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S.E.M. Ensemble - Julius Eastman: Femenine (2016) [Re-Up]  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 3, 2021
S.E.M. Ensemble - Julius Eastman: Femenine (2016) [Re-Up]

S.E.M. Ensemble - Julius Eastman: Femenine (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 451 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:12:35
Contemporary Classical, Minimalism | Label: frozen reeds | # fr6

This is the première release of Julius Eastman’s Femenine, for chamber ensemble. It is also the work’s only known recording, documenting a 1974 performance by the S.E.M. Ensemble (with the composer on piano) which has lain unheard for decades. The music of Julius Eastman (1940-1990) is enjoying an on-going period of rediscovery. Known best in the past for his work with figures like Peter Maxwell Davies, Arthur Russell and Meredith Monk, today his own formidable compositions draw increasing admiration. Joyous, insistent, and immersive, Femenine bathes the listener in surges of tonal colour from intertwining winds, piano, violin, pitched percussion, synthesizer and – uniquely – the composer’s own invention of mechanised sleigh bells, which provide the 72-minute piece with its characteristic pulse. Illuminating sleeve notes are provided by composer and author Mary Jane Leach, who is co-editor of Gay Guerrilla, the recently released collection of essays on Eastman’s life and music.

Julius Berger - Soldanella (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 17, 2023
Julius Berger - Soldanella (2023)

Julius Berger - Soldanella (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 385 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:08
Classical | Label: Wergo

When Pablo Casals rediscovered the cello suites of Bach at the beginning of the 20th century, the novel thing about it was that he played them "senza basso", i.e. without piano accompaniment. In a time of music-historical over-maturity and experimentation, renowned composers soon came up with their own attempts, among them most famously Max Reger's "Solo Suites" and Kodály's "Solo Sonata", both written in 1915.
Alexander Kerr, Gregor Horsch, Sepp Grotenhuis - Julius Röntgen: Chamber Music (2000)

Alexander Kerr, Gregor Horsch, Sepp Grotenhuis - Julius Röntgen: Chamber Music (2000)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:10 | 252 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: NM Classics | Catalog: 92089

Julius Röntgen was born on 9 May 1855 in Leipzig, the son of Dutch violinist Engelbert Röntgen, leader of the Gewandhausorchester there, and German pianist Pauline Klengel. He started composing at an early age and took the stage with his own works in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Leipzig as a child prodigy. At the age of fifteen he was introduced to Franz Liszt, who invited him to one of his famous soirees after he played two of his own compositions to him.

Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 31, 2022
Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)

Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Covers included | 00:34:44 | 213 Mb
Contemporary Jazz | Label: Verve Records

The Juilliard-level pianist and genre-hopping sideman with A$AP Rocky, Meshell Ndegeocello, and more makes his imaginative debut at age 23 with Let Sound Tell All. Rodriguez’s acoustic-jazz chops are formidable from the start of the hard-swinging “Blues at the Barn.” But already on this opener, there’s an intriguing blend between gritty lo-fi sound and more polished studio production, even within the same track. Rodriguez and co-producer Drew Ofthe Drew set ambitious goals and conjure a sonic atmosphere that avoids the obvious.

Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at June 9, 2022
Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)

Julius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell All (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 185 MB | Cover | 34:45 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 81 MB
Jazz | Label: Verve

When a 23-year-old displays such a mature musicality as a pianist, drummer, composer, arranger and bandleader as the American Julius Rodriguez does, he probably has to put up with being called a "child prodigy" from time to time
Gerald Finley, Julius Drake - Franz Liszt: The Complete Songs, Volume 3 (2015)

Gerald Finley, Julius Drake - Franz Liszt: The Complete Songs, Volume 3 (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 223 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 165 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67956 | Time: 01:11:05

A third volume in Hyperion’s Complete Liszt Songs cycle warmly welcomes to the series maestro Gerald Finley. The songs themselves encompass everything from finely honed miniatures to big-boned epics of tragic import, and these compelling performances elicit from the multi-award-winning pairing of Finley and Julius Drake a sense of paced drama and pathos which is rarely matched.
Julius Rudel, New York City Opera Orchestra, Beverly Sills - George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar / Giulio Cesare [1990]

Julius Rudel, New York City Opera Orchestra, Beverly Sills - George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar / Giulio Cesare [1990]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 703 Mb | Total time: 74:12+70:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA | # GD86182 | Recorded: 1967

Ever since the operas of Handel started to return to the stage in the 1920s, Giulio Cesare has been one of the pieces held in high regard. Always known by name through the most famous of Cleopatra’s arias (”V’adoro, pupille” and “Piangerò la sorte mia”) and often produced successfully in Germany, it has gathered a reputation as the best of the composer’s operas-the reasons for which can now be verified by anyone who acquires RCA Victor’s current release of the highly successful New York City Opera production.

Julius Project - Cut The Tongue (2020)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 8, 2021
Julius Project - Cut The Tongue (2020)

Julius Project - Cut The Tongue (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 399 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 141 MB | Covers - 483 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: JM Distribution (JMD56-1/2020)

The Julius Project is an Italian music collective led by Giuseppe "Julius" Chiriatti, who, according to sources, started work on this concept album as far back as 1978! This would certainly account for the retro Canterbury vibe of Cut The Tongue. It also features some guest vocals from Richard Sinclair of Caravan and Hatfield and the North.
However, another classic band Camel comes immediately to mind with the opener "The Fog", the combination of flute and mellotron harking right back to the 70s. That Camel sound continues throughout "In The Room" featuring vocals by Chiriatti's daughter Bianca Berry…
Allan Clayton, Julius Drake - Franz Liszt: The Complete Songs, Volume 5 (2018)

Allan Clayton, Julius Drake - Franz Liszt: The Complete Songs, Volume 5 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 206 Mb | Total time: 63:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA68179 | Recorded: 2016, 2017

Allan Clayton demonstrates his exceptional versatility with a Liszt programme of eighteen songs, all of which—in contrasting ways—make prodigious technical and musical demands of the performers.

Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake - The English Songbook (1999)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Aug. 8, 2021
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake - The English Songbook (1999)

Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake - The English Songbook (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 226 Mb | Total time: 69:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 56830 | Recorded: 1999

The recital begins with Keats and ends with Shakespeare: that can’t be bad. But it also begins with Stanford and ends with Parry; what would the modernists of their time have thought about that? They would probably not have believed that those two pillars of the old musical establishment would still be standing by in 1999. And in fact how well very nearly all these composers stand! Quilter’s mild drawing–room manners might have been expected to doom him, but the three songs here – the affectionate, easy grace of his Tennyson setting, the restrained passion of his ‘Come away, death’ and the infectious zest of ‘I will go with my father a–ploughing’ – endear him afresh and demonstrate once again the wisdom of artists who recognise their own small area of ‘personal truth’ and refuse to betray it in exchange for a more fashionable ‘originality’.