Murray Stein Midlife

Soul: Treatment and Recovery: The selected works of Murray Stein  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at Aug. 1, 2019
Soul: Treatment and Recovery: The selected works of Murray Stein

Murray Stein, "Soul: Treatment and Recovery: The selected works of Murray Stein "
English | ISBN: 1138791229 | 2015 | 210 pages | PDF | 1253 KB
Murray Perahia - Chopin: 4 Ballades, Valses, Nocturne, Mazurkas, Etudes (1994)

Murray Perahia - Chopin: 4 Ballades, Valses, Nocturne, Mazurkas, Etudes (1994)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:00:40 | 191 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 64399

This Chopin recital represents Murray Perahia's return to the Sony studios after a two-year absence due to serious injury. So may I start by saying that this is surely the greatest, certainly the richest, of all his many and exemplary recordings. Once again his performances are graced with rare and classic attributes and now, to supreme clarity, tonal elegance and musical perspective, he adds an even stronger poetic profile, a surer sense of the inflammatory rhetoric underpinning Chopin's surface equilibrium. In other words the vividness and immediacy are as remarkable as the finesse. And here, arguably, is the oblique but telling influence of Horowitz who Perahia befriended during the last months of the old wizard's life.

Anne Murray - Croonin' (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 9, 2024
Anne Murray - Croonin' (1993)

Anne Murray - Croonin' (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 356 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included | 01:00:47
Adult Contemporary, Standards, Country-Pop, Soft Rock | Label: Toshiba-EMI | # TOCP-8167

Anne Murray's time with Capitol Records was running out when she recorded "Croonin." Her singles were no long charting and her album sales had dropped off significantly. The public was no longer buying the pop-rock-country formula that had served her so well for twenty-five years. What to do? Record an album of American standards. Why not? "Old Cape Cod," "Secret Love," Hey There," "The Wayward Wind" "Teach Me Tonight" – these were the tunes she listened to on the radio while growing up in Nova Scotia. They fit her middle-register voice like a glove. They were in her DNA. In a way, "Croonin" is the answer to "Where Do You Go When You Dream" (the title of an earlier an album). You sing the songs you truly love. And sings them she does, with all the dignity, sincerity, polish, and professionalism that distinguished her long career. Anne Murray was always a class act.

Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 9, 2024
Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)

Murray Perahia - J.S. Bach: Piano Concertos Nos.1, 2 & 4 (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 52:58 | 258 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK89245

Soloist-conducted piano concertos can sometimes mean compromise, even chaos…but not in this case. Indeed, the playing of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Murray Perahia is even sprightlier than on a rival EMI recording of the same repertoire where Sir Neville Marriner conducts and Andrei Gavrilov plays the keyboard part. As soloist, Perahia is his usual stylish, discreet and pianistically refined self. He takes the D minor Concerto’s opening at a fair lick, a hot-foot sprinter embellishing the line with taste and affecting a little ritardando at 3'21 (just as the mood momentarily brightens) a la Edwin Fischer.

A Time To Seek: Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality at Midlife  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by DZ123 at Jan. 27, 2024
A Time To Seek: Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality at Midlife

Susan Pohlman, "A Time To Seek: Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality at Midlife"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1734613238 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.7 mb
Horst Stein, Philharmoniker der Staatsoper Hamburg - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2008)

Horst Stein, Philharmoniker der Staatsoper Hamburg - Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2008)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 156 min | 7,52 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 1971

This 1971 film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Magic Flute is based on a production at Hamburg State Opera staged by the multi-talented stage, television and film author, director and actor Sir Peter Ustinov, with decor and costumes by Jens-Denis Malclès. The cast brought together by Rolf Liebermann for this film version of the Magic Flute consists of stars with established international careers but also of singers who were just on the point of breaking through to international fame at the time.
Horst Stein, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randova - Wagner: Parsifal (2007/1981)

Horst Stein, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randova - Wagner: Parsifal (2007/1981)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.20 Gb+7.57 Gb (2xDVD9) | 233 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Wolfgang Wagner’s arrestingly beautiful production, filmed live at Bayreuth in 1981 and directed by Brian Large, features a stellar cast led by Eva Randova, Bernd Weikl and Siegfried Jerusalem. “A production and performance that showed the festival at its finest… Wolfgang Wagner’s Bayreuth production of his grandfather’s “farewell to the world” has “an unusual beauty and logic of its own… There is an air of magic and mystery about the staging… The performance was excellent… Horst Stein [conducted] a beautifully proportioned Parsifal.” (The New York Times)

John Stein - No Goodbyes (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 13, 2023
John Stein - No Goodbyes (2023)

John Stein - No Goodbyes (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 319 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 130 Mb | 00:55:53
Jazz Fusion, Vocal Jazz | Label: Whaling City Sound

Experience illuminates the path to clarity, and nowhere is this more evident than in No Goodbyes by guitarist John Stein. As his 18th recording and 13th for the renowned Whaling City Sound label, Stein, along with his exceptional trio partners Ed Lucie on bass guitar and Mike Connors on drums, showcases a transcendent musical experience. Building upon their previous collaboration on 2021’s Serendipity, the trio creates an enchanting collection of interactive, conversational, and expressive melodies.

John Stein - Lifeline (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 14, 2022
John Stein - Lifeline (2022)

John Stein - Lifeline (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 807 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 339 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:24:55
Jazz Fusion | Label: Whaling City Sound

With the release of Lifeline, John Stein celebrates a musical career as one of the most diverse jazz guitarists of his generation. Selected highlights from Stein’s varied discography capture his eclectic spirit with his honey-toned guitar effortlessly guiding listeners across several decades of brilliance. After retiring from a longtime career at Berklee College of Music where he held a professorship since 1999, and upon recently contracting a rare autoimmune disease, the esteemed jazz veteran decided to synthesize his remarkable body of recorded work. The recorded output surveyed on this compilation spans more than twenty years, from Stein’s 1999’s Green Street to the most recent recording, 2021’s Serendipity. Throughout this assortment of releases, Stein has been consistently regaled for his expansiveness, turning heads with his emotive, subtle, grooving, and precise stylistic excursions. With dazzling guitar playing, notable contributions from the side musicians, creative arrangements, and compositions that are at once sophisticated and memorable, the full scope of John Stein’s instrumental and compositional prowess is on display on this prodigious, varied, and musically rewarding retrospective.

John Stein - Serendipity (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 16, 2021
John Stein - Serendipity (2021)

John Stein - Serendipity (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 305 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 122 Mb | 00:53:15
Jazz Fusion | Label: Whaling City Sound

Like many serious musicians, John Stein was trying to find a way to reach his audience following the Covid-19 breakout. He had just released Watershed, a career- defining recording to mark his planned retirement from Berklee College of Music, where he was an acclaimed educator. Of course, as with live music in general, the tour in support of Watershed was scrapped. Prior to the pandemic, Whaling City Sound’s Neal Weiss had asked Stein to bring a trio for an outdoor September show he had booked in New Bedford. But when hell broke loose, Neal moved the show inside, to the New Bedford Art Museum, and made plans to broadcast it virtually, as well as record the audio and video. “Thanks to Neal’s ability to see other possibilities,” recalls Stein, “it would be the only public concert I played the entire year.”