Hugh Coltman – Shadows: Songs of Nat King Cole (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44.1kHz | Time – 47:00 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | © Okeh Records / Sony Music Entertainment
Recorded: November 2014 at MidiLive Studios, Villetaneuse France
„Shadows – Songs of Nat King Cole“, has been an idea brewing in Hugh’s mind for a few years. Cole was one of the Jazz artists that Hugh’s mother often played in the family home and his music became part of the soundtrack of Hugh’s formative years before his mother’s untimely death when he was 7 years old. After having released and toured two self penned albums distinctly pop on Universal records, Hugh was invited to tour and record with French/Italian Jazz pianist and producer Eric Legnini. This experience of a working Jazz musician gave him the confidence to finally approach Nat King Cole’s repertoire. (more…)
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Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (1961/2012)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 00:50:26 minutes | 2,0 GB | Genre: Jazz
Source: ISO SACD | © Verve Records
Recorded: 22-23 June 1961 in Los Angeles . Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound
Fourteen numbers from the heyday of swing, composed sometime between 1930 and 1945, played and sung time and time again in ballrooms, or on the radio to advertise biscuits or war bonds, were recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in completely new and personal interpretations in 1961.
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! is absolutely top notch as regards to musicality; perfect recording quality, superb accompaniment by a small ensemble, with room for improvisations; it offers a wonderful opportunity to discover something new in these evergreens. The songs of this recording conjure up bygone days, with listeners in the 21st century being offered a highly personal homage to one of the most successful periods in the 100-year history of jazz!
Сomposer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Artist: Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Title: Gloria in excelsis Deo: Bach’s sacred cantatas
Genre: Classical, Choral, Baroque
Label: © BIS Records AB, Sweden
Release Date: 2017
Recorded: February 2013 at the Kobe Shoin Women’s University Chapel, Japan
Quality: Blu-ray
Duration: 02:04:55
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 21264 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM 5.0 / 96 kHz / 11520 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: English, Japanese
Size: 36 GB
In June 1995, a virtually unknown group of Japanese musicians embarked on the monumental task of recording the complete sacred cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Almost eighteen years later, on 23rd February 2013, the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki – by then household names in the international music world – reached their goal, as they finished recording the 55th disc in a series which in the meantime had met with overwhelming acclaim worldwide.
Made in conjunction with the final cantata recording, this film commemorates the occasion. Besides filmed performances of the three last cantatas – Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV191, Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV69 and Freue dich, erlöste Schar, BWV30 – the film includes interviews with Masaaki Suzuki and key members of Bach Collegium Japan as well as behind-the-scenes footage. (more…)
Faith Hill – Cry
Artist: Faith Hill | Album: Cry | Style: Country, Blue grass | Year: 2002 | Quality: DVD-Audio (MPL 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, MPL 2.0 96kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0, DTS 5.1) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 14 | Size: 6.96 Gb | Recovery: 5% | Covers: in archive | Release: Warner Bros (9362-48001-9), 2002 | Note: Watermarked
Lavishly produced and packaged, Cry marks the continued ascent of Faith Hill from the lowlands of down-home authenticity to the heights of pop superstardom. Though plenty of Nashville A-team players back her up, the sound they churn out has almost nothing to do with country music. Riding a tide of massed synthesizer textures, sweeping orchestral strings, thundering drums, rock guitar licks, and melodramatic dynamics, Hill strives for the biggest possible gestures in her performance. The result is the kind of glitzy fireworks normally associated with Star Search or American Idol, in which the lyric takes a distant backseat to raw exhibitionism and only the most cursory nod is made toward country lyrical convention. (The nod is particularly schizoid in “This Is Me,” as Hill proclaims, “I try to love Jesus and myself…yeah, yeah.”) Beyond the general issue of taste, this approach raises twofold problems for Hill in particular, in that her established skills as a song interpreter are lost in all this sturm und drang and her voice, while undeniably powerful at its peak, doesn’t have the range that allows most singers in this style, from proto-diva Barbra Streisand to flameout icon Mariah Carey, to at least milk the material at some superficial level. With all this in mind, it may be significant that Tim McGraw, a guest on previous Hill albums, makes no appearance here. Perhaps there’s no room for country credibility, or even for a spouse, when one’s career trajectory is as hot as Hill’s. (more…)
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Сomposer: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Album title: Reflections
Performer: TrondheimSolistene; Øyvind Gimse, artistic director; Geir Inge Lotsberg, guest leader
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Selbu Church, Norway
Release date: May 2016
Recording date: June and August 2015
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:10:18 + 00:25:36
Vidieo: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 11444 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5703 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#3: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 7055 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 33.63 GB
Composers reflect their contemporary world, and today’s performers mirror ourtime. The three works on this album all have a high degree of intensity and a strong personal character, as tributes, visions, fantasies, interpretations. As musical reflections they have these qualities in common, but at the same time they are very different works composed by three distinct musical personalities. Passion. Perfection. Raw intensity. With these fundamentals, the chamber orchestra TrondheimSolistene is carving out its own musical images in immersive audio.
