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Mario Escudero - Mario Escudero Plays Classical Flamenco Music (1969/2024)

Mario Escudero - Mario Escudero Plays Classical Flamenco Music (1969/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 361 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 202 Mb | 01:27:54
World, Latin, Flamenco, Guitar | Label: Musical Heritage Society

Mario Escudero (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004), was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. Along with others such as Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Juan Serrano, Escudero helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with lauded performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues. Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation."
Mario Venzago, Berner Symphonieorchester - Anton Bruckner: Symphonies 3 & 6 (2013) 2CD

Mario Venzago, Berner Symphonieorchester - Anton Bruckner: Symphonies 3 & 6 (2013) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 420 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | # cpo 777 690-2 | Time: 01:45:06

Continuing his impressive series of Anton Bruckner's symphonies on CPO, Mario Venzago leads the Bern Symphony Orchestra in period style performances of the Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1889 version) and the Symphony No. 6 in A major (1881 version), using scores edited by Leopold Nowak. Venzago strives for historically informed performances that give varying perspectives on Bruckner's development, employing different orchestras with each release to reveal important differences in the composer's orchestral conceptions and to show that there wasn't one prescription of how the symphonies should sound. Instead, Venzago rejects the massive and heavy-handed interpretations of the early 20th century and tries to re-create the 19th century sound world in all its variety and intimacy. The glistening, vibrato-less string tone, pungent woodwinds, and crisp brass and timpani are easily distinguished from the more homogenized tone colors of a modern symphony orchestra, and Venzago ensures that these distinctive timbres aren't obscured by keeping the orchestral sections lean and discrete.
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Mario Venzago - Anton Bruckner: Symphonies 0 & 1 (2011) 2CDs

Tapiola Sinfonietta, Mario Venzago - Anton Bruckner: Symphonien 0 & 1 (2011) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 313 Mb | Scans ~ 59 Mb | Time: 01:28:28
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | # cpo 777 617-2

Anton Bruckner's early symphonies are not as widely performed or recorded as his mature works, so Mario Venzago's double-disc on CPO of the Symphony in D minor, called "No. 0" or "Die Nullte," and the Symphony No. 1 in C minor is a stand-out from the nearly unstoppable run of recordings of the Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth. Venzago and the Tapiola Sinfonietta give exceptional performances that have technical polish and expressive warmth, and the charm the musicians draw out of these pieces makes one wonder why they aren't more popular. Certainly, both symphonies approach the later ones in expansiveness and seriousness, and there's more than a little Brucknerian sonic grandeur in these fledgling efforts. Yet even though these are works of the late 1860s, the music is still strongly governed by Classical models, and because the influence of Richard Wagner is absent in the symphonies prior to the Third, listeners who ordinarily find Bruckner too complicated, heavy, and ponderous may find these lighter works more accessible and enjoyable.
Alessandro Marangoni, Malmö SO, Andrew Mogrelia - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; 4 Dances (2012)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Four Dances (2012)
Alessandro Marangoni (piano); Malmö Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Mogrelia, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 332 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572823 | Time: 01:16:41

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s two Piano Concertos form a contrasting pair. Concerto No 1, written in 1927, is a vivid and witty example of his romantic spirit, exquisite melodies and rich yet transparent orchestration. Concerto No 2, composed a decade later, is a darker, more dramatic and virtuosic work. The deeply-felt and dreamlike slow movement and passionate finale are tinged with bleak moments of sombre agitation, suggestive of unfolding tragic events with the imminent introduction of the Fascist Racial Laws that led Castelnuovo-Tedesco to seek exile in the USA in 1939. The Four Dances from ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, part of the composer’s recurring fascination for the art of Shakespeare, are atmospheric, richly characterised and hugely enjoyable. This is their first performance and recording.

