The Joyful Company

The Joyful Company of Singers - A Garland for Linda (A Commemoration of the Life of Linda McCartney) (2000)

The Joyful Company of Singers - A Garland for Linda (A Commemoration of the Life of Linda McCartney) (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 00:55:11 | 240 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI | Catalog: 7243 5 56961 2 0

A Garland for Linda is a benefit album for the cancer-fighting organization the Garland Appeal. It is also a tribute album to Linda McCartney, who died of breast cancer in 1998. Her husband, Paul McCartney, contributes one selection, but it's not a pop song – it's a classical piece. It is one of ten classical pieces, all written for Linda McCartney, by such modern classical composers as John Tavener, Judith Bingham, David Matthews, John Rutter, Roxanna Ranufnik, Michael Berkeley, Giles Swayne, and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. The pieces are all similar in tone – gentle, sometimes somber, yet always sweet. There may not be any major works here, but everyone's heart is in the right place, and the result is a sentimental mood piece that floats charmingly on its affection.
Heather Lowe, Joyful Company Of Singers, Britten Sinfonia - Vaughan Williams: Beyond My Dream – Music for Greek Plays (2018)

Heather Lowe, Joyful Company Of Singers, Britten Sinfonia - Vaughan Williams: Beyond My Dream – Music for Greek Plays (2018)
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 223 MB
Label: Albion | Tracks: 08 | Time: 62:35 min

Albion Records is proud to present this new album of unknown music from the early maturity of Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1911, RVW wrote music for three plays by Euripides, then newly translated into English verse by Gilbert Murray. He wrote music that he considered worthy of the plays, while also satisfying the requirements of Isadora Duncan (for dancing) and Gilbert Murray (who was anxious that the music should not overwhelm the poetry).
The Grainger Edition, Volume 3 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 1 (1996)

The Grainger Edition, Volume 3 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 1 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 262 Mb | Total time: 60:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9499 | Recorded: 1996

The CD's title slightly misleads. Not all of these pieces are for chorus and orchestra. Some are for orchestra alone. Nevertheless, the CD gives us Grainger at his most characteristic. Grainger always considered himself primarily a choral composer who occasionally dabbled in short works for orchestra and chamber ensemble. For far too long, almost everybody dismissed Grainger as a lightweight, but, happily, that seems about to change. For one thing, more works have come to light and, more importantly, to performance and recording. Chandos' Grainger Edition counts, in my opinion, as one of the most significant projects in British music.

The Joyful Accountant  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ELK1nG at Nov. 10, 2022
The Joyful Accountant

The Joyful Accountant
Published 11/2022
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 3.57 GB | Duration: 6h 24m

Helping accountants to conquer burnout and thrive in an ever changing world.
Tau & the Drones of Praise - Misneach (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Tau & the Drones of Praise - Misneach (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 35:32 minutes | 775 MB
Psychedelic Folk Rock | Label: Glitterbeat Records, Official Digital Download

The kaleidoscopic third album from Seán Mulrooney and his Ireland meets Berlin ensemble. Ecstatic folk-psych that full embraces the natural world and living ancestry, through joyful experimentation and deeply rooted sonics.
The Grainger Edition, Volume 5 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2 (1997)

The Grainger Edition, Volume 5 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2 (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 66:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9554 | Recorded: 1996

The macabre irony of The Widow’s Party is ghoulishly cheery – the first of six Kipling tracks. They’re not all vocal either. Try the soulful The Running of Shindand and Tiger-Tiger each for five cellos. The sequence concludes with the caramel orient sunset of The Love Song of Har Dyal. Country Gardens plays touchball with Schoenberg in the delightfully grating and ringing Barry Peter Ould-realised version. Scotch Strathspey and Reel is one of Grainger’s most treasurable pieces – about as far away as one could get from the fatuities of tartan culture and pretty sea-shanties. It makes connections far more often with the idiom of The Warriors and of whirlingly possessed dances from the Caledonian highlands.
The Grainger Edition, Volume 9 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 3 (1998)

The Grainger Edition, Volume 9 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 3 (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 62:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9653 | Recorded: 1998

Mock Morris, Molly on the Shore and Shepherd’s Hey are edgily chipper. When Grainger is in this vein he looks in the direction of Frank Bridge’s Sir Roger de Coverley – a Britten favourite - and in this case there is a hint of Capriol too. Died for Love is out of the same green meadow as Moeran’s two pieces for small orchestra. Delightful. The Love Verses and the slightly chilly Early One Morning bring home parallels with Balfour Gardiner’s April and Philomela (long overdue for revival). Youthful Rapture (Tim Hugh, cello) has also been recorded by Julian Lloyd Webber who takes more time than Hugh and this piece can bear the slower tempo.

Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at May 12, 2020
Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America

David Kampm, "Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America"
English | ISBN: 1501137808 | 2020 | EPUB | 352 pages | 14 MB

History's Daybook: A History of the World in 366 Quotations  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Feb. 14, 2018
History's Daybook: A History of the World in 366 Quotations

History's Daybook: A History of the World in 366 Quotations by Peter Furtado
English | October 1st, 2012 | ASIN: B00A25NLSQ, ISBN: 184887670X | 874 pages | EPUB | 3.91 MB

Every day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events…
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Albums Collection 2006-2012 (4CD) [Re-Up]

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Albums Collection 2006-2012 (4CD)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.2 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 473 Mb | Scans included
Indie Rock, Indie Folk, Chamber Pop | Time: 03:05:07

Collection includes four studio albums by American indie rock band Margot & the Nuclear So and So's: The Dust of Retreat (2006); Not Animal (2008); Buzzard (2010); Rot Gut, Domestic (2012).