Josefowicz

Composer: Sir Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius, Oliver Knussen, Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett, Sir William Walton
Performer: Paul Watkins, Leila Josefowicz, Christian Poltera, Philip Dukes, Daniel Hope
Conductor: Jiri Belohlávek, Oliver Knussen, Sir Andrew Davis, Stephen Jackson
Orchestra/Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus

Various Artist - Violin Adagios (2CDs) (2001)
Classical | Easy CD-DA / Flac & Cue, No Log | Cover included | 680 MB | RS
Audio CD: March 20, 2001 | Label: Decca

Continuing their Adagios series, the folks at Decca have combed the archives once again and assembled another soothing collection of beautiful melodies, Violin Adagios. This time the soulful sound of the violin takes center stage in a program of the most memorable slow-paced music written for the instrument. Opening with Kennedy's rendition of Massenet's mournful "Meditation" from Thaïs, the double-disc set continues with performances by legends like Arthur Grumiaux and Henryk Szeryng, along with newly minted stars such as Joshua Bell, Kyung-Wha Chung, and Leila Josefowicz. And all the essential composers – from Bach to Beethoven to Brahms – are represented, too, on this album in celebration of the violin, that most lyrical of instruments.

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VA - The Last Night of the Proms 2003
FLAC, EAC, LOG & CUE | Lossless Artwork | Size: 622 MB
Label/Cat#: Warner Classics 2564 61552-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2004
Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filesonic/Uploaded/Filepost

Many people's perception of the Proms is taken from the Last Night, although this concert is very different from the others. It usually takes place on the second Saturday in September, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC2 (first half) and BBC1 (second half). The concert is traditionally in a lighter, 'winding-down' vein, with popular classics being followed by a series of British patriotic pieces in the second half of the concert. This sequence traditionally begins with Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory), and continues with Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, which culminates in Thomas Arne's Rule, Britannia!….

Frederic Chopin - The Complete Works
Garrick Ohlsson, Piano / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Kazimierz Kord
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 3,41 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion # CDS44251/66 | Country/Year: UK 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Piano

'Garrick Ohlsson’s complete survey of everything Chopin wrote for piano (including chamber music, songs, and for piano and orchestra) will delight the completist and the Chopin connoisseur. Ohlsson (who won the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1970) gives us accounts of this wondrous repertoire in weighty and commanding style, aristocratic and impulsive (but not lacking light and shade or contemplative contrasts) and, at times, very sensitive and searching. These vivid recordings were made in the second half of the 1990s and have previously appeared on the Arabesque label. They now sit very well in Hyperion’s catalogue'