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Title: King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic – The Complete Recordings (40th Anniversary Series, Limited Edition Box Set, Disc # 15)
Genre: Progressive Rock
Duration: 01:19:15 + 00:50:47 + 00:47:34 + 00:46:46 + 00:46:45 + 00:46:44 + 00:46:30 + 00:44:35
Year of release: 23 March 1973/26 Oct 2012
Issued: UK | Discipline Global Mobile | Panegyric | KCCBX5
Artists: David Cross – violin, viola, mellotron; Robert Fripp – guitar, mellotron, devices;John Wetton – bass, vocals, piano; Bill Bruford – drums; Jamie Muir – percussion
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Container: BDMV
Video Codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video # 1: MPEG-4 AVC ~ 5500 kbps 1920 * 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16: 9 / High Profile 4.0
Video # 2: MPEG-4 AVC 25005 kbps 480i / 29,970 fps / 4: 3 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6579 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio # 2: LPCM 5.1 / 96 kHz / 13 824 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 3: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 4: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Limited edition boxed set, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the classic King Crimson album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic: 13CDs, 1DVD-A, 1Blu-Ray in 12” box with booklet and memorabilia. DVD-A featuring 5.1 new surround mix, original and new stereo mixes in hi-res stereo, a full album of alt mixes by Steven Wilson and more than 30 minutes of unseen footage of the band live in the studio. Blu-Ray content as per DVD-A with further hi-res stereo material – all presented in DTS Master audio, 4CDs of studio content including CD of session reels featuring the first recorded takes of all pieces on the album, 1CD live in the studio, 8CDs of live audio restored bootlegs and soundboard recordings plus a 36 page booklet with an extensive new interview with Robert Fripp, notes by King Crimson biographer Sid Smith, album sleeve print, concert ticket replica (with code for further concert download) and band photo postcards. (more…)
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Pure Audio Blu-ray Disc
All recordings in Pure Audio 24-bit / 96 kHz
Running time: 227 mins
(2.0 PCM Stereo · 5.0 DTS-HD MA)
Sir Simon Rattle in conversation
(58 min bonus video)
(Full HD 16:9, Region Code: ABC [worldwide])
Video Blu-ray Disc
Symphonies Nos. 1–7 in High Definition Video
Running time: 297 mins
Full HD 16:9 / PCM Stereo · 5.0 Surround DTS-HD,Region Code: ABC [worldwide])
Hi-Res FLAC
High-Fidelity FLAC 5.1 Surround 96kHz/24bit
High-Fidelity FLAC 5.1 Surround 192kHz/24bit
Duration: 03:47:35
For Simon Rattle, Jean Sibelius is “one of the most staggeringly original composers that there is”. And indeed, this music has a unique musical language whose many beauties are particularly succinctly conveyed in Sibelius’s seven symphonies. There is sonorous warmth as much as there is austere Nordic folklore. Moreover, there is a conceptual boldness that takes the listener on exciting musical journeys of discovery. In 2015, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sibelius’s birth, Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker presented the cycle live, which was met with unanimous delight by audiences and critics alike. “The Philharmoniker show that with them and Simon Rattle, Sibelius is in excellent hands,” wrote the Berliner Zeitung, “because the orchestra has that astringency and sheer power which is so important for this kind of music.” (more…)
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Artist: The Allman Brothers Band
Title: Idlewild South
Genre: Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, Hard Rock, Slide Guitar Blues, Southern Rock
Label: © Mercury Records
Release Date: 1970/2015
Recorded: February–July 1970, Capricorn Sound Studios, Macon; Criteria Studios, Atlantic South, Miami; Regent Sound Studios, New York City.
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:51:53
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 3695 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 8061 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7351 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Idlewild South, the sophomore album from the Allman Brothers Band, while not a huge success in 1970, is now considered one of the band’s best and was included in a Rolling Stone survey as one of the 40 most groundbreaking albums of all time. This 45th anniversary remastered double disc deluxe edition adds a dozen bonus tracks, including several live versions taken from the Live At Ludlow Garage album, remastered for the first time since 1990. Among the live tracks is a previously unreleased rendition of In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, now making this concert recording complete for the first time.
