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Peter Hurford - The Organ at Sydney Opera House (2019)  Music

Posted by varrock at March 9, 2019
Peter Hurford - The Organ at Sydney Opera House (2019)

Peter Hurford - The Organ at Sydney Opera House (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 227 MB | Tracks: 9 | 53:31 min
Style: Classical | Label: Decca Music Group

While playing organs worldwide, and concentrating his work in his native England, Peter Hurford nonetheless gave recitals on organs across Australia throughout his long career. However, he hardly played an instrument more dazzling in its impact and variety than the organ which was installed at the Sydney Opera House.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah (2010)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 279 Mb | Total time: 64:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 043 | Recorded: 2010

The Tallis Scholars under director Peter Phillips have cultivated a cool, Apollonian sound in a cappella Renaissance vocal music that can be awe-inspiringly beautiful in Flemish polyphony, and especially in the spare English repertory for which they are named. This small, mixed-gender adult choir might not seem an ideal group to take on the darker hues of Tomás Luís de Victoria, but the set of Lamentations of Jeremiah recorded here, music for Holy Week, is quite well suited to their talents. As Phillips points out in his elegant notes (in English, German, and French), Victoria's "Spanish" style was largely forged in Rome, and his somberness was in many ways a personal rather than a national characteristic.
Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments - Handel in Hamburg: Music from Almira, Nero, Rodrigo, Daphne and Florindo (1997)

Peter Holman, The Parley of Instruments - Handel in Hamburg: Music from Almira, Nero, Rodrigo, Daphne and Florindo (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 63:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA 67053 | Recorded: 1997

Handel arrived in Hamburg in 1703, aged eighteen. He spent four years in the city and wrote several works for the town's opera house. Hamburg opera was a rather eclectic beast at the time, drawing on Italian and French language and instrumental style alongside the native German. Handel fell happily into this genre; this CD brings together a selection of the delightful orchestral music (which tends to be in the French style) that Handel wrote there, some of it recorded for the first time.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Lamenta: Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White, Palestrina (1998)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Lamenta: Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White, Palestrina (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 72:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 996 | Recorded: 1992, 1995, 1998

Turn down the lights and get out your joss-sticks for this one: a selection of sixteenth-century Tenebrae music for Holy Week, among the most evocative parts of the liturgy. Since they had already made successful recordings of the Brumel, Tallis and White, it was a good idea for The Tallis Scholars to add new recordings of Tenebrae settings by Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder and Palestrina. As Peter Phillips points out in his brief note, the only textual feature they have in common is their all ending with the passage “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum”. Otherwise the texts that the various composers selected from the Lamentations of Jeremiah are quite different; but all show an intensity and a devotional power that work cumulatively to produce a remarkably satisfying disc. And it is endlessly fascinating to hear the different approaches to these anguished texts.

Peter and the Wolf Sheet Music Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf  Sheet music

Posted by Salieri at Jan. 29, 2021
Peter and the Wolf Sheet Music Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf Sheet Music Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
6 pages | PDF | 10.2 MB
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2001)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 65:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 022 | Recorded: 1990

A well-packed disc, for those who love a good long play. But, more to the point, the singing and recording are outstanding. And what music is here enshrined! … readers may be a little weary of praises for The Tallis Scholars. There is no other course. This is surely one of the supreme choirs of the world. Peter Phillips, whose notes are revelatory reading, has reached the heart of this sublime music.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Thomas Tomkins: The Great Service (1991)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Thomas Tomkins: The Great Service (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 58:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 024 | Recorded: 1988

A pupil of William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins' technique as a contrapuntalist was second to none, as can be heard in the Great Service or the anthem O God, the proud are risen against me. In this respect alone he was the composer who most obviously continued Byrd's achievement.
Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Duarte Lôbo: Requiem (2002)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Duarte Lôbo: Requiem (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 294 Mb | Total time: 65:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 028 | Recorded: 1992

During the years before and after 1600, Portugal produced a small crop of masterful Requiem Masses. All of them seem to have taken Victoria's famous six-voice Requiem as a model, setting the traditional chant melodies in long notes in one of the soprano parts, accompanied by harmonious chords rather than imitative counterpoint. The Requiem by Duarte Lôbo presented here is a particularly good example. Like his compatriots, Lôbo composed his Requiem in a major tonality; Victoria's captivating gloom is replaced by an equally captivating sweetness–this funeral music is anything but morose. The Missa vox clamantis is altogether more extroverted, with a striking octave leap that begins every movement. Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars give the skillful, sonorous performances we've come to expect from them.

BBC The Sky at Night - Exploring Jupiter (2021)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Aug. 9, 2021
BBC The Sky at Night - Exploring Jupiter (2021)

BBC The Sky at Night - Exploring Jupiter (2021)
HDTV | 1920 x 1080 | .MKV/AVC @ 2940 Kbps | 29 min 0 s | 634 MB
Audio: English AAC 132 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, Science

August 2021 marks ten years since Nasa's mission to Jupiter, Juno, was launched. The mission – to uncover the mysteries surrounding Jupiter's formation – was expected to end this year with the $1.1 billion satellite deorbiting into the planet's gassy atmosphere. But thanks to the ingenuity of its engineering, the robust spacecraft has surpassed expectations and been granted an extension to its life.

BBC The Sky at Night - The Forgotten Solar System (2021)  Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Oct. 11, 2021
BBC The Sky at Night - The Forgotten Solar System (2021)

BBC The Sky at Night - The Forgotten Solar System (2021)
HDTV | 1920 x 1080 | .MKV/AVC @ 3358 Kbps | 29 min 12 s | 731 MB
Audio: English AAC 137 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary, Science

Of the 100 probes that have been sent out into space, only one probe - Voyager 2 in 1989 - has ever sent back any information about the solar system's outer planets. From afar, they seem featureless and devoid of any significant geological activity.