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Frederic Chopin - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Bella Davidovich / Sir Neville Marriner / London Symphony Orchestra
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 324 MB | Full Artwork: 27 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Philips "Eloquence" # 462 459-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2002, 1982
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Piano

Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich (born July 16, 1928) is a Jewish Soviet-born American pianist…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concertos for 2 & 3 Pianos
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien / Ronald Brautigam, Alexei Lubimov & Manfred Huss
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,13 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,04 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: BIS # BIS-SACD-1618 | Country/Year: Sweden 2007 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

"…In short, this CD is a delight from begin to end. It will make you want to see and hear the two pieces performed live because only then can one fully enjoy the virtuosic playfulness and beauty of the musical interchange between the two pianos in the Concerto in E flat major; not to mention the pure divertimento of the Concerto in F major, which is a recreational, uplifting and entertaining." ~musicweb-international

Blues Jam In Chicago: Volume 1 — 2004 remastered reissue of 1969 album featuring Otis Spann, Shakey Horton, Honeyboy Edwards, J.T. Brown, Guitar Buddy, S.P. Leary, & Willie Dixon, features 15 tracks including 3 bonus tracks, 'Red Hot Jam' (Take 1), 'Bobby's Rock', & 'Horton's Boogie Woogie' (Take 1). Blues Jam In Chicago: Volume 2 — 2004 remastered reissue of 1970 album featuring Otis Spann, J.T. Brown, Honeyboy Edwards, J.P. Leary & Willie Dixon, features 18 tracks including 7 bonus tracks, 'My Baby's Gone', 'Sugar Mama' (Take 1), 'Honey Boy Blues', 'I Need Your Love' (Take 1), 'Horton's Boogie Woogie' (Take 2), 'Have A Good Time', 'That's Wrong', & 'Rock Me Baby'. Both editions includes expanded booklets with detailed notes & photos.

Irreverent yet accurate, Mark Steele takes people who have made a mark in history (or at least are mentioned often enough that their names are familiar) and gives you the highlights of their lives in a way that makes you remember the important bits.

Charles Ives - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / General William Booth enters into Heaven
Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 276 MB | 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.

Jean Francaix - Bläserquintette Nr. 1+2 & L'Heure du Berger (Sextett)
Kammervereinigung Berlin / Frank-Immo Zichner, Piano
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 139 MB | Full Artwork: 74 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: MDG "Scene" # Sc64012 | Country/Year: Germany 1993
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary, Wind Music

"Herausragende Interpretation: Die geistsprühende und immer leicht ironisierende Musik von Jean Francaix ist den Fünf auf den Leib geschrieben. … Sinnfällige Artikulation, klangliche Delikatesse und insbesondere ein Sinn fürs Komödiantische zeichnet das Spiel der Berliner aus.” ~FonoForum

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Symphonies: Symphonies 1-3
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln / Dmitrij Kitajenko
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,80 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 832 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Capriccio # SACD71-030 | Country/Year: Germany 2005
Genre: Classical | Style: Early 20th Century, Contemporary

"Excellent performance and sound. Powerful trombone pedal tones in ii; piano sounds very naturally placed on the stage. Excellent timpani solo in iii. Coda of iv very exciting. Better than Fedoseev's performance/recording; I haven't heard Masur's yet." ~sa-cd.net