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🎬 New Post Alert: Exploring Uncharted Cinematic Territories 🎬

Are you intrigued by the bold and unorthodox in cinema? Dive into our latest post, '30 Films with Real Sex Scenes (Part 2)', where we explore a selection of groundbreaking films that have dared to blend reality with cinematic art. From the controversial visions of Gaspar Noé to the provocative narratives of Lars von Trier, these films push the boundaries of on-screen intimacy.

🔍 Discover how directors like Michael Winterbottom and others have challenged conventional filmmaking norms, offering a raw and honest portrayal of human sexuality. This article isn't just about the films; it's an exploration of how cinema can transcend traditional storytelling.

🌟 Join us in this eye-opening journey through some of the most daring and talked-about films in cinematic history. Whether you're a film buff or simply curious about the evolution of cinema, this post is a must-read!

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)

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Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)

Charles Dutoit, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Roméo et Juliette (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 75:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 425 001-2 | Recorded: 1985

Another feather in the Dutoit/Montreal/Decca cap, not least for the sound engineers' achievement in so brilliantly capturing the mammoth sonorities of the Symphonie funebre et triomphale (whose first performance Berlioz conducted walking backwards at the head of his huge wind-and-percussion band, though—alas for the legend!—with a baton, not a sword). For concert hall, rather than open air performance he later added strings and a chorus, and it is this version that is adopted here (as it was in Colin Davis's 1969 Philips recording). Splendid as that issue was, this new one even surpasses it in clarity and impact, with its majestic brass chords and a chorus that adds incisively to the final climax.

Trio Isimsiz - Brahms, Coll, Korngold (2023)

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Trio Isimsiz - Brahms, Coll, Korngold (2023)

Trio Isimsiz - Brahms, Coll, Korngold (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 313 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:19:05
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics

Korngold was one of the most amazing prodigies in musical history, and more gifted than Mozart in that he arrived musically fully formed. He was just 12 years old when he composed his Op.1 Piano Trio.

Quartonal - Traumgestalten (2023)

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Quartonal - Traumgestalten (2023)

Quartonal - Traumgestalten (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:01:46
Classical, Vocal | Label: Sony Classical

The four young singers of Ensemble Quartonal are among the most sought-after vocal ensembles in Germany. This time, their album program features dreamlike and fabulous romantic vocal music from the 19th and early 20th centuries with works by Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Poulenc, Josef Kromolicki and Mathieu Neumann, among others.

Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomas Brauner - Dvořák: Slavonic Dances (2023)

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Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomas Brauner - Dvořák: Slavonic Dances (2023)

Prague Symphony Orchestra & Tomas Brauner - Dvořák: Slavonic Dances (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 361 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | 01:18:34
Classical | Label: Supraphon

Highly impressed by the Moravian Duets, even though the set had yet to be issued, the Berlin-based publisher Fritz Simrock wrote to the young Antonín Dvořák, commissioning from him another work and outlining his idea of its being in the fashion of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances. The composer duly sketched the first series of Slavonic Dances within a few hours, and completed the version for piano four hands in three weeks.

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & François-Xavier Roth - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (First Version, 1873) (2023)

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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & François-Xavier Roth - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (First Version, 1873) (2023)

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & François-Xavier Roth - Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (First Version, 1873) (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 234 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | 01:01:45
Classical | Label: myrios classics

Bruckner's Third - a creative history that is unique even for the great Austrian romantic. No other of his symphonies has been revised, reshaped and reissued more often. Yet the first version from 1873, which François-Xavier Roth has chosen for this recording, bristles with boldness and the joy of experimentation. Here, the reminiscence of Beethoven's Ninth and the works of the dedicatee Richard Wagner is almost tangible.

