Muzica CD

CD Universal Records Nirvana - Nevermind BluRay Audio

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Rock

CD ECM Records Arild Andersen: The Triangle

2003

Arild Andersen contrabas
Vassilis Tsabropoulos pian
John Marshall tobe

For a player with a background in classical music, pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos has done wonders in the realm of jazz, and specifically improvisation. He still plays with a precise, sensitive touch and measures out dissonance in carefully metered pinches, but the tidal ebb and flow that characterizes this trio recording stands as remarkable evidence that he’s made the transition completely and elegantly. .. All three musicians on Triangle are active and forward players. John Marshall favors reinforcing the beat… Andersen, who has 15 recordings to his credit as a leader, plays with the confidence of a seasoned veteran and utilizes his deft and limber dexterity to connect the dots in counterintuitive ways.
A top pick of 2004
Nils Jacobson, All about Jazz

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Miroslav Vitous, Jan Garbarek: ATMOS

1992

Miroslav Vitous - contrabas
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran

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“Jan Garbarek is my favorite sax player,” Miroslav Vitous has said. “We have an incredible musical rapport and you can hear it. He understands my Slavic melodies and what I use for atmosphere because he’s European and his father was Polish, which is very close to me. I’m from Czechoslovakia. Our musical communication is astonishing: we each sense what the other is about to play.” Atmos, recorded 1992, features seven compositions by Vitous and two freely improvised pieces, yet sounds like the product of a shared mind, so well-matched are the expressive approaches of bassist and saxophonist.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Eberhard Weber: Colours (3 CD-Box)

1975-1980
Eberhard Weber - bas
Rainer Bruninghaus - claviaturi
Charlie Mariano - saxofon sopran, shenai, nagaswaram
Jon Christensen - tobe
John Marshall - tobe, percutie

Acest set reuneste trei albume inregistrate de Eberhard Weber cu grupul Colors ( Yellow Fields, Silent Feet si Little Movements ). Muzica este mai mult indreptata spre jazz-rock decat spre jazz, in spiritul anilor 70 ( Marshall a fost protagonist in grupul prog-rock Nucleus )

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Decca Puccini: Madama Butterfly ( Karajan - Freni, Pavarotti, Ludwig ) CD + BluRay Audio

1974 - Interpreti: Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns, Wiener Philharmoniker ( dirijor Herbert von Karajan )

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.

Remastered in ultra-high quality 96kHz/24-bit audio at Abbey Road Studios in 2014 under the supervision of long-term Decca balance engineer Philip Siney.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Opera

CD ACT Lars Danielsson / Paolo Fresu: Summerwind

2018
Lars Danielsson - contrabas, violoncel
Paolo Fresu - trompeta, corn

“Summerwind”, their first joint studio project, brings the Swedish master bassist/cellist’s gorgeous sound on both instruments and his fine sense for simple and haunting melodies into a partnership with the bright, airy tones of one of Europe's most lyrical trumpeters whose way of “playing it cool” has such distinctive expressiveness.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Jan Garbarek, Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum

2009
Jan Garbarek - saxofoane
The Hilliard Ensemble :
David James - contratenor
Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
Steven Harrold - tenor
Gordon Jones - bariton

In addition to several medieval sources, included are works by early 20th century Armenian priest, musicologist, and composer Komitas; Nikolai N. Kedrov, a Russian composer of the same era; mid-20th century Greek composer Giorgios Sefaris; Estonian Arvo Part; and several original pieces by Garbarek himself. Like the first album, this one is suffused with a sense of distant mystery and a profound, powerful melancholy that is given voice with intense feeling. The sound again is spacious and warmly resonant, with an earthy, enveloping ambience. This album will be a must-have for anyone who loved the first one, and it should appeal to any listener with an affinity for meditative Eastern European spirituality, especially when tied to contemporary expressivity and stylistic freedom. [ AllMusic ]

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Contemporana

CD ECM Records Ketil Bjornstad / Terje Rypdal: Life In Leipzig

2005
Ketil Bjornstad - pian
Terje Rypdal - chitara electrica

What a sound – a feast for the ears! Life in Leipzig presents pianist Ketil Bjørnstad and guitarist Terje Rypdal in concert. … The music is decidedly romantic in the widest sense, full of large gestures that bring forth intense emotions and vivid images that must, however, have originated from within the players. [ Budd Kopman, All About Jazz ]

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Andras Schiff - Franz Schubert: Sonatas, Impromptus

