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Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink
PS3 SACD ISO: 4,06 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 251 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,07 GB | Lossless Artwork: 110 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live LSO0716 | Country/Year: UK 2011 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

…The LSO play with their customary precision and refinement, which goes a long way in music that can often be so ethereal and uplifting as Bruckner's. And when the orchestra get a chance to come into full bloom in the biggest crescendos and fortissimos, they sound wonderful, especially with Haitink guiding them so evenhandedly…

Jean Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
PS3 SACD ISO: 2,81 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 211 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 860 MB | Lossless Artwork: 156 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live LSO0051 | Country/Year: UK 2004 | Genre: Classical, Romantic | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

…But even compared with the LSO's fervent performances of the Sibelius symphonies with Davis in the '90s cannot compare with the fire of these 2003 recordings of the Third and Seventh. With the LSO's passionate virtuosity behind him, Davis creates nuanced but powerful performances, performances that are detailed yet sweeping, lyric yet epic, but, above all, loving. Davis and the LSO's Third is light but shot with shadows, poised but relentless, mysterious but triumphant. The Seventh is the sun cresting the snow-capped mountains, the wind rushing down from the peaks, their song soaring in the high, sharp air. Even though Davis does hum, anyone who loves Sibelius will have to hear these performances.

JFranz Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin
Christoph Prégardien: Tenor / Michael Gees: Piano
PS3 SACD ISO (2.0/5.1): 3,18 GB | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 236 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 961 MB | Full Artwork: 409 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Challenge Classics CC72292 | Country/Year: Europe 2008 | Genre: Classical | Hoster: Filepost / Filefactory

…Challenge Classics' Die Schöne Mullerin with Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees is a recording worthy of taking pride of place on the shelf alongside such "classic" versions as those by Richard Crooks, Aksel Schiøtz, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and is in considerably better recorded sound than any of them.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Kantaten BWV 56, 158 & 82
Thomas Quasthoff / Berliner Barock Solisten / RIAS Kammerchor / Rainer Kussmaul
PS3 SACD ISO: 3,62GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 210 MB (2.0) | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 863 MB | Lossless Artwork: 260 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon 474 505-2 | Country/Year: Europe 2004 | Genre: Baroque / Sacred | Hoster: FP/FF

…Not only does Quasthoff perform with his by now customary strength and elegance, but Quasthoff interprets with his by now customary warmth and compassion. Quasthoff knows full well the depths of doom and gloom in Bach's texts, but he also knows that despite it all, life is good and his singing projects a love of life that few other performers can match. The choral singing by members of the RIAS-Kammerchor is subtle and strong and the orchestral playing of the Berliner Barock Solisten is nuanced and sensitive. Deutsche Grammophon's sound is clear and detailed.

Michael Feinstein - Michael Feinstein With The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
PS3 SACD ISO: 3,44 GB (2.0/5.1) | EAC Rip, FLAC LOG & CUE: 300 MB | 24B/88,2kHz FLAC (2.0): 1,0 GB | Artwork: 23 MB | Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Concord Records SACD-1014-6 | Country/Year: US 2003 | Genre: Jazz | Hoster: Filepost/Filefactory

As it says on the back cover, Michael Feinstein With the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the first recording he's made with a symphonic orchestra. For this special occasion, Feinstein and Alan Broadbent decided to stick to celebrated songs from the great American popular songbook, ranging from "Stormy Weather" and "Laura" to "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)."…