Limelight From May 2015

Il Convito, Maude Gratton - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Concertos pour clavecin et cordes (2015)

Il Convito, Maude Gratton - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Harpsichord Concertos (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 417 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR162 | Time: 01:13:33

Overshadowed by his father, Johann Sebastian, and his brothers Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian, the music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach provides a bridge between the high art of the first and expressive tendencies of Sturm und Drang. His Harpsichord Concertos, as performed here by Maude Gratton [of the Ricercar Consort] and Il Convito, offer a very successful synthesis of these two trends.
Tore Brunborg with Eivind Aarset, Steinar Raknes & Per Oddvar Johansen - Slow Snow (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tore Brunborg with Eivind Aarset, Steinar Raknes & Per Oddvar Johansen - Slow Snow (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 48:20 minutes | 1,02 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

On a per-capita basis, no other country in the world spawns more top-class jazz musicians than Norway. Jan Garbarek is the guiding star, but it was also the second generation born in the 60s that helped 'Nordic Jazz' to global notoriety: Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, Geir Lysne, Eivind Aarset and saxophonist Tore Brunborg. Although highly respected in the Norwegian jazz scene, Brunborg has until now been known internationally as a sideman, however this year, the 54 year-old brings out his own international release, his ACT debut 'Slow Snow'.

V.A. - Kuschel Rock - Collection (31CDs, 1987-2017)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at April 7, 2018
V.A. - Kuschel Rock - Collection (31CDs, 1987-2017)

V.A. - Kuschel Rock - Collection (31CDs, 1987-2017)
Rock, Art rock, Blues rock, Country | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 11,88 Gb | Scans 72 Mb
Label: Sony Music Media ‎

Even before the first KuschelRock album, Kuschelrock was named as a weekly nightly music program for HR3 radio station (HR3 broadcasts from Frankfurt, Germany), the author and host of this project was Thomas Koschwitz, who is considered to be the co-author of a number of albums in Kazle … After Sony Music patented the right to release a series of albums called "KuschelRock", the HR3 radio station can no longer air this night music show … And now Sony Music regularly releases every year on the album …

Bert Weedon - The Very Best Of Bert Weedon (2002)  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 5, 2023
Bert Weedon - The Very Best Of Bert Weedon (2002)

Bert Weedon - The Very Best Of Bert Weedon (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 307 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans ~ 46 Mb
Label: EMI Gold | # 7243 5 42426 2 5 | Time: 01:05:40
Instrumental Pop/Rock, Jazz Pop, Rock & Roll

Bert Weedon is one of Britain's most accomplished instrumental stars. He was the first British guitarist to have a hit record in the UK Singles Chart, in 1959, and his best-selling tutorial guides, Play in a Day, were a major influence on many leading British musicians, such as Eric Clapton, Brian May, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Dave Davies, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Tony Iommi and Jimmy Page. His early days in show business found him playing with all the top bands of the day, including Django Reinhardt, Ted Heath, Mantovani & many others. This album features a wealth of material from his hugely successful LPs & singles, it is quite literally packed with thirty recordings from Bert Weedon, the man who has become the living legend of guitar.

Rush - Different Stages: Live (1998) [3CD, Japanese Edition]  Music

Posted by v3122 at April 1, 2019
Rush - Different Stages: Live (1998) [3CD, Japanese Edition]

Rush - Different Stages: Live (1998)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
EastWest Japan, AMCY-2891~3 | ~ 1499 or 651 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 200 Mb
Progressive Rock, Hard Rock

On their fourth live album since their inception in the early '70s, Rush's three-CD Different Stages: Live is similar in approach and feel to their first in-concert release, 1976's All the World's a Stage…

Rush - Rush In Rio (2003)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Jan. 8, 2018
Rush - Rush In Rio (2003)

Rush - Rush In Rio (2003)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Atlantic, 7567-83672-2 | ~ 1269 or 418 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 55 Mb
Progressive Rock

