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Alexander Lonquich & Colibrì Ensemble – Schumann – Burgmüller (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:00 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Odradek Records
The lives of Robert Schumann and Norbert Burgmüller intersect in fascinating ways. Both were born in 1810, and both spent significant periods of their lives in Düsseldorf, which is how Schumann came to orchestrate the Scherzo of Burgmüller?s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 11.
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Herbie Hancock – Mwandishi – The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (1994/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:05:04 minutes | 5,07 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © Warner Bros. Records
None can argue that Herbie Hancock’s Blue Note recordings are mostly jazz milestones, the somewhat overlooked Warner Bros. period remains one of his most creatively adventurous, and enduring. The three albums presented here all offer different sides of Hancock after he left Miles Davis. All are presented here in their entirety, with copious notes by Bob Blumenthal, who interviewed Hancock for the package. The set begins with the wildly joyous, deep, funky groove of Fat Albert’s Groove, the music Hancock recorded for Bill Cosby’s Saturday morning cartoon show. These seven tracks, with their three-horn front line (originated for Hancock on his final Blue Note album, Speak Like a Child) of Joe Henderson on flute and tenor, Johnny Coles’ trumpet, and Garnett Brown’s trombone, are singing, lyrical funk grooves that predated Headhunters by a few years and swung way harder by sticking back and lying in the groove as much as possible. Hancock’s electric piano teamed with Tootie Heath and Buster Williams to form an unbeatable, gutsy, and stomping rhythm section. The band was fleshed out on a couple of tracks by additional horns, additional drums and percussion, and electric guitars. After such a melodic entry, Warners’ executives must have been shocked when Hancock brought them the abstract funkified impressionism of his emerging Mwandishi band on its selftitled offering. Comprised of three long tracks, the album showcased Hancock’s use of free jazz and long intervallic inventions on modal frames. Only Buster Williams remained from the previous set. The rest of the sextet includes Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, and Bennie Maupin. also This same band with the addition of a few sidemen recorded the Crossings with the addition of synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. This final record sank from the market like a stone; it found some success a year later, after Hancock had moved to Columbia, to issue Sextant and then Headhunters. Crossings melds street music, modal jazz and the expansive sonic approach of Sun Ra fom this same period; it’s approach keeps jazz close to the street while fully exploring the varying tonal and rhythmic changes that were going on post-Coltrane. Again, only three tracks appear, though the first is a long, brazen expressionistic suite (“Sleeping Giant”). The musical evolution present in this double set reveals the composer, arranger, and pianist as a large scale visionary.
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High Definition Tape Transfers is the brainchild of an avid 2 & 4 track open-reel collector and a serious audiophile. Collected over the years, many of our tapes contain forgotten performances of historical importance. Our mission is to preserve and share these rare gems with other music lovers by painstakingly remastering them with the finest state-of-the-art equipment and best techniques available.
Our very special releases are your gateway to a unique musical and sonic adventure. Every one of the techniques of the HDTT transcription process makes important, audible contributions to the quality of the encoded digital signal. All of them together make sonic magic. The improvements with HDTT releases produce unusually good sound quality and are apparent on any kind of system.
In today’s world, it is truer than ever that music is precious. You’ll appreciate the opportunity to hear performances which are otherwise unavailable to you in any other medium. We are sure that as a music lover you will be impressed, delighted, and even astonished by the recordings offered by High Definition Tape Transfers. In fact, we are confident that they will do nothing less than redefine what you think is possible from the much maligned compact disc.
