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Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, María José Siri - Verdi: Ernani (2024) [Official Digital Download]

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Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, María José Siri - Verdi: Ernani (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, María José Siri - Verdi: Ernani (2024) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-48kHz] +Booklet | 2:06:41 | 1.3 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Victor Hugo’s 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi’s attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. Its subject is the nobleman-turned-brigand Ernani who loves Elvira, herself the object of two other men’s desires. Ernani’s success was immediate and it became Verdi’s most popular opera until he composed Il trovatore. This production won critical acclaim, as did conductor James Conlon for his ‘superb support of the singers and the flexible elasticity he brought to his tempi’

Grace Davidson, Choir of St Lukes - Stopford: Sacred Choral Music (2024) [Official Digital Download]

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Grace Davidson, Choir of St Lukes - Stopford: Sacred Choral Music (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Grace Davidson, Choir of St Lukes - Stopford: Sacred Choral Music (2024) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:12:01 | 1.22 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Philip Stopford is admired in Britain and America for his beautifully crafted music, rooted in the Anglican tradition. His works are memorable and colourful, as these world premiere recordings demonstrate. The biggest piece on this album is the Missa Deus nobiscum, a sacred concert work with a scintillating role for soprano soloist that displays Stopford’s compositional skill, creating a journey rather than a sequence of set piece movements. Elsewhere, in pieces for a variety of locations and occasions, his music is evocative, filmic and vividly celebratory.

St. Albans Cathedral Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St. Albans Cathedral Choir - Poston: Carols & Anthems (2023) Official Digital

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St. Albans Cathedral Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St. Albans Cathedral Choir - Poston: Carols & Anthems (2023) Official Digital

St. Albans Cathedral Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St. Albans Cathedral Choir - Poston: Carols & Anthems (2023) Official Digital
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:18:43 | 1.4 Gb
Genre: Classical

Elizabeth Poston’s long and distinguished career included significant work for the BBC during the Second World War, where she performed as a respected pianist and later composed scores for numerous radio and television productions. Describing herself as ‘a littlemonger’ who never wanted to write big pieces, Poston’s supreme talent for composing vocal and choral miniatures is fully represented in this recording, the first to be dedicated entirely to her work. Poston’s music reveals timeless melodic charm, a great sensitivity of word setting and her profound appreciation of ancient folk-song traditions.

Russian State SO, Dmitry Yablonsky - Shostakovich: Jazz Suites & The Bolt (2002) [Reissue 2005] MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + FLAC

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Russian State SO, Dmitry Yablonsky - Shostakovich: Jazz Suites & The Bolt (2002) [Reissue 2005] MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + FLAC

Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky - Shostakovich: Jazz Suites & The Bolt (2002) [Reissue 2005]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 61:54 min | Front/Rear Cover | 4 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,48 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Front/Rear Cover | 600 MB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Naxos # 6.110104

Although the symphonies, string quartets and concertos represent the core of his achievement, Shostakovich had wide sympathies across the musical spectrum: hence his oft-repeated comment that he enjoyed all music from Bach to Offenbach. All the works on this disc – which opens with a suite from the ballet The Bolt and concludes with his orchestration of Tea for Two – attest to a composer who entered into the spirit of ‘light music’ with enjoyment and enthusiasm. The so-called Jazz Suite No.2 (sketches for the original Jazz Suite No.2 have only recently been discovered) is in fact the Suite for Stage Variety Orchestra, drawn from various ballet, film and theatres scores, with saxophones and accordion to the fore. The Second Waltz, recently found popularity as the title music for Stanley Kubrick’s last film, "Eyes Wide Shut".

