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The yoga challenge system is a complete series of videos, designed to lead the practitioner through beginner to the most advanced postures. Teacher Tony Sanchez, is a well known master in the tradition of Bishnu Ghosh and Bikram Choudhury. For Bikram students, who want to expand their horizons or anyone who wants to follow a well organized system of asanas, this series is a wonderful tool.

Jean Sibelius - Symphonies 1 & 4
Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 262 MB | Full Artwork: 64 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Chandos "Collect" # CHAN 6555 | Country/Year: UK 1991, 1983
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…Returning to Glasgow, in 1959 Gibson became the first Scottish principal conductor and artistic director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, a post he held until 1984, to date longer than any other conductor. Under his leadership the orchestra built an international reputation through recordings and foreign tours and appeared regularly in the Edinburgh International Festival and in London at The Proms…

Otto Klemperer's Brahms needs no introduction. It remains a classic reference edition, one of the very few complete cycles with absolutely no weak links. It's customary to call these performances "granitic", an adjective that certainly applies to the First Symphony but doesn't begin to describe the swift and thrilling finale of the Fourth, the grand but impulsive Third (with its first-movement repeat in place), or the warmly lyrical Second. In general Klemperer's unsentimental but always gripping approach to this music practically defines the word "idiomatic".

Chicago-based Cedille label's ambitious "The Soviet Experience" series continues with this set of early Shostakovich string quartets from the 15 years surrounding World War II, along with one unusual Prokofiev quartet of the same period. In addition to reflecting the situations in which he lived, Shostakovich's quartets deal with a different kind of legacy as well: the Beethovenian tradition of the string quartet as it developed through the 19th century and became an outlet for inward emotion refined into well-crafted melody and counterpoint.