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Tomasz Kamieniak - Niemann: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2024)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 15 Feb 2024 12:36:00
Tomasz Kamieniak - Niemann: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2024)

Tomasz Kamieniak - Niemann: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:16:28 | 275 Mb
Genre: Classical

The largest part of the output of the Hamburg-born composer and writer Walter Niemann (1876–1973), a student of both Humperdinck and Reinecke, is piano music: an astonishing 1,000 or so pieces, divided into 189 opus numbers. Most of them are lyrical miniatures in a warm and approachable late-Romantic style, some evoking the music of the past. Occasionally, though, as in Hamburg, a recollection of scenes from his childhood, a degree of mild dissonance indicates his desire to stay true to his memories of growing up in a port city.
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Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 4 Jan 2024 08:07:09
Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)

Jan Lehtola, Mari-Anni Hilander and Henri Tikkanen - Axel Ruoff: Complete Works for Organ, Vol. 5 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:18:15 | 271 Mb
Genre: Classical

This final instalment of the organ compositions of Axel Ruoff (born in Stuttgart in 1957) presents two starkly contrasted sides of his musical personality: three of them, for voice and organ, are concerned with the spiritual – two even addressing head-on the issue of death itself – and are thus solemn and hieratic, whereas the concluding work is a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek set of variations on ‘Happy Birthday’, written as a present for Ruoff’s publisher on his 80th birthday.
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Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 10 Oct 2023 08:23:12
Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Jan Lehtola & Petri Komulainen - Lux: Organ Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 77:26 | 177 / 273 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Friedrich Lux (1820–95) was one of those musicians who formed the fabric of musical life in nineteenth-century Germany: though he worked away from the major cities, as conductor, teacher, organist, organiser and composer, he was an indispensable element of the communities in which he worked. His large body of organ music, as good as unknown before now, brings together elements of the musical language of Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann, in works that range from the intimate to the grandiose.This second volume brings some of his many transcriptions to the fore.
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Christopher Guild - William Wordsworth: Complete Music for Solo Piano (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 1 Sep 2023 15:17:39
Christopher Guild - William Wordsworth: Complete Music for Solo Piano (2023)

Christopher Guild - William Wordsworth: Complete Music for Solo Piano (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 81:06 | 185 / 207 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

The reputation of the Anglo-Scottish composer William Wordsworth (1908–88), great-great-grandnephew of the poet, has recently been restored by a series of Toccata Classics albums of his orchestral music. His piano music, too, was poorly known before now, none of it recorded since a handful of pieces appeared on LP 60 years ago – though his epic Piano Sonata is a work of major importance. This first ever complete recording reveals an honest, unfussy approach to the keyboard akin to that of two other major symphonists, Sibelius and Rubbra: like them, Wordsworth’s primary concern seems to have been the expression of deep feeling – which makes the gentle story-telling of his miniatures for children all the more surprising.
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Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 7 Jul 2023 14:08:07
Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)

Ilya Kuzmin, Dzambolat Dulaev, Olga Solovieva - Myaskovsky: Vocal Works, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:02:40 | 200 / 144 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881–1950) was given the sobriquet of ‘the conscience of Russian music’ thanks to his dignified bearing and quiet wisdom – qualities reflected in the unemphatic strength of his music. His orchestral, chamber and instrumental works are regaining the currency they once enjoyed, but his large corpus of songs, many of them understated masterpieces, has yet to attract systematic attention – a situation this series hopes to remedy. This second album presents his entire output of songs for baritone and piano, most of them early works responding to Russian lyric poetry with the calm dignity typical of his compositions – though there is the occasional flash of passion.
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Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 2 Jun 2023 05:24:20
Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)

Duo Praxedis - John Thomas: Complete Duos for Harp and Piano, Volume Two (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:16:38 | 240 / 175 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Harpist to Queen Victoria, the Welsh composer John Thomas (1826–1913) wrote prolifically for his own instrument, both for solo harp and for duos of two harps or harp and piano – a combination where the different sounds of the two instruments enhance the clarity of the texture. Thomas’ own compositions use the elegant Romantic style of his own day, but he also left a generous legacy of transcriptions, with no fewer than fourteen Schubert songs recorded on this second volume of his complete duos for harp and piano. Although some of his music was intended for the Victorian drawing room, other pieces require a virtuoso technique – and all of it has a thoroughly engaging melodic appeal.
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Tom Winpenny - Gerald Hendrie: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 8 Apr 2023 06:30:42
Tom Winpenny - Gerald Hendrie: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2023)

Tom Winpenny - Gerald Hendrie: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:19:06 | 250 / 181 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

The organ music of Gerald Hendrie – born in England in 1935 but resident in France since 1996 – encompasses a huge range of influences, among them the organist-composers who went before him (not least Franck, Dupré and Messiaen), dodecaphony, mediaeval plainchant and modality and jazz. The resulting works are as varied as the styles that fed into them, from grandiose to gentle, from severe to whimsical, from lyrical to lively.
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The Tippett Quartet - Steve Elcock: Chamber Music, Vol. 2: String Quartets (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 7 Apr 2023 09:32:38
The Tippett Quartet - Steve Elcock: Chamber Music, Vol. 2: String Quartets (2023)

The Tippett Quartet - Steve Elcock: Chamber Music, Vol. 2: String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:20:29 | 360 / 184 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

