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Richard Whiteman - Old Prose (2020) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 17, 2020
Richard Whiteman - Old Prose (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Richard Whiteman - Old Prose (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 64:44 minutes | 737 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Toronto native Richard Whiteman is an extremely versatile player, fluent in styles ranging from the stride masters of the twenties, through Bud Powell and Bill Evans, to modern giants like Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock. As a leader, he has released five CDs (with a sixth on the way), and has received raves from as far away as Japan, where his “GROOVEYARD” disc was rated one of the Top 500 Jazz Piano Trio records of all time.

Richard Stamp - Strauss - Copland (2020) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Dec. 16, 2020
Richard Stamp - Strauss - Copland (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Richard Stamp - Strauss - Copland (2020) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 75:05 minutes | 697 MB
Classical | Label: Signum Records, Official Digital Download

The four works on this album, all composed in the 1940s, embrace the lingering end of one musical tradition and the vigorous upsurge of another. Mellifluous, retrospective and playful, the Duet Concertino and Prelude to Capriccio were works of Richard Strauss’s Indian Summer – an old man’s refuge from the barbarism of war and its aftermath. What the public thought of them was incidental, even irrelevant.

Richard Koch Quartett - Stadt (2020) {XJazz}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Nov. 21, 2020
Richard Koch Quartett - Stadt (2020) {XJazz}

Richard Koch Quartett - Stadt (2020) {XJazz}
WEB | FLAC tracks | Front | 249MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 103MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Fusion

„The grass is greener on the other side“ scheint der künstlerische Leitspruch von dem österreichischen Ausnahmetrompeter aus Berlin - Richard Koch - zu sein. Dabei wohnt er streng genommen gar nicht mehr in Berlin, sondern ist im letzten Winter ins Umland in eine Brandenburgische Landkommune – 40 km von der Hauptstadt entfernt - gezogen. Doch zum Musizieren zieht es ihn nach wie vor in die Stadt, wo er u.a. mit Nils Frahm, Jimi Tenor, Peter Fox oder den Beatsteaks Platten aufnimmt und Konzerte bestreitet. Insofern passt es, dass er das zweite Studio-Album seines Quartetts, das am 06.11.2020 bei XJAZZ Music erscheint, „Stadt“ genannt hat. Sein Debütalbum in der Funktion als Bandleader aus dem Jahre 2018 nannte er „Wald“, komponiert wurde es aber auf der niederländischen Insel Vlieland und Koch reiste mit dem Album im Gepäck schließlich bis nach Athen.
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)

Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:13:03 | 369 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles

To say that André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's 1784 comic opera, Richard Coeur de Lion, has a lot to answer for is something of an understatement, when it was its popular Act I air, “O Richard, O my King”, which in 1789 accidentally brought about one of the defining moments of the French Revolution: the air is sung by the imprisoned King Richard's knights who want to free him, and one night in 1789 it became the song French officers chose to sing to King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette under house arrest at Versailles after the couple turned up to greet the officers at a banquet thrown in the Royal Opera House; which in turn got interpreted by the Paris press as an anti-revolutionary act, leading to the palace being stormed and the royal couple taken away, never to return.
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)

Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 395 Mb | Total time: 73:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | # CVS028 | Recorded: 2019

André Grétry's Richard Coeur de Lion, or Richard the Lionhearted, lay neglected until 2019 when a production by the Opéra Royal de Versailles was mounted. This album is taken from that performance, and it's very well recorded indeed. The opera was quite well known in its time and was even performed in the young U.S. (in Boston, in 1796), and it's a great find, a real crowd-pleaser as much today as at the end of the 18th century. The story is based on a probably imaginary tale of an episode during Richard's return from the Crusades, when he was imprisoned in Linz, Austria. A trouvère singer named Blondel who serves the king realizes his predicament, sneaks into the prison disguised as a blind fiddler, and touches off an action-packed sequence of events with a romance involving the prison governor, a grand party, and a visiting Flemish countess whose troops rescue Richard in the end.

Muhal Richard Abrams - Celestial Birds (2020)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Feb. 20, 2020
Muhal Richard Abrams - Celestial Birds (2020)

Muhal Richard Abrams - Celestial Birds (2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 246 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 MB | 00:41:52
Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Karlrecords

The compilation "Celestial Birds" reveals and focuses on the widely unkown electronic compositions of the AACM founder and jazz pianist MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS. #5 in the Perihel Series, curated by zeitkratzer director REINHOLD FRIEDL. "Celestial Birds" casts a new light on the underrated experimenter MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS, his innovative approach to composition and pieces that lay dormant for way too long!
Sir Richard Bishop - Oneiric Formulary (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Sir Richard Bishop - Oneiric Formulary (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 40:41 minutes | 407 MB
Folk, Guitar, American Primitivism, Experimental | Label: Drag City, Official Digital Download

The Sir Richard Bishop show is back in town, alive as ever with exotic action, plus a bit of everything but the kitchen sink. Oneiric Formulary is the sound of surprise – first Sir Rick being surprised, then us! Not simply by six-string acoustic rags ‘n ragas, but departures as well into electric guitar, keyboard tricks, avant atmosphere, and even a reedy eastern knees-up! The Bish like you've never heard him before.
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)

Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry: Richard Cœur de Lion (2020)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Francais (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | | 90 min | 4,93 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles | Sub: Francais, English, Deutsch | Recorded: 2019

André Grétry's Richard Coeur de Lion, or Richard the Lionhearted, lay neglected until 2019 when a production by the Opéra Royal de Versailles was mounted. This album is taken from that performance, and it's very well recorded indeed. The opera was quite well known in its time and was even performed in the young U.S. (in Boston, in 1796), and it's a great find, a real crowd-pleaser as much today as at the end of the 18th century. The story is based on a probably imaginary tale of an episode during Richard's return from the Crusades, when he was imprisoned in Linz, Austria.
Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem - Richard Strauss: Cello Sonatas (2020)

Raphaela Gromes & Julian Riem - Richard Strauss: Cello Sonatas (2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 327 MB | Cover | 01:11:22 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 173 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Mit ihrem letzten Album "Offenbach" eroberte die hochgelobte Münchner Cellistin Raphaela Gromes bereits Platz 3 der deutschen Klassik-Charts und schaffte es auch auf die Bestenliste 3/2019 des Preises der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Jetzt erscheint ihr neues Album mit einer Sensation: Der Ersteinspielung einer bisher unveröffentlichten Cellosonate von Richard Strauss. Die populäre Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier op. 6 von Richard Strauss von 1883 galt bisher als seine einzige Cellosonate. Was bislang nicht bekannt war: Sie war tatsächlich seine zweite Cellosonate. Denn Richard Strauss schrieb zuvor, nämlich 1881 als 16-jähriger die jetzt erstmal eingespielte Sonate F-Dur für Clavier und Violoncello, ursprünglich für einen Kompositionswettbewerb.

Ch5. - Cliff Richard: The Christmas King (2020)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Dec. 26, 2020
Ch5. - Cliff Richard: The Christmas King (2020)

Ch5. - Cliff Richard: The Christmas King (2020)
HDTV | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2323 Kbps | 1 h 7 min | 1.15 GiB
Audio: English AAC 123 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Wonderous documentary about the beloved Sir Cliff.