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Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2024)

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Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2024)

Alan Choo, Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:09:50 | 746 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Mystery Sonatas by Austrian composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, believed to have been penned in the 1670s, remain unsurpassed for their virtuosity and extended use of scordatura, a unique tuning system that underscores different aural colours and timbres of the violin, thereby illuminating the pictorial themes of the Rosary - the processions devoted to major moments in the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary - which Biber's work depicts.

Vincent Larderet - Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2024)

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Vincent Larderet - Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2024)

Vincent Larderet - Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:12:33 | 246 Mb
Genre: Classical

French pianist Vincent Larderet inaugurates a definitive, four-volume series of the composer's complete works for solo piano, signifying Vincent's fulfilment of a decades-long devotion his compatriot. This first-ever Urtext compilation of Ravel's complete works for solo piano is a landmark collection that embraces numerous world-premiere renditions. Many works, whilst familiar, are prepared and recorded from personal scores that were annotated by pianist and pedagogue Vlado Perlemuter during his private study and close collaboration with the composer between 1927 and 1929. These scores reveal invaluable insights to interpretation of such aspects as tempi, pedalling, phrasing and tonal colours. Through his tutelage under Perlemuter's student Carlos Cebro, Vincent Larderet is a direct inheritor of Ravel's ethos and interpretive style.

Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (2023)

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Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (2023)

Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:54:46 | 540 / 263 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Cantata Collective, an ensemble "of San Francisco early music luminaries" (San Francisco Chronicle) inaugurates a major series of J. S. Bach's choral works with a live recording of the composer's St. John Passion. With celebrated conductor Nicholas McGegan, the toast of today's new generation of vocal soloists and a three-to-a-part chamber choir, the Cantata Collective conveys the emotional intimacy and dramatic power of this monumental passion in a highly polished performance that led Early Music America to implore: "To the excellent musicians of Cantata Collective: More Bach Please!"

Kelly Hall-Tompkins - Forgotten Voices - A Song Cycle for Voices and Strings (2023)

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Kelly Hall-Tompkins - Forgotten Voices - A Song Cycle for Voices and Strings (2023)

Kelly Hall-Tompkins - Forgotten Voices - A Song Cycle for Voices and Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:01:08 | 247 / 140 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Music Kitchen wurde 2005 von Kelly Hall-Tompkins als erste Organisation gegründet, die Topkünstler zu Auftritten in Obdachlosenheimen gebracht hat. In über 100 Konzerten mit über 200 Künstlern, darunter Emanuel Ax oder Albrecht Mayer, hat die erhebende Kraft der Musik über 30.000 Bewohner von Obdachlosenheimen zwischen New York und Los Angeles erreicht. Seit Gründung der Reihe sind Hörerbeiträge eine tiefe Quelle für Inspiration und Achtung, die zur Feier des 15. Jahrestages in einen bahnbrechenden Liederzyklus münden sollten. Mit Unterstützung der New Yorker Carnegie Hall konnte „Forgotten Voices“ bei 15 Komponisten in Auftrag gegeben werden.

Susan Narucki & Donald Berman - This Island (2023)

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Susan Narucki & Donald Berman - This Island (2023)

Susan Narucki & Donald Berman - This Island (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 69:10 | 229 / 159 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

GRAMMY® Award-winning American soprano Susan Narucki, “one of the great practitioners of contemporary vocal music” (Opera News) presents This Island, a specially curated, unique set of 21 art songs written in the first half of the 20th century, chiefly by women and some receiving their world premiere recordings.

Daniel-Ben Pienaar - Byrd - Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds (2022)

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Daniel-Ben Pienaar - Byrd - Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds (2022)

Daniel-Ben Pienaar - Byrd - Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:43:33 | Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Daniel-Ben Pienaar continues his campaign of performing early music on a modern piano with an abundant selection of Pavans & Galliards, Variations & Grounds by William Byrd.

John Wilson - Upon Further Reflection (2022)

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John Wilson - Upon Further Reflection (2022)

John Wilson - Upon Further Reflection (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:09:10 | 202 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

The dynamic young American pianist John Wilson first encountered Michael Tilson Thomas in 2015 when he was a fellow with the New World Symphony. John’s protégé status quickly evolved to that of close confidant and collaborator, leading to this solo debut album featuring the world-premiere recording of the title track, Michael Tilson Thomas’s three-movement Suite for piano, Upon Further Reflection.

Nicholas Phan - Stranger - Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly (2022)

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Nicholas Phan - Stranger - Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly (2022)

Nicholas Phan - Stranger - Works for Tenor by Nico Muhly (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 63:35 | 282 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Nicholas Phan and Nico Muhly's collaboration began with a commission when Nick curated a series for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in 2020. The resulting song cycle, Stranger, finds common ground in the musicians’ reflections on identity and immigration, themes that resonate as much today as they have through the centuries. This world-premiere recording of Stranger compliments Nico’s Lorne Ys My Likinge, a setting of the 19th Chester Mystery Play, and Impossible Things, a triptych of poems by the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.Nick has recorded with a roll call of collaborators: the adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider, shimmering countertenor Reginald Mobley, bold pianist Lisa Kaplan, and transformative Brooklyn-based collective The Knights led by brothers Colin and Eric Jacobsen.