Recorded: February–July 1970, Capricorn Sound Studios, Macon; Criteria Studios, Atlantic South, Miami; Regent Sound Studios, New York City. (more…)
Title: 1615: Gabrieli in Venice
Released: 2015
Genre: Classical
Directed by: Arne Akselberg
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Сomposer: Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 – 1612)
Artist: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Label: © Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Issued: United Kingdom | Harmonia Mundi
Duration: 1:13:09
Size: 15.06 GB
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:13:09
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: Latin Dolby TrueHD 5.1 / 96 kHz / 5740 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio: Latin LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: Latin Dolby Atmos 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5213 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is marking two milestones this year: the 500th anniversary of the completion of its great chapel and the 400th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Giovanni Gabrieli’s magisterial music for St Mark’s, Venice in the Symphoniae Sacrae. By way of celebration, King’s has used the latest Dolby Atmos technology – favoured by Hollywood – to mix and release this disc, the first classical album to do so, apparently, and in CD/SACD hybrid and Pure Audio Blu-ray formats. (more…)
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Title: Ensemble Galilei: From Whence We Came
Released: 2015
Genre: Folk, World Music, Celtic
Label: © Sono Luminus LLC DSL-92194
Artist: Isaac Alderson (uillian pipes and Irish flute), Ryan McKasson (fiddle and viola), Jackie Moran (percussion), Kathryn Montoya (recorders, whistle, oboe), Sue Richards (Celtic harp), Carolyn Surrick (viola da gamba) , Hanneke Cassel (fiddle), Shannon Heaton (Irish flute and pennywhistle), Abigail Palmer (Celtic harp)
Issued: United States | Sono Luminus
Duration: 00:56:36
Size: 22.27 GB
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio #1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12586 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio #2: English LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Audio #3: English Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 7187 kbps / 24-bit
“Virtuoso technique, an instinctive feeling for the idiom, and the courage to improvise…they play with energy, splendid ensemble, good humor and imagination.”— The Washington Post
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Yes – Fragile (1971/2015)
Blu-Ray: MPEG-4 AVC Video 1080p, 23,976, 16:9, High Profile 4.1 -> 37.41 Gb
LPCM Audio 2.0, 24/96, 4608 kbpst / LPCM Audio 5.1, 24/96, 13824 kbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, 24/96 (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
FLAC: 2.0 Stereo | Tracks 24bit/96kHz(192) – 2,49 GB
Progressive Rock
Fragile was Yes’ breakthrough album, propelling them in a matter of weeks from a cult act to an international phenomenon; not coincidentally, it also marked the point where all of the elements of the music (and more) that would define their success for more than a decade fell into place fully formed. The science-fiction and fantasy elements that had driven the more successful songs on their preceding record, The Yes Album, were pushed much harder here, and not just in the music but in the packaging of the album: the Roger Dean-designed cover was itself a fascinating creation that seemed to relate to the music and drew the purchaser’s attention in a manner that few records since the heyday of the psychedelic era could match. Having thrown original keyboard player Tony Kaye overboard early in the sessions – principally over his refusal to accept the need for the Moog synthesizer in lieu of his preferred Hammond organ – the band welcomed Rick Wakeman into its ranks. His use of the Moog, among other instruments, coupled with an overall bolder and more aggressive style of playing, opened the way for a harder, hotter sound by the group as a whole; bassist Chris Squire sounds like he’s got his amp turned up to “12,” and Steve Howe’s electric guitars are not far behind, although the group also displayed subtlety where it was needed. The opening minute of “Roundabout,” the album opener – and the basis for the edited single that would reach number 13 on the Billboard charts and get the group onto AM radio in a way that most other prog rock outfits could only look upon with envy – was dominated by Howe’s acoustic guitar and Bill Bruford‘s drums, and only in the middle section did the band show some of what they could do with serious amperage. Elsewhere on the record, as on “South Side of the Sky,” they would sound as though they were ready to leave the ground (and the planet), between the volume and intensity of their playing. “Long Distance Runaround,” which also served as the B-side of the single, was probably the most accessible track here apart from “Roundabout,” but they were both ambitious enough to carry most listeners on to the heavier sides at the core of this long player. The solo tracks by the members were actually a necessity: they needed to get Fragile out in a hurry to cover the cost of the keyboards that Wakeman had added to the group’s sonic arsenal. But they ended up being more than filler. Each member, in effect, took a “bow” in mostly fairly serious settings, and Squire’s “The Fish” and Howe’s “Mood For a Day” pointed directly to future, more substantial projects as well as taking on a life of their own on-stage. If not exactly their peak, Fragile was as perfect a record as the group would ever make, and just as flawless in its timing as its content.
