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Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 11, 2023
Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)

Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 386 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 233 Mb
Full Scans | 01:17:40 | RAR 5% Recovery
Contemporary Jazz | ECM Records #ECM 1515 / 519 075-2

Madar is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek featuring Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem and Pakistani tabla master Ustad Shaukat Hussain recorded in 1992 and released on the ECM label in 1994. On this CD Jan Garbarek (doubling on tenor and soprano) is accompanied only by Anouar Brahem on oud and Ustad Shaukat Hussain's tabla. Garbarek shows off his distinctive tones and lyricism on a set of gradually developing group originals, two of which are based on traditional Norwegian melodies. It may take some time for listeners to get into this music and notice the fire beneath the ice but the close communication between the players is apparent from the start.
Himlische Cantorey & Jan Kobow - Johann Pachelbel: Magnificat (2020)

Himlische Cantorey & Jan Kobow - Johann Pachelbel: Magnificat (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 362 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 183 Mb | Covers included | 01:14:34
Classical, Opera, Sacred | Label: CPO

The present recording spreads out before us the rich musical panorama covered by Pachelbel’s Magnificat compositions. We do not know what we should admire more about these works: the complexity of the contrapuntal and concerto textures or the naturalness and cantability of the part writing. In addition, we have Pachelbel’s great variation artistry, which constantly brings forth new formal designs, instrumental combinations, and focal points on the basis of one and the same text. Moreover, the natural flow of Pachelbel’s music includes a steady stream of musical rhetorical interpretations, and the richly pictorial Magnificat text offers plenty of opportunities for them. On this recording two sacred concertos and a Mass in three movements complement the four very different Magnificat settings and serve as contrasts to them.
France Springuel, Jan Vermeulen - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Fortepiano and Cello (2013)

France Springuel, Jan Vermeulen - Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Works for Fortepiano and Cello (2013)
dBpoweramp | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 693 Mb | Total time: 52:44+61:19+49:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera | KTC 1496 | Recorded: 2012

Een driedubbele cd met het integrale werk voor cello en pianoforte van Ludwig Van Beethoven, dat is het resultaat van de intense muzikale samenwerking van celliste France Springuel en pianist Jan Vermeulen. De twee begonnen drie jaar geleden samen te musiceren en de muzikale klik die beiden toen voelden, deed hen besluiten om het repertoire voor cello en piano aan te pakken. Eerst waren er twee Schubertcd's, dan volgde Schumann, en nu is er dus Beethoven. De sonate voor cello en piano is in feite een uitvinding van Beethoven zelf.

Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Aug. 3, 2023
Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)

Jan Lehtola - Marie Joseph Erb: Organ Works, Volume 1 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 73:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics | # TOCC 0691 | Recorded: 2021, 2022

The enormously prolific Marie Joseph Erb (1858–1944) has somehow escaped the attention of posterity, although the quality of his music is on a par with contemporary organist-composers whose works are far better known. Erb’s long life – he heard Berlioz conduct in 1863 and was still composing in 1944 – was focused on Strasbourg, where he was active as pianist, organist and professor, though he had studied in Paris, with Faure, Gigout, Saint-Saëns and Widor, and later with Liszt in Weimar. This first album devoted to his organ music in almost 30 years sandwiches four lyrical chamber works between two towering sonatas.
Polski Chór Kameralny & Jan Łukaszewski - Henryk Górecki: Church Songs, Op. 84 (2023)

Polski Chór Kameralny & Jan Łukaszewski - Henryk Górecki: Church Songs, Op. 84 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 407 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 228 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:39:00
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ondine

Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (1933–2010) achieved an international success in the mid-1990s, with his Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”. Since then, Gorecki’s name has been associated almost exclusively with this piece. However, his music is much more than this one brilliant work. Gorecki never looked at musical fashions, but consistently created his own sound universe. In the 1980s Gorecki, feeling misunderstood, stepped back from the official concert life in Poland. He reached out to simple folk and church melodies, making their choral arrangements.

