Tags
Language
Tags
March 2023
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
26 27 28 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31 1

Manlio Benzi, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia - Charles Gounod: Polyeucte (2005)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Manlio Benzi, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia - Charles Gounod: Polyeucte (2005)

Manlio Benzi, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia - Charles Gounod: Polyeucte (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 670 Mb | Total time: 76:54+75:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic ‎| CDS 474/1-2 | Recorded: 2004

There is much to enjoy in this forgotten (save for an aria or two), late (1878) Gounod opera. Essentially the same story as Donizetti’s Poliuto, its title character is a convert to Christianity under the Romans, and his wife Pauline tries to protect him. The Emperor’s envoy, Sévère, still loves Pauline, to whom he was once betrothed–but despite his hatred of Christians, Sévère is noble and tries to save Polyeucte. But the latter insists on making a public scene denouncing idols, and at the end, along with Pauline “who has been converted by the grace of God”, goes to his death in the public arena. Aside from a sappy baptism scene the likes of which would make the Massenet of Thaïs blush with shame, the opera is tuneful, with exciting arias and duets and an ensemble or two, although none of it remains very long in the memory.

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert ‎- Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori (1985)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert ‎- Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori (1985)

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert ‎- Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 53:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ARCHIV Produktion | # 415 129-2 | Recorded: 1984

This disc, very well recorded in 1984, presents the Fireworks music on period instruments but in the version that includes the strings. Pinnock later recorded the version that used a large wind band. The rest of this disc features two concertos for two horns which prove to be thoroughly entertaining.

Mike Hart - Mike Hart Bleeds (1969) [Japanese Edition 2008]

Posted By: gribovar
Mike Hart - Mike Hart Bleeds (1969) [Japanese Edition 2008]

Mike Hart - Mike Hart Bleeds (1969) [Japanese Edition 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 191 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 84 MB | Covers - 39 MB
Genre: Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Air Mail Recordings (AIRAC-1466)

"Mike Hart Bleeds" was one of the first discs issued on John Peel's Dandelion label. The album is a totally underrated and overlooked classic, which at times bears worthy comparison to some of Bob Dylan's and John Lennon's work. There is much variety in the songs, and every track is a gem in its own right. Hart's lyrics combine bitterness, irony and humour, and are ruthlessly honest. His voice is deeply emotive and affecting. The most outstanding track "Almost Liverpool 8" sounds a bit like Lennon on his first solo album backed by Procol Harum. "Arty's Wife" is another similarly moving tale of failed relationships, while "Disbelief Blues" sounds uncannily similar to the sound of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream". There are shades of "Mr Tambourine Man" in "Dance Mr. Morning Man" while "Shelter Song" is a tragi-comic tale of working-class life in Liverpool (similar in melody to "Universal Soldier")…

Blank & Jones - Relax: The Best of A Decade 2003-2013 (2013)

Posted By: gribovar
Blank & Jones - Relax: The Best of A Decade 2003-2013 (2013)

Blank & Jones - Relax: The Best of A Decade 2003-2013 (2013)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 926 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 374 MB | Covers - 154 MB
Genre: Chillout, Downtempo, Lounge, House | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Soundcolours (SC0133)

Piet Blank and Jaspa Jones - the producers known worldwide. For two they have let out already many albums and tens magnificent singles, reliably having fixed in world history of dancing music. Their hits more than once appeared at tops of charts, and each new album stably got to number 50 of the best to Germany. The first release which has left in 2003 of an album "Relax: Edition One" to a descent has occupied 22 place in charts of Germany, and a chill-miss the version of track Pet Shop Boys "Love Comes Quickly" from this album became the present hit.

