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Nicolas Dary Quartet - U Babbu (2014) {Gaya}

Nicolas Dary Quartet - U Babbu (2014) {Gaya}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 234MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 98MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

Cette nouvelle formation en quartet offre à Nicolas plus de liberté d’improvisations, détail qui a son importance lorsque l’on travaille avec un artiste comme Joe, personnage fantasque, virtuose et imprévisible. La musique oscille entre swing, bop et modal. Les influences se promènent entre Dexter Gordon et Sonny Rollins pour le ténor et Charlie Parker et Jackie Mc Lean pour l’alto.
Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)

Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 334 MB | 01:19:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha

For some listeners, the music of the Second Viennese School is still a stumbling block, due to the complexity of techniques and the intense expressionism found in the innovative works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. However, this 2015 release by the Belcea Quartet is notable for the relative accessibility of its program, which reflects the profound emotional impulses at the heart of the music, perhaps most apparent in Schoenberg's passionate string sextet, Verklärte Nacht (1899), and Webern's poignant Langsamer Satz for string quartet (1905).
Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)

Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 334 MB | 01:19:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha

For some listeners, the music of the Second Viennese School is still a stumbling block, due to the complexity of techniques and the intense expressionism found in the innovative works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. However, this 2015 release by the Belcea Quartet is notable for the relative accessibility of its program, which reflects the profound emotional impulses at the heart of the music, perhaps most apparent in Schoenberg's passionate string sextet, Verklärte Nacht (1899), and Webern's poignant Langsamer Satz for string quartet (1905).
Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)

Belcea Quartet, Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 334 MB | 01:19:24
Genre: Classical | Label: Alpha

For some listeners, the music of the Second Viennese School is still a stumbling block, due to the complexity of techniques and the intense expressionism found in the innovative works of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. However, this 2015 release by the Belcea Quartet is notable for the relative accessibility of its program, which reflects the profound emotional impulses at the heart of the music, perhaps most apparent in Schoenberg's passionate string sextet, Verklärte Nacht (1899), and Webern's poignant Langsamer Satz for string quartet (1905).
Karl-Martin Almqvist Ababhemu Quartet - The Travelers (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Karl-Martin Almqvist Ababhemu Quartet - The Travelers (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 44:16 minutes | 854 MB
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Ropeadope Records, Official Digital Download

We are honored to present a transcendent collaboration between four musicians who begin from different places but arrive as one. Karl-Martin Almqvist, Nduduzo Makhathini, Magne Thormodsæter, and Ayanda Sikade form Ababhemu Quartet, and present their new album The Travelers on April 19, 2024. The seeds of the quartet were planted while recording Makhathini’s ‘Listening To The Ground’ album years ago, and finally the band is in full force with a powerful statement of unity.
Bernardo Santos & Belem Quartet - Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintets (2022)

Bernardo Santos & Belem Quartet - Camille Saint-Saëns, Antonín Dvořák: Piano Quintets (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 344 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | 01:13:21
Classical | Label: Da Vinci Classics

Concepts such as evolution and progress are hardly fitting when considering the history of the arts. Each period and place has its own language, which borrows from what had preceded it, paves the way for what will follow, but also rejects some elements of the past and will be partly rejected by the future. Forms and genres prized by one generation are forgotten by the following, and new styles become fashionable in place of the preceding ones. Each of them may produce – and normally does – great masterpieces, which influence in turn what will happen in the future decades.
Nicolas Montier and Saxomania - Lullaby (1991) [Japan 2015] SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Nicolas Montier and Saxomania - Lullaby (1991) [Japan 2015]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:27 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 1,81 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,61 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 710 MB

Nicolas Montier may not be well known in the U.S., but he is a masterful tenor saxophonist based in France. In a somewhat rare move, Venus Records of Japan has reissued this fantastic album which was recorded in 1991. Of course, it was remixed and remastered to Venus' high standards to achieve great sound. Featured on this album is Montier and his quartet, plus a four-saxophone ensemble called Saxomania. The album contains many lullabies, as the title indicates, but some are played in medium-to-up tempo. Firmly rooted in the mainstream jazz tradition, the band swings very well. The arrangements for a total of five saxophones are consistently brilliant, and Montier's playing is inspired and impressive.
Belcea Quartet - Berg, Webern & Schonberg: Chamber Music (2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Belcea Quartet - Berg, Webern & Schönberg: Chamber Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 79:32 minutes | 2,78 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 79:32 minutes | 1,36 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

With a complete recording of the Beethoven quartets that caused a stir and enchanted concert halls everywhere, the Belcea Quartet is henceforth considered one of the finest quartets in the world. With this new recording, the Quartet tackles another summit of chamber music: the Second Viennese School. With their passion and technical abilities, this breathtaking music, which drastically changed the history of music, rings out in all its force and mystery.
William Christie, Cappella Coloniensis - Étienne-Nicolas Méhul: Stratonice (1996)

William Christie, Cappella Coloniensis - Étienne-Nicolas Méhul: Stratonice (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 61:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0630-12714-2 | Recorded: 1995

Mehul was the most famous French composer in the time of the Revolution, Consulate and Empire, praised by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Weber and Berlioz, and lauded to the skies by Cherubini, who called Stratonice (the fifth of his 35 operas) “a work of genius, Mehul’s masterpiece”. Nor was he alone in this opinion, since in Paris alone it was performed over 200 times during the next quarter of a century, though withdrawn during the Reign of Terror because of the finale praising royal compassion. The opera – comique only in the sense of including spoken dialogue – is serious in tone (as the grave and dramatic overture presages): based on a classical subject, it tells how Seleucus, King of Syria, engages a doctor (Erasistrate) to cure his son Antiochus’s suicidal depression, which is in fact caused by his love for his father’s fiancee, the Princess Stratonice.
Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson - Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)

Eusebius Quartet & Alasdair Beatson - Korngold: Chamber Works (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 246 MB | Cover | 01:08:29 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 159 MB
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings

Hailed by musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky as “the very last breath of the romantic spirit of Vienna”, Korngold’s stellar beginnings in Europe’s concert halls and opera houses were later overshadowed by his success in America where his soaring symphonic signature forged the template for the Hollywood soundtrack. But, as Korngold authority Brendan G. Carroll notes in his informative booklet essay, the composer’s “relatively small body of chamber works… is no less impressive and actually offers a succinct distillation of his style and voice, often to considerably profound effect”.