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Mari & Håkon Samuelsen – James Horner: Pas de Deux (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ Mercury Classics
Pas de Deux is the first classical work from Academy Award-winning composer James Horner (Titanic, Avatar). The Concerto for Violin and Cello was commissioned and performed by the brother and sister duo of Mari (violin) and Hakon (cello) Samuelsen with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko. The album is completed with works by Pärt, Sollima and Einaudi that pair with Horner’s post-minimalist soundscape. (more…)
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Magdalena Kožená, La Cetra, Andrea Marcon – Monteverdi (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:04 minutes | 1,3 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Archiv Produktion
From a repertoire which spans over four centuries, Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Koženámakes no great secret of her love for eighteenth and even seventeenth century music, as evidenced by this new record turning around Monteverdi and some of his contemporary pieces. With her debut role of passionate and heartbreaking Ottavia in The Coronation of Poppea back in 2000 seeing her replace Anne Sofie von Otter. It is, then, only normal that she offers two great moments of this masterpiece, “Disprezzata Regina” and“Addio Roma”, one of the most inspired and modern tunes of Monteverdi. Ottone not quite satisfying the mezzo-soprano, she also offers the final duet “Pur ti miro” of the opera in the role of Nero, and alongside soprano Anna Prohaska. Another huge Monteverdi piece with “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clodinda”. Motets from Monteverdi, instrumentals by Marini, Ucellini and Merula; here is a truly beautiful album on which you will also have the pleasure of hearing wonderful baroque ensemble La Cetra Andrea Marcon. recorded in November 2014 in Sankt German Seewen (Switzerland) church. (more…)
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Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian – Live At Birdland (2011/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:20 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ ECM
A quartet of master musicians and a program of jazz classics. “Live At Birdland” presents the finest moments from two inspired nights at New York’s legendary club, as Konitz, Mehldau, Haden and Motian play “Lover Man”, “Lullaby Of Birdland”, “Solar”, “I Fall In Love Too Easily”, “You Stepped Out Of A Dream” and “Oleo” with freedom, tenderness, and a love of melody that only jazz’s greatest improvisers can propose. (more…)
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Title: The Who – Live in Hyde Park
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Rock
Director: Chris Rule
Artist: Roger Daltrey – Vocals; Pete Townshend – Guitars, Vocals; Pino Palladino – Bass; Simon Townshend – Guitars, Vocals; John Corey – Keyboards; Loren Gold – Keyboards; Frank Simes – Musical Director, Keyboards; Zak Starkey – Drums
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 01:49:27
“Live In Hyde Park” filmed on June 26th this year as The Who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary, this stunning show from London’s famous Hyde Park is a triumphant return to their home city. This massive event formed a fitting culmination to The Who’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations and the fantastic set includes classics like ‘My Generation’, ‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘Baba O’Riley’, ‘Pictures Of Lily’, ‘I Can’t Explain’, ‘You Better You Bet’, ‘Who Are You’, ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’, ‘Join Together’, ‘The Kids Are Alright’, ‘I Can See For Miles’ and many more!
On what was a glorious summer evening the band delivered a brilliant performance of all their greatest hits in front of a 65,000 strong crowd. With a series of stunning backdrops making full use of the huge screens surrounding the stage and an exceptional light show this is a Who concert on a grand scale but as Pete Townshend says at the start of the show “You’re a long way away…but we will reach you!”. He’s absolutely true to his word. (more…)
Сomposer: Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Artist: Janine Jansen, Candida Thompson, Henk Rubingh, Julian Rachlin, Maarten Jansen, Stacey Watton, Liz Kenny, Jan Jansen
Title: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Genre: Classical
Label: © Decca is a Universal Music Company
Release Date: 2005/2014
Recorded: Yakult Hall, Amsterdam, 05/20/2004 – 05/23/2004
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 00:39:00
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 10632 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 / 96 kHz / 3467 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 3.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2795 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Janine Jansen follows her first Decca recording of violin favorites with this highly-energetic set of Vivaldi’s four violin concertos, known as “The Four Seasons.” The violinist leads an acclaimed group of soloists through a refreshing reading of this beloved masterpiece. This recording is riveting with Janine’s usage of one player per part. Absolutely essential.
“This is a delight with a seriousness of purpose that rather belies the star-centred packaging. Jansen and friends offer this ever-popular work in a cut-down, chamber version that grows on you with each listening. The playing is full of vigour and imagination, and the sound merely adds to the appeal… you’re unlikely to resist Jansen’s charms for long.” –Gramophone
With well over 100 recordings to choose from, such are the musical possibilities thrown up by Vivaldi’s vibrant pictograms that no two versions sound remotely alike. Of the old-school versions, Henryk Szeryng directing the English Chamber Orchestra on Philips (now sadly deleted) still holds sway, although finest of recent accounts on modern instruments is Anne-Sophie Mutter’s second DG outing with the Trondheim Soloists, an exhilarating musical rollercoaster ride that surprises at every dive and swerve, without resorting to the grating eccentricity and puerile shock tactics of several period-instrument versions.
