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Gould Piano Trio - Marschner: Piano Trios, Vol.1 (2024)

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Gould Piano Trio - Marschner: Piano Trios, Vol.1 (2024)

Gould Piano Trio - Marschner: Piano Trios, Vol.1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:02:45 | 250 Mb
Genre: Classical

Heinrich Marschner’s role as Germany’s leading Romantic operatic composer in the generation between Weber and Wagner has tended to draw attention away from his accomplished chamber compositions. Marschner had a high regard for the piano trio genre, composing seven throughout his career, which won the admiration of his friends Robert and Clara Schumann. The Trio No. 1 in A minor is profusely lyrical and not without surprises and contrasts. Written three decades later, the Trio No. 7 in F major is a work of his maturity – assured, dramatic and energetic.

Sonia Prina, Massimo Mercelli, Erica Piccotti, FVG Orchestra and Nir Kabaretti - Carrara: The Devil’s Bridge (2024)

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Sonia Prina, Massimo Mercelli, Erica Piccotti, FVG Orchestra and Nir Kabaretti - Carrara: The Devil’s Bridge (2024)

Sonia Prina, Massimo Mercelli, Erica Piccotti, FVG Orchestra and Nir Kabaretti - Carrara: The Devil’s Bridge (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:02:30 | 334 Mb
Genre: Classical

Cristian Carrara, born and educated in the Friuli region of north-east Italy, has earned critical admiration as one of the most creative composers of his generation. Clarity and directness inform much of his music, as does a sense of mystery, examples of which can be heard on this album. These recent works were composed during 2016–21 and focus on dialogues between a solo instrument and the orchestra. All are strongly narrative in character but as The Devil’s Bridge shows, they are also informed by rhythmic vivacity and a rich variety of instrumental colour.

Dresdner Philharmonie - Bellini I Puritani (2024)

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Dresdner Philharmonie - Bellini I Puritani (2024)

Dresdner Philharmonie - Bellini I Puritani (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:43:54 | 708 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic) is a German symphony orchestra based in Dresden. Its principal concert venue is the Kulturpalast. The orchestra also performs at the Kreuzkirche and the Frauenkirche Dresden. It receives financial support from the city of Dresden. The choral ensembles affiliated with the orchestra are the Dresden Philharmonic Choir and Dresden Philharmonic Chamber Choir.

OneRepublic - Artificial Paradise (Super Deluxe) (2024)

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OneRepublic - Artificial Paradise (Super Deluxe) (2024)

OneRepublic - Artificial Paradise (Super Deluxe) (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:46 | 477 Mb
Genre: Pop Rock

Sixth studio album from Grammy® nominated OneRepublic who is comprised of singer / songwriter and lead vocalist Ryan Tedder, guitarists Zach Filkins and Drew Brown, keys Brian Willett, bassist and cellist Brent Kutzle, and drummer Eddie Fisher.

Cher - Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (2024)

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Cher - Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (2024)

Cher - Christmas (Deluxe Edition) (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:03:53 | 444 Mb
Genre: Pop

Cher Possessor of an instantly recognizable voice that has powered numerous hits, both as half of Sonny & Cher and as a solo artist seemingly able to transcend any genre, Cher is a musical legend and a pop culture icon. After the smash success of Sonny & Cher's folk/rock and pop recordings of the '60s and the duo's hit TV show, she scored hits on her own, such as "Half Breed" and "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" in the '70s before switching into disco mode for "Take Me Home." In the '80s, she became an esteemed actress, with lead roles in the highly acclaimed films Mask and Moonstruck (the latter earned her an Oscar). She followed that by returning to the pop charts in the late '80s with "If I Could Turn Back Time" and, ten years later, becoming a Madonna-like dance-pop diva with the megahit "Believe."

Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish (Deluxe) (2024)

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Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish (Deluxe) (2024)

Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish (Deluxe) (2024)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 391 MB | Cover | 55:00 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 129 MB
Vocal Jazz, Soul, Xmas | Label: Universal Music Division Decca Records France

Gregory Porter has announced a deluxe edition of his album Christmas Wish. Due out December 6th, the deluxe edition will feature newly-recorded tracks from Porter.

