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Festivalensemble Stuttgart, Hellmuth Rilling – Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (2008)
2xSACD ISO: 4,45 GB (Stereo + MCH DSD) | 2xFLAC @ 24bit/88.2kHz: 1,30 | Artwork
Label/Cat#: hänssler CLASSIC # CD 08.507 | Country/Year: Germany 2008
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Contemporary, Requiem, Vocal
Brittens “War Requiem” darf als eines der größten und erschütterndsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet werden. Es erzielte bei seiner Uraufführung am 30. Mai 1962 in der Kathedrale von Coventry bei Publikum und Kritik einen unmittelbaren Erfolg. Britten verwendete Texte aus der lateinischen Totenmesse und Gedichte Wilfried Owens, um seinen leidenschaftlich vertretenen Pazifismus zu verkünden, an die Greuel des Krieges zu erinnern und vor dem Untergang Europas zu warnen. Da das Werk einen umfangreichen Apparat an Sängern und Musikern erfordert, wird es selten aufgeführt und auch aufgenommen. Umso wichtiger ist diese Realisierung Helmuth Rillings, der erstklassige Sänger verpflichtet hat und souverän alle Bestandteile des riesigen musikalischen Apparates zu einer erschütternden Aufführung von ungemeiner Bildhaftigkeit vereinigt.
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Bob James – Espresso (2018)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 2,31 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:39 minutes | 1,13 GB
Genre: Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | © evosound
Long after establishing himself as one of America’s most accomplished composers, arrangers, and instrumentalists, multiple-Grammy winner, and founding member of Fourplay, Bob James achieves his longtime ambition to return to the trio format he embraced as as up and coming artist.
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Bob James Trio – Feel Like Making Live! (2022)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz MHz | Time – 01:22:59 minutes | 3,27 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:59 minutes | 2,20 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | Genre: Jazz | © evosound
In the eyes of the rap generation, an older musician’s hipness is often defined by how many times he or she has been sampled for beats and breaks. That means that keyboard wizard Bob James – whose records have been sampled a staggering 1,435 times, according to the website WhoSampled.Com – is a bona fide legend and cooler than cool. Although he’s just celebrated his 81st birthday, Bob James is not about to close the piano lid for the last time and embrace retirement.
Alongside the same trio, bassist Michael Palazzolo and drummer Billy Kilson, that made 2018’s critically-acclaimed Espresso album, Feel Like Making Live! captures James performing a career-spanning selection of material live in the studio.
Feel Like Making Live! includes James’s most well known hits like “Angela”, “Maputo”, “Westchester Lady” and “Nautilus”, as well as an instrumental cover of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Szymanowski: Orchestral Works, Volume V (2013)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:57 minutes | 3,49 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
This recording of orchestral works by Karol Szymanowski form part of the Polish Music series on Chandos, and is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner. These performers have impressed in their Lutoslawski survey, which is part of the same series; in a review of volume 1, Gramophone described them as a veritable ‘dream team’.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos 1 and 3 etc. (2014)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:06:22 minutes | 3,2 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
Edward Gardner returns with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to the intoxicating orchestral music of Karol Szymanowski in their third disc devoted to the composer. Their previous releases have been widely praised, Gardner being described in BBC Music Magazine as ‘one of the finest non-Polish interpreters of Szymanowski.’ Ben Johnson, a tenor whose star is rapidly rising, joins Gardner and the BBC SO here as a soloist in two works.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works, Volume IV (2013)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:11:02 minutes | 3,4 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
This is the fifth and now final volume in our survey of orchestral works by the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. Gramophone wrote of a previous volume in the series (CHAN 5106) that it ‘offers a broad view of Lutoslawski’s creative profile, which the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner fleshes out with playing that is as polished as it is animated, and alert to the individuality of Lutoslawski’s musical vocabulary and mode of expression’.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works, Volume III (2012)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:04 minutes | 3,38 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
This is the fourth volume in Chandos’ series devoted to the music of the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, described by Gramophone as a ‘veritable dream team’ in a review for Vol. 1, are joined on this recording by the cellist and exclusive Chandos artist Paul Watkins.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works, Volume II (2012)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:07:25 minutes | 3,26 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
This is the third volume in the Chandos series devoted to the music of the Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski. It brings together his first surviving orchestral piece (The Symphonic Variations) and his last symphony, as well as two works for piano and orchestra – an early work originally written for two pianos (The ‘Paganini’ Variations), and his very last concerto. The works are performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, described by Gramophone as a veritable ‘Dream Team’ in Vol. 1. They are joined in this recording by Louis Lortie, the award-winning pianist and exclusive Chandos artist.
