SACD / DSD

Will & Rainbow – Harmony (2003) [2.0 & 5.0] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · April 14, 2022 · Comments off

Keyboardist Will Boulware and company strike again with another dose of to-die-for contemporary jazz. His first Eighty-Eight’s label effort, “Over Crystal Green”, won Swing Journal’s Golden Disk award and helped to launch a label that has now received extensive acclaim from jazz and audiophile press. Boulware pulls out some heavy artillery on “Harmony”, including a very special appearance by Phoebe Snow, who sings on three tracks. Will & Rainbow is rounded out by Peter Bernstein on guitar, Michael Brecker on tenor saxophone, Philippe Saisse on synthesizers, Steve Gadd on drums, and Anthony Jackson on bass.

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Weather Report – Tale Spinnin’ (1975) [Reissue 2018] [2.0 & 5.1] PS3 ISO + FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · April 14, 2022 · Comments off

Tale Spinnin’ is the fifth studio album by Weather Report, recorded and released in 1975, featuring the addition of Leon “Ndugu” Chancler on the drums. Ndugu was recruited after Josef Zawinul heard him play with Carlos Santana. Weather Report was recording next door to Ndugu in the studio, and Chancler was asked to join them for a recording session. That session ended up lasting a week and produced Tale Spinnin’. After the record, Ndugu was asked to join the band as a permanent member, but declined in favor of continuing to work with Carlos Santana.

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Weather Report – Night Passage (1980) [Reissue 2018] PS3 ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · April 14, 2022 · Comments off

Night Passage is the eleventh album by Weather Report, released in 1980. The tracks were recorded in August 1980 at The Complex studios in Los Angeles (before a crowd of 250 people who can be heard on a couple of tracks), except for “Madagascar”, recorded live in Osaka, in June of the same year. The album introduces a new member to the band, percussionist Robert Thomas Jr. Night Passage loses the over-done production layers of some of Weather Report’s earlier releases (most notably 1978’s Mr. Gone). What is lost in layers of overdubs is made up in solo improvisation in the classic jazz tradition.

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Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim – Willies Blues (1960) [Analogue Productions 2019] SACD ISO + FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · March 26, 2022 · Comments off

Since the early 1950s, Willie Dixon has been the studio kingpin of Chicago blues, having written, produced, and played bass on countless classics by Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Otis Rush, Koko Taylor, and many others. Dixon has always managed to find time away from the studio to work as a performer, slapping his upright bass and singing his own tunes in a highly compelling, conversational baritone. He was working the coffeehouse circuit with pianist Memphis Slim when he cut this, his first album as a leader, in 1959. Besides his unique interpretations of Nervous and Built for Comfort, it includes eight lesser known compositions from Dixons prolific pen. It is unlike all other albums by Dixon, as he and Slim are accompanied, not by the usual crew of Chicago blues players, but by a group of New York mainstream jazzmen, including tenor saxophonist Hal Ashby, guitarist Wally Richardson and drummer Gus Johnson.

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Harry James – Supreme Jazz (2006) [2.0 & 5.1] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · March 24, 2022 · Comments off

Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a big band from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he re-organized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone, and was extremely influential on up-and-coming trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band.

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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitrij Kitajenko – Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15 (12 SACD BOX) (2005) [DSF DSD64 + FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

SACD / DSD By admin · March 22, 2022 · Comments off

When this cycle of the symphonies of Shostakovich with Dmitri Kitajenko conducting the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln was released in 2005, Shostakovich cycles were no longer the novelties they had been in the latter years of the twentieth century. There were already several superlative cycles in circulation – the monumental Kondrashin, the modernist Rozhdestvensky, the anguished Barshai – and a pair of superlative cycles nearing completion – the commanding Jansons and the compelling Gergiev – when the Kitajenko – Köln cycle was issued on Capriccio in superaudio sound. Listeners who knew Kitajenko only from his recordings made before the collapse of Communism for Melodiya were caught off guard by his complete mastery of the music, of his grasp of its every nuance of heroism and subtlety of irony, of his understanding of its gradations between pathos and bathos, of his control over its most desiccated melody and its most crushing sonority. Listeners who knew the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln from its tremendous recordings with Wand and Conlon were not so much surprised as pleased to hear the orchestra sound so splendid here. The power of its tone, the brilliance of its colors, the strength of the rhythms, and the depth of its commitment proved no less than the finest orchestras of the former USSR. While longtime Shostakovich listeners were amazed, they found that in the Kitajenko/Köln cycle they had a cycle in the same league as the best that had heretofore been released. Made during the early days of superaudio sound, Capriccio’s sound is incredibly lifelike; when it was released, listeners were stunned by the delicacy of the bells and staggered by the immediacy of the tympani. – by James Leonard

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John Mayall & Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (1966) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2011 # UIGY-9043] {PS3 ISO + FLAC}

SACD / DSD By admin · February 23, 2022 · Comments off

Features the 2010 DSD mastering based on UK original analog tape. Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). DSD Transferred by Kevin Vanbergen.

Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton was Eric Clapton’s first fully realized album as a blues guitarist — more than that, it was a seminal blues album of the 1960s, perhaps the best British blues album ever cut, and the best LP ever recorded by John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Standing midway between Clapton’s stint with the Yardbirds and the formation of Cream, this album featured the new guitar hero on a series of stripped-down blues standards, Mayall pieces, and one Mayall/Clapton composition, all of which had him stretching out in the idiom for the first time in the studio. This album was the culmination of a very successful year of playing with John Mayall, a fully realized blues creation, featuring sounds very close to the group’s stage performances, and with no compromises. Credit has to go to producer Mike Vernon for the purity and simplicity of the record; most British producers of that era wouldn’t have been able to get it recorded this way, much less released. One can hear the very direct influence of Buddy Guy and a handful of other American bluesmen in the playing. And lest anyone forget the rest of the quartet: future pop/rock superstar John McVie and drummer Hughie Flint provide a rock-hard rhythm section, and Mayall’s organ playing, vocalizing, and second guitar are all of a piece with Clapton’s work. His guitar naturally dominates most of this record, and he can also be heard taking his first lead vocal, but McVie and Flint are just as intense and give the tracks an extra level of steel-strung tension and power, none of which have diminished across several decades. (more…)

Amsterdam Sinfonietta Soloists – Schubert: String Quintet (2015) [2.0 & 5.0] PS3 ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · February 7, 2022 · Comments off

One of the icons of chamber music, Schubert’s celebrated String Quintet is heard in an unusual version on this recording. Schubert’s work was styled after those of Boccherini and Onslow, which featured two violins, viola and two cellos. After hearing the double bass virtuoso Domenico Dragonetti, Onslow decided to add an alternative bass part to replace the second cello part. Schubert might have done the same if he had heard Dragonetti play, so the Amsterdam Sinfonietta commissioned this Marijn van Prooijen adaptation, and the double bass part is performed here by Rick Stotijn.

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Afflatus Quartet – Classical: Beethoven, Mozart (2005) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · February 7, 2022 · Comments off

The Afflatus Quartet/Quintet has been in the music scene since 1995. Afflatus Quartet derives from Afflatus Quintet, the winner of the International Music Competition of the ARD Munich 1997 which is one of the most prestigious competitions of chamber music in the world. With Radek Baborák, the world-famous horn player and Afflatus member, taking “vacation” from the ensemble, the four members, each the splendid musician active in Europe, especially in Czech Republic, make the best possible unity with the woodwind quartet ensemble. Their second album features classical repertoire by Beethoven and Mozart. All of them are arrangements, but the distinguished ensemble members of Afflatus create sound rich and full of variety of colors, like an organic instrument made of four musicians, with celestial, beautiful sound for “Classical”.

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Aaron Heick and John Di Martino Romantic Jazz Trio – Smooth Operator (2021) [Venus Japan] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · February 7, 2022 · Comments off

Outside of the New York music scene, multi-instrumentalist Aaron Heick’s name may not be as well known as some of his colleagues. But it doesn’t matter; he’s had a rich, varied career. This well-traveled, seasoned pro has played with some of the most prominent musicians in jazz, pop, reggae, funk, world, and classical music. Those who really know what’s going on in music know him.

Tracklist:

01. Smooth Operator
02. Careless Whisper
03. What You Won’t Do For Love
04. The Look Of Love
05. Fragile
06. Hard To Say I’m Sorry
07. Him
08. Simone
09. It Might Be You
10. Georgy Porgy
11. We’re All Alone

Personnel
Aaron Heick – alto & soprano sax, flute
John Di Martino – piano & organ
Lonnie Plaxico – acoustic bass
Vince Cherico – drums & percussion

Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Tetsuo Hara. Engineered by Tom Tedesco.
Recorded on January 13 & 14, 2021 at Tedesco Studio in New York.
Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix. VENUS Japan # VHGD-371.

