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Seinabo Sey – Pretend (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Seinabo Sey – Pretend (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1kHz | Time – 58:26 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Rock
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Swedish/Gambian pop star Seinabo Sey follows up two highly-acclaimed EPs with Pretend, her debut full-length album, almost three years in the making. The winner of a Swedish Grammy Award for Newcomer of the Year in 2015, Sey had a a number one hit in Norway with the Kygo remix of Younger, included here along with the original and acoustic versions.

Seinabo Sey, with her motley take on pop, surely puts up with a lot of hyphenated descriptors. The singer-songwriter is Swedish-Gambian for starters, daughter of late musician Maudo Sey and his partner Madeleine Sundqvist. Then, there’s the issue of categorising her sound. As is the case with so many musicians of her age, the 25-year-old rummages around in a grab-bag of influences to make this tightly performed, if not slightly over-polished, debut. There’s the pop-soul powerhouse voice highlighted on single Pretend. There’s her reliance on gospel choir-like layered vocals, as heard on rollicking stomper Hard Time and crowd singalong-primed Ruin. Most importantly, there’s her potential as an observant and sharp lyricist who can still write a nagging hook. Frequent collaborator Magnus Lidehäll’s slick production easily turns Sey’s throaty voice into a vehicle for chart-courting mush – see Poetic’s piano balladry or fussily crafted Words – but this insightful album still shows flair. Not even its genre-bending hyphen overload can mask that. –Tshepo Mokoena, Guardian

Tracklist:
1 Younger 03:34
2 Pretend 03:29
3 Poetic 02:59
4 Hard Time 03:29
5 Easy 02:48
6 Words 03:29
7 Sorry 03:32
8 Who 03:19
9 Still 02:53
10 You 03:42
11 Ruin 03:33
12 Burial 04:12

Bonus Tracks
13 Pistols At Dawn 03:39
14 River 03:45
15 Younger (Kygo Remix) 05:51
16 Younger (Acoustic Version) 04:12

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (1965/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (1965/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:19:15 minutes | 1.59 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Warner Classics/Erato
Recorded: 30.IX & 1, 4-8, 11-13.X. 1965, Kingsway Hall, London, England

This is an ear-shattering performance of a masterpiece by the legendary composer Beethoven. His Missa Solemnis was written to inspire feelings of profound enlightenment executed brilliantly by this cast of exquisite musicians. Otto Klemperer built a formidable reputation as one of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century and he is joined by Elisabeth Soderstrom, Marga Hoffgen, Waldemar Kmentt, Martti Talvela and the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus. Klemperer’s command of the score and control of the orchestra is magnificent and the soloists display masterful virtuosity. Absolutely essential.

With no slight intended to the other great recordings of the Missa Solemnis in the world, there’s this one and then there are all the rest. Truly. Even with the 1940 Toscanini and the 1974 Böhm, this 1965 recording of Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus embodies everything that’s great about the Missa Solemnis. And everything that’s great about late Beethoven is in the Missa Solemnis: the energy, the nobility, the strength, the vision, and — above all — the overwhelming sense that the numinous is imminent. Beethoven thought it was his best work and who could not agree? That’s what’s in Klemperer’s performance. His command of the score and control of the orchestra are complete, but it is Klemperer’s ability to take the musicians beyond themselves, to go beyond making music to be made music, and to incarnate Beethoven’s transcendent revelation in sound that puts this recording in a class of its own. Or rather, that puts it in the same exalted class as Klemperer’s German Requiem and St. Matthew Passion, the class of the sublime. EMI’s stereo sound was magnificent in its day and its remastering is ideal. –AllMusic Review by James Leonard

Tracklist:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Missa solemnis, Op.123
1 Kyrie 9:26
Gloria
2 Gloria In Excelsis Deo 5:21
3 Qui Tollis 5:41
4 Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus 7:16
Credo
5 Credo In Unum Deum 4:17
6 Et Incarnatus Est 5:17
7 Et Resurrexit 11:06
Sanctus
8 Sanctus 5:29
9 Benedictus 10:19
Agnus Dei
10 Agnus Dei 6:03
11 Dona Nobis Pacem 9:10

Personnel:
Elisabeth Söderström, soprano
Waldemar Kmentt, tenor
Marga Höffgen, contralto
Martti Talvela, bass
New Philharmonia Chorus
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Otto Klemperer, conductor

About the Mastering
Four engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London have remastered these historic EMI recordings from their original analogue sources for release in pristine hi-def. Between them, Simon Gibson, Ian Jones, Andy Walter and Allan Ramsay have many years of experience remastering archive recordings for EMI and other record labels. The process always starts with finding all of the records and tapes in EMI’s archive in London and comparing different sources and any previous CD reissues. We consult each recording’s job file, which contains notes about the recording made by the engineer and producer. For example, this sometimes explain why there is more than one set of tapes to choose from. All of the tapes are generally in good condition and we play them on our Studer A80 π inch tape machine, after careful calibration of its replay characteristics.
In order to have the best digital remastering tools at our disposal for the remastering, we transfer from analogue to the digital domain at 96 KHz and 24-bit resolution using a Prism ADA-8 converter and capture the audio to our SADiE Digital Audio Workstation.
Simon Gibson, January 2012

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Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique – Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (2008/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique – Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (2008/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 1:15:59 minutes | 628 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | @ Warner Classics International
Recorded: 30.V–1.VI.2008, Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem

Any mention of the name Hector Berlioz inevitably brings to mind his most famous work, theSymphonie fantastique. Written in 1830, the year of the ‘July Revolution’ that defeated the post-Napoleonic monarchy in France, this symphony (Berlioz’s first) is itself a revolution in sound and concept. Here we see the 27-year-old composer taking a bold step into the future, rejecting the symphonic canon of the past, and creating in its place a new hybrid genre that blended elements drawn from the world of opera with more traditional forms and compositional devices belonging to the world of instrumental concert music. Berlioz referred to this unique genre – part symphony, part opera – as the ‘dramatic symphony’.

The programme depicts a lovesick artist (by implication, Berlioz), who, in a fit of unrequited love, tries to end his suffering by taking an overdose of opium. But instead of killing him, the drug sends him into a wild, hallucinatory dream, the subject of which is a series of episodes in his tormented relationship with the object of his affections (by implication, Harriet Smithson). Throughout the symphony Harriet is represented by a single theme, which Berlioz called the idée fixe (fixed idea). It is first heard as the primary theme of the sonata-form first movement, and then reappears in each of the following movements, effectively unifying the various episodes of the hero’s life.

Tracklist:
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
1. I. Rêveries – Passions 15:38
2. II. Un bal 06:27
3. III. Scène aux champs 16:10
4. IV. Marche au supplice 07:11
5. V. Songe d’une nuit du Sabbat 10:05
La Mort de Cléopâtre (Scène lyrique)*
6. I. Scène lyrique 10:09
7. II. Méditation 10:19

Personnel:
Susan Graham – Mezzo-Soprano*
Berliner Philharmoniker – Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor

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Francesco Cavalli – L’amore innamorato – L’ Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Francesco Cavalli – L’amore innamorato – L’ Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Soloists Nuria Rial and Hana Blažiková are superb and the whole enterprise glows with commitment and panache.” ~Classical Music

“Up to 10 vivacious continuo pluckers generate lilting energy that transports listeners on an imaginative whistle-stop tour of Cavalli’s operas…the singing is frequently sensational and L’Arpeggiata’s colourful playing conjures alluring fantasy” ~Gramophone

With L’Amore innamorato – ‘Love in love’ – Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata return to their own first great love, Italian music of the 17th century, and specifically to composer Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676).

A luminary of the glamorous and innovative world of Venetian opera, Cavalli was a protégé of Claudio Monteverdi – the composer around whom L’Arpeggiata built Il teatro d’amore, the ensemble’s first Warner Classics album, which was released in early 2009. “Cavalli’s music excites my passions”, says Christina Pluhar. He composed some 40 operas, some of which have achieved new currency since the 1960s, such as La Calisto, Il Giasone, L’Egisto and L’Ormindo and La Didone. Arias and instrumental numbers from six of his operas feature in L’Amore innamorato. The instrumentalists of L’Arpeggiata are joined for the album – which also includes pieces by two of Cavalli’s contemporaries, Girolamo Kapsperger and Andrea Falconieri – by two sopranos, the Catalan Núria Rial and the Czech Hana Blažíková.

While L’Arpeggiata’s recent Warner Classics CDs – Music for a While, Mediterraneo, Los Pájaros perdidos and Via Crucis – have explored fusions of cultures and musical styles, L’Amore innamorato adheres to the conventions of historically informed performance of Baroque music. The members of the ensemble use stringed, keyboard, wind and percussion instruments to flesh out Cavalli’s score, which comprises only a vocal line, basso continuo and indications for the ritornello (a recurring instrumental section). As Christina Pluhar points out, the line-up of instruments is unusually lavish: she herself performs on theorbo and harp and is joined by the other players who create a sumptuous soundworld, accompanying arias for goddesses and nymphs with a fascinating array of instruments: cornetto, violin, archlute, guitar, harp, psaltery, viola da gamba, lirone, cello, violone, double bass, organ, harpsichord and percussion.

