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Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 3 (2001)

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Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 3 (2001)

Werner Andreas Albert, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz - Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 3 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 59:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 818-2 | Recorded: 2001

Richard Wetz's ultra-conservative Third Symphony, like his second, resembles sort of a cross between Bruckner and Max Bruch. Not that this explains anything useful. One thing's for sure, though: Wetz writes beautiful music. His themes sing, stay with you when listening, and offer clearly contrasting moods and images. While never calling attention to itself in an ostentatious manner, Wetz's orchestration elucidates his musical arguments with perfect clarity and efficiency. His harmony, both diatonic and tastefully chromatic, is gorgeous. There's more than a touch of Schubert in his mixture of major and minor modes, and he knows how to use both discrete dissonance and fluid rhythms to carry his melodies across the bar lines. In short, the guy knows how to write symphonically, and if he now appears to have been born a generation or more too late (the piece dates from 1922 but sounds more like 1872), that need not concern us now.

Neil Finn - Albums & Singles Collection 1998-2001 (5CD)

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Neil Finn - Albums & Singles Collection 1998-2001 (5CD)

Neil Finn - Albums & Singles Collection 1998-2001 (5CD)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.3 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 483 Mb | Scans included
Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Folk-Rock | Time: 03:21:07

Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects.

hr-Sinfonieorchester, Frankfurt RSO, Arturo Tamayo - Bruno Maderna: Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol.1 (2009)

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hr-Sinfonieorchester, Frankfurt RSO, Arturo Tamayo - Bruno Maderna: Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol.1 (2009)

Bruno Maderna - Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol.1 (2009)
hr-Sinfonieorchester; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Tamayo

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 288 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: NEOS | # NEOS 10933 | Time: 01:13:00

With this disc, German label Neos takes on an enterprising project, Bruno Maderna: Complete Works for Orchestra, Vol. 1. Outside of Italy, Maderna is recognized as a significant figure within Italian avant-garde associated with Nono and Berio, but his music is not is well known as theirs, apart from his fanciful and hip Serenata per un satellite (1969). Within Italy, Maderna is remembered as one of her greatest conductors, although he is worshipped to such extent in that role that his compositions have been overlooked. Such a series, hopefully, would serve to redress the balance; Maderna's experience as conductor helped inform his compositions, and by having access to his orchestral pieces one might be able to determine to what extent his composing impacted his work as a conductor.

Nicholas Boulton - Great Composers in Words & Music: George Frideric Handel (2024)

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Nicholas Boulton - Great Composers in Words & Music: George Frideric Handel (2024)

Nicholas Boulton - Great Composers in Words & Music: George Frideric Handel (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 239 MB | Tracks: 36 | 77:49
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos

Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessarily synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera’s greatest composers? This revealing audio biography is accompanied by musical examples drawn from his orchestral and instrumental music, his cantatas, oratorios, operas and those two famous royal commissions.

Fernando De Luca - Hurlebusch: Harpsichord Music (2024)

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Fernando De Luca - Hurlebusch: Harpsichord Music (2024)

Fernando De Luca - Hurlebusch: Harpsichord Music (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:36:17 | 982 Mb
Genre: Classical

Suites, fugues, toccatas and variations by a well-travelled contemporary of JS Bach, in a new recording by an Italian harpsichordist with an impressive catalogue of Baroque rarities on Brilliant Classics.The music of Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691-1765) has featured on a few enterprising collections of Baroque-era rarities, but this is the first-ever album to be entirely dedicated to the art of a composer whose style successfully mirrors his cosmopolitan outlook. Having received initial tuition from both his father Heinrich – another organist/composer – and from a pupil of Buxtehude, Hurlebusch left his birthplace of Braunschweig and embarked on a journey around Europe that, for the first half of his career, took him to Hambiurg, Tuscany, Venice, Stockholm and many points in between. On a stay in Leipzig, he met Bach and his sons; CPE mentioned Hurlebusch in dispatches as an excellent keyboard virtuoso.

