Norma

Norma Tanega - Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (Deluxe Edition) (1966/2021)

Norma Tanega - Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (Deluxe Edition) (1966/2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 198 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 80 Mb | 00:34:38
Folk, Pop, Female Vocal | Label: Real Gone Music

The theme song 'You're Dead' to the FX show What We Do in the Shadows has fostered a new appreciation for the singular talent that was Norma Tanega. And it's high time, too…Norma was discovered while singing to Catskill summer campers by producer Herb Bernstein, who brought her to Four Seasons songwriter Bob Crewe. Crewe signed her to his New Voice label, and success was instantaneous: the title song to Walkin' My Cat Named Dog went to #22 on the charts. But, despite the album's folk-pop trappings, Norma Tanega was not an artist destined to stay at the top of the charts for long; her voice was unconventional, and her songs were too idiosyncratic, not sticking to typical song structure or even meter (for example, 'No Stranger Am I' is set to a 5/4 time signature).
Norma Winstone - Stories Yet To Tell (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Norma Winstone - Stories Yet To Tell (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 52:13 minutes | 901 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Norma Ann Winstone is a British jazz singer and lyricist. In a career spanning over forty years she is best known for her wordless improvisations. Norma Winstone's voice melds seamlessly with the bass clarinet and soprano sax of Klaus Gesing and the piano of Glauco Venier. Alongside their own pieces, they play songs from Mexico's Armando Manzanero to Armenia's Komitas, to Wayne Shorter.
Norma Winstone - Dance Without Answer (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Norma Winstone - Dance Without Answer (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 62:34 minutes | 713 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone once again casts her net wide for source material for this third ECM album with Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German clarinetist / saxophonist Klaus Gesing. Alongside new pieces by Winstone/Gesing and by Venier, the trio covers tunes by singer-songwriters Nick Drake, Fred Neil and Tom Waits. They take a fresh approach to Madonna’s “Live To Tell”, and to Dave Grusin’s “It Might Be You”, as well as Ralph Towner’s “A Breath Away” (now with lyrics by Norma) and “Bein’ Green”, a children’s song elevated to jazz standard status by Sinatra, Stan Kenton, Ray Charles and many more. “As Winstone moves ever farther from the Great American Songbook,” All About Jazz observed, “it's certain that, with band mates as sympathetic as Gesing and Venier, there's precious little she can't do”.
Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1954/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1954) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 160:26 minutes | 1,63 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

This is the first of Callas's two complete recordings of her signature role, the druid priestess Norma, in which she has remained unrivaled for 50 years. It captures her voice inits imposing early prime, while in the two famous duets for Norma and Adalgisa she is partnered by Ebe Stignani, generally considered the greatest Italian mezzo-soprano of her era. The conductor is Callas's mentor Tullio Serafin.
Maria Callas, Orchestra of Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste - Bellini - Norma Excerpts (2022)

Maria Callas, Orchestra of Teatro Giuseppe Verdi Trieste - Bellini - Norma Excerpts (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:11:44 | 322 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Archipel

The Orchestra of Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste has been a permanent ensemble since 1944, when it took on the name of “Filarmonica Triestina”; in 1964 it was named after the theatre it perfoms in.It is worldwide known for its ability in performing a wide opera and symphonic repertory and has been conducted over the years by internationally renowned maestros, including Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Paul van Kempen, Thomas Schippers, Mario Rossi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Laslo Somogryi, Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Daniel Oren, Gary Bertini, Gustav Kuhn, Jean Claude Casadesus, Sir Neville Marriner, Nello Santi, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Donato Renzetti and many more.
Tullio Serafin, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Maria Callas - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (1997)

Tullio Serafin, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Maria Callas, Christa Ludwig, Franco Corelli - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 731 Mb | Total time: 63:20+28:02+70:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 66428 2 | Recorded: 1960

Callas first sang Bellini’s Norma in 1948, when she was just 25. She went on to perform the role of the heroic, but vulnerable Druid priestess –the ultimate embodiment of bel canto – more frequently than any other. In this second studio recording her conductor was again Tullio Serafin (he originally tutored her in the role in 1948),and the venue was again La Scala – where the opera was premiered in 1831. By 1960, Callas brought a wealth of new nuance to her interpretation, and she is aptly partnered by the creamy-voiced Christa Ludwig (in a rare recording of an Italian role) and the towering Franco Corelli.
Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma by Maria Callas (2023 Remastered, Milan 1954) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma by Maria Callas (2023 Remastered, Milan 1954) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:40:27 minutes | 2,62 GB
Classical, Opera | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

A recording of Bellini's Norma is essential for every Callas collection.
Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma by Maria Callas (2023 Remastered, Milan 1954) (2023)

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma by Maria Callas (2023 Remastered, Milan 1954) (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:40:26 | 629 / 367 Mb
Genre: Classical

The fame and legacy of Maria Callas are nearly unsurpassed in the modern history of opera. Her fame has transcended the usual boundaries of classical music, and she has been the inspiration for several movies as well as the successful Broadway play "Master Class." Her extensive catalogue of recordings remains among the most coveted and controversial for both her fans and detractors.

Norma Winstone - Stories Yet to Tell (2010) {ECM 2158}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Oct. 14, 2017
Norma Winstone - Stories Yet to Tell (2010) {ECM 2158}

Norma Winstone - Stories Yet to Tell (2010) {ECM 2158}
EAC 0.99pb5 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 306MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 219MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Vocal Jazz

A grande dame of British jazz, Norma Winstone may be approaching her 70th birthday but the east London-born vocalist shows no signs of fading into well-earned retirement just yet. Indeed, the former Azimuth figurehead and veteran collaborator with everyone from pianists John Taylor and Mike Westbrook to Ian Carr and Kenny Wheeler, has made some of the best received albums of her lengthy career during the last decade; not least 2008’s Distances, which garnered a Grammy nomination and a clutch of European jazz awards.

Vincenzo Bellini - Norma - Bonynge (CD 1988) [Repost]  Music

Posted by jbglx at June 20, 2018
Vincenzo Bellini - Norma - Bonynge (CD 1988) [Repost]

Bellini - Norma / Sutherland / Caballé /
Pavarotti / Ramey [Repost]

EAC Rip | FLAC-TRACKS+CUE+LOG | 3 CD | Scans+Libretto | 148 Min. | 614 MB
Label : Decca / Catalogue : 4144762DH3 /
Opera / Released in 1988

Pavaroti is in great voice, Caballe is brilliant, Sutherland is OK,It doesn't have the excitement of other "Norma's", but is a good addition to a "Norma" collection.
-By Thomas E. Lawson-