In April 2015, after L’Arpeggiata performed L’Amore innamorato at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times wrote:

“In some ways, L’Arpeggiata represents the state of the art in early-music practice … The most compelling performers today have come to realize how much was left unsaid by composers in scores prepared on the run for use by performing colleagues who were, if not immediately at hand, at least immersed in the style of the period and locale. These performers see conjecture not as a worrisome chore but as an opportunity; improvisation as a matter of course; invention as a necessity.

L’Arpeggiata showed those traits in abundance in a delightful program on Tuesday, L’Amore innamorato: Arias by Francesco Cavalli … Núria Rial, a splendid Spanish soprano, sang numbers from operas including Calisto, Didone and Ormindo beautifully, and the ensemble filled out the 75-minute program with instrumental ditties by Cavalli and others.

The selections tended toward works with variations above repeating bass figures, which come as catnip to these players, inviting, as they do, the extemporization of new variations. Such forms are widespread in the Italian Baroque literature.

Cavalli’s operas have been gaining fitful exposure in recent years … Still, his music is not well known, and it was good to hear these delicious samples in something like their original form. Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata’s artistic director, played theorbo throughout, giving a wonderful, firm basis to the sound.”

Tracklist:
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
1 L’Ormindo: L’Armonia (Prologo) 07:47
2 Il Giasone: Sinfonia 02:31
3 La Calisto, Act 1: “Piante ombrose” 03:07
4 La Calisto, Act 3: “Restino imbalsamate” 04:21
5 La Rosinda, Act 3: “Vieni, vieni in questo seno” 03:39
6 La Calisto, Act 1: “Verginella io morir vo'” 03:54
7 La Calisto, Act 1: “Ninfa bella” 03:37
8 La Calisto, Act 1: “Non e maggior piacere” 04:38
9 L’Artemisia, Act 3: “Dammi morte” 04:33
10 L’Eliogabalo: Sinfonia 02:18
11 L’Artemisia, Act 2: “Affliggetemi, guai dolenti” 02:23
12 L’Ormindo, Act 2: “Che citta” 03:34
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger
13 Libro quarto d’intavolatura di chitarrone: Toccata prima 05:30
Francesco Cavalli
14 La Didone, Act 1: “Alle ruine del mio regno” 07:07
15 La Didone, Act 1: “L’alma fiacca svani” 04:23
16 Il primo libro di canzone, sinfonie: “La suave melodia” 03:30

Personnel:
Nuria Rial – Soprano (Vocal)
Hana Blazikova – Soprano (Vocal)
L’Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar – Conductor

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Bobo Stenson Trio – Cantando (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Bobo Stenson Trio – Cantando (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:59 minutes | 710 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ ECM Records GmbH
Recorded: December 2007 at Auditorium Radio Svizzera Italiana, Lugano

The reconfigured Bobo Stenson Trio in a performance of characteristically wide arc. Material this time includes original compositions, group improvising and pieces by Peter Eben, Alban Berg, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, and Silvio Rodriguez. Master pianist Stenson, long term bassist Anders Jormin and alertly responsive young drummer Jon Fält have developed a richly detailed sound-world like nothing else in modern jazz – at once an extension of the jazz piano tradition and, with its windows opening onto classical music and world folklore, a force apart from it.

Cantando marks the second time in as many albums that pianist and composer Bobo Stenson is making a personnel change in the drum chair of his trio. For many jazz artists this wouldn’t even be a major consideration, as the transient nature of the music lends itself to such changes. But Stenson, along with longtime bassist Anders Jormin (20 years), has only made a total of six recordings in 37 years including this one, and former drummer Jon Christensen held that chair for 29 of them. Paul Motian stepped in for 2005’s Goodbye and offered a different, mildly busier approach, though it too was rooted in the slow and deliberate spaciousness that has been at the heart of Stenson’s music from the beginning. But 29-year-old drummer Jon Fält (Nordic Quintet) lends something else entirely to Stenson’s brew as he may continue in Motian’s footsteps as an elegant player but he is more physical dynamically, and more active in his sense of adventure. Another aspect of the change inherent in Stenson’s approach to music-making would be the selection of material by other composers. Of the 11 pieces here, only one, “Pages,” is an original; and it is a long improvisational work that sits dead-center on the album, compiled chop-up style from four demos by producer Manfred Eicher. It is credited to all three members. The other works here are by a highly divergent group of authors, from Ornette Coleman to Alban Berg, from Czech composer Peter Iben to the late Argentine nuevo tango composer Astor Piazzolla, from Don Cherry to Cuban vocalist Silvio Rodríguez. These choices are all impeccable. Rodríguez’s “Olivia” opens the set with its insistent lyricism and tender melody line. The interplay between Jormin — one of the greatest bassists ever to appear on ECM and one of the most technically gifted players in the music today — and Fält, with his dancing cymbal work and beat-heavy brushes on the tom-toms, offers an uncharacteristically tight space for Stenson in the melody and in his solo. Of course he rises to the occasion with glorious ostinati and syncopated arpeggios. Cherry’s “Don’s Kora Song” begins with the rhythm section, in particular the held, clipped cymbal sound by Fält that accompanies the insistent, woody attack by Jormin in an insistent rhythm. Stenson begins by rumbling in the lowest register before gradually moving toward the center with a mysterious minor-key articulation of Cherry’s lyric line and developing a solo of chords into the middle of that as Fält allows the cone of the cymbals to ring more with his attack. Jormin is dazzling as he propels the tune from underneath. Coleman’s “A Fixed Goal” follows this, and the reading is wonderful. With its playful, staccato melody echoing a nursery rhyme ethos and decidedly marked harmonic lines and rhythmic shifts, it is the perfect number for this trio. Stenson’s solo is dazzling. The real mettle of the trio is on “Pages,” where the group plays freely — for Stenson — with time, space, and texture. Fält and Jormin are wonderful together, continually challenging and complementing, and Stenson’s elastic melodic sense is given new elasticity. This is a stellar effort that announces — hopefully — an extended run for this trio. –AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

Tracklist:
1. Olivia 06:38
2. Song of Ruth 06:42
3. Wooden Church 07:01
4. M 07:59
5. Chiquilin de Bachin 08:04
6. Pages 13:40
7. Don’s Kora Song 05:08
8. A Fixed Goal 04:12
9. Love, I’ve Found You 03:12
10. Liebesode 08:36
11. Song of Ruth, Var. 06:47

Personnel:
Bobo Stenson: piano
Anders Jormin: double-bass
Jon Fält: drums

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Frederic Chopin – Etudes – Maurizio Pollini (1972/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Frederic Chopin – Etudes – Maurizio Pollini (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:55:58 minutes | 966 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: prestoclassical.co.uk | @ Deutsche Grammophon
Recorded: Herkulessaal, Residenz, Munich, 1 & 5/1972

Both sets of Chopin’s etudes can be as fiendishly difficult for the performer as they are mesmerizing for the listener, yet Maurizio Pollini makes them sound as if they pose no problems whatsoever for him in this 1972 recording. Every one of the etudes is played with easy precision, energy, and an entirely enjoyable musicality that demonstrates why Chopin’s etudes are no mere exercises and are as suited to the recital hall as to the practice room. The Op. 25 No. 5 Etude in E minor has some tricky finger acrobatics in it, but Pollini brings out a singing melody all the same in the middle section, while adding a bit of dancing animation to the outer sections. The melody of the famous Etude No. 3 in E major is lyrical and warm, which highlights precisely the challenge posed by Chopin in these brief pieces: bring out an effective melody while mastering an exact technique through repetition. The recording also shows why Pollini is one of the most respected Chopin interpreters of all time. — AllMusic Review by Patsy Morita

Tracklist:
Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)
12 Etudes, Op.10
01 – No.1 In C Major – Allegro 00:01:56
02 – No.2 In A Minor “Chromatique” – Allegro 00:01:26
03 – No.3 In E “Tristesse” – Lento, Ma Non Troppo 00:03:40
04 – No.4 In C Sharp Minor – Presto 00:02:01
05 – No.5 In G Flat “Black Keys” – Vivace 00:01:39
06 – No.6 In E Flat Minor – Andante 00:03:10
07 – No.7 In C Major – Vivace 00:01:29
08 – No.8 In F Major – Allegro 00:02:21
09 – No.9 In F Minor 00:02:06
10 – No.10 In A Flat Major – Vivace Assai 00:02:03
11 – No.11 In E Flat Major – Allegretto 00:02:15
12 – No.12 In C Minor “Revolutionary” – Allegro Con Fuoco 00:02:44
12 Etudes, Op.25
13 – No.1 In A Flat “Harp Study” – Allegro Sostenuto 00:02:13
14 – No.2 In F Minor – Presto 00:01:27
15 – No.3 In F Major – Allegro 00:01:53
16 – No.4 In A Minor – Agitato 00:01:41
17 – No.5 In E Minor – Vivace 00:02:55
18 – No.6 In G Sharp Minor – Allegro 00:02:03
19 – No.7 In C Sharp Minor – Lento 00:04:51
20 – No.8 In D Flat – Vivace 00:01:04
21 – No.9 In G Flat “Butterfly Wings” – Allegro Assai 00:00:57
22 – No.10 In B Minor – Allegro Con Fuoco 00:03:57
23 – No.11 In A Minor “Winter Wind” – Lento – Allegro Con Brio 00:03:32
24 – No.12 In C Minor – Molto Allegro Con Fuoco 00:02:32

Personnel:
Maurizio Pollini, piano

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Frederic Chopin – Preludes – Yundi Li (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Frederic Chopin – Preludes – Yundi Li (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:58 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: June 2015, Siemensvilla, Berlin, Germany

Pianist Yundi returns to Chopin – the composer he is most closely associated with. This album will feature Chopin’s Complete Preludes, a collection of beloved works for solo piano. The release coincides with the 15th anniversary of Yundi’s legendary victory at the International Warsaw Chopin Competition in 2000. At 18 he was the youngest and first-ever Chinese winner and it was the first time in 15 years that a ‘First Prize’ had been awarded.