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Edward Gardner & BBC Symphony Orchestra – Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works, Volume I (2010)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:09:56 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
Edward Gardner, the music director of English National Opera and an exclusive Chandos artist, has completed the first disc in a projected Chandos series devoted to Polish music. Also his first purely orchestral CD for Chandos, the disc presents music by one of Poland’s most important twentieth-century composers, Witold Lutoslàwski, including perhaps his most famous work, the Concerto for Orchestra (1950 – 54), a brilliant and highly attractive work.
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Uriah Heep – Magic Night (2004)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 62:59 minutes | Scans included | 4,01 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 63:12 mins | Scans included | 1,36 GB
Features 2.0 Stereo and 5.1 multichannel surround | Can Uriah Heep keep on getting better?… Well, judge for yourself
The stunning record of Uriah Heep live in concert at the Astoria Theatre, London on November 8th 2003. Featuring a glittering array of hits and special guest appearances by former Heep vocalist John Lawton and Heather Findlay of Mostly Autumn. This is the definitive proof that in the 21st Century Heep keep on rocking stronger than ever.
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Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself (1971) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:13 minutes | Scans included | 1,67 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 1,64 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 827 MB
The third time proved to be the charm for Uriah Heep: on Look at Yourself, the group perfects its fusion of heavy metal power and prog rock majesty, and the result is one of the best albums in the Heep catalog. The gauntlet is thrown down on the title track, a powerful rocker that layers its relentless hard rock attack with ornate vocal harmonies and quicksilver organ runs before climaxing with a tribal-sounding drum jam. The remainder of Look at Yourself presents an effective blend of gutsy guitar rock and organ-fueled prog excursions. In the rock arena, the gems are “Tears in My Eyes,” a powerful rocker driven by an almost rockabilly-style riff that stops midway for a surprising vocal harmony break supported by smooth wah-wah guitar, and “Love Machine,” a short, punchy slice of hard rock built on an infectious, stomping rhythm. However, the best track on the album is one of the more prog-oriented ones: “July Morning” starts with a pastoral organ riff, then builds into a heavy yet symphonic rock tune that divides its time between gentle acoustic verses and emotional, organ-fueled choruses before climaxing in a monstrous jam dominated by a swirling Moog synthesizer lead. Special note should also be taken of David Byron’s vocal performance; his multi-octave, operatic style was no doubt an influence on later metal vocalists like Rob Halford. All in all, Look at Yourself is both one of Uriah Heep’s finest, most cohesive albums and a high point of 1970s heavy metal.
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U.K. – U.K. (1978) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 53:03 minutes | Scans included | 2,16 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,04 GB
U.K. are a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980. The band was composed of singer/bassist John Wetton (formerly of King Crimson, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry’s band and Uriah Heep), keyboardist/electric violinist Eddie Jobson (formerly of Curved Air, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa’s band), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (formerly of Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime and Gong) and drummer Bill Bruford (formerly a full member of Yes and King Crimson, and also a tour drummer for Genesis), later replaced by drummer Terry Bozzio (formerly of Frank Zappa’s band).
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U.K. – Night After Night (1979) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:35 minutes | Scans included | 1,84 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 907 MB
U.K. are a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980. The band was composed of singer/bassist John Wetton (formerly of King Crimson, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry’s band and Uriah Heep), keyboardist/electric violinist Eddie Jobson (formerly of Curved Air, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa’s band), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (formerly of Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime and Gong) and drummer Bill Bruford (formerly a full member of Yes and King Crimson, and also a tour drummer for Genesis), later replaced by drummer Terry Bozzio (formerly of Frank Zappa’s band).
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U.K. – Danger Money (1979) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2014]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 46:01 minutes | Scans included | 1,86 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 931 MB
U.K. are a British progressive rock supergroup originally active from 1977 until 1980. The band was composed of singer/bassist John Wetton (formerly of King Crimson, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry’s band and Uriah Heep), keyboardist/electric violinist Eddie Jobson (formerly of Curved Air, Roxy Music and Frank Zappa’s band), guitarist Allan Holdsworth (formerly of Tempest, Soft Machine, The New Tony Williams Lifetime and Gong) and drummer Bill Bruford (formerly a full member of Yes and King Crimson, and also a tour drummer for Genesis), later replaced by drummer Terry Bozzio (formerly of Frank Zappa’s band).
The follow-up album has Terry Bozzio taking over the drumming. It features exceptional synth work by Eddie Jobson and bass and vocals from John Wetton.
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Urbie Green – The Fox (1976/2013)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 38:46 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:46 minutes | 792 MB
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Front Cover | © CTI Records
Recorded: July, October and November 1976 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Trombone player Urbie Green never was a household name but his two albums on the famous CTI label are excellent all-star jazz events featuring a host of guests like Eric Gale, Joe Farrell, Jeremy Steig, Mike Abene, Andy Newmark, Toots Thielemans, Jimmy Madison, Anthony Jackson and Mike Mainieri among others, delivering another slice of great CTI jazz. This session was produced by Creed Taylor and released 1976.
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