Album Lists
[HDTT] Albeniz &Turina – Ernest Ansermet (1960) [24-192].rar
[HDTT] An American Romantic [DSD256].rar
[HDTT] Bach – Harpsichord – George Malcolm [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Bartok – Piano Concertos No. 2 & 3 – Ferenc Fricsay, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4 – Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Symphonies No. 1 & 8 – Ernest Ansermet [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Symphony No.3 – Scherchen (1958) [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Symphony No.4 – Steinberg (1961) [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Symphony No.5 – Rodzinski (1957) [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Symphony No.9 – Fritz Reiner, CSO (1961) [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D – Alfred Campoli & John Pritchard, RPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 & Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 – Garry Graffman [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Berlioz – Symphony – Fantastique – Charles Munch, BSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Brahms – Concerto for Violin & Cello – Bruno Walter, The Columbia Symphony Orchestra [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 – Erich Leinsdorf, Chicago Symphony Orchestra [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Brahms – Piano Concerto No.2 – Vladimir Ashkenazy ,Zubin Mehta, LSO- [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Britten – Symphony for Cello and Orchestra & Haydn – Concerto in C for Cello and Orchestra – Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Bruch – Scottish Fantasy & Hindemith – Violin Concerto – David Oistrakh, Violin, Jascha Horenstein, Paul Hindemith, LSO [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Bruch – Violin Concerto No.1, Op.26 & Mozart – Violin Concerto No.4, K.218 – Heifetz, Violin [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Bruckner – Symphony No.5 – Hans Knappertsbusch, VPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Carl Orff – Carmina Burana – Eugen Jochum (1967) [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Charles Ives – Symphony No.4 & Orchestral Set No.2 – Leopold Stokowski. ASO LSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 Tam s V s ry, piano, BPO [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op.104 – Pierre Fournier, George Szell, BPO [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Dvorak – Symphony No.8 Scherzo Capriccioso – Kertesz, LSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Dvorak – Symphony No.9 New World – Antal Dorati, NPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Dvorak – Violin Concerto & My Home Overture, Milstein [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Dvorak – Violin Concerto/Ravel-Tzigane – Edith Peinemann [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Elgar – Cello Concerto & Bloch – Schelomo – Alfred Wallenstein, BPO [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Elgar – Enigma Variations & Serenade for Strings – Foster, HSO & Munch, BSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Erick Friedman – Violin Showpieces [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Falla Nights in The Gardens Of Spain & Chopin – Piano Concerto No.2 – Alicia de Larrocha [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Grieg – Peer Gynt – LSO & Bizet Carmen – NPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Haydn – Symphony No.88 & Mozart – Symphony No.41 – Fritz Reiner, CSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Holst – The Planets – Sir Adrian Boult, VSOO & VSAC [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Julian Bream – Guitar Concert (1963) [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Klipsch Reissues Legendary Founde [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Lalo – Symphonie Espagnole – Walter Hendl, CSO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Mahler – Symphony No. 2 – Hermann Scherchen [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Mahler – Symphony No. 3 – Jascha Horenstein [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Mahler – Symphony No. 4 – Grorge Szell, Cleveland Orchestra [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Mahler – Symphony No. 7 – Bernard Haitink, ROCA [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Mahler – Symphony No. 9 – Bruno Walter, CSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Music of Spain – Rafael Fruhbeck De Burgos [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Percussion in Hi-FI – David Carroll & His Orchestra [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Percussion in Hi-Fi Vol. II – Dick Schory’s Percussion Pops Orchestra [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Peter Serkin – Bartok – Concerto Nos.1.3, etc – Ozawa – Barshai [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Prokofiev – Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the Russian’ Revolution – Shostakovich The Sun Shines over our Motherland [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Prokofiev – The Tale of The Stone Flower – Varviso [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Prokovief – Violin Concerto No.1 & Glazunov – Concerto for Violin – Sivo & Stein, OSR [24-96].rar
[HDTT] R. Strauss – Salzberg Music Festival – Karajan, BPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Rachmaninov – Symphony No.3 – Paul Kletzki, SRO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Ravel – Daphnis et Chloe – Charles Munch, BSO (1961) [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Saint-Saens – Symphony No.3 – Ernest Ansermet [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Scheherazade & Le Coq D’Or – Hermann Scherchen & Erich Leinsdorf, BSO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Schmidt – Symphony No.4 – Zubin Mehta, VPO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Schumann – Symphony No. 1 Manfred Overture – Charles Munch, BSO (1956) [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Shostakovich Cello Sonata & Brahms Piano Trio – Shafran, Graffman [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Sibelius – Symphony No.5 & Swan of Tuonela – Alexander Gibson, LSO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Stravinsky – Firebird & Petrushka – Stokowski, BPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Stravinsky – Jeu de Cartes & Symphony in 3 Movements – Munch, BSO & Goosens, LSO [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Stravinsky – L’histoire Du Soldat Respighi Rossiana [24-192].rar
