Classical Music Vinyl 1337 Items

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

Hélène Grimaud

Reflection

49,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mischa Maisky & Pavel Gililov

Meditation

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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David Garrett

Virtuoso

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Grosse Meister-Kleine Stücke

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Bryce Dessner / Aaron Dessner / Lco

Cyrano

2LP | 2022 | EU (Universal Music Classics)

23,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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4 Hands Clear Vinyl Editoin

Roedelius Story

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Erased Tapes)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Johann Johannsson / Theatre Of Voices

Drone Mass

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Havels, The (Irena & Vojtech Havlovi)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Limited to 666 copies, randomly inserted color! Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia! Full dynamic range 2022 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes! Limited to 666 copies – 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Revelation Red’ LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Mark Of The Beast’ Splatter LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Final Night’ Black LPs! Behold...

The dark, etheric carnival of broken Nashville delights - Deathly Oracular Visions, Cuckolds, Wastrels, Chain Gang Laments and Fiery Apocalyptic Fever-Dreams. Sometimes grim, often beautiful - this extraordinary collection of knowns and unknowns, battered Opry legends and forgotten backwoods-poets and preachers features tales of Tenement Tragedies, Vengeful Vegetation, Proselytizing Playground Philosophies, Windswept Abandonment and Deathbed Confessions. Originally waxed in often penurious amounts, these Troubled Troubadours sing of Fatal Infidelities, Aching Hypocrisies, Deep Dark Depressions, Penal Punishments, Flaming Prophecies and Rapturous Revelations.

Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies In Hell’ (13) presents 16 timeless tribulations - a Lovecraftian clutch of Ancient Terrors, Sinful Seductions, Grinding Poverty, Debilitating Disfigurement, Hell's Eternal Maze of Hardships and God's Blazing Light of Redemption.

A misty shroud of marginal 45s - some of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your cautionary listening pleasure.

•see Little Richard Miller witness THE Fire Came Down! •hear Dee Mullins declare I AM THE Grass! •attest to Eddie Noack's brutal final fate in Barbara JOY!

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Saving One Who Was Dead / Little Crusader

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sirius)

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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"Absence of the loved one is a theme running through both films, but during the creative process we never discuss with the Havels the themes, symptoms or attributes of the characters. We do not specify any meanings. Our collaboration is intuitive, based on interconnectedness. We neither explain things to each other nor analyse. From the outset we have a common goal: to quieten the viewers’ perception, to attune them to certain vibrations by visual, musical and acoustic repetitions, thus enabling them to focus on every tiny detail, every subtle aesthetic quality, so that by the end of the film they have a sense of reconciliation. In fact it is a state similar to meditation or prayer. The aim is being shown Mercy. Each time, the linking of the filmed images with Irena and Vojtech’s music has uncovered a new quality that we have named: a commentary on eternity. Characters cease to be determined by their senses, psychological motivations, or the times they live in. They find liberation in the stream of eternal time." /Václav Kadrnka

"We would like to thank all our friends, sound engineers and musicians. The main thanks go to director Václav Kadrnka, his family and all his collaborators for the precious opportunity to assist them in creating both films. We have worked on our music for the film Saving One Who Was Dead for three years. We met with Václav, discussed the screenplay while it was being born and many other things. We have gradually prepared several working versions that included compositions for piano, Indonesian gamelan, gongs, Tibetan bowls, bells and mini-bells. Yet, step by step, we made it simpler and simpler and eventually only kept violas da gamba, organ and chanting. Everything else was redundant. We made most of the recordings of the compositions for viola da gamba in a church in Prague. The composition for organ was recorded in Milan where we performed a concert shortly before the pandemic arrived in December 2019. We tried to record it in various churches in Bohemia but it was not until the church in Milan that we found the best sounding organ.