Ringo Starr - Give More Love (2017)

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Ringo Starr - Give More Love (2017)

Ringo Starr - Give More Love (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 359 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 131 Mb | Scans included
Label: Universal/Roccabella | # 00602557804164 | Time: 00:52:44
Classic Rock, Pop/Rock

Ringo Starr kicks off Give More Love, his 18th studio album of new material, with "We're on the Road Again," an ode to the working musician that effectively summarizes the third act of his career. Following the formation of the All-Starr Band, Ringo has stuck to a regular schedule of tours and albums that pop up every two or three years. Paul McCartney shows up every so often, as he does on Give More Love, singing and playing on "We're on the Road Again" – a cameo that provides a promotional hook for its initial release, but doesn't drastically change the sound of the album. Starr remains fond of late-period Beatles, goosed with a bit of arena rock volume, and since he's working with a group of well-seasoned pros, this guitar pop is all well crafted and amiable.

Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! 30th Anniversary Edition (2024)

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Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! 30th Anniversary Edition (2024)

Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! 30th Anniversary Edition (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:34:38 | 1.06 Gb
Genre: Rock

Roxette With their hooky brand of dance-oriented pop/rock, Sweden's Roxette rose to fame as one of the biggest global pop acts of the '80s and '90s. Second in Sweden only to ABBA in terms of commercial success, the duo sold over 75 million records around the world, earning number ones in several countries with 1988's Look Sharp!, 1991's Joyride, and 1994's Crash! Boom! Bang!. They dominated the charts with songs like "The Look," "Listen to Your Heart," "Joyride," and "It Must Have Been Love," all four of which hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (1999)

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Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (1999)

Sneaker Pimps - Splinter (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 367 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans ~ 90 Mb
Trip Hop, Alternative Pop/Rock | Label: Clean Up | # CUP040CD | Time: 00:55:50

Sneaker Pimps followed the debut success of Becoming X with the different, yet strangely familiar, Splinter. Kelli Dayton, whose haunting vocals made songs like "Spin Spin Sugar" and "6 Underground" so evocative, is no longer with the group. While this takes the listener a few moments to re-adjust – Dayton's voice was, after all, what made Sneaker Pimps so accessible – this album is still worth the effort. Splinter is a superb disc, full of trancey, edgy psychedelia, interspersed with moments of blistering rock. The new vocalist, Chris Corner, is not nearly as good a singer as Dayton, although his breathy – and at times whiney – vocals suit these songs well. Although the comparisons with Portishead, Massive Attack, and Garbage are inevitable, the Sneaker Pimps have created an intricate album of trip-hop that is every bit as original as any of their contemporaries. While Splinter may not have the standout singles that Becoming X had, it's pleasantly low-key and occasionally brilliant.

Emile Parisien Quintet With Joachim Kuhn - Sfumato (2016)

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Emile Parisien Quintet With Joachim Kuhn - Sfumato (2016)

Émile Parisien Quintet With Joachim Kühn - Sfumato (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 360 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: ACT | # ACT 9837-2 | Time: 00:58:22

French saxophonist Émile Parisien, instigator of some of the most musical, formidably skilful yet wackily diverting adventures in recent European jazz, makes a rare UK visit in a duo at November’s London jazz festival, but this exuberant album rams home the full Parisien experience, with a new quintet, regular accordion partner Vincent Peirani, and two revered European elder statesmen in German pianist Joachim Kühn and French bass clarinet original Michel Portal. From the opening vibrato-trembling soprano sax Préambule (Parisien can be a spiky avantist, but he’s a devoted Sidney Bechet admirer, too), through the hard-swinging Poulp – which sounds like the work of a 21st-century Hot Club band with Ornette Coleman leanings – through the contemporary-noir doom-walk of Brainmachine or the accordion-throbbing Umckaloabo, Parisien leads an exhilarating genre-hop bubbling with captivating remakes of US and European jazz traditions. And Kühn, a majestic soloist inside or outside conventional harmony, sounds as if he’s been an instantly responsive communicator with this lineup – and particularly the leader – for years.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (1979) 2CDs, Reissue 1996