Dr. John - High Priest Of Psychedelic Voodoo (2015) 2CDs

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Dr. John - High Priest Of Psychedelic Voodoo (2015) 2CDs

Dr. John - High Priest Of Psychedelic Voodoo (2015) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 573 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 220 Mb | Scans ~ 14 Mb
Label: Purple Pyramid | # CLP 2323 | Time: 01:36:05
New Orleans Blues, New Orleans R&B, Rock & Roll

Although he didn't become widely known until the 1970s, Dr. John had been active in the music industry since the late '50s, when the teenager was still known as Mac Rebennack. A formidable boogie and blues pianist with a lovable growl of a voice, his most enduring achievements fused with New Orleans R&B, rock, and Mardi Gras craziness to come up with his own brand of "voodoo" music. He's also quite accomplished and enjoyable when sticking to purely traditional forms of blues and R&B. On record, he veers between the two approaches, making for an inconsistent and frequently frustrating legacy that often makes the listener feel as if "the Night Tripper" (as he's nicknamed himself) has been underachieving.

Cock Robin - After Here Through Midland (1987)

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Cock Robin - After Here Through Midland (1987)

Cock Robin - After Here Through Midland (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 263 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 103 Mb | Scans included
Pop Rock, New Wave | Label: CBS | # CBS 450890 2 | Time: 00:39:04

More mature, After Here Through Midland lacks the sparkle of Cock Robin's debut. The one time they engaged an American producer in Don Gehman (John Cougar Mellencamp, Hootie and the Blowfish), After Here has a more U.S. rock-country blend to it. In the end, it achieved little in the States, again doing the business in Europe – "Just Around the Corner," "The Biggest Fool of All," and "El Norte" notched up the U.K. singles chart. "I'll Send Them Your Way" could have landed them the U.S. hit they so deserved. "Another Story" is picturesque – almost like an Edward Hopper painting of small-town America: small wooden house with porch, a deserted street, heavy grey sky, and one illuminated streetlight. "Nobody's home, so I'll go looking out for trouble," sings Anna LaCazio. Not their best but still better than most.

John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool (1982) Japanese Press

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John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool (1982) Japanese Press

John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool (1982) Japanese Press
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 233 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 84 Mb | Scans included
Rock, Heartland Rock, Roots Rock | Label: Mercury/Nippon | # PPD-1018 | Time: 00:34:28

American Fool is the fifth album released by John Mellencamp, released under the stage name John Cougar in 1982. The album was his commercial breakthrough, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 chart in 1982 and becoming the best-selling album of that year.

VA - Honeymoon In Vegas: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

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VA - Honeymoon In Vegas: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

VA - Honeymoon In Vegas: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 262 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 104 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Pop/Rock, Country, Rock & Roll | Label: Sony | # 471925 2 | 00:39:51

Country singers rule this soundtrack of Elvis Presley covers, which is every bit as flawed, frivolous and fun as the film from whence it came. While Billy Joel parodies "All Shook Up" and "Heartbreak Hotel," John Mellencamp labors to avoid parodying "Jailhouse Rock," and U2's Bono transforms "Can't Help Falling in Love" into an obsessive parable about hero worship, folks like Ricky Van Shelton and Trisha Yearwood just sit back and sing the things, which at least makes them pleasant after more than one plaing. Dwight Yoakam's power-chord-country version of "Suspicious Minds" and Travis Tritt's "Burning Love" rank with their best remakes. Breaking the trend are pop crooner Bryan Ferry, who sings a seductive British soul version of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and the usually trustworthy Vince Gill, whose Pat Boone-style rendition of Arthur Crudup's classic blues "That's All Right" cleans up the grammar.

Pulsar - Halloween (1977) Reissue 1991

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Pulsar - Halloween (1977) Reissue 1991

Pulsar - Halloween (1977) Reissue 1991
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 222 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Scans included
Label: Musea | # FGBG 4022.AR | Time: 00:39:11
Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog, Space Rock

PULSAR's third album, issued in 1977, "Halloween" is generally considered one of the ten best symphonic albums in the world. A masterpiece of refinement, sold out for a long time and at last reissued with a wonderful 16-page booklet that includes biography, photos, words and history of the band from Lyon. Definitely indispensable for all progressive rock fans!

