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Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at July 26, 2022

Emerson String Quartet - R. Schumann- String Quartets Nos. 1-3, Op. 41 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:16:38 minutes | 1,46 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The Emerson String Quartet makes its PENTATONE debut with a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets. Penned in the summer of 1842 during an exceptional peak of creativity, these quartets formed the beginning of a six-month surge during which most of Schumann’s best chamber music saw the light.

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Danish String Quartet - Prism IV (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 25, 2023

The Danish String Quartet's Grammy-nominated Prism project, linking Bach fugues, Beethoven quartets and works by later masters, receives its fourth installment. The penultimate volume of the series combines Bach's Fugue in G minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel Aloys Frster) with Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132 and Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No.2 (composed in 1827). As Paul Griffiths observes in the liner notes, these pieces "sound all the more remarkable for the exquisite brilliance and precision of the Danish players".

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Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 8, 2023

Takács Quartet - Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks) - 273 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 MB
1:07:51 | Classical | Label: Hyperion

If this premiere recording of Stephen Hough’s String Quartet No 1 may be regarded as definitive—the work is dedicated to the Takács Quartet—those of the quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux are no less distinguished.Dedicated ‘à mon cher maître Gabriel Fauré’, Maurice Ravel’s only string quartet was started in 1902. On 30 April that year he had attended the first performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and immediately afterwards set about preparing for the Prix de Rome—a prize he was fated never to win despite repeated attempts between 1900 and 1905. In the autumn he undertook a project for a fellow composer, Frederick Delius, who asked him to make a piano–vocal score of the opera Margot la Rouge. He then got to work on the String Quartet, and the first two movements were finished in December 1902, according to Ravel’s note on the last page of the second movement in the autograph score.

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Waxwing - A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists (2015) Music

Posted by mark70 at Feb. 19, 2016

Waxwing - A Bowl of Sixty Taxidermists (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 55:41 min | 130 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Songlines

“The music is dreamlike, with the often effects-laden guitar playing a key role in the direction of the ensemble. Lee’s distinguished creative voice provides strength and flexibility, with a sound that is firm in the most delicate of textures and driving in the most rambunctious moments.” – Wilbur MacKenzie, AllAboutJazz (Reviewing Escondido Dreams)

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Magma - Zühn Wöhl Ünsaï - Live 1974 (2014) Music

Posted by v3122 at July 19, 2020

Magma - Zühn Wöhl Ünsaï - Live 1974 (2014)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | MIG-Music, 01102 | ~ 674 or 211 Mb | Scans(png, 600dpi) -> 327 Mb
Progressive Rock / Zeuhl

Recorded by Radio Bremen, this double-CD document of a high sonic quality contains a slightly shorter than usual version of MEKANÏK DESTRUKTÏẀ KOMMANDÖH, and represents with the remaining tracks SOWILOI, DRUM SOLO and THEUSZ HAMTAAHK an indispensable supplement to MAGMA's other live albums…

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Schumann Quartett - Landscapes (2017) Music

Posted by Pisulik at March 12, 2017

Schumann Quartett - Landscapes (2017)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:05:43 | 127 MB
Label: Berlin Classics | Release Year: 2017

Berlin Classics is proud to present the Schumann Quartet, winners of the BBC Music Magazine 2016 Newcomer award. “Landscapes” is a journey in sound to the roots of the Schumann Quartet, a foursome made up of the three brothers Erik, Ken and Mark Schumann and the viola player Liisa Randalu. Four very different works contribute their personal stories to form a magical whole. At the album’s hub is Arvo Pärt’s composition “Fratres”, meaning “brothers”. The Schumann Quartet rehearsed the work with Pärt in Viimsi in Estonia and recorded it there. The personal contact with the composer came through Pärt’s Estonian compatriot Liisa Randalu.

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Anton Bruckner - Concertgebouworkest / George Szell - Symphony No. 8 in C (Originalfassung) (2001, recorded 1951) Music

Posted by luckburz at Feb. 21, 2014

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C (Originalfassung)
Concertgebouworkest / George Szell
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 134 MB | Full Artwork: 99 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Audiophile Classics # APL 101.556 | Country/Year: UK 2001
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…A stickler for perfection, Szell could at times seem almost absurdly stubborn, but he always aimed only to get the best results. His great expertise regarding instrumental techniques assisted him in this respect…

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Takacs Quartet - Schubert: Death and the Maiden (2006) Music

Posted by peotuvave at May 2, 2017

Hyperion’s Record of the Month for October marks the debut on the label by the Takács Quartet. After seventeen years recording for Decca, including multi-awarding-winning cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Bartók, this thrilling ensemble is now embarking on a new relationship with Hyperion; future projects will include works by Brahms, Janácek and Schumann. Schubert’s famous String Quartet, D810, subtitled ‘Death and the Maiden’, is one of the pillars of the repertoire. This new performance is electrifying, and was recorded following a global concert series, enthusiastically welcomed in the press: ‘The Takács’ reading of the second movement was characterized by unremitting pain and mystery.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel - Celebrating John Williams (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at March 15, 2019

Los Angeles Philharmonic & Gustavo Dudamel - Celebrating John Williams (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:13 minutes | 1.90 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and Deutsche Grammophon, the world’s leading classical music label, are set to extend their long history of making music together. They will now build on a relationship that has already produced benchmark recordings of works by Mahler and John Adams, among others, and seen orchestra and conductor play key roles in the visionary “DG Concerts” initiative, which allowed music-lovers rapid virtual access to live LA Phil concerts.

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David Abel & Julie Steinberg - Beethoven & Enescu: Violin Sonatas (1983) [Analogue Productions 2017] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at May 15, 2020

Perhaps the most transcendent of David Wilson's brilliant recordings, this remarkable LP of solo violin accompanied by piano comes as close to putting the two performers in the listening room as any ever made. Recorded on Wilson's Ultramaster Recorder, built by John Curl, and using a spaced-pair of Schoeps microphones driving vacuum tube electronics, the recording has a close perspective which heightens transparency and engagement as well as wonderfully capturing the beautiful tonality of Abel's Guarnerius violin and Steinberg's Hamburg Steinway without exaggerating their size. The duo performs these works as if they are one. Stereophile's "Recording of the Month" February 1984.

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