Chicago XI

Chicago - Chicago XI (1977/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Chicago - Chicago XI (1977/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 44:47 minutes | 1,71 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 44:47 minutes | 962 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"Chicago XI" was the final studio effort to feature the original septet, who by this time had been performing and recording for nearly a decade. In late January 1978, founding member Terry Kath accidentally and fatally shot himself, forever altering the band's sound and indeed much of the combo's tenacious rock & roll heart…
Original Album Series: Chicago (2010) [5CD Box Set, Rhino 8122 79801 3]

Original Album Series: Chicago (2010) [5CD Box Set, Rhino 8122 79801 3]
Progressive/Jazz-Rock | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log | MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Rhino | 8122 79801 3 | ~2285 + 1014Mb
Scans(png) -> 307 Mb | Box Art -> 66 Mb

Five CD box set containing a quintet of their albums housed together in an attractive slipcase: Chicago Transit Authority (1969), Chicago II (1970), Chicago V (1972), Chicago VI (1973) and Chicago VII (1974). While Chicago are oft remembered as a Pop/Rock hit making machine, their musical roots were Jazz-oriented and this quintet of albums features the band blending their commercial sensibilities with their excellent Jazz/Rock musicianship
Riccardo Muti, Chicago SO, Soloists - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lelio, ou le Retour a la Vie (2015) 2CDs

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lélio, ou le Retour à la Vie (2015) 2CDs
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti; Gérard Depardieu, narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 424 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 262 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: CSO Resound | # CSOR 901 1501 | Time: 01:54:42

Recorded in 2010 during Riccardo Muti's first subscription concerts as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's tenth music director, this new double-CD release pairs Hector Berlioz's beloved Symphonie fantastique with its sequel, Lélio, ou le retour de la vie (Lélio, or The Return to Life). Berlioz intended Symphonie fantastique to be followed by Lélio in concert, as the artist returns to life to comment anew on music and art. Maestro Muti and the CSO are joined in Lélio by the acclaimed actor Gérard Depardieu as the narrator, tenor Mario Zeffiri, bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. With the "conclusion and complement" of Symphonie fantastique, as Berlioz referred to Lélio, this recording increases listeners' familiarity with the music of a daring and revolutionary composer.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de feu; Feu d'artifice; 4 Etudes (2023)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de feu; Feu d'artifice; 4 Etudes (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 223 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 144 MB
59:31 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Stravinsky did three orchestral versions of his famous ballet, The Firebird (1910). The two that are mostly played today are a shorter version arranged in 1945, which is about 30 minutes long, and the original ballet suite, which is more than 45 minutes long. This is that version. The extended repeats and transitional material, in the right hands, give the whole work a decidedly spectral character. This, Boulez does expertly. (And the CSO has never sounded so…light on its feet.) Also here is the early Fireworks, where you can almost hear The Firebird approaching. The Four Etudes for Orchestra finish the disc like a snifter of brandy. –Paul Cook

Chicago - Ultra Rare Tracks Vol.1 & 2 (2000) Re-up  Music

Posted by v3122 at June 27, 2017
Chicago - Ultra Rare Tracks Vol.1 & 2 (2000) Re-up

Chicago - Ultra Rare Tracks Vol.1 & 2 (2000)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Lo & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
4CD | Bootleg | ~ 1804 or 616 Mb | Scans
Soft Rock / Jazz-Rock / Prog Rock
Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) - Stravinsky- L'Oiseau de feu; Feu d'artifice; 4 Etudes (2023) [Official Digital Download]

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) - Stravinsky- L'Oiseau de feu; Feu d'artifice; 4 Etudes (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 50:44 minutes | 521 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891, the ensemble has been based in the Symphony Center since 1904 and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The orchestra's most recent music director is Riccardo Muti, whose tenure spanned 13 seasons, from 2010–2023. The CSO is one of the American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five".

Lang Lang: Complete Recordings 2000-2009 [12CDs] (2024)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 22, 2024
Lang Lang: Complete Recordings 2000-2009 [12CDs] (2024)

Lang Lang: Complete recordings 2000-2009 [12CDs] (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2,8 Gb | Total time: 13:30:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 483 7956 | Recorded: 2000-2009

The collection of Lang Lang’s Complete Recordings brings together the treasure-trove of recordings that present all the many facets of the pianist’s first decade as a recording artist from 2000–2009. The set also includes his solo and concerto debut albums on the Telarc label.
Seiji Ozawa & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Orchestre de Paris - Stravinsky / Janacek / Bartok / Lutoslawski (1998)

Seiji Ozawa & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Orchestre de Paris - Stravinsky: The Firebird / Janacek: Sinfonietta / Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra (1998)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:12:54 | 650 Mb
Contemporary Classical | Label: EMI Classics (Double Forte Series)

2CD anthology of two albums previously released by EMI, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Orchestre de Paris and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A rare, hard to find recording of historical value.

RCA Living Stereo - 60CD Collection, Part II (2012)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 23, 2024
RCA Living Stereo - 60CD Collection, Part II (2012)

RCA Living Stereo - 60CD Collection, Part II (2012)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 6,39 Gb | Total time: 63:57:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88765414972 | Recorded: 1954-1963

On October 6, 1953, RCA held experimental stereophonic sessions in New York's Manhattan Center with Leopold Stokowski conducting a group of New York musicians in performances of Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the waltz from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. There were additional stereo tests in December, again in the Manhattan Center, this time with Pierre Monteux conducting members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In February 1954, RCA made its first commercial stereophonic recordings, taping the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch, in a performance of The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz.
Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Schoenberg: Kol Nidre; Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Schoenberg: Kol Nidre; Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, digital booklet - 258 MB | 00:56:41
Classical, Opera | Label: CSO Resound | Release Year: 2016

This new live recording pairs profound works by two of the twentieth century's greatest composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich. Writer Phillip Huscher describes Schoenberg's Kol Nidre a "stark, strong modernist statement," set to the prayer said on the eve of Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement. Schoenberg, who had fled Europe in 1934, premiered the work in Los Angeles in 1938, one month before the devastating the anti Jewish pogroms of Kristallnacht took place throughout Nazi-Germany. Shostakovich's suite explores similarly weighty concerns, including themes of love, morality, death, and the human spirit through the poetry of the Renaissance master Michelangelo. Although originally conceived to honor the fifth centenary of the artist's birth, Shostakovich's settings became a highly personal testament to concerns the two men shared across the centuries.