Recording sessions: Facebook Photo Album
Benjamin Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Igor Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète
Immersive Audio is a sonic sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio. Recorded in discrete 12.1 at DXD resolution. (more…)
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Title: Michael Schenker Fest – Live: Tokyo International Forum Hall A
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Artist: Michael Schenker – Lead Guitar; Ted McKenna – Drums; Steve Mann – Guitar, Keyboards; Chris Glen – Bass; Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley – Vocals
Production/Label: in-akustik GmbH & Co. KG
Duration: 01:38:24
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 27998 kbps / 1920*1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4980 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 38.09 GB
Michael Schenker, one of music’s greatest rock guitarists, will release Michael Schenker Fest “Live” Tokyo – a stunning new live recording and filmed concert released by inakustik on Blu-ray (and 2CD, 2CD+DVD Combo, and LP). The Blu-ray release will be available for purchase on March 24, 2017
Filmed and recorded at Tokyo’s International Forum on August 24, 2016, this historic concert features guest appearances from some of the greatest rock vocalists who have worked with Schenker over the years including M.S.G.’S Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, and Robin McAuley of the McAuley Schenker Group.
“35 years have passed since the legendary MSG concert Live At The Budokan. Like a miracle Michael Schenker returns to Japan with his past original singers from the ’80’s to celebrate the Michael Schenker Fest with Barden, Bonnet and McAuley at the amazing Tokyo International Forum. 5000 fans witnessed an anthology moment of quintessential hard rock music of the highest calibre. It’s a miracle that after all these years, something like this took place with the original band members of MSG. Being able to go back to those days and celebrate the music is an exciting experience for the band, as well as for old and new fans. To being able to re-experience, and for the new audience to get a feel of what it was like, is incredibly enjoyable. For Michael Schenker it was an amazing feeling to have all of his MSG Family from the ’80’s performing together and especially with Graham Bonnet, who he never got to play any concerts after their Assault Attack album that was originally released in 1982. Fortunately, being able to have the participation of original MSG members such as Gary Barden, Chris Glen and Ted McKenna being part of it, and somehow, to perform with Robin McAuley and Steve Mann again as well, was pretty awesome for Michael Schenker. (more…)
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Сomposer: Lowell Liebermann
Title: Frankenstein
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Classical, Ballet
Choreography: Liam Scarlett
Conductor: Koen Kessels
Designer: John Macfarlane
Lighting designer: David Finn
Artist: Victor Frankenstein: Federico Bonelli; Elizabeth Lavenza: Laura Morera; The Creature: Steven McRae; Henry Clerval: Alexander Campbell; Madame Moritz: Elizabeth McGorian; Justine Moritz: Meaghan Grace Hinkis; Victor’s father: Bennet Gartside; Victor’s mother: Christina Arestis; The Professor: Thomas Whitehead; William Frankenstein: Guillem Cabrera Espinach; Young Victor: Sacha Barber; Young Elizabeth: Skya Powney; Young Justine: Lauren Molyneux; Orchestra of The Royal Opera House
Production/Label: Opus Arte
Duration: 02:10:20
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 25000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5267 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#2: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3500 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#3: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.22 GB
Royal Ballet Principals Federico Bonelli, Laura Morera and Steven McRae dance the lead roles in Liam Scarlett’s new ballet, based on the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This ambitious theatrical collaboration brings the novel to life with spectacular period sets and costumes by John Macfarlane and a newly commissioned score by Lowell Liebermann. Scarlett’s choreography draws out the emotional power of this classic story. Passionate encounters between Victor, Elizabeth and the Creature express their torment, regret, anger, yearning and love.
