Medea

Medea - Northern Light (2017)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 14, 2024
Medea - Northern Light (2017)

Medea - Northern Light (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 560 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 231 Mb
Full Scans | 01:08:55 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock, Heavy Prog, Symphonic Rock | Snakebite Records #SNB017-3

Medea is a solo project and brainchild of composer and multi-musician Henry Meeuws. It’s no secret that Henry likes to be inspired by bands as for instance Pain of Salvation, Dream theater, Savatage, Avantasia and Ayreon. All the characteristic rock opera’s of Medea tell an intense story, performed by great Dutch guest vocalists and musicians. After almost twelve years, the moment is finally there! On the 1st of September 2017, “NORTHERN LIGHT, the brand-new and long expected solo album of Henry Meeuws alias MEDEA, was released. After "Individual Unique” (2002) and “Room XVII (2005) this is the third rock opera of this multi faceted musician and composer from Someren (the Netherlands), who signed a record deal with Rock Inc. Entertainment / Snakebite Records for the production of this album.

Medea - 2 Studio Albums (2002-2005)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 15, 2021
Medea - 2 Studio Albums (2002-2005)

Medea - 2 Studio Albums (2002-2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 779 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 275 MB | Covers - 101 MB
Genre: Heavy Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Markant, Snakebite Records

Medea is the solo project of excellent guitarist/keyboardist Henry Meeuws (Casual Silence). The music is very much close to another famous band from land of tulips Ayreon, but with their own twist and with a lot of great ideas. The debut is released in 2002 named "Individual Unique" and has an very intresting concept - is about a young ambitious artist in 18th Century from Florence who is visited by the spirit of Michelangelo. Lots of cast of characters, female/male singers, musicians and all perform and give life to the story.
Their second release, "Room XVII" (2005), is a concept album about dutch history, voyage of the Batavia and the lands conquered by tdutch in 17 century…
Medea Bindewald & Nicolette Moonen - Kirkman: Lessons and Sonatas (2017)

Medea Bindewald & Nicolette Moonen - Kirkman: Lessons and Sonatas (2017)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 353 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:52
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics

Jacob Kirkman was a member of one of the most important harpsichord builder dynasties of his time. Even Charles Burney (music historian, composer & musician) was full of praise of him. Kirkman‘s family was also able to master the transition to the Fortepiano with a series of innovations. Medea Bindewald partly performs on keyboards built by the Kirkman company, with compositions by Jacob Kirkman.

Medea - A Fate Symphony (2020)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 14, 2021
Medea - A Fate Symphony (2020)

Medea - A Fate Symphony (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 437 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Heavy Progressive Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Snakebite Records (SNB020-001)

A Fate Symphony is already the 4th rock opera made by Medea. Medea is a solo project and the brainchild of composer and multi-musician Henry Meeuws. If you liked his previous albums and you enjoy the music of Ayreon then this album will again be a treat for your precious ears. A Fate Symphony contains ten new songs and the album clocks just over an hour playing time. As usual Meeuws plays the guitars and the keyboards and he "hires" a couple of singers for the vocal parts. On this album you can hear the voices of Bart Schwartmann, Bas Dolmans, Jo de Boeck and Joss Mennen; the latter mentioned is of course known from his work with the rock band Mennen. A Fate Symphony is a concept album, again, and the music can best be described as melodic prog with symphonic musical characteristics and influences from bands like Ayreon and Dream Theater.
Medea Bindewald & Nicolette Moonen - Kirkman: Lessons and Sonatas (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Medea Bindewald & Nicolette Moonen - Kirkman: Lessons and Sonatas (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:52 minutes | 735 MB
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics, Official Digital Download

Jacob Kirkman was a member of one of the most important harpsichord builder dynasties of his time. Even Charles Burney (music historian, composer & musician) was full of praise of him. Kirkman‘s family was also able to master the transition to the Fortepiano with a series of innovations. Medea Bindewald partly performs on keyboards built by the Kirkman company, with compositions by Jacob Kirkman.
David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (1994)

David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (1994)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.31 Gb | Total time: 65:37+73:39+58:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | ORC 11 | Recorded: 1993

Giovanni Mayr is known today primarily as the teacher of Donizetti, but in the very late 1700s and first two decades of the 1800s, this German-born, Italian-by-adoption composer was all the operatic rage, combining the fiorature and niceties of Italian vocal writing with a German penchant for orchestration (Medea’s opening aria has a violin obbligato of the type that you simply do not find with the Italians, for instance). Medea in Corinto is considered Mayr’s masterpiece; in fact, it’s a long score, not quite as poweful as Cherubini’s, but with plenty of flavor of its own.
Maria Callas - Cherubini: Medea (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Luigi Cherubini: Medea (1959) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 118:51 minutes | 2,11 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The role of the betrayed and finally murderous Medea became closely associated with Maria Callas. In 1969, several years after her final operatic performance, she even starred as Jason’s spurned wife – as an actress, not as a singer – in a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. She first appeared in Cherubini’s opera in 1953 in Florence, with Vittorio Gui conducting, and later that year collaborated with Leonard Bernstein in a staging at La Scala; in 1962, the role brought her final appearances at Milan’s great opera house.
Eileen Farrell - Eileen Farrell as Medea (Remastered) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Eileen Farrell - Eileen Farrell as Medea (Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 51:18 | 1.15 Gb
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: front cover

Eileen Farrell was an American soprano who had a nearly 60-year-long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc. NPR noted, "She possessed one of the largest and most radiant operatic voices of the 20th century." While she was active as an opera singer, her concert engagements far outnumbered her theatrical appearances. Her career was mainly based in the United States, although she did perform internationally.
Katharina Thalbach - Georg Anton Benda - Medea (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Katharina Thalbach - Georg Anton Benda - Medea (Ein mit Musik vermischtes Melodram, Version von 1784) (2020) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 44:12 minutes | 449 MB
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics, Official Digital Download

Emotional intensity: Mozart attested to the melodrama Medea (1775) by his contemporary Georg Anton Benda in 1778 as" the most wonderful effect". In fact, the combination of spoken lyrics with dramatic music unfolds a high emotional intensity here.
Ivor Bolton,  Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (2011) [Blu-Ray]

Ivor Bolton, Bayerisches Staatsorchester - Mayr: Medea in Corinto (2011) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23966 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 151 min | 39.6 Gb
Audio1: Italian LPCM 2.0 / 16-bit | Audio2: Italian DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1837 kbps / 16-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 151 min | 8,17 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 16-bit
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean

Giovanni Simone Mayr‘s „Medea in Corinto“ is „the most absolutely amazing opera discovery in decades“ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). A triumph for the Bavarian State Opera, the work was staged with a roster of top vocalists headed by Nadja Michael and Ramon Vargas in a production crafted by one of the leading directors of our time, Hans Neuenfels, and with a musical director in demand all over the world, Ivor Bolton. Born near Ingolstadt, Germany, in 1763, Mayr moved to Italy around 1787 and became one of the most important composers of Italian opera between Mozart and Rossini. He also taught many reputable composers, such as Donizetti. Written at the dawn of romanticism and the bel canto era, his main works unite stylistic characteristics of Viennese classicism with Italian melodic exuberance. „Medea in Corinto“ was premiered in Naples in 1813.