Set for production as a live DVD from the Vapour Trails tour, the audio from Rush in Rio clearly stands as a startling historical and musical document. The live mix is simply superb and reveals the show as it happened, without overdubs or DAT splices. The band played in front of their second-largest crowd ever, 40,000 people on the final night of the tour. (The largest was 60,000-plus the night before in São Paulo in the rain.) Covering three CDs, this is one of those documents that can make a punter wonder why he ever doubted the glory, majesty, and heavy, overblown, pretentious rock power of Rush…

Rod Stewart - Handbags & Gladrags (1995)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 29, 2017
Rod Stewart - Handbags & Gladrags (1995)

Rod Stewart - Handbags & Gladrags (1995)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2CD | Mercury 528 823-2 2005 | ~ 948 or 348 Mb | Scans(jpg) -> 94 Mb
Classic Rock / Soft Rock

How good was Rod Stewart really? The truth is….very good indeed. In his earlier days, he had a grittier and less polished style that suited so many different types of musical genres. He was equally comfortable singing country rock, ballads or out and out rockers…

The Three Sounds - Eight Classic Albums (2011) 4CD Box Set  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 21, 2023
The Three Sounds - Eight Classic Albums (2011) 4CD Box Set

The Three Sounds - Eight Classic Albums (2011) 4CD Box Set
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.64 Gb | Scans ~ 26 Mb | Time: 05:05:55
Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Soul Jazz | Label: Real Gone Jazz | # RGJCD285

Four CD set containing eight albums from the Jazz greats: 'Introducing The Three Sounds' (1958), 'Branching Out' (With Nat Adderly) (1958), 'Introducing The Three Sounds Vol. 2' (1958), 'Bottoms Up!' (1959), 'Moods' (1960), 'Hey There' (1961), 'Here We Come' (1960) and 'Blue Hour' (1960).
Mari Kodama, Kent Nagano - Beethoven: The Piano Concertos; Triple Concerto (2014) 3CD Set

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Piano Concertos; Triple Concerto (2014) 3CD Set
Mari Kodama, piano; Kolja Blacher, violin; Johannes Moser, cello
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Kent Nagano, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 790 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 483 Mb | Scans ~ 15 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Berlin Classics | # 0300597BC | Time: 03:30:59

Passionate, dramatic, yet poetic and richly nuanced Mari Kodama brings all these qualities to her interpretation of Beethovens Complete Piano Concertos. This exceptional recording with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin shines with extraordinary intensity and contrast, due in no small measure to the artistic bond between Mari Kodama and her husband, the conductor Kent Nagano. Beethovens Piano Concertos are undoubtedly amongst the most influential works in the history of music. Art demands of us that we shall not stand still, the composer once wrote, placing the idea of development at the heart of his music. His five piano concertos saw Beethoven take piano music out of the salon and into the concert hall, playing a crucial role in advancing the genre towards the symphony, whilst simultaneously creating a bridge from the First Viennese School to the Romantic period. Mari Kodama, whose virtuosic mastery of the piano made her a household name all over the world, has completed the Beethoven Piano Concerto Cycle with her husband Kent Nagano, the international star conductor.
Daniel Barenboim, Andras Schiff, Sir Georg Solti, English CO - Mozart: Piano Concertos K 242, 365, 466 (1990) Reissue 2006

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, K. 365;
Concerto for Three Pianos in F, K. 242; Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
Sir Georg Solti, piano & conducted; English Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, piano; András Schiff, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 300 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 195 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca/Universal | # 476 2451 | Time: 01:18:16

Involving, as it does, three master musicians and a fine chamber orchestra this was never likely to be be other than rewarding. It may not correspond with the ways of playing Mozart at the beginning of the twenty-first century which are fashionable at the beginning of the twenty-first century, but it has virtues – such as high intelligence, sympathy, certainty of purpose, grace, alertness of interplay – which transcend questions of performance practice. Looking at the names of the pianists above, we might be surprised by the presence of Sir Georg Solti, so used are we to thinking of him as a conductor. But the young Solti appeared in public as a pianist from the age of twelve and went on to study piano in Budapest, with Dohnányi and Bartok.