Peter Breiner - Breiner Mornings, Evenings and Late Nights - Calm Romantic Piano Music Vol.3 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Peter Breiner - Breiner Mornings, Evenings and Late Nights - Calm Romantic Piano Music Vol.3 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Peter Breiner - Breiner Mornings, Evenings and Late Nights - Calm Romantic Piano Music Vol.3 (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 1:08:59 | 1.08 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Peter Breiner is one of the world’s most recorded musicians with over 200 releases and more than two million albums sold, of which his "Beatles Go Baroque" alone reached sales of a quarter of a million copies. In addition to being a multifaceted composer, arranger and conductor, Breiner is also a pianist, and the third volume of his "Calm Romantic Piano Music" series melds melodic substance with delicate musical expressiveness. The original and descriptive miniatures heard on this album present music of touching tranquillity and beauty

Höör Barock, Emelie Roos - Baroque Concertos with Recorder - Treasures from Swedish collections (2022) [Of Digital Download]

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Höör Barock, Emelie Roos - Baroque Concertos with Recorder - Treasures from Swedish collections (2022) [Of Digital Download]

Höör Barock, Emelie Roos - Baroque Concertos with Recorder - Treasures from Swedish collections (2022) [Of Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 1:08:17 | 1.36 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos Sweden - Proprius Records

The Swedish virtuoso recorder player Emelie Roos is a multifaceted musician. Having grown up with folk music, violin, recorder and singing, Emelie is today active as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagog and producer. Emelie has played together with the leading Baroque orchestras and ensembles of Sweden. She has been engaged as a soloist with both symphony orchestra and string orchestra, and as a theater musician in theater and opera house. As artistic director of Höör Barock, Emelie has, together with lutenist Dohyo Sol, managed to create an international centre of Early Music in their small hometown.

New York Virtuoso Singers - McClelland: Where the Shadow Glides (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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New York Virtuoso Singers - McClelland: Where the Shadow Glides (2022) [Official Digital Download]

New York Virtuoso Singers - McClelland: Where the Shadow Glides (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 1:12:53 | 635 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of very early texts, including Catullus’ movingly elegiac lament for his lost brother, These Last Gifts, an experience shared by the composer. The short pieces in Five for Piano all evoke specific poems and, composed over several decades, McClelland’s songs are primarily settings of poetry by American writers that express a mystical, symbolic or visionary view on nature.

Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra - Rossini: La scala di seta (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra - Rossini: La scala di seta (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra - Rossini: La scala di seta (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-48kHz] +Booklet | 1:28:16 | 953 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Gioachino Rossini was only 20 when he was commissioned to compose La scala di seta. It is one of four farsa comica operas which fed popular demand for this genre in Venice in the early 19th century and was wildly successful with its original audiences. Assisted by the silken ladder of the title, the diverting romantic intrigues of the narrative revolve around secretive assignations and obtuse misunderstandings, by no means helped by the presence of the slow-witted manservant Germano, in one of Rossini’s most successful comedies.

Anders Hagberg & Johannes Lundberg - ma (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Anders Hagberg & Johannes Lundberg - ma (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Anders Hagberg & Johannes Lundberg - ma (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 56:11 | 949 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Naxos Sweden/Prophone Records

Hagberg has a unique voice on his instruments, blending Eastern inspiration with the Scandinavian sounds in a wonderful way. Anders Hagberg creates a unique world of sound.From quiet wonder to expressive, explosive exuberance.

Zina Schiff, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Avlana Eisenberg - Still: Orchestral Works (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Zina Schiff, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Avlana Eisenberg - Still: Orchestral Works (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Zina Schiff, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Avlana Eisenberg - Still: Orchestral Works (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:00:15 | 1,14 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

William Grant Still, the “Dean of Afro-American Composers,” was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote nearly 200 works including nine operas and five symphonies. Still’s many awards included three Guggenheim Fellowships and eight honorary doctorates. His work combines Classical forms with jazz and blues idioms and was inspired by the rich tradition of African American spirituals. Still hoped that his music would serve a larger purpose of interracial understanding, and this joyous, moving and hauntingly beautiful program - featuring all world premiere recordings - is infused with Still’s love of God, country, heritage, and even his mischievous dog Shep.

