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Phineas Newborn Jr - The Classic Albums 1956-1962 (5CD) (2015) Music

Posted by Domestos at July 23, 2020

Phineas Newborn Jr - The Classic Albums 1956-1962 (5CD) (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue, log) ~ 1,74 Gb | 6:28:27 | Scans included
Hard Bop | Label: Enlightenment - EN5CD9056

5 CD Set covering the Pivotal Recordings of this jazz legend American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. was widely regarded as one of the most technically gifted piano players of the genre, famous for his extended, virtuoso solos, often consisting of brisk, complex phrases using both hands in unison.

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Yevgeny Sudbin - Domenico Scarlatti: 18 Keyboard Sonatas (2015) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 9, 2023

GRAMOPHONE Magazine: Disc of the Month - April 2016. With the 2005 release of his first recording for BIS Records, Yevgeny Sudbin catapulted into the pages of the international music press. The disc was a Scarlatti recital that prompted reviewers worldwide to compare the then 24-year old pianist in the most flattering terms to Scarlatti experts such as Horowitz and Pletnev. It went on to receive a long list of distinctions, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, where the accompanying review described it as 'among the finest, certainly most enjoyable of all Scarlatti recitals'. Since then, Sudbin and BIS have enjoyed a highly successful collaboration, resulting in numerous acclaimed recordings of both solo programmes and concertos. To celebrate the past 10 years, a new Scarlatti recording seemed the obvious choice for an anniversary present - to ourselves, and of course to all Sudbin fans and Scarlatti lovers. Said and done: Sudbin met up with Marion Schwebel, the recording producer with whom he has collaborated from the very beginning, for recording sessions in the silken acoustics of St George's in Bristol.

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Markku Luolajan-Mikkola - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, BWV 1001-1006 (2015) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at March 5, 2023

Markku Luolajan-Mikkola has a reputation for excellence and already has two Gramophone Awards. With a fan base to match, Luolajan-Mikkola is at the top of his game. In Luolajan-Mikkola’s Linn debut, he tackles the pinnacle of Bach’s productions for violinists: the Partitas and Sonatas. Luolajan-Mikkola transcribed these works for cello. His goal with this recording has been to encapsulate expression and emotion according to the character of each movement. A historically informed musician, he performs on baroque cello.

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Quartetto Prometeo - Karol Szymanowski & Claude Debussy: String Quartets (2015) Music

Posted by Designol at March 9, 2023

This recording presents an unusual pairing of the complete string quartets by Szymanowski and Debussy. Szymanowksi is one of Poland’s most famous composers. Influences on his style are many (Bartók’s percussive and motoric drive, Ravel’s coloristic sonorities) but he found his own personal language, lush, opulent, rich and sometimes exotic, always expressing a deep emotional content. Debussy’s string quartet dates from his early years, a beautiful and romantic work, the French answer to Wagner’s richly chromatic language.

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Marc-Andre Hamelin - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2015) 2CDs Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 18, 2023

Even though Marc-André Hamelin is world-renowned for his astonishing virtuosity and a massive repertoire of the most demanding piano works, including those of Scriabin, Godowsky, and Sorabji, he has startled many with his sudden turn toward the placid domain of Classical music. First came his critically acclaimed recordings of Franz Joseph Haydn's keyboard sonatas, which were surprise best-sellers for Hyperion, and here he offers a double-CD of the piano sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a handful of short pieces to round out the discs. Since Hamelin's fine reputation precedes him, suffice it to say that these are among the most meticulously played and wittily interpreted renditions of these pieces ever recorded.

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Sarah Vaughan - Récital à Paris, 1985 (2015) Music

Posted by aasana at May 5, 2019

Sarah Vaughan - Récital à Paris, 1985 (2015)
Jazz | 01:31:26 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 515 MB
Label: INA Mémoire vive

This 2003 release of Vaughan's December, 1954, album (previously released in 1991 as "Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown") is one of her most brilliant collaborations and a fine memorial to the work of Brown, who died eighteen months later at age twenty-six. With Brown on trumpet, Paul Quinichette on tenor sax, Jimmy Jones on piano, Roy Haynes on drums, and Herbie Mann on jazz flute, the album is a sophisticated partnership among musicians, all of whom are thinking of the whole sound and the whole effect, rather than their own star turns. The mood varies from light to poignantly tender, the tempo is usually slow, and the volume is kept low, highlighting the creativity of each performer's variations while remaining true to the songs and their meanings.