Yundi Li’s 2015 release of Chopin’s Préludes on Deutsche Grammophon launches his Chopin Project, which consists of recordings and performances devoted to the works of the Polish master. It might seem that Yundi’s career has been dominated by Chopin’s music since he won the first prize at the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in 2000, and he has periodically released recordings of Chopin’s music, including the Nocturnes, Scherzi, Impromptus, and other pieces. With the 24 Préludes, Op. 28, the Prélude in C sharp minor, Op. 45, and the Prélude in A flat major, Op. Posth., Yundi keeps his expressions close to the vest and treats the music with calm introspection, in a manner Chopin likely would have approved, avoiding excessive displays of technique and rejecting sentimentality. For that reason, this album might seem a little subdued, cool, and even clinical by most pianists’ standards, and somewhat lacking in the showmanship that is usually expected of a young virtuoso. But it seems more likely a sign of Yundi’s growth and seriousness that he plays with restraint and control when he is expected to show off, and puts Chopin’s music well above the hype. Highly recommended. –AllMusic Review by Blair Sanderson

Tracklist:
Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849)
24 Préludes, Op.28
1. 1. in C Major 00:31
2. 2. in A Minor 02:03
3. 3. in G Major 00:52
4. 4. in E Minor 01:43
5. 5. in D Major 00:29
6. 6. in B Minor 01:41
7. 7. in A Major 00:45
8. 8. in F Sharp Minor 01:30
9. 9. in E Major 01:35
10. 10. in C Sharp Minor 00:24
11. 11. in B Major 00:33
12. 12. in G Sharp Minor 01:02
13. 13. in F Sharp Major 02:41
14. 14. in E Flat Minor 00:27
15. 15. in D Flat Major (Raindrop) 04:46
16. 16. in B Flat Minor 01:01
17. 17. in A Flat Major 02:33
18. 18. in F Minor 00:50
19. 19. in E Flat Major 01:08
20. 20. in C Minor 01:46
21. 21. in B Flat Major 01:36
22. 22. in G Minor 00:38
23. 23. in F Major 00:47
24. 24. in D Minor 02:19

Personnel:
Yundi, piano

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Danilo Zanchi Trio – Looking Ahead (2013/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Danilo Zanchi Trio – Looking Ahead (2013/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 00:36:50 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: e-onkyo |  © Alfa Music
Recordings, Mix and Mastering: Artesuono, Cavalicco (Ud), Italy

欧州の憂鬱な空の美しさを表現したかのようなフレージング!
自身が「理想のトリオ」と語っているダニーロ・ザンチ率いるギタートリオのデビューアルバム。ベースにはイタリアを代表するプログレッシブ・ジャズ・ロック・バンド「Area」のリーダーであったアレス・タヴォラッジ、ドラムはグレッグ・バーグ・カルテットの一員であったジョン・B・アーノルド。
アラン・ホールズワースやパット・メセニーをフェイバリットにあげる彼のギタートーンは繊細で透明感溢れるもの。そしてテクニカルなプレイも音響的コードワークも哀愁を感じさせ、退廃的な美しさに満ち溢れている。キャリア十分なリズム隊も基本ギターのメロディーをバックアップし美しさをさらに際立たせる役目に徹しているが、スウィングナンバーでは水を得た魚のように暴れ回りスピード感溢れるソロプレイを見せてくれる。欧州独自の憂鬱さと退廃と繊細さと気品を感じさせる上質な一枚。
【演奏】
DANILO ZANCHI (Guitars)
ARES TAVOLAZZI (Double bass)
JOHN B. ARNOLD (Drums)
【録音/ミックス/マスタリングスタジオ】Artesuono(イタリア/ウディネ)
【サウンドエンジニア】Stefano Amerio

Tracklist:
1 Paunasia 4:26
2 Your Presence 6:09
3 Strange Time 4:29
4 My Farm 4:53
5 Arabian Spring 3:28
6 Night in the Park 5:16
7 The First Light 3:49
8 Bop Dizy 4:33

Personnel:
Danilo Zanchi – guitar
Ares Tavolazzi – double bass
John B. Arnold – drums

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David Garrett – Explosive (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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David Garrett – Explosive (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:54 minutes | 834 MB | Genre: Classical
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Combining his virtuosic playing with electronic beats, David transforms hit songs by Ed Sheeran, Eminem, David Guetta and Metallica into powerful new instrumental tracks, full of excitement and vitality. For the first time, this album is dominated by David’s own original compositions, plus popular classical tunes. Many of the tracks are infused with high-spirited, upbeat rhythms – “I think that is what the album is all about”, says David, “a fun, positive, high-energy record.”

Dear friends, After two classical albums I am so excited to finally release my new crossover record, Explosive. I have had a lot of time to think about what direction I wanted to take; I’ve had the luxury to create something without any guidelines, but of course that also brings a responsibility to deliver something exciting. For me, it was very important to introduce my fans more and more to my own compositions. Eleven original pieces are on this album and I have to say it feels great to finally show that side of me. Having artists like Nicole Scherzinger and Xavier Naidoo sing my songs is a dream come true – I still can’t believe it! Of course I am a bit anxious to see what you guys will think. Hopefully you will enjoy this album as much as I had fun writing, producing and recording it. –Sincerely, David

Tracklist:
1. Dangerous 03:54
2. Explosive 03:33
3. Serenity (feat. Nicole Scherzinger) 03:43
4. Lose Yourself 03:06
5. Adventure Island 02:45
6. Midnight Waltz 03:08
7. How Many Times (feat. Xavier Naidoo) 03:22
8. Unlimited Symphony 03:13
9. They Don’t Care About Us (feat. Valentina Babor) 03:41
10. Thinking Out Loud 03:43
11. Innovation 02:57
12. Ritmo Español 02:56
13. Baboushka 03:18
14. Baroque Fantasy 03:13
15. Furious 03:22
16. Wrecking Ball 03:45
17. Fuel 03:49
18. Melancholia 03:10
19. O Fortuna (feat. Cantus Domus) 03:57
20. Serenity (Instrumental) 03:43
21. Explosive (Backing track) 03:34

Personnel:
David Garrett, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Franck Van der Heijden, conductor

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Bobo Stenson Trio – Indicum (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Bobo Stenson Trio – Indicum (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 68:35 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Bobo Stenson is one of the most influential Scandinavian jazz musicians and one of the very first ECM artists. Returning with his trio, Bobo Stenson has released his latest work, Indicum. Indicum explores a broad arc of music including tunes by Bill Evans, George Russell, Carl Nielsen, Ola Gjeilo and much more. Wide-ranging repertoire has become a hallmark of Bobo Stensen recordings. The trio dazzles with their stunning eclecticism and rich improvisation.

Any listener familiar with Bobo Stenson’s work knows that extensive range is a trademark on his records. Indicum is no exception. With longtime bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Fält, he takes on works by Bill Evans, George Russell, contemporary sacred composition, free group improv, traditional hymns, and jazz reads of Carl Nielsen on this 12-track set. Stenson opens with a brief solo reading of Evans’ “Your Story,” dedicated to the late Paul Motian, who had held the drum chair on the Trio’s 2005 album, Goodbye. It’s elegant, emotive, and bears the hallmarks of Stenson’s sparse yet striking chords. “Indikon,” the first of three group improvs, commences with Fält’s solo. The pianist enters with an abundant lyricism, weighted by Jormin’s slow, studied pulse. As the players engage and trade the foreground, an organic process emerges and begins its evolution. On “Indigo,” dark minor keys emerge from the tune’s body to create dramatic tension. Jormin’s low end adds a force to Stenson’s argument, but Fält’s shimmering cymbals and flat snare counter it all, creating balance. The set includes version of Wolf Bierman’s protest song “Ermutigung,” which shimmers even as it swings; its melancholy overtones embraced and articulated fully in Jormin’s song-like solo. The inclusion of Argentinian composer Ariel Ramirez’s “La Peregrinacion” illustrates how subtle, even hidden aspects of rhythmic interplay are evoked inside this group’s lyric improvisation. The other end of the folk spectrum is highlighted in the Norwegian traditional “Ave Maria.” The sacred melody is pronounced, then shifted to find the margin. In its place, a haunting improvisation/dialogue illustrates the many harmonic possibilities in its formal architecture. Jormin’s “Sol” is a fine vehicle for him and Fält. Stenson doesn’t enter until two minutes into the conversation. When he does, it’s via a series of carefully spaced triads that frame Jormin’s arco. Before the tune gels, it hints at post-bop without indulging it, yet its graceful sense of swing is implicit. Album-closer “Ubi Caritas” is a choral piece by contemporary composer Ola Gjeilo. In intent, it walks a line between modern and medieval music. But Stenson uses its structural evocation of plain chant in his chords and allows Jormin a soprano-like quality with his bow. Fält skeletally and spaciously accents it all, keeping the tune’s mysterious quality intact. The Stenson Trio is the rarest of bands, one that approaches its material as a series of queries to be summarily explored, rather than statements to be made. As such, Indicum succeeds in spades.

