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Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley - Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 22 Sep 2023 01:58:44
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley - Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint (2023)

Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley - Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:05:58 | 456 / 287 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Les Productions Analekta Inc.

Romance and Counterpoint is the latest instalment in Alexander Shelley's multi-year and multi-disc exploration of the music – and, through the music, the lives – of Clara, Robert, and Johannes. Their creative output reflects not only their individual brilliance and characters, but also the role of the creative artist in their time and across the centuries. Pianists Angela Hewitt and Stewart Goodyear, and violinist Yosuke Kawasaki, join Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra in this concluding homage.
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Buzz Brass - Horizons (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 20 Oct 2022 15:31:29
Buzz Brass - Horizons (2022)

Buzz Brass - Horizons (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 56:13 | 222 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

Buzz Brass’s third album under Analekta label presents masterpieces from Aram Khachaturian, Paul Dukas, Camille Saint-Saëns, George Gershwin, Lew Pollack, Claude Bolling and Astor Piazzolla. This Brass quintet has been travelling the world and captivating classical-music lovers since 2002. Whether alone or with guest artists, Buzz Brass’s highly original performances never fail to leave an impression. The ensemble has performed over 1,700 concerts for more than 400,000 music lovers across North America, Europe, and China. The innovative arrangements for brass quintet and guest musicians add new shades to the original colours of this music program.
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Louise Bessette, Marc Djokic - Astor Piazzolla - Port of Call: Buenos Aires (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 15 Apr 2022 10:17:56
Louise Bessette, Marc Djokic - Astor Piazzolla - Port of Call: Buenos Aires (2022)

Louise Bessette, Marc Djokic - Astor Piazzolla - Port of Call: Buenos Aires (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:27 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

It's not hyperbole to say that Astor Piazzolla is the single most important figure in the history of tango, a towering giant whose shadow looms large over everything that preceded and followed him.
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Elinor Frey, Rosa Barocca & Claude Lapalme - Early Italian Cello Concertos (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 1 Apr 2022 08:39:15
Elinor Frey, Rosa Barocca & Claude Lapalme - Early Italian Cello Concertos (2022)

Elinor Frey, Rosa Barocca & Claude Lapalme - Early Italian Cello Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 56:03 | 280 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

By bringing four Italian cello concertos together – by Vivaldi, Leo, Sammartini, and Tartini – Elinor Frey explores the unique and captivating sound world of the violoncello family in a period when composers were writing “galant” melodies, and we enjoy the rich harmonies and expressive counterpoint associated with Baroque music. This recording, a collaboration with the ensemble Rosa Barocca, contributes to current research on the Baroque cello by performers and musicologists and is dedicated to concertos that have sparked an interest in the smaller violoncello of the late Baroque era.
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Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà - Elle (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 10 Feb 2022 18:23:23
Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà - Elle (2022)

Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà - Elle (2022)
FLAC tracks | 52:57 | 245 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

How to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ensemble La Pietà? The answer came naturally to Angèle Dubeau: through music! For the occasion, she proposes an album entirely conceived, performed and composed by women. The result is an album filled with the joy of exchanging through the medium of creation with the women composers gathered here. This album witnesses Angèle Dubeau's virtuosity and confirms her immense talent for creating programs that are off the beaten path, while being as innovative as they are accessible.
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Luc Beauséjour - Famous Sonatas and a Fantasia for Fortepiano (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 4 Feb 2022 11:00:45
Luc Beauséjour - Famous Sonatas and a Fantasia for Fortepiano (2022)

Luc Beauséjour - Famous Sonatas and a Fantasia for Fortepiano (2022)
FLAC tracks | 60:57 | 259 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

Harpsichordist and organist Luc Beauséjour is never short of ideas when it comes to offering concert programs marked by refinement and authenticity. Luc Beauséjour offers here a program of famous sonatas, all of which bear the mark of Mozart's genius. The fortepiano recorded here was made in 2019 by Rodney Regier and is a copy of an instrument by Viennese maker Anton Walter (1752-1826).
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Julia MacLaine - Preludes (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 28 Jan 2022 09:23:33
Julia MacLaine - Preludes (2022)