by Bruce Eder, AMG
Album title: Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto: Getz / Gilberto
Genre: Jazz, Bossa nova
Label: Universal Music
Release date: 1964/2013
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:33:40
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 2002 kbps / 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM 2.0 (96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: DTS-HD MA 2.0 (96 kHz / 3674 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#3: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 (96 kHz / 3040 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 3.66 GB
Originally released in March of 1964, this legendary collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Joao Gilberto came at the end of the bossa nova craze Getz had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba. In fact, Getz had to push for the release of Getz/Gilberto as his record company didn’t want to compete with their own hit. The album ended up spending 96 weeks on the charts and won four Grammy Awards. Getz/Gilberto remains one of those rare cases in popular music where commercial success matches the artistic merit.
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Album title: Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred: Waves & Interruptions
Performer: Eirik Raude, marimba and vibraphone; Ida Bryhn, viola; Tom Ottar Andreassen, flutes; Thomas Kjekstad, guitar
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: August 2014
Recording date: August 2013
Original source: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:12:30
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 9757 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
This album presents a collection of works by the Norwegian composer Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (b.1970), all composed between 2001 and 2013. The works have been written with melodic percussion as the central and dominating element – with various surrounding ensembles – performed by the recognized Norwegian percussionist Eirik Raude. The smaller chamber formations very suitably illustrate several of the central compositional and poetic aspects of Skjelbred’s music.
The music of Skjelbred is quiet, and just like his shy persona it is exactly this quietness that gives the music its character and originality. This is not music that leaps off the stage and authoritatively grabs the listener. It is rather music that encourages the listener to actively advance, to follow the finely chiselled processes that you will find under the surface, in sequences that in Skjelbred consciously avoid being directed towards final and unambiguous goals. One rarely finds that the composer in his works wishes to draw rigorous conclusions. (more…)
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Cmposer: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Rolf Wallin (b.1957)
Album title: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Performer: Royal Norwegian Navy Band; Ingar Bergby, conductor
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: February 2014
Recording date: April 2013
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:02:15
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 943 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12080 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
“A composer speaking about his own problems is also speaking about the problems of mankind,” asserted Schoenberg. “I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself,” said Stravinsky. Hindemith spoke of a forthcoming “big battle over new music”, and added, “the need will be to prove whether or not the music of our day, including my own, is capable of survival.” Today these composers are regarded as being three of the most seminal figures in music history in the first half of the 20th century. Meanwhile a composer at the end of the same century, Rolf Wallin, has written music that portrays “the dancing dynamics of the universe”, where nothing is stable and everything is volatile. The works featured on this album by these four composers reflect the universal and timeless balance between tradition and innovation, and the Royal Norwegian Navy Band under Ingar Bergby illuminate this balance in their recordings of these works, and breathe new life into this music.