Andras Schiff - Franz Brodmann Fortepiano

Franz Schubert - Vier Impromptus D 899 (op.90)
Franz Schubert - Sonate c-Moll D 958
Franz Schubert - Drei Klavierstücke D 946
Franz Schubert - Sonate A-Dur D 959

In the latest chapter in András Schiff’s ongoing documentation of Franz Schubert’s music, the great pianist plays the Four Impromptus D 899, and compositions from 1828, the last year of Schubert’s too brief life: The Three Pieces D 946 (“impromptus in all but name” notes Misha Donat in the CD booklet), the C minor Sonata D 958 and the A major Sonata D 959. Schiff again chooses to use his fortepiano made by Franz Brodmann in Vienna, around 1820. “It is to me ideally suited to Schubert’s keyboard works,” he has said. “There is something quintessentially Viennese in its timbre, its tender mellowness, its melancholic cantabilità.” Critics have agreed, unanimous also in their praise of Schiff’s interpretations: “I cannot think of anyone of his calibre who has mastered the fortepiano as well as the modern piano and shown such distinction on both,” wrote Stephen Plaistow in an Editor’s Choice review in Gramophone. “In Schubert Schiff has a claim to be considered sovereign among today’s players, carrying forward the reading and interpretation of him into areas that others have not fully explored.”

• Numar discuri: 2
• Gen muzica: Clasica

CD ECM Records Jan Garbarek: Witchi Tai To

1975

Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
Bobo Stenson - pian
Palle Danielsson - bas
Jon Christensen - tobe

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In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted ‘Record of the Year 1974/75’ in Jazz Forum’s poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: “Those who think that contemporary music from Europe lacks soul-fire are hereby advised to listen to Witchi-Tai-To.” Bobo Stenson: “The quartet had a chemistry that I’ve very rarely known, and I look back at the whole period as a happy and creative time.” The wide-open programme includes tunes by Carla Bley and Don Cherry as well as the title track composed by Jim Pepper.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Decca Puccini: Turandot ( Mehta - Sutherland, Pavarotti, Caballe ) CD + BluRay Audio

1973 ( editia 2014 ) - Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Ghiaurov, London Philharmonic Orchestra ( dirijor Zubin Mehta ) - “Sutherland gives an intensely appealing interpretation, while Pavarotti gives a performance equally imaginative. Mehta directs a gloriously rich and dramatic performance. Still the best-sounding Turandot on CD.” Penguin

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.

Remastered in ultra-high quality 96kHz/24-bit audio at Abbey Road Studios in 2014 under the supervision of long-term Decca balance engineer Philip Siney.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Opera

CD Deutsche Grammophon (DG) Verdi - Traviata ( Kleiber, Cotrubas, Domingo ) CD + BluRay Audio

Kleiber, the great Berlin-born conductor, finds a happy medium in his splendid "Traviata," with Ileana Cotrubas as Violetta and Plácido Domingo as Alfredo, both superb. His tempo for "Un dì felice" has a gentle gait, a bit slower than Toscanini¿s. The restraint allows the singers a little more room to stretch and bend the lines. As the voices blend during the final phrases, they sing with delectable pianissimo tenderness, especially Mr. Domingos.
Record Review / Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

Our favorite recording, from Deutsche Grammophon, has a superb cast, that includes Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubas as an incredibly touching Violetta, Plácido Domingo as Alfredo and Sherrill Milnes as Germont. Carlos Kleiber and the Bavarian State Opera orchestra stir up the passions as few others have on disc.
Record Review / Robert Thicknesse, Opera Now

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Opera

CD ECM Records Ralph Towner: Diary

1973

Ralph Towner 12-String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Gongs

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Recorded in a Stockholm church in 1979, Aftenland documents a fascinating encounter between Jan Garbarek, improviser par excellence, and classical organist Kjell Johnsen. “Preparing and realizing Aftenland was one of the most interesting experiences in my entire career,” Johnsen has said. “A major artistic achievement”, wrote Contemporary Keyboard.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Ghazal: The Rain

Mai 2001
Kayhan Kalhor - kamancheh
Shujaat Husain Khan - sitar, voce
Sandeep Das - tabla