Tracklist:
01 – Your Story
02 – Indikon
03 – Indicum
04 – Ermutigung
05 – Indigo
06 – December
07 – La Peregrinacion
08 – Event VI
09 – Ave Maria
10 – Tit er jeg glad
11 – Sol
12 – Ubi Caritas

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Todd Rundgren – The 70’s Collection (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Todd Rundgren – The 70’s Collection (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 447:33 minutes | 9,39 GB | Genre:Rock
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Todd Rundgren 70’s Collection offers 117 tracks digitally remastered in 96 kHz, 24bit. Todd Rundgren may be known as an overindulgent pop singer and producer – but he’s also got a fantastic talent for a good little pop song, and his 70s.
Contains the albums: Runt (1970), Runt: The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren (1971), Something/Anything? (1972), A Wizard, A True Star (1973), Todd (1974), Initiation (1975), Faithful (1976), Hermit Of Mink Hollow (1978).

Todd Rundgren
An eclectically accomplished musician and studio virtuoso, Todd Rundgren has been recording for more than three decades. His musical career has gone from simple pop that never brought the success some critics felt he deserved (only one gold LP, Something/Anything?) to the more complex progressive rock of Utopia, which did gain Rundgren a devoted cult following. Through it all, this multi-instrumentalist has maintained a prolific sideline career as a producer; he must also be regarded as a pioneer of rock video, interactive CD, and Web-based music.
Rundgren began playing in a high-school band, Money, then went on to play with Woody’s Truckstop in the mid-’60s (a tape recording of the latter makes a brief appearance on Something/Anything?). In 1967 he formed the Nazz [see entry], which, contrary to then-prevailing West Coast psychedelic trends, tried to replicate the look of Swinging London in its clothes, Mod haircuts, and Beatles-ish pop sound. In some ways the Nazz was ahead of its time, especially in terms of Rundgren’s studio facility and the band’s musical sophistication. But the quartet remained a local Philadelphia phenomenon, with one minor hit single, the original version of “Hello It’s Me.” The Nazz broke up in 1969, at which point Rundgren formed the studio band Runt and hit the Top 20 in 1971 with the single “We Gotta Get You a Woman.”
By this time Rundgren had become associated with manager Albert Grossman, who let him produce for his new Bearsville label. By 1972 Rundgren had taken over production of Badfinger’s Straight Up LP from George Harrison (who was involved with his Bangla Desh concerts) and had engineered the Band’s Stage Fright and Jesse Winchester’s self-titled 1971 LP, as well as produced records by the Hello People, bluesman James Cotton, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Halfnelson (who later became Sparks). In 1973 he would produce the New York Dolls’ debut LP, Grand Funk Railroad’s We’re an American Band, and Fanny’s Mother’s Pride.
For many, Something/Anything? (Number 29, 1972) is the high-water mark of Rundgren’s solo career. On it he played nearly all the instruments, overdubbed scores of vocals, and managed to cover pop bases from Motown to Hendrix, from the Beach Boys to the Beatles. The album yielded hit singles in “I Saw the Light” (Number 16, 1972) and “Hello It’s Me” (Number 5, 1973).
A Wizard/A True Star (Number 86, 1973), while in much the same vein, was more of a critical than commercial success. However, Rundgren’s cult following was growing. In Wizard’s liner notes he asked fans to send their names to him for inclusion in a poster to be contained in his next LP. As promised, 1974’s Todd included that poster —with some 10,000 names printed on it in tiny type.
That same year Rundgren unveiled his cosmic/symphonic progressive-rock band Utopia, which gradually expanded his following to mammoth proportions. Utopia was a more democratic band, in which Rundgren shared songwriting and lead vocals with other members (from 1977 on: Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox). In the mid-’70s Utopia played bombastic suites with “cosmic” lyrics and used pyramids as a backdrop, but in the 1980s it returned to Beatles/new wave–style pop (Faithful [Number 54, 1976]). Despite some excellent music, the quartet never placed a single in the Top 40 or saw any of its 11 albums go gold. One of their songs, “Love Is the Answer,” was a 1979 Top 10 hit for England Dan and John Ford Coley.
In 1975 Rundgren produced Gong guitarist Steve Hillage’s L, on which Utopia played backup. A trip to the Middle East in 1978 led Rundgren to a brief flirtation with Sufism; that same year Hermit of Mink Hollow (Number 36, 1978) produced his first hit single in several years in “Can We Still Be Friends?” (a minor hit for Robert Palmer a year later). Rundgren also produced Meat Loaf’s monstrously successful Bat Out of Hell. In 1979 alone he produced Tom Robinson’s TRB Two, the Tubes’ Remote Control, and Patti Smith’s Wave; in 1980 he produced Shaun Cassidy’s Wasp.
By that time Rundgren had taken a strong interest in the emerging field of rock video. By 1981 he had built his own computer-video studio in Woodstock, New York, and was making technically advanced surrealistic videotapes. In 1982 Rundgren embarked on a one-man tour, playing sets that were solo-acoustic as well as those in which he was backed by taped band arrangements, with his computer-graphic videos being shown also. He still concentrated on production (with the Psychedelic Furs, among others) and video art. Utopia took an indefinite sabbatical in 1985. Sulton, in addition to recording on his own, has played with Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patty Smyth, and Cheap Trick. Powell, designer of a shoulder-strap keyboard called the Powell Probe, now engineers software for a computer-graphics firm, while Wilcox writes and produces. In 1992 the four reunited for a tour of Japan, captured on Utopia Redux ’92.
The following year Rundgren went back out on the road as a high-tech one-man band to perform his unique new album No World Order. The world’s first interactive music-only CD (available on Philips), it allowed listeners to reshape the 10 songs into an infinite number of versions. To hear the same version of a song twice, Rundgren claimed, users would have to play the disc 24 hours a day, seven days a week “well into the next millennium.” Continuing in a similar vein, he then released The Individualist, an enhanced CD which paired each song with its lyrics, graphics, and video. At about that time he came up with the monicker TR-i (Todd Rundgren–interactive), to be used for his multimedia work. In typical fashion, though, his next move was to rerecord several of his old songs in bossa-nova arrangements on 1997’s With a Twist…(which also featured Utopia bassist Sulton). That same year he was one of the few Westerners invited to play the Shanghai Festival.
Consistently fascinated with new technological developments, Rundgren created PatroNet, a Web-based service in which subscribers could purchase new songs after paying a yearly fee, in 1998. The 2000 release One Long Year collected some of the songs sold through PatroNet. That year he embarked on a tour in which he performed material from his entire catalogue in a power-trio formation that also included Sulton and drummer Trey Sabatelli. Rundgren toured solo and with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band in the late-90s as well as produced Bad Religion’s The New America and Splender’s Halfway Down the Sky in 2000. An ongoing compilation, Todd Archive Series, included 11 different sets: The King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert, numerous full concerts, demos, and outtakes while Rundgren was alone, with Nazz, and Utopia, and a collection of Japanese-only rarities. In 2001 Rundgren played in the Beatles tribute tour, A Walk Down Abbey Road. In 2004, Rundgren released the political Liars on Sanctuary, making it his first rock album in thirteen years. In 2006, he assumed Rick Ocasek’s duties in the Cars, henceforth named the New Cars. In September of 2008 Rundgren released Arena, which, with a surfeit of guitar-based rock and bombast, was something of a return to form. (Source: www.keysandchords.com)

Todd Rundgren – Runt (1970/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:36 minutes | 881 MB
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Reluctant to start a full-fledged solo career after leaving the Nazz, Todd Rundgren formed Runt, a band that was a front for what was in effect a solo project. Such isolationism lends Runt its unique atmosphere – it is the insular work of a fiercely talented artist finally given the opportunity to pursue his off-kilter musical vision. From the moment the slow, bluesy psychedelic grind of “Broke Down and Busted” starts the album, it’s apparent that Rundgren could never have made Runt with the Nazz – and that’s before the introspective ballads or the willfully strange stuff kicks in. Throughout the record, Rundgren reveals himself as a gifted synthesist, blending all manners of musical styles and quirks into a distinctive signature sound. He’s as interested in sound as he is in song and while he would later pursue these tendencies to extremes, Runt finds him learning how to create an effective sound with the studio, which may be the reason why the album runs the gamut from hard rockers like “Who’s That Man?” to ballads like “Once Burned.” Although these songs are instantly appealing, the album really gets interesting when he reaches between those two extremes, whether it’s in the classic pop medley “Baby Let’s Swing,” the bizarrely tongue-in-cheek “I’m in the Clique,” or the equally impish “We Gotta Get You a Woman,” which gave Rundgren his first hit. All the details buried within these songs – not only in the deceptively direct productions, but within the writing itself – confirm Rundgren’s exceptional skill at songcraft. He occasionally slips on Runt, delivering tracks that rely on production instead of a blend of studiocraft and songcraft, but it remains a thoroughly impressive debut and one of his finest pop records.