Tracklist
Recorded from the Royal Opera House, May 2016
Bonus:
– Introduction to Frankenstein
– Casting the ballet
– Lowell Liebermann and Liam Scarlett on the music
– John Macfarlane on designing Frankenstein
– Darcey Bussell in the studio with Liam Scarlett and Laura Morera
Сomposer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Title: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (The Marriage of Figaro)
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Classical, Opera Buffa
Conductor: Dan Ettinger
Stag Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Video Director: Tiziano Mancini
Artist: Luca Pisaroni (Conte Almaviva), Anett Fritsch (Contessa Almaviva), Martina Janková (Susanna), Adam Plachetka (Figaro), Margarita Gritskova (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Carlos Chausson (Don Bartolo), Paul Schweinester (Don Basilio), Franz Supper (Don Curzio), Christina Gansch (Barbarina), Erik Anstine (Antonio), Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Wiener
Production/Label: EuroArts Music International GmbH
Duration: 03:12:22
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 20915 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Italian DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3619 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Italian LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean
Size: 39.23 GB
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is an unforgettable opera about love, desire and the primal force of uncontrollable passion. Concluding the Salzburg Festival’s highly successful Mozart / Da Ponte cycle, director Sven-Eric Bechtolf sets this emotional tour de force in a stately English country house during the 1920s. The renowned Vienna Philharmonic ensures an exceptional evening of music from Mozart’s birthplace. “Everything about the show exuded immediacy and naturalness: the intriguingly updated production by the director Sven-Eric Bechtolf; the winning performances of a compelling cast; and the supple, glowing playing that the conductor Dan Ettinger drew from the Vienna Philharmonic…”. –The New York Times (more…)
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Сomposer: Alban Berg (1885—1935)
Title: Wozzeck, Op. 7 — Opera in three acts (15 scenes) after Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck”
Release Date: 2016
Recording Date: 22, 25 September, 6 October 2015
Genre: Classical, Opera
Stage Director: Andreas Homoki
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Artist: Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie), Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich
Production/Label: Accentus Music | Philharmonia Records
Duration: 01:40:57
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 19942 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4185 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: German, French, English, Korean, Japanese
Size: 20.8 GB
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.
His nightmarishly radical production is inspired by puppet theatre. Christian Gerhaher’s role début as Wozzeck can only be described as sensational: his capacity for vocal and dramatic subtlety is simply breath-taking. At the rostrum of the Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi explores both the expressionistic and the more intimate aspects, reminiscent of chamber music, in Berg’s seminal (more…)
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Usher – 8701
Artist: Usher | Album: 8701 | Style: R&B, Soul | Year: 2003 [2001 original] | Quality: DVD-Audio (MPL 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, MPL 2.0 96kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1, Dolby AC3 2.0) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 15 | Size: ~5.02 Gb | Recovery: 3% | Covers: in archive | Release: Arista Records | LaFace (82876-55798-9), 2003 | Note: Not Watermarked
Usher has the reputation as a loverman, largely because he fits the bill so well. He looks good, his material is smooth and seductive, and he has a nice voice, even if he tends to favor melisma. This has been true throughout his career, and remains true on his third album, 8701, a classy, seductive affair masterminded by Usher, Jermaine Dupri, and Antonio “L.A.” Reid. There’s not much new here, but Usher does move further in both directions — the ballads are lusher, the dance numbers hit a bit harder — but not so much so that it’s really noticeable. Overall, the record is probably his strongest yet, but he still suffers from a lack of really memorable material (the singles usually are pretty good, but the album tracks are filler) and a tendency to oversing. Because of these two things, 8701 is more mood music than anything else, and while it does work fairly well on that level, it’s not memorable outside of that mood. (more…)
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The Avett Brothers – True Sadness (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:02 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Front Cover | © RRE, LLC / Republic
True Sadness is the lastest album released by the Grammy Award®-nominated alternative folk collective The Avett Brothers. The album reflects The Avett Brothers’ artistic, musical, and personal evolution over 16 years as a band. Eloquently describing what’s to come on the horizon, Seth writes, “True Sadness is a patchwork quilt, both thematically and stylistically. Wherein a myriad of contrasting fabrics make perfect sense on the same plane, this album draws upon countless resources from its writers and performers.”