Peter Green Splinter Group - Hot Foot Powder (2000)

Posted By: gribovar
Peter Green Splinter Group - Hot Foot Powder (2000)

Peter Green Splinter Group - Hot Foot Powder (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 275 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 101 MB | Covers - 42 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Snapper Music (SMACD828)

Hot Foot Powder is Peter Green's second album made up entirely of covers of the music by the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. In fact, with this album and its predecessor, The Robert Johnson Songbook, Green has recorded every song that Robert Johnson is known to have composed and recorded. Where Johnson often played and sang like a man whose life depended on it, Green plays and sings like a man whose next beer depends on it, surprisingly with very nice results. His performance on the title track is marvelously lazy and laid-back throughout this bluesy album, which also features Green's band, the Splinter Group, including Nigel Watson. Dr. John, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, and Joe Louis Walker all make guest appearances on the album, along with Honey Boy Edwards, who knew and performed with Robert Johnson…

Stan Getz - Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema [Recorded 1962-1964] (2006)

Posted By: gribovar
Stan Getz - Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema [Recorded 1962-1964] (2006)

Stan Getz - Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl From Ipanema [Recorded 1962-1964] (2006)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 390 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 152 MB | Covers - 16 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz, Bossa Nova | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (589 414-2)

Simply put, here are the most successful 14 cuts covering two years in the collaboration between Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim, during which both men became accustomed to having hit singles. Unfortunately, only one of them got to ride that horse for the rest of the decade - in the United States, anyway. Nonetheless, this material marks the Americans obsession with the bossa nova and was the music that made Getz and Jobim household names for a while - after all, we were just climbing out of the "swinging bachelor pad" music era and still had all those weird hi fi records to explore. Seriously though, the great sensitivity shown by Getz for this material, and the adventurousness of Jobim were a match made in heaven and would change the faces of jazz and Brazilian pop forever. This is a fine collection for anyone interested in bossa, and Getz in this period as well.

Santana - Viva Santana! (1999)

Posted By: ciklon5
Santana - Viva Santana! (1999)

Santana - Viva Santana! (1999)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:23:55 | 890 / 329 Mb
Genre: Classic Rock / Label: Sony Music

After three highly acclaimed albums that saw them successfully fuse rock with jazz and Latin music, the band Santana underwent a few changes. Bassist David Brown and percussionist Michael Carabello both left, and during the recording of the fourth album their roles were taken over by various musicians. Meanwhile keyboardist & vocalist Gregg Rolie was starting to fall out with Carlos Santana himself. The end result was a very different album from the first three, not really representing the sound of a unified band. Instead it came across more as a loose jam session between a large cast of musicians, with the band's jazz leanings well to the front, and only three vocal songs among seven instrumentals. It made for a great record, but lacking anything that could be considered for a single release it was unsurprisingly not a commercial success.

Popol Ace - Popoloddities [Recorded 1971-1994] (2003)

Posted By: gribovar
Popol Ace - Popoloddities [Recorded 1971-1994] (2003)

Popol Ace - Popoloddities [Recorded 1971-1994] (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 542 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 190 MB | Covers - 55 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal/Polydor (067 574 2)

Popoloddities is a compilation, which included previously unreleased material.
Having roots as far back as 1959 with The Scavers and later releasing a single Arman Stumpe Dur Express, this Norwegian quintet that released two albums under the Popol Vuh moniker (a Maya mythology-related name), until they became aware of a German band using the same name, they changed their names to Popol Ace. The group went on to release another two albums before folding at the end of the decade. Musically, they sounded much straigjhter progressive rock than their German mystical homonyms: mellotrons and flute parts , funky jazz-rock and softer ballads were among their usual tricks found in their first two albums (S/T and Quiche Maya) under the Vuh name…

Alice Sara Ott - Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces (Bonus Track Version) (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Alice Sara Ott - Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces (Bonus Track Version) (2023)

Alice Sara Ott - Wonderland - Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto, Lyric Pieces (Bonus Track Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:09:44 | 160 / 252 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

"Alice Sara Ott gives a strong-centred account with plenty of power and flair; and she is much blessed to have as her companions the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, sounding fabulous under Esa-Pekka Salonen with radiant tone and the textures shimmering with detail…"

Quartetto Delfico - Donizetti String Quartets (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Quartetto Delfico - Donizetti String Quartets (2023)

Quartetto Delfico - Donizetti String Quartets (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:12:06 | 306 / 165 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label:Brilliant Classics

Knowing where to drop the needle on the string quartets of Donizetti presents more of a challenge than exploring the lasting treasures of his vast catalogue of operas, where posterity has already established a pecking order with Lucia di Lammermoor at its head. But Donizetti was more than a pioneer of bel canto, and the Quartetto Delfico present new recordings of three of the later and most richly developed examples of his mastery as a chamber-music composer, which sound no less assured and distinctive than his works for the stage.

