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Paray - Chabrier And Roussel
Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Paul Paray
PS3 SACD ISO (2.0/3.0): 2,97 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 355 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,22 GB | Lossless Artwork: 62 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Mercury Living Presence 475 618-3 | Country/Year: Germany 2004 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

This Mercury Living Presence SACD of orchestral works by Chabrier and Roussel presents, for the first time, Paray's celebrated recordings in their original 3-channel (left, right & centre) versions. In addition to this direct-to-DSD 3-channel stereo, the disc includes a new DSD stereo, plus the original CD transfer.

Carl Cleves & Parissa Bouas - Out Of Australia
PS3 SACD ISO: 2,89 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 276 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC: 921 MB | Lossless Artwork: 182 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Stockfisch SFR 357.4060.2 | Country/Year: Germany 2010 | Genre: Folk, Singer/Songwriter | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

This nomadic anthology captures the pathos of the human condition with originality and verve. Multichannel SACD is an ideal medium for this music. The understated nuances of the various stringed instruments are reproduced with clear acoustics, whether it’s a prominent rhythm guitar, or delicate lute. Tonal quality of the voices is flawless. The depth and texture of the vocals (in particular the ensembles) refine the musical eminence.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Royal Flemish Philharmonic / Philippe Herreweghe
PS3 SACD ISO (2.0/5.0): 4,13 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 293 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,13 GB | Lossless Artwork: 171 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Pentatone PTC 5186 313 | Country/Year: Europe 2008 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

Conductor Philippe Herreweghe returns to the helm of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic for another set of Beethoven symphonies on the PentaTone label, this time the First and Third. Again presented as a multi-channel SACD hybrid disc, PentaTone's sound is clean and detailed without too much digital sterility. Unlike the album that included the Fifth Symphony and was fraught with many rhythmic peculiarities, Herreweghe's reading of the First and Third symphonies seems diligently respectful to every nuance of the score…

Ex Cathedra / Jeffrey Skidmore - Fire Burning In Snow (Baroque Music From Latin America)
PS3 SACD ISO (2.0/5.1): 4,08 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 337 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,20 GB | Lossless Artwork: 100 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion SACDA67600 | Country/Year: UK 2008 | Genre: Classical / Baroque | Hoster: Filepost / Filefactory

Fire Burning in Snow, the third volume in Ex Cathedra's series of Baroque music from Latin America, is strong testimony to the vitality of the musical scene in South America in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. (…) Conductor Jeffrey Skidmore is to be commended for bringing this repertoire, much of which has never been recorded, to light, and for delivering such lively realizations and energetic and full-bodied performances. This SACD should be of strong interest to anyone who loves Renaissance and Baroque polyphony and fans of choral music with a Latin flavor.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Kantaten BWV 56, 158 & 82
Thomas Quasthoff / Berliner Barock Solisten / RIAS Kammerchor / Rainer Kussmaul
PS3 SACD ISO: 3,62GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 210 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 863 MB | Lossless Artwork: 260 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon 474 505-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2004 | Genre: Baroque / Sacred | Hoster: FP/FF

…Not only does Quasthoff perform with his by now customary strength and elegance, but Quasthoff interprets with his by now customary warmth and compassion. Quasthoff knows full well the depths of doom and gloom in Bach's texts, but he also knows that despite it all, life is good and his singing projects a love of life that few other performers can match. The choral singing by members of the RIAS-Kammerchor is subtle and strong and the orchestral playing of the Berliner Barock Solisten is nuanced and sensitive. Deutsche Grammophon's sound is clear and detailed.

Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
PS3 SACD ISO: 4,06 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 251 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,07 GB | Lossless Artwork: 110 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live LSO0716 | Country/Year: UK 2011 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

…The LSO play with their customary precision and refinement, which goes a long way in music that can often be so ethereal and uplifting as Bruckner's. And when the orchestra get a chance to come into full bloom in the biggest crescendos and fortissimos, they sound wonderful, especially with Haitink guiding them so evenhandedly…

Jean Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
PS3 SACD ISO: 2,81 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 211 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 860 MB | Lossless Artwork: 156 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live LSO0051 | Country/Year: UK 2004 | Genre: Classical, Romantic | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

…But even compared with the LSO's fervent performances of the Sibelius symphonies with Davis in the '90s cannot compare with the fire of these 2003 recordings of the Third and Seventh. With the LSO's passionate virtuosity behind him, Davis creates nuanced but powerful performances, performances that are detailed yet sweeping, lyric yet epic, but, above all, loving. Davis and the LSO's Third is light but shot with shadows, poised but relentless, mysterious but triumphant. The Seventh is the sun cresting the snow-capped mountains, the wind rushing down from the peaks, their song soaring in the high, sharp air. Even though Davis does hum, anyone who loves Sibelius will have to hear these performances.