As for Little Crusader, we recorded the music for the film after it was completed. We had several versions and used the piano version for this album. Together with Václav, we searched for instruments that would work the best for this Medieval story. Eventually, we opted for harmonium with simple chanting which accompanies the character little boy Jenik. Violas da gamba intertwine, move close and then apart from each other the same way as paths of little boy Jenik and his father who is searching for him. Simple chanting and Tibetan bowl accompany scenes with little boy Jenik’s mother who awaits them at home. Trombone and saxophone are like metal swords and the knights’ armor. Violoncello and viola da gamba walk in the rhythm of horse’s hooves, in the rhythm of heartbeat of both the horse and his rider – a father searching for his lost son." / Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi

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Johannes Brahms

Masterpieces Of Brahms

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Cmw / Pregardien / Goerne

Matthäus-Passion (2001)

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

36,09 €* 37,99 € -5%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Infine)

Vanessa Wagner

Study Of The Invisible

Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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France pianist Vanessa Wagner continues her exploration of the minimalist repertoire by introducing her audience to pieces, many rare or unpublished, by acclaimed composers, young pianists, and genre-bending personalities from the ambient and electronic scenes. In France or even Europe, Vanessa Wagner is practically the only “classical” pianist to tackle this contemporary and timeless repertoire. Study Of The Invisible features interpretations of pieces by a spectrum of composers that includes Suzanne Ciani, Harold Budd, David Lang, Bryce Dessner and Phillip Glass. Info: France pianist Vanessa Wagner continues her exploration of the minimalist repertoire by introducing her audience to pieces, many rare or unpublished, by acclaimed composers, young pianists, and genre-bending personalities from the ambient and electronic scenes. In France or even Europe, Vanessa Wagner is practically the only “classical” pianist to tackle this contemporary and timeless repertoire. Study of The Invisible features interpretations of pieces by a spectrum of composers that includes Suzanne Ciani, Harold Budd, David Lang, Bryce Dessner and Phillip Glass.

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Schubert: 8 "Unvollendete"

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Dvorak: Konzert Für Violine Und Orchester

Johanna Martzy

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Bestseller Classic 1

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Bostridge / Pahud / Rana / Fray / Say / Anderszewski

The Best Of Bach

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Joep Beving

Hermetism

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Nouveau Monde Baroque Arias

Petricia Petibon

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Clearaudio)

49,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Gülbaba)

Ozan Tekin

Anarya

23,99 €*

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mental Groove)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Cologne - based composer and multi - instrumentalist Ozan Tekin’s second studio album “Anarya” will be released via Gülbaba Records on May 27 th . Tekin winds his musical journey back from Cologne to Adana with a long layover in Istanbul in “Anarya”. A triangle of migration drawn by musical notation and performance. The album is composed of 14 tracks and each one of them is a sound story that echoes Tekin’s distinct memories from these three cities. “Anarya” is the end product of a process in which Tekin and his upright piano co - tuned each other. It is an artistic representation of the idiosyncratic phenomenon called stimmung in German; a spectrum of tones, moods and atmospheres expressed in personal and instrumental terms. Tekin concludes the piano conversations from his previously released EPs in 2021 (“Anarya I” and “Anarya Ii”). The remarkably catchy melodies and immersive melancholic arpeggios fl ow throughout. The transposed narrative of “Anarya” sprung up from its roots when Tekin came across with a 66 - years old worn out piano in Cologne. Mesmerized by its unique sound, he felt the urge to make recordings with this piano before it fell apart. Aft er spending months learning its mechanics, Tekin recorded his second album with the old upright piano he repaired and brought back to life. The uneasy changes in time signatures and ambient ornamentations with gloomy synths of 80’s, lush strings and room tones set up the atmospheric stage of “Anarya I” in the first five tracks. Following six tracks of the album attempts to revisit Tekin’s emotional and episodic memories in Istanbul. His unaffected absorption into piano music in the first two parts of “Anar ya” are followed by his coyishly joyful tracks later in the album: an idle “ode”, a lost “lament” and a colorful “jam”. These three tracks blend the neoclassical, jazz and ambient sounds of Cologne and Istanbul with sentiments of childhood and rascality in Adana. The piano conversations of Tekin throughout “Anarya” are accompanied by his analogue synthesizers, vocals, bass guitar, Hanitra Wagner’s violin and Berke Can Özcan’s drums , percussions and vibraphone, and Emre Malikler’s mix and mastering. The sou nds of collaboration go deeper and louder as the album’s tracks move forward and Tekin’s memories go backwards simultaneously. Anarya gitmek (“to go back”) is a vernacular saying from Tekin’s hometown Adana and Tekin makes a figurative attempt to migrate b ackwards via the compositions that came into being in his most recent home, Cologne. Having been born out of an upright piano, Tekin’s compositions have instrumental origins, however, due to his constantly mutating sense of belonging, his melodies can’t be pinpointed to any specific heimat . Tekin’s continuously transforming music is an invitation to his listeners to explore and experience his music in their own terms. Tekin’s personal memories that shape “Anarya” is open to new forms of sonic exploration and rearrangement. This openness lies in Tekin’s determined faith in not to be entrenched in any single genre. The immersive intimacy radiating from the collaborative piano conversations in “Anarya” is an invitation signature to his music’s current and fut ure followers. Text by Mehmet Ekinci