SACD ISO

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Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner – Beethoven: Piano Concertos (1961) [Japan 2019] SACD ISO + FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · January 25, 2022 · Comments off

One of the 20th century’s most important pianists, Wilhelm Kempff found warmth in Beethoven where many others discovered only stress and passion. Toward the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth in 2020, the Beethoven recording by master pianist Wilhelm Kemp, who also celebrate the 125th anniversary of birth in 2020, in Japan have been released these five Beethoven’s piano concertos, accompanied by the Berlin Philharmonic under Ferdinand Leitner, and these is Kemp’s second recording of complete Piano Concertos. The first was a 1953 monaural recording. For this SACD reissue have been used the DSD master made by Emil Berliner Studios in Germany from the original master tapes.

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Various Artists – Blue Coast Collection 2 – Sunset Sessions E.S.E (2013) [SACD ISO]

SACD / DSD By admin · December 30, 2021 · Comments off

This album is a bundle of uplifting music and acoustic surprises for all listeners–especially for audiophiles.

Jenna Mammina and Matt Rollings reinterpret rock and pop classics “Mutineer” by Warren Zevon and “Another Grey Morning” by James Taylor with beautiful feeling and open, evocative arrangements. Luis Perez provides an acoustic performance of “Dust in the Wind,” a Kansas composition that went gold in both recordings and downloads.

Blue Coast favorite Keith Greeninger brings an upbeat and original version of Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.” And, don’t miss Houston Jones’ “I Found a Heart,” with an artful blend of acoustic guitar and piano.

Blue Coast Collection 2 holds a landmark place as an early example of E.S.E. (Extended Sound Environment), a proprietary recording technique where all musicians are performing live without use of headphones or overdubs and recording with specified gear.

This long anticipated release of Blue Coast Collection 2 will satisfy fans of quality music and transparent sound with its carefully chosen line up of emotionally honest and sonically stunning songs.

All performances were remastered especially for the CD and SACD versions. Some were remixed. Others have never been previously released.

“The release is dedicated to the memory of Jean Marie Reynaud, who I was honored to call a friend.”
– Cookie Marenco

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RSO Berlin, Marek Janowski – Richard Wagner – Tannhauser (2012) 3x SACD ISO

SACD / DSD By admin · December 8, 2021 · Comments off

Richard Wagner – Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg WWV 70
Albert Dohmen / Robert Dean Smith / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski
3xSACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 7,82 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Pentatone # PTC 5186 405 | Country/Year: Netherlands 2012
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Opera

This is the 6th instalment of PentaTone’s successful Wagner Edition. It is the first time in the recording history that a label records all major Wagner opera’s with the same orchestra, choir and conductor. This makes the PentaTone Wagner Edition a great collector’s item. After this release follows Der Ring des Nibelungen. The 4 opera’s of the “The Ring” will all be released in the course of 2013, The WAGNER YEAR (Celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1813)

All operas are recorded live in the Philharmonie in Berlin. The first five recordings were awarded with “Editor’s Choice” (Gramophone), Recording of the Month and Opera Choice of the Month (BBC Music Magazine), CD of the week (Sunday Times).

Based on the reviews of the concert we expect high scores for the Tannhäuser recording as well. prestoclassical

“Janowski keeps the score, which has some longueurs, moving and builds up impressive climaxes in each act…Prudenskaya, though her enunciation is vague, is adequately sexy…Stemme sound[s] too heroic for the part…but she makes an impression. All told I would say that this is the best recording since that made in Bayreuth in 1962.” BBC Music Magazine

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Various Artists – 4 Great Operas (2013) [Esoteric Japan] (9x SACD Box Set) PS3 ISO + FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · September 21, 2021 · Comments off

The reissue of historical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using SACD technology to improve sound quality. This Box Set of “4 Great Operas on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca” features the four works of this time are historical name boards which were produced in the heyday of analog from 1968 to 1977, and at the time of recording, each record company gathered the best conductor, orchestra, singer, the best sound, It was recorded with an in-depth session organized at the proud recording venue.

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Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker – Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (1980) [Japan 2015] DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · August 21, 2021 · Comments off

Leonard Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker – Beethoven: 9 Symphonies (1980) [Japan 2015]
DSD64 2.0 (tracks.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 368:13 minutes |15 GB
FLAC 2.0 Stereo (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 7,78 GB
Source: SACD-R, Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Japan # UCGG-9079~84

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker for these legendary recordings from 1977-1979 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9 Symphonies in this Limited Edition SACDs set. A set that in the realism of its engineering, in the poised polished execution of the Vienna Philharmonic, and in the controlled, tasteful vigor of Bernstein’s conducting sets standards of Beethoven playing. Despite the age the pairing of Bernstein and the VPO was always quite special and the set has stood the test of time remarkably well, remaining an excellent choice for anybody looking for a Beethoven symphony cycle.

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