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Andrew Heath - Flux (2015) Music

Posted by aasana at Jan. 11, 2017

Andrew Heath - Flux (2015)
Electronic, Ambient, New age | 01:08:12 | Mp3, 320 kbps | 156 MB
Label: Disco Gecko Recordings | Year Of Release: 2015

Flux is ambient, lower-case music that continues the journey started by ‘The Silent Cartographer’. Both warmer and darker than its predecessor, there are no beats or percussion - asymmetric loops of processed found sounds pulse to provide rhythmic shift over a bed of processed field recordings and found sounds above which float, half-glimpsed piano melodies and electronic phrases.

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Anna Moffo - The Complete RCA Recital Albums (12CD Box Set, 2015) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Oct. 21, 2017

Anna Moffo - The Complete RCA Recital Albums (12CD Box Set, 2015)
Classical, Opera | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 1,20 Gb
Label: Sony Music Classical

THE FIRST OF THE TWELVE discs in this collection of Anna Moffo’s RCA recital recordings begins with a 1960 performance of the jewel song from Gounod’s Faust, and that selection, along with the others on this disc, sets out the singer’s basic assets and liabilities. It’s a fresh lyric sound - Moffo was twenty-eight that year - ven throughout the range, accurate in pitch and coloratura, with a good try at a trill.

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Hans Koller - Vision (1966) [Reissue, Remastered 2015] Music

Posted by SuniR at July 19, 2017

Hans Koller - Vision (1966) [Reissue, Remastered 2015]
Mp3 CBR320 kbps | 28:43 min | 70 Mb (5% Rec.)
Jazz, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: MPS Records

Vision I portrays canonically overlaid sax parts played at breakneck speed before moving into a relaxed bluesy groove, then turns to blistering multi-horn solos. The dirge-like For Dolphy, with the plaintive vocal cries of the altos, was dedicated to the great alto saxophonist Eric Dolphy. The med swing and skewed bluesy feel of For H.G. features the tenor out front. Tryptichon is a challenging angular composition in 3 parts with free improvisation moving from slow to up-tempo and back. With its Dolphyesque melody, Music For Jule is a frenetic excursion with an oblique reference to Monk. For Koller, Ballad For Marlies evokes the essence of a ballad. A Different Theme comprises three phrases played in different times – perfect food for the soloists. Vision II is a free-form ballad with Rittenbacher doubling piano and Koller’s expressive sax solo.

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Barney Kessel - On Fire +5 (1965) {Emerald-Interplay Japan XQAM-1639 Mini LP DSD rel 2015} Music

Posted by ruskaval at July 27, 2018

Barney Kessel - On Fire +5 (1965) {Emerald-Interplay Japan XQAM-1639 Mini LP DSD rel 2015}
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© 1962, 1965, 2015 Emerald / Interplay / SSJ Japan | XQAM-1639 | Mini LP | DSD mastering
Jazz / Bop / Hard Bop / Guitar

Cardboard sleeve reissue with DSD mastering. Five bonus tracks. Rare and groovy work by Barney Kessel – originally recorded for a strange subsidiary of Phil Spector's record label! The album's quite different than some of Kessel's other albums of the earlier years – recorded live with a gritty feel that's really nice – a bit more edge on the strings of the guitar, and a rumbling tone that's a far cry from his lighter work for Contemporary in the 50s. Kessel still retains much of his ability to produce a bell-like tone on the guitar – but he rings out with a tremendous amount of force – spurred on by the crackling club rhythm section of Jerry Scheff on bass and Frank Capp on drums. Titles include 2 great originals – "Slow Burn" and "Sweet Baby" – plus an excellent version of "Recado Bossa Nova", and the tunes "The Shadow Of Your Smile", "Just In Time", and "One Mint Julep". CD features five bonus tracks – including 'Fly Me To The Moon", "The Gypsy In My Soul", and "April In Paris".

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