Audiophile Vol. 2

Francois Couperin - Angela Hewitt - Keyboard Music Vol. 2
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 239 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion Records # SACDA67480 | Country/Year: UK 2004
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque

'Hewitt's playing is equally representative of her general approach to his music. Her touch is amazingly light, incredibly crisp and alert to the possibilities afforded by the piano' (Gramophone)

VA - Sounds of Hollywood Vol. 2
Vogtland Philharmonie / Stefan Fraas
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,41 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 805 MB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Ars Produktion # ARS 38 120 | Country/Year: Germany 2012 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical, Pop, Stage & Screen | Style: Modern Classical, Soundtrack

This is the second album of themes from famous Hollywood films as well as pop classics in the film music genre, performed in spectacular hi-res surround sound by this Bavarian orchestra. (…) Great fun for movie music/hi-res surround fans!" 4/5 ~audiophile-audition

The Tallis Scholars - Sing Tudor Church Music, Vol. 2
Music written by Sheppard, Tallis, White
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 575 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Gimell Records # CDGIM 210 | Country/Year: UK 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Renaissance, Sacred, Vocal

"…For those newcomers to this group, suffice it to say that you will rarely find an ensemble as carefully rehearsed or skillfully prepared for the repertory they choose to engage in—simply one of the finest ever, legendary, and there has never been a disc they have released that has gotten less that rave reviews…" ~audiophile-audition

VA - Sounds of Hollywood Vol. 2
Vogtland Philharmonie / Stefan Fraas
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 315 MB | Full Artwork: 135 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Ars Produktion # ARS 38 120 | Country/Year: Germany 2012
Genre: Classical, Pop, Stage & Screen | Style: Modern Classical, Soundtrack

This is the second album of themes from famous Hollywood films as well as pop classics in the film music genre, performed in spectacular hi-res surround sound by this Bavarian orchestra. (…) Great fun for movie music/hi-res surround fans!" 4/5 ~audiophile-audition

Analog Bubblebath Vol 2 was the second EP released by artist Richard D. James, under the alias of AFX. It is also the second release in the Analogue Bubblebath series and was his first release under the AFX alias.

Joan Baez's second album, recorded when she was 20 years old, is a hearty helping of folk masterpieces that give ample evidence to exactly how she was established as a leader of the contemporary folk scene of the day. In August of 2001, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 was reissued in an audiophile remastered edition, with new annotation and containing three additional songs from the same sessions – all are a match for anything on the original album, and "I Once Loved a Boy" and "The Longest Train I Ever Saw" count among the saddest, most emotionally enveloping songs of Baez's early career.

One of the continuing appeals of Hans Werner Henze's music is his ability to use the formidable arsenal of twentieth century musical innovations in works that have immediate aural appeal, while probing ambiguous or disturbing layers of meaning lurking beneath the surface. The complexity of his music is generally not so much apparent on its surface as in its psychology. While Henze has written in virtually every genre of music in his long and remarkably productive career, he is essentially a dramatic composer, and it's for his operas, ballets, music theater pieces, vocal music, and film music that he will be most remembered.

This is the second volume of what is presumably a series covering the complete Shostakovich string quartets along with some selected Russian miscellaneous quartets as well from the Soviet period. The Soviet Experience is a 16-month exposition of arts showcase from those who labored under the Politburo of the Soviet Union, being presented in Chicago under the auspices of the University of Chicago, starting back in 2010 and ending this year, and was inspired by the Pacifica Quartet’s plan to give all of Shostakovich’s quartets in 2010-2011, a city premiere. Cedille decided to capture some of the magic, and the results could very well be close to definitive, or at least in the top three or four……..

Steven Ritter @ Audiophile Audition