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Michal Urbaniak feat. Urszula Dudziak - Smiles Ahead (1977) Reissue 2012, Special Edition Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 16, 2022

Polish violinist, saxophonist and composer Michal Urbaniak played a major role in the development of jazz fusion in the 1970s and 80s. While working in Scandinavia in the 1960’s he met his future wife, Polish singer Urszula Dudziak and formed the foundation of what would later become the group that would stamp its imprint on the jazz world, Michal Urbaniak’s Fusion. Urbaniak moved to New York in 1973. His popularity on the NY scene garnered him a contract with Columbia records and concerts at the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall. Blending music from his Polish and European roots with the funk and fusion of the Big Apple impelled American and international jazz musicians to experiment with mixing various ethnic musical forms with jazz.

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Michal Urbaniak - Fusion III (1975) Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 3, 2022

With song structures similar to Mahavishnu Orchestra and electric-era Return to Forever, Michal Urbaniak's Fusion III appealed to the same fusion-buying clientele…

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Michal Kanka, Miguel Borges Coelho, Beethoven String Trio - Weinberg: Cello Sonatas (2009) MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Jan. 7, 2024

Michal Kaňka, Miguel Borges Coelho, Beethoven String Trio - Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Sonatas Opp.21, 63, 72 / String Trio Op.48 (2009)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:32 min | Front/Rear Covers | 3,83 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,55 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,35 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Praga Digitals # PRD/DSD 250253

Little known in the West and in the former USSR, the name of Weinberg, the third great Russian composer of the 20th century, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich, seems to be slowly emerging from the shadow of the latter, his protector and friend. Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his temperament as a symphonist and the importance of his chamber music, the spiritual heir. This part of his vast catalogue, not written to put food on the table, includes 17 quartets, the most experimental body of his work along with his sonatas, those for cello, written with Rostropovich in mind, being henceforth consecrated.

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Corina Marti, Michal Gondko - Von edler Art: Fifteenth-century German music for keyboard & plucked stringed instrument (2008) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 8, 2022

Interrelated traditions of keyboard and lute playing that flourished in German-speaking lands in the age immediately predating the invention of music printing have fascinated us ever since our very first encounter with the surviving repertoire that originated from these traditions. Fifteenth-century music for keyboard and plucked stringed instruments is without doubt an exciting area in the early history of European instrumental music, but one paradoxically seldom visited by performers and thus virtually unknown to the wider public. Many pieces are recorded here for the first time, and it is our hope that the present disc may contribute to restoring the remnants of a once flourishing and highly refined art to the place they deserve in the awareness of music lovers.

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Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz & Michal Miskiewicz - January (2008) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 30, 2024

Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz & Michal Miskiewicz - January (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 70:43 minutes | 508 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

“January” is a strong musical statement from a still-young band with a long history already behind it, and an album with an exceptionally wide-ranging programme - all of it played with assurance, purpose and focus. The disc reconfirms that the trio of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz is one of the most outstanding contemporary jazz groups.

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Michal Tal - Noblesse: Piano Music by Hélène de Montgeroult (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 18, 2024

Michal Tal - Noblesse: Piano Music by Hélène de Montgeroult (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 57:18 minutes | 541 MB
Classical | Label: Centaur Records, Official Digital Download

Montgeroult: Piano Sonata op. 5 no. 3 in F sharp minor; Etude No. 7; Etude No. 8; Etude No. 17; Etude No. 28; Etude No. 37; Etude No. 55; Etude No. 62; Etude No. 89; Etude No. 101; Etude No. 111; Fantasy in G minor, from Cours complet pour l'enseignement du forte piano.

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