Gramophone October 2017

Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver - Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver - Beethoven Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 75:33 minutes | 1.26 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver are approaching the culmination of a complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle where each concert is both broadcast live by the BBC on Radio 3, and recorded by Andrew Keener and Phil Rowlands for Rubicon. Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas represent the supreme challenge for a violin and piano duo, and the drama, visceral excitement and many intimate moments of these masterpieces is superbly captured in these live performances.
Nikolai Lugansky - Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata & The Seasons (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Nikolai Lugansky - Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata & The Seasons (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 81:26 minutes | 1.94 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Incredibly, despite several solo recordings dedicated to Russian composers, this new recording is award-winning artist Nikolai Lugansky’s first Tchaikovsky recital on record. Though less well-known than his operas or his orchestral compositions, Tchaikovsky’s piano music nonetheless contains essential works, such as the 'The Seasons' cycle and the 'Grand Sonata', featured here. Composed at a period of crisis in the composer‘s personal life, they illustrate two quite different aspects of his style: on the one hand we have the fashionable worldliness of 'The Seasons', pieces that almost belong to the genre of salon music; on the other, we see him ambitiously grappling with the classical sonata, in the tradition of his illustrious predecessors, Liszt, Schumann, Chopin.
Rolf Lislevand - Diminuito (2009/2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Rolf Lislevand - Diminuito (2009/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 58:18 minutes | 993 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

On “Nuove Musiche”, his highly successful ECM debut released in spring 2006, Norwegian master lutenist led his own group of international early music virtuosi. The album presented ravishing and most unorthodox accounts of mostly Italian instrumental music from the early Baroque. Based on Italian Renaissance sources from the 16th century – madrigals, chansons and virtuoso lute music – the new programme goes even further back – from the “seconda pratica” of monophonic expressiveness to the “prima pratica” of polyphonic complexity.
Olli Mustonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 (2017)

Olli Mustonen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu - Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 57:58 | 234 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1288-2

This is the second and final disc in a cycle of Sergei Prokofiev’s piano concertos with pianist Olli Mustonen and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu. Of the first volume, Gramophone wrote: 'How many times have I regretted a shortage of fantasy, flair and fairy-tale imagination in recordings of the Prokofiev piano concertos? Well, here is a disc that takes all those qualities to the top'.
Laurence Cummings & Festspiel Orchester Göttingen - Handel: Susanna, HWV 66 (Live) (2016)

Laurence Cummings & Festspiel Orchester Göttingen - Handel: Susanna, HWV 66 (Live) (2016)
Classical, Opera | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 911 MB
Label: Accent | Tracks: 72 | Time: 183:40 min

After the patriotic victory oratorios , the oratorio 'Susanna' marks a turning point in Handel s composition. This Old Testament narrative is a popular motif in the domain of art history. Many a portrayal exists of the steadfast Susanna being watched unbeknownst to her by two lusting elders as she bathes. Likewise, the scene of the supposed adulteress appearing before the judges who sentence her to death inspired painters such as Rembrandt, Giorgione, Gentileschi and Corinth. In adopting this as his subject, Handel chose a heroine who is neither a queen nor a prophet.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Sir Thomas Beecham, Vol. 2 (Live) (2019)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Sir Thomas Beecham, Vol. 2 (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 969 MB | Tracks: 31 | 195:29 min
Style: Classical | Label: ICA Classics

Rob Cowan wrote in Gramophone about the first volume (ICAC5148) featuring Sir Thomas Beecham: ‘numerous live Beecham releases have appeared over the last few years, some more successful than others (in both recording and performance terms), but this collection is certainly one of the best’. This second volume continues with rare performances which as far as is known have never been made available before covering a period from 1952 to 1959.
Marek Szlezer - Chopin: Selected Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Marek Szlezer - Chopin: Selected Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 75:11 minutes | 1,17 GB
Classical | Label: DUX, Official Digital Download

This new recording presents selected piano works of Fryderyk Chopin, and the return of pianist Marek Szlezer to, as he himself writes, the "piano house", which for him is the oeuvre of one of the most famous composers in the world.

Marek Szlezer - Chopin: Selected Works (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 4, 2022
Marek Szlezer - Chopin: Selected Works (2022)

Marek Szlezer - Chopin: Selected Works (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 194 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:11
Classical | Label: DUX

This new recording presents selected piano works of Fryderyk Chopin, and the return of pianist Marek Szlezer to, as he himself writes, the "piano house", which for him is the oeuvre of one of the most famous composers in the world.

The Dead of Jericho: Inspector Morse Mysteries  Audiobooks

Posted by Free butterfly at June 19, 2025
The Dead of Jericho: Inspector Morse Mysteries

The Dead of Jericho: Inspector Morse Mysteries by Colin Dexter, Samuel West, Macmillan Digital Audio
English | October 05, 2017 | ISBN: B074WBDNJH | 7 hours and 13 minutes | MP3 | 150 Mb
Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Chloë Hanslip & Danny Driver - Beethoven: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 80:57 minutes | 1.44 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver are approaching the culmination of a complete Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle where each concert is both broadcast live by the BBC on Radio 3, and recorded by Andrew Keener and Phil Rowlands for Rubicon. Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas represent the supreme challenge for a violin and piano duo, and the drama, visceral excitement and many intimate moments of these masterpieces is superbly captured in these live performances.