[HDTT] Tchaikovsky – Concerto No. 1 & Grieg Concerto in A Minor – Nelson Freire & Rudolf Kempe, MPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Tchaikovsky – Francesca da Rimini & Hamlet & Serenade for Strings [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Tchaikovsky – Manfred Symphony – Eugene Goossens, LSO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.1, 1812 Overture; Gilels; CSO, Reiner [24-192].rar
[HDTT] The Classical Guitar – Karl Scheit, The Weiner Solisten [24-96].rar
[HDTT] The Joe Holland Quartet – Klipsch Tape Project Vol.II [DSD128].rar
[HDTT] Wagner – Hans Knappertsbusch, MPO [24-96].rar
[HDTT] Works of Debusy and Ravel – Pierre Monteux, LSO [24-96].rar
Romain Humeau – Mousquetaire, Vol. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 668 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Seeds Bombs Music
Romain Humeau, le leader du groupe Eiffel, revient avec UN album solo chez Pias [Le Label]. Après 5 albums d’Eiffel (plus de 500 concerts) et le succès de ‘A tout moment’, la réalisation de 2 albums pour Bernard Lavilliers, la création pour France Culture autour de ‘Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique’ de Michel Tournier avec Denis Lavant présentée au Festival d’Avignon, il s’est enfermé dans son studio bordelais pour composer et enregistrer cet album solo. Narrateur hors pair, il cisèle la langue française et la fond avec ses références anglosaxonnes (XTC, Damon Albarn, Tom Waits, Ray Davies.). Mélodies implacables, harmonies subtiles, arrangements foisonnants cet album fera date dans la discographie de l’artiste et s’annonce déjà comme l’un des événements de la rentrée. / Romain Humeau, the leader of the group Eiffel, returns with A solo album in Pias [The Label]. After 5 albums Eiffel (more than 500 concerts) and the success of ‘at any time’, the completion of 2 albums for Bernard Lavilliers, the creation for France Culture around “Friday or the limbo of the Pacific’ by Michel Tournier with Denis Lavant, presented at the Avignon Festival, he locked himself in his studio in bordeaux to compose and record this solo album. Narrator extraordinaire, he concocts the French language and the background with its references to imperial (XTC, Damon Albarn, Tom Waits, Ray Davies.). Melodies implacable, subtle harmonies, arrangements teeming this album is a milestone in the discography of the artist and is already promising to be one of the events of the summer.
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The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You (2009/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:38 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Universal Music
Although it was the major label debut from the Avett Brothers, 2009’s “I And Love And You” was hardly the first album from the brothers. Their five previous independent releases impressed Rick Rubin so much he not only agreed to produce this record, he also signed them to his label. Named the 2009 artist to watch by Rolling Stone, the Avett Brothers helped resurrect the rootsy Americana movement.
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The Art Farmer Quintet – Plays The Great Jazz Hits (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:44 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: AcousticSounds | Front cover | © Columbia/Legacy
The title of this reissue LP is a bit ironic for jazz was really struggling commercially in 1967 and the “hits” were few and far between. In fact flugelhornist Art Farmer, who leads the notable hard bop quintet (with Jimmy Heath on tenor, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Mickey Roker), would be moving to Europe the following year where he would work much more often than he had in the U.S. The ten numbers on this LP were fairly popular, particularly such tunes as “Song for My Father,” “The Sidewinder,” “Watermelon Man” and “Take Five.” The quintet’s concise interpretations (no performance is over six minutes) are melodic without being overly predictable. As usual Farmer’s lyricism by itself is a good reason to search for this underrated album.
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The Allman Brothers Band – Wipe The Windows, Check The Oil, Dollar Gas (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:01 minutes | 2,84 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Island Records
Released in 1976 after the band had already broken up, this double live album from the Allman Brothers includes recordings made between 1972 and 1975 at concerts in San Francisco, New Orleans, New York, Oakland and Bakersfield.
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The Allman Brothers Band – Play All Night: Live At The Beacon Theatre 1992 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:19:32 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
Much as the current Allman Brothers lineup had coalesced in 2003, the ensemble that came together in 1989 for the twentieth anniversary box set Dreams (Polydor, 1989) tour had tightened considerably (minus keyboardist /vocalist Johnny Neel) by the time they decided to engage in their first extended run at New York’s Beacon Theatre and record themselves for a live album. Play All Night: Live At the Beacon Theatre consists of performances captured on March 10 & 11 in 1992 and over the course of its two discs, effectively supplants the concert pieces of that era captured on “An Evening With”. (more…)
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The Allman Brothers Band – Live At Ludlow Garage 1970 (1990/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:49:12 minutes | 4,33 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Island Records
“Ludlow Garage” captures a concert performance from the early Allman Brothers Band, recorded in Cincinnati in April 1970 but not issued until 1990. The highlight of this live album is the 45 minute version of Mountain Jam, which occupied one entire disc of the original double-vinyl release.