Julia MacLaine - Preludes (2022)
FLAC tracks | 64:03 | 295 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

With this debut album Julia MacLaine expresses both her roots in classical music and her enthusiasm for contemporary music by creating a dialogue between Bach's Preludes and responses crafted by six Canadian composers with styles as diverse as they are rich: Airat Ichmouratov, Gabriel Dharmoo, Carmen Braden, Nicole Lizée, Cris Derksen and Roy Johnstone.
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Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka & Liz Upchurch - Clara - Robert - Johannes: Lyrical Echoes (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 3 Dec 2021 05:45:34
Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka & Liz Upchurch - Clara - Robert - Johannes: Lyrical Echoes (2021)

Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka & Liz Upchurch - Clara - Robert - Johannes: Lyrical Echoes (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:49:21 | 450 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

What if female musicians of Clara Schumann’s calibre had received the same opportunities as her husband Robert and their protégé Johannes Brahms? Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Music Director Alexander Shelley continue revelatory recording project with second release in four-album series. This one, "Lyrical Echoes", couples Second Symphonies of Robert Schumann and Brahms with a dozen exquisite songs by Clara Schumann, performed by acclaimed Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and pianist Liz Upchurch.Music history might have taken a different turn if female musicians of Clara Schumann’s calibre had received the same opportunities as her husband Robert and their protégé Johannes Brahms. Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and its Music Director Alexander Shelley raise the "what if" question with their ongoing recording project Clara – Robert – Johannes, placing works by each composer in context to highlight their collective contribution to nineteenth-century culture.
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Buzz Brass - Christmas (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 29 Nov 2021 09:17:38
Buzz Brass - Christmas (2021)

Buzz Brass - Christmas (2021)
FLAC tracks | 53:26 | 203 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

Buzz Brass inspired dreams with this new opus, "Christmas". The quintet takes the listener out of the familiar with this majestic, elegant and refined arrangements to highlight the holiday season. The male vocal quartet Quartom joins as guest artists in Noël canadien and The 12 days of Christmas. The ensemble's latest volume, "Inspirations", has been hailed as proof of their "testament to the ensemble’s sensational embouchure" by the prestigious "Gramophone" magazine. Since 2002, Buzz Brass quintet has been travelling all over the globe to captivate classical music lovers. Whether its concerts consist of brass quintet alone or together with guest musicians, the original artistic propositions it presents leave nobody cold. With over 1,600 appearances to its credit, the ensemble has reached more than 350,000 music lovers throughout North America, Europe and China. The numerous awards and distinctions that Buzz Brass has earned over the years (Opus, ADISQ, and Trille Or) attest to both the quality and the relevance of its musical performances.
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Louise Bessette - Wim Statius Muller: Antillean Dances – Port-of-call: Curaçao (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 29 Oct 2021 06:00:49
Louise Bessette - Wim Statius Muller: Antillean Dances – Port-of-call: Curaçao (2021)

Louise Bessette - Wim Statius Muller: Antillean Dances – Port-of-call: Curaçao (2021)
FLAC tracks | 63:08 | 202 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

Wim Statius Muller, who came to be known as “the Chopin of Curaçao,” spent just over thirty years in various security and counter-espionage organizations! Although for the most part Wim Statius Muller’s music is based on folk dance rhythms, it is nevertheless garbed in the fine attire of concert music, with the waltzes and other dance tunes. The extraordinary musician Louise Bessette offers on this new album all 22 pieces from the Antillean Dances collection and gives these dances the “royal treatment”, offering precise and exceptionally clear performances.
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Mathieu Gaudet - Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Vol. 5 Warmth (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 23 Oct 2021 05:26:20
Mathieu Gaudet - Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Vol. 5 Warmth (2021)