Tracklist:
01 – Broke Down And Busted
02 – Believe In Me
03 – We Gotta Get You A Woman
04 – Who’s That Man
05 – Once Burned
06 – Devil’s Bite
07 – I’m In The Clique
08 – There Are No Words
09 – Baby Let’s Swing / The Last Thing You Said / Don’t Tie My Hands
10 – Birthday Carol

Todd Rundgren – Runt: The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:38 minutes | 969 MB
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Upon its release, Rolling Stone called The Ballad of Todd Rundgren “the best album Paul McCartney” never made, and even if the album doesn’t sound particularly McCartney-esque, it does share the homespun, melodic charm of the best of his early albums. Arguably, it’s better than Paul’s solo work, since it is focused and subtle, never drawing attention to Rundgren’s considerable skills as a writer and producer. He tones down the hard rock and his impish wit, lending the album a sense of direction missing on Runt. That’s not to say he abandoned his sense of humor – as if the cover shot of Rundgren sitting at a piano with a noose around his neck left any doubt. This time around, it takes some careful listening to hear the jokes, such as the opening Floyd Cramer piano lick on “Range War.” On such clever in-jokes as “Chain Letter,” as well as ballads like “Hope I’m Around,” the artist reveals himself as an exceptional craftsman and songsmith. In fact, Ballad is considerably more song-oriented than its predecessor, with very little of the jams and instrumental sections that occasionally bogged down Runt. Here, even propulsive pop tunes such as “Bleeding” and “Long Flowing Robe,” along with the hard rocker “Parole,” are as much about the song as the performance, which is probably appropriate for an album called The Ballad of Todd Rundgren. Another thing about that title – it may be a joke, but the album inarguably offers a glimpse into Rundgren’s inner world through a combination of introspective ballads, off-hand jokes, musical virtuosity, outright weirdness, and unabashed showmanship. And that’s the charm of The Ballad – it’s the slyly sardonic masterwork of a loner who may be sensitive, but is certainly not shy.

Tracklist:
01 – Long Flowing Robe
02 – The Ballad (Denny And Jean)
03 – Bleeding
04 – Wailing Wall
05 – The Range War
06 – Chain Letter
07 – A Long Time, A Long Way To Go
08 – Boat On The Charles
09 – Be Nice To Me
10 – Hope I’m Around
11 – Parole
12 – Remember Me

Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything? (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 89:25 minutes | 1,98 GB
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After two albums, Todd Rundgren had one hit and a burgeoning cult following, plus growing respect as a hitmaking record producer. There’s no question he was busy, but as it turns out, all this work only scratched the surface of his ambition. He had decided to abandon the Runt pretense and recorded a full double album by himself (save for one side). Others had recorded one-man albums before, most notably Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, but Rundgren – without borrowing musically from either artist – captured the homemade ambience of McCartney with the visionary feel of Music of My Mind, adding an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music from Gilbert & Sullivan through Jimi Hendrix, plus the crazed zeal of a pioneer. Listening to Something/Anything? is a mind-altering trip in itself, no matter how many instantly memorable, shamelessly accessible pop songs are scattered throughout the album. Each side of the double album is a concept onto itself. The first side is “a bouquet of ear-catching melodies”; side two is “the cerebral side”; on side three “the kid gets heavy”; side four is his mock pop operetta, recorded with a full band including the Sales brothers. It gallops through everything – Carole King tributes (“I Saw the Light”), classic ballads (“Hello It’s Me,” “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference”), Motown (“Wolfman Jack”), blinding power pop (“Couldn’t I Just Tell You”), psychedelic hard rock (“Black Maria”), pure weirdness (“I Went to the Mirror”), blue-eyed soul (“Dust in the Wind”), and scores of brilliant songs that don’t fall into any particular style (“Cold Morning Light,” “It Takes Two to Tango”). It’s an amazing journey that’s remarkably unpretentious. He may have contributed self-penned liner notes, but Rundgren peppers his writing with self-aware, self-deprecating asides, and he also indulges his bizarre sense of humor with gross-outs (“Piss Aaron”) and sheer quirkiness, such as an aural tour of the studio at the beginning of side two. Something/Anything? has a ton of loose ends throughout: plenty of studio tricks, slight songs (but no filler), snippets of dialogue, and purposely botched beginnings, but all these throwaways simply add context – they’re what makes the album into a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive. Rundgren occasionally touched on the sheer brilliance of Something/Anything? in his later work, but this extraordinary double album is the one time where his classicist songcraft and messy genius converged to create an utterly unique, glorious record.

Tracklist:
01 – I Saw The Light
02 – It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference
03 – Wolfman Jack
04 – Cold Morning Light
05 – It Takes Two To Tango (This Is For The Girls)
06 – Sweeter Memories
07 – Intro
08 – Breathless
09 – The Night The Carousel Burned Down
10 – Saving Grace
11 – Marlene
12 – Song Of The Viking
13 – I Went To The Mirror
14 – Black Maria
15 – One More Day (One Word)
16 – Couldn’t I Just Tell You
17 – Torch Song
18 – Little Red Lights
19 – Overture – My Roots: Money (That’s What I Want) / Messin’ With The Kid
20 – Dust In The Wind
21 – Piss Aaron
22 – Hello It’s Me
23 – Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me
24 – You Left Me Sore
25 – Slut

Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star (1973/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:01 minutes | 1,25 GB
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Something/Anything? proved that Todd Rundgren could write a pop classic as gracefully as any of his peers, but buried beneath the surface were signs that he would never be satisfied as merely a pop singer/songwriter. A close listen to the album reveals the eccentricities and restless spirit that surges to the forefront on its follow-up, A Wizard, A True Star. Anyone expecting the third record of Something/Anything?, filled with variations on “I Saw the Light” and “Hello It’s Me,” will be shocked by A Wizard. As much a mind-f*ck as an album, A Wizard, A True Star rarely breaks down to full-fledged songs, especially on the first side, where songs and melodies float in and out of a hazy post-psychedelic mist. Stylistically, there may not be much new – he touched on so many different bases on Something/Anything? that it’s hard to expand to new territory – but it’s all synthesized and assembled in fresh, strange ways. Often, it’s a jarring, disturbing listen, especially since Rundgren’s humor has turned bizarre and insular. It truly takes a concerted effort on the part of the listener to unravel the record, since Rundgren makes no concessions – not only does the soul medley jerk in unpredictable ways, but the anthemic closer, “Just One Victory,” is layered with so many overdubs that it’s hard to hear its moving melody unless you pay attention. And that’s the key to understanding A Wizard, A True Star – it’s one of those rare rock albums that demands full attention and, depending on your own vantage, it may even reward such close listening.

Tracklist:
01 – International Feel
02 – Never Never Land
03 – Tic Tic Tic It Wears Off
04 – You Need Your Head
05 – Rock And Roll Pussy
06 – Dogfight Giggle
07 – You Don’t Have To Camp Around
08 – Flamingo
09 – Zen Archer
10 – Just Another Onionhead / DaDa Dali
11 – When The Shit Hits The Fan / Sunset Blvd
12 – Le Feel Internacionale
13 – Sometimes I Don’t Know What To Feel
14 – Does Anybody Love You?
15 – Medley: I’m So Proud / Ooh Baby Baby / La La Means I Love You / Cool Jerk
16 – Hungry For Love
17 – I Don’t Want To Tie You Down
18 – Is It My Name?
19 – Just One Victory

Todd Rundgren – Todd (1974/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 66:51 minutes | 1,45 GB
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1974’s TODD was a departure for Todd Rundgren. After a series of one-man-band albums highlighted by the classic SOMETHING/ANYTHING?, he’d allowed a few other musicians onto this effort’s immediate predecessor, A WIZARD A TRUE STAR. TODD goes one step further here by incorporating a full band, and the difference between this and Rundgren’s streamlined, early records is startling. The songs are lushly orchestrated, with a full Philly-soul-styled horn section led by the legendary Brecker brothers on several tracks. The double-album length gave Rundgren the license he needed to stretch out compositionally and instrumentally.

