Bernard Lavilliers – Nuit D’amour (1984/2004)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:44:13 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Chanson
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © Barclay – 981 949-2
Bernard Ouillon a 35 ans quand il publie, en 1981, cet album. Connu depuis 1976 grâce à l’album Les Barbares, Lavilliers, avec son côté SMC, Super- Musicien-Cuir, traverse les années soixante-dix et quatre-vingt en révolté. Sur ce disque, la plupart des chansons sont signées avec son complice d’écriture François Bréant, à l’exception de “Pigalle La Blanche” (écrite avec Éric Dufaure, qui sera ensuite impliqué à la SACEM et dans l’édition), “Changement de main, changement de vilain” (signée avec son guitariste “Hector” Dran), “Les Barbares” (nouvelle version), “Nuit d’amour”, “Betty”, “C’est du rock’n’roll” que l’ami Bernard a écrit seul. L’année de la sortie de cet album, Lavilliers réalise un papier sur le Salvador pour le magazine allemand Stern et prouve qu’on peut avoir l’air d’un déménageur en débardeur et avoir la chanson en reportage. Qui de mieux que Lavilliers a chanté les problèmes de l’Amérique latine ou de l’Afrique sur des musiques musclées ? –A.B.
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Various Artists – 2L The Nordic Sound – Audiophile Reference Recordings (2009)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:18:02 minutes | 4.19 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): 2L 2L-RR1-SACD
2L’s 2-disc set includes materials over which audiophiles could sit & argue for hours, if not longer. Each disc contains the same 19 musical selections taken from their growing, broad selection of recordings ranging from Mozart & Vivaldi to Schoenberg, Carter & beyond. The goal, presumably, is to make an argument for the superiority of surround sound not just for movies, but for music as well. Disc 1 is a hybrid SACD with 3 separate audio tracks: DSD Stereo, DSD 5.1 channel surround, & standard redbook. The 2nd disc is a Blu-ray disc again presenting 3 audio formats: 5.1 channel DTS-HD Master Audio, 5.1 channel 24bit Linear PCM, & 2ch 24bit Linear PCM. Two discs, 19 tracks, & 6 different audio formats to choose from; what’s an audiophile to do? There can be little question that 3 surround options, whether on Blu-ray or SACD, offer a far more pleasing listening experience; the level of detail & realism offered in these formats vastly exceeds the 2ch tracks. But even between the surround options, there are differences. There are some tracks, such as the excerpts from Britten’s “Simple” Symphony & Bartуk’s Sonata for Solo Violin, where the SACD surround track offers a much cleaner, more detailed accounting. However, the sense of truly being in the centre of a live performance of Islandmoen’s Requiem or Haydn’s Op. 76/5, String Quartet that is achieved on the Blu-ray with DTS-HD cannot be improved upon. The decision, then, comes down to the preference of individual listeners. Maybe even more than that, however, is the practicality of using Blu-ray as an audio-only format. Sure, there’s a sharp-looking menu that listeners can use to navigate the disc, but that still seems like a bit of a waste of Blu-ray’s vast storage capacity. DVD-A was a format that was even less popular/accepted than SACD, so it will be interesting to see if Blu-ray Audio catches on.
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Quincy Jones – The Dude (1981/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 41:21 minutes | 1.66 GB
Genre: Disco, Soul, R&B | Publisher (label): Germany, Intervention Records IR-SCD18
FEATURING SMASH HITS: “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways”
“The Dude is a Quincy Jones solo project in name, but this post-disco pop-soul cornucopia of groove resonates as a testament to his ear for anticipating new sounds.” -Pitchfork
“… a cross-cultural success blending jazz, Latin music, soul ballads, and straight pop … The Dude is an outstanding collection that was massively influential on the ’80s R&B scene.” – AllMusic
Intervention Records is thrilled to introduce you to the newest release in its (Re)Discover Series, Quincy Jones’ 1981 visionary masterpiece “The Dude” on hybrid CD/SACD (catalog number IR-SCD18; UPC 707129301611).
Legendary over decades as a composer, producer and performer, Quincy Jones changed the face of pop music in the early 1980s. A commercial and critical smash, “The Dude” is the album Jones released in between producing Michael Jackson’s 1979 breakthrough “Off the Wall” and 1982’s monster follow-up “Thriller,” the best-selling non-compilation of all time.
“The Dude’s” lineup of writers and players is a staggering who’s who of 70s and 80s pop and R&B, including Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, James Ingram, Patti Austin and more. 3 Singles from the album charted in the US Top 40, including the smash hits “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways.”
