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Frank Zappa - Decisions (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 9, 2019

Frank Zappa - Decisions (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | 01:15:13 | 500 Mb / 171 Mb
Genre: Rock / Label: House Of Humbug

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works, and produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his era.

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Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 9, 2019

Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | 01:03:08 | 143 Mb / 388 Mb
Genre: Pop, Disco / Label: House Of Humbug

Summer earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100's top-five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time I Know It's for Real". Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with "I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)". While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the US Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.

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Frank Zappa - Bamboozled By Love (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 9, 2019

Frank Zappa - Bamboozled By Love (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 kbps | 01:18:08 | 504 Mb / 178 Mb
Genre: Rock / Label: House Of Humbug

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Jeanne Crousaud, Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes & David Reiland - Auber: La sirène, S. 37 (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 11, 2019

Jeanne Crousaud, Orchestre des Frivolités Parisiennes & David Reiland - Auber: La sirène, S. 37 (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 331 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 160 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:46
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

Auber earned international adulation in the late 1820s for his revolutionary grand opera La Muette de Portici and by the time he composed La Sirène, the success of which inspired potpourris of its melodies, he occupied a central place in French musical life. The mysterious siren of the title is part of a plot that abounds in fantastic comedy, love, betrayal, farce and festivity in the lineage of Italian popular theatre. The German poet Heinrich Heine wrote that ‘La Sirène was received with resounding bravos … The author and the composer know how to amuse us agreeably, and even to enchant us, or to dazzle us by the luminous facets of their spirit.’

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev - Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 18, 2019

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev - Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 227 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 128 Mb | 00:55:30
Classical | Label: Münchner Philharmoniker

The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta.

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Collegium Vocale 1704 - Handel Messiah, HWV 56 (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 19, 2019

Collegium Vocale 1704 - Handel Messiah, HWV 56 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks +booklet) | 02:10:31 | 646 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Accent

Handel’s Messiah is already very well-represented on the CD market, with dozens of existing recordings and new productions appearing at regular intervals. Yet this is a very special version, carefully crafted, by the Prague-based Collegium Vocale and Collegium 1704 under the baton of Vaclav Luks, founder of the ensemble and one of the most exciting conductors of the Baroque and Classical repertoire.

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Madonna - The Girlie Show Live (2019) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 26, 2019

Madonna - The Girlie Show Live (2019)
FLAC (tracks) | 01:54:40 | 645 Mb
Genre: Pop / Label: House Of Humbug

Madonna's popularity was further enhanced by her roles in films such as Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Dick Tracy (1990), A League of Their Own (1992), and Evita (1996). While Evita earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, many of her other films received poor reviews. As a businesswoman, Madonna founded an entertainment company called Maverick (including the label Maverick Records) in 1992. Her other ventures include fashion design, children's books, health clubs, and filmmaking. She contributes to various charities, having founded Ray of Light Foundation in 1998 and Raising Malawi in 2006.

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VA - Ecumenical Spirit: The Choral Music of Michael G. Cunningham (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 26, 2019

VA - Ecumenical Spirit: The Choral Music of Michael G. Cunningham (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 285 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | 01:04:32
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Navona Records

Composer Michael G. Cunningham introduces the beauty of sacred choral compositions with the unique energy of the live recording. “Ecumenical” is defined as the promotion of unity among different Christian churches across the world, and ECUMENICAL SPIRIT celebrates the unifying powers of music as it transcends the borders of all differences.

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Greg Abate - Gratitude (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by Pisulik at April 26, 2019

Greg Abate - Gratitude (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 458 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 MB | 01:11:52
Jazz | Label: Whaling City Sound

On his fourth recording with the Tim Ray Trio, all on Whaling City Sound, Greg Abate and friends search for and find the true essence of jazz. With no formal rehearsals, and subsequently, no overdubs, mulligans, and redos, the band captures its performance in truth, in full, and in the moment. With the seasoned support of Tim Ray (piano), John Lockwood (bass) and Mark Walker (drums), Abate and his various horns (alto, tenor and baritone saxes, as well as ute) cruise through a slate of mainly originals, along with Joe Hendersons Inner Urge and Roland Kirks Serenade to a Cuckoo, done here on tenor sax rather than the customary flute.

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Sylvia McNair, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir & Eric Stark - Festival of Carols (Live) (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 6, 2019

Sylvia McNair, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir & Eric Stark - Festival of Carols (Live) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 381 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:59
Classical, Vocal | Label: Naxos Records

This collection of best-loved Christmas repertoire was recorded live at the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir Festival of Carols concerts in 2015 and 2016. GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Sylvia McNair adds her own unique beauty and warmth, and as ever, the programme celebrates the joys of the season with sparkling versions of family favourites. The tranquillity and magic of Christmas eve, heartfelt messages of hope, reconciliation and peace, and thrilling new compositions all combine to capture the celebratory excitement of the holiday season.

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