Sebastian Bohren - La Folia (2022)

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Sebastian Bohren - La Folia (2022)

Sebastian Bohren - La Folia (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 61:08 | 294 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

This album is an affectionate homage – to Ida Haendel, one of Sebastian Bohren's heroes; to fiddlers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and to the violin itself. The Swiss violinist says, “it is also like a hall of mirrors, as some tracks invoke the spirits of two or three violinists”.

John Matthew Myers - Desiderium – Barber • Griffes • Previn • Kander • Weill (2022)

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John Matthew Myers - Desiderium – Barber • Griffes • Previn • Kander • Weill (2022)

John Matthew Myers - Desiderium – Barber • Griffes • Previn • Kander • Weill (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless| 1:04:54 | 250 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

John Matthew Myers is rapidly in the ascendent. His debut album, "Desiderium", coincides with his Metropolitan Opera debut in Brett Dean’s Hamlet.

Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux & Fabio Bidini - Anne Akiko Meyers – Shining Night (2022)

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Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux & Fabio Bidini - Anne Akiko Meyers – Shining Night (2022)

Anne Akiko Meyers, Jason Vieaux & Fabio Bidini - Anne Akiko Meyers – Shining Night (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless| 67:04 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Shining Night is an exquisite album, expertly curated by leading violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, featuring new music and old music in new guises, embracing themes of love, poetry and nature, spanning the Baroque era to the present day.Anne Akiko Meyers has amassed a multitude of fans and admirers for her exquisitely curated recordings, often exploring her passion for new music, and old music in new guises. Her quest for creative collaborations has inspired countless commissions and world-premieres, with the results infusing Shining Night, an album that embraces themes of love, poetry and nature. Anne's fruitful association with composer Morten Lauridsen led to the arrangement of his popular choral work Sure on this Shining Night, for violin and piano, lending its name to the album's title. From there springs forth an album imbued with music of light and hope, spanning the history of music through Baroque, Romantic, Popular, and current genres.

Sara Sant'ambrogio - Paradise Found – Music for Cello and Piano by Bruce Wolosoff (2022)

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Sara Sant'ambrogio - Paradise Found – Music for Cello and Piano by Bruce Wolosoff (2022)

Sara Sant'ambrogio - Paradise Found – Music for Cello and Piano by Bruce Wolosoff (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 52:20 | 233 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

The distinguished New York-based composer-pianist Bruce Wolosoff synthesizes traditional tonal idioms with lifelong enthusiasms for jazz, blues, and rock music, creating a distinct musical language that speaks to the heart, but is unmistakably contemporary. His soaring, soulful melodies are strikingly suited to the cello, “in some ways my favourite instrument,” admits Wolosoff, “after my own of course.” For Paradise Found, Wolosoff reunites with Grammy Award-winning cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio – the pair previously collaborated on Wolosoff’s Cello Concerto, a Top 10 Billboard Classical chart hit – for the first recordings of his two Cello Sonatas, and two miniatures Circe and The Woods.

Borromeo String Quartet, Arneis Quartet & Delgani String Quartet - Icarus And Other Music By Elena Ruehr (2022)

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Borromeo String Quartet, Arneis Quartet & Delgani String Quartet - Icarus And Other Music By Elena Ruehr (2022)

Borromeo String Quartet, Arneis Quartet & Delgani String Quartet - Icarus And Other Music By Elena Ruehr (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 59:23 | 279 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Composer Elena Ruehr adds to her extensive discography with "Icarus", an album of chamber music infused with hints of history, legendary literature and close collaborations with a multitude of musical colleagues. The repertoire revolves around the string quartet, a genre that generated great acclaim for Elena’s Six String Quartets.

Jennifer Kloetzel & Robert Koenig - Beethoven: The Conquering Hero – Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2022)

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Jennifer Kloetzel & Robert Koenig - Beethoven: The Conquering Hero – Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2022)

Jennifer Kloetzel & Robert Koenig - Beethoven: The Conquering Hero – Complete Works for Cello and Piano (2022)
FLAC tracks | 2:52:10 | 608 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Avie Records

Jennifer Kloetzel’s lifelong journey with Beethoven began early: she was eight years old when her teacher placed the composer’s Second Cello Sonata on her music stand, opening the door to an odyssey of intrigue and, ultimately, obsession with the composer’s music. Since then, rarely has a day passed without Beethoven being a part of Jennifer’s life. She has studied and performed all of the composer’s duos and trios. As founding cellist of the Cypress String Quartet, she spent 20 years rehearsing, performing and recording the String Quartets.

Karim Sulayman & Yi-heng Yang - Where Only Stars Can Hear Us: Schubert Songs (2020)

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Karim Sulayman & Yi-heng Yang - Where Only Stars Can Hear Us: Schubert Songs (2020)

Karim Sulayman & Yi-heng Yang - Where Only Stars Can Hear Us: Schubert Songs (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 308 MB | Tracks: 18 | 67:18 min
Style: Classical | Label: AVIE Records

Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang transport the listener to Where Only Stars Can Hear Us with this album of songs by Franz Schubert that encapsulates emotions of joy and sorrow, darkness and light. In life and music, Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman is a master storyteller. Where Only Stars Can Hear Us is a journey through the songs of Franz Schubert, a composer who was able to capture joy and sorrow in a single moment like no other. Karim's voyage traverses themes of darkness and yearning, guided throughout by moonbeams and shining stars. His partner is historical keyboardist Yi-heng Yang who plays on a fortepiano built by Joseph Simon in Vienna in 1830, adding an air of authenticity from Schubert's time.