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Matthias Bamert, London Mozart Players - Johann Christian Cannabich: Symphonies (2020) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Dec. 12, 2024

Matthias Bamert’s survey of music by Mozart’s contemporaries continues with this elegant programme of Cannabich Symphonies. Harmonically conservative, lavishly scored, and full of the mannerist crescendi and rising figures the Mannheim Orchestra was famous for, these are fascinating examples of the style gallant. Though Cannabich had found his way to sonata form in the G major symphony, something of Telemann’s programmatic writing hangs over the Symphony in A major, while baroque affects are yet more keenly felt in the D major Symphony. The London Mozart Players’ pristine sound and careful phrasing is highly enjoyable throughout.

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Antal Doráti & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: 16 Hungarian Dances, Variations on a Theme by Haydn (1957/2024) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 24, 2024

Antal Doráti & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: 16 Hungarian Dances, Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Remastered) (1957/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 56:14 minutes | 1,02 GB
Classical | Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording, Official Digital Download

The Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) by Johannes Brahms (WoO 1), are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1879. They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms's most popular works and were the most profitable for him. Each dance has been arranged for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles. Brahms originally wrote the version for piano four hands (piano duet: two players using one piano) and later arranged the first ten dances for solo piano.

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The Future Sound Of London - From The Archives Vol.1-9 (2007-2018) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 25, 2024

The Future Sound Of London - From The Archives Vol.1-9 (2007-2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 3.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.1 GB
8:49:41 | Electronic, Leftfield, Abstract, Experimental, Ambient | Label: fsoldigital.com, Jumpin’ & Pumpin’, Virgin Records

Boundary-pushing electronic duo and technological pioneers the Future Sound of London have charted a magnificent, unpredictable course throughout their multi-decade career, ranging from early rave staples to ambitious excursions into ambient soundscapes, psychedelic rock, modern classical, and more. Prodigiously releasing club records under various pseudonyms since the late '80s, Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans launched FSOL with the breakbeat house classic "Papua New Guinea" in 1991, following suit with the Accelerator full-length. After signing with Virgin Records in 1992, the duo began releasing more experimental, atmospheric material, including the highly regarded 1994 double album Lifeforms. They also sidestepped traditional methods of touring, instead broadcasting studio performances via ISDN lines. Following 1996's Dead Cities, the duo went on hiatus, re-emerging with the 2002 psychedelic opus The Isness, one of several releases credited to their Amorphous Androgynous alias.

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Julie London - Complete Julie London Masters 1955 - 1958 (2024 Remastered) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 2, 2024

Julie London - Complete Julie London Masters 1955 - 1958 (2024 Remastered)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 4:04:29 | 563 Mb / 1.04 Gb
Genre: Jazz, Pop

Julie London A sultry, smoky-voiced master of understatement, Julie London enjoyed considerable popularity during the cool era of the 1950s. London never had the range of Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan, but often used restraint, softness, and subtlety to maximum advantage. An actor as well as a singer, London played with heavyweights like Gregory Peck and Rock Hudson in various films, and was married to Jack Webb of Dragnet fame for seven years before marrying songwriter Bobby Troup ("Route 66"). London performed her biggest hit, "Cry Me a River," in the Jayne Mansfield film The Girl Can't Help It. After recording her last album, Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, in 1969, she continued to act – playing a nurse on the NBC medical drama Emergency from 1974 until 1978. London left show biz altogether in the late '70s. In the mid-'90s she suffered a stroke, which led to a half-decade of poor health and ultimately contributed to her death on October 18, 2000.

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Marin Alsop, London Symphony Orchestra - Bernstein: Candide (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 14, 2021

Marin Alsop, London Symphony Orchestra, Leonardo Capalbo, Jane Archibald, Anne Sofie von Otter & Sir Thomas Allen - Bernstein: Candide (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 116:43 minutes | 1,8 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: LSO Live, Official Digital Download

Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein's riotous satirical operetta, Candide. Made almost three decades after the composer's own iconic recording with the Orchestra, Alsop's new version was captured during celebratory concerts marking Bernstein's centenary year, and features an outstanding array of soloists, including Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cun gonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (The Old Lady) and Sir Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss, Narrator).

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London Philharmonic Orchestra - The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music (2009) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 8, 2023

London Philharmonic Orchestra - The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music (2009)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.2 GB
4:22:52 | Classical | Label: X5 Music Group

'The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music' is a selection of the most beloved classical works, now recorded by The London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world's leading ensembles, under noted conductor David Parry. The aim has been to create a collection that is ideal as an introduction to classical music for the beginner, while offering outstanding new recordings for the connoisseur. Never before has an orchestra with the stature of the LPO recorded a collection this comprehensive, giving their own interpretations of 'the classics'.

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Arthur Grumiaux, Sir Colin Davis & London Symphony Orchestra - Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos (Remastered) (2024) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 20, 2024

Arthur Grumiaux, Sir Colin Davis & London Symphony Orchestra - Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos (Remastered) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 110:02 minutes | 1,91 GB
Classical | Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording, Official Digital Download

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote at least five violin concertos between 1773 and 1776 in Salzburg, Austria, most likely for his own use as concertmaster of the Archbishop of Salzburg's orchestra.

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Antal Doráti & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: 16 Hungarian Dances, Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Remastered) (1957/2024) Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 24, 2024

Antal Doráti & London Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: 16 Hungarian Dances, Variations on a Theme by Haydn (Remastered) (1957/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 293 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 Mb | 00:56:14
Classical | Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

The Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) by Johannes Brahms (WoO 1), are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1879. They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms's most popular works and were the most profitable for him. Each dance has been arranged for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles. Brahms originally wrote the version for piano four hands (piano duet: two players using one piano) and later arranged the first ten dances for solo piano.

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra - Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta (2020) [Of Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 3, 2022

Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley & Sophia Burgos - Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 119:37 minutes | 2,04 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: LSO Live, Official Digital Download

Melodious and charming, The Cunning Little Vixen is a work rooted in Czech history and folk music; a sentimental journey through the cycles of life. For Sir Simon Rattle, it's a deeply personal and emotional work. "It's the piece that made me want to become an opera conductor… and still one of the pieces that reduces me to tears more easily than any other," says the LSO's Music Director.

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New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp - Francis Poulenc: Aubade & Sinfonietta; Reynaldo Hahn: Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este (1989) Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 25, 2021

The pairing of Francis Poulenc and Reynaldo Hahn on this album may seem contrived merely because of biographical parallels between the two men, for their musical approaches and styles are quite different, if not at odds. Poulenc's neo-Classical, self-conscious parodies in the Sinfonietta and the dry, sarcastic wit of the Aubade are a world away from Hahn's pretty, even precious, Romanticism, which is unabashedly on display in La bal de Béatrice d'Este. However, the discerning listener may find in Poulenc streaks of Hahn's pensiveness and languor, which his comic antics never completely conceal; there is in Hahn a buoyant, diatonic tunefulness that is readily found in Poulenc. (Interestingly, some of Poulenc's adaptations of Renaissance music bear a remarkable similarity to Hahn's antique pastiches in this ballet.) Furthermore, their fondness for unusual chamber combinations is striking, and the transition from the Aubade to La bal de Béatrice d'Este is not at all jarring because they both share the charm and ambience of the salon orchestra.

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