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Chris Korda

Passion For Numbers

21,99 €*

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (INFRACom!)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose work spans thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance and conceptual art, and culture jamming. Chris pioneered the use of complex polymeter in electronic dance music, and invented a unique Midi sequencer in order to explore polymeter composition techniques. Chris composes and performs music in a variety of genres, and has released many albums on labels such as Perlon, Mental Groove, and Gigolo Records. Chris also worked as a computer programmer for thirty-five years.

Her new album "Passion For Numbers" is one of the very few album in the world entirely composed in complex polymeter, meaning that each pieces of music uses several prime meters simultaneously. A unique way to compose music with a new generation of musical algorithmic, inside which Korda injects the DNA of neo classical, ambient and jazz music.

This refreshing album will please you whether you are into complex musical composition, experimental music or just seeking for a beautiful, emotional and accessible musical moment. This is a "In your hearts not the charts" album, as Irdial Discs once said.

Pleases read an extract of Chris Korda's letter about Passion For Numbers, included as insert in its entirety in this vinyl release:

This is an album of piano music, but I wrote it without a piano. Not having a piano turned out to be constructive, because I had to rely on my brain instead of my fingers, and particularly on my imagination and inner hearing. The album belongs to a category called phase music, and it’s also algorithmic, or more precisely rules-based generative music.

I don’t write music in the usual sense of the word “write.” I build kinetic sculptures, and the sculptures generate my music. My sculptures are virtual, meaning they’re invisible machines that exist only as data within my home-grown software. My process is related to the work of a relatively obscure early 20th century artist named Thomas Wilfred. Like me, Wilfred was an engineer-artist, and built machines that generated art from phase shift.

My music is in complex polymeter, meaning it’s not just in odd time, but in multiple odd time signatures, and not one odd time signature after another sequentially, but all of them running concurrently. Most music isn’t constructed this way, which is why I needed to develop custom software in order to compose my music. My software is called The Polymeter Midi Sequencer, and you can easily find it on the Internet. I also use music set theory, change-ringing and gray code, explanations of which can be found in Wikipedia.

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Matthias Vogt

Pianissimo

35,99 €*

Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Classical Music

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For his twelfth studio album, Pianissimo, Matthias Vogt ([re:jazz], Motorcitysoul) makes a clear political statement in symbiosis with his well-placed notes and the stylishly experimental and pronouncedly eclectic electro-jazz sound. Pianissimo does not only mean playing very softly but also playing very intensively. It is definitely not an album to skip through. Matthias Vogt combines great music with current socio-political attitudes and issues for this new album. He conducted interviews on topics like “climate change” with people from his circle of friends and acquaintances - creatives, artists, activists and musicians who tick similarly to himself and with whose voices he could give expression and form to his own thoughts. With this material, he created this hybrid piece of music and socio-political reflexion. His companions are Demian Kappenstein (ätna & Massa) on drums & guitarist Daniel Stelter (Sing mein Song, TV-Total Heavytones). Vinyl incl. the outer packaging will be produced on a completely recycled basis by INFRACom! which starts its 30 years celebration with this release.

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Beethoven: Tripelkonzert

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Karl Böhm / Berliner Philharmoniker

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Frederic Chopin: 24 Preludes Op.28

Martha Argerich

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mönche Der Benediktinerabtei Münsterschwarzach

Gregorianischer Choral

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The Masterpieces Of Cleaude Debussy

Claude Debussy

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wagram)

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Night Dreamer)

Nicolas Van Poucke

In The Moment

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Xxim)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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"The stakes are high; if I mess up the last bar, the whole recording is ruined." As Dutch pianist Nicolas van Poucke acknowledges, there is an electricity in the room whenever the lathe is on. Direct-to-disc recording generates tension and release unlike other methods, not least in the final moments of a 20-minute solo piano recital. Described as "the young freethinker" of his generation, van Poucke relished the challenge. Having spent day one setting up to record works by Frédéric Chopin, van Poucke changed tack on day two to perform two Beethoven piano sonatas - Sonata No. 12 Opus 26 in A flat major, and Sonata No. 23 Opus 57 in f minor, also known as the "Appassionata".

