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    Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque - Just Biber (2025)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 1 Jul 2025 13:53:52
    Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque - Just Biber (2025)

    Rachel Podger & Brecon Baroque - Just Biber (2025)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:46 | 301 Mb
    Genre: Classical

    Following up her critically acclaimed recording of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's Rosary Sonatas, violinist and musical director Rachel Podger leads Brecon Baroque on Just Biber, an album of Sonatas from Biber's 1681 collection Sonatæ Violino Solo and his theatrical Sonata Representivo. These works are extremely virtuosic with extensive multiple stopping and dazzling passages of stylus fantasticus. In Biber’s time, harmony was something cosmic, vibrating in a God-given resonance between human, instrumental and celestial bodies. Dedicated to Archbishop Maximilian Gandolf, the sonatas were not only designed to delight, but also potentially to balm and heal; Biber described the sonatas as a kind of prayer for the Archbishop’s longevity and good health.
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    Olivier Stankiewicz, Armand Djikoloum, Theo Plath - Zelenka: Trio Sonatas Zwv 181 & Ghosts (2024)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 6 Jun 2024 13:45:06
    Olivier Stankiewicz, Armand Djikoloum, Theo Plath - Zelenka: Trio Sonatas Zwv 181 & Ghosts (2024)

    Olivier Stankiewicz, Armand Djikoloum, Theo Plath - Zelenka: Trio Sonatas Zwv 181 & Ghosts (2024)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:53:32 | 579 Mb
    Genre: Classical

    Zelenka understood better than virtually all of his contemporaries how to stretch the musical rules of his time; he composed in a highly complex, contrapuntal manner, employing long themes which often deviate from conventional structures. On top of this, Zelenka constantly uses unusually distant harmonies to intensify the expression of his music. With his absolute desire for expressivity and his courage to burst the musical bounds of the period, Zelenka counts as a modernist in Baroque music. The six trio sonatas recorded on this CD present the largest group of Zelenka's chamber music for a single ensemble. Despite their high quality they were forgotten for centuries; they were only rediscovered a few decades ago. Our fascination for this rich and profound music has spurred us on to come closer on this CD to the special tonal language, evocative complexity, and audacious invention of Zelenka’s music. A challenge, but also a special feature, of our work on these pieces has been the creation of a playable score on the basis of the surviving—barely readable and sometimes clearly erroneous—manuscript sources.
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    Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz - Licht! 800 Years of German Lied (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 6 Oct 2023 00:25:55
    Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz - Licht! 800 Years of German Lied (2023)

    Anna Lucia Richter & Ammiel Bushakevitz - Licht! 800 Years of German Lied (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:13:31 | 170 / 266 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label:Challenge Classics

    After her Schumann disc (CC 72867), we are glad to present a new disc by great mezzosoprano Anna Lucia Richter. The theme of of the disc is: Light. The repertoire encompasses eight hundred years of German Lieder.
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    Mike Fentross & La Sfera Armoniosa - Van Wassenaer: VI Concerti Armonici (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 29 Sep 2023 02:28:28
    Mike Fentross & La Sfera Armoniosa - Van Wassenaer: VI Concerti Armonici (2023)

    Mike Fentross & La Sfera Armoniosa - Van Wassenaer: VI Concerti Armonici (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 57:05 | 310 / 131 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    A live recording of van Wassenaer's Concerti Armonici by the well established Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa. This is the third instalment in La Sfera Armoniosa survey of most important Baroque orchestral works from the Netherlands.
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    Delta Piano Trio - Milking Darkness (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 29 Sep 2023 01:36:38
    Delta Piano Trio - Milking Darkness (2023)

    Delta Piano Trio - Milking Darkness (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 69:38 | 226 / 160 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    If you mix every colour of paint together, you end up with black. Similarly, the darkness in the music of Lera Auberbach (b. 1973) consists of every imaginable shade of colour, from pitch darkness to dazzling light. The composer thus captures the mercuriality of life and the human psyche. Her music sometimes also depicts a dance with the inescapable: the struggle against Fate, the inexorable passing of time, an unattainable dream – but always with black humour and a dark though starlit sky. ‘Many composers create something “beautiful”, outside human reality,’ according to the Delta Piano Trio, who worked hard with Auberbach in preparing for this album. ‘Instead, Lera’s music is raw as well as human. She never eases up on what she wants to express, which would rob the music of all its fervour.’It was Auerbach’s own idea to call this album Milking Darkness. The Delta Piano Trio feels that it is a fitting description not only of her work as a whole but also of the intense effect her music can have.
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    Thilo Dahlmann, Hedayet Djeddikar - The Last Epiphany (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 15 Jul 2023 06:47:31
    Thilo Dahlmann, Hedayet Djeddikar - The Last Epiphany (2023)

