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Pino De Vittorio, Laboratorio '600 - Ninna Nanna: Lullabies from Baroque Italy (2019)

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Pino De Vittorio, Laboratorio '600 - Ninna Nanna: Lullabies from Baroque Italy (2019)

Pino De Vittorio, Laboratorio '600 - Ninna Nanna: Lullabies from Baroque Italy (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 361 Mb | Total time: 78:34 | Covers included
Classical | Label: Glossa | GCD P33033 | Recorded: 2019

With Ninna Nanna the haunting tones, dramatic intensity and richly characterized singing of Pino De Vittorio once again grace a recording project led by Franco Pavan. Call it Wiegenlied, berceuse, nana, ninna nanna – or countless other terms from around the world – the lullaby, with the rocking of the child’s cradle, is possessed of a captivating charm, all neatly captured in this new collection with the lulling of De Vittorio’s hypnotic voice.

André Previn, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Concerto in F (2011)

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André Previn, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Concerto in F (2011)

André Previn, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Concerto in F (2011)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 256 Mb | Total time: 63:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 478 3355 | Recorded: 1984

Gershwin s Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most successful fusions of classical music and jazz ever, and is one of the most popular of all American concert works. Gershwin described the piece, which opens with an unforgettable two-and-a-half octave glissando wail on the clarinet, as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot… … our metropolitan madness.

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)

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Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent - William Byrd: Infelix ego (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 207 Mb | Total time: 49:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: PHI | # LPH014 | Recorded: 2013

Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their third project for Phi focussing on vocal music of the Renaissance. This time, it is the English composer William Byrd (c.1540-1623) who is being honoured. The title of the programme is that of Byrd’s motet Infelix ego, one of the greatest artistic statements of the 16th century. Its text is a meditation on Psalm 50, written by the Dominica Girolamo Savonarola, a remarkable man who waged a campaign against the corrupt Medici family in Florence.

Petri Kumela - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (2007)

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Petri Kumela - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (2007)

Petri Kumela - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 193 Mb | Total time: 63:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Recoords | # ABCD 244 | Recorded: 2006

Typically, Finnish musicians succeed by doing something highly unusual exceptionally well. Guitarist Petri Kumela is different because he’s done all kinds of things exceptionally well: Bach, flamenco, microtonal avant-garde, Fernando Sor on a period guitar and musical theatre. The career of Finland’s most fascinating classical guitarist is based on a do-it-yourself spirit and curiosity.

Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)

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Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)

Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins - Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber (2024)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 78:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97118 | Recorded: 2022

This beautifully conceived program brings together the complete works for piano duet by three major American composers: Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Samuel Barber (1910-1981).

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)

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Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SWR Music | # SWR19130CD | Recorded: 2021, 2022

In 1884, Antonín Dvořák undertook his first concert tour to England. This was to become a highlight of his career to date and brought him international recognition and economic security. It was a time of private and professional bliss. It is interesting to note, however, that the Seventh Symphony by no means reflects a consistently pastoral, idyllic atmosphere. On the contrary, the music often has a dramatic and sombre effect. It is possible that Dvořák was coming to terms with the blows of fate he had suffered: he had lost his mother and three children.

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)

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Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)

Philip Pickett, New London Consort - Trionfi! A Florentine Festival (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 72:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: L'Oiseau Lyre | # 436 718-2 | Recorded: 1992

Italy was a very progressive country in the fine arts during the late medieval to the baroque eras; the arts were especially great in Florence! This is a fine tapestry of Italian renaissance music with rich instrumental sounds and voices that can swoon the senses. The instrumental arrangements are perfect and the singers sound like they're celebrating the songs, instead of performing them. Philip Pickett has always recorded some of the finest early music.

Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)

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Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)

Marianne Crebassa, Fazil Say - Secrets: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Duparc (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 79:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | 9029576897 | Recorded: 2017

Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and pianist Fazıl Say share some tantalising, captivating and sensuous Secrets in this album of songs, centred on Debussy’s Trois Chansons de Bilitis, Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Fazıl Say’s own Gezi Park 3 – which he and Crebassa premiered in 2014. Describing the recording sessions, Marianne Crebassa says: “Sometimes we worked in a kind of trance … there were some moments when nothing seemed to exist around us …”

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2011)

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Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2011)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Orlande de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 74:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67887 | Recorded: 2010

Orlande de Lassus was an undisputed master of all the vocal genres of the late Renaissance, from German Lied to Latin Mass. He was extraordinarily prolific, and this recording features the glorious polyphony of the Missa Amor ecco colei and Prophetiae Sibyllarum, one of his most celebrated works. With the latter’s extreme chromaticism and constant modulation, Lassus stretched the compositional boundaries of the time to produce one of the most important and advanced works to come from the sixteenth century.