Recorded live in Berne, Switzerland, The Rain is divided into three long-form improvisations on traditional motifs, averaging 18 minutes each. “Fire” opens with a blush of sitar, a splash of sun on the well-worn path of the kamancheh’s tearful song. The expectation in Khan’s singing, indistinguishably potent through throat and string, marks that path with a mapmaker’s intuition. Khan’s voice is almost startling, providing that moment of satori on which everything hinges. Vocal cues are left intact, loosing the birds of Kalhor’s flights from their cages: signals born of moments yet predestined beyond all sense of time. In contrast, the tabla arises from the very earth, its skins mineral-rough against a backdrop of unforced biorhythms.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: World

CD ACT Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Live In Hamburg

2007

Esbjorn Svensson - pian, claviaturi, percutie
Dan Berglund - bas, percutie
Magnus Ostrom - tobe, percutie

Anybody who wants the quintessential Esbjörn Svensson gig (if they're fans, that is - EST's music is viewed as a slick hit-formula by some improv fundamentalists) can tick this CD as a must. EST's mix of jazz-ballad delicacy, rock melodrama, subtle electronic colouring, and hypnotic Jarrett and Mehldau-inspired extemporisation consistently produces powerful live shows. [ The Guardian ]

• Numar discuri: 2
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Anouar Brahem: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita

2009

Anouar Brahem - oud
Klaus Gesing - bas clarinet
Bjorn Meyer - bas electric
Khaled Yassine - darbouka, bendir

Poate cel mai frumos proiect al lui Brahem si unul dintre cele mai bune publicate vreodata de ECM. Brahem lasa putin muzica clasica pentru a aluneca spre jazz si a face loc improvizatiei, mai ales in concerte. Melodiile sunt superbe, iar Gesing si Meyer sunt doi colaboratori stralucitori.

Although Brahem’s music is grounded in the traditions that have grown up around the oud over centuries…, his hybridization of those traditions with the ways of European and American jazz have made his extremely individual canon pointedly modern, and very much an example of a genuine world music. Brahem and Gesing’s beguiling interplay – a mystical poetry… – could not exist without rhythmic drive, supplied here… by Swedish bassist Björn Meyer and Lebanes percussionist Khaled Yassine. … Both he and Meyer drive the lead instrumentalists while also gathering a powerful energy between themselves. Throughout these eight tracks, it’s clear that not only do the clarinet and oud belong together, but the ideas that flow from both players mesh into an emotional and intellectual whole as they thrust and parry in turn, bending toward and away from each other. [ Robert Baird, Stereophile ]

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, Nana Vasconcelos: The Codona Trilogy (3 CD-Box)

1978-1982
Codona:
Collin Walcott sitar, tabla, hammered dulcimer, sanza, voce
Don Cherry - trompeta, flaute, doussn'gouni, voce
Nana Vasconcelos - berimbau, cuica, percutie, voce

Pure wizardry. The art of the improvisers beyond all borders. Preaching equality for all the idioms, anticipating the gathering wave of “world music”, drawing on traditions from all the continents, Codona was like no other band.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: World

CD ECM Records Ketil Bjornstad / Terje Rypdal: The Sea II

1996
Ketil Bjornstad - pian
David Darling - violoncel
Terje Rypdal - chitara electrica
Jon Christensen - tobe

If The Sea was a sweeping journey along the surface of its namesake, then this sequel is a plunge into its darkest depths. With the focus of an underwater camera, Ketil Bjørnstad and his peerless group render visible entire worlds we would otherwise never have known. [ ecmreviews ]

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records John Abercrombie: Night

1984

John Abercrombie - chitara
Jan Hammer - claviaturi
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
Mike Brecker - saxofon tenor


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Night reconvenes the guitar/keyboards/drums trio that made Abercrombie’s classic Timeless, and adds Mike Brecker on tenor sax for extra emphasis at strategic moments on an album described by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as “surprisingly funky”. All compositions are by Abercrombie apart from “Ethereggae”, the esoteric half-time shuffle tune by Jan Hammer, which opens the proceedings.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records John Surman, John Warren: The Brass Project

1992

John Surman - saxofon sopran si bariton, alto si bas clarinet, pian
Henry Lowther, Steve Waterman, Stuart Brooks - trompeta
Malcolm Griffiths, Chris Pyne- trombon
David Stewart, Richard Edwards - trombon bas
Chris Laurence - contrabas
John Marshall - tobe, percutie
John Warren - dirijor

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The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman’s improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to contribute compositions and to conduct the group, the Brass Project quickly evolved into a more organic large ensemble, and by the time of this 1992 recording had become one of the most creative configurations in Britain. The elegant arrangements of Warren’s and Surman’s profoundly melodic music inspire many eloquent and touching solos.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz