Title: The 101 Strings Orchestra – Million Sellers of The 50s, 60s & 70s (1987)

101 Strings Orchestra - Million Seller Hits from The Sound of Music, Flower Drum Song, Oklahoma, South Pacific (1970/2022)

101 Strings Orchestra - Million Seller Hits from The Sound of Music, Flower Drum Song, Oklahoma, South Pacific (1970/2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 199 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 MB
32:56 | Instrumental, Easy Listening | Label: Alshire

The legendary 101 Strings Orchestra presents a programme of hits from the musicals The Sound of Music, Flower Drum Song, Oklahoma, and South Pacific! The collection comes courtesy of Countdown Media's restoration of the master tapes from renowned legacy label, Ashire/Somerset.
101 Strings Orchestra - Romantic Hits from the Operettas and Musical Comedies (1972/2022)

101 Strings Orchestra - Romantic Hits from the Operettas and Musical Comedies (1972/2022)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 00:37:22
Instrumental, Easy Listening | Alshire | ~ 814 Mb

One of the most prolific and reliable names in instrumental easy listening music, the 101 Strings Orchestra has literally recorded hundreds of albums since its inception in 1957…
101 Strings Orchestra - Million Seller Broadway Hits (2019-2022 Remaster from the Original Alshire Tapes) (1971/2022)

101 Strings Orchestra - Million Seller Broadway Hits (2019-2022 Remaster from the Original Alshire Tapes) (1971/2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 191 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 94 MB
30:21 | Instrumental, Easy Listening | Label: Alshire

The legendary 101 Strings Orchestra present a set of beloved hits from stage and screen with Million Seller Broadway Hits. The collection comes courtesy of Countdown Media's restoration of the master tapes from renowned legacy label, Ashire/Somerset.
101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding 150 albums and a creative lifetime of around 30 years beginning in 1957. 101 Strings had a trademark sound, focusing on melody with a laid-back ambiance most often featuring strings. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan "The Sound of Magnificence." The 101 Strings orchestra included 124 string instruments, and was conducted by Wilhelm Stephan.
101 Strings Orchestra - The Soul of Spain, France, Italy, USA, Greece, Poland, Gypsies, Japan (2019) Official Digital Download

101 Strings Orchestra - The Soul of Spain, France, Italy, USA, Greece, Poland, Gypsies, Japan (Remastered) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 213:24 minutes | 4,14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The legendary 101 Strings Orchestra brings the audience on an easy cruise through the Mediterranean on this wonderful legacy release. 101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding 150 albums and a creative lifetime of around 30 years beginning in 1957. 101 Strings had a trademark sound, focusing on melody with a laid-back ambiance most often featuring strings. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan "The Sound of Magnificence." The 101 Strings orchestra included 124 string instruments, and was conducted by Wilhelm Stephan.
101 Strings Orchestra - O Holy Night: The Greatest Christmas Carols and Holiday Songs (2020)

101 Strings Orchestra - O Holy Night: The Greatest Christmas Carols and Holiday Songs (2020)
FLAC tracks | 1:00:02 | 325 Mb
Genre: Classical, Instrumental, Easy Listening, Pop, Christmas and Holiday / Label: Dockland Music

The 101 Strings Orchestra established a reputation as one of the finest ensembles in the easy listening genre. Yet the group actually never existed as a performing orchestra: it was a recording-only ensemble made up of musicians whose personnel often changed from one recording to the next. Moreover, many early albums released under the name 101 Strings were actually reissues of recordings made by such groups as the Rio Carnival Orchestra, New World Orchestra, and others. Under its now-familiar name, more than 100 recordings were issued by two labels – both of which owned the name, hired the players in the ensemble, and, most importantly, provided for the music arrangements that have been crucial to maintaining the orchestra's familiar sound – a dreamy, silken sound not dissimilar to that of Mantovani.

VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 6 (2001)  Music

Posted by Designol at Dec. 16, 2023
VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 6 (2001)

VA - The Ultimate Christmas Album, WCBS-FM 101.1, Vol. 6 (2001)
25 MORE Great Songs for the 25th of December

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 467 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Scans ~ 40 Mb
Label: Collectables Records | # COL-CD-2524 | Time: 01:19:14
Holidays, Pop/Rock, Vocal Pop, Vocal Jazz, R&B

The Ultimate Christmas Album, Vol. 6: WCBS FM 101.1 is another eclectic collection of pop holiday tunes from the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s, including Wham!'s "Last Christmas," the Beach Boys' "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and Andy Williams' "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!." Aretha Franklin's "Winter Wonderland," America's "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," and Connie Francis' "White Christmas" are some of the other highlights from this scattered compilation, which somehow mixes different sounds and eras into a festive celebration.
Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra - Diane Schuur And The Count Basie Orchestra (1987)

Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra - Diane Schuur And The Count Basie Orchestra (1987)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 103 Mb | Scans included
Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Swing, Big Band | Label: GRP | # GRD-9550 | Time: 00:42:15

This CD features a logical combination: singer Diane Schuur with the Count Basie big band. In what would be longtime rhythm guitarist Freddie Green's final performance, Schuur and the Basie ghost band (under the direction of Frank Foster) perform material that includes her standards (such as "Deedles' Blues" and "Climbing Higher Mountains"), Dave Brubeck's "Travlin' Blues" and the Joe Williams-associated "Everyday I Have The Blues." Unfortunately, the Basie band is mostly used in accompaniment without any significant solos, but Schuur sounds quite comfortable in this format and her voice is in prime form.
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony; Darest thou now, O soul (2018)

Martyn Brabbins, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony; Darest thou now, O soul (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 70:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68245 | Recorded: 2017

Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform one of the mightiest of first symphonies ever written. Vaughan Williams's setting of Walt Whitman creates a very special sense of occasion. The coupling is Vaughan Williams's later, virtually unknown, setting of Whitman's ''Darest thou now, O soul'' for chorus and strings.
Theodore Kuchar, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine - Sergei Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (1996)

Theodore Kuchar, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine - Sergei Prokofiev: Symphonies No. 1 "Classical" & No. 2; Dreams, Op. 6; Autumnal Sketch, Op. 8 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 72:58 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553053 | Recorded: 1995

With one reservation, this 1995 recording by Theodore Kuchar conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine of the early orchestral music of Prokofiev is among the best ever made. Their performances of the late Romantic Dreams, Op. 6, and almost impressionist Autumn Sketch, Op. 8, are lush, warm, and radiantly colorful, but Kuchar keeps control of the balances and tempos so that they don't get soft and sentimental.
Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra - Alexander Scriabin: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (2016) 2CDs

Alexander Scriabin: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (2016) 2CDs
Ekaterina Sergeeva, mezzo soprano; Alexander Timchenko, tenor
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 356 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 212 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: LSO Live | # LSO0770 | Time: 01:31:10

As a composer of orchestral music, Alexander Scriabin is best known for his last two idiosyncratic symphonies, the Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, which are essentially symphonic poems, not symphonies in the conventional sense. The Symphony No. 1 (1900) and the Symphony No. 2 (1901), however, are more recognizable as symphonies in their multiple-movement forms, and their durations are comparable to the expansive symphonies of Scriabin's contemporary, Gustav Mahler. They also share the post-Romantic tendency toward Wagnerian harmonies, rhapsodic melodies, and lush orchestration, which, in Scriabin's case, were developed to express heightened emotional states and mystical transcendence. This 2016 double SACD by Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra presents each of the symphonies on its own disc, and the high-quality multichannel sound is ideal for bringing across the subtle nuances of tone color and the shifting of dynamics that are characteristic of his style.]