Suite ON Polish Themes

Polish Violin Duo - Spisak, Bacewicz, Weinberg, Paciorkiewicz (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Polish Violin Duo - Spisak, Bacewicz, Weinberg, Paciorkiewicz (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:05 minutes | 1,24 GB
Classical | Label: DUX, Official Digital Download

This new release from DUX presents 20th century works for violin duo by Polish composers, performed here by Polish violinists Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Laguniak. Among the composers whose works we can hear on the album, Grazyna Bacewicz occupies a prominent place. Both her Suite for Two Violins (1943) and Easy Duets on Folk Themes for Two Violins (1945), meant for didactic purposes, charm with Bacewicz's typical precision and clarity of structure and interesting melodies.
Polish Violin Duo - Spisak, Bacewicz, Weinberg, Paciorkiewicz (2023)

Polish Violin Duo - Spisak, Bacewicz, Weinberg, Paciorkiewicz (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:05
Classical | Label: DUX

This new release from DUX presents 20th century works for violin duo by Polish composers, performed here by Polish violinists Marta Gidaszewska and Robert Laguniak. Among the composers whose works we can hear on the album, Grazyna Bacewicz occupies a prominent place. Both her Suite for Two Violins (1943) and Easy Duets on Folk Themes for Two Violins (1945), meant for didactic purposes, charm with Bacewicz's typical precision and clarity of structure and interesting melodies. The Sonatina for Two Violins by Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz also refers to Neoclassicism, although the harmony of the piece is more complex, and its expressive values differ from the subdued emotions typical of that era. The next composition, Michal Spisak's Suite for Two Violins, also deviates from the Neoclassical model; despite its declarative title, it is a mysterious work with the narrative element in the dominant role. The last piece presented, Sonata for Two Violins, is a work by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a Polish composer of Jewish origin whose music is currently being discovered after years of neglect.
Krzysztof Herdzin - The Book of Secrets (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Krzysztof Herdzin - The Book of Secrets (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Time - 53:44 minutes | 1 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

We invite you to a concert from the "Good Evening Jazz" series, at which the artistic supervisor of this series, namely Krzysztof Herdzin, will perform! He will present the audience with songs from the album "The Book of Secrets", which will be premiered on that day. Krzysztof Herdzin will perform with the accompaniment of the great American saxophonist Rick Margitza and friends, permanent musicians of his trio - Robert Kubiszyn and Cezary Konrad.
VA - 3rd International Competition of Polish Music (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Aka Duo, Reverie Piano Duo, Quintessence, Shoven Quartet, Silesian Wind Quintet & Metropolis Piano Quartet - 3rd International Competition of Polish Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 157:38 minutes | 552 MB
Classical | Label: DUX, Official Digital Download

The International Competition of Polish Music provides an extraordinary opportunity to immerse oneself in the oeuvre of Polish composers. The task the participants face may seem breakneck—the pieces presented during the auditions are often at the margin of the concert repertoire, and sometimes they are completely unknown. Therefore, participation in the competition requires performers to prepare a completely new programme and to dis- cover works that do not exist in the common consciousness of music lovers or even professional musicians. Moreover, playing only Polish music may seem a… boring task. Is it actually so?
Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition - His Teldec & EMI Classics Recordings [70CD Box Set] (2022)

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition - His Teldec & EMI Classics Recordings [70CDs Box Set] (2022)
MP3 320 kbps | Run Time: 71 hours 26 minutes 14 seconds | 9.66 GB
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Kurt Masur's achievement is defined above all by his relationships with two orchestras exemplifying vastly different traditions. Having spent some 20 years as Kapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, which traces it's roots to the 15th century, he became the transformational music director of the New York Philharmonic, an embodiment of the New World. Through all this, his musical integrity remained consistent. As the New York Times wrote: "He brought to the podium the ardent conviction that music-making was a moral act that could heal the world." Masur himself put things more simply: "My goal is meaningful playing… What counts is to be able to communicate the composer's meaning to the audience… When I conduct Beethoven, I wouldn't like to replace Beethoven. He should be in your mind, not me." This 70CD set consolidates the entirety of the catalogues that Masur built for EMI and Teldec between 1974 and 2009.
Aldo Romano - Complete Communion To Don Cherry (2010) {Dreyfus Jazz FDM 46050369662}

Aldo Romano - Complete Communion To Don Cherry (2010) {Dreyfus Jazz FDM 46050369662}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 357 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 119 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 30 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2010 Dreyfus Jazz | FDM 46050369662
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Drums

Just released, 15 years after Don Cherry's death, and 45 years after the release of the original "Complete Communion", this French band gives its interpretation of the suite, on the initiative of master drummer Aldo Romano, with master bassist Henri Texier on bass, and with a young horn front with Géraldine Laurent on sax and Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet.

VA - 100 Best 20th Century Classics (2009)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 20, 2018
VA - 100 Best 20th Century Classics (2009)

VA - 100 Best 20th Century Classics (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 07:24:39 | 1,83 Gb
Classical | Label: Warner Classics, EMI Records

It's a tall order to compile the best classical music of the twentieth century, but EMI has selected its top 100 classics for this six-disc set, and it's difficult to argue with most of the choices. Without taking sides in the great ideological debates of the modern era – traditionalist vs. avant-garde, tonal vs. atonal, styles vs. schools, and so on – the label has picked the composers whose reputations seem most secure at the turn of the twenty-first century and has chosen representative excerpts of their music. Certainly, the titans of modernism are here, such as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Béla Bartók, Dmitry Shostakovich, Sergey Prokofiev, Claude Debussy, and Benjamin Britten, to name just a few masters, but they don't cast such a large shadow that they eclipse either their more backward-looking predecessors or their more experimental successors.

Confusion Project - Primal (2018)  Music

Posted by Domestos at May 30, 2018
Confusion Project - Primal (2018)

Confusion Project - Primal (2018)
MP3 CBR 320kbps ~ 121.04 Mb | WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 266.29 Mb | 52:19 | Cover
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion | Country: Poland | Label: Soliton - SL 800-2

This is the third album by Polish Jazz trio called Confusion Project, led by pianist/composer Michał Ciesielski, with electric bassist Piotr Gierszewski and drummer Adam Golicki. The album presents an eleven part suite, which is based on a concept story of Naturalist motif, composed and arranged by the leader. The album, which was recorded at the Monochrom Studio and engineered by Ignacy Gruszecki, offers a superb sound quality, which should delight the Hi-Fi enthusiasts.
Marek Napiorkowski - Up (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Marek Napiórkowski - Up! (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 56:52 minutes | 1,14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

UP! is an unprecedented piece of work in the history of Polish jazz – Marek Napiórkowski's dreams came true, realized on a huge scale, an effect of his search for artistic and life's truths, declaration of a grown up man who doesn't wish to look back. The album has been well acclaimed by critics, audience, as well as the music industry, the effect of which was a nomination for the prestigious FRYDERYK Prize in Jazz Album Of The Year category.

VA - Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Volume 3 (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 25, 2024
VA - Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Volume 3 (2024)

VA - Landmarks of Recorded Pianism, Volume 3 (2024)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 412 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 392 Mb | Scans included | 02:38:20
Classical | Label: Marston Records

This two-CD set is volume 3 in the Landmarks of Recorded Pianism series, and comprises piano solos, concerti, and two spoken reminiscences. Producers Gregor Benko and Ward Marston have selected these recordings because of their intrinsic musical and historic importance, hoping that they will merit the attention of music lovers, scholars, and collectors. Most of the offerings in this set will be completely new to collectors and enthusiasts since they are available here for the first time.