Simone El Oufir Pierini - Tinazzoli Complete Keyboard Works (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Simone El Oufir Pierini - Tinazzoli Complete Keyboard Works (2023)

Simone El Oufir Pierini - Tinazzoli Complete Keyboard Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:30:39 | 106 / 461 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

The pieces presented here are ascribed to a composer whose life appears to be both mysterious and adventurous: quite little of Agostino Tinazzoli is known, including biographical details such as his occupations, teachers and places of residence (except for limited, incomplete information). However, some unusual facts preserved through his music illustrate that this composer had no ordinary life.The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians informs us that Agostino Tinazzoli was born in Bologna during the second half of the 17th century, quite possibly around 1660.

Mvsica Perdvta - 17th-Century Music for Canto & Basso (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Mvsica Perdvta - 17th-Century Music for Canto & Basso (2023)

Mvsica Perdvta - 17th-Century Music for Canto & Basso (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 54:13 | 274 / 124 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

The trio sonata was one of the baroque period’s most popular instrumental forms. While in its ‘classic’ form it features two higher-pitched instruments, a melodic bass instrument and basso continuo, there were several others, including a popular variant for one high-pitched instrument, one bass instrument and continuo chosen by a substantial number of composers in the 17th century and beyond and resulting in a significant number of compositions. In this setup, the writing for the melody instrument is more virtuosic than in a ‘conventional’ trio sonata, and it performs more of a solo role, unlike in the trio sonata, where it is more of a first among equals. At the same time, the bass instrument is used idiomatically instead of being relegated to a mere basso continuo. This contributed greatly to bolstering its role as a solo instrument, and it was given ever greater prominence as the second half of the 17th century progressed.

Letizia Calandra - The Anonymous Neapolitan: Song Anthology from the 13th to the 19th Century (2023)

Posted By: ciklon5
Letizia Calandra - The Anonymous Neapolitan: Song Anthology from the 13th to the 19th Century (2023)

Letizia Calandra - The Anonymous Neapolitan: Song Anthology from the 13th to the 19th Century (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:06:48 | 289 / 152 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Brilliant Classics

This album The Anonymous Neapolitan is a continuation of Calandra’s journey to Naples of old, that inexhaustible font of timeless stories, melodies and poetry.From its earliest origins the Neapolitan canzona or song has been bound up with the life of the people of Naples and their innate desire to express their deepest feelings through song and poetry.

Quatuor Akos - Erdödy - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 (2023)

Posted By: delpotro
Quatuor Akos - Erdödy - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 (2023)

Quatuor Akos - Erdödy - Joseph Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 624 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 311 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:12:08
Classical | Label: NoMadMusic

A rising star of the young generation, the Akos Quartet devotes its first album to the tutelary figure of the repertoire, Joseph Haydn, whose six op.76 quartets dedicated to Count Erdödy are among his most famous. Of an unprecedented modernity coupled with a unique freshness, these quartets also bear witness to a lyrical depth that heralded the Beethovenian era.

Jacopo Taddei, Roma Tre Orchestra & Sieva Borzak - Elegy: Music by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin (2023)

Posted By: delpotro
Jacopo Taddei, Roma Tre Orchestra & Sieva Borzak - Elegy: Music by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin (2023)

Jacopo Taddei, Roma Tre Orchestra & Sieva Borzak - Elegy: Music by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:55
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Hidden behind the late 19th century’s great symphonies, sumptuous ballets and concertos with moving climaxes is something much more thoughtful and contemplative. A delicate sonic world, where silence is as important as sound, marked by pianissimi and a veiled, almost restrained feeling of melancholy. This secret landscape comes courtesy of a few precious pieces for string orchestra by three Russian composers, all active at approximately the same time.