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Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011  Music

Posted by Designol at March 19, 2024
Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011

Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios (Hyperion) | # CDH55311 | Time: 01:09:24

Teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Anton Arensky (1861-1906) divided his life between metropolitan St Petersburg and provincial Moscow – during the second half of the 19th century, as Stephen Coombs points out in his excellent notes, ‘a city of sharp contrasts, fiercely religious, noisy and mournful… [of] sober days… followed by riotous nights’. A contemporary recalled him as ‘mobile, nervous, with a wry smile on his clever, half-Tartar face, always joking or snarling. All feared his laughter and adored his talent.’ Rosina Lhevinne remembered him being ‘shy and rather weak’. Tchaikovsky, like Prokofiev and Stravinsky, had time for his art, but Rimsky (whose pupil he’d been) thought he would be ‘soon forgotten’. Maybe Arensky, drunkard and gambler, was no genius, and he was demonstrably lost among the elevated peaks of Brahmsian sonata tradition. But that he could turn a perfumed miniature more lyrically beautiful than most, more occasionally profound too, is repeatedly borne out in the 27 vignettes of this delicate anthology (Opp. 25, 41, 43 and 53 in full and excerpts from Opp. 36 and 52 ).

Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Feb. 28, 2024
Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)

Stephen Hough - Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes (2021)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 01:51:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68351/2 | Recorded: 2020

Just about everything about Stephen Hough’s Chopin Nocturne cycle seems ideal. His gorgeous and well-recorded sonority seduces in intimate moments, rising to the music’s dramatic climaxes with emotional force yet never losing clarity or luminosity. He applies rubato with the utmost discretion, taste, and proportion, while largely underlining the composer’s harmonic surprises through shifts of tone color and chord balances. The way in which the pianist floats soft cantabile legato lines often gives the illusion of more sustain pedal than is actually employed.
Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 70:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67978 | Recorded: 2012

The Brabant Ensemble, better known for uncovering works by forgotten composers such as Dominique de Phinot, turns to a giant of the Renaissance—perhaps the most celebrated name of the period. Yet within Palestrina’s huge output there are many hidden gems, lacking both recordings and modern performing editions, and it is from among these that the ensemble’s director Stephen Rice has chosen the repertoire for this album. A Mass—Missa Ad coenam Agni, from Palestrina’s first book of Mass-settings—is included, plus antiphons, motets and five Eastertide Offertories. Each work is, as Stephen Rice states in his typically informative booklet notes, ‘a finely crafted addition to the liturgy’.

Jean Martin - Stephen Heller: Piano Music (1993)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 14, 2024
Jean Martin - Stephen Heller: Piano Music (1993)

Jean Martin - Stephen Heller: Piano Music (1993)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 69:28 | 220 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.223435

Stephen Heller (1813-1888) composed (more or less) exclusively for the piano in manner as thoroughly romantic as Schumann, Chopin and Liszt. His music isn't quite the equal of either of those, of course, but it is still far, far above the standard salon music of his day. Heller did have a knack for memorable melodies and knew what to do with them, and there are some gorgeous, exquisitve and truly inspired miniatures among his output (curiously his study pieces seem to be in general better represented than his concert works).
Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia - Mirabilis: The music of Stephen Hough (2023)

Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia - Mirabilis: The music of Stephen Hough (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 75:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics | # ORC100256 | Recorded: 2023

Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a worldwide career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. "My father said that I had memorised seventy nursery rhymes by the age of two. This sounds suspiciously like parental exaggeration to me, but I do know that such singing was my first form of musical expression, especially as we had no classical music in my childhood home. Then, by the age of six, the piano took over… but song remained in the background."
Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Pierre de La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor & Missa Inviolata (2016)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Pierre de La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor & Missa Inviolata (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 78'55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA68150 | Recorded: 2015

Pierre de la Rue is another of those composers who contributed so prolifically to the richness of musical life in the Low Countries during the late fifteenth century. If today he is less well known than some of his contemporaries, the distinguished advocacy of Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble should do much to redress the balance.
Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2011)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 74:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67887 | Recorded: 2010

Orlande de Lassus was an undisputed master of all the vocal genres of the late Renaissance, from German Lied to Latin Mass. He was extraordinarily prolific, and this recording features the glorious polyphony of the Missa Amor ecco colei and Prophetiae Sibyllarum, one of his most celebrated works. With the latter’s extreme chromaticism and constant modulation, Lassus stretched the compositional boundaries of the time to produce one of the most important and advanced works to come from the sixteenth century.
Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Music from the Chirk Castle Part-Books (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 71'04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67695 | Recorded: 2008

This disc presents a selection of works from the Chirk Castle part-books, a fascinating collection of devotional music from the Tudor period that remained hidden in the castle library for three hundred years.
The Chirk manuscripts contain works for unaccompanied voices as well as verse anthems and services, scored for solo voices, chorus and organ. This recording focuses on the unaccompanied items, presenting for the first time a selection of the ‘full’ services and anthems found in the manuscripts, including seven unique to the Chirk collection.
Nicholas Canellakis & Michael Stephen Brown - (b)romance (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Nicholas Canellakis & Michael Stephen Brown - (b)romance (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 67:38 minutes | 1,06 GB
Classical | Label: First Hand Records, Official Digital Download

For their second duo album, cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown curate an eclectic playlist that is close to their hearts. Anchored by five Romances, the album features rarely heard gems alongside their own compositions and arrangements. Ranging from soulful to virtuosic to just plain fun, (b)romance celebrates 15 years of being affectionate, brutally honest, and creatively connected best friends and artistic collaborators.

Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at March 2, 2024
Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore

K. Jason Coker, "Bible and Theory: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honor of Stephen D. Moore"
English | ISBN: 197870822X | 2020 | 244 pages | EPUB, PDF | 13 MB + 26 MB