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Eydis Evensen

Bylur

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Roger Eno

The Turning Year

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald)

Malakoff Kowalski

Piano Aphorism

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Berlin Classics)

Damian Marhulets

Constellation Machine

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Earmusic)

Joe Satriani

The Elephants Of Mars

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Violinkonzert / Gesungene Zeit

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violinkonzerte

Berliner Philharmoniker

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Kyung Wha Chung / Tennstedt, Klaus / Cgo / Lpo

Violinkonzerte Op.61 & 1

2LP | 2022 | EU (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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Daniel Barenboim

Encores

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Cello-Konzerte

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Fragments: Erik Satie

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mercury Classics)

Lambert

Open

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mari Samuelsen

Lys

12,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU (Deutsche Grammophon)

Moby

Reprise Remixes

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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Jacqueline Du Pre / Daniel Barenboim

Cellosonaten 1 & 2 (New Remastering)

LP | 2022 | EU (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Chaikin)

Nick Zinner

41 Strings

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Chapelier Fou

Ensemb7e

Eduardo De La Calle Aka Flexol, Acoustic Trauma & Dexual

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Since his debut with the "Darling Darling Darling"track, immediately spotted by the media as well as by electronic music lovers, Louis Warynski has continued to evolve a world that belongs to him alone, over the last ten years and eight albums.Like Lewis Caroll's universe, Chapelier Fou's music is multiple, simple and complex, serious and light, classic and modern. Louis Warynski's work is woven on a classical basis, but it is constantly disrupted by subtle electronic arrangements and rhythms, thus taking the tracks outside of all convention.We find in Chapelier Fou the facetiousness of French composers such as Erik Satie, François de Roubaix or Robert Cohen Solal, not hesitating to blend pop and concrete music, but also this formidable capacity to make serious what is not serious, and vice versa of course. His music, very much at home on screen as well as on stage, has everything that makes up the trait of genius composers: accessible in appearance and adaptable in all forms.This is how Chapelier Fou has performed on stage as a soloist, juggling between violin, guitar, keyboards and pedals, in trio, quartet and even in orchestral formation with the Orchestre National of Metz. Often described as "electronic chamber music", it was expected that one day Chapelier Fou would offer us a version of his music without a single electronic or electrified part. It is now done with this Ensemb7e who performed on the stage of L'Arsenal de Metz, broadcasted by Arte Concert. Chapelier Fou Ensemb7e has received direct support from a wide audience, but also from venues programmers where the septet has been performing since June 2021. Ensemb7e stands for a mainly wooden septet: violin, viola, cello, piano, clarinet and drums accompany the multi-instrumentalist composer. It's hard to resist such musical enthusiasm! The magic happens immediately because the re-reading of these little jewels in pop format gives a touching and fulfilling dimension to Chapelier Fou's work: even more dreamy versions, sometimes more mis...

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Lobotomies And Other Psychosocial

12" | 2022 | UK | Original (Konsysttenzia)

12,99 €*

Argerich / Capucon / Chamayou / Fray / Riopy / Cipa

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Eduardo De La Calle and crew return with 4 tracks of deep off kilter electro and idm Big tip if you're into Bitstream, Gosub and Silicon

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Relaxing Classics

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Radicalis)

Matthias Gusset

Burden

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Classical)

Alexis Ffrench

Truth

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Nigel Kennedy / Eco

Die Vier Jahreszeiten

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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5LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Walter Gieseking

Sämtliche Klavierwerke

56,79 €* 70,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Leaf)

Matthew Bourne

Irrealis

20,99 €* 29,99 € -30%

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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All These Years Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl Edition

Phil Cook

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Psychic Hotline)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Holidays)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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All These Years is Phil Cook's first fully instrumental piano release. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, and in-demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre - as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few - here, Cook returns to his primary instrument, the piano, back where it all began.All These Years was recorded at NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, NC by his cousin and collaborator Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Indigo Girls), on a long-cared-for and much-loved one-hundred year-old Steinway piano. All These Years is near hymn-like, a collection of prayers or meditations, improvisations threaded together by feeling, by the things that matter most. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. Through composing the music, he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life, and ends up capturing their essence via keys here. He distills decades of friendship, brotherhood, family, love, learning, and loss into flickering piano portraits - impressionistic and fluid and reverent. It's not so much looking backwards as it is just looking around, reflections on all that is human and divine and present, and the roads we've taken to get us there.