Facebook Photo Album from the recording sessions. (more…)
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Composer: Flint Juventino Beppe (b.1973)
Album title: Remote Galaxy by Flint Juventino Beppe
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor; Emily Beynon, flute; Mark van de Wiel, clarinet; Ralph Rousseau, viola da gamba
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Watford Colosseum, UK
Release date: October 2013
Recording date: May 2012
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:10:47
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12110 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#3: DTS-HD MA 7.1 / 96 kHz / 8295 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#4: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6626 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#5: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Can the dualism of life, nature and art be expressed in pure music? This is the question the multi-talented composer Flint Juventino Beppe – formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg – has set out to answer. The album Remote Galaxy is a journey in time and space, a journey given meaning by the album’s music and philosophy. The music is uncompromisingly honest, with a genuine power of its own. Using well-known acoustic technology, the composer takes us to some unusual and, for most of us, unknown places. (more…)
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Artist: King Crimson
Title: Thrak – 40th Anniversary – Live & Studio Recordings 1994-1997
Released: 1995/2015
Genre: Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock, Avant-Prog
Artist: Robert Fripp (guitar, mellotron, Soundscapes), Adrian Belew (guitar, lead vocals), Tony Levin (bass guitar, Chapman Stick, electric upright bass, backing vocals), Trey Gunn (Chapman Stick, Warr guitar, backing vocals) , Bill Bruford (drums), Pat Mastelotto (percussion)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio & Video
Video (Disc#1): MPEG-4 AVC 3000 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Video (Disc#2): MPEG-4 AVC ~10000 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 (48) kHz / 7143 (5555) kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English LPCM 5.1 / 96 (48) kHz / 13824 (6912) kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 (48) kHz / 4608 (2304) kbps / 24-bit
Size: 86 GiB
The 1994 return of King Crimson was timed perfectly, matching, in no particular order, one of the peak periods for CD sales, a time of great variety of radio formats in the USA, the growth of a number of bands who pointed eagerly to the influence of King Crimson – especially of the 1972-74 band – a more positive critical reception for the band, following the remasters of the catalogue, Frame by Frame and Great Deceiver boxed sets supervised by Robert Fripp. Such timing not only benefited from the release of the various musicians from their other musical commitments, but in Robert Fripp’s case, the ultimately successful battle to regain control of King Crimson’s catalogue.
Recorded at Peter Gabriel’s RealWorld studios THRAK was released in 1995 and followed by tours in Europe, Japan and the USA. In the USA Crimson joined the Horde tour for 1995 – among a floating line-up that included Lenny Kravitz, The Black Crowes and Ziggy Marley. Thrak and its accompanying tours managed the task of appealing to older Crimson fans, while allowing the band to develop a whole new audience – perhaps unsurprisingly, as many of the musical ideas initially formulated by Crimson lineups of the 70s and 80s had been absorbed, extended and re-presented in a new light by bands directly influenced by earlier Crimson albums and performances.
Had THRAK merely reiterated those ideas most fans would, without doubt, have been happy with the outcome, but a key element in the evolution of Crimson’s music and history has been the band’s unwillingness to simply go on performing and recording for the sake of it. Robert Fripp places great importance on the fact that Crimson only operates when there is music that demands a King Crimson to perform it. This ability to walk away from the group at peak points artistically and commercially (as with the 70s and 80s lineups), is one of the band’s great strengths. It allows for the periodic reinvention of the band and ensures that innovation is a driving factor whenever the group does appear.
THRAK has all the hallmarks of a classic album – an album that challenged audience expectations when released, yet still sounds exciting now. For the band’s many fans, it rates comparison with the best of King Crimson’s studio albums, no mean feat given the quality and status of the likes of In The Court of the Crimson King (1969), Red (1974) and Discipline (1981).
The newly mixed stereo of THRAK was described as “transformative” by Robert Fripp. It’s also no exaggeration to state that this band can’t be fully appreciated and understood until you hear the roar of THRAK emerging from six speakers.
