Elektor 8 2022

Andris Poga, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra - Tālivaldis Keninš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8 (2022) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 12, 2022

This third album release in the first complete Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008) symphony cycle includes the composer’s final symphonic creation, Symphony No. 8, with a remarkable organ solo part performed by the award-winning organist Iveta Apkalna, alongside the composer’s dramatic and concise 5th Symphony, both conducted by Andris Poga and performed by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

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Tana Quartet - Philip Glass : "King Lear" String Quartet No. 9 & String Quartet No. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 14, 2022

Tana Quartet - Philip Glass : "King Lear" String Quartet No. 9 & String Quartet No. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 44:00 minutes | 455 MB
Classical | Label: Musicube, Official Digital Download

The TANA Quartet has joined forces with composer Philip Glass for the premiere of his String Quartet No. 9. This new work is based on his earlier score for the Broadway production of King Lear directed by Sam Gold. This recording also features Glass’s String Quartet No. 8, written in 2018. Almost Schubertian in nature, this quartet is marked by layers of sound and contrasting timbres and rhythms. Glass seems to have entered a third period in his wide-ranging career, characterized by a more classical, introspective approach.

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Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 28, 2024

Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 42:10 minutes | 489 MB
Experimental Electronic, Female Vocal | Label: Smalltown Supersound, Official Digital Download

After releasing her sophomore album Inner Song in the midst of the pandemic, Kelly Lee Owens was faced with the sudden realisation that her world tour could no longer go ahead. Keen to make use of this untapped creative energy, she made the spontaneous decision to go to Oslo instead. There was no overarching plan, it was simply a change of scenery and a chance for some undisturbed studio time. It just so happened that her flight from London was the last before borders were closed once again. The blank page project was underway.

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Novus Quartet - Shostakovich: String Quartets No. 3 & No. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 19, 2022

Novus Quartet - Shostakovich: String Quartets No. 3 & No. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 54:09 minutes | 542 MB
Classical | Label: Aparté, Official Digital Download

Shostakovich was in his early thirties when he first turned to the string quartet. He planned to produce a full cycle of 24; he completed 15. These works embody his resistance to a crushing Soviet power that held the belief that all art should be political. At the same time, he used them as a means of personal, autobiographical expression, aimed at presenting a true depiction of himself as a man and an artist. Bringing together nos. 3 and 8, the Novus Quartet make Shostakovich’s revolt tangible, while faithfully representing the magnificent, heartrending world of this great composer.

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Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 28, 2024

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Matangi Quartet - Outcast: Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at June 3, 2022

Matangi Quartet - Outcast: Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 22:36 minutes | 195 MB
Classical | Label: Matangi Quartet, Official Digital Download

With "Outcast", the Dutch string quartet Matangi breaks a lance for artistic freedom and musical expression - and now also against a senseless war. The three Soviet Russian composers composed music that ran dangerously counter to the tastes of the regime under which they lived. Shostakovich kept a packed suitcase ready in case he was arrested by the KGB. Schnittke's work was viewed with suspicion and his performances were regularly prevented. In addition to his musical work, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is also known for his political commitment.

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Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton & Mark Padmore - Britten: Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8 (2022) [Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 19, 2022

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton & Mark Padmore - Britten: Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 28:43 minutes | 432 MB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Prospero Classical, Official Digital Download

Ivor Bolton has been principal conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of the 2016 / 17 season and has always had a special affinity with British music. The present album with rather unknown music by Benjamin Britten was therefore a very special concern for him from the beginning. The program consists of the early cycle Our Hunting Fathers (with the tenor Mark Padmore), the Quatre Chansons francaises (a stroke of genius by the only 14-year-old) and the suite from the unfortunately rarely performed opera Gloriana, which, by the way, was written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Nicolas Horvath - Jean Catoire- Complete Piano Works, Vol. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Oct. 29, 2022

Nicolas Horvath - Jean Catoire- Complete Piano Works, Vol. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 04:12:38 minutes | 3.69 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

After being the first french concert pianist to support, perform avant-garde, experimental & minimalism music all around the world, with event such as the Night of Minimal Piano, it was time to create a Label / Série dedicated to all the discoveries I did during those last 2 decades : the Nicolas Horvath Discoveries (Collections 1001 Notes)

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Martyn Brabbins, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8 (2022) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Sept. 18, 2023

‘Essential listening’ … ‘fabulously assured’ … ‘unequivocally excellent’: just a few of the critical superlatives earned by Martyn Brabbins’s magnificent Vaughan Williams symphony cycle. In this, the penultimate release of the series, two of the late symphonies are coupled with more rare RVW.

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Sten Lassmann - Eller - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 6, 2022

Sten Lassmann - Eller - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 8 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 66:28 minutes | 384 MB
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics, Official Digital Download

The piano music of the Estonian composer Heino Eller (1887–1970), a total of 206 works, is not only the largest part of his output; it is also the largest body of works in Estonian classical music.

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