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Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014) Music

Posted by Designol at Aug. 23, 2024

A coming together of two artists with enormous followings – Valentina Lisitsa, with her dazzling artistry and hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube, and Michael Nyman, with his hugely popular film soundtracks. This release, in the year of Nyman’s 70th birthday, features tracks from his multi-award-winning score for the 1993 smash hit film The Piano. Acclaimed for his music’s innovation, punchy simplicity and universal appeal, Nyman, during his career as a music critic, coined the term ‘minimalism’ for an emergent musical genre – one to which he would make extensive contributions in many of his early scores and inspire a vast global audience. The disc is packed full with 77mins of material, full of irresistible energy. The album includes all ten solo piano transcriptions from The Piano, together on one album for the first time.

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Meditation - The Beautiful Music Of Massenet (2012) Music

Posted by peotuvave at Oct. 16, 2012

Jules Massenet, who died 100 years ago in 1912, was a French composer best known for his operas, and was widely considered in his day to be one of the greatest melodists of his time, alongside Puccini.

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Martin Jones - Discover the Piano Music of Daniel Jones (2022) Music

Posted by varrock at July 1, 2022

Martin Jones - Discover the Piano Music of Daniel Jones (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 182 MB | Tracks: 11 | 61:10
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita

The process of writing any piece of music really is one of discovery and the feeling I always have is that what I’m setting myself to write already exists and that what I have to do is unveil it, discover it’. This characterisation by Daniel Jones of the creative process as one of exploration and excavation seems appropriate for a composer whose scores have a powerful sense of rightness and inevitability. His lifelong dedication to music meant that he was unwilling to compromise by diluting it with other work, such as teaching. When he was mischievously accused of never having had a proper job, his response was to tap his manuscript and reply, ‘This is a proper job’. In fact he undertook a wide variety of roles during his long life, as he once wryly observed: ‘my career has been a very complicated one. As a matter of fact, it’s a pity I was not divided into several people’.

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Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Carl Davis - The Film Music of Charles Chaplin (1996) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 10, 2024

This CD contains selected themes from five of Chaplins brilliant films. The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Circus (1928), City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936). If you love the music from these films then you will love this album. Carl Davis has been very sensitive when rerecording the original scores. The music sounds amazing and he has remained true to Chaplins own styles and tempo's. The thing that will strike you more than anything is how amazing these scores really are in Stereo! They really do sound very good indeed. It also fully demonstrates just how good a composer Chaplin really was, and his talent for marrying music to film. As music it is beautiful from the harshness of "Gold Rush" to the haunting "Modern Times" and not forgetting the swinging "City Lights". Magical stuff! 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10 etc… But if you are planning on listening to this 80 minute album from beginning to end, you'd better make sure you have some Chaplin films close to hand because you WILL want to watch them all again. Nostalgia at its very best.

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The Life & Music Of Robert Johnson - Can't You Hear The Wind Howl? (2003) Music

Posted by robi62 at July 8, 2013

The Life & Music Of Robert Johnson - Can't You Hear The Wind Howl? (2003)
Video: NTSC, MPEG-2 at 5 965 Kbps, 720 x 480 (1.333) at 29.970 fps | Audio: PCM 2 channels at 1 536 Kbps, 48.0 KHz
Genre: Blues | Label: Shout Factory | Copy: Untouched | Release Date: 22 July 2003 | Runtime: 76 min. | 4,16 GB (DVD5)

A mix of new interviews with old footage and recordings, this documentary, narrated by Danny Glover, highlights legendary Mississippi blues guitarist-singer Robert Johnson (1911-38). Kevin Moore (who records as Keb Mo) appears as Johnson in narrated reenactment sequences, and producer Don Law is portrayed by Don Law Jr. With both color and black-and-white footage, the film traces the brief but extremely influential career of this near-mythic figure, generally regarded as the king of the Delta blues. Shown at the 1997 Boston Film Festival.

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Gene Rains - Far Away Lands The Exotic Music of Gene Rains (2014) Music

Posted by varrock at Aug. 11, 2014

Gene Rains - Far Away Lands The Exotic Music of Gene Rains (2014)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 19 | 55:53 min | 133 Mb
Style: Easy Listening, Lounge, Nu-Jazz | Label: Real Gone Music

Among devotees of exotica music and tiki culture, vibraphonist Gene Rains is one of the Big Three of exotica Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman being the other two. (Though Les Baxter had some notable releases in the genre, exotica was not his primary focus, so he isn t generally considered in the same league as the Big Three). Yet, while Denny and Lyman have seen their entire album catalogs come out on CD, and many collections compiled of their work, to date Gene Rains has remained a true cult figure, with NONE of his albums released on compact disc.

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"Celestiall Witchcraft" - The Private Music Of Henry and Charles Princes of Wales - Fretwork Music

Posted by Edmond Mach at Nov. 5, 2008

"Celestiall Witchcraft" - The Private Music Of Henry and Charles Princes of Wales - Fretwork
EAC: WAV & CUE | TT 71:52 | 383 MB | Virgin Veritas 1999 | Covers & booklet | RS

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Yahel-Moreno-Hoenig-Blake - Jazz Side of the Moon: Music of Pink Floyd Music

Posted by gravisus at June 19, 2008

Yahel, Moreno, Hoenig, Blake - Jazz Side of the Moon: Music of Pink Floyd
Genre: Jazz | CUE + FLAC + JPG | lossless | 315Mb+5% recover
Label: Chesky Records | Year: 2008
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This is an somewhat unusual jazz trio, consisting of guitar, drums and Hammond organ replacing the acoustic bass. Brad Shepik plays guitar like a blend of John Scofield and Bill Frisell in a mellow mood, accompanied by Gary Versace on the Hammond and Tom Rainey on drums. The songs are all original compositions, and feature a set of mid tempo numbers, interspersed with ballads and slow waltzes.

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Stefano Battaglia Trio - In the Morning: Music of Alec Wilder (2015) Music

Posted by mark70 at Sept. 20, 2015

Stefano Battaglia Trio - In the Morning: Music of Alec Wilder (2015)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 69:34 min | 159 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: ECM

On his sixth album for ECM Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia and his trio reflect on the work of American composer Alec Wilder (1907-1980), known for his popular songs (recorded by Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and others) as well as his chamber music and operas and his influential book 'American Popular Song: The Great Innovators (1900-1950)'.

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Sam Yahel - Ari Hoenig - Mike Moreno - Seamu Blake - Jazz Side Of The Moon: Music Of Pink Floyd (2008) Repost Music

Posted by Andi_Deris at Oct. 25, 2015

A unique Jazz album entitled The Jazz Side of The Moon is the next in Chesky Records series of newly recorded Jazz performances. The album is subtitled “The Music of Pink Floyd” and as you might guess, it presents a new take on the classic album The Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd.

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