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James Rushford

Block Gifts

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Mercury Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Block Gifts is a collection of three works for organs composed by James Rushford between 2015 and 2018. Using harmonium, portative organ and electric organ, each piece is linked by Rushford’s idiosyncratic combination of strict intervallic systems in different tunings (Werckmeister, quarter-tone, equal temperament), and haptically-informed rhythmic and expressive freedom. Creaks, stutters and sweeping fingers on keys become instrumental sounds in their own right, creating a further logical layer in Rushford’s compositional world. An intimate, nocturnal, and slightly suffered dialogue between the instrument and the body building a shining and fragile monument to the ephemeral nature of the organ, one of the most intriguing and ancient families of musical instruments in history. Mixed by Joe Talia, mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, cut by Daniel Krieger at SST, Frankfurt am Main. Composed and recorded 2015-2018 at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), California Institute of the Arts (by Sam Dunscombe) and Chinatown Studios, Melbourne (by Joe Talia). Cover artwork and fold out poster by Graham Lambkin.

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Clint Mansell

She Will

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mendelssohn-Lieder Ohne Worte

Daniel Barenboim

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Ensemble Intercontemporain & Jackson, George

Reich / Richter

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Nonesuch)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Behold! I Make All Things New

Jozef Van Wissem

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Incunabulum)

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Behold! I Make All Things New is all instrumental and consists of sparse works for lute and electronics. There are no vocals this time. It is more a return to the minimal neo classical style of his early work. It was written and recorded in lockdown in Warsaw and Rotterdam between 2019 and 2021. Jozef van Wissem is an avant garde composer and lutenist playing his all black, one of a kind custom made baroque lute all around the world.Jozef van Wissem is an avant garde composer and lutenist playing his all black, one of a kind custom made baroque lute all around the world.According to the New York Times "Van Wissem is both an avant-garde composer and a baroque lutenist, and thus no stranger to dichotomy". His completely unique musical world can be easily verified by his collaborations, especially that these relationships are also strengthening his own musical character. He worked together with Zola Jesus, Tilda Swinton, Jarboe as well as with his long-time collaborative partner, also his friend, Jim Jarmusch. The timeless value of his work can be described by one of his previous interviews: "_the lute goes against all technology and against all computers and against all the shit you don't need."

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Summer Tales

10,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek

Hoya

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Altin Village & Mine)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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The Duo met on a rainy day in Tilburg (nl) while working for a dance project — they came down from very different roads. Fhunyue, a stage director–performer–musician chameleon, works alone or collaborate with Annalena Fröhlich (Robinrobin, Just Another Woman In Space), Thom Luz, Unplush, Peeping Tom, Dorit Chrysler, Ko Murobushi, Damien Jalet, The Scottish Dance Theatre, Bern Ballett, for a most colourful variety of venues in Europe. She is a member of the music association Bongo Joe (Switzerland). Sven, an established musician living between Hamburg and Nairobi, who released several records on Honest Jons and Bureau B and collaborated with several artists like Shabaka Hutchings, Ogoya Nengo, Marc Ribot, John McEntire, Sofia Jernberg, Nils Frahm, Hauschka, F.S. Blumm and Stefan Schneider.

Their encounter quickly revealed that both their musical sensitivity and their instruments (Marimbas, Drums, Percussions, Electronics, Theremin, Buchla Synthesizer, Piano) matched stunningly, and that they had to play together. After a short while of rocky life adventures and theatre projects in which they collaborated, their off rehearsal sessions would become a lively necessity. The wish to give birth to a project entirely their own, grew so strong that they locked themselves in Sven’s studio at Jaffestrasse in Hamburg, and started working on the debut of their duet. They are happy to present and share with you their labour of love, in hope that it will be good to your heart.

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Remeber The 60's Marbled Vinyl Edition

LP | 2022 | UK | Original (Magic Of Vinyl)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Promu)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Pop, Classical Music

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra co-invented the incomparable „Pop Goes Classic Sound“. This album celebrated the 60's!

