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David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Discograf_man at Jan. 9, 2017
David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]

David Lloyd-Jones - Holst Gustav The Planets (2004) [SACD-R][OF]
Classical | SACD ISO: DSD 2.0/DST 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Artwork | 4.28 GB
Label: Naxos | Release Year: 2004

This version of Holst’s endearing masterpiece, “The Planets”, sounds very good in Naxos’ super audio 5.1 technology. I do not have the point one (subwoofer) hooked up in my house and assume, by listening to the recording in 5.0, that the timpani — which are already very powerful and forward placed — would be explosive if you listened in 5.1. The sound is very good otherwise, with wide ranging and natural orchestral body and timbre. It is not the best super audio sound I’ve heard but it is good and a big improvement over the stereo sound on the last version of “The Planets” I purchased, the one Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle released last year.
Piers Lane, David Lloyd-Jones, Ulster Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 39: Delius & Ireland: Piano Concertos (2006)

Piers Lane, David Lloyd-Jones, Ulster Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 39: Delius & Ireland: Piano Concertos (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 64:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67296 | Recorded: 2005

Hyperion’s record of the month for January presents, for the first time, the original version of Delius’s Piano Concerto. Two years after completing this work in 1904, Delius recast it, rejecting the third movement and reorganizing other material. Perhaps thinking that the solo part wasn’t sufficiently pianistic, Delius also consulted a friend, the Busoni pupil Theodor Szántó, who rewrote the piano part in virtuoso style (with Delius’s ultimate approval). It is the Szántó version that has, until now, always been performed. With Delius’s original, characteristically refined orchestration also restored (from the orchestral parts that survive from the first performance in 1904), we can now hear this work as the composer envisaged before the involvement of another hand.
David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Willow-Wood; The Sons of Light (2005)

Roderick Williams, David Lloyd-Jones, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Willow-Wood; The Sons of Light (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 61:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557798 | Recorded: 2005

This release was an "Editor's Choice" in Gramophone Magazine (12/05) and features the world premiere recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Willow-Wood" as well as the return to the catalog of his "The Sons of Light." Both are cantatas dating from 1909 and 1951 respectively. The former is a passionate outpouring for baritone, women's voices and orchestra that's not to be missed. Drawn from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life, it consists of four interlinked sonnets, which describe a dreamlike, amorous encounter by a rustic well.
Malcolm Binns, David Lloyd-Jones - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 5: Rimsky-Korsakov & Balakirev: Piano Concertos (1993)

Malcolm Binns, David Lloyd-Jones, English Northern Philharmonia - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 5: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov & Mili Balakirev: Piano Concertos (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 215 Mb | Total time: 60:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66640 | Recorded: 1992

Composed in 1882/3, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Piano Concerto was the last of a series of works written in the very happy middle period of his life; other compositions of this period, rich in charming lyricism, included the opera The Snow Maiden and the orchestral Szakza (‘Fairy Tale’). The Concerto was first performed in March 1884 at one of Balakirev’s Free School concerts in St Petersburg and was the last work of Rimsky to be wholly approved of by his erstwhile mentor. While the lyricism is still sincere and deeply felt in the Concerto, the work also foreshadows the master artificer of the later years.
Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones - The Romantic Violin Concerto 10: Cliffe & Erlanger: Violin Concertos (2011)

Philippe Graffin, David Lloyd-Jones, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - The Romantic Violin Concerto 10: Cliffe & Erlanger: Violin Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 69:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67838 | Recorded: 2010

Hyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches its tenth volume, and turns to two composers based in England, and works by them which have lain hidden for decades. This disc provides a fascinating glimpse of musical history and the shifting fashions of the age which made fame such a fleeting thing for so many composers.
David Lloyd-Jones, English Northern Philharmonia - Constant Lambert: Tiresias, Pomona (1999)

David Lloyd-Jones, English Northern Philharmonia - Constant Lambert: Tiresias, Pomona (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 233 Mb | Total time: 74:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67049 | Recorded: 1998

Constant Lambert like his colleague Peter Warlocktends to be remembered more for his personal charisma and tragically early death than for his music. Yet the twenty or so extended scores which he did compose (The Rio Grande and Summer's Last Will and Testament being perhaps the most well known) are every bit as worthy as those of his more famous contemporaries. The bulk of Lambert's output was directed at the ballet, and he was the first Englishman ever to be commissioned by Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes quite an achievement for a twenty-year-old. As a result of this, Nijinska commissioned Pomona, a ballet rich in the atmosphere of neoclassicism and the French dance music of the 1920s.
David Lloyd-Jones & English Northern Philharmonia - Delius: Florida Suite (1996/2014) [Official Digital Download]

David Lloyd-Jones & English Northern Philharmonia - Delius: Florida Suite (1996/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 79:04 minutes | 695 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

„This interesting Delius disc contains one of his first major works, the Florida Suite. It was while working on an orange plantation in Solano Grove, Florida, that Delius first captured that sense of nature's intoxication that permeates all of his best music. It was also there that he caught the syphilis that would eventually blind him, and later cause his death. Aren't you glad you knew that? Anyway, the other major work is the haunting tone poem Over the Hills and Far Away. The other pieces are short, entertaining, and ephemeral, but they're all performed with great skill and expertise.“ (David Hurwitz)

Lloyd Jones - Doin' What It Takes (2012)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 9, 2024
Lloyd Jones - Doin' What It Takes (2012)

Lloyd Jones - Doin’ What It Takes (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 239 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 90 Mb | Scans included
Label: FRESH!/Reference | # FR-704 | Time: 00:38:04
Modern Electric Blues, Roots, Blues-Rock

Portland, Oregon roots artist Lloyd Jones has recorded six critically acclaimed albums, toured internationally, and racked up dozens of major awards and accolades. Many roots heavyweights, not to mention legions of CD-buying fans, sing his praises. Jones is a master of the soulful understatement, the raw growl, and the groove. From his roots in muddy Oregon soil, hes forged a 30-plus-year career as an impassioned singer and fierce guitar slinger, a clever and soulful songwriter, bandleader, record producer, and an almost strident torchbearer for all thats true and good about Americas music.
Holst, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind ‎- The Planets (1975) [MFSL UDSACD 4005]

Holst, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind ‎- The Planets (1975)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2004 | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, UDSACD 4005 | ~ 226 or 133 Mb | Scans Included
Classical

The Planets, composed between 1914 and 1916, is a suite of seven movements. Holst's starting point for the music was the astrological character of each planet, though his interest in astrology went no deeper than its musical suggestiveness…
John Eliot Gardiner, Philharmonia Orchestra - Holst: The Planets; Grainger: The Warriors (1995)

John Eliot Gardiner, Philharmonia Orchestra - Holst: The Planets; Grainger: The Warriors (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 68:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 445 860-2 | Recorded: 1994

The idea of John Eliot Gardiner not only doing Holst's The Planets, but doing it so effectively, shouldn't have come as a surprise, considering his broad musical culture and the success he has always had with large-scale works. His interpretation is quite reminiscent of Sir Adrian Boult's mid-'60s account with the same orchestra (then called the New Philharmonia)–tasteful yet full of character, impeccably played, energetic, fresh. On top of that, the recording is breathtaking. There is extraordinary inner detail, with string tone that is natural (as is the timbre of winds and high percussion) and an astonishing amount of weight in the bass. The coupling, Percy Grainger's The Warriors, is a wonderfully erudite touch–just what we should expect from Gardiner–and a romp for him and the orchestra.