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Ray Charles’s Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 are major landmarks in American culture. Charles demonstrated that great songs with signature performances work in all genres. “I Can’t Stop Loving You” was a standard in country, soul and R&B, as he proved. Modern Sounds also brought America together during the Sixties’ civil rights movement. Charles became one of the first recording artists to have ownership and complete control of the masters. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been listed among the greatest slbums of all time, along with the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, Springsteen, Hendrix and the Beach Boys.

Volume 1 & 2 Various Artist collection from German BMG Ariola. 39 different cover version of Bob Dylan Songs.

Johannes Brahms - Symphony 1 & Symphony 2
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski
EAC+LOG+CUE | 2xFLAC: 773 MB | Full Artwork: 53 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Sony Classical # SB2K 63287 | Country/Year: Europe 1997
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor of Polish heritage. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th Century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and for appearing in the film Fantasia. He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed…

Johann Sebastian Bach - Julius Berger - Sechs Suiten für Violoncello Solo (Six Cello Suites) BWV 1007-1012
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 544 MB | Artwork: 22 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Wergo # WER 4041-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1997
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Cello

"…Berger himself speaks of a joy inspired by the most radiant peak of tonal art, and anyone listening will happily concur. It is indeed a wonderful set, more free-spirited than its predecessor (though I will want to retain both) and, for me, more compelling than most modern rivals, excepting Janos Starker (his forth recording) and Anner Bylsma (his second). I urge you to hear it." ~Grammophone

Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 & 2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Järvi
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Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon # 427 807-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1989
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

"Neeme Järvi was one of the busiest stars on the international conducting scene. (…) From the early '60s, Järvi took a leading role in the musical life of his homeland. In 1963 he assumed the directorship of the Estonian Radio & Television Orchestra, his first important post. He also founded the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, and for 13 years was the chief conductor of Opera House Estonia in Tallinn. From 1976 to 1980 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, then in its infancy. By the late 1970s his fame had spread throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and he received favorable notices for his appearances in the West…

Charles Ives - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / General William Booth enters into Heaven
Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,50 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,10 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion # SACDA67525 | Country/Year: UK 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Modernism

…The European influence in these works seems to me very clear, and Ives manages to absorb this idiom and at the same time be forward looking and original.
As with the companion disc, Litton seems to me a conductor fully inmersed in Ives complex world of sound. His Dallas orchestra is quite excellent, and the recordings are faultless.