European Union Chamber Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber - Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Cellos (2014) [Official Digital Download]

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European Union Chamber Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber - Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Cellos (2014)  [Official Digital Download]

European Union Chamber Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber - Vivaldi: Concertos for 2 Cellos (2014) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 01:02:40 | 1,11 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

The first arranger of Vivaldi’s concertos was Vivaldi himself, and Julian Lloyd Webber’s new versions in this recording reflect the composer’s pragmatic attitude and zest for experiment. Vivaldi’s Concerto in G minor RV 531 is his only original concerto for two cellos. Alongside this appear works both popular and recently discovered, the mercurial moods of the cellos representing instruments from mandolins to hunting horns. Piazzolla’s Milonga displays all of his most distinctive hallmarks. Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed album A Tale of Two Cellos can be found on Naxos 8573251. This release follows Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber’s highly successful album A Tale of Two Cellos (8573251), with its two cellos “beautifully played and blended together” (Gramophone) and considered a thing of “rare beauty” by The Strad. This recording of Vivaldi concertos will have poignant associations and special value for Julian’s many fans, as he has since been forced to withdraw from performing due to injury. Vivaldi’s ever popular music dressed anew by such an internationally outstanding artist is a guarantee of global interest and very substantial sales.

Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes - Roussel: Le testament de la tante Caroline, L. 59 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes - Roussel: Le testament de la tante Caroline, L. 59  (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes - Roussel: Le testament de la tante Caroline, L. 59 (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 1:08:57 | 1,22 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Le Testament de la Tante Caroline ("Aunt Caroline’s Will") remains one of Roussel’s least-known works. It’s an energetic and imaginative operetta that sits perfectly in the lineage of French musical comedy, with a plot that concerns the conditions attached to the mischievous aunt’s will. The text is inimitably Parisian and Roussel responded with graceful and elegant writing that for some contemporary critics evoked the music of one his orchestral masterpieces, Le Festin de l’araignée. The operetta is heard here in the revision requested by Roussel’s widow which cuts three acts down to one.

Byron Fidetzis, Sofia Amadeus Orchestra - Petridis Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos (2021) [ODD]

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Byron Fidetzis, Sofia Amadeus Orchestra - Petridis Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos (2021) [ODD]

Byron Fidetzis, Sofia Amadeus Orchestra, Sofia Metropolitan Golden Voices, Golden Voices of Ruse - Petridis: Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos & Other Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.10 kHz | Time - 02:08:58 | 1.27 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

Using a polyphonic musical language that draws on medieval Byzantine chant, Petros Petridis can be considered one of the most important proponents of the Greek National School. The Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos mourns the end of the Byzantine Empire with elegiac lyricism culminating in an ultimately uplifting finale. The Third Symphony is a musical tribute to France, Petridis’s adopted home, while the Concerto grosso enriches an older form with contemporary colour. All of these works are eminently representative of this composer’s significant aesthetic and creative achievements.

Nazrin Rashidova - Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 4 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Nazrin Rashidova - Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 4 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Nazrin Rashidova - Sauret: 24 Études-caprices, Vol. 4 (2020))
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 1:05:49 | 1280 mb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover, d.booklet

The final volume of the 24 Études-Caprices by the internationally renowned virtuoso Émile Sauret, crowns one of the most impressive but seldom performed bodies of solo violin writing in the entire canon. In the last five Études, once again played by Nazrin Rashidova on Sauret’s own Stradivarius violin, the full range of his art can be heard, from double- and triple-stopping, to registral leaps, chordal and staccato techniques and exercises for absolute control of the bow. Of Volume 3 (8.573975) The Strad wrote: ‘Rashidova plays superbly’.

Mao Fujita - Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Mao Fujita - Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Mao Fujita - Chopin: Impromptus & Scherzos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 1:12:55 | 1.13 Gb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover, d.booklet

Chopin turned the Scherzo into a new form of piano composition: an independent virtuoso work which he laced with drama, Polish folk song, tranquillity and nuance. With their rhythmic lilt and filigree ornamentation the Impromptus are infused with Romantic freedom, while the Allegro de concert, Op. 46 was originally conceived as a movement for a projected piano concerto but was instead revised for solo piano.