Mathieu Gaudet - Schubert: The Complete Sonatas and Major Piano Works, Vol. 5 Warmth (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:13:17 | 216 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

In the nearly 200 years since its composition for voice and piano, many have tackled Schubert’s Winterreise. Steinway artist Hilary Demske, however, transforms the cycle into a series of works for solo piano on JOURNEY FOR ONE on Navona Records, focusing on the instrument’s poignant ability to represent the original composition’s lyricism and complexity. By freely experimenting with prepared elements, melodic fragments, and manipulating the placement and length of gestures—along with translating the meaning of Müller’s poetry to music—Demske adds a fresh, unique perspective to classic repertoire. The result is a refraction, rather than reflection, of Schubert’s masterpiece that produces a series of works that go beyond simple reinterpretation and venture into the realm of complete reimagination.
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Ensemble La Cigale - La Grazia Delle Donne (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 19 Oct 2021 10:35:38
Ensemble La Cigale - La Grazia Delle Donne (2021)

Ensemble La Cigale - La Grazia Delle Donne (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | | 158 / 277 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

"La grazia delle donne" is a collection of wonderful works by female composers of the Baroque era who have been excluded and forgotten, like so many other musicians, from music history courses. The Ensemble La Cigale, under the direction of Madeleine Owen, specializes in music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras on period instruments. The group presents original programs that blend formal and popular styles. For this project, the ensemble invited soprano Myriam Leblanc, who is recognized for her warm, supple voice and pure timbre.
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Nouvel Ensemble Moderne & Lorraine Vaillancourt - New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 2 Oct 2021 08:19:29
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne & Lorraine Vaillancourt - New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes (2021)

Nouvel Ensemble Moderne & Lorraine Vaillancourt - New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 1:14:01 | 320 / 168 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc

Two international prizes recognize excellence in new Jewish music: The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music is awarded to a composer who has written the best new major work, and the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music is awarded to encourage composers to creatively and critically engage with the question “What is Jewish music?”The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music was added in 2019 to engage Canadian composers in creating new musical works that address the complexities of composing concert music in Canada today.Scores, proposals, and supporting documents for these biennial prizes are accepted from nominators and individual composers of all faiths, ages, genders, backgrounds, and affiliations. The winning submissions are selected by two juries made up of leading experts in the fields of music creation, performance, and research.
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Luc Beauséjour - New Baroque Sessions (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 16 Apr 2021 12:03:07
Luc Beauséjour - New Baroque Sessions (2021)

Luc Beauséjour - New Baroque Sessions (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 64:27 | 147 / 200 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta

"New Baroque Sessions" is Luc Beauséjour's second album of Baroque works played on the piano. It includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, François Couperin, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Claude Balbastre. "I have chosen a repertoire that I like and which, while being primarily intended for the harpsichord, lends itself well to interpretation on the piano", says Luc Beauséjour. Beauséjour’s playing is inspired and sensitive and the program is wonderful. He is a highly sought-after musician not only for his virtuosity and the subtlety of his playing, but also for his outgoing personality and the ease with which he communicates with his audiences.
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Charles Richard-Hamelin - Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 - Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 9 Apr 2021 08:13:42
Charles Richard-Hamelin - Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 - Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 (2021)

Charles Richard-Hamelin - Chopin: 24 Préludes, Op. 28 - Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 (2021)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 58:12 | 172 / 129 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Groupe Analekta

This new album by Charles Richard-Hamelin presents two important works from Frederic Chopin’s repertoire, 24 Préludes, Op. 28 and Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22, and confirms that he is one of the world's elite pianists. Writing about Richard-Hamelin, BBC Music Magazine characterized his playing as “fluent, multifaceted and tonally seductive… a technician of exceptional elegance and sophistication”. Qualities that are made evident on this brilliant new album. Charles Richard-Hamelin is well known on the international music scene as a “highly sensitive” pianist (Gramophone), driven by “a great depth of feeling without the slightest pretense” (Le Devoir).
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