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La Junta Escondida

Suite Punta Del Este

18,19 €* 25,99 € -30%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Champ De Mars En Concert Au Paris

Luciano Pavarotti

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Ice Record)

31,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Power Station)

Leonard Bernstein

Gershwin

29,69 €* 32,99 € -10%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Brahms, Sinigaglia Klavierst

Edoardo Turbil

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Da Vinci Classics)

11,89 €* 16,99 € -30%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Carlo Maria Pol Perlman.Itzhak Giulini

Violinkonzert

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Violinkonzert, Serendade Melancolique

Itzhak Ormandy Perlman

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Christina Vantzou / Michael Harrison / John Also Bennett

LP | 2022 | CA | Original (Seance Centre)

34,99 €*

The Lark Ascending, Sinfonie 6

Release: 2022 / CA – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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A suite of raga-inspired compositions and improvisations that grew from a fertile collaboration between Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett centered around a devotion to just intonation tuning, deep listening, and resonant spaces.

Michael Harrison is a composer and pianist who is a dedicated practitioner of just intonation and North Indian classical music. He was La Monte Young's protégé and piano tuner during The Well-Tuned Piano years and a disciple of Pandit Pran Nath, and has since developed his own customized tuning systems. Guided by conversations with Christina Vantzou, who provided structural frameworks for each piece and directed the sessions, the compositions drew from Harrison's daily raga practice, using its ancient forms as starting points from which the compositions could blossom and morph. A resonant backdrop of modular synthesizers played by John Also Bennett, who also contributed piano improvisations played on Harrison’s custom tuned Steinway concert grand, expanded the sessions into true collective praxis.

As noted by Parul Gupta, a conceptual artist based in New Delhi who contributed the stunning artwork for the album, “the songs feel like an extension of silence.” The notes from the piano emerge, resonate, and dissolve in measured and meditative sonic fields, allowing for a concentrated listening experience where every sound lives, breathes, and ultimately returns to silence. Contained within these aural ecologies are potentialities that emerge from a collective listening and improvising experience, and a resonant rebuttal of the standard equal tempered tuning system that has dominated Western music for centuries.

This release collects the verdant recordings from the trio’s 2019 Berlin sessions on two 45rpm records, accompanied by a risograph printed insert featuring track credits and Harrison’s handwritten tuning charts used on the album.

Artist Statement

An observer, a pianist and a synthesist form a triangle. The observer (Christina) is both witness and guide, the pianist (Michael) is precise and intuitive, and the synthesist (John) provides a palate of drones which offer increased resonance and a supportive framework. The piano has been carefully prepared to become a resonant body. This enhancement was achieved by tuning it to two of Michael’s just intonation tunings, based on his work, “Revelation,” and North Indian classical music, or ragas. These tunings maintain mathematically precise intervals. In place of voice, sitar or tabla, is the piano, and in place of the tanpura, is the synthesizer. Playing ragas is an ancient practice of structured improvisation. Time, knowledge and memory interplay in the body and mind of the practitioner and this is a large part of the raga practice. The raga combines with muscle memory and personal aesthetics to individuate results. Through the formation of a trio, multiple perspectives and timelines collapse and the raga mutates again. These twists and turns seem to only fall back on themselves as the raga shows us that there are multiple compositions already stored in our collective memory. They blossom, morph and spring forth like nature.

Nothing was written down to execute these recordings. The simplest forms were explored in the least complicated way. The first reflection of this process is what happens in the mind and body of the listener. The observer is always observing. Regions of sound tap into memory and imagination and the sound of the raga itself becomes a prismatic event.

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Tasmin Davis Little

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

37,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Rhapsody In Blue, Porgy And Bess Arrangements

Fazil Masur Say

18,39 €* 22,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Music For Animals Regular Inner Sleeves Edition

Nils Frahm

4LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

74,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Music For Animals Mofi Inner Sleeves Edition

Nils Frahm

4LP | 2022 | EU | Original (BMG Rights Management)

74,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Where Is Home / Hae Ke Kae

Abel Selaocoe

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Classical)

Igor Levit

Tristan

36,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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OST My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

Yuki Hayashi

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Masterworks)

27,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Lang Lang / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Disney Book

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Song

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Universal)

LP Duo

Dead Sea

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Les Soeurs Grées)

Pierre Redon

Tulu (Version Noir)

25,59 €* 31,99 € -20%

The Discomfort Of Evening

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Tülü is an avant-garde piece composed by Pierre Redon. It is one of his iconic creations played around the world to “weave the memory of humanity in a hair carpet.” This album is a captivating sound experience, recorded in 2013 by the ensemble Tülü with rare instruments such as sarangui, sorud, Viola di amor and Santiago, double bass or percussion.