Gaechinger Cantorey, Dresdner Kammerchor, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker & Hans-Christoph Rademann - Verdi & Puccini (2023)

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Gaechinger Cantorey, Dresdner Kammerchor, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker & Hans-Christoph Rademann - Verdi & Puccini (2023)

Sung Min Song, Krešimir Stražanac, Natasha Schnur, Gaechinger Cantorey, Dresdner Kammerchor, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker & Hans-Christoph Rademann - Puccini: Messa a 4 voci con orchestra (Messa di Gloria) & Verdi: Quattro pezzi sacri (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 330 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 189 Mb | 01:22:08
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Carus Music

The early musical experiences of Puccini and Verdi, those two giants of Italian opera, were in fact gained in the field of sacred music. In 1880, at the age of 22, Puccini composed his Messa a 4 voci as a graduation exercise. When still a schoolboy, the 45-year older Verdi stood in for the organist in his home village; at the end of this life, he returned to church music, writing his Quattro pezzi sacri in the 1890s at the age of over 80. The Messa of the younger composer – which was believed lost until 1952 – is a joyful and scintillating work. Artistically, Verdi’s powerful and intense Pezzi sacri can be placed on an equal standing with his beloved operas.

Diana Damrau, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Ernst Theis - Operette. Wien, Berlin, Paris (2023)

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Diana Damrau, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Ernst Theis - Operette. Wien, Berlin, Paris (2023)

Diana Damrau, Münchner Rundfunkorchester & Ernst Theis - Operette. Wien, Berlin, Paris (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 295 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:14
Classical, Opera | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

Soprano Diana Damrau, dazzling in the operas of Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi and Richard Strauss, also has operetta in her blood. With this album she tours three capital cities of operetta – Vienna, Berlin and Paris – and covers nearly seven decades of musical history. En route she relishes the romance, wit and melodies of numbers by such composers Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Robert Stolz, Paul Abraham, André Messager, Henri Christiné, Oscar Straus and Francis Lopez. Her star guest is tenor Jonas Kaufmann and conducting the Münchner Rundfunkorchester is Ernst Theis, as expert in operetta as he is in symphonic repertoire. “For me, operetta is the most all-embracing genre of music theatre,” says Damrau, “Its indulgence, its yearning, its joyousness and its comedy all touch the heart and show the positive side of life … It rarely fails to work its magic on audiences.”

Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, Balthasar Neumann Choir & Thomas Hengelbrock - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (2023)

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Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, Balthasar Neumann Choir & Thomas Hengelbrock - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (2023)

Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, Balthasar Neumann Choir & Thomas Hengelbrock - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 292 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:29
Classical, Opera | Label: Prospero Classical

For the premiere of his Cavalleria rusticana in 1889, Pietro Mascagni had to make a whole series of cuts and transpositions: The chorus at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome was not up to the demanding choral parts, and the soloists of Santuzza and Turiddu sometimes complained that their parts were uncomfortably high – and so the composer not only deleted large parts of the choral passages, but also changed his carefully thought-out key concept. Nonetheless, the piece was such a resounding success at its premiere that it continued to be performed in modified form – even after the piece had long since begun its triumphal march around the world.

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (1991)

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John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (1991)

John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir - Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 65:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 432 140-2 | Recorded: 1990

Musical settings of the Requiem understandably encompass a vast expressive gamut, from Mozart's fear and trembling to the seraphic gentleness of Fauré. But the focus in Brahms's German Requiem–his first large-scale work–is not so much on the departed as on those left behind and the work of memory. In lieu of the traditional Latin liturgy, Brahms uses texts culled from the Lutheran Bible that range from despair at our mortal condition to the solace offered by faith. John Elliott Gardiner and his forces here attempt to replicate the orchestral sound and style of Brahms's own time, using period bowing practices for the strings and mellow Viennese horns, to cite a few examples. The result is a magnificent and deeply moving performance that features excellent integration of the orchestra and chorus.

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)

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Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)

Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - Charles Gounod: Faust (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 836 Mb | Total time: 55:59+49:57+68:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1037 | Recorded: 2018

The masterpiece of French opera – Gounod’s ‘Faust‘ – still has surprises in store for us. Originally conceived in the spirit of opéra-comique, the 1859 score alternated between spoken dialogue and music, intermingling witty comedy and Romantic pathos. It is that ‘first Faust’ that the Palazzetto Bru Zane reveals in this recording, and particularly the many numbers that were subsequently deleted or altered.