Tracklist:
01 – How About A Little Fanfare?
02 – I Think You Know
03 – The Spark Of Life
04 – An Elpee’s Worth Of Toons
05 – A Dream Goes On Forever
06 – Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare Song
07 – Drunken Blue Rooster
08 – The Last Ride
09 – Everybody’s Going To Heaven / King Kong Reggae
10 – No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator
11 – Useless Begging
12 – Sidewalk Cafe
13 – Izzat Love?
14 – Heavy Metal Kids
15 – In And Out The Chakras We Go (Formerly: Shaft Goes To Outer Space)
16 – Don’t You Ever Learn?
17 – Sons Of 1984

Todd Rundgren – Initiation (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 67:22 minutes | 1,47 GB
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Returning to solo recording almost immediately after forming Utopia, Todd Rundgren continued with the synth-heavy prog rock he pioneered with Todd Rundgren’s Utopia on Initiation. The differences immediately resonate with “Real Man,” a terrific song that encapsulates not only his newfound fondness for electronics, but also his burgeoning spirituality and his knack for pop craft. “Real Man” is so good, it’s tempting to believe that the remainder of Initiation will follow in the same direction, resulting in an inspired, truly progressive fusion of classic Rundgren and synthesizers. As soon as the second track, an a cappella vocoder opus called “Born to Synthesize,” it’s clear that Rundgren has no intention of following that path, choosing to push the limits of synth technology and recorded music instead of constructing an album. Initiation suffers accordingly. At times, particularly on the first, song-oriented side, it is pretty intriguing, but too often, the results are simply frustrating because it doesn’t go anywhere. That’s particularly true with “A Treatise on Cosmic Fire,” a half-hour “suite” that comprises all of side two and doesn’t really go anywhere, despite hitting many stops along the way. It’s enough to erase the memory of “Real Man,” “Eastern Intrigue” and “Initiation,” the moments where it all comes together on the first half of the record, but another spin of the first side reveals that Rundgren could have made Initiation something special if he had the discipline.

Tracklist:
01 – Real Man
02 – Born To Synthesize
03 – The Death Of Rock And Roll
04 – Eastern Intrigue
05 – Initiation
06 – Fair Warning
07 – A Treatise On Cosmic Fire Part 1
08 – A Treatise On Cosmic Fire Part 2
09 – A Treatise On Cosmic Fire Part 3
10 – A Treatise On Cosmic Fire Part 4

Todd Rundgren – Faithful (1976/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:18 minutes | 1,11 GB
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Todd Rundgren considered 1966 the beginning of his professional musical career, largely because the Nazz formed around that time. As a celebration, he recorded Faithful. Presumably, Faithful celebrates the past and the future by juxtaposing a side of original pop material with a side of covers. Actually, “covers” isn’t accurate – the six oldies that comprise the entirety of side one are re-creations, with Rundgren “faithfully” replicating the sound and feel of the Yardbirds (“Happenings Ten Years Time Ago”), Bob Dylan (“Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine”), Jimi Hendrix (“If Six Was Nine”), the Beach Boys (“Good Vibrations”) and the Beatles “(“Rain,” “Strawberry Fields Forever”). All of this is entertaining, to a certain extent, especially since it’s remarkable how close Rundgren comes to duplicating the very feel of the originals. Still, it’s hard to see it as much more than a flamboyant throwaway, especially when compared with the glorious second side. For the first time since Something/Anything?, Rundgren allows himself to write and – more importantly – record straight-ahead pop songs. Certainly, A Wizard, A True Star, Todd and Initiation had their share of great songs, but they weren’t delivered as pop songs; they were telegraphed as art. Here, Rundgren delivers pop and rock songs with ease, letting the melodies glide to the forefront. There are embellishments, of course, but the end result is a lushness that’s apparent even on the hard rockers. If Rundgren had made all of Faithful originals, it would have been a pure pop masterpiece. As it stands, it’s essential for the faithful – not only for hardcore Toddheads, but for devoted pop fans as well.

Tracklist:
01 – Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
02 – Good Vibrations
03 – Rain
04 – Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
05 – If Six Was Nine
06 – Strawberry Fields Forever
07 – Black And White
08 – Love Of The Common Man
09 – When I Pray
10 – Cliché
11 – The Verb “To Love”
12 – Boogies (Hamburger Hell)

Todd Rundgren – Hermit Of Mink Hollow (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:21 minutes | 794 MB
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Over the course of 1977, Todd Rundgren moved Utopia toward a more pop-oriented direction, winding up with the slick mainstream arena rock of Oops! Wrong Planet. With that in mind, it makes sense that The Hermit of Mink Hollow – his first full-fledged solo album since Initiation, if you discount the half-cover/half-original Faithful – finds Rundgren in his pop craftsman persona. The difference is, he’s heartbroken. His relationship with Bebe Buell collapsed during 1977 and it’s clear that the separation has pained him, since pain and melancholy underpin the album, whether it’s on ballads (“Can We Still Be Friends”) or on apparently joyous revelries, like “All the Children Sing.” That said, this is a Rundgren solo album and he has not abandoned his trademarks, which means that the lush ballads are paired with novelties (“Onomatopoeia,” which sounds exactly how you hope it does), ersatz soul (“You Cried Wolf”), and pure pop (“Hurting for You”). Hermit is also the first record Rundgren recorded completely alone since Something/Anything? Where that record sounded like the inner workings of a madman, with each song providing no indication what the next would sound like, Hermit is more cohesive. It also feels less brilliant, even if it is, in many ways, nearly as excellent as Rundgren’s masterwork, mainly because it doesn’t have such a wide scope. Still, the reason The Hermit of Mink Hollow is such a milestone in Rundgren’s career is because it’s a small album, filled with details, and easily the most emotional record he made.

Tracklist:
01 – All The Children Sing
02 – Can We Still Be Friends?
03 – Hurting For You
04 – Too Far Gone
05 – Onomatopoeia
06 – Determination
07 – Bread
08 – Bag Lady
09 – You Cried Wolf
10 – Lucky Guy
11 – Out Of Control
12 – Fade Away

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John Williams – Jurassic Park (1993) [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2013] [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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John Williams – Jurassic Park (1993) [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2013]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 81:19 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital Booklet | @ Geffen Records

Legendary composer John Williams penned the monumental score for the blockbuster film Jurassic Park. The heavily orchestrated work will have listeners at the edge of their seats, capturing the collaborative brilliance of Williams and Spielberg. This twentieth anniversary edition includes the four bonus tracks personally selected by John Williams: “The History Lesson,” “Stalling Around,” “The Coming Storm” and “Hungry Raptor.” The soundtrack remains one of Williams’ greatest achievements and one of music’s finest scores. This is a quintessential must-have album.

John Williams’ score for what has become the most successful movie of all time is similar to his scores for other popular Steven Spielberg films. He remains firmly in the tradition of the lush, heavily orchestrated score. This is the first horror movie he and Spielberg have collaborated on since Jaws, but there is nothing like the threatening theme that helped define that monster movie here. Instead, there is a lot of quiet music, a much more subtle touch, and a wistful theme that runs throughout, although things do come to a boil now and then.

In 2013, Universal Music has announced the digital release of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Jurassic Park, which includes John Williams’ newly remastered music from the film, as well as four bonus tracks (a total of 11 minutes of unreleased music). The four bonus tracks featured on the remastered Jurassic Park album were chosen by Williams in conjunction with his music editor, Ramiro Belgardt. Williams and Belgradt went back through all of the master tapes of the film to spot cues that were not released on the original album. These tracks have never before been commercially released.

Tracklist:
01 – Opening Titles
02 – Theme from Jurassic Park
03 – Incident at Isla Nublar
04 – Journey to the Island
05 – The Raptor Attack
06 – Hatching Baby Raptor
07 – Welcome to Jurassic Park
08 – My Friend, the Brachiosaurus
09 – Dennis Steals the Embryo
10 – A Tree For My Bed
11 – High-Wire Stunts
12 – Remembering Petticoat Lane
13 – Jurassic Park Gate
14 – Eye to Eye
15 – T-Rex Rescue & Finale
16 – End Credits
17 – The History Lesson [Bonus Track]18 – Stalling Around [Bonus Track]19 – The Coming Storm [Bonus Track]20 – Hungry Raptor [Bonus Track]

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John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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John Williams – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:17:20 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Cover art included, liner notes not included
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is set 30 years after the events of “Return of the Jedi”, and features a new generation of swashbuckling heroes and shadowy villains, as well as the return of fan-favorite smugglers, princesses, and Jedi.

Lucasfilm and visionary director J.J. Abrams join forces to take you back again to a galaxy far, far away as Star Wars returns to the big screen with Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Make sure to experience the soundtrack by legendary, five-time Academy Award winning composer, John Williams.

Tracklist:

01.Main Title and The Attack on the Jakku Village
02.The Scavenger
03.I Can Fly Anything
04.Rey Meets BB-8
05.Follow Me
06.Rey’s Theme
07.The Falcon
08.That Girl with the Staff
09.The Rathtars!
10.Finn’s Confession
11.Maz’s Counsel
12.The Starkiller
13.Kylo Ren Arrives at the Battle
14.The Abduction
15.Han and Leia
16.March of the Resistance
17.Snoke
18.On the Inside
19.Torn Apart
20.The Ways of the Force
21.Scherzo for X-Wings
22.Farewell and The Trip
23.The Jedi Steps and Finale

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Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 9 – London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (1958/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 9 – London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult (1958/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:01 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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This symphony was begun, except for a few vague sketches, early in 1956, and was finished, so far as a composition ever is finished, in November 1957. It was written chiefly in London, but partly in Majorca and partly at Ashmansworth the home of Gerald and Joyce Finzi. It is dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society, and was first played at a concert; on 2 April 1958 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

The usual symphony orchestra is used, with the addition of three saxophones and flugelhorn. This beautiful and neglected instrument is not usually allowed in the select circles of the orchestra and has been banished to the brass band, where it is allowed to indulge in the bad habit of vibrato to its heart’s content. While in the orchestra it will be obliged to sit up and play straight: The saxophones, also, are not expected, except possibly in one place in the scherzo, to behave like demented cats, but, are allowed to be their own romantic selves. Otherwise the orchestration is normal, and is, the composer hopes, sound in wind and strings.