If Mutter turns Romantic semantic sensibilities on their head, Janine Jensen might be said to marry traditional expressive values with the textural vitality and bracing inventiveness of authenticity. Jansen possesses the ideal combination of intonational purity and tonal allure, and is beguilingly responsive to the music’s shifting moods, creating the uncanny impression of a series of vividly drawn characters passing before our eyes as we listen. The all-star ensemble responds to her every whim and caprice with a ravishing sequence of captivating sonorities that grow naturally out of the music rather than merely being superimposed on it. The recording possesses a seductive autumnal glow that bathes the listener in a stream of golden sound. Forget the meagre playing time: with this exemplary release, the benchmark has been raised just that bit higher. 5 out of 5 stars for performance, 5 out of 5 stars for sound. –Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine (more…)
Title: Danko Jones – Live at Wacken
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Rock, Hard rock, Garage Punk, Blues Rock
Artist: Danko Jones – vocals/guitar; John ‘JC’ Calabrese – bass guitar; Rich Knox – drums
Production/Label: UDR Music GmbH
Duration: 01:10:32 + 0:50:56 + 0:21:17
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3
Video: MPEG-2 29987 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps
Audio: German Dolby Digital 2.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Danko Jones, the band, stand and deliver crisp, catchy and crunchy hard rock with such exciting consistency that they have cultivated an equally loyal and consistently fervent fan base worldwide. Danko Jones, the frontman and guitarist, writes such irrepressible, hook-laden-yet-crunchy electric tunes that it’s impossible not to get sucked in by the alt-punk edge to his songs. The net result is a live performance driven by this power trio’s sweat and electricity. And now, for the first time in their two decade career, Danko Jones are bringing that live inspiration (and perspiration!) to CD & DVD/BluRay with the release of LIVE AT WACKEN on January 29th, 2016.
Featuring their 18 song 2015 set and various bonus material items spread across the formats, LIVE AT WACKEN provides firey bursts of energy, quirky alternative riffery and Jones’ own electric personality, one which has seen him become an independent commentator, spoken word artist and columnist for The Huffington Post. Bonus material will include a track-by-track commentary, an exclusive backstage interview with Jones and his spoken word performance from the 2012 Wacken Festival.
Live At Wacken will be followed by a busy 2016 as Danko Jones once again take their firebrand rock’n’roll revival on another world tour. Irrepressibly energetic, unflinchingly honest and engagingly addictive, Danko Jones never give anything less than 110% whether on stage, screen or stereo; unsurprisingly, everybody wants some! (more…)
Solveig Slettahjell, Knut Reiersrud & In The Country – Trail Of Soul (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:18 minutes | 0,98 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HighResAudio | Artwork: Digital booklet | @ ACT
Solveig Slettahjell was one such artist welcomed back into ACT label’s fold. The ACT label released her early albums, establishing her international reputation as one of Europe’s leading jazz vocalists. Here she was partnered up with In The Country, the piano trio involving her close friend Morton Qvenild, pianist, sonic explorer and also a member of Solveig Slettahjell‘s Slow Motion ensembles. The real surprise that evening, however, came from adding the blues guitarist Knut Reiersrud. He had been on Siggi Loch’s radar for quite some time, and on this occasion was having his first ever meeting with Slettahjell and her crew. It turned out to be an ideal combination. The evening was a celebration of everything that had made the Nordic sound so attractive and successful for many decades. On the one hand there was the elegiac, bluesy side, inspired by the spirit of indigenous folk music; on the other the electronic, the rhythmically daring and the experimental. (more…)
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO), conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
– Mozart Requiem (Levin Edition) / Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K546 Studio Master
2003 | FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:49 minutes | 1,11 GB
Official Digital Download – Source: Linn Records | Covers & Digital booklet
The Levin edition of Mozart’s compelling Requiem performed in thrilling splendour by Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. “The string lines carry all the expressive weight one could want, and the woodwind and brass have a sovereign authority”. (more…)
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Scott Walker – The Collection 1967-1970 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 193:02 minutes | 3,88 GB
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz.com | Front covers
Scott Walker is an American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path which has taken him from 1960s pop icon to 21st century experimental musician. Originally coming to fame in the mid-1960s singing orchestral pop ballads as the frontman of The Walker Brothers, Walker went on to a solo career, with a series of acclaimed albums, balancing a light entertainment/MOR ballad approach with increasing artistic innovations in arrangement and writing perspective. This Hi-Res collection features his five albums: Scott, 2, 3, 4 and ‘Til the Band Comes In. (more…)
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Roger Waters – Roger Waters: The Wall (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 1:43:00 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Columbia/Legacy
Roger Waters The Wall is produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck, Paul McCartney) and offers an exhilarating listening experience for generations to enjoy. It is the ultimate concert souvenir – not only for the fans who saw the show, but for those who weren’t there or who may be discovering “The Wall” for the first time. (more…)
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Year of Publishing: 2014
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country: UK
Publisher (label): Panegyric, Discipline Global Mobile
Duration: 11:48:59
Limited to a single pressing run, Starless offers an in-depth overview of King Crimson’s celebrated mid-1970’s live line-up at its most exploratory.
