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Palladians - The Devil's Trill (Sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88.2 kHz: 1,09 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Linn Records # CKD 292 | Country/Year: UK 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque | Source: Linn Records

…While his works are often extraordinarily difficult, their virtuosity rises out of a desire to express rather than amaze; here a lightening quick leap of the bow to portray the fury of a princess scorned; there a fiendishly painful trill to mimic diabolical laughter. It is this intense pictorial inward gaze which seems at least as strong as his desire to create ‘brave sport' that sets him somewhat apart from his colleagues…

Berlioz was the first Romantic master of the orchestra. His music hasn't been surpassed in terms of sheer brilliance and accuracy of effect. This set includes all of the overtures, the Symphonie fantastique, Harold in Italy, the Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens, orchestral music from The Damnation of Faust and Romeo and Juliet, and the completely insane Grande Symphonie funebre et triumphale. Davis achieved his reputation as a conductor as a Berlioz specialist, and he proves an expert advocate on behalf of this stimulating, bizarre, and totally original genius.

Between 1980 and 1998 Simon Rattle conducted no less than 934 concerts with the CBSO. Together they performed works by many 20th-century composers, as well as established favourites, and gave a total of 16 world premieres. Rattle also made 69 recordings for EMI with the orchestra. This box brings together that recorded legacy, which includes pieces by composers pivotal to his work, such as Mahler, Sibelius and Szymanowski, as well as some of the new compositions he championed — Nicholas Maw’s Odyssy, Mark Anthony Turnage’s Momentum, Three Screaming Popes and Drowned Out, and Thomas Adès’ Asyla.

Hanns Dieter Hüsch / Franz Josef Degenhardt / Wolfgang Neuss / Dieter Süverkrüp - Quartett ´67
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 442 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Conträr # 4304-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1967, 1996
Genre: Folk, World | Style: Folk, Political Song

Mit Klampfe, Orgel oder Pauke hatten die vier Liedermacher Degenhardt, Hüsch, Neuss und Süverkrüp in den späten 60er Jahren einem geistig erstarrten Wirtschaftswunder-System den Kampf angesatt. Zwecks Bündelung der Kräfte beschloß man anno '67 ein gemeinsames Programm, das jedoczh nur ein einiges Mal aufgeführt wurde: am 20. März 1967 im Sendesaal des Saarländischen Rundfunks. Über drei Jahrzehnte war dieser Auftritt nur in Buchform dokumentiert, jetzt erst liegt er als CD-Mitschnitt vor: ein überragendes, historisch wertvolles Dokument.