Tracklist:
1 Introduction by Sir Adrian Boult 00:26
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor
2 I. Allegro moderato 09:16
3 II. Andante sostenuto 08:05
4 III. Allegro pesante 05:33
5 IV. Andante tranquillo 11:41


Personnel:

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor

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The Velvet Underground – Loaded – 45th Anniversary (1970/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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The Velvet Underground – Loaded – 45th Anniversary (1970/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:30 minutes | 2,06 GB | Genre: Rock
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Loaded is the Velvet Underground’s fourth studio album. In 2003 the record was listed at #109 inRolling Stone magazine’s list of 500 greatest albums of all time! This was the last Velvet Underground recording to feature Lou Reed before he began his solo career. Loaded features singles “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll” and more great tracks!

After The Velvet Underground cut three albums for the jazz-oriented Verve label that earned them lots of notoriety but negligible sales, the group signed with industry powerhouse Atlantic Records in 1970; label head Ahmet Ertegun supposedly asked Lou Reed to avoid sex and drugs in his songs, and instead focus on making an album “loaded with hits.” Loaded was the result, and with appropriate irony it turned out to be the first VU album that made any noticeable impact on commercial radio — and also their swan song, with Reed leaving the group shortly before its release. With John Cale long gone from the band, Doug Yule highly prominent (he sings lead on four of the ten tracks), and Maureen Tucker absent on maternity leave, this is hardly a purist’s Velvet Underground album. But while Lou Reed always wrote great rock & roll songs with killer hooks, on Loaded his tunes were at last given a polished but intelligent production that made them sound like the hits they should have been, and there’s no arguing that “Sweet Jane” and “Rock and Roll” are as joyously anthemic as anything he’s ever recorded. And if this release generally maintains a tight focus on the sunny side of the VU’s personality (or would that be Reed’s personality?), “New Age” and “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'” prove he had hardly abandoned his contemplative side, and “Train Around the Bend” is a subtle but revealing metaphor for his weariness with the music business. Sterling Morrison once said of Loaded, “It showed that we could have, all along, made truly commercial sounding records,” but just as importantly, it proved they could do so without entirely abandoning their musical personality in the process. It’s a pity that notion hadn’t occurred to anyone a few years earlier. –AllMusic Review by Mark Deming

Tracklist:
1 Who Loves The Sun 02:46
2 Sweet Jane (Full Length Version)    04:06
3 Rock & Roll (Full Length Version)    04:43
4 Cool It Down 03:05
5 New Age (Full Length Version)    05:11
6 Head Held High 02:57
7 Lonesome Cowboy Bill 02:44
8 I Found A Reason 04:16
9 Train Round The Bend 03:21
10 Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ 07:25
11 I’m Sticking With You (Session Outtake)    02:53
12 Ocean (Session Outtake)    05:45
13 I Love You (Session Outtake)    02:54
14 Ride Into The Sun (Session Outtake)    03:24

Personnel:
Lou Reed – vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, piano
Doug Yule – bass, piano, keyboards, lead guitar, fuzz bass, drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Who Loves the Sun”, “New Age”, “Lonesome Cowboy Bill”, “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'”, and “Ride Into the Sun”
Sterling Morrison – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, possible backing vocals
Maureen Tucker – drums: credited, but does not appear due to maternity leave; on the Fully Loaded edition, she does appear singing on the outtake “I’m Sticking With You”, and playing drums on the demo of “I Found a Reason”

Additional:

Adrian Barber – drums on “Who Loves the Sun” and “Sweet Jane”
Tommy Castagnaro – drums on “Cool It Down” and “Head Held High”
Billy Yule – drums on “Lonesome Cowboy Bill” and “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'”

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The Association – Greatest Hits! (1968/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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The Association – Greatest Hits! (1968/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:32 minutes | 859 MB | Genre: Pop
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Greatest Hits was originally released in 1968 and was the first compilation album by The Association. Since its debut (where it peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200), it has sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Greatest Hits was produced by Curt Boettcher, Jerry Yester, and Bones Howe.

Beyond representing the best in ’60s California pop, the Association blazed trails in album production and the folk-psychedelia genre. With the guidance of L.A. producers Bones Howe, Curt Boettcher, and Jerry Yester, the band deftly mixed airy harmonies, unobtrusive rhythm tracks, and subtle “Age of Aquarius” accents from harpsichords, Farfisa organs, fuzz-box guitars, trumpets, and bongos — at times, the sophisticated blend was held together by L.A. session players. And while the group successfully expanded their harmonic horizons on “Requiem for the Masses,” they also went a bit beyond their strengths with Jefferson Airplane-esque rockers like “Six Man Band.” Luckily, the majority of this hits collection focuses on the band’s dreamy combination of polished folk, limber vocal arrangements, and wide-screen instrumental backdrops. The summery program also includes chart-toppers like “Windy,” “Cherish,” “Along Comes Mary,” and “Never My Love,” along with progressive pop-and-harmony tracks like “No Fair at All,” “Everything That Touches You,” and “Time for Livin’.” A great introduction to the band’s prime work from the latter half of the ’60s. –AllMusic Review by Stephen Cook

Tracklist:
1. The Time It Is Today 02:20
2. Everything That Touches You 03:23
3. Like Always 03:09
4. Never My Love 03:13
5. Requiem For The Masses 04:11
6. Along Comes Mary 02:52
7. Enter The Young 02:47
8. No Fair At All 02:40
9. Time For Livin’ 02:49
10. We Love 02:28
11. Cherish 03:29
12. Windy 02:58
13. Six Man Band 02:13


Personnel:

James Gary Alexander – lead guitar, lead and backing vocals, koto
Jim Yester – rhythm guitar, backing and lead vocals, harpsichord, piano, bells
Russ Giguere – rhythm guitar, backing and lead vocals, percussion
Terry Kirkman – recorder, lead and backing vocals, flugelhorn, tambourine, piano, percussion
Brian Cole – bass, backing vocals
Ted Bluechel, Jr. – drums, backing and lead vocals, percussion, bells, maracas, effects 

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Sommernachtskonzert 2015 / Summer Night Concert 2015 – Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Sommernachtskonzert 2015 / Summer Night Concert 2015 – Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:57 minutes | 694 MB | Genre: Classical
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Perhaps in search of further profits from the lode provided by its popular New Year’s events, the Vienna Philharmonic established its Sommernachtskonzert or Summer Night Concert series in 2004. The series attracted six-digit crowds, sponsorship from Rolex, and U.S. broadcasts on the Public Broadcasting Service. The Philharmonic has aimed for something in between the party atmosphere of the New Year’s concerts and the sobriety of a regular concert event, with star conductors trotted out for not-too-strenuous fun. Here you get Zubin Mehta, leading an almost all-Scandinavian program, with the much-honored Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder in the headline work the Grieg Piano Concert in A minor, Op. 16. You wouldn’t pick him as a likely candidate for Grieg (his specialties run toward Beethoven and Mozart), and the concerto is straightforward, but no more. But you do get a nice tone poem, Frühlingsrauschen, Op. 32, No. 3, by Norwegian composer Christian Sinding, whose Wagnerian orchestral music has been increasing in performance frequency since arguments surfaced that he was senile and unaware of what he was doing when his name was added to the rolls of Norway’s fascist party early in World War II. Mehta and the Philharmonic are lively in the Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46, of Grieg, and the finale, Sibelius’ evergreen Finlandia, Op. 26, gives an idea of why crowds turn out for this thing. Even the semi-popular encore, a Galop by Lumbye, is Scandinavian. An enjoyable entry in the series, with reasonable sound for something recorded en plein air. Recorded in May of 2015 (that’s summer in mild Vienna), this album was on sale by early August.

Tracklist:
Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
1. Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare 02:35
Carl Nielsen (1865 – 1931)
2. Maskarade: Overture 05:29
Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor, Op. 16
3. I. Allegro molto moderato 12:34
4. II. Adagio 06:23
5. III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato 10:28
Christian Sinding (1856 – 1941)
6. Frühlingsrauschen, Op. 32, Nr. 3 03:27
Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
7. I. Morning Mood 03:57
8. II. Åse’s Death 04:23
9. III. Anitra’s Dance 03:50
10. IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King 03:12
Jean Sibelius (1865 – 1957)
11. Finlandia, Op. 26 09:22
Hans Christian Lumbye (1810 – 1874)
12. Kopenhagener Eisenbahn-Dampf-Galopp 04:21


Personnel:

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano (#3-5)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Zubin Mehta, conductor

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Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – So Familiar (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – So Familiar (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:50 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Country
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Martin & Brickell’s second studio album together after, “Love Has Come For You” in 2013.  With Steve Martin on banjo and Edie Brickell on vocals, the duo really knows how to do Bluegrass right!

