William Shatner, Ben Folds, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Steven Reineke – So Fragile, So Blue (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

William Shatner, Ben Folds, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Steven Reineke – So Fragile, So Blue (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:25 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Classical, Spoken Word
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © National Symphony Orchestra

This album is about something we all have in common; this beautiful planet Earth that we all call home.

Ben Folds brought new friends to the project, the wonderful composer and orchestrator Jherek Bischoff and bluegrass violin virtuoso and composer Gabe Witcher. They wrote original underscoring for our lyrics to create these new orchestral works. All of these friends together with conductor Steven Reineke and the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra made this project a reality.

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Ben Folds – What Matters Most (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ben Folds – What Matters Most (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:54 minutes | 752 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC

“More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful,” says Ben Folds – “I want you to finish this record with something you didn’t have when you started” Indeed, Folds’ masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isn’t so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day.

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Ben Folds – Live In Perth (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Ben Folds – Live In Perth (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:19:28 minutes | 912 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic

Ben Folds performing for the first time with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra in front of sell-out crowds in Perth, Australia. Collaborations between rock or pop performers and symphony orchestras usually yield little more than bombast and redundancy, but Ben Folds’ Live in Perth is a delightful exception. Recorded in March, 2005, his piano and the 83 piece symphony deliver nearly 80 minutes of music to his fans in a way never heard before.
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Ben Folds – So There (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Ben Folds – So There (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:56 minutes | 1015 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © New West Records

8 chamber rock songs with yMusic plus his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. In 2013, he composed “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra” to critical acclaim. Since then, Ben has continued his global symphony performance quest, recently recording a new album that features the concerto along with a host of new songs that overlap pop and classical worlds with a fresh, exciting sound he has dubbed “chamber rock.”
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