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Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 28 Mar 2013 16:28:53 | Comments : 1

Jose LuisTurina - Chamber Music (Plural Ensemble, Panisello)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 336 Mb
Date: 2012

Attractively entitled “Chamber Music”, the BBVA Foundation and Verso present a second CD dedicated to the work of José Luis Turina (1952), a compilation on this splendid recording of a substantial part of the chamber output of the Madrid maestro between 1980, the date of Título a determinar, a magnificent score premiered a year later by the Group Koan, then directed by José Ramón Encinar, and 1997 and Scherzo para un hobbit, commissioned and presented by the Group Cosmos as part of the celebrations of the ensemble’s tenth anniversary. During that period, the beautiful Variaciones sobre dos temas de Scarlatti ......
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Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 28 Mar 2013 16:28:39 | Comments : 2

Sofia Gubaidulina - Anthology of Music for Percussion (Ensemble of Mark Pekarsky) (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Covers | 738 Mb
Date: 2009

Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931), growing up in the Tatar Republic, bound peculiar fusion of Eastern and Western into dramatic polarities in her later work. She graduated from the Kazan' Conservatory in 1954 having studied composition and piano; she then left for Moscow, where she studied at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. Already by this time, Gubaidulina was marked as an "irresponsible" composer on "a mistaken path"; Shostakovich, among others, supported her however, advising her to "continue along [her] mistaken path." Today Gubaidulina is a successful freelance composer, having won a number of prestigious composition prizes and grants.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 28 Mar 2013 01:44:58 | Comments : 1

Arne Nordheim - Complete Violin Music
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 312 Mb
Date: 2001

Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1997. On 18 August 2006, Arne Nordheim received the honorary doctors degree (doctor honoris causa) at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He died at the age of 78 and was given a State funeral.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 28 Mar 2013 01:44:43 | Comments : 3

Bernhard Sekles - Chamber Music
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 380 Mb
Date: 2013

Bernhard Sekles (1872–1933) was one of the leading figures in German music in the first decades of the twentieth century, prominent as composer, educator and administrator. In 1928, as director of the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, he established the first academic programme in jazz studies, an act of courage and conviction that unleashed furious attacks from the Nazi press. His own music, banned during the Third Reich, has been virtually forgotten, although he composed in all major genres, including .......
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 27 Mar 2013 05:41:51 | Comments : 2

Alexander Tcherepnin - Symphony No.3, op.83 - No.4, op.91 - Piano Concerto No.6, op.99 (Noriko Ogawa, Lan Shui) (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 459 Mb
Date: 1999

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 27 Mar 2013 05:41:30 | Comments : 6

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Fractured Lines
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 357 Mb
Date: 2002

This is stunning and strongly recommended. Turnage's unique sound-world - as distinctive in its way as Mahler or Messiaen - springs to life on every level.
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Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 26 Mar 2013 01:47:20 | Comments : 1

Alexander Tcherepnin - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Piano Concerto No.5 (Lan Shui, Singapore Sympohony Orchestra) (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 435 Mb
Date: 1999

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 26 Mar 2013 01:45:00 | Comments : 1

Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 (Maxwell Davies)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 278 Mb
Date: 2012

The orchestra used by Peter Maxwell Davies for his Fourth Symphony is of Classical period proportions, but this relatively compact framework belies a richness of ideas and sonorities. With its starting point in the tone poem Chat Moss, the single-movement Fifth Symphony utilizes a more varied orchestral palette than its predecessor, with a large percussion section often in evidence. Both works are performed here by the orchestras for which they were written.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 24 Mar 2013 03:44:00 | Comments : 4

Nilsson, Maros, Kox, Gubaidulina - Krasch, Picchiettato, The tree chairs, In Erwartung (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 202 Mb
Date: 1994

Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931), growing up in the Tatar Republic, bound peculiar fusion of Eastern and Western into dramatic polarities in her later work. She graduated from the Kazan' Conservatory in 1954 having studied composition and piano; she then left for Moscow, where she studied at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. On this CD also works by Anders Nilsson, Miklós Maros and Hans Kox.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 24 Mar 2013 03:43:53 | Comments : 3

Eugene Zador - Divertimento, Elegie and Dance, Oboe Concerto, Studies (Budapest Symphony Orchestra MAV, Smolij)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 333 Mb
Date: 2013

Eugene Zádor, who emigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1939, described his style as ‘exactly between La Traviata and Lulu’. Although some of his works are overtly ‘Hungarian’ in style, for the most part he composed in a cosmopolitan but conservative twentieth-century idiom, firmly grounded in tradition, that is strongly tonal and highly contrapuntal. The second volume of this series features the richly varied Oboe Concerto and Divertimento for Strings (his most-performed piece) and ....
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 22 Mar 2013 08:17:09 | Comments : 5

Sergei Rachmaninov - Russian Piano Music Series (Dukachev)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 294 Mb
Date: 2011

Our acclaimed series continues with one of the acknowledged masters of Romantic music, Sergei Rachmaninov. This album is taken from live performances in England between 1999 and 2005 by Russian pianist Sergei Dukachev and includes some favourite Preludes and Etudes, the Second Sonata and the relatively rarely-heard Variations. Dukachev is gaining an enthusiastic following in the UK as well as in his native Russia, and the brilliance of these concert performances demonstrates why.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 22 Mar 2013 08:16:27 | Comments : 1

Nikolai Myaskovsky - Symphony-Ballad No. 22, Symphony No. 23 (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 363 Mb
Date: 2009

The Wartime Music CD series of the Northern Flowers label includes symphonic opuses of several Russian composers created in the years of terrible ordeals undergone by our nation in the Great Patriotic War. The main goals of the unique project are to preserve the creative heritage of outstanding figures of Russian culture, and to restore historic justice inrespect of undeservedly forgotten compositions and authors.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 20 Mar 2013 16:08:33 | Comments : 1

Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No. 3, Cross Lane Fair (BBC Philharmonic, Maxwell Davies)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 313 Mb
Date: 2012

Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphony No 3 is the product of symmetry and proportion based on the principles of Renaissance architecture. It is also a dynamic and thrilling seascape, one that both invokes medieval chant and summons up the violent buffeting of the waves, and the stirring cliff-face full of nesting birds. The dual inspirations of proportion and the natural world are seamlessly coalesced, and the Symphony teems with evocative sounds and brooding passages both expansive and time-defying in their beauty. Cross Lane Fair is a lighter work, scored for Northumbrian pipes, bodhran (an Irish drum) and chamber orchestra, inspired by the memories of a fairground that Maxwell Davies visited as a child.
Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 20 Mar 2013 16:08:07 | Comments : 1

Alexander Tcherepenin - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 + 3. Festmusik, Symphonic March (repost)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 304 Mb
Label: BIS - Date: 2008

The Tcherepnin dynasty comprises Nikolai (1873-1945) the father, Alexander (1899-1977), the son and Ivan (1943-1998) and Sergei (b.1941), the sons of Alexander. Alexander grew up amid an affluent and musical family. Their home welcomed the leading artistic lights of Russian society. The 1917 Revolution changed everything for the Tcherepnins and they emigrated to Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1921 they moved to Paris where Alexander’s circle included Martinů and Tansman. Alexander lived in China and Japan between 1934 and 1937. He married the concert pianist Lee Hsien Ming and spent the war years in Paris. In 1948 he emigrated to the USA, living in Chicago and New York. My first encounter with the music of Alexander Tcherepnin came courtesy of .......
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Posted By : tapaz9 | Date : 19 Mar 2013 06:30:01 | Comments : 1

Jose Luis Turina - Portrait
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 410 Mb
Label: Verso - Date: 2008

Grandson of the great Joaquín Turina, one of the key figures of early twentieth century Spanish musical nationalism, José Luis Turina (Madrid, 1952) has, along with a variety of management tasks, pursued a brilliant musical career making him one of the most outstanding names of the eclectic generation of composers born in this country during the nineteen-fifties. Portrait is, above all, a tribute, a sincere and well-deserved homage to an exceptional composer .....