Sovereign Lines

Thomas Sauer - Sovereign Lines (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 4, 2021

Thomas Sauer - Sovereign Lines (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 1:08:01 | 196 / 156 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Azica Records

“It cannot be easy to write for solo piano: so many magnificent sounds of the 18th and 19th centuries abide in the ears of today’s pianists and concertgoers. By including some of his favorite Chopin miniatures alongside three major piano pieces from the 1990’s, Thomas Sauer could well stand accused of an all-too-common reluctance to break from the past. He prefers to treat with this vexed situation pragmatically, acknowledging the reality that most of his listeners will perceive the new refracted through the lens of the old, and that some will simply be more inclined to keep listening when given a dose of the familiar together with the strange. All three recent works recorded here bear some imprint of the pianistic past - each in a different way - and yet all three successfully outrun it.

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The Orlando Consort - Guillaume de Machaut: Sovereign Beauty (2017) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 17, 2023

Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most influential composers of the 14th century, and his secular love songs were as significant as his sacred masterpiece, the Messe de Nostre Dame. The Orlando Consort began its survey of Machaut's music with the 2013 album, Songs from Le Voir Dit, which was followed by The Dart of Love in 2015, and A Burning Heart in 2016, thus making Sovereign Beauty, their 2017 release on Hyperion, the fourth installment in this impressive series.

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Maria Radutu - Phoenix (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 14, 2020

Maria Radutu - Phoenix (2020)
FLAC tracks | 60:08 | 153 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Hello Stage

Maria Radutu’s new piano solo album Phoenix is her answer to the ques- tion: how do you create a musical rebirth? We travel the path from the volatile youth, accelerating into a storm of flaming destruction, leading the way to a new world of musical styles and the sovereign maturity that illuminates different perspectives and opens up new experiences.

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Kristof Barati - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006 (2009) 2 CDs, Reissue 2013 [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Designol at June 2, 2021

The star of the young Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti is quickly rising. Having won several important international competitions (the most recent first prize at the prestigious Paganini Competition in Moscow) he plays with important orchestras and conductors, like Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Iván Fischer, Yuri Temirkanov and Marek Janowski. His recent recording of Beethoven’s complete violin sonatas with Klára Würtz received rave reviews: “5 stars…a great duo, comparable with Perlman/Ashkenazy, Grumiaux/Haskil, Ferras/Barbizet’ (Diapason), “A talent that comes along once in a decade, perhaps once in a generation, I don’t say it lightly, but once you’ve heard Baráti and Würtz you’ll never listen to anyone else again” (Fanfare). This recording of the great solo Bach was issued on Berlin Classics in 2009, and shows the sovereign command over the matter, and a deep understanding of the spirit of these masterworks.

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Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra & Leonardo García Alarcón - Handel: Solomon (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 17, 2023

Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra & Leonardo García Alarcón - Handel: Solomon (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:31:35 | 741 / 353 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label:Ricercar

Handel’s oratorio Solomon is now regarded by its performers and its listeners as one of his greatest compositions. This was not, however, always the case. Solomon was not performed outside of London during Handel’s lifetime, an unusual occurrence during his British career. The work had therefore enjoyed only a limited success, although we may well wonder why, when oratorios sung in English had been so successful until then. Could it have been the obvious lack of theatricality in the libretto, or the public’s growing indifference to the genre? Or was he afraid to alienate the Anglican church, given the rumours of lines with erotic connotations in the first and third acts? Here, Leonardo García Alarcón and his singers and instrumentalists offer us a flamboyant version of the work that would certainly have won over the most hesitant of London listeners in 1749!

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Maurizio Pollini - Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes (2005) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 14, 2024

Pollini's traversal of Chopin's 19 Nocturnes (he leaves out the pair of posthumous ones) is one of his finest recordings in years. His long-lined yet detailed performances are comparable to the very different ones that have long stood at the pinnacle of recorded sets. Not as serene as Artur Rubinstein's, not as philosophical as Claudio Arrau's, nor as warm as Ivan Moravec's, Pollini's interpretations have their own allure. One is the way he shapes the melodies with a natural flow enhanced by his tonal beauty, less lean and streamlined than his usual way with Romantic music.

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Heavy Chills - Heavy Chills (2017) Music

Posted by Domestos at Jan. 10, 2018

The present year of 2017 is approaching its announced end, but it does not, however, condition the birth of new and remarkable launches that continue to pile up. This time I'm talking about Heavy Chills' powerful debut album (and debut!): A young and auspicious Austin-based (Texas, USA) power-trio that promises to tease and battle for a top spot among the top best albums of the year. Released this past December 4 in digital format through its official Bandcamp page (but with the vinyl release planned and scheduled for next year 2018), this eponymous album boasts an intriguing, obscure, sovereign and electrifying Heavy Psych of Sabbathic features and dances that shadows us, hypnotizes and terrifies us with bold authority and celerity.

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