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Dimitri Mitropoulos - Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys - Siegmeister: Ozark Set (Remastered) (1950/2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Dimitri Mitropoulos - Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys - Siegmeister: Ozark Set (Remastered) (1950/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 26:11 minutes | 250 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical, Official Digital Download

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos' height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos' finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been "remastered").
Marc Lewon, Paul Kieffer, Grace Newcombe - Two Lutes with Grace (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Marc Lewon, Paul Kieffer, Grace Newcombe - Two Lutes with Grace: Plectrum Lute Duos of the Late 15th Century (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 61:19 minutes | 1.07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The plectrum lute duo was one of the most popular ensembles for professional instrumentalists in late 15th-century Western Europe. This recording presents for the first time the bulk of a surviving repertoire that can arguably be considered for the lute duo, performed on two equal plectrum lutes or with a combination of lute and gittern - a smaller member of the lute family. The album, inspired by the Ferrarese virtuoso Pietrobono dal Chitarino (c. 1417–1497), acclaimed in his lifetime as ‘the foremost lutenist in the world’, includes the earliest printed lute duos by Francesco Spinacino and Joan Ambrosio Dalza and the two-voice instrumental works by Johannes Tinctoris. The often highly ornamented instrumental duos are mostly reworkings of songs, some of which are given here in a performance with the singer Grace Newcombe to provide the context for the lute arrangements that follow.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024) [24/96]

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 77:23 minutes | 1,45 GB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

Lalo considered himself to be first and foremost an opera composer, even though Le Roi d’Ys was his only opera to be performed in his lifetime. He is now best known for his symphonic and chamber music, largely because of the highly political musical establishment in France in his time. The Overture to the opera (which opens this album) is now the best-known music from the piece, which proved a considerable success in France.
Nicholas Phan - Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Nicholas Phan - Stranger: Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:40 minutes | 1,18 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Avie Records, Official Digital Download

Twice Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan is “one of the world’s most remarkable singers” (Boston Globe). Nico Muhly is one of today’s most sought-after composers. Nick and Nico’s collaboration began with a commission when Nick curated a series for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in 2020.
Alan Stivell - Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (Remastered) (1971/2023) [Official Digital Download]

Alan Stivell - Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique (Remastered) (1971/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 37:17 minutes | 377 MB
Folk, Celtic, New Age, Classical, World Fusion | Label: PIAS Recordings, Official Digital Download

A master and champion of the instrument (as well as one for his native Celtic and Breton hinterlands), Alan Stivell pioneered a new wave of fondness for the Celtic harp, and Celtic rock as a whole subsequently. His second album Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique, described as "one of the most beautiful and haunting records ever made" by music journalist Bruce Elder, was Stivell's first and strongest statement on the power of the Celtic harp. The album also began the Breton musician's development of traditional Celtic and contemporary rock styles, a combination which earned the 1971 LP praise from both French and English critics, as well as awarding Stivell the Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros.
Alan Stivell ‎- Renaissance De La Harpe Celtique (1971) FR 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Alan Stivell ‎- Renaissance De La Harpe Celtique
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Fontana/6325.302 | Released: 1971 | Genre: Progressive-Folk

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive folk music
"Reflets" represented a teaser of STIVELL's mid to late 70s recordings with its blend of mournful (and occasionally spry) vocals with harp and other folk accompaniments and a little rock thrown in. It alluded to his indefatigable drive, now 4 decades old, to keep the tradition alive by holding its feet to the fire.
Juan Diego Flórez - The Ultimate Collection (2016) [Official Digital Download]

Juan Diego Flórez - The Ultimate Collection (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48kHz | Time - 64:55 minutes | 669 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Decca’s “dashing tenor, the king of the bel canto repertory” (New York Times) Juan Diego Flórez has over 15 years become the lyric tenor of choice among cognoscenti, colouring his notes like an artist does a canvas.

Jonas Kaufmann - L'Opéra (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 15, 2017
Jonas Kaufmann - L'Opéra (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jonas Kaufmann - L'Opéra (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 73:58 minutes | 1.38 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Jonas Kaufmann pays homage to a magnificent era of opera that defined musical splendor and elegance, in his new album of 19th-century French opera arias and duets.
Gaëlle Arquez - Ardente flamme (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Gaëlle Arquez - Ardente flamme (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 62:53 minutes | 0.99 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

For his first album for Deutsche Grammophon, the French mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez demonstrates the full extent of his talent through a program that honors the French repertoire. A journey through the history of French opera that shows all the talent of Gaëlle Arquez, from baroque to romantic music. Accompanied by the Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine under the direction of Paul Daniel, Gaëlle Arquez presents "Burning Flame". Edouard Brane, Director Artist Deutsche Grammophon France.
Yan Pascal Tortelier - Lalo - Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 & Cello Concerto (1976/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Yan Pascal Tortelier - Lalo - Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 & Cello Concerto (1976/2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:52 minutes | 1,07 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Édouard Lalo born in Lille. He studied initially at the Lille Conservatory and later studied violin at the Paris Conservatory with François Antoine Habeneck and composition privately with Joseph Crèvecoeur.