Most importantly, he assures, “Throughout the album, we stitched together the boldest red and the calmest green, polka dots and stripes, the roughest denim and the smoothest velveteen. They came together because they are the best patterns we have and because each of us brought our own fabric to the quilting frame.” (more…)
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Year Of Release: 2014
Genre: Heavy Metal
Format: Flac, Image+.cue
Bitrate: lossless , 24/192
Total Size: 15 GB
1980 – Iron Maiden
1981 – Killers
1982 – The Number Of The Beast
1983 – Piece Of Mind
1984 – Powerslave
1985 – Live After Death
1986 – Somewhere In Time
1988 – Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
LIMITED EDITION
PLEASE NOTE-This Special Edition Box only contains the first 3 LPs from Iron Maiden (Iron Maiden, Killers, and The Number of the Beast). The Box was created to house ALL 8 of the Iron Maiden LP releases from 1980 to 1988 but the remaining 5 LPs need to be purchased separately. (more…)
Sarah McLachlan – Wonderland (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 36:47 minutes | 472 MB | Genre: Holiday
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Digital Booklet | © Verve Records
Three Time Grammy Winner and legendary singer songwriter Sarah McLachlan will release her holiday album “Winter Wonderland” on October 21, 2016. The album features a selection of holiday classics including “Winter Wonderland” and “Let It Snow”. Sarah has sold over 40 million albums in her career and is one of the most respected female artists in music today. (more…)
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Title: Deacon Blue – Live at the Glasgow Barrowlands
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Rock, Pop Rock, Soft Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Dream Pop
Artist: Ricky Ross – lead vocals, keyboards; James Prime – Hammond B3, keyboards, piano ; Lorraine McIntosh – vocals, backing vocals, percussion; Dougie Vipond – drums, percussion; Gregor Philp – guitar, backing vocals; Lewis Gordon – bass
Production/Label: earMUSIC/Edel Germany GmbH
Duration: 02:14:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 21969 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7235 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.3 GB
‘Live at the Glasgow Barrowlands’ was filmed at Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom and on the last night of the band’s UK ‘Believers Tour’. Deacon Blue presented not only the hits of their most recent album ‘Believers’ but also played their best loved songs from their 30-year career. This unforgettable performance is their first official live product in 10 years and the band’s first ever live DVD & Blu-ray release.
Glasgow’s mainstream hitmakers Deacon Blue are one of the most influential pop bands in the UK. Since forming in 1985 Deacon Blue have sold over 7 million albums worldwide, had 2 UK number 1 albums and 17 UK Top 40 singles. Their first album ‘Raintown’ was released in 1987 to massive critical acclaim and went on to achieve a million sales. The album was quickly followed up with their number one, double platinum album ‘When The World Knows Your Name’. 2016 saw the band release their most successful album in 23 years with ‘Believers’ which is the band’s most successful album at UK’s BBC Radio 2 with three hit singles going straight to BBC’s Radio 2 ‘A List’. The band recently announced their biggest and already sold-out headline show at the legendary Edinburgh Castle due in July 2017. (more…)
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Lake Street Dive – Side Pony (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:22 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Folk, Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Nonesuch
Lake Street Dive’s presents their Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony. The four band members—drummer Michael Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, singer Rachael Price, and guitarist/trumpeter Michael “McDuck” Olson—worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Secret Sisters) on the record.
“. . .We’ve always been this somewhat uncategorizable, weird, outlying, genre-less band. That’s the statement we wanted to make with this record: be yourself.” – bassist Bridget Kearney (more…)
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