The Sixth Element

With this release Aqui, allay aculla, Banda Elastica celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. As fast as possible, our most expensive asset: time, present when we listen to ourselves in retrospective. Diluted decades in a few petrified glimpses with a specific weight and an element of their own… the facts the way they were, no regrets because the past is at its best and what a production to prove it!

Gustav Mahler - Symphonie Nr. 5
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Rafael Kubelik
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 340 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon "Resonance" # 429 519-2 GR | Country/Year: Germany 198_, 1971
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed Adagietto.

Kerrs Pink was one of the leading bands of the Norwegian folk-rock movement during the early 80's, their style has often been compared to the mellow and gentle style of Camel along with traditional folk influences and they have a very comforting and melodic style to their songs. "Mellom Oss" is their second release and shows us this very well…

Biber & Schmelzer - Sonatas - Freiburger Barockorchester Consort
Classical, Baroque | 1 CD | EAC | FLAC, CUE, LOG | Scans | 386 MB | RS
Recorded: 21-23/11 1994 & 2-5/5 1995, Church Maria Minor, Utrecht, NL
Released: 2009 [1995] | Label: DHM 88697568692 | TT: 74:29
Freiburger Barockorchester Consort

The Freiburg musicians seem to revel in the wonderfully varied sonorities inherent in Biber’s consort textures, responding sympathetically to the composer’s colourfully imaginative tonal palette. The sonatas with trumpet are likely to make instant appeal but it is the more sorrowful utterances of Schmelzer which make a deeper impression on my senses. A fine release. (Nicholas Anderson, Gramophone, July 1996)