Alan Jacobs

Alan Curtis - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2000)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 12, 2023
Alan Curtis - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2000)

Alan Curtis - Alessandro Stradella: La Susanna (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 461 Gb | Total time: 51:52+44:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 8 26539 2 | Recorded: 1978

La Susanna, a late oratorio composed in Genoa in 1681, the year before the composer’s death. La Susanna belongs to a popular 17th-century sub-genre termed oratorio erotico because it employed biblical stories concerned with love or the sensual aspect of women. It is typical of the kind of plot that might be used to attract an audience drawn to the prayer halls to be given Bible “instruction” in easily accessible form. The concept was a mark of counter-Reformation propaganda and stories such as those of Judith or Susanna were popular not only in music, but also literature and painting. Indeed, the cover of the present set is illustrated by a fine painting by Artemisia Gentileschi depicting the beautiful naked Susanna recoiling from the gaze of the two leering elders.

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Admeto (1998)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 8, 2020
Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Admeto (1998)

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco - Handel: Admeto (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0,99 Gb | Total time: 76:48+79:16+60:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | 5 61369 2 | Recorded: 1977

A warm welcome back for this 1977 recording of Handel’s most successful opera, which ran, in 1727, for an unprecedented 19 performances. Curtis and his team were visionary 20 years ago. Recitative is lively, declaimed rather than fully sung; vocal decorations sound spontaneous, period instruments are played with zest and polish – barely a sour note from the handful of strings; colours include a trio of oboes and bassoon and, accompanying Bowman in fine voice, a pair of horns for what Dr Burney described as ‘one of the best and most agreeable hunting songs that was ever composed’.

René Jacobs - Vivaldi, Bononcini: Cantate (1992)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at July 20, 2024
René Jacobs - Vivaldi, Bononcini: Cantate (1992)

René Jacobs - Vivaldi, Bononcini: Cantate (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 60:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 437 082-2 | Recorded: 1977, 1979

With more than 260 recordings to his credit and an intensive career as singer, conductor, scholar and teacher, René Jacobs has achieved an eminent position in the field of Baroque and Classical vocal music.

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis [Audiobook]  Audiobooks

Posted by TheInsertus at March 11, 2023
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis [Audiobook]

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis [Audiobook]
English | October 12, 2005 | ASIN: B000BQYRE8 | MP3@64 kbps | 9h 45m | 262.48 MB
Author: Alan Jacobs
Narrator: Alan Jacobs

The Book of Common Prayer : a biography  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Nov. 2, 2018
The Book of Common Prayer : a biography

The Book of Common Prayer : a biography By Jacobs, Alan
2013 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 0691154813 | EPUB + PDF | 6 MB

How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds [Audiobook]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at Oct. 17, 2017
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds [Audiobook]

Alan Jacobs, P. J. Ochlan (Narrator), "How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds"
ASIN: B0769X1SQ5 | 2017 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:21:00 | 124 MB

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction [Repost]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at Feb. 9, 2017
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction [Repost]

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
English | May 26, 2011 | ISBN: 0199747490 | EPUB + PDF | 176 pages | 1.9/0.5 MB

How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at Oct. 17, 2017
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

Alan Jacobs, "How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds"
ISBN: 0451499603 | 2017 | EPUB | 160 pages | 2 MB

How To Think: A Guide for the Perplexed  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at April 26, 2018
How To Think: A Guide for the Perplexed

How To Think: A Guide for the Perplexed by Alan Jacobs
English | October 26th, 2017 | ASIN: B06Y41QPWK, ISBN: 1781259569 | 161 Pages | EPUB | 0.62 MB

How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life.

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Sept. 9, 2020
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs
English | September 8th, 2020 | ISBN: 1984878409 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1.00 MB

From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the present