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Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (2014)
AIFF,FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 1:05:29 minutes | 995+718 MB | Genre: Alternative
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front cover | © Interscope
Ultraviolence is Lana Del Rey’s third studio album. After stating that she had no plans of releasing a follow up album to Born to Die, Del Rey viewed Ultraviolence as snippets of her past as opposed to a journey. Del Rey commented that the album is “…a little more stripped down, but still cinematic and dark. I’ve been working on it really slowly, but I love everything I’ve done.” The album features singles “Ultraviolence”, “Shades of Cool”, “West Coast”, and “Brooklyn Baby”. (more…)
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Porcupine Tree – Fear Of A Blank Planet (2007/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 50:57 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: burningshed.com | Artwork: Printable covers
Porcupine Tree’s critically acclaimed 2007 album features six epic tracks that form part of a song-cycle that deals with, “A 21st century cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom, and subsequent escape”. An aggressively modern merger of Rush’s arena art rock, UK prog classicism, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and the post grunge vengeance of Tool. (more…)
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Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor, BWV 232 – Netherlands Bach Society, Jos Van Veldhoven (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:45:34 minutes | 3,2 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: channelclassics.com | Booklet, Front Cover | © Channel Classics Records B.V.
Recorded: Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 2006
From the moment that a decision was made to record Bach’s Mass in b minor, it was clear tome that the scoring would have to be small-scale. After our successful and highly-praised recording of the St.John Passion in 2004-in which a small group of singcrs performed both the solo parts and the chorus parts there was really no way back. We had come to know a new kind of collaboration between instrumentalists and singers, which gave us an ideal foundation for the interpretation of Bach’s music and led to deeply expressive performances. Together, we discovered a new definition for the word ‘choir’. But at the same time, the Mass in b minor is a large-scale score: Bach, in his last completed work, demanded every possible performing force available to him. For example, in this unique and incomparable score, he used nearly every imaginable combination of voices and virtually the entire spectrum of instrumentation of his day. The enormous wealth of genres and structures is dazzling for the listener: timeless polyphony, fugues, canrus-firmus techniques, polychoral work, vocal and instrumental concern, concern for groups of instruments, concern grossi, osninani, solo arias and duets – in scorings from three to seven voices and in remarkably varied combinations-and choruses ranging from four to eight parts. It is certain that Bach never performed his masterpiece in complete form, and it remains unclear for what purpose or occasion he composed it. The beautiful autograph score remains a closed book in many respects: it contains hardly any tempo indications or dynamic signs. The movements are simply called Kyrie, Gloria, or Agnus Dci. All of the parts of the enormous score indicate one-on-a-part settings for instrumentalists or singers. Nowhere does Bach give suggestions for how to score the continuo. Is it written for soloists, or is Bach writing for a ‘real’ chorus? How large should the string groups be, and is variable scoring another option?
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The Australian Jazz Quartet – The Australian Jazz Quartet (1955/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:53 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: PrestoClassical | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records
This debut album from the short-lived Australian Jazz Quartet/Quintet was released in 1955. The quartet’s unique instrumental lineup, including bassoon, flute and vibes, gives these eight standards and two original numbers a sound unlike any other jazz combo of the time.
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The Afghan Whigs – In Spades (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:26 minutes | 416 MB | Genre: Rock, Alternative
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records
On the one hand, In Spades is as quintessentially Afghan Whigs as anything the group has ever done – fulfilling its original mandate to explore the missing link between howling Midwestern punk like Die Kreuzen and Hüsker Dü, The Temptations’ psychedelic soul symphonies, and the expansive hard-rock tapestries of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the same time, this new record continues to push beyond anything in the Whigs’ previous repertoire – another trademark, along with the explosive group dynamic captured on the recording.
The joys, sorrows, and upheavals of innocence and experience echo throughout In Spades: it powerfully documents where The Afghan Whigs have been, and where they might go next.
In Spades was recorded at Rick Nelson’s studio Marigny Sound in New Orleans, LA. (more…)
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Underworld – Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:51:38 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: e-Onkyo | Artwork: Digital Booklet | © Beat Records
While Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have retained what was special about their greatest triumphs – Dubnobasswithmyheadman and Second Toughest in the Infants were two of the most revered dance albums of the 1990s – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future is never weighed down by its makers’ history. Karl Hyde’s “found” lyrics (using snippets of overheard conversations) are affecting, fractured evocations of the disorientations of modern urban life. Even the album’s title is a real-life utterance, a phrase Hyde’s father said to his mother shortly before he died. Opening track I Exhale has the sleazy ambience of David Bowie’s Lodger, its “blah, blah, blah” motif echoing the “far, far, far, away” refrain of Red Sails. But that and If Rah aside, Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future is dreamy and unabrasive. Gently menacing instrumental Santiago Cuatro has a Middle Eastern feel, while the smooth synthpop texture of the closing track Nylon Strung reaches a state of bliss. (more…)
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