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Michiel De Malsche

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Meakusma)

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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The Discomfort Of Evening is the incredible and original soundtrack by prolific Belgian composer Michiel de Malsche to 2020 International Booker Prize winner The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Visceral and virtuosic, Rijneveld's novel follows Jas, a girl growing up in a devout Christian family that runs a Dutch dairy farm, whose brother dies in an accident after she wishes he would die instead of her rabbit. Lost in grief, her family falls apart as she becomes consumed by increasingly dangerous fantasies.

Michiel de Malsche has captured the atmosphere and spirit of Rijneveld's book perfectly, moving through moments of confrontation and introspection, sinking into spirals of despair, stasis and subtle hope and change. Brooding ambient basslines, driven by droning murmurs, are offset with melismatic electro-acoustic pieces that embody the novel's haunting and dissonant world, whilst also incorporating manipulated field recordings such as animal sounds and a church service, allowing for a full manifestation of Jas’s world in a completely new way.

De Malsche achieves this by rallying an unusual combination of acoustic instruments (16 in total) played by top-of-their-field musicians, creating a truly unique sound world and tonal palette, including an Ondes Martenot, a 7-stringed Chinese instrument called a guqin, a marimba, a string 6-tet, a toy piano and a bass flute.

De Malsche always confronts all emotional levels of his source material head-on, making his soundtrack into much more than just a fever dream. It is a precise description of, and accompaniment to, a devastatingly impactful book.

Michiel De Malsche is a Belgian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer. He studied classical composition at the conservatories of Rotterdam and Ghent. His music has been performed all over the world and he has composed and produced dozens of soundtracks for contemporary dance, theatre, movies and documentaries.
Besides his work as a contemporary classical composer, he is active as a studio musician and producer in the world of electronic music.

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Pierre Colombier Henry

Pierre Henry: Collector

34,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Tharaud Gavrilov Francois Lugansky Angelich

Intimate Chopin

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Damrau / Renaudin / Rattle / Previn / Gheorghiu / +

Lenny:The Best Of Bernstein

LP | 2022 | EU (Warner Classics)

15,99 €* 19,99 € -20%

Release: 2022 / EU

Genre: Classical Music

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (YNFND)

Tofu Resistance

Thurídur

11,99 €*

The Silva & M. Sessions Bundle

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance, Classical Music

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Tofu Resistance returns with his new ep “Thorídur”, marking his 3rd release on Ynfnd after his full length debut “1//23“ in 2019.

This EP sits comfortably between both the world of beats and a more relaxed environment. Returning to his roots, Tofu Resistance aka Tobias Kleine remembers his early influences of sample based music and classy hip hop grooves.

The result is a sonorous sketch of deceleration, answering with bouncy rhythms to nod your head to. You can hear him playing the drums, guitars and various other instruments on this record. A beautiful blend of organic and electronic production, adding his unique Tofu flavor.

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Rico Friebe

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity)

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Strictly limited edition of THE Silva Sessions (cd) and THE M. Session (Vinyl-Only) by Rico Puestel coming in natural cotton tote bags with an exclusive artwork fusion print.

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Rico Friebe

The M. Session

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The vinyl-only THE M. Session EP by Rico Puestel marks the epilogue to his simultaneously released full-length piano album THE Silva SessionS.

With the recordings being apart seven months, Rico Puestel didn't touch any instrument in the meantime while coming back to it several months after a physical assault (leading to an almost lost hearing on one ear) to completely improvise THE M. Session recordings. Those are based on the things that were happening inbetween.

While not being able to produce any new music back then, playing the instrument was the only opportunity for him to start recovering...

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Vikingur Olafsson

From Afar

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Hilary Orozco-Estrada Hahn

Eclipse

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Rudolf Kempe & Staatskapelle Dresden

Richard Strauss

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Warner Classics)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Parlophone Label Group)

Riopy

Extended Bliss

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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The Plains At Gordium Performed By Talujon

Petr Kotik

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Unseen Worlds)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Constellation)

Jessica Moss

Galaxy Heart

Florian Christl & Ndr Radiophilharmonie & Ben Pal

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Galaxy Heart is Moss' fourth record for Constellation and the companion album to 2021's Phosphenes. Galaxy Heart features guest appearances by Jim White (Xylouris White, Springtime, Dirty Three) and Thierry Amar (Godspeed You! Black Emperor).