Mario Lanza - Mario! Lanza At His Best (2006)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 7, 2023
Mario Lanza - Mario! Lanza At His Best (2006)

Mario Lanza - Mario! Lanza At His Best (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:13 | 436 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: RCA Victor Living Stereo | Catalog: 71625

This is not exactly the Mario Lanza "best-of" album its title might imply; it consists of recordings made during the last 18 months of the great crossover tenor's life, when he was beginning to suffer serious effects from the health problems that killed him in the fall of 1959. Still, it's hard to hear much of an effect from those problems a diminution of sheer vocal power in the selections from Rudolf Friml's musical The Vagabond King that make up the second half of the disc, perhaps, but no loss of the singer's broad, generous lyric impulse.
Mario Folena, Roberto Loreggian - Johann Sebastian Bach: Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530 (2014)

Mario Folena, Roberto Loreggian - J.S. Bach: Trio Sonatas, BWV 525-530 (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 386 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94406 | Time: 01:03:26

The father of the Baroque period, Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest composers of all time. His works, covering a wide range of instruments and voice types, continue to flourish to this day, forming a core part of musical learning. This special disc brings together the Trio Sonatas BWV525–530, works that originally appeared in a manuscript of works for organ. In this form, the pieces naturally became part of Bach’s teaching – a notable contribution to his oldest son Wilhelm Friedemann’s virtuoso organ technique.

Mário Laginha - Jangada (2022)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 24, 2022
Mário Laginha - Jangada (2022)

Mário Laginha - Jangada (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 370 MB | Cover | 01:09:22 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 166 MB
Jazz | Label: Edition Records

Eine exaltierte Künstlerin wie Maria João prägt die Wahrnehmung. Mario Laginha brauchte eine Weile, um nicht mehr vorrangig als ihr Begleiter und Impulsgeber verstanden zu werden. Inzwischen ist der Pianist aus Lissabon aber einige Schritte weiter und stellt mit einem Trioalbum wie „Jangada“ seine Welt melodischer Eloquenz vor. Er ist kein kammerjazzender Tastenstreichler, auch keiner der launischen Dekonstrukteure der Neo-Avantgarde, sondern eher konservativ im Sinne gestaltender Sinnlichkeit.
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mario Venzago - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor (2014)

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 In C Minor (2014)
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Mario Venzago

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 336 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 212 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | # cpo 777 691-2 | Time: 01:15:24

For his project of recording the complete symphonies of Anton Bruckner on CPO, Mario Venzago has chosen to record each symphony with a different orchestra to re-create the sounds that Bruckner would have heard. Considering that Bruckner's experiences with orchestras spanned three decades, he would have witnessed growth of the orchestra's size and the introduction of new instruments, which clearly influenced his decisions when he composed and revised each work. Venzago performs the Symphony No. 8 in C minor with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, following the 1890 version and employing the same instrumentation and ensemble scale, as well as traditional practices that are documented in performances from that period. The result is an Eighth that sounds strikingly different from the other symphonies, quite far removed from the early Romantic orchestra he used in the First, and considerably expanded from the ensembles he would have expected for the Fourth or even the Seventh symphonies.
Josefine Göhmann & Mario Häring - RéBelles!: Portraits lyriques (2022)

Josefine Göhmann & Mario Häring - RéBelles!: Portraits lyriques (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | 01:08:59
Classical, Vocal | Label: Solo Musica

For the German-Chilean soprano Josefine Göhmann , diversity in subject and era forms the core of her artistic interest with a stylistic range from late Renaissance to Mozart, Strauss, Messiaen and contemporary music.
Mario Rossi, BBC Concert Orchestra - Verdi: Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2004)

Mario Rossi, BBC Concert Orchestra - Verdi: Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 845 Mb | Total time: 67:37+61:31+67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | # ORCV 303 | Recorded: 1969

Les Vêpres Siciliennes is one of Verdi’s misunderstood operas. It is usually presented to audiences today as I vespri Siciliani - that is, in a clumsy and pedestrian Italian translation and as such gives a false representation of Verdi’s original concept. This opera was composed for the Paris Opera to a libretto by Eugene Scribe, one of the greatest poets of the day and Charles Duveyrier. Verdi embraces the French idiom – the musical forms, the orchestration, the vocal writing – with the same grandeur and sense of occasion as Rossini and Meyerbeer before him. Certainly to give an opera in translation is no crime but to continually deprive the public of this particularly beautiful marriage of text and music is close to criminal. This is the third in the Verdi Originals series and this BBC recording of the opera finally restores the original French libretto.