Produced by Peter Asher

Mixed and mastered by Nathaniel Kunkel

Steve Martin picked up his banjo again in 2009, recording his first-ever all-instrumental album with his Steep Canyon Rangers, and then he wound up devoting the better part of the next half decade to the instrument he loved since a teenager. Never shy on-stage, he nevertheless wasn’t a natural frontperson, so once he ran through two albums with the Rangers, he joined forces with Edie Brickell, an unexpected but natural fit. Bluegrass may not have been in Brickell’s vocabulary per se but she’s an old versatile folkie comfortable with an array of Americana, something proven out by her new millennial group the Gaddabouts. When Brickell teamed with Martin, they found a common folk-pop ground assisted by producer Peter Asher on 2013’s Love Has Come for You, and its 2015 sequel So Familiar is indeed a sequel: it offers more of the same, more of the tasteful dance numbers and romanticism heard on the first. This is hardly a bad thing. Martin and Brickell have an easy, natural chemistry, with Edie helping to focus Steve’s nimble, graceful playing while the banjoist returns the favor by loosening up the singer, so she doesn’t seem as precious as she sometimes did with the New Bohemians. While the duo sometimes sneaks a glance toward yesterday — “Another Round” rambles forward like a square dance and “Way Back in the Day” makes its nostalgia plain — this is unapologetically well-tailored contemporary music, drawing upon the traditions of Kentucky and Laurel Canyon to create something gentle, pretty, and substantive, something that is as enchanting as it was the first time around. –AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
1 So Familiar 2:46
2 Always Will 2:27
3 Way Back In The Day 3:18
4 Won’t Go Back 2:22
5 I’m By Your Side 2:37
6 I Had A Vision 3:57
7 I Have You 2:19
8 Another Round 2:24
9 Mine All Mine 2:09
10 Heart Of The Dreamer 3:12
11 My Baby 3:22
12 Heartbreaker 3:20


Personnel:

Edie Brickell – Vocals, Composer, Vocals (Background)
Steve Martin – Deering “Clawgrass” Banjo
Steve Aho – Banjo, Cajon, Clapping, Congas, Drums, Marimba, Percussion, Piano, Vibraphone, Vocals (Background)
Peter Asher – Clapping, Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Resonator), Percussion, Producer, Ukulele, Vocals (Background)
Victoria Asher – Clapping, Vocals (Background)
Mike Ashworth – Percussion
Rob Berman – Accordion, Celeste, Fender Rhodes, Harmonium, Piano
Chris Bleth – Clarinet, Engineer, Penny Whistle
Edie Brickell – Composer, Primary Artist, Vocals (Background)
Mike Einziger – Guitar (Electric)
Béla Fleck – Baritone Banjo
Isaiah Gage, Vardan Gasparyan – Celli
Mike Guggino – Mandolin, Vocals (Background)
Charles Humphrey III – Double Bass
Abby Khalek, Koyo Kim, Rachel Kim – Violin
Nathaniel Kunkel – Banjo, Drum Engineering, Mastering, Mixing, Percussion, Percussion Engineer, Vocal Engineer
Doug Livingston – Pedal Steel Guitar
Woody Platt – Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals (Background)
Jeff Alan Ross – Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Baritone), Guitar (Electric), Hammond B3, Keyboards, Sax (Baritone), Wurlitzer
Nicky Sanders – Fiddle
Graham Sharp – Banjo, Vocals (Background)
Ann Marie Simpson – Orchestra Contractor, Orchestral & String Arrangements, String Conductor, Violin
Leland Sklar – Bass
Steep Canyon Rangers – Banjo
Cindy Wu – Violin
Geoff Zanelli – Orchestra Contractor, Orchestral & String Arrangements, String Conductor

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Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto & Tapiola – Tossy Spivakovsky, London Symphony Orchestra, Tauno Hannikainen (1959/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto & Tapiola – Tossy Spivakovsky, London Symphony Orchestra, Tauno Hannikainen (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:21 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Classical
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Digital Booklet | @ Everest

From the included liner notes:

Of few twentieth century composers can it be said with any degree of certainty, “His music will last.” We are still too close to many of these men to judge objectively the quality of their work. But Jean Sibelius seems to be a creative artist whose compositions will survive. His Violin Concerto is one of the most difficult works of its kind ever written, but, it is also one of the most exciting. Performed here by one of the most exciting violinists of our day, assisted by a Finnish conductor who really knows the music of Sibelius, it has been reproduced with equally exciting fidelity for all to enjoy.

This, Sibelius’ only concerto, was written at Lojo, Finland: in 1903, and completely revised during the summer of 1905. Thus it falls between the composer’s Second and Third Symphonies, during a period when he was becoming increasingly aware of the importance of both form and nature in his music. Since the violin was Sibelius’ own instrument, the concerto was written with a full knowledge and understanding of what the soloist could and could not do. Still, there have been few virtuosi who have been able to do full justice to its technical and interpretive intricacies.

“The form is simple and concise throughout, besides being distinctly original,” writes Cecil Gray in his well-known biography of the composer. “The exposition in the first movement, for example, is tripartite instead of dual as usual, and the cadenza precedes the development section, which is at the same time a recapitulation; the slow second movement consists chiefly in the gradual unfolding, like a flower, of a long, sweet, cantabile melody first presented by the solo instrument and then by the orchestra; and the last movement is almost entirely made up of the alternation of two main themes. This variety, combined with simplicity and concision of formal structure, constitutes one of the chief attractions of the work.”

As in the case of so much of Sibelius’ music, there have been those who would attach some sort of a program to the Violin Concerto, linking it to everything from “cosmopolitan Swedish traditionalism” to an ancient rite of “bardic songs heard against a background of torches or pagan fires in some wild Northern night.” The composer himself gave the work no extra-musical connotations, though he once referred to the last movement as a “Danse Macabre.” It would make a rather strange dance of death, though, for it is in the stately rhythm of a polonaise.

The concerto was first played by the violinist Karl Halir at a concert in the Berlin Singakademie, with Richard Strauss conducting, on October 19, 1905. The score, published that same year, calls for an accompanying orchestra of two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, kettledrums and strings.

Tapiola-Tone Poem, Op.112

Tapiola, Sibelius’ last tone poem, was composed in the spring of 1926 at the request of Walter Damrosch, to whom it is dedicated. Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra gave the work its initial performance at Mecca Temple on December 26, 1926. On the same program was another Damrosch-inspired composition – Gershwin’s Concerto in F – with the composer as piano soloist; this popular work had received its premiere just a year earlier.

Tapiola takes its name from Tapio, the forest god of Finnish mythology. Prefacing the score are these lines, written by Sibelius himself:

“Widespread they stand, the Northland’s dusky forests,
Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams,
Within them dwells the forest’s mighty god
And wood sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets,”

In his Sibelius biography, Cecil Gray calls Tapiola “in many respects the culminating point of (Sibelius’) entire creative activity, and a consummate masterpiece which could only be the outcome of a long process of spiritual growth and development. It is music of the most extraordinary simplicity and directness, yet there is not one bar in it, from first to last, that could possibly have been written by any other composer. …”

Tracklist:
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor, Op. 47
1 I. Andante moderato 14:42
2 II. Adagio di molto 08:33
3 III. Allegro ma non troppo 06:50
4 Tapiola, Tone Poem, Op. 112 16:15

Personnel:
Tossy Spivakovsky, violin (#1-3)
London Symphony Orchestra
Tauno Hannikainen, conductor

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Arnold Schoenberg – Complete Songs, Vol. 2 – Glenn Gould (1972/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Arnold Schoenberg – Complete Songs, Vol. 2 – Glenn Gould (1972/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:00 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | @ Columbia Records/Sony Music

Another release in Columbia’s grand and courageous attempt to record the complete works of Schoenberg. This release anticipated the onehundredth birthday celebrations of a composer to whom Gould also devoted a book (Arnold Schoenberg—A Perspective) and a ten-part CBC radio series (Music of Today: Arnold Schoenberg).

Tracklist:
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
1 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: I. Wie Georg von Frundsberg von sich selber sang
2 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: II. Die Aufgeregten
3 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: III. Warnung
4 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: IV. Hochzeitslied
5 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: V. Geübtes Herz
6 Sechs Lieder, Op. 3: VI. Freihold
7 Zwei Balladen, Op. 12: I. Jane Grey
8 Zwei Balladen, Op. 12: II. Der verlorene Haufen
9 Drei Lieder, Op. 48: I. Sommermüd
10 Drei Lieder, Op. 48: II. Tot
11 Drei Lieder, Op. 48: III. Mädchenlied
12 Zwei Lieder, Op. 14: I. Ich darf nicht dankend
13 Zwei Lieder, Op. 14: II. In diesen Wintertagen
14 Zwei Lieder, Op. post.: I. Gedenken
15 Zwei Lieder, Op. post.: II. Am Strande
16 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: I. Traumleben
17 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: II. Alles
18 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: III. Mädchenlied
19 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: IV. Verlassen
20 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: V. Ghasel
21 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: VI. Am Wegrand
22 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: VII. Lockung
23 Acht Lieder, Op. 6: VIII. Der Wanderer


Personnel:

Glenn Gould, piano 
Donald Gramm, bass-baritone (#1)
Cornelis Opthof, baritone (#8)
Helen Vanni, mezzo-soprano (2-7/9-23)

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