Las Lloronas

Le "codex Las Huelgas" qui a été récemment daté des années 1340, rassemble 186 chants liturgiques et para-liturgiques dont L'Ensemble Gilles Binchois présente une sélection. La musique du Moyen âge n'existe aujourd'hui que grâce au précieux travail de musiciens comme Dominique Vellard qui s'emploient à donner vie au répertoire liturgique des monastères anciens. Aux quatre coins de l'Europe médiévale, des manuscrits - ou codex - consignaient les chants des offices.

Along with the Shirelles and the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las were among the greatest girl groups; if judged solely on the basis of attitude, they were the greatest of them all. They combined an innocent adolescent charm with more than a hint of darkness, singing about dead bikers, teenage runaways, and doomed love affairs as well as ebullient high-school crushes. These could be delivered with either infectious, handclapping harmonies or melodramatic, almost operatic recitatives that were contrived but utterly effective.

'Las Vegas Closing Night 1972' a 2 CD Deluxe Set that features a live performance recorded on 4 September 1972, during the last night of Elvis' seventh engagement in Las Vegas at the Hilton Hotel. The show is presented in stereo. A bonus CD of remastered rehearsal tracks, recorded days before the engagement began, is also included.

Tom Jones' greatest strength is as a showman, making Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas one of his strongest records. As he tears through his well-constructed show, the vocalist works the reserved crowd into a near-frenzy, which makes him sing stronger and more dramatically. However, Tom Jones is at his best when he is at his most melodramatic, so this isn't a flaw.

Peter Maxwell Davies - Mavis in las Vegas
EAC 099pb4 Rip | APE+CUE, LOGs | 1 CD | 70:41 min | 262 MB | 300 dpi PDF Complete Scans
Genre: Contemporary - 20th Century | Label: Collins Classics

Parody has always been one of Maxwell Davies’s central gifts, and if the producer of the next Hollywood blockbuster is looking for a composer, or if Richard Clayderman needs an arranger or Forest Lawn someone to provide tasteful mortuary music they need look no further. Nor need they fear being raucously sent up: there is as much wry affection as derision here. Sir Peter is also startlingly good at evoking sensational lighting effects: the fountain at Caesar’s Palace, bathed in violet radiance, is almost visible; there is poetry to his description of the lights of Las Vegas seen from the desert at night. The only problem with this likeable and funny jeu d’esprit is that it lasts less than a quarter of an hour, and many of Maxwell Davies’s admirers will already have the remaining 58 minutes of music on this CD. Those who don’t will find it an entertaining (and sensibly priced) anthology of his lighter pieces, all of them played with the same gusto as the new one, and as cleanly recorded."