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Steven Osborne - Sir Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto, Fantasia on a theme of Handel, Piano Sonatas (2007) 2CD

Sir Michael Tippett: Piano Concerto, Fantasia on a theme of Handel, Piano Sonatas (2007)
Steven Osborne, piano; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 419 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 324 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67461/2 | Time: 02:20:47

What the world needs more of is intelligently planned, stupendously played, and brilliantly recorded collections like this one. These two discs contain all the piano works of Michael Tippett, works that come from every period of the composer's very long life except his very last. It includes the youthful, tuneful Piano Sonata No. 1 written between 1936 and 1938 and revised in 1941, the massive Fantasia on a Theme of Handel from 1941, the exuberant Piano Concerto from 1955, the experimental Piano Sonata No. 2, the gnomic almost Beethovenian Piano Sonata No. 3 from 1973, and the gnarly post-Beethovenian Piano Sonata No. 4. It features a bravura performance by pianist Steven Osborne that makes the best case for all the music, no matter how outré or recherché its harmonic proclivities or rhythmic audacities.

A&E - Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century: Series 1 (1992)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 14, 2020
A&E - Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century: Series 1 (1992)

A&E - Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century: Series 1 (1992)
DVDRip | 687x574 | .MKV/AVC @ 1287 Kbps | 20x~26min | 5.23 GiB
Audio: English AAC 160 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

An insight into the criminal mind, this is a major series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of the century. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on 26 crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century.
True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem.
Maude Gratton & Baptiste Lopez - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas No. 3, No. 7 & No. 10 (2017)

Maude Gratton & Baptiste Lopez - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas No. 3, No. 7 & No. 10
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 70:15 min | 303 MB
Label: Mirare | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2017

With these three sonatas for piano and violin, Baptiste Lopez and Maude Gratton give us an overview of fifteen years in Beethoven’s life; the joie de vivre of the impetuous young composer, still strongly influenced by Classical forms, gradually gives way to a violent aesthetic break, the eccentricity of which was decried by contemporary critics. If, in Beethoven’s view, music confronts humanity with the difficulties of our condition, it also enables us to overcome them; the composer himself transcended his battle against deafness by finding in it the profundity of a creative force.
Maude Gratton & Baptiste Lopez - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas No. 3, No. 7 & No. 10 (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Maude Gratton & Baptiste Lopez - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas No. 3, No. 7 & No. 10 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 70:15 minutes | 1.22 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

With these three sonatas for piano and violin, Baptiste Lopez and Maude Gratton give us an overview of fifteen years in Beethoven’s life; the joie de vivre of the impetuous young composer, still strongly influenced by Classical forms, gradually gives way to a violent aesthetic break, the eccentricity of which was decried by contemporary critics. If, in Beethoven’s view, music confronts humanity with the difficulties of our condition, it also enables us to overcome them; the composer himself transcended his battle against deafness by finding in it the profundity of a creative force.

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at Nov. 26, 2020
Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs

Charles Falco, "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs"
English | ISBN: 0312640145 | 2013 | 272 pages | AZW3 | 464 KB
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, James DePreist - Giya Kancheli: Symphonies 1, 4 & 5 (1995)

Giya Kancheli: Symphonies 1, 4 & 5 (1995)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; James DePreist, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 234 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 144 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE829-2 | Time: 00:59:22

Giya Kancheli is one of Eastern Europe's most important contemporary composers, respected by musicologists and fellow composers alike. Schnittke said of him: 'His most striking quality…is the rare gift of being able to suspend all sense of time. From the very first note we are released from our ordinary, everyday time-sense to float, cloud-like, in eternity.' The political upheavals through which Kancheili has lived have greatly affected his music, which dwells on a complexity of interrelated themes - grief, fear, solitude, vigil, memory, nostalgia, innocence, intolerance, protest. It is profoundly influenced by the spirit of the folk music of his native Georgia.
Quatuor Ébène - Mendelssohn Felix & Fanny (2013) [Official Digital Download]

Quatuor Ébène - Mendelssohn Felix & Fanny (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 76:45 minutes | 784 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The Quatuor Ebène turns to Mendelssohn: two quartets by Felix and one by his elder sister Fanny, who composed over 400 works and who, like her brother, died in 1847. “Felix’s quartets speak with intimacy, but are not devoid of violent, stormy emotion,” says Raphaël Merlin of the Quatuor Ebène. He praises Fanny for composing “with surprising freedom”, saying “we fell in love with her string quartet”.

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Nov. 7, 2018
Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film (Repost)

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film By Niamh Thornton
2013 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1441168125 | PDF | 5 MB

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Nov. 7, 2018
Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film (Repost)

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film By Niamh Thornton
2015 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1501305700 | PDF | 5 MB

VA - Garbage Sandwich (1992) {2005 777 Was 666}  Music

Posted by TestTickles at Jan. 10, 2019
VA - Garbage Sandwich (1992) {2005 777 Was 666}

VA - Garbage Sandwich (1992) {2005 777 Was 666}
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 443 mb
Genre: indie rock, noise rock, industrial, thrash, avant-garde, hardcore, power electronics, experimental

Garbage Sandwich is a two-cassette compilation originally released in 1992. This may be taken from the original 1992 cassettes on Beast 666 Tapes or the 2005 release on 777 Was 666 and while it is a guess, my guess is that it comes from the 2005 cassettes. Forgive me if I am wrong.