Kristin von der Goltz - Joseph-Marie-Clément dall' Abaco: 11 Capricen für Violoncello (2006)

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Kristin von der Goltz - Joseph-Marie-Clément dall' Abaco: 11 Capricen für Violoncello (2006)

Kristin von der Goltz - Joseph-Marie-Clément dall' Abaco: 11 Capricen für Violoncello (2006)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 247 Mb | Total time: 55:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Raum Klang ‎| RK 2503 | Recorded: 2005

Just when you think you have all your Dall'Abacos in a row, they bring along a new one: Joseph-Marie-Clément Dall'Abaco was the son of famed cello virtuoso and composer Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco. His long lifespan witnessed an unimaginable measure of musical developments; born the year Vivaldi published L'estro armonico, the younger Dall'Abaco died the year Beethoven commenced work on his Fifth Symphony. For all that time on earth, Dall'Abaco's extant catalog of works, all for cello, is comparatively slim; about 40 sonatas and this set of 11 caprices, preserved only in a very bad manuscript copy made in the nineteenth century. Although these works defy dating, stylistically, they seem to belong to the late Baroque, probably composed before Joseph-Marie-Clément Dall'Abaco was made a baron by the court at Munich in 1759. Although he appeared there many times, Dall'Abaco was never a member of the court orchestra in Munich, and the honorific may have been bestowed as a retroactive gesture to the memory of his father, whose exalted reputation Dall'Abaco was never able to outgrow while he lived.

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (1996)

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Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (1996)

Fabio Biondi, Rinaldo Alessandrini - Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 569 Mb | Total time: 90:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-127/128 | Recorded: 1995

Even in a field overcrowded with noteworthy editions of the Bach Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, these 1995 recordings maintain permanent status on my shelves. Fabio Biondi's fiddling is thoroughly steeped in the grammar of period performance yet avoids the exaggerated agogics, metronomic facelessness, and wimpy tonal qualities we often put up with in the name of authenticity. Abetted by Rinaldo Alessandrini's imaginative partnering, Biondi's characterful, singing sonority puts a fresh spin on every phrase. His improvised embellishments, no matter how audacious they sound at first, always arise out of an organic response to the music's spirit.

Enrico Gatti, Ensemble Aurora - Arcangelo Corelli: The 'Assisi' Sonatas (2014)

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Enrico Gatti, Ensemble Aurora - Arcangelo Corelli: The 'Assisi' Sonatas (2014)

Enrico Gatti, Ensemble Aurora - Arcangelo Corelli: The 'Assisi' Sonatas (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 440 Mb | Total time: 74:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa ‎| GCD 921209 | Recorded: 2013

The rich, beautiful violin tone, and unhurried yet thoughtful tempi of Enrico Gatti have been heard often in the music of Arcangelo Corelli. For Glossa he has now recorded the “Assisi” Sonatas for violin, 12 Sonate da camera à violino e violoncello solo, which it is believed that Corelli wrote prior to committing his Op 1 Trio Sonatas for publication in 1681, and quite possibly when the composer was still in Bologna.

Michael Bolton - Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around) (Remastered (2006/2024)

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Michael Bolton - Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around) (Remastered (2006/2024)

Michael Bolton - Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around) (Remastered (2006/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 247 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 Mb | 00:41:53
Vocal Jazz, Swing | Label: Montaigne Records

Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around is an album by Michael Bolton, produced by Alex Christensen, arranged and conducted by Chris Walden. Bolton records songs originally made notable by Frank Sinatra.

Danielle Breisach, Andrew Briggs & Yana Avedyan - Nicolas Bacri: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Works for Flute (2024)

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Danielle Breisach, Andrew Briggs & Yana Avedyan - Nicolas Bacri: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Works for Flute (2024)

Danielle Breisach, Andrew Briggs & Yana Avedyan - Nicolas Bacri: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 - Works for Flute (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 269 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:28
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

It may be a cliché to write of the clarity of Gallic writing for the flute – the kind of elegance found in the music of composers like Debussy, Fauré, Gaubert, Jolivet, Messiaen and Taffanel – but French music for flute does indeed have a sound of its own. The flute works of Nicolas Bacri, born in Paris in 1961, uphold the proud tradition of his predecessors with textures of crystalline transparency and poised, almost weightless, melodic lines – and reserves of sardonic bite and freewheeling energy as required.