    Thilo Dahlmann, Hedayet Djeddikar - The Last Epiphany (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:11:18 | 276 / 163 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Baritone Thilo Dahlmann couples the innocence and beauty of Brahms' Volkslieder with the the despair and mourning of Glanzberg's Holocaust Lieder.
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    Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, Artem Belogurov, Victor García García - From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 7 Jul 2023 06:37:55
    Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, Artem Belogurov, Victor García García - From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo

    Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, Artem Belogurov, Victor García García - From Mannheim to Berlin - Sonatas for Violoncello Piccolo
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:08:31 | 338 / 159 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde: In 2018, I acquired a beautiful Baroque cello labeled J. M. Alban, fecit 17… a Graz. The instrument is of a smaller size than today’s standard cello, and the sound is silky, malleable and rich. I had heard of the existence of four-string violoncello piccolos (tuned G-d-a-e’) during the 17th and 18th centuries, and soon I decided to try this tuning on my small 18th-century cello. The result was impressive: the instrument’s tone became bright, crystalline and colourful, with an enhanced singing quality on the top string. This new voice of the Alban was an exciting discovery, and I set my mind to recording a full programme featuring my four-string violoncello piccolo.
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    Jadran Duncumb, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi - Lachrimae (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 3 Jun 2023 11:09:36
    Jadran Duncumb, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi - Lachrimae (2023)

    Jadran Duncumb, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi - Lachrimae (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:06:59 | 333 / 153 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    From 1598 to 1606 Dowland entered the service of Christian IV of Denmark as court lutenist. Having had the opportunity to go to England both for the musical needs of the court and "on his own account," he stayed in London from the summer of 1603 to the summer of 1604. During this stay he published Lachrimae or Seaven Teares (1604), a collection he dedicated to Anne of Denmark, sister of Christian IV and, since 1589, wife of the new king, James I.
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    Solveig Steinthorsdottir - Ysaye: Solo Violin Sonatas 1-6 Op. 27 (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 2 Jun 2023 07:39:22
    Solveig Steinthorsdottir - Ysaye: Solo Violin Sonatas 1-6 Op. 27 (2023)

    Solveig Steinthorsdottir - Ysaye: Solo Violin Sonatas 1-6 Op. 27 (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 65:34 | 320 / 150 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    In summer of 1923, Eugene Ysaÿe heard his friend Joseph Szigeti perform one of J.S. Bach’s Solo Violin Sonatas. Afterwards, on his way to a sojourn at the beach in Le Zoute, Ysaÿe couldn’t stop thinking about the performance: “When one hears an artist like Szigeti, who is able to accommodate his playing to the rectangular lines of the great classics as easily as he can to the expressive melodies of the romantics, one feels how absorbing it would be to compose a work for the violin whilst keeping ever before one the style of one particular violinist.” On arrival at the resort, Ysaÿe disappeared into his room for a couple of days and emerged with sketches of Six Violin Sonatas (Op. 27), each imagined with the sound and style of a specific artist ringing in his ears.
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    Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml, Dominique Visse - Vinum et Musica: Songs & dances from Nuremberg sources (2012)

    Posted By: tirexiss
    Date: 5 Apr 2023 16:59:19
    Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml, Dominique Visse - Vinum et Musica: Songs & dances from Nuremberg sources (2012)

    Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml, Dominique Visse - Vinum et Musica: Songs & dances from Nuremberg sources (15th & 16th century) (2012)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 70:01 | 319 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Challenge Records | Catalog: CC72544

    What you get on this release by veteran countertenor Dominique Visse and the Capella de la Torre is something less accessible than what is suggested by the Vinum et Musica title but more accessible than the pedantic subtitle "Songs & dances from Nuremberg sources (15th & 16th century)." The collection of pieces here is a sort of tour of the city of Nuremberg, an important German city in Renaissance times but not one that was home to its own compositional school.
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    Ella van Poucke - Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 19, Two Pieces for Cello and Piano Op. 2 Shalygin (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 18 Feb 2023 12:53:12
    Ella van Poucke - Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 19, Two Pieces for Cello and Piano Op. 2 Shalygin (2023)

