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David Murray Quartet - Francesca (2024) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at May 21, 2024

David Murray Quartet - Francesca (2024) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 74:10 minutes | 763 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Tenor saxophonist David Murray, the giant of modern jazz, fuses all the great things that black music has produced: Gospel sounds, free jazz, Afro-Caribbean, blues, soul as well as the beautiful standards of classic jazz.

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Barre Phillips - Call Me When You Get There (1984/2018) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 31, 2018

Barre Phillips - Call Me When You Get There (1984/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 40:07 minutes | 346 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

I’ve said it before, but Barre Phillips is one of ECM’s brightest stars, though one would never know it by the solemnity of his genius. Glowing with a pale fire that can be drawn only in cosmic pigments, his sound-world on Call me when you get there throbs as if Michael Galasso and David Darling had fused into a collaborative quasar. The opening “Grants Pass” would seem to have been written in the margins of Steve Reich’s Different Trains, and works its gentle magic under the toenails of our foothold. Played on resonant multi-tracked instruments, this track stands as one of Phillips’s finest.

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Wolfgang Sawallisch - Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op.65 (1988/2018) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 22, 2018

Wolfgang Sawallisch - Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op.65 (1988/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 170:36 minutes | 1.69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

"The role that always suffers most is that of the Nurse, ostensibly because some of HofmannsthaI's most abstruse text is put into her mouth. It emerges here, in Hanna Schwarz's glorious performance, as one of Strauss's most memorable creations for the female voice, and if there were no other reasons (which there are) for hailing this EMI achievement, the Nurse would be enough.

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Alain Lefèvre, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra & Alexander Shelley - The Bounds of our Dreams (2018) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Oct. 2, 2018

Alain Lefèvre, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra & Alexander Shelley - The Bounds of our Dreams (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 94:22 minutes | 1.56 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Saluted by the international press, for his “phenomenal technique” (The Spectator), his “sovereign mastery” (Hamburger Abendblatt), his deep sensitivity and exhilarating personality, Alain Lefèvre is a pianist who “breaks the mold” (International PIANO, London), and most importantly, an artist who “truly stands out from the typical trends and artifices offered on the international scene” (Classica). Some of his interpretations were described as “unparalleled” (Westdeutsche Zeitung), and even unsurpassed “in memory” (Los Angeles Times).

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Bruno Walter - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" (Remastered) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 29, 2019

Bruno Walter - Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 52:02 minutes | 2.16 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

For many years Bruno Walter was a friend and collaborator of Gustav Mahler, and his interpretations of the composer’s symphonies are generally considered unsurpassed models. The „official“ studio recordings of Mahler’s works, however, were made towards the end of his life and perhaps do not give a good enough idea of the Bacchic frenzy that characterised the German conductor’s early interpretations of them. In this beautiful 1939 live recording, instead, the Bacchic frenzy is all there, fascinating from the first measures and reaching an apex in the powerful and impressive Finale.

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Sonny Rollins - Work Time (1954/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 7, 2022

Sonny Rollins - Work Time (1954/2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 33:02 minutes | 883 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

With all due respect to the other important tenor saxophonists of the 1950s, Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins was the tenor of those times. During the Eisenhower era, Rollins (b. 1930) forged a string of albums that can stand with the sustained work of any major improviser on any instrument. In particular, his recordings for several independent jazz labels, beginning with 1954’s Work Time - released on Prestige, his most frequent recording affiliation during this period.

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Julia Kociuban - Tansman & Bacewicz: Piano Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at April 1, 2020

Julia Kociuban, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra & Paweł Przytocki - Tansman & Bacewicz - Piano Concertos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:44 minutes | 773 MB
Classical | Label: DUX, Official Digital Download

This album by pianist Julia Kociuban includes the Piano Concertos of Alexandre Tansman and Grazyna Bacewicz. Pawel Przytocki conducts the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Carlo Maria Giulini - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 'Little Russian' - Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (2020) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by shamanicus at May 10, 2020

Philharmonia Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian" - Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (Remastered) (1958/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 41:58 | 897 mb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover

Carlo Maria Giulini was born in Barletta, Southern Italy in May 1914 with what appears to have been an instinctive love of music. As the town band rehearsed he could be seen peering through the ironwork of the balcony of his parents’ home, immovable and intent. The itinerant fiddlers who roamed the countryside during the lean years of the First World War also caught his ear. In 1919, the family moved to the South Tyrol, where the five-year-old Carlo asked his parents for "one of those things the street musicians play". Signor Giulini acquired a three-quarter size violin, setting in train a process which would take his son from private lessons with a kindly nun to violin studies with Remy Principe at Rome’s Academy of St Cecilia at the age of 16.

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Orchestre symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel - Respighi: Il tramonto (2015) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 27, 2023

Isabel Bayrakdarian, Orchestre Symphonique de Laval, Alain Trudel - Respighi: Il Tramonto (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:26 minutes | 1,07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This ATMA all-Respighi recording by the Orchestre symphonique de Laval is its first with current artistic director and principal conductor Alain Trudel. Canadian star soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian joins the orchestra for the lyric poem Il tramonto (The Sunset). Respighi found inspiration for his Botticelli Triptych in three celebrated Sandro Botticelli canvases. The Birds pay homage to the Baroque-era composers fancy for musically illustrating various aspects of life birdsongs, in this case, while Ancient Airs and Dances was inspired by the music of four Renaissance composers.

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Fritz Wunderlich - Schumann - Dichterliebe - Beethoven & Schubert - Lieder (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Sept. 13, 2023

Fritz Wunderlich - Schumann - Dichterliebe - Beethoven & Schubert - Lieder (1995/2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 65:10 minutes | 1,27 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

"… (Wunderlich) sang with a supernal sweetness and crystalline clarity that made his account one for the ages …"
- The New York Times

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