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Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)  Music

Posted by Designol at June 26, 2023
Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)

Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 104 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Label: Rough Trade | # Rough US 50 CD | Time: 00:45:30
Alternative Folk, Alternative Country, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

On the follow-up to her landmark debut, Happy Come Home (1987), Victoria Williams' skills as a multi-faceted songwriter become increasingly stronger and more distinct. The lack of aural opulence – such as Van Dyke Parks' string arrangements – reveal a less-forced approach, resulting in a giant leap forward in terms of the development of Williams' own voice. Likewise, her rich Louisiana bayou roots increasingly influence her music and act as a strong motif throughout not only Swing the Statue, but her future releases as well – most notably her contributions to the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers. Perhaps drawing upon her own experiences, Swing the Statue has an air of melancholia wafting throughout much of the album. Both "Boogieman" and "I Can't Cry Hard Enough" – while divergent in terms of musical style – speak directly to the feelings of loss and abandonment. These aptly juxtapose against the innocence and youthful awe of "Look at That Moon" and "Wobbling" as well as the spiritual guidance found in "Lift Him Up" and "Weeds." Unlike Happy Come Home, Swing the Statue is exceedingly more reserved and somewhat stark – with an emphasis on acoustic instrumentation. These aptly inhabit Williams' remarkably jazzy arrangements.
Raúl Mallavibarrena, Musica Ficta - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa Gaudeamus (2000)

Raúl Mallavibarrena, Musica Ficta - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa Gaudeamus (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 235 Mb | Total time: 54:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Enchiriadis | # EN 2003 | Recorded: 2000

The works of Tomás Luis de Victoria are today an international paradigm of the Spanish Renaissance heritage. This master, born in Avila, rises like a standard-bearer from the huge spectrum of Spanish composers who carried the art of polyphony to its highest musical and liturgical significance.
Nigel Short, Tenebrae - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2013)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 72:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD 304 | Recorded: 2012

Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria on Signum with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.
Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey - Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962) Remastered 1992

Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey - Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 119 Mb | Scans included
Label: Original Blues Classics, Prestige Bluesville | # OBCCD 520-2, BV-1052
Classic Female Blues, Jazz-Blues | Time: 00:42:21

Although Alberta Hunter, who had briefly come out of retirement, gets first billing on this CD reissue, in reality she shares the spotlight with two other veterans of the 1920s: Lucille Hegamin and Victoria Spivey. Each of the singers is featured on four songs apiece while backed by such top players as clarinetist Buster Bailey, trombonist J.C. Higginbottham, and Cliff Jackson or Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano. Hunter is in superior form on such numbers as "You Gotta Reap Just What You Sow" and "I Got a Mind to Ramble," although she would soon be out of music for another 15 years, continuing her work as a nurse. Hegamin (who had not recorded since 1932) was having a brief last hurrah, despite sounding good, and Spivey, reviving her "Black Snake Blues," would soon be launching her own Spivey label. This is a historic and enjoyable set recommended to both classic jazz and blues collectors.
Victoria de los Angeles - Canta: Las mas famosas arias de opera (1998)

Victoria de los Angeles – Canta: Las mas famosas arias de opera (1998)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:05:29 | 452 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 724356674622

Victoria de los Angeles was one of the finest lyric sopranos in the decades after World War II. She was born Victoria Gómez Cima. She learned to sing and play piano and guitar while still in school. She entered the Conservatorio de Liceo in Barcelona to study piano and singing, completing the six-year program in three, and graduating with full honors at the age of 18. Her membership in the Conservatory's Ars Musicae gave her wide exposure to the art song repertory and Baroque and Renaissance music.
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell - Tomas Luis de Victoria: Missa Dum complerentur (1996) Reissue 2011

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Missa Dum complerentur; Motets (1996) Reissue 2011
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral; James O'Donnell, Master of Music

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 278 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Helios/Hyperion | # CDH55452 | Time: 01:09:54

Tomás Luis de Victoria was the greatest composer of the Spanish sixteenth-century ‘golden age’ of polyphonic music. This recording is of the six-voice Missa Dum complerentur, the five-part motet on which the Mass is based, and six further hymns and sequences including the great Popule meus, a setting of the Improperia (Reproaches) which form the heart of the liturgy for Good Friday. This is music of compelling beauty, which illustrates well Victoria’s extraordinary capacity to create through simple homophony extremely moving music of great expressiveness.
David Hill, Westminster Cathedral Choir - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave maris stella; O quam gloriosum (1987)

David Hill, Westminster Cathedral Choir - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave maris stella; O quam gloriosum (1987)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 56:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66114 | Recorded: 1983

Victoria was the greatest Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Compared with the prolific Palestrina the number of his works is not great; compared with Byrd, Victoria’s music is not so varied or wide ranging. Indeed, placed beside the enormous output of Lassus, Victoria’s achievement seems to be very restricted; there is none of the dazzling virtuosity and broad culture, none of the extraordinary diversity. Yet, in its narrow specialization in strictly liturgical or devotional function, Victoria’s music is not only the most perfectly suited to its purpose, but the most perfectly styled and fashioned of its kind, its emotional heart perfectly in accord with Roman Catholic liturgical ceremony in the Tridentine Rite. Even more than Palestrina’s, Victoria’s art is an expression of Catholicism as defined by the Council of Trent.
Carlos Mena, Juan Carlos Rivera - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Et Jesum (2004)

Carlos Mena, Juan Carlos Rivera - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Et Jesum (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 60:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMI 987042 | Recorded: 2003

Et Jesum presents motets, antiphons, and mass sections by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, arranged for countertenor voice and accompanying stringed instrument. Both the laud (the Spanish version of the lute) and the more guitar-like vihuela are used by accompanist Juan Carlos Rivera. Rivera and countertenor Carlos Mena, a youthful alumnus of the Savall school, augment arrangements of Victoria's day with efforts of their own in a similar vein, and it would take a deep specialist indeed to pick out the 400-year-old ones.
Leslie Craven & Victoria String Quartet - Romantic Clarinet Quintets (2023)

Leslie Craven & Victoria String Quartet - Romantic Clarinet Quintets (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 337 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:22:50
Classical | Label: Musical Concepts

On this new recording by Leslie Craven, he is joined by the wonderful Victoria String Quartet. This CD features clarinet quintets by Brahms, Weber and, as a bonus, Arnold Cooke.

Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 11, 2022
Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)

Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 335 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 01:00:19
Classical | Label: Marquis Classics

Celebrating 10 years of concerts, Victoria Baroque has released a new CD of ravishing Baroque concertos for multiple instruments. The concerti on the recording represent innovative baroque works by both famous composers - Vivaldi and Telemann, and less known composers Dall'Abaco and Heinichen working during the same period. They are influenced by the operas and sacred cantatas of the period. The Victoria Baroque is a leading ensemble specializing in the concerti of the baroque era.