Jessica Moss is a violinist and composer based in Montréal. She uses amplified and processed violin and voice to create intricate works of expressive electronic, drone, experimental and post-classical Minimalism; her distinctive melodic sensibility often channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes, combined with an ear for the textural grit and timbral noise of post-punk, industrial and ambient metal. Moss played in cult agit-prop post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion (2000-2015), has contributed to countless albums by the likes of Carla Bozulich, Vic Chesnutt and Matana Roberts, and most recently has guested on albums by Sarah Davachi and Big|Brave. She has released three solo albums on Constellation since 2017.

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About Time

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sony Music)

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Klarinettenkonzert, Sinfonia Concertante

Sabine Meyer

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Universal Music Classics)

Brian Eno

Foreverandevernomore

17,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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2LP+CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Decca)

Ludovico Einaudi

Underwater

62,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Rafael Berliner Philharmoniker Kubelik

Schumann: Die 4 Sinfonien-Rafael Kubelik

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Deutsche Grammophon)

57,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Feldeffekt)

Nodfeld

Off

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Mit diesem Album bin ich nach meiner jahrelangen hauptsächlich elektronischen Produktionsweise noch einen Schritt weiter gegangen. Es ist diesmal rein akustisch, Klavier und Kontrabass. Daher auch der Name des Albums: "Off", alle Schalter stehen auf aus. Im Mittelpunkt steht mein Klavier, ein dänisches Kleinklavier der Firma Brødr. Jørgensen aus dem Jahre 1964. Ich habe es restauriert und teilweise prepariert, immer mit Filz, nah und intim aufgenommen. Ich habe versucht, alles so natürlich wie möglch einzufangen, um den Charakter dieses einzigartes Klaviers zu unterstreichen. Durch seinen organischen Klang und sein Eigenleben, sind ein paar unverwechselbare Stücke entstanden. Einige davon sind improvisiert, andere über die Zeit gewachsen.

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Irida Records: Hybrid Music From Texas And Beyond

7LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blank Forms Editions)

320,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Volume II Blue Vinyl Edition

Flore Laurentienne

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Rvng Intl.)

The Soundtrack Of My Home

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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Following the compass of an entrancing debut, Flore Laurentienne's Volume II presents another palette of rich orchestral sound, where changing forces of water inspire metaphorical markers that navigate passages of life and loss. Mathieu David Gagnon resumes his voyage into environment and emotion with Volume II, drawing inspiration from the rivers and rugged wilderness of the composer's native Quebec. In his return as Flore Laurentienne - the namesake of an inventory documenting St. Lawrence Valley flora - Gagnon assembles vivid melodic motifs and delicate modulation with a vast string ensemble to emulate the tides of human experience. Listeners of Volume I will recognise Gagnon's signature approach towards reworking and reframing an emblematic melody or concept across a series of works in Volume II, a process he likens to that of a painter creating multiple sketches of the same view. Continued from the first album, the enigmatic "Fleuve" series is conjured to evoke the multiple personalities of the great St. Lawrence River, and the "Navigation" works ("iii" and "iv") wade through dappled progressions and expansive streams of string, the latter of which harbors the gentle meanderings of improvised clarinet. In the world of Flore Laurentienne, complexity emerges from simplicity as the composer roams familiar environments in constant flux. Gagnon extracts beauty through repetition and constraint, utilizing the writing style of counterpoint for which one of his greatest musical inspirations, Johann Sebastian Bach, is renowned. The lilting waves of "Canon" possess the eponymous formation of melodic 'leader and follower' motif, and magnify the softness of the album's eighteen string musicians into a force of full euphoric resonance. In Volume II, Gagnon continues his expansion of classical composition archetypes to meet a new realm of sonic romanticism. Thematic conventions of wandering the pastoral sublime become altered into glimmering refractions, relaying the emotional and kinetic power of natural energies. Volume II forms an estuary where streams of auditory microcosm reach a horizon of dynamic contrast, and reflect the parallel tenors of nature and humankind.

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Kjetil Jerve

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Dugnad)

19,99 €*