The Absolute Sound 2022

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Herbert Blomstedt - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 26, 2023

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Herbert Blomstedt - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 80:37 minutes | 1,42 GB
Classical | Label: Pentatone, Official Digital Download

Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig close their acclaimed PENTATONE Brahms cycle with the composer’s Third and Fourth Symphonies. Compared to the epic First and gloomily pastoral Second, Brahms’s Third Symphony is a glorious exploration of the chamber-musical possibilities of the symphony orchestra. While musical variation of elementary motifs already plays an important role in this work, Brahms shows his absolute mastery of that technique even more impressively in The Fourth.

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Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Grounation (Remastered) (1973/2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 12, 2024

Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Grounation (Remastered) (1973/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 85:36 minutes | 956 MB
World, Reggae, Jazz | Label: Soul Jazz Records, Official Digital Download

An unimpeachable classic considered to be the pinnacle of Rastafarian inspired music. Master drummer Count Ossie's band, including the incomparable tenor saxophonist Cedric 'I'm' Brooks, recreate a Rasta grounation, or gathering, playing and chanting a sublime supplication, including Bible readings, in praise of Emperor Haile Selassie I.

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Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Grounation (Remastered) (1973/2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 12, 2024

Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Grounation (Remastered) (1973/2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 521 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 196 Mb | 01:25:36
World, Reggae, Jazz | Label: Soul Jazz Records

An unimpeachable classic considered to be the pinnacle of Rastafarian inspired music. Master drummer Count Ossie's band, including the incomparable tenor saxophonist Cedric 'I'm' Brooks, recreate a Rasta grounation, or gathering, playing and chanting a sublime supplication, including Bible readings, in praise of Emperor Haile Selassie I.

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Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Anja Harteros - Verdi - La Traviata (2008/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Sept. 11, 2024

Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Anja Harteros - Verdi - La Traviata (2008/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:01:06 minutes | 1,93 GB
Classical, Opera | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Farao Classic's recording of La Traviata is revelatory, largely because of the extraordinary quality of the principals who, until this release, were largely unknown to international audiences.

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Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at March 31, 2022

Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 46:23 minutes | 603 MB
Country | Label: The Valory Music Co., Official Digital Download

You can count on a few things from a new Thomas Rhett record: You'll hear about his love of his wife and his love of alcohol. And, lately, he's also guaranteed to stress his country bona fides.

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Benjamin Bernheim - Boulevard des Italiens (2022) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at April 7, 2022

Benjamin Bernheim's latest album Boulevard des Italiens documents more than 100 years of Italian opera in France. Music ranging from Spontini's La Vestale to Mascagni's Amica is sung here by the tenor in French, his native tongue. "We wanted to trace the history of French in Paris opera houses through all these Italian composers who had their pieces performed there," Bernheim says. "Between the Opéra Garnier and the Opéra-Comique, this history became music - the Boulevard des Italiens is its setting." The album will be released by Deutsche Grammophon on April 8, 2022. From the beginning of the 19th century until well into the 20th, Paris was the opera capital of Europe. The metropolis attracted Italian composers in particular, because it was cosmopolitan and its townsfolk loved stage singing. Thus, an intensive exchange developed between the French and Italian theatrical traditions.

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Tuscan Guitar Duo - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcription for 2 Guitars by Emilio Ghezzi) (2022) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 22, 2022

Tuscan Guitar Duo - Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Transcription for 2 Guitars by Emilio Ghezzi) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 85:37 minutes | 1,58 GB
Classical | Label: Da Vinci Classics, Official Digital Download

Bach’s Clavier Übung is a good example of an understatement. Übung means exercise, practice; if one were to judge the book by its cover, the obvious deduction would be that Bach’s Clavier Übung is a set of finger exercises, in the fashion of Hanon or Czerny. To be sure, Domenico Scarlatti’s magnificent keyboard Sonatas are likewise called Essercizii, “exercises”; and they are far from a dry form of gymnastics for fingers. Moreover, etymologically “exercitium” relates to training in the martial arts (from exercitus, the army); thus, it was also a training in virtue. The Latin word virtus is at the root of its English translation, “virtue”, but is also related to vir, man (the soldier, the hero), and to “virtuosity”, which today indicates also technical prowess and musical accomplishment.

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Beady Belle - Nothing but the Truth (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 26, 2022

Beady Belle - Nothing but the Truth (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 49:04 minutes | 521 MB
Vocal Jazz, R'n'B, Soul | Label: Jazzland Recordings, Official Digital Download

Funky soul backbeats, irresistible grooves, timeless electronic elements, angelic harmonies and that perfect voice delivering emotional lyrics with absolute sincerity: it can only be Beady Belle. 'Nothing But the Truth' is not only an album consolidating Beady's work, from 'Home' to the present, but a clear indicator that her restless musical spirit is only intensifying its searches and an exciting future is already arriving. The album marks the 20th anniversary of a career that has been defined by quality, reinvention, and innovation, filled with memorable songs of diverse moods, styles and motivations, all unified by one of the most cherished voices to come out of the seemingly infinite Norwegian music scene.

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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Herbert Blomstedt - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 10, 2022

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Herbert Blomstedt - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 364 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 195 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:20:37
Classical | Label: Pentatone

Maestro Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig close their acclaimed PENTATONE Brahms cycle with the composer’s Third and Fourth Symphonies. Compared to the epic First and gloomily pastoral Second, Brahms’s Third Symphony is a glorious exploration of the chamber-musical possibilities of the symphony orchestra. While musical variation of elementary motifs already plays an important role in this work, Brahms shows his absolute mastery of that technique even more impressively in The Fourth. Blomstedt’s keen eye for analytical detail never goes at the cost of the music’s emotional resonance, and the Gewandhausorchester plays these symphonies glowingly, demonstrating their extraordinary ensemble sound.

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Groupe de recherches musicales de l'ORTF - Xenakis- Bohor, Diamorphoses, Orient-Occident & Concret PH (2022) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at May 20, 2022

Groupe de recherches musicales de l'ORTF - Xenakis- Bohor, Diamorphoses, Orient-Occident & Concret PH (2022) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:01 minutes | 1,55 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Iannis Xenakis’ commitment to musique concrete is a lesser-known aspect of his work but had a decisive influence on many composers. He notably worked with Pierre Schaeffer’s Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) at the French national radio at the end of the 50s and created memorable electroacoustic works, first put on record a few years later, and which we have digitized and remastered in high resolution!

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