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Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Markus Miesenberger, Erich Traxler & Christian Haimel - Cupido - Love Songs (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 52:39 | 473 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

Obwohl beide Meister denselben Text verwenden, unterscheiden sich die Vertonungen sowohl in ihrer Art als auch in ihrer Form erheblich. Während Haydns Melodien den Inhalt mit einem Augenzwinkern und viel Feinsinnigkeit präsentieren, lädt Holzers Stück vor Lebensfreude und Musikalität sprühend zum Mittanzen ein. Joseph Haydns Lieder umfassen ein breites musikalisches Spektrum und sind für die Entwicklung der Gattung von unschätzbarem Wert: Sie stellen einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung des Wiener Liedes bis hin zu Franz Schubert dar. Wie bei vielen Wiener Charakteristika vermischen sich verschiedenste Stilmittel: volkstümliche Elemente, Merkmale des Singspielliedes und des norddeutschen Liedes werden unter dem zusätzlichen Einfluss der italienischen Arie zu einer völlig neuen Musikgattung geformt. Die Verbindung zum neunzehnten Jahrhundert wird durch französische Lieder hergestellt, die erstmals 1810 von dem italienischen Gitarrenvirtuosen Mauro Giuliani in Wien ausgegeben wurden. Für dieses Projekt wurde ein historisches Streichinstrument gewählt, um ein noch größeres Gefühl der Intimität zu erzeugen.

Hannes Minnaar - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Hannes Minnaar - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Hannes Minnaar - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 2:30:07 | 1.1 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

After Bach's Goldberg Variations, which won him worldwide honours (including a "Diapason d'Or"), Hannes Minnaar challenges and confronts what has become a "classic" of the 20th century repertoire: Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, composed in 1951. Here again, the qualities of his pianism, for which he is recognised as one of the leading musicians of our time, come under the spotlight: the diversity of touch and the suppleness between tension and tranquillity to characterise every Prelude and Fugue, the precision of tone, the lack of any affectation, a natural finesse in phrasing and articulation, and a familiarity with the score going hand in hand with a freshness that conjures a sense of improvisation. Here we encounter a new landmark in the crowded field of interpretations of this wonderful music.

Maik Krahl Quartet - In-Between Flow (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Maik Krahl Quartet - In-Between Flow (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Maik Krahl Quartet - In-Between Flow (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 54:52 | 602 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Challenge Records

The continuing growth of Maik Krahl as a melodic improviser, bandleader, and composer is distinctly evident in this new release. In-Between Flow, Krahl's third outing as leader, is a portrait of a young artist who has gone through many years of dedicated hard work, study, experimentation, and refinement in order to achieve this level of instrumental and artistic prowess. Krahl belongs to a new generation of improvisers who have acquired a breadth of technical and theoretical facility, while not losing the spontaneity and rawness of this music we call jazz. As a bandleader, for this date he is joined on a few tracks by the visionary guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, whose brilliant playing adds a cherry on top of this already delicious line up.

Julija Hartig - Dark Velvet (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Julija Hartig - Dark Velvet (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Julija Hartig - Dark Velvet (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 1:11:23 | 683 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

This album can be seen as an autobiographical story. It is a reflection of Julija Hartig's Yugoslav and Dutch identity described in 10 pieces by 8 composers. All of these pieces have their unique musical language and way of expressing thoughts and feelings. From pure honest most tender love to the unearthly sounds in search of answers. Some of them speak about deep sorrow of loss, passionate greed for love and life, brutally distorted decomposed beauty or simply pure wild untamed joy. One thing that is common to all of them is that they were written or arranged for Julija Hartig with a deep understanding of her way of playing which is always intense, honest and expressive. She loves them all like my children and enjoy watching them grow. In addition to the selection of already composed music from 1990 on, three new works were written for her, especially as a part of this project.

Marie Kuijken - Mozart En Famille (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Marie Kuijken - Mozart En Famille (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Marie Kuijken - Mozart En Famille (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 1:06:06 | 1,14 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

This recording of Mozart chamber music can be listened to as a pleasant private concert "en famille". The choice of the works is dictated solely by the specific instruments played by the three family members: violin, viola and keyboard. This is not a usual instrumentation in the chamber music repertoire, yet it is this combination that has given rise to a pleasantly varied programme - thanks to Mozart's inexhaustible genius!

Elena Malinova & Lucia Swarts - Out of the Shadow (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Elena Malinova & Lucia Swarts - Out of the Shadow (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Elena Malinova & Lucia Swarts - Out of the Shadow (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] | 49:25 | 445 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

Even as a young child, Lucia Swarts was taught to be extra alert when women did not have the same opportunities as men. Many women did not have the same opportunities as men to compose and publicly share their musical ideas and lead public lives as composers, with some having their freedom limited by ill health or because family or society had different plans for them. Through the ages, female composers encountered considerable difficulties, often with fewer opportunities, support and education, even when they were members of the upper social classes. They were not in a position to enjoy worldwide fame, but several of them accomplished a great deal. Strong women, in other words.

Delta Piano Trio - Origin (2022) [Official Digital Download]

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Delta Piano Trio - Origin (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Delta Piano Trio - Origin (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-44kHz] +Booklet | 59:10 | 505 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Challenge Classics

Quite often, a work becomes a journey of discovery towards a certain origin, translated into sound. Martin, Mansurian and Dvořák composed three such colourful works for piano trio – voyages of discovery taken here by the Delta Piano Trio through scintillating sound worlds. When an Irish-American benefactor asked him to write a work based on Irish folk songs, Martin grasped this as an exquisite opportunity to combine two of the quests occupying him at the time – music from distant cultures and rhythm. His Trio sur des mélodies populaires irlandaises (1925) is a complex, mature and multi-layered score.

Daniel Rowland & Maja Bogdanović - Pas de deux (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Daniel Rowland & Maja Bogdanović - Pas de deux (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Daniel Rowland & Maja Bogdanović - Pas de deux (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 72:55 minutes | 1.23 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Maja and Daniel: We are overjoyed to be presenting this new recording “Pas de deux”, with many new pieces by composer friends - it’s a project that’s very close to our hearts. The great Sonata by Ravel is in a way our kaleidoscope, a looking glass that takes us both back and forward in time, and both of those simultaneously.

L'Estro d'Orfeo & Leonor de Lera - L'arte Di Diminuire (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

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L'Estro d'Orfeo & Leonor de Lera - L'arte Di Diminuire (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

L'Estro d'Orfeo & Leonor de Lera - L'arte Di Diminuire (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/176.4 kHz | Time - 69:04 minutes | 2.41 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Diminutions, the art of extemporary embellishment or melodic variation, were an essential part of performance practice of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. The basis of diminutions is the fragmentation of a long note or series of long notes into many shorter and faster ones that move around the original melody. In the 16th and early 17th centuries, a composition as written by the composer was often regarded as raw material and it was normal and even required of musicians to embellish the works performed.

ROctet - Novoselye • Housewarming (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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ROctet - Novoselye • Housewarming (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

ROctet - Novoselye • Housewarming (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 63:20 minutes | 1.15 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Although the standard classical string octet repertoire includes giants such as Mendelssohn and Shostakovich – both of whom were advocates of the rich sound of this combination of instruments – forgotten compositions for string octet are still waiting to be rediscovered in the music archives. One such work is the rarely performed and, until now, previously unrecorded double quartet Novoselye (House-warming) by the Russian violinist and composer Nikolay Afanasyev (1821-1898). While hardly anyone knows his name today, that in no way detracts from the quality of his music.