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2014)

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Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2014)

Teodor Currentzis, MusicAeterna - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 774 Mb | Total time: 02:57:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 887654661623 | Recorded: 2013

Sony Classical continues its major Mozart opera project with conductor Teodor Currentzis and his orchestra & choir MusicAeterna. A ‘no-compromise’ studio recording cycle of Mozart’s three Da Ponte operas. Living in a unique artistic community established on the edge of Siberia, the musicians work and record under ideal conditions towards Currentzis’ stated goal “to show what can be achieved if you avoid the factory approach of the classical music mainstream”. The soloists’ vocal technique is also markedly different to modern operatic interpretation, with a focus on intimacy and clarity, a use of vibrato remarkably restrictive even by today’s ‘period practice’ standards as well as an approach to melodic ornamentation derived from historic sources which cannot be heard in other performances of these works.

Sabine Vatin, Ensemble d'arco - Joseph Haydn: Piano Concertinos, String Trios (2006)

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Sabine Vatin, Ensemble d'arco - Joseph Haydn: Piano Concertinos, String Trios (2006)

Sabine Vatin, Ensemble d'arco - Joseph Haydn: Piano Concertinos, String Trios (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 373 Mb | Total time: 73:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557660 | Recorded: 2004

The scoring of Haydn’s Concertinos for keyboard and an accompaniment of two violins and a cello makes these early works available for performance either as chamber music in a domestic environment or with a string orchestra in the concert hall. They were written either shortly before or during Haydn’s first years in the service of the Esterházy family at Eisenstadt, and make relatively modest technical demands on the soloist, who retains prominence throughout. They are played here on a 19th century fortepiano, accompanied by three string players.

Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)

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Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)

Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou - Mendelssohn, Holliger, Rihm, Widmann, Coll (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 386 Mb | Total time: 01:23:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439934002 | Recorded: 2022, 2023

For her new double-album Sol Gabetta teams up with excellent French pianist Betrand Chamayou, with whom she plays sold out concerts in major concert halls. The album features Mendelssohn's complete works for cello and piano and new, short pieces written by famous contemporary composers Wolfgang Rihm, Heinz Holliger, Francisco Coll and Jörg Widman specifically for this album, all of which were inspired by Mendelssohn’s beautiful "Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109." The album was recorded at the famous new Philharmonie de Paris.

Jean-Louis Charbonnier - Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines, Deuxième Livre (1701), Deuxième Partie (2010)

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Jean-Louis Charbonnier - Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines, Deuxième Livre (1701), Deuxième Partie (2010)

Jean-Louis Charbonnier, Paul Rousseau, Mauricio Buraglia, Pierre Trocelier, Hélène Decoin, Philippe Suzanne - Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines, Deuxième Livre (1701), Deuxième Partie (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 678 Mb | Total time: 61:38+61:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ligia Digital | Lidi 0301218-10 | Recorded: 2010

Un disque qui s’inscrit dans l’intégrale des pièces de viole de Marin Marais, comprenant deux suites en ré majeur et sol majeur avec, en particulier, la très belle pièce intitulée Les voix humaines, toute d’intériorité et de gravité, hymne à la voix humaine et à l’instrument qui, à l’époque, s’en approchait le plus, la viole. La viole, seule, ou associée à d’autres instruments, la musique en général qui transcende la parole, qui enhardit, qui bouleverse, charme et aide à vivre ce compositeur admiré de la cour du Roi Soleil et de l’Europe entière, qui s’interroge sur les questions fondamentales de la vie, de la mort, du destin. L’essence des autres pièces est, avant tout, celle des musiques de danse, rythmées et jubilatoires. Une musique parfaitement interprétée, des danses mais aussi une méditation qui est un des moments forts de l’œuvre de Marin Marais.

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)

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Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 70:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67978 | Recorded: 2012

The Brabant Ensemble, better known for uncovering works by forgotten composers such as Dominique de Phinot, turns to a giant of the Renaissance—perhaps the most celebrated name of the period. Yet within Palestrina’s huge output there are many hidden gems, lacking both recordings and modern performing editions, and it is from among these that the ensemble’s director Stephen Rice has chosen the repertoire for this album. A Mass—Missa Ad coenam Agni, from Palestrina’s first book of Mass-settings—is included, plus antiphons, motets and five Eastertide Offertories. Each work is, as Stephen Rice states in his typically informative booklet notes, ‘a finely crafted addition to the liturgy’.

Sami Junnonen, Chamber Domaine - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartets (2018)

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Sami Junnonen, Chamber Domaine - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartets (2018)

Sami Junnonen, Chamber Domaine - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartets (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 194 Mb | Total time: 50:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Resonus Classics | RES10216 | Recorded: 2017

Finnish flute virtuoso Sami Junnonen joins the celebrated ensemble Chamber Domaine for a new recording of the complete Flute Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Junnonen is joined by Thomas Kemp (violin), Robert Smissen (viola) and Richard Harwood (cello). These four quartets, much admired as key works of this genre of the Classical era, see Chamber Domaine exploring new and broader musical avenues as the group looks to this earlier repertoire with stunning effect.