Few bands have offered as much variety in material from night to night, and King Crimson’s propensity for improvisation and fondness for playing its newest material – often unreleased on record at the time of performance – is legendary.
* Blu-Ray Disc 1 features full lossless audio 24/192 transfers of material from the Glasgow and Zurich shows, freshly assembled & mastered from the original Great Deceiver mixes by David Singleton at DGM Soundworld in 2014 in LPCM stereo.
* Blu-Ray Disc 1 also features the Amsterdam show The Nightwatch, mixed by Steven Wilson and the George Chkiantz preparatory mix stereo in 24/96 High-resolution stereo & a 24/96 transfer of the original David Singleton/Robert Fripp mix of The Nightwatch.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 features Starless & Bible Black in 5.1 Surround (DTS-HD MAS & LPCM 24/96) alongside new and original stereo masters of the album, a needledrop of an original vinyl pressing plus audio extras.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 also features the Quad mixes of material from the Mainz, Amsterdam & Pittsburgh concerts.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 also features the ORTF Paris TV footage in a new hi-res transfer from the original source files. (more…)
‘Starless completes the story of Crimson’s until-now most heralded incarnation, bridging the gap between Larks’ Tongues in Aspic and The Road to Red with the performances that led up to and then followed the release of Starless and Bible Black on March 29, 1974. For those interested in this King Crimson incarnation, it’s an essential piece of the puzzle that is all the better for it by also sporting the most consistently excellent sound of any live Crimson box to date…’ –Allaboutjazz.com
* DVD-A 1 features the Starless & Bible Black album in 5.1 Surround, with new & original stereo album mixes in High Resolution Stereo plus bonus audio material.
* DVD-A 2 features material from Mainz (mixed by David Singleton), Amsterdam (mixed by Steven Wilson) & a later show from Pittsburgh (mixed by George Chkiantz) in quadraphonic audio and High-Resolution Stereo. (more…)
Year of Publishing: 2013
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country: UK
Publisher (label): Panegyric, Discipline Global Mobile
Catalog number: KCCBX7
Duration: 13:44:00
Now the Road to Red offers a comprehensive overview of this final tour and at last does justice to a group who were operating at the very height of their powers. Every soundboard quality recording known to exist is presented with audio fully restored, all released on CD for the first time. There are also five complete concerts, drawn from multi-track recordings, alongside the restored audio bootleg of the band’s final show from New York and a new stereo mix of Red by Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson undertaken in 2012. a total of 16 concerts are featured across 20 discs, with the studio Red as the 21st CD. The set also features: A DVD containing a high resolution stereo presentation of USA (in all mixes) and the new stereo mix of Red 2 Blu-ray discs containing the five full length multi-track concert recordings (newly transferred at the highest resolution available from the original analogue Dolby SR source mix-down tapes & presented in 24/192 DTS-HD master sound), new & original stereo versions of Red and the existing 5.1 multi-channel mixes of the album presented in 24/96 DTS-HD also feature on Blu-ray.
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Audio Content
PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/96)
Casino Arena, Asbury Park, NJ 2013 Mix – 01:20:26
01. Walk On No Pussyfooting
02. Larks Tongues In Aspic (Part II)
03. Lament
04. Exiles
05. Improv: Asbury Park
06. Easy Money
07. Improv
08. Fracture
09. Starless
10. 21st Century Schizoid Man
PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/48)
Casino Arena, Asbury Park, NJ 2005 Mix – 01:17:22
01. Walk On No Pussyfooting
02. Larks Tongues In Aspic (Part II)
03. Lament
04. Exiles
05. Improv: Asbury Park
06. Easy Money
07. Fracture
08. Starless
09. 21st Century Schizoid Man
USA: 30th Anniversary Remaster (Expanded Edition) – 01:07:12
01. Walk On No Pussyfooting
02. Larks Tongues In Aspic (Part II)
03. Lament
04. Exiles
05. Improv: Asbury Park
06. Easy Money
07. 21st Century Schizoid Man
08. Fracture
09. Starless
PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/96)
Red 2013 Stereo Mix – 00:40:09
01. Red
02. Fallen Angel
03. One More Red Nightmare
04. Providence
05. Starless (more…)
Pamela Thorby – Telemann: Recorder Sonatas and Fantasias (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 111:23 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: LINN | Artwork: Covers & Digital booklet | @ Linn Records
Pamela Thorby, one of today’s most boldly stylish and charismatic recorder players, makes every shapely line count. Telemann’s legacy of recorder music is among the richest of the age, and here Pamela Thorby, utilizing a comprehensive arsenal of recorders in all shapes and sizes, explores the warmth and conviviality of Telemann’s writing, as well as the easy beauty of his melodies: the ‘queen of the recorder’ indeed. (more…)
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