Bbc Music March 2018

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972) [2018, 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Box Set]

Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Universal Music, 4734389 | ~ 1212 or 485 Mb | Scans(png) -> 4.11 Gb
DVD5: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed
DTS, 6 ch / Dolby AC3, 6 ch / LinearPCM, 2 ch -> 4.63 GB
Art Rock / Glam / Experimental

Roxy Music release an expanded edition of their ground-breaking debut album to mark its 45th anniversary. The Super Deluxe Edition includes rare and previously unavailable material never-heard-before outside of Roxy’s inner circle. Audio includes the original album, BBC Sessions & In Concert performance, 1971 demo tape and ‘In-Session’ performance…
BBC Concert Orchestra, Kathryn Rudge, Henk Neven & Barry Wordsworth - Elgar: Orchestral Songs (2018)

BBC Concert Orchestra, Kathryn Rudge, Henk Neven & Barry Wordsworth - Elgar: Orchestral Songs (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 352 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 207 Mb | 01:30:30
Classical, Vocal | Label: SOMM Recordings

SOMM Recordings is delighted to present a revelatory collection of orchestral songs by Sir Edward Elgar (on double slimline selling as a single disc), performed by two of today’s most exciting young singers – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and baritone Henk Neven – accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth. The Hills of Dreamland takes its title from a line in Elgar’s well-known setting, beautifully still and beseeching, of Arthur L Salmon’s Pleading. Historically the least regarded part of Elgar’s output, his songs contain a treasure-trove of vocal gems and here receive performances of insight, imagination and emotional directness.
Wynder K. Frog - Shook Shimmy And Shake: The Complete Recordings 1966-1970 [3CD Box Set] (2018) (Re-up)

Wynder K. Frog - Shook Shimmy And Shake: The Complete Recordings 1966-1970 [3CD Box Set] (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 916 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 442 MB | Box Covers - 86 MB
Genre: Soul Jazz, Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RPM Records/Cherry Red Records (RPMBX 540)

Essentially a vehicle for Hammond organ maestro Mick Weaver, late 60s British band Wynder K. Frog specialised in funky club Soul/Jazz. Hailing from Bolton, Lancashire, but based in London for much of their career, Mick and the band made three albums for Island Records between 1966 and 1970. These have long been coveted by Mod collectors and fans of the prestigious Island label. For the first time ever, all three LPs - Sunshine Super Frog (mono, 1966), Out Of The Frying Pan (stereo, 1968) and the US-only Into The Fire (stereo, 1970) - appear on one package, accompanied by a host of rare non-album tracks, previously unissued material, a track from a BBC radio session and two stereo mixes from the soundtrack to the 1968 film The Touchables…

Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at March 2, 2024
Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs

Martin Roscoe - Carl Nielsen: Complete Piano Music (2008) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 313 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67591/2 | Time: 01:56:42

Apart from Grieg, no Scandinavian composer has written for the piano with more individuality and insight than Nielsen. Right from the very outset of his Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3, there is no doubt that his is an individual voice. The first emerges from a Schumannesque innocence to speak with personal accents, but all five are strong on humour and character. Nielsen’s greatest piano music is clustered into a period of four years (1916-20) with his final thoughts in the medium, the Three Pieces, Op. 59 of 1928 being composed in the immediate proximity of his Clarinet Concerto, music that already breathes the air of other planets. With the exception of Leif Ove Andsnes, no pianist of international standing has championed it on record, and apart from John Ogdon and John McCabe it has been the almost exclusive preserve of Nordic artists. True, the American scholar Mina Miller, who edited the autographs for the Hansen edition, recorded a complete survey in 1995 – also for Hyperion. But although Schnabel was the dedicatee of the Suite, Op. 45, he never broke a lance for it on the international scene. The Suite is not only Nielsen’s greatest keyboard work but arguably the mightiest ever written in Scandinavia. Martin Roscoe is right inside this music and guides us through its marvels with great subtlety and authority.

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 17, 2024
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)

The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park - English Motets (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 169 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral, Renaissance | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68256 | 01:13:06

The Gesualdo Six literally made its name with performances of Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsories, but that's not the British vocal consort's only specialty. Each of the singers was trained in the English choral tradition, and sacred works of the 16th and 17th century are close to their hearts. This 2018 Hyperion release is a brief survey of motets by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Sheppard, Robert White, John Dunstaple, Thomas Morley, John Taverner, William Cornysh, Orlando Gibbons, and Robert Parsons, which represent the changing theological and liturgical aspects of English religion in the Renaissance. The ensemble, conducted by Owain Park, sings with evenly blended tones and an extraordinary harmonic richness, notwithstanding the assignment of one voice to a part and the exposed polyphony that sometimes creates an austere effect. Also quite noticeable are the cross-relations that add poignant dissonances to the counterpoint, as in Tallis' Loquebantur variis linguis, Taverner's Quemadmodum, Gibbons' O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not, and Parsons' Deliver me from mine enemies. This album was recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, where The Gesualdo Six gave its first performances, and the sound is enhanced by vibrant acoustics that give the group a radiant aural halo.

Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011  Music

Posted by Designol at March 19, 2024
Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011

Stephen Coombs - Anton Arensky: Piano Music (1998) Reissue 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 211 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios (Hyperion) | # CDH55311 | Time: 01:09:24

Teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin, Anton Arensky (1861-1906) divided his life between metropolitan St Petersburg and provincial Moscow – during the second half of the 19th century, as Stephen Coombs points out in his excellent notes, ‘a city of sharp contrasts, fiercely religious, noisy and mournful… [of] sober days… followed by riotous nights’. A contemporary recalled him as ‘mobile, nervous, with a wry smile on his clever, half-Tartar face, always joking or snarling. All feared his laughter and adored his talent.’ Rosina Lhevinne remembered him being ‘shy and rather weak’. Tchaikovsky, like Prokofiev and Stravinsky, had time for his art, but Rimsky (whose pupil he’d been) thought he would be ‘soon forgotten’. Maybe Arensky, drunkard and gambler, was no genius, and he was demonstrably lost among the elevated peaks of Brahmsian sonata tradition. But that he could turn a perfumed miniature more lyrically beautiful than most, more occasionally profound too, is repeatedly borne out in the 27 vignettes of this delicate anthology (Opp. 25, 41, 43 and 53 in full and excerpts from Opp. 36 and 52 ).

BBC Music Magazine – March 2018  Magazines

Posted by Inshuf at June 16, 2023
BBC Music Magazine – March 2018

BBC Music Magazine – March 2018
English | 168 pages | PDF | 68.4 MB
Eric Coates & VA - The Best Of 'The Definitive Eric Coates' (2018)

Eric Coates, London Symphony Orchestra, New Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Light Symphony Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra, Eric Coates and His Orchestra & Concert Orchestra - The Best Of 'The Definitive Eric Coates' (2018)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 02:38:09 | 370 Mb
Classical, Orchestral | Label: Nimbus Records

Respectfully known as the "king of light music,"Eric Coates was one of England's greatest composers. A prolific writer, Coates wrote pieces for orchestras, chamber groups, and solo pianists. In addition to penning more than 160 ballads, he composed numerous instrumental settings for the poetry of William Shakespeare and other British poets. His many radio themes included the theme of the popular BBC radio show Calling All Workers, which aired four times a day, five days a week. Coates made his orchestral debut in 1911 when his composition "Miniature Suite" was performed by the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra under the direction of Sir Henry Wood. Coates played viola with the orchestra during the premiere. Although he wrote his most enduring tune, "Stonecracker John," in 1909, Coates enjoyed a revival of his popularity in the late '20s when his songs "Birdsongs at Eventide" and "Homeward to You" became major hits. He remained active until shortly before his death in 1957, composing "The Dam Busters March" and "High Flight" for popular early-'50s films.
Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic - Gustav Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 4 (2018)

Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic - Gustav Holst: Orchestral Works, Volume 4 (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 77:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 5192 | Recorded: 2018

Five years after the highly-praised release of Volume 3, Sir Andrew Davis returns to his exploration of Holst’s orchestral works with the brilliant BBC Philharmonic, a series initiated almost ten years ago by the late Richard Hickox, then taken over by another expert in British repertoire. This selection of orchestral works by Holst provides a remarkable overview of his career, ranging from such early works as A Winder Idyll – composed in 1897 when he was still studying at the Royal College of Music – to the Scherzo of a symphony on which he was working towards the end of his life.
Valery Gergiev, Munchner Philharmoniker - Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Strauss, Ustvolskaya (2018) [Blu-Ray]

Valery Gergiev, Münchner Philharmoniker - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall 2016: Berlioz, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Strauss, Ustvolskaya (2018) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-2 Video / 24994 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 111 min | 23,1 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 16-bit | Audio2: DTS Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 111 min | 6,01 Gb
Audio: DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Naxos

Valery Gergiev, fresh from his appointment as chief conductor of the Münchner Philharmoniker in 2015, takes his new ensemble to the BBC Proms for a concert of the utmost in drama and vivid musicianship. The brilliant young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov performs Rachmaninov’s thrillingly virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3, while the Russian stage and film actor Alexei Petrenko recites the text in Galina Ustvolskaya’s resonant and profound Symphony No. 3 ‘Jesus Messiah, Save Us!’. The programme also features a hypnotic Ravel Boléro, an alternately tender, florid and witty Rosenkavalier Suite, and the rousing Hungarian March by Berlioz.