Rule Britannia

Paul Daniel and English Northern Philharmonia - Rule Britannia And Other Music From Last Night Of The Proms (1998)

Paul Daniel and English Northern Philharmonia - Rule Britannia And Other Music From Last Night Of The Proms (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers | 249 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 127 mb
Classical, Romantic, Modern | Label: Naxos - 8.553981

Great Britain’s famous Proms concerts usually end with a program that is British to the core, featuring many favorites that English audiences expect in the same way that Viennese audiences expect their Radetzky March on New Year’s. Let’s make this clear, then, from the start. This is not an actual Proms performance but a studio recording of music that is usually heard at that event. It is English to the core; about four tracks in, you’ll feel like you should be saluting as the Queen passes by.
Ronald Brautigam - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Variations & Bagatelles (2019)

Ronald Brautigam - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Variations & Bagatelles (2019)
FLAC tracks | 06:48:16 | 1,6 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: BIS

Between 2003 and 2015, Ronald Brautigam recorded all of Beethoven’s music for solo piano – a huge undertaking resulting in a grand total of 15 highly acclaimed albums. Choosing to perform the works on the fortepiano, Brautigam began with a sonata cycle which caused one reviewer to talk of a challenge to ‘the very notion of playing this music on modern instruments, a stylistic paradigm shift.’ In 2010, after nine albums of sonatas, he went on to record the composer’s variations, bagatelles and other piano pieces – a staggering array of works ranging from a Bagatelle lasting 11 seconds to the monumental Diabelli Variations, and from a charming Rondo in C major composed by a 13-year old Beethoven, to what is often referred to as the composer's ‘Last Musical Thought’, an Andante maestoso dated 1826.
Cedric Tiberghien - Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 2 (2024)

Cedric Tiberghien - Beethoven: Complete Variations for Piano, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:33:01 | 402 Mb
Genre: Classical

After a formidable first volume, Cedric Tiberghien continues his exploration of Beethoven's corpus of variations. At the heart of this new album are the famous Thirty-two Variations in C minor and their tangy reminiscences of Bach - the Ciaccona from Partita No.2 for violin solo, presented here in Brahms's masterly transcription. He also takes the opportunity to show us what a certain school of American composers (Crumb, Cage, Feldman) has made of this tradition of variation form.
Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Thomas Arne: The Masque of Alfred (2000)

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Thomas Arne: The Masque of Alfred (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 361 Mb | Total time: 76:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 05472 77529 2 | Recorded: 1999

The Masque of Alfred - apart of course from its finale "Rule Britannia" - has in the 1990s reached CD. Just two years ago a version was issued with the BBC Music Magazine and now we have this more complete account (though there were several variants in Arne's own day) from Nicholas McGegan, an experienced exponent of 18th Century music, recorded in America and using mainly American performers. And very welcome is it. If offers 76 minutes of music, 25 minutes more than the BBC CD and if the OAE's playing on the latter under Nicholas Kraemer often seems rather superior, the Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra are fully equal to Arne's demands which include often atmospheric parts for oboes, horns and flute as well as the basic strings. McGegan uses only four solo singers against the BBC's six.
Alessandro Commellato - Beethoven: The Complete Early Variations (2017)

Alessandro Commellato - Beethoven: The Complete Early Variations (2017)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 708 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics | Tracks: 18 | Time: 180:54 min

An unrivalled compendium on disc of the Beethoven’s compositional laboratory, full of experiments that would be refined throughout his career to create the piano’s ‘New Testament’ of 32 sonatas.

Amyas & Emily Baines - The Ghost in the Machine (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 2, 2021
Amyas & Emily Baines - The Ghost in the Machine (2021)

Amyas & Emily Baines - The Ghost in the Machine (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 331 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:41
Classical | Label: First Hand Records

This recording is the culmination of 10 years of research by Dr Emily Baines, and it brings to dazzling life the fascinating and effervescent performance style found in eighteenth-century mechanical musical instruments. It contains never before heard transcriptions of music, found in eighteenth-century barrel organs and musical clocks.

VA - Crown & Glory (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at May 4, 2023
VA - Crown & Glory (2023)

VA - Crown & Glory (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 804 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 369 MB
2:36:04 | Classical, Choral | Label: Decca

This brand-new double album in celebration of the much-anticipated coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla. ‘Crown and Glory’ houses over two and a half hours of British orchestral, instrumental, and choral music from across four centuries. Music enjoyed at coronations, jubilees and state occasions sits alongside evergreens of the Great British classical songbook heard throughout the year at annual national events such as the Last Night of the Proms. Melodies reflecting the close tie between the monarchy and the armed services also feature, as do select songs and tunes beloved by each country of the Union.
Quincy Jones - The Italian Job: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition (1969/2019)

Quincy Jones - The Italian Job: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition (1969/2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 258 MB
1:12:08 | Soundtrack | Label: Quartet Records

Quartet Records, Universal Music Group and Paramount Pictures celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic caper movie The Italian Job with the expanded edition of Quincy Jones explosive original score! The original album produced by George Martin at