Ferenc Fricsay Portrait - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2, Variations on a Theme of Haydn (1994)

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Ferenc Fricsay Portrait - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2, Variations on a Theme of Haydn (1994)

Ferenc Fricsay Portrait - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.2, Variations on a Theme of Haydn (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 237 Mb | Total time: 76:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 407-2 | Recorded: 1957, 1961

Roughly half of this set is strongly recommendable—and even the half that isn't is still well worth hearing. Ferenc Fricsay was a pivotal figure in the rebuilding of German musical life after the war, primarily as conductor of the Berlin RIAS (Radio In the American Sector) Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1946, re-named the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1956 and which is now known as the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Fricsay's first international triumph was in 1947 when he took over from an indisposed Otto Klemperer for the world premiere of Gottfried von Einem's opera Dantons Tod.

Luciano Acocella. Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Adelaide di Borgogna (2017)

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Luciano Acocella. Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Adelaide di Borgogna (2017)

Luciano Acocella. Virtuosi Brunensis - Gioacchino Rossini: Adelaide di Borgogna (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 515 Mb | Total time: 02:02:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660401-02 | Recorded: 2014

Set in medieval Italy, Rossini’s rarely performed Adelaide di Borgogna is based on dramatic historical events that led to Otto the Great (Ottone) of Germany conquering the Kingdom of Italy. Despite its political and warlike subject, Adelaide di Borgogna is full of beautiful music, Rossini using lyrical moments to emphasise emotions and express the triangle of passionate love and rivalry between Adelaide, Ottone and Adelberto. Adelaide is bel canto in its purest form and was held in high regard by its composer, who recycled much of it in his subsequent operas.

The Raphael Ensemble - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets (2010)

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The Raphael Ensemble - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets (2010)

The Raphael Ensemble - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 272 Mb | Total time: 58:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDH55369 | Recorded: 1995

Brahms composed his two published String Quintets amid the rural tranquillity of Bad Ischl in Upper Austria and the works can almost be seen as an expression of escape from the 'urban stress' of nineteenth-century Vienna. The Quintets show Brahms standing at the pinnacle of the composition of chamber music, their gentle pastoral character being subtly shaded by a profoundly melancholy introspection.

Herbert von Karajan, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2008/1968)

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Herbert von Karajan, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2008/1968)

Herbert von Karajan, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Fiorenza Cossotto, Jon Vickers, Raina Kabaivanska - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2008/1968)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.74 Gb (DVD9) | 148 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Cavalleria Rusticana: Magnificently sung, subtly played and dramatically acted… The passion of Sicily, fanned into a bonfire by one of the world's most brilliant conductors and great cast (New York Post).
Pagliacci: An interpretation of exceptionally strong emotions and artistic quality (Il Giorno). Vickers is outstanding, delivering 'Vesti la giubba' with unusual sensitivity and admirable restraint. Kabaivanska and Glossop are also impressive (New York Times).

Peter Jablonski - Frédéric Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol.2 (2023)

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Peter Jablonski - Frédéric Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol.2 (2023)

Peter Jablonski - Frédéric Chopin: Complete Mazurkas, Vol.2 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 73:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1431-2 | Recorded: 2023

This second and final volume of Chopin’s Mazurkas by Peter Jablonski includes the composer's Mazurkas Nos. 30-51 alongside six posthumous mazurkas. For Chopin, the Mazurkas became a deeply personal, intimate statement of his feelings as an émigré Polish composer living in Paris. From some of his very first compositions to his last, it is the only form that Chopin composed regularly throughout his life. Similarly, Chopin’s Mazurkas have followed Peter Jablonski throughout his entire career as a pianist in nearly every solo recital. This album also includes Chopin’s final composition that was written just few weeks before his death, the Mazurka No. 49 in F minor (1849).