    Ella van Poucke - Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 19, Two Pieces for Cello and Piano Op. 2 Shalygin (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:12:33 | 302 / 165 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Rachmaninov's ten chamber works, two of them left incomplete, all date from his late teens or early twenties. The 2 Pieces, Op 2 - Prélude and Danse orientale for cello and piano – date from 1891-2.
    The most widely performed of Rachmaninov's chamber compositions is the Cello Sonata. Rachmaninov completed this sonata in November 1901. On 2nd December the composer and the celebrated cellist Anatoly Brandukov, to whom the work is dedicated, gave the premiere in Moscow. Rachmaninov's sonata is a gem of the cello-sonata repertoire.
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    Georg Kjurdian - Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 78 & 110 - Bach French Suite No. 5 in G Major BWV 816 - Brahms 7 Fantasies Op. 116

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 18 Feb 2023 06:30:34
    Georg Kjurdian - Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 78 & 110 - Bach French Suite No. 5 in G Major BWV 816 - Brahms 7 Fantasies Op. 116

    Georg Kjurdian - Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 78 & 110 - Bach French Suite No. 5 in G Major BWV 816 - Brahms 7 Fantasies Op. 116
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:11:26 | 255 / 163 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Another exceptional debut at Challenge Classics: the 28-year-old Latvian pianist Georg Kjurdian presents a thoroughly mature recital with music from the three big B'sHis piano playing is characterized by a deep knowledge and understanding of the works, impeccable technique, truly natural phrasing, a gift for melody, an impressive sonority and a subtle ability to convey the nuances of the score.
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    Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 3 Feb 2023 06:37:49
    Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023)

    Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 52:39 | 209 / 120 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Obwohl beide Meister denselben Text verwenden, unterscheiden sich die Vertonungen sowohl in ihrer Art als auch in ihrer Form erheblich. Während Haydns Melodien den Inhalt mit einem Augenzwinkern und viel Feinsinnigkeit präsentieren, lädt Holzers Stück vor Lebensfreude und Musikalität sprühend zum Mittanzen ein. Joseph Haydns Lieder umfassen ein breites musikalisches Spektrum und sind für die Entwicklung der Gattung von unschätzbarem Wert: Sie stellen einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung des Wiener Liedes bis hin zu Franz Schubert dar. Wie bei vielen Wiener Charakteristika vermischen sich verschiedenste Stilmittel: volkstümliche Elemente, Merkmale des Singspielliedes und des norddeutschen Liedes werden unter dem zusätzlichen Einfluss der italienischen Arie zu einer völlig neuen Musikgattung geformt. Die Verbindung zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert wird durch französische Lieder hergestellt, die erstmals 1810 von dem italienischen Gitarrenvirtuosen Mauro Giuliani in Wien ausgegeben wurden. Für dieses Projekt wurde ein historisches Streichinstrument gewählt, um ein noch größeres Gefühl der Intimität zu erzeugen.
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    Fabio Antonio Falcone - The Art of Variation - Secular Cycles (2023)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 6 Jan 2023 11:01:03
    Fabio Antonio Falcone - The Art of Variation - Secular Cycles (2023)

    Fabio Antonio Falcone - The Art of Variation - Secular Cycles (2023)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 58:35 | 363 / 134 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    The leading Dutch label releases a disc of music by the greatest Dutch master, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Fabio Antonio Falcone presents the well known sets of variations on secular songs and dances. A specialist in 16th-century keyboard repertoire, Falcone revives these celebrated masterpieces, highlighting the wealth of their contrasting shades in a recording rich in contrasting colours, enhanced by the use of the famous Johannes Ruckers harpsichord (1632/1745) preserved at the Musee d'art et d'histoire in Neuchatel.
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    Daniel Rowland & Borys Fedorov - The Messenger (2022)

    Posted By: ciklon5
    Date: 25 Nov 2022 05:18:31
    Daniel Rowland & Borys Fedorov - The Messenger (2022)

    Daniel Rowland & Borys Fedorov - The Messenger (2022)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:21:58 | 187 / 302 Mb
    Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

    Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called the Ukrainian Valentyn Silvestrov "one of the greatest composers of our time”. He is also one of its true originals; though a leading figure in the former Soviet Union’s avant-garde in the 1960s, he subsequently came to realise that "the most important lesson of the avant-garde was to be free of all preconceived ideas – particularly those of the avant-garde. Over time, Silvestrov’s compositional practice evolved into what he would come to call his "metaphorical style" or "meta-music". The composer wishes his works to be seen as "codas" to musical history: "I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists".
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