Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director (repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by libr at May 14, 2017
Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director (repost)

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director by Patrick McGilligan
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0060731370 | ISBN-13: 9780060731373 | 560 pages | EPUB | 60 MB

American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at May 7, 2020
American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray

American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema) by Will Scheibel
English | March 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1438464118, 1438464126 | EPUB | 258 pages | 3.3 MB

Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at April 2, 2022
Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema

Steven Rybin, "Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema "
English | ISBN: 143844981X | 2014 | 314 pages | PDF | 4 MB

«De Africa Romaque» by Julia Nikolaus, Niccolo Mugnai, Nicholas Ray  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Gelsomino at June 12, 2022
«De Africa Romaque» by Julia Nikolaus, Niccolo Mugnai, Nicholas Ray

«De Africa Romaque» by Julia Nikolaus, Niccolo Mugnai, Nicholas Ray
English | EPUB | 7.7 MB
Ray Conniff And The Singers - We Wish You A Merry Christmas (1962)

Ray Conniff And The Singers - We Wish You A Merry Christmas (1962)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 191 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 77 Mb | Scans included
Easy Listening, Vocal Pop, Christmas | Label: Columbia | # CK 8692 | Time: 00:31:14

Between 1957 and 1968, Ray Conniff had 28 albums in the American Top 40. He started out at Columbia Records as their home arranger, backing artists such as Rosemary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, and Johnnie Ray, with his orchestra and was eventually offered the chance to do his own record. We Wish You a Merry Christmas is packed with traditional holiday tunes that Conniff and his (25) Singers wove into a series of medleys. This album has a retro studio sound, which, upon listening, may conjure up images of Lawrence Welk singers strolling the stage, dressed in matching holiday garb. Sometimes melodramatic ("Ring Christmas Bells"), other times, bright and exuberant ("Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!"), it's good, clean fun for the whole family and a solid addition to any Christmas catalog.
Boris Gruzin, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (2009) [Blu-Ray]

Kenneth Macmillan, Boris Gruzin, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (2009) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24995 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 138 min | 33,1 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4263 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 138 min | 7,45 Gb
Audio: DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | DECCA

Cuban Superstar Carlos Acosta dances Romeo in Kenneth Macmillan’s timeless version of the Shakespeare/Prokofiev Classic Ballet ‘Romeo & Juliet.’ In this perennial favourite, Carlos Acosta dances alongside his regular partner, the Spanish ballerina, Tamara Rojo – a celebrated stage partnership which currently has no equal. The drama of the doomed lovers is set against the ravishing sets and costumes designs of Nicholas Georgiadis.

Nicholas Payton - Sonic Trance (2003)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 23, 2021
Nicholas Payton - Sonic Trance (2003)

Nicholas Payton - Sonic Trance (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 443 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 161 MB | Covers - 78 MB
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros. Records (48447-2)

Changing labels from Verve to Warner Bros. and dropping any connection to his neo-bop past, trumpeter Nicholas Payton has crafted a funk-jazz album that unabashedly resurrects iconic trumpeter Miles Davis' wah-wah-laden fusion experiments epitomized by his 1969 opus, Bitches Brew. More slavish to the period than trumpeter Wallace Roney's No Room for Argument, but no less hip-hop-influenced than trumpeter Roy Hargrove's Hard Groove, Sonic Trance is nonetheless far from your average major-label jazz release. Featuring saxophonist Tim Warfield, pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Vicente Archer, drummer Adonis Rose, and percussionist Daniel Sadownick, the group gains much au courant hip-hop aestheticism from the addition of drummer/producer extraordinaire Karriem Riggins…
Robin Ticciati, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2013) [Blu-Ray]

Robin Ticciati, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2013) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 171 min | 39,7 Gb
Audio1: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 171 min | 9,26 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | OPUS ARTE | Sub: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

Perhaps no opera is closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Effortlessly witty yet shot through with pain and sadness, this deeply ambivalent life in the day of masters and servants as they scheme and outwit one another was Glyndebourne's opening production in 1934. Michael Grandage's staging is the seventh, set in a louche Sixties ambience. Marshalled by the 'ideal pacing of Robin Ticciati, a youthful cast of principals has 'no weak link' and 'looks gorgeous' (The Sunday Times) in a production that continues Glyndebourne's rewarding history of engagement with Mozart's and da Ponte's 'day of madness'.
Sir Roger Norrington, Kent Opera Chorus and Orchestra -  Tippett: King Priam (2016/1985) [Blu-Ray]

Sir Roger Norrington, Kent Opera Chorus and Orchestra - Tippett: King Priam (2016/1985) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29435 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 129 min | 38,9 Gb
Audio1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 129 min | 7,66 Gb
Audio: English / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, German, French, Spanish

Michael Tippet’s King Priam the re-telling of part of the original epic legend of Troy follows the Homeric characters through their love, loyalties and vengeance – leading to the fi nal slaughter of King Priam at the altar of his burning city. The opera also speaks of the inevitability and futility of war. Rodney Macann heads a strong cast in the title role, giving a compelling performance as Priam, alongside Sarah Walker’s moving portrayal of Hector’s wife, Andromache. Howard Haskin plays Priam’s rebellious son Paris, who elopes with Helen, wife of the Greek King of Sparta, thus instigating the great Trojan War. Nicholas Hytner’s innovative production is matched by the starkly stylised setting designed by David Fielding, which creates a timeless arena of war. Minimal costume and colour, frozen action and white light further enhance Tippett’s marvellously sparse music played with fearless conviction and driving impetus by the youthful Kent Opera Orchestra under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington.
Nicholas McGegan, Gottingen Festival Orchestra - Handel: Admeto (2010) [Blu-Ray]

Nicholas McGegan, Göttingen Festival Orchestra - Handel: Admeto (2010) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23946 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 180 min | 41,8 Gb
Audio1: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD MA / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4198 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,970 fps | 180 min | 9,73 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bit
Classical | C MAJOR | Sub: Italian, English, German, French

Handel’s second opera for the so-called “rival queens,” Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, was Admeto, which had its premiere in 1727. Their purported rivalry—created more by the public than by the singers themselves—resulted most famously in the cat fight parodied by John Gay in his Beggar’s Opera of the same year. The operas Handel wrote for these reigning divas are as musically brilliant as any of his other works. But as a result of his attempts to structure dramas that would give absolutely equal value to two leading ladies, the rival-queen operas are dramatically problematic and strain credulity at times, Admeto not excepted.