The English composer Steve Elcock (b. 1957) spent years writing music without ever expecting it to be heard: based in rural France, he worked as a translator, composing in his spare time. The emergence of his orchestral and chamber music on Toccata Classics over the past few years has led to his being acclaimed as one of the most important composers at work today. This recording of his four works (to date) for string quartet confirms that judgement: all in single spans, they generate tension and energy in equal measure – animated, in one of them, by a lively sense of humour.
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Veles Ensemble, Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro, Peter Cigleris - Egon Wellesz: Chamber Music (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 15 Feb 2023 08:26:57
Veles Ensemble, Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro, Peter Cigleris - Egon Wellesz: Chamber Music (2023)

Veles Ensemble, Gabriela Opacka-Boccadoro, Peter Cigleris - Egon Wellesz: Chamber Music (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:14:09 | 344 / 170 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

In its mix of tonality, Expressionism and Schoenbergian serialism, the late chamber music of Egon Wellesz (1885–1974) – born in Vienna but an Oxford don for almost four decades – marries the mid-century radicalism of his native city with the lyricism of his adoptive homeland. In the first part of his career Wellesz was best known as a composer of operas, and these chamber works were audibly written by someone with a keen sense of drama: in their primal passion, flawless pacing, arching melodic lines and occasional bursts of humour, one can almost imagine them on stage.
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Stephen Muir, Bridget Budge, Ian Buckle, Borealis - Gál: Music for Voices, Vol. 2 (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 3 Dec 2022 10:11:01
Stephen Muir, Bridget Budge, Ian Buckle, Borealis - Gál: Music for Voices, Vol. 2 (2022)

Stephen Muir, Bridget Budge, Ian Buckle, Borealis - Gál: Music for Voices, Vol. 2 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:11:58 | 165 / 299 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Whether in his original home of Vienna, as a conservatoire director in Germany, or as an émigré in Edinburgh, where he became one of the mainstays of musical life, Hans Gál (1890-1987) championed choral singing as a way of directly involving people in making music: he founded and conducted a number of choirs and provided an extensive output of choral compositions.This second album of Gál’s choral music offers a vivid cross-section of his music for chamber choir, featuring mixed voices, women’s voices and male-voice choir, both a cappella and with piano, and ranging across four decades.
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Tom Winpenny - Cooke: Organ Music (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 2 Dec 2022 16:52:55
Tom Winpenny - Cooke: Organ Music (2022)

Tom Winpenny - Cooke: Organ Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:20:58 | 185 / 258 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

The music of Arnold Cooke, born in Yorkshire in 1906, had already fallen into neglect by the time of his death 99 years later. Cooke was a prolific composer, with two operas, six symphonies, numerous concertos and a generous amount of chamber music to his credit – nor did he neglect the organ, as this album of his major organ pieces reveals. Cooke’s style owes much to his teacher, Hindemith, not least since both men were natural contrapuntists, although there are also points of contact with Bartók and Shostakovich, and occasional touches of Walton’s ceremonial sparkle and no-nonsense grandeur.
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Irmela Roelcke - Cloches et Carillons (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 16 Sep 2022 06:56:26
Irmela Roelcke - Cloches et Carillons (2022)

Irmela Roelcke - Cloches et Carillons (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:23:31 | 287 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Next

The piano is perhaps better suited than any other instrument to evoke the sound of bells – evening bells, bells of farewell and of joy, funereal bells, bells with spiritual overtones – and late-Romantic and twentieth-century French and Russian composers in particular have responded to the challenge of capturing those sonorities at the keyboard.
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Robert Crowe & Sandra Röddiger - Isabella Leonarda: Motets & Sonatas (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 31 Aug 2022 04:42:02
Robert Crowe & Sandra Röddiger - Isabella Leonarda: Motets & Sonatas (2022)

Robert Crowe & Sandra Röddiger - Isabella Leonarda: Motets & Sonatas (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:08 | 303 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) was a remarkable woman. At a time when female composers were a rarity, she was both prominent and prolific. Although she was cloistered (literally: she was a nun) in Novara in northern Italy, the dedications of her published compositions show her to have been extremely well connected. And her music demonstrates that she was well aware of the music of contemporaries like Carissimi and Corelli. These facts would be of merely historical importance, were her music not so engaging: although most of the works recorded here are devotional, they are full of buoyant rhythms, colourful textures and a surprisingly dramatic approach to the texts she was setting – many probably written by Leonarda herself.
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James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold - Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2022)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 10 Jan 2022 16:42:50
James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold - Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2022)

James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold - Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2022)
FLAC tracks | 1:18:02 | 318 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Classics

Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment. But he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his subject matter. These six song-cycles – with influences ranging from Vaughan Williams to The Beatles – reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humour, unerring technique and deep feeling in music of immediate appeal, setting texts by poets who include Burns, Hardy, Shakespeare, Swift, Wordsworth, Yeats and the composer himself.
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Theodore Buchholz, Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan - Music for a Prince, Music by a Prince (2021)

Posted By: ciklon5
Date: 18 Dec 2021 07:16:37
Theodore Buchholz, Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan - Music for a Prince, Music by a Prince (2021)

Theodore Buchholz, Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan - Music for a Prince, Music by a Prince (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:07:05 | 262 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Toccata Next

This unusual recording brings princely offerings of two different kinds. In 1970 Prince Charles who had studied cello and trumpet was presented with a leather\-bound volume containing pieces written for his entertainment by the composers on the council of the Performing Right Society. These fourteen bonnes bouches are complemented by fourteen German Lieder written by Prince Charles great\-great\-great\-grandfather, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, whose style owed something to that of his good friend, Felix Mendelssohn.
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