The Wave Quartet

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 8, 2017
The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 58:53 min | 265 MB
Label: Sony Classical | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2017

Four harpsichord concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1052, 1061, 1062 and 1065) in an exciting new arrangement for marimba ensemble and orchestra. The Wave Quartet has been hailed as one of the most interesting newcomers in the field of classical music. Partnering on this album with the renowned L´Orfeo Barockorchster under the direction of Michi Gaigg. This new arrangement makes these popular concertos sound refreshingly light and modern. Specialist promo & marketing activity.

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 10, 2017
The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017) [Official Digital Download]

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 58:33 minutes | 535 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Four harpsichord concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1052, 1061, 1062 and 1065) in an exciting new arrangement for marimba ensemble and orchestra. The Wave Quartet has been hailed as one of the most interesting newcomers in the field of classical music. Partnering on this album with the renowned L´Orfeo Barockorchster under the direction of Michi Gaigg. This new arrangement makes these popular concertos sound refreshingly light and modern. Specialist promo & marketing activity.

The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at Sept. 12, 2019
The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019)

The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 160 MB | Tracks: 16 | 47:03 min
Style: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Again and again, the Wave Quartet succeeds in making the known sound completely new and interesting. For example, the ensemble was thrilled with the harpsichord concert of Johann Sebastian Bach in his own arrangement for the marimba ensemble and orchestra on his Sony Classical debut: "Musically, this new recording has a lot to offer (…), captivatingly enthralling, meditative , Zeitzeithaltend.The conciseness with which the Wave Quartet plays, is certainly one of the special qualities. " (Fono Forum) The second album of the Wave Quartet now focuses on perhaps the most popular female figure in opera history. It is the "Carmen" from Georges Bizet's world hit of the same name.

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 8, 2017
The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)

The Wave Quartet - Bach Concertos (2017)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:58:32 | 134 Mb
Contemporary Classical | Label: Sony Classical

The Wave Quartet is one of the most interesting newcomer ensembles in the classical world. Immediately in their technique and in the ensemble playing "(Supersonic Award), you always succeed in breaking up old listening habits and letting familiar things sound completely new and interesting. Theirr new Bach album is at Sony Classical. With the L'Orfeo baroque orchestra under the direction of Michi Gaigg, they have four harpsichord orchestras by J.S. Bach (BWV 1052/1061/1062/1065) in their own new arrangement.

The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 14, 2019
The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019) [Official Digital Download]

The Wave Quartet - Carmen (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 47:03 minutes | 390 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Dem Wave Quartet gelingt es immer wieder, Bekanntes völlig neu und interessant erklingen zu lassen. So hat das Ensemble bei seinem Sony Classical-Debüt mit den Cembalo-Konzerten von Johann Sebastian Bach im eigenen Arrangement für Marimba-Ensemble und Orchester begeistert: "Musikalisch hat diese neue Einspielung etliche Reize zu bieten (…), berückend entrückend, meditativ, zeitanhaltend. Die Prägnanz, mit der das Wave Quartet spielt, zählt sicherlich zu den besonderen Qualitäten."
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Mads Haaber's Quartet & Orpheus Vokalensemble - John Høybye: Hope. Easter Music & Psalm 151 (2023) [24/48]

Ars Nova Copenhagen, Mads Haaber's Quartet & Orpheus Vokalensemble - John Høybye: Hope. Easter Music & Psalm 151 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 82:08 minutes | 431 MB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Carus Music, Official Digital Download

Danish composer John Høybye enjoys great acclaim at home and abroad, not just for his music but also for his work as a (choral) conductor and arranger.Presenting a medium level of difficulty, Hope. Easter Music is suitable for a good amateur choir. The mix of a beautiful choral sound and rhythmic intensity in jazz-inspired phrases is “trademark Høybye”. Primarily written for four voices (SATB), the choral writing subdivides at certain, particularly expressive passages to create six- or eight-part harmonies.

The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 19, 2024
The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)

The Bobby Wellins Quartet - What Was Happening (2024)
FLAC (tracks, booklet) - 818 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 352 MB
2:32:42 | Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Modal, Jazz-Rock, Fusion | Label: Jazz In Britain

For the first time ever, the Bobby Wellins Quartet albums – Jubilation and Dreams Are Free - expanded with bonus tracks. The original albums, and the extra tracks, were all recorded by the same quartet in 1978 or 1979.
Released in partnership with Spike Wells, the drummer in the quartet, who provided the extra recordings from his own tape archive, and wrote the booklet notes as well as providing many previously unseen photographs, Fiona Wellins, Bobby’s daughter, and the bassist in the quartet Adrian Kendon, who also produced the original recordings for the vinyl-only Vortex label.

Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Sun Rings (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 1, 2019
Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Sun Rings (2019)

Kronos Quartet - Terry Riley: Sun Rings (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 354 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:32
Classical | Label: Nonesuch Records

Kronos Quartet's groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, is available as a recording for the first time via Nonesuch Records on August 30, 2019.

Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen - UNIKO (2011)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 10, 2022
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen - UNIKO (2011)

Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen, Samuli Kosminen - UNIKO (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 296 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 129 Mb | Scans included
Modern Composition, Experimental, Avant-Garde | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1185-2 | 00:51:47

UNIKO features the Grammy winning Kronos Quartet together with a Finnish duo, accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen and sampling guru Samuli Kosminen. Produced by Iceland's Valgeir Sigurosson, known for his collaboration with Bjork, this album was recorded at Avatar Studios in NYC. UNIKO was commissioned by Kronos in 2003 and premiered live at the Helsinki Festival in 2004. It has subsequently drawn sellout audiences in Moscow, Molde (Norway), and New York at the 2007 BAM NEXT WAVE Festival. UNIKO is highlighted by Pohjonen's electrified and MIDI-fied accordion with Kosminen's electronic percussion devices which reproduce his own accordion samples and his samples of Kronos' instruments. These samples, together with live strings and electric accordion plus effects and manipulations create a new, multi-dimensional sound world.

Flo and the Murmurs - The Waves (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 19, 2024
Flo and the Murmurs - The Waves (2024)

Flo and the Murmurs - The Waves (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 203 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 106 Mb | 00:45:11
Folk, Neo-Classical, Jazz, Female Vocal | Label: La Buissonne Studios

This ensemble's first project, "The Waves", borrows its words from Virginia Woolf to tell sensual stories filled with images of the natural world. Double bass, cello, viola, violin and voice enter in dialogue to paint a poetic fresco that is at once fragile,melancholic, poignant, and luminous.