Sting 3.0

Antonius Gerhardus Michael Koopman, known professionally as Ton Koopman, is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily known for being the founder and director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir.

Djivan Gasparyan - Music From The Film ''Frescos''
EAC+LOG+CUE | WV: 269 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Manchester CDMAN 205-05 | Country/Year: Russia 2005
Genre: Folk, World | Style: Armenian Folk, Duduk

…Gasparyan has toured the world several times with a small ensemble playing Armenian folk music. He has collaborated with many artists, such as Hossein Alizadeh, Sting, Erkan Ogur, Michael Brook, Peter Gabriel, Brian May, Lionel Richie, Derek Sherinian, Ludovico Einaudi, Boris Grebenshchikov, David Sylvian, Hans Zimmer and Andreas Vollenweider…

This recording is available as a CD set or as part of a boxed set with Israel in Egypt. {BTW - The Parrott led recording of Israel in Egypt is among the finest I've heard.} This Messiah rendition seems familiar - even if you've never heard it before. That's probably due to the slower pacing and the avoidance of dramatic dynamic and tempo changes some conductors prefer. Nonetheless it is an excellent recording! The orchestra is 'spot on'. The soloists [all six of them!] are excellent across the board. But the star of the show is the chorus. They simply nail it. The clarity, precision and wonderful blending of the voices are all superb. The sopranos don't oversing in their high range and the choral balance always seems to be as Handel intended.

Der erfolgreiche Animationsfilm »Hotel Transsilvanien« geht in die dritte Runde. Diesmal fährt die Monster-Familie auf ein luxuriöses Kreuzfahrtschiff, wo jede Menge Spaß, von Monster-Volleyball bis hin zu exotischen Ausflügen, auf sie wartet. Doch plötzlich entwickelt sich der Traumurlaub zum Albtraum, als Mavis, die Tochter von Drac, bemerkt, dass dieser sich auf die mysteriöse Kapitänin des Schiffes, Ericka, eingelassen hat, die ein gefährliches Geheimnis verbirgt, das alle Monsterwesen zerstören könnte….

The Best of Me is the third greatest hits album by Canadian singer Bryan Adams. It was released worldwide in 1999, and in the U.S. in 2001. It was his last release on A&M Records. It is Adams' second compilation album, after So Far So Good; except for Japan, where Hits on Fire was released in 1988. This album sees Adams reuniting with Robert John "Mutt" Lange – on the title track – after being absent from 1998's On a Day Like Today. The collection sells well over 3 million copies.