“The Dude” was nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning for Best Instrumental Arrangement, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and Best Instrumental Arrangement. James Ingram’s vocal performances from “The Dude” earned him 3 of his own Grammy nominations and a win for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for One Hundred Ways.”
“The Dude” is mastered direct-to-DSD by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio from the Original Analog Master Tapes, which were acquired from Quincy’s team by Marshall Blonstein of Audio Fidelity. Coming from the tail end of the 100% analog era, “The Dude” is an AMAZING recording, and Intervention’s remastering by Kevin Gray brings the big, beautifully nuanced bass home with authority and bounce, while providing the kind of 3D imaging and sonic holography of the best audiophile recordings. The is a sonic sensation!
Quincy Jones “The Dude” appears on Intervention Records solely due to the generosity of Marshall Blonstein of Audio Fidelity. Marshall blazed a bright, inspiring trail for labels like IR for many years with his brands, Digital Compact Classics (DCC) and Audio Fidelity.
When Audio Fidelity closed its doors in 2018 “The Dude” was already mastered by Kevin Gray and the DSD files were in the can with nowhere to go. Kevin acted as a facilitator, connecting IR with Marshall, who provided the mastered DSD files for this release. Thank you Marshall!
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John Coltrane – Blue Train: The Complete Masters (Remastered, Special Edition) (1957/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:29:27 + 00:42:07 minutes | 5.28 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Blue Note – UCGQ-9031, UCGQ-9030
歴史的発掘！録音65周年を迎えた『ブルー・トレイン』初出音源含む未発表テイクを網羅した完全盤！
【限定盤】【SACDシングルレイヤー～SHM仕様】【日本のみの発売】
●ジョン・コルトレーンが1957年に録音し、ブルーノートに残した唯一のリーダー作であり永遠の名盤『ブルー・トレイン』。ジャズ史上最も人気のある作品の一つだが、レコーディングから65周年を記念して、最新リマスタリングを施したオリジナル・アルバムに加えて別テイク7曲を収録した完全盤『ブルー・トレイン：コンプリート・マスターズ』のリリースが決定。収録される別テイク7曲のうち4曲はなんと今回が完全初出という、歴史的な発掘だ。オリジナル・アルバムのモノラル盤も最新リマスタリングで同時発売。
●今回のリリースは、ブルーノートが近年取り組んでいるリイシュー・シリーズ「トーン・ポエット」の一環。「音の詩人」という異名を持つプロデューサー、ジョン・ハーレイ監修のもと、名手ケヴィン・グレイがオリジナルのアナログ・マスターから丁寧にリマスタリングを行った。
●今回のリリースについて、ジョン・ハーレイは「『ブルー・トレイン』のオリジナル・マスター（モノラル、ステレオ、別テイク）を聴くことのスリルに匹敵するスタジオ体験はありません。私はこの2つの新バージョンを、ジョン・コルトレーンのこの名演の決定的なエディションと考えています」とコメントしている。また、今回新規ライナーノーツを担当したアシュリー・カーンは、ライナー内で「『ブルー・トレイン』は、常に自己批判的で控えめなコルトレーンが高く評価する録音だった。1960年、マイルス・デイヴィスとの最後のツアー中、スウェーデンのDJがコルトレーンに彼のカタログの中で何が好きかと尋ねると、彼は即座にこう答えた。『ああ、自分はブルー・トレインが好きだよ。いいバンドが入ってるんだもの。いい録音だったんだ』とね」と語っている。
●1957年、ヘロイン中毒のためにマイルス・デイヴィス・クインテットを解雇され、どん底状態にあったコルトレーン。しかしセロニアス・モンクとファイブ・スポット・カフェで長期共演をしたことがきっかけでヘロインを断ち切り、再び情熱的な演奏を繰り広げ始める。『ブルー・トレイン』はそんな奇跡の復活を遂げたコルトレーンが作り上げた稀有な作品で、本人自身も深く誇りに思う初期の代表作と同時にジャズ史上にも残る永遠の名盤となった。今回の発掘はそんなマスターピースの全貌を初めて明らかにする、まさに歴史的な事件となりそうだ。
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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021) SACD ISO
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:28:05 minutes | 6.12 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/essg-90252_3/top
https://youtu.be/cMhN3c97W1U
Nathan Milstein – J.S.Bach – Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006 (1975/2023)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:56:02+01:09:09 minutes | 5.08 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric ESSG-90276/77
Bach: Violin Partitas 1-3, Violin Sonatas 1-3
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Stan Getz – Jazz Samba With Charlie Byrd / Big Band Bossa Nova (2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:09:57 minutes | 1.16 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Top Music TM-SACD8016.2
Stan Getz’s groundbreaking 1962 bossa nova albums on Hybrid Stereo SACD
Stan Getz’s two 1962 bossa nova classic albums in one set. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd’s Jazz Samba is the famous collaboration that sounds as fresh today as it did when it was originally released. An all-time classic album including evergreen versions of “Desafinado,” “O Pato” and “One Note Samba.” Big Band Bossa Nova rode the bossa nova wave, topping out at No. 13 on the Billboard album chart in 1963. This double album is absolutely essential for any jazz collection. Japanese pressing.