Pieter-Jan Belder - Pieter-Jan Belder plays J.S. Bach (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 21, 2023
Pieter-Jan Belder - Pieter-Jan Belder plays J.S. Bach (2023)

Pieter-Jan Belder - Pieter-Jan Belder plays J.S. Bach (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 7:07:41 | 1 / 2,8 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

Pieter-Jan Belder is an accomplished multi-instrument performer and conductor. He plays harpsichord, fortepiano, organ, clavichord, and recorder, but is best known for his work at the harpsichord and more specifically for his performances of J.S. Bach's and Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard works. Belder is equally prominent as a conductor: since 1993 he has served as music director of the popular period-instrument ensemble Musica Amphion, which he usually conducts from the keyboard.
Jan Simonsen Quintet - Jan Simonsen Quintet (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Jan Simonsen Quintet - Jan Simonsen Quintet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 39:49 minutes | 464 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Jan Simonsen Quintet was an active mid-seventies, Norwegian jazz group, drawing up influences from Herbie Hancock to McCoy Tyner the group’s very rhythmical approach fell positive with the crowd and landed them regular gigs at the famous Club7 venue in Oslo, the group also performed at Molde Jazz 1976. In Winter that same year the group recorded these four tracks to reel using Asker church for maximum reverb effect and broadened acoustics. Jan Simonsen on keys, Svein Hansen flute and percussions, Trond Mathisen sax and percussions, Kristian Røstad bass and Thor Bendiksen drums.
Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble - Remember Me, My Dear (2019)

Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble - Remember Me, My Dear (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 351 Mb | Total time: 77:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | 2625 | Recorded: 2014

25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember me, my dear, recorded during the final tour the group made in October 2014.
Named for the Scottish ballad which concludes it, the programme is emblematic of the range of repertoire the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal quartet explored together from Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume le Rouge, Antoine Brumel to Komitas, Arvo Pärt and more.

Robert Woolley - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Organ Works (2003)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 3, 2024
Robert Woolley - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Organ Works (2003)

Robert Woolley - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Organ Works (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 327 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 170 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Chaconne | # CHAN 0701 | Time: 01:13:27

The late-Renaissance keyboard music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck is virtuosic to a high degree, reflecting both his exceptional skills as an improviser and the secular role organ music was assigned in Reformed Amsterdam. Without a liturgical function to constrain his imagination or shape his music – Calvinist services had no place for it – Sweelinck was free to provide fanciful showpieces for his daily recitals in the Oude Kerk. Examples of his improvisational style can be found in the quasi-fugal Hexachord Fantasia, the witty Echo Fantasia, and the flamboyant Toccatas, of which three are included here. Yet Sweelinck's music is also rigorously logical and full of ingenious contrapuntal devices. These are readily found in his fantasias, but are prominently featured in his numerous sets of variations. His elaborate settings of the chorales Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr and Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott, and his variations on popular melodies, such as the famous Mein junges Leben hat ein End, display his invention and thorough manipulation of his subjects in all registers. Perhaps better known as a harpsichordist, Robert Woolley is also a fine organist. Woolley has selected representative works from each of Sweelinck's favored genres and given them exceptional performances on the Van Hagerbeer organ of the Pieterskerk, Leiden.
Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)

Jan Lehtola - William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Toccata | # TOCC0285 | Time: 01:05:46

At the beginning of the twentieth century the American William Humphreys Dayas (1864-1903) was the leading professor of piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He was an important figure: he studied with Liszt, was friends with Busoni and became a major pedagogue, holding teaching posts in Helsinki, Wiesbaden and Cologne before he came to Manchester in 1895. Although Dayas left only a handful of compositions, two of them are major organ sonatas - passionate, Lisztian works that have remained completely unknown until now. Dayas also arranged for organ the Thème varié for piano four hands by another forgotten American composer, Arthur H. Bird (1856-1923), a further important addition to the late-Romantic organ repertoire. Dr Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation. He has appeared with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Lahti Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestras and the St Michael Strings.