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Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 4 Jan 2024 08:07:09
Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:18:15 | 271 Mb
Genre: Classical

This final instalment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek set of variations on ‘Happy Birthday’, written as a present for Ruoff’s publisher on his 80th birthday.
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Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 10 Oct 2023 08:23:12
Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 77:26 | 177 / 273 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of those musicians who formed the fabric of musical life in nineteenth-century Germany: though he worked away from the major cities, as conductor, teacher, organist, organiser and composer, he was an indispensable element of the communities in which he worked. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose.This second volume brings some of his many transcriptions to the fore.
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Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 7 Jul 2023 14:08:07
Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:02:40 | 200 / 144 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950) was given the sobriquet of ‘the conscience of Russian music’ thanks to his dignified bearing and quiet wisdom – qualities reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental works are regaining the currency they once enjoyed, but his large corpus of songs, many of them understated masterpieces, has yet to attract systematic attention – a situation this series hopes to remedy. This second album presents his entire output of songs for baritone and piano, most of them early works responding to Russian lyric poetry with the calm dignity typical of his compositions – though there is the occasional flash of passion.
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Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 2 Jun 2023 05:24:20
Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)

Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:16:38 | 240 / 175 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano – a combination where the different sounds of the two instruments enhance the clarity of the texture. Thomas’ own compositions use the elegant Romantic style of his own day, but he also left a generous legacy of transcriptions, with no fewer than fourteen Schubert songs recorded on this second volume of his complete duos for harp and piano. Although some of his music was intended for the Victorian drawing room, other pieces require a virtuoso technique – and all of it has a thoroughly engaging melodic appeal.
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Angela Hewitt - J.S.Bach: Italian Concerto, Toccata, Four Duets, English Suite (1986)

Posted By: tirexiss
Date: 8 May 2023 16:45:03
Angela Hewitt - J.S.Bach: Italian Concerto, Toccata, Four Duets, English Suite (1986)

Angela Hewitt - J.S.Bach: Italian Concerto, Toccata, Four Duets, English Suite (1986)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:01 | 216 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 429 975-2

Angela Hewitt is a highly esteemed pianist, particularly noted as a Bach performer, but accomplished in an exceptionally large repertory that embraces all eras of keyboard music. The daughter of an organist, Hewitt began to study piano at age three, making a public debut at the age of four, winning a scholarship at six, and eventually adding studies in ballet, singing, violin, and recorder.
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