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VA - A Little Magic in a Noisy World (Music in the Spirit of Jazz) (2019) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 11, 2019

VA - A Little Magic in a Noisy World (Music in the Spirit of Jazz) (2019) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:12:33 minutes | 739 MB
Jazz | Label: ACT Music, Official Digital Download

Play without borders: ACT World-Jazz-Samplerthe Word "World Jazz" brings (at least) three facts to the term. First, the horizon of Jazz is not just from New York to San Francisco.

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Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard - Eccles: Semele (2021) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Jan. 31, 2021

Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard - Eccles: Semele (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 02:00:40 | 2.24 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Julian Perkins are proud to present the first professional recording of John Eccles’s Semele (ca 1707), a notable early setting of the great English libretto by William Congreve better known in a version by Georg Friedrich Handel from 1744.

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Kristjan Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Ballet Music (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 19, 2017

Kristjan Järvi - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Ballet Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 68:03 minutes | 1.14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake is one of the most popular of all ballets. Fashioned from Russian folk tales, the ballet tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by the curse of evil sorcerer, Odile, the Black Swan. This album presents Tchaikovsky’s immortal ballet music in a new version by conductor Kristjan Järvi. The chronological order of the pieces has been newly arranged to achieve a dramatic arc of tension.

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Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 1, 2021

Noriko Ogawa - Satie: Piano Music, Vol. 4 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:58 minutes | 1,12 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

For the fourth instalment in her acclaimed Satie cycle, Noriko Ogawa has gathered music written for the stage – from the pantomime Jack in the Box (1899) to the ballet Relâche (1924) – one of Satie’s last works. Several of the pieces exist in different scorings, but the piano versions heard here are all Satie’s own.

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Holst Sinfonietta & Klaus Simon - Korngold: Complete Incidental Music (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 8, 2022

Holst Sinfonietta & Klaus Simon - Korngold: Complete Incidental Music (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 64:22 minutes | 600 MB
Classical | Label: Naxos, Official Digital Download

Korngold’s greatest critical successes lay in the field of opera and in his film scores. The early sets of incidental music reflect these two elements, sharing the theatrical bravura of opera and anticipating his own later filmic techniques. The music for the Viennese production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing in 1920, heard here in full, is expressive and dramatic. Der Vampir, a psychological study of desire, seduction and greed, is rarely heard, but remains a potent example of Korngold’s instinct for directness of characterisation.

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VA - Magic Moments 14: In The Spirit Of Jazz (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/44-48-96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 26, 2023

VA - Magic Moments 14: In The Spirit Of Jazz (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1-48-96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:35 minutes | 942 MB
Jazz | Label: ACT Music, Official Digital Download

"More than any other art form, music touches people directly," is ACT founder Siggi Loch's credo. For nearly 30 years, the core of what the label does has been to find and to promote the artists who can inspire the mind, reach the heart and touch the soul, and who do so in ways that have a lasting impact. Perhaps this has never been more important than now in the time of the pandemic, when culture has been silenced, when people have felt emotionally isolated and – far too often – the only “reality” has been virtual.

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Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings - Infinite Refrain Music of Love’s Refuge (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Nov. 2, 2023

Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings - Infinite Refrain Music of Love’s Refuge (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:06:50 minutes | 1.18 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Dieses Duett-Album lüftet den Vorhang, der jahrhundertelang den Blick auf schwule Liebesgeschichten verstellt hat.

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Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi - Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 2 (2023) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 24, 2023

Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi - Marschner: Overtures & Stage Music, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 76:03 minutes | 1,31 GB
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. Dario Salvi continues his exploration of Marschner’s overtures and stage music in this second volume featuring a programme of all world premiere recordings. Salvi conducts the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra in its first recording on the Naxos label.

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VA - William Shakespeare: Music of Great Authors & Artists (2017) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at June 16, 2024

VA - William Shakespeare: Music of Great Authors & Artists (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48.0 kHz | Time - 02:14:25 | 1.27 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.

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Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi - Suppé: Mozart – Incidental Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at May 24, 2022

Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra & Dario Salvi - Suppé: Mozart – Incidental Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 57:38 minutes | 969 MB
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

Universally famous for his glorious overtures Light Cavalry and Poet and Peasant (Naxos 8.553935), Franz von Suppé was one of the greatest exponents of the golden Age of Viennese Operetta. But he was also a master of incidental music for popular plays, one of which is Mozart – an example of Künstler-Lebensbild (‘life portrait of an artist’). Suppé’s music subtly accompanies the stage action as the story of the composition of Mozart’s music unfolds, offering a potpourri of Mozart’s works served up with Suppé’s trademark flair. Die Afrikareise presents a piquant and brilliant travelogue.

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