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Munich Radio Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Lucia Popp – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Opera Arias1983/2023）
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:51 minutes | 2.69 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Warner Classics / Esoteric – ESSW-90278
https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/essw-90278/top
https://youtu.be/cMhN3c97W1U
London Symphony Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:52:41 minutes | 6.94 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Krystian Zimerman, Sir Simon Rattle, and Ludwig van Beethoven: three exceptional musicians and five great piano concertos are brought together for a landmark recording. This release is among the highlights to conclude our Beethoven anniversary celebrations.
Over 30 years ago, in 1989, Krystian Zimerman and Leonard Bernstein recorded Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5. They were united in their total dedication to music – in mind, heart and soul – resulting in an exceptional recording. Sadly, Bernstein died before the cycle was recorded in completion. Zimerman went on to conduct the remaining Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 from the keyboard in 1991. Now, 30 years after his first recordings, Zimerman returns to Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. He offers an exceptional new interpretation recorded with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recording all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos during the pandemic was “like chamber music on a great scale“, as Krystian Zimerman tells Apple Music. Read on in the editor’s notes and listen to this album in Apple Music.
The album is available for download & streaming (including in Dolby Atmos), as a 3-CD digipack, 5-LP vinyl box, and as an exclusive and limited edition of the 5-LP vinyl-box with a signed booklet by Krystian Zimerman.
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Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling – Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (2016/2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 6.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:14:23 minutes | 3.91 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Challenge Classics – CC 72689
This is the world premiere recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in its original version. There are a few different notes and phrasing bowings than in what is usually played. The most obvious audible difference is that the complete second movement is played with mute, while it has become a tradition that the violinist take the mute off for the second theme and therefore for most of that movement. This was never intended by Tchaikovsky. The work is the coming back to life and light, a work of positiveness. His music was strongly connected to his personal life. Linus Roth has played the piece for twenty years and feels confident to record his unique interpretation. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto is a late work by the composer who at that time was already ill and knew that his life would soon be over. The conductor of the recording, Thomas Sanderling, was a close friend of his and remembers him well in his late years. Clearly this is not a funny piece, but tha
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Yevgeny Sudbin – Scriabin (2007)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:23 minutes | 2.58 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): BIS Records – BIS-SACD-1568
Writing in prose as delirious as his playing, Yevgeny Sudbin speaks in his accompanying nine-page essay of the incomprehension that greeted Scriabin’s half-crazed genius in both Russia and the West. I should add that America, too, was similarly baffled, reminding us that there are those who think “that the air is filled with green monkeys with crimson eyes and sparkling tails, a kind of ecstasy that is sold in Russia at two roubles a bottle”. This is entirely apt and, laying my cards firmly on the table, I should say that no pianist of any generation has, in my experience, captured Scriabin’s volatility so vividly as Sudbin.
In his choice of sonatas (ranging through Scriabin’s early, middle and late periods), his mix of drama and introspection are positively alchemic and entirely his own. It is as if the music’s very nerve ends are exposed to view and rarely have I heard a pianist prepared to take such risks on record. He takes virtuosity to the very edge at the end of the Fifth Sonata and his daredevil aplomb is at its height in the Ninth, suitably named Black Mass Sonata.
How he varies the colour, light and shade in the early D sharp minor Etude so that its familiar heroic octaves sound newly minted and never merely frenetic! His selection of Mazurkas is given with a breathtaking subtlety, making you long to hear him in Chopin, while his response to Scriabin’s command in the Fifth Sonata, presto tumultuoso esaltato, is like the vortex of a whirlwind.
All these performances are flecked with personal touches and brilliances above and beyond even Scriabin’s wildest demands.Finally, BIS captures Sudbin’s astonishing range of colours and sonorities, ranging from the utmost delicacy to an enraged uproar, in crystalline demonstration sound. This, put suitably euphorically, is a disc in a million.
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