Twenty years on from its original release, THRAK remains one of the most powerful studio albums of the period. (more…)
Composer: Torbjørn Dyrud (b.1974)
Album title: Out of Darkness – the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ
Performer: Nidaros Cathedral Choir; Vivianne Sydnes, conductor; Geir Morten Øien, trumpet; Erlend Aagaard Nilsen, trumpet; Lars Sitter, percussion; Sarah Head, readings
Genre: Classical, Choral
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Nidaros Cathedral, Norway
Release date: December 2013
Recording date: September and October 2012
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:55:30
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 942 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12374 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Torbjørn Dyrud’s work OUT OF DARKNESS presents you with the most famous story of Christian culture – Christ’s passion, death and resurrection – in a form you have never heard before. Allow yourself to be moved by Nidaros Cathedral Choir, Sarah Head and the musicians in their presentation of Dyrud’s dramatic music. The work is not a passion in the traditional sense, since it does not end with Christ’s death. Out of Darkness continues through the kingdom of death and out of the grave, leaving us with the gospel of love that overcomes and endures everything, a gospel of grace and forgiveness. Life is the light of mankind, and we can rise out of the darkness. (more…)
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Composer: Various
Album title: Song
Performer: Uranienborg Vokalensemble; Elisabeth Holte, conductor
Genre: Classical, Folk, Choral
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Uranienborg Church, Norway
Release date: June 2013
Recording date: October and November 2011
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:49:00
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 940 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12812 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Uranienborg Vokalensemble are renowned for their vigorous performances of music from different genres and periods. In their latest album SONG they embrace the whole spectrum, from the softly delicate to the massively unsettling. In words and music each track has a story to tell about man and his relationship with nature, his fellow man and to God. The listener is rewarded with an almost visceral experience of the unaccompanied human voice – breathing and pulsing, direct and unfiltered.
The compositions present nature in all its variation, sensitively evoking the different times of the day, both lyrically and musically: Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Geirr Tveitt, Håkon Berge, Sven Erik Bäck, Alfred Janson, Bo Holten, Torbjørn Dyrud, Harald Gullichsen, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi and Carl Nielsen. (more…)
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Album title: Hymn to the Virgin
Performer: Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L, Lindberg Lyd
Location: Gamle Aker Church, Norway
Release date: June 2013
Recording date: January, March and October 2011
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:02:20
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 17991 kbps 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12160 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa Theologica: “Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.” The quotation most aptly describes the repertoire on the Norwegian chamber choir Schola Cantorum’s recording of hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, in which tranquillity, eternity and ‘bursting forth into sound’ are encountered in many different guises.
The composers represented here have often chosen to allow their music to evolve in stable structures and remain within static harmonic spaces even when the music becomes expressive and dramatic: Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Martin Ødegaard, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Pärt, Ola Gjeilo, Andrew Smith and Trond Kverno.
Throughout its existence the chamber choir Schola Cantorum has had high ambitions. The choir has built up an international reputation and has made it a trademark to include newly written music in its programmes. This is thanks to the work of Knut Nystedt (1915–), organist, composer and conductor, who returned to Norway in 1964 after studying in the USA and started a choir at the music department of the University of Oslo. The choir continues to recruit members from the department of music, as well as from the Norwegian Academy of Music in more recent years.
Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl trained as a singer and pianist and specialized in the Kodaly method in Hungary before taking her diploma exam in choral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She has directed Schola Cantorum since 2002. (more…)
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Album title: Hommage à Grieg
Performer: Dena Piano Duo
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L, Lindberg Lyd
Location: Sofienberg Church, Norway
Release date: March 2013
Recording date: September 2011
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 00:55:26
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12153 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
There is a recurrent theme running through the program presented by the Dena Piano Duo in this production; all four composers and works have a particular relationship to Edvard Grieg. Both Johannes Brahms and Camille Saint-Saëns were friends of Grieg, and in several of his works the inspiration Grieg gained from his colleagues in Vienna and Paris is easy to hear. In between the works of Brahms and Saint-Saëns the Dena Piano Duo play two Norwegian works they have commissioned from the composers Wolfgang Plagge and Terje Bjørklund with this recording in mind. (more…)
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