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Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 (1979) 2CDs, Reissue 1996

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Ballet In Four Acts, Op. 20 (1979) 2CDs, Reissue 1996
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 658 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 343 Mb | Scans ~ 52 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 453 055-2 | Time: 02:30:04

Swan Lake was the first of Tchaikovsky's three great ballets– works which added a new level of depth and sophistication to what had been a purely superficial art form. Today the music is so well-known and popular that it's impossible to comprehend the difficulties the composer experienced at early performances. Audiences found the music "too symphonic," and the dancers were put off by the prominence given to the orchestra which, they felt, distracted ballet fans from the action on stage. Of course, all of these supposed "defects" are precisely what we admire about the music today, and this elegant but exciting performance reveals the music in all of its glory.

Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano (1957) Remastered Reissue 1987

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Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano (1957) Remastered Reissue 1987

Red Garland - Red Garland's Piano (1957) Remastered Reissue 1987
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 189 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 109 Mb | Scans included
Label: Original Jazz Classics, Prestige | # OJCCD-073-2 (P-7086)
Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Piano Jazz | Time: 00:44:50

Red Garland's third session as a leader finds the distinctive pianist investigating eight standards (including "Please Send Me Someone to Love," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "If I Were a Bell," and "Almost Like Being in Love") with his distinctive chord voicings, melodic but creative ideas, and solid sense of swing. Joined by bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor, Garland plays up to his usual consistent level, making this an easily recommended disc for straight-ahead fans.

Jaakko Luoma, Janne Nisonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Bassoon Concertos: Mozart, Winter, Hummel, Rossini (2019)

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Jaakko Luoma, Janne Nisonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Bassoon Concertos: Mozart, Winter, Hummel, Rossini (2019)

Jaakko Luoma, Janne Nisonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Bassoon Concertos: Mozart, Winter, Hummel, Rossini (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1324-2 | Recorded: 2017

The material on this release by Finnish bassoonist Jaakko Luoma with the marvelous Tapiola Sinfonietta under Janne Nisonen may seem obscure enough to be aimed at bassoonists only. They will certainly find a valuable repertory here, but the album is of considerably wider interest. The only remotely familiar work is the Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K. 191, by the young Mozart, an elegant work in the French style that receives a suitably bittersweet performance.

Maria Cristina Kiehr, Jean-Marc Aymes, Concerto Soave - Alessandro Scarlatti: Bella madre dei fiori, Cantates (2009)

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Maria Cristina Kiehr, Jean-Marc Aymes, Concerto Soave - Alessandro Scarlatti: Bella madre dei fiori, Cantates (2009)

Maria Cristina Kiehr, Jean-Marc Aymes, Concerto Soave - Alessandro Scarlatti: Bella madre dei fiori, Cantates (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 461 Mb | Total time: 72:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMG 501725 | Recorded: 2000

In attempting to select something from the vast pool of solo cantatas left behind by Alessandro Scarlatti, it's hard to know what to highlight. Argentine soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr, a prominent European early music specialist who honed her craft in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under René Jacobs, casts in her lot with both the elder Scarlatti and Concerto Soave in a recital consisting of three of the elder Scarlatti's solo cantatas in Harmonia Mundi's Alessandro Scarlatti: Bella madre de' fiori.

Kodály Quartet - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 54 Nos. 1-3 (1990)

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Kodály Quartet - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 54 Nos. 1-3 (1990)

Kodály Quartet - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 54 Nos. 1-3 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 62:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.550395 | Recorded: 1989

The Naxos recordings by the Kodály Quartet are outstanding in every way and would. The performances are superbly shaped, naturally paced and alive; the playing is cultivated, yet it has depth of feeling too, and the group readily communicate their pleasure in this wonderful music. …The digital recording has vivid presence and just the right amount of ambience: the effect is entirely natural.