied the same intense study to Chopin's Nocturnes and Impromptus as she does to any composer's keyboard works. The result is a set of pieces lovingly played and appreciated, with personally felt emotion. The most outwardly emotional displays, as in the Nocturnes, Op. 15, are never wildly loud and always return to an introverted state afterward. In the Nocturnes she uses little touches of rubato so frequently as to almost stretch the melodies out of shape, as in Op. 9/1, but she plays many of the Nocturnes a tick faster than other pianists so that they stand up to that kind of manipulation better, and she never slows down to fit in ornaments. Her ornaments always fit right into the melody, both in her timing and her phrasing, and are feathery soft.

Angela Bofill - Too Tough '83 Teaser '83 (2008)  Music

Posted by JET 1 at June 27, 2020
Angela Bofill - Too Tough '83 Teaser '83 (2008)

Angela Bofill - Too Tough '83 Teaser '83 (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 617 MB | Scans
Genre: Funk, Soul | Label: Soul Music.com Records | Catalog Number: SMDC 02 CD

Angela Bofill's 1983 albums, both released while the singer was with Arista, are combined on this reissue from David Nathan's soulmusic.com label. Too Tough, a number six Billboard R&B hit produced with Narada Michael Walden, is one of her best albums. It contains two of her bigger hits: the upbeat pop-funk title track and the quiet storm favorite "Tonight I Give In." Walden's once again prominent on Teaser, which wasn't nearly as major. Although it reached number 20 on the R&B chart, the material let her down. The most notable number is the ballad "I'm on Your Side."

Angela Hewitt - Love Songs (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 5, 2021
Angela Hewitt - Love Songs (2021)

Angela Hewitt - Love Songs (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 214 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:57
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records

Angela Hewitt’s new album is clearly destined to become a favourite. Some of the best-known musical declarations of love across the centuries, heard in transcriptions by some of the great pianists (including Angela herself); this is simply exquisite and not to be missed.

Angela Olszewska by Piotr Debski  Girls

Posted by nrg at Feb. 11, 2023
Angela Olszewska by Piotr Debski

Angela Olszewska - Piotr Debski Photoshoot
18 jpg | up to 1500*2000 | 6.46 MB
Polish PMoY 2016

Angela Bofill - Intuition (1988)  Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Jan. 30, 2022
Angela Bofill - Intuition (1988)

Angela Bofill - Intuition (1988)
R&B, Soul, Pop, Urban | EAC Rip | FLAC, Img+CUE+LOG+Scans (PNG) | 54:41 | 520,28 Mb
Label: Capitol Records (USA) | Cat.# CDP 7 48335 2 (DIDX 2292) | Released: 1988-10-12

"Intuition" is the 8th album by Angela Bofill, and was her first and only release on Capitol Records in 1988. It is produced by Norman Connors. The album peaked at position #38 of the Billboard 200 chart on January 6, 1989, and stayed on the chart for 20 weeks. The album also reached position #50 on the Billboard Top Black Albums chart. Bofill recorded "For You And I", a song she performed live at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in 1980 as a duet with Peabo Bryson.

Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas (2016)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 28, 2023
Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas (2016)

Angela Hewitt - Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 249 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 178 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA 67613 | Time: 01:16:09

As one of the world's foremost interpreters of Baroque keyboard music on the modern piano, Angela Hewitt has established a fine reputation for impeccable playing and fresh musical insights. Listeners who cherish her award-winning recordings on Hyperion of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach have already experienced her exquisite playing, and they will be delighted to hear this selection of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Bach's contemporary and an innovator whose compositions influenced the development of the Classical sonata. Some of these selections are well known, particularly the Sonata in C major, Kk159, the Sonata in D major, Kk96, and the Sonata in E major, Kk380, which are often anthologized, though Hewitt hasn't packed this disc with greatest hits (with 555 sonatas to choose from, there are many less familiar that deserve attention). Hewitt's performances are thoughtfully phrased, polished in tone, and rhythmically precise with a modicum of rubato, and she is alert to the subtleties that make this music so beguiling. Hewitt recorded these 16 sonatas in the Beethovensaal in Hannover, where she made her first Bach recordings for Hyperion 20 years previously, and the acoustics are nearly ideal for her style.