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Mel Bonis - Mozart Piano Quartet - Complete Piano Quartets
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 219 MB | Full Artwork: 82 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # 643 1424-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2007
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

"…The Mozart Piano Quartet provide these works with enthusiastic advocacy and MDG’s sound is a model of clarity and natural balance – just like Bonis’s music” ~Grammophone

Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a concert film released by the British pop-rock musician Eric Clapton. It features a selection of songs, Clapton performed on May 21, 2015 while he played during his "70th Birthday Celebration" tour at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall…

This recording of Mozart's first German opera The Abduction From The Seraglio is also on another box set/label and has been re-issued for Deutsche Grammophone, the world's greatest classical music and opera label. The Brit Sir Jon Elio Gardiner conducts at a brisk, lively pace (too fast for some folks) and the principal singers sing with excellent German diction and in the traditional Singspiel style but lack a je ne sais quai to really stand out. Tenor Stanford Olsen sings Belmonte, baritone Hans Peter Minetti as Pasha Selim, soprano Luba Orgonasova as Konstanze, soprano Cyndia Sieden as Blonde, Uwe Peper as Pedrillo and bass Cornelius Hauptmann as Osmin. If you're a fan of any of these singers, this recording is for you…

Antonio Vivaldi - The French Connection Vol. 1
La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 382 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Avie # AV2178 | Country/Year: UK 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

…The orchestral sound, as always with La Serenissima, achieves bright attractiveness and vivacity without feeling the need to pursue the taut energy of some other groups.

Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Elisaveta Blumina - Children's Notebooks, Piano Sonata No. 1
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 174 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 777 517-2 | Country/Year: Germany 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Modern

“Elisaveta Blumina's achievementis to provoke a re-evaluation of this corner of the Weinberg repertoire. Where previously one might have suspected the 21-year-old composer's debut sonata of a degree of formal and textural miscalculation, Blumina's superior clarity and agility reveal it as a bold and uncompromising statement…She crafts each piece with care and insight.”

Gabor Boldoczki - Bach
Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra / Kristof Barati / Soma Dinyes
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 304 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # 88697724182 | Country/Year: Europe 2010
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Trumpet

The Hungarian trumpeter, Gábor Boldoczki (…) received the coveted Prix Davidoff of the Reemtsma-Foundation for his "technical perfection and fully-developed artistic virtuosity", followed by the highly esteemed Prix Young Artist of the Year in 2002. After previously being awarded the Echo Klassik as Best Newcomer in October 2003, Gábor Boldoczki was again honoured by the German Phono Academy in 2008 as Instrumentalist of the Year.