Andrew Eshleman

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Les Travailleurs de la Mer (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 443 Mb | Total time: 76:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907330 | Recorded: 2003

The Baltimore Consort used to do programs similar to this one, but The Harp Consort takes the production values and vocal artistry to an even higher level. From the opening, a highly rhythmic, sensuously melodic traditional Breton number, you're drawn into a world of earthy, folk-based music that's filled out with the colors of period instruments and brought to life by the expressive voices of singers who allow the flow and pulse of the language to shape phrases and create natural accents and inflection. The result is affecting, engrossing performances that convey what we can only surmise is a reasonably accurate realization of these ancient and justifiably enduring tunes.
Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)

Andrew Lawrence-King, The Harp Consort - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 369 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | 88883754552 | Recorded: 1999

The music of Shakespeare's England - ballad tunes, country dances and elegant consorts - seems at first to be quintessentially English. Yet many of these tunes, as popular dances or in the high-art variations of division music, were inspired by Celtic and Spanish styles. In variations, from 17th-century manuscripts and in improvised divisions, 'gypsy' ballads are metamorphosed into exquisite consort music.
Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)

Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton - Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:13 | 256 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67425

The two piano concertos of Shostakovich, though strikingly different from each other, have both become twentieth century classics. The first has long been one of Marc-André Hamelin's 'party pieces.' Hyperion was pleased to have the opportunity to pair him with Andrew Litton, a conductor who knows these works backwards and forwards (he has even recorded the second concerto as pianist). The resulting performances have a vitality and flair which places them amongst the greatest ever put to disc. The Shchedrin concerto, though less well-known, is no less enjoyable. There is brilliance in both the piano writing and the orchestration and the surprise addition of a jazz trio in the finale - including vibraphone and drum kit - is sure to bring the house down.

Andrew Gold - Something New: Unreleased Gold (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 14, 2020
Andrew Gold - Something New: Unreleased Gold (2020)

Andrew Gold - Something New: Unreleased Gold (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 343 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | 00:55:54
Soft Rock | Label: Omnivore Recordings

In the mid-1970s, Andrew Gold’s skills as a musician and an arranger were ubiquitious, appearing on some of the biggest records of the decade by artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Art Garfunkel, and James Taylor. By 1977, he had reached the Billboard Top 10 as an artist and writer with his self penned hit, “Lonely Boy.” In the mid ’80s and early ’90s, Andrew’s song “Thank You For Being A Friend” was used as the theme for the hugely successful NBC-TV sitcom The Golden Girls. From 1992–1999, Andrew was the TV theme voice of the Paul Reiser—Helen Hunt comedy starrer Mad About You and in 2019, Andrew’s “Spooky Scary Skeletons” found new life thanks to a viral dance craze on TikTok that has reached over 250 million people!
Andrew Rangell - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (2022)

Andrew Rangell - J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 459 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 345 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:24:56
Classical | Label: Steinway & Sons

On April 1, 2022, Steinway & Sons releases Andrew Rangell's recording of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (STNS 30176). Pianist Andrew Rangell's debut recording—released thirty years ago—featured Bach's Goldberg Variations, F-sharp minor toccata, and the two Ricercares from "A Musical Offering". Over the course of many years, the verve, beauty and originality of Mr. Rangell's Bach playing have been evidenced in a steady progression of interpretations: The Partitas, French Suites, Well-Tempered Clavier (bk.1), The Art of Fugue, English Suites, Inventions, Sinfonias, and many other individual pieces. This second book of the WTC now brings to completion a journey and survey which was never firmly planned as such. This is because the pianist's embrace of Bach has run parallel with other deep involvements, beginning with Beethoven, but also exploring repertoire ranging from Sweelinck, Gibbons, and Farnaby to Ives, Nielsen, Enescu, Schoenberg and a host of other 20th century voices. Schubert, Haydn and Chopin also receive special attention within the artist’s rich discography. Rangell's Bach survey ends with this second book of the WTC in sparkling, free-spirited performances.
Andrew Gold - First Albums Collection 1975-1980 (4CD) Expanded Remastered 2005 [Re-Up]

Andrew Gold - First Albums Collection 1975-1980 (4CD) [Remastered 2005]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.47 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 607 Mb | Scans included
Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock | Label: Collector's Choice Music | Time: 03:49:21

Collection includes: Andrew Gold (1975), What's Wrong with This Picture? (1976), All This and Heaven Too (1978), Whirlwind (1980).
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge & Andrew Nethsingha - Eastertide Evensong (2022)

Choir of St John's College, Cambridge & Andrew Nethsingha - Eastertide Evensong (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 197 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 135 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:05
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Signum Classics

Following from Ash Wednesday, this album is the second live Evensong album from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge and marks the next great season of the Church’s Year, Eastertide. This cele- bration of Jesus’s resurrection also initially spans forty days, taking us up to Ascension Day, and culmi- nates on the fiftieth day with the Feast of Pentecost. Where the previous album reflected the tradition of using no organ from Ash Wednesday until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil, the instrument is fully utilised here by the Chapel’s organ scholars Glen Dempsey and James Anderson Besant.

Andrew Hill - Eternal Spirit (1989)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 13, 2022
Andrew Hill - Eternal Spirit (1989)

Andrew Hill - Eternal Spirit (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 395 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb | Scans included
Post-Bop, Piano Jazz | Label: Blue Note | # CDP 7 92051 2 | Time: 01:07:42

Andrew Hill returned to the Blue Note label (where he made many significant releases during 1963-80) for a stimulating quintet date with vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, altoist Greg Osby, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Ben Riley in 1989. The pianist's six originals (which are joined by three alternate takes on the CD) his dense chords behind the other improvisers and his own unpredictable solos are not all overshaowed by his talented sideman, even Osby who is heard in particularly inspired form. There are no weak performances on this superb post bop effort, Andrew Hill's strongest recording in several years.

Andrew Armstrong - In Blue (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Jan. 25, 2024
Andrew Armstrong - In Blue (2024)

Andrew Armstrong - In Blue (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:09:06 | 173 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist Andrew Armstrong has an international career, having performed items from his large repertory of 35 concertos at all the major U.S. concert halls and prestigious venues across Europe. He is a noted chamber player, often performing and recording with violinist James Ehnes. Armstrong was born on February 18, 1974, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and has continued to perform often in cities along the Connecticut coast. He began piano lessons at age seven, at first only because he was jealous of his older sister, Jane, who had been offered them. He took to the instrument, and his father, a pianist, noticed how he began to carefully shape the music he played. In his teens, Armstrong was sent to the Hoff-Berthelson School in Scarsdale, New York, for studies with Miyoko Nakaya. He began to win prizes, 25 of them in all, and as a freshman at Columbia University (he paid his tuition largely with prize money), he entered the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Earning plaudits from Cliburn himself, Armstrong won a Jury Discretionary Award. After that, though, the prizes dried up, and a first-round washout at the next Cliburn Competition caused Armstrong to think he was prioritizing prize-winning over musicality. He dropped out of Columbia, left his teacher, and began to study concertos on his own, taking engagements with orchestras large and small that wanted to have him.

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Symphonic Suites (2021)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 29, 2021
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Symphonic Suites (2021)

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Symphonic Suites (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 364 MB | Cover | 01:09:30 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 161 MB
Classical | Label: Decca (UMO) (Classics)

Marking the anticipated return of live music to London’s West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber has brought together an 81-piece orchestra to record his new album, Andrew Lloyd Webber: Symphonic Suites.