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Legends & Lyrics - Volume 1: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin, Randy Owen (2008) [Re-Up]

Legends & Lyrics - Volume 1: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin, Randy Owen (2008)
DVD9 | NTSC | 16:9 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2ch, 1536 kbps / AC3, 6ch, 448 kbps / DTS, 6ch
Label: Song Writers In The Round | # 850636002011 | 01:21:40 | ~ 7.1 Gb
Country, Alt-Country, Country-Rock, Singer/Songwriter

This is a unique musical performance series, driven by famous recording artists who write their own songs, blended with professional song poets who write for other artists. "Legends & Lyrics" is currently airing on PBS on a weekly basis. Installments include artist performances, "Out Of The Box" interviews, "Did You Know?" historical facts addressing the origins of today's commercial music, "Rising Stars" featuring undiscovered talent, and "Tips Of The Week" for aspiring song poets. Shot in an intimate classical performance hall in HD and Surround Sound, the series honors the true creators of the most popular genres of commercial music. "Volume 1" features Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin, Randy Owen, and Jonathan Singleton.
Elin Manahan Thomas, Brian Ellsbury - Morfydd Owen: Portrait of a Lost Icon (2017)

Elin Manahan Thomas, Brian Ellsbury - Morfydd Owen: Portrait of a Lost Icon (2017)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 304 MB | 01:14:56
Genre: Classical | Label: Ty Cerrd

Morfydd Owen was born in the Welsh valleys in 1891. Like many of her peers she sang and played piano, but it was her precocious talent as a composer – and her beauty – that dazzled audiences in London. Sadly, having met and married within six weeks Freud’s biographer, Ernest Jones, her once-prolific output tapered off, and she died in mysterious circumstances following surgery in 1918, aged just 26. Inevitably, Owen’s tale is ripe for romantic fantasy as well as regret. But leaving aside the odd tautology of its title, on the basis of this sensitively recorded disc from Ty Cerdd, a recent resurgence of interest in her music proves justified. Pianist and researcher/editor Brian Ellsbury joins forces with Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas to offer a poignant collection of songs and piano pieces spanning Owen’s tantalisingly promising career.
Sacconi Quartet, Mary Bevan, Charles Owen, Roderick Williams - Panufnik: Heartfelt (2021)

Sacconi Quartet, Mary Bevan, Charles Owen, Roderick Williams - Panufnik: Heartfelt (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 325 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 189 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:21:21
Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Classics

Since Westminster Mass (2000) established Roxanna Panufnik’s firm place among today’sleading British composers, she has often been celebrated for her choral music. Her instrumental and chamber works, however, are equally striking, filled with dazzling imagination and poetic lightness of touch. Her latest album Heartfelt encompasses compassion, tragedy and irresistible humour, while demonstrating her passion for exploring diverse musical cultures, from East Sussex to Myanmar.
Chuck Owen and The Jazz Surge - Whispers On The Wind (2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Chuck Owen & The Jazz Surge - Whispers On The Wind (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 73:57 minutes | 1,59 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Chuck Owen's Florida-based and Grammy-nominated Jazz Surge is back in the saddle with another series of impressive musical portraits, Whispers on the Wind, whose genesis harkens back to Owen's childhood in windy Omaha, NE, and whose inspiration derives in part from the works of three contemporary authors: Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King (the last, as Owen writes, from King's Dark Tower series). To help cast the spell, Owen uses a number of instruments not generally associated with big-band jazz including violin, dobro, steel guitar, harmonica, accordion and hammered dulcimer (the last two played by Owen himself).
Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva - Poulenc, Debussy & Milhaud: Works for 2 Pianos (2023)

Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva - Poulenc, Debussy & Milhaud: Works for 2 Pianos (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 171 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | 01:10:38
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics

Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva perform a stunning selection of French 20th-century music for piano four hands. Both Milhaud and Poulenc were members of Les Six, a band of composers who specialised in producing colourful, quirky and highly original scores. Milhaud’s Scaramouche epitomises the wit and joie de vivre of this approach and has become one of his most popular works – although at the time the composer nearly forbade its publication. Poulenc combined grace and sparkling humour with a nobility that reflected his desire for a ‘return to simplicity’. His Élégie was written ‘as if improvising with a cigar in your mouth and a glass of cognac on the table’, while the Sonata for Four Hands is full of finger-crossing intricacies, and at the heart of the Sonata for Two Pianos is an Andantino described by the composer as ‘a lyrical, profound outburst… It is piano without pretence, real piano where each instrument converses with the other in perfect understanding and without interrupting.’ Debussy’s evocative Nocturnes arranged by Ravel conclude the release.
Charles Owen - Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Suisse Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (2021)

Charles Owen - Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Suisse Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 185 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:47
Classical | Label: Avie Records

With his critically acclaimed AVIE Records releases of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré and Sergei Rachmaninov to his credit, the celebrated British pianist Charles Owen scales the heights of Franz Liszt’s anthology Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse (“Years of Travel, First Year: Switzerland”), which evokes the great 19th-century pianist-composer’s Swiss sojourns with aural impressions of the Alpine landscape, its peaks and valleys, mountains and streams, and the country’s distinctive folk music. Literary references abound as they do in the album’s concluding piece, the emotional Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (“The Blessing of God in Solitude”) which was inspired by a poem penned by Liszt’s friend Alphonse de Lamartine. Emotions ran equally high for Charles Owen who turned to Liszt during lockdown. The uncertainty of being homebound throughout the pandemic was eased by the extra meaning and solace of the composer’s evocations of journeying, experiencing the natural world and its sense of beauty and liberation.
Albert Alan Owen - Following The Light (1982/2019) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Albert Alan Owen - Following The Light (1982/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 41:11 minutes | 625 MB
Electronic, Easy Listening, Modern Classical | Label: Libreville Records, Official Digital Download

Albert Alan Owen was born in Wales in 1948 to Welsh and Latvian parents. His family subsequently emigrated to Zimbabwe, where his father worked as a teacher. Here, he grew up profoundly influenced by the local music and culture, as well as American RnB and jazz. It was also during this time that Owen became aware of the violent inequalities of British colonial rule, forging a lifelong commitment to socialism and a hatred of racism.
David Owen Norris, Katy Bircher, Caroline Balding & Andrew Skidmore - Mozart: The Jupiter Project (2019)

David Owen Norris, Katy Bircher, Caroline Balding & Andrew Skidmore - Mozart: The Jupiter Project - Mozart in the 19th-Century Drawing Room (2019)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 340 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:51
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records

An intriguing re-creation of how Mozart’s large-scale orchestral works might have been encountered in Georgian Britain, realized by the kind of ensemble which played such a prominent role in its musical life.
Owen Pallett - In Conflict (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Owen Pallett - In Conflict (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 49:41 minutes | 1,07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Owen Pallett is Baroque Indie Rock composer who smoothly transitioned from violin to arranging to remixing to solo productions as Final Fantasy and his own name. "In Conflict" was written and produced by Pallett, recorded with the core rhythm section of Robbie Gordon and Matt Smith, and features contributions from Brian Eno and The Czech FILMharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. In Conflict is full of love songs more specifically, songs about liminal states and our loved ones locked in battle with them. Pallett was recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, alongside Arcade Fire for their work on the soundtrack to Spike Jonze's Her.
Contrapunctus, Owen Rees - In the Midst of Life: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks I (2015)

Contrapunctus, Owen Rees - In the Midst of Life: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks I (2015)
William Byrd, Robert Parsons, John Taverner, W. Mundy, Thomas Tallis, D. Gerarde, John Sheppard

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 299 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 161 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD408 | Time: 01:08:16

Following its nomination for a Gramophone Early Music Award in 2014, Contrapunctus releases an album of motets from the Baldwin Tudor partbooks, on the theme of mortality. Conducted by Owen Rees, the album includes Sheppard’s epic Media vita and other Tudor gems by Byrd, Parsons, Mundy, Taverner, Gerarde and Tallis, with Contrapunctus’s own reconstructions of the missing tenor parts.