Arthur Honegger - Christophe Colomb (1994)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 254 Mb
Label: mode - Date: 1994

Honegger was keen to reach the widest possible public while retaining his own musical ideas. He had already collaborated with numerous distinguished writers for the theater and had supplied scores for films, such as Abel Gance's Napoléon. All of this experience made readied him for a collaboration with William Aguet when Christoph Colomb was proposed for Radio Lausanne in 1940.

Tania León - Indígena, Parajota Delaté, Rituál, A la Par, Batéy (1994)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 203 Mb
Label: CRI - Date: 1994

Tania León (born May 14, 1943 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban composer and conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. In 1998 she was awarded the New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has received Honorary Doctorates from Colgate University and Oberlin College and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, NYSCA, Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund, ASCAP and Koussevitzky Foundation, among others. In 1998 she held the Fromm Residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Charbonnet,etc.
Classical | DVD | NTSC 16:9 | covers | DVD´s FULL No compression | 12.53 Gb (2 DVD9) | 3% Recovery
Audio: PCM Stereo | 170 min | Relesase: 2009 | Label: ArtHaus

It's been nearly three years since the Canadian Opera Company's gut-wrenchingly satisfying production of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Since the work isn't produced often, any opportunity to see it on DVD is worth checking out. This 2008 production from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence doesn't disappoint…

Eric Ruske - Just me and my horn (2007)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 171 Mb
Label: Albany - Date: 2007

Graduate of Northwestern University. Horn soloist Eric Ruske has established himself as an artist of international acclaim. Named Associate Principal horn of The Cleveland Orchestra at the age of 20, his impressive solo career began when he won the 1986 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, First Prize in the 1987 American Horn Competition, and in 1988, the highest prize in the Concours International d’Interprétation Musicale in Reims, France…

Dieter Mack - Taro, Kammermusik II & III (2005)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 212 Mb
Label: edition zeitklang - Date: 2005

Mack, Dieter (b. August 25, 1954, Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz). German composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and piano works that have been performed throughout Asia, Europe and North America; he is also active as a musicologist…

Jean-Marie Leclair - 6 Sonatas for Violin and Basso continuo from "Troisième livre de sonates", Op.5
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 438 Mb
Label: DENON - Date: 1993

Ryo Terakado. His interest in baroque music already started before: When he was 19, he started to play baroque violin by himself. Some years later, he founded a baroque ensemble "Concert Spirituel" together with Masahiro Arita (Flute), who influenced him a lot, and Hidemi Suzuki (cello). In 1985, he came to the Netherlands to study the baroque violin at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under guidance of Sigiswald Kuijken. In 1989 He received a soloist diploma…

Leclair, Locatelli - L'Ange et le Diable (2001)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 380 Mb
Label: Astrée - Date: 2001

Created in 1997, The Rare Fruits Council has awakened the enthusiasm of the public and obtained superlative praise in critical comments all over the world: "Their music flows like a waterfall", "bursts out like firework", "boundless and bold talent of its members", "carried away by real and wild frenzy", "infinite expressiveness" are some of the qualifying adjectives and phrases that have described the performances of the group…

Dream Journal - Four works commissioned by the Network for New Music (2002)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 295 Mb
Label: Albany - Date: 2002

Presented on this release are four pieces commissioned by the Philadelphia-based Network for New Music Ensemble. All prove to be worthy listens by composers of much ability…

Virko Baley - Dream Time (1996)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 322 Mb
Label: Cambra - Date: 1996

Virko Baley was born in Ukraine in 1938, but has spent his creative life in the United States and considers himself a citizen of the world. Multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary, he infuses his music with themes of contemporary and traditional motifs. Shirley Fleming, writing in the New York Post about a concert of his works given by CONTINUUM, called his music "vibrant, dramatic, communicative, much of it framed by extra-musical allusions that place it in a solid context"…

Shostakovich - Complete String Quartets (CDs + Scores!) - Borodin Quartet
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 6 Cds, Covers; 15 PDF | 2.21 Gb (CDs) + 39.8 Mb (Scores)
Label: Melodiya/BMG - Date: 1997

Rarely do we come across as intimate and wide-angled a set as this collection of Dmitri Shostakovich's 15 string quartets, all of them played by the Russian Borodin Quartet. Recorded in Moscow between 1978 and 1983, the quartets are excellently reproduced in digital sound by Sviatoslav Richter, who maintains just enough shadow from the old Melodiya vinyl's audio vérité to make the music breathe passionately…

Schiff’s performances are, as expected, profound, masterful, and not flashy at all. While he ornaments the works creatively, he doesn’t exaggerate. He is sometimes serious, sometimes playful, yet it’s clear just how much he understands and appreciates this music…

Luigi Merci - Sei sonate per fagotto e basso continuo (Bassoon Sonatas), op.III (1735)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 313 Mb
Label: TACTUS - Date: 1999

Luigi Merci, composer of the Baroque era (born c. 1695 - died in London c. 1750). He was engaged around 1720 by the Earl of Caernarvon and Duke of Chandos. In 1730 he married Ann Hampshire and moved to Covent Garden…

Alain Bancquart - Le Livre du Labyrinthe (2003)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Covers | 536 Mb
Label: mode - Date: 2003

Bancquart's gigantic six-part opus resonates with alien textures and aching lines. Suffused with intricately hewn microtonal music, each movement, scored differently, can stand alone as a unique work. This recording captures the integral premiere. Taken sequentially, each tableau seems the most remote outpost, the next unveiling something stranger still. Occasional passages throb with B-movie queasiness, yet the peculiar scales and tones make perfect sense. Bancquart isn't some kid discovering how funky it is to play between the keys: He's a master, effortlessly devising unbelievable sonorities…

Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues - Nikolayeva (dvd) 2008
Classical | DVD | NTSC 4:3 | covers | DVD´s FULL No compression | 7.87 Gb (DVD9)
Audio: PCM Stereo | 164m | Record: 1992, Relesase: 2008 | Label: EuroArts

Some DVDs are self-recommending; i.e., they offer definitive performances by great artists. That’s the case in this 1992 BBC-derived production of Tatiana Nikolayeva playing Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, a work she inspired and which the composer dedicated to her. They met in 1950; Nikolayeva a contestant in a Bach Piano competition, Shostakovich on the jury. Her playing of Bach’s music decided the composer to write his own set of Preludes and Fugues, after the master’s great work. She was only 26 at the time and in 1992, we see a grandmotherly figure, pudgy, hair in a bun, but also a musician/pianist of the highest order playing a work she knew intimately and recorded often. Furthermore, it’s a work that arguably is the greatest solo piano work of the 20th century, a work in which Shostakovich laid bare his soul, writing some of his most intimate and moving music…

Elie Siegmeister - Piano Music Vol.2 (1999)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 266 Mb
Label: Naxos - Date: 1999

Elie Siegmeister (b. January 15, 1909, New York City – March 10, 1991, Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author. His varied musical output showed his concern with the development of an authentic American musical vocabulary. Jazz, blues and folk melodies and rhythms are frequent themes in his many song cycles, his nine operas, his eight symphonies, and his many choral, chamber, and solo works. His 37 orchestral works have been performed by leading orchestras throughout the world under such conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Lorin Maazel, and Sergiu Comissiona. He also composed for Hollywood (notably, the film score of They Came to Cordura, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, 1959) and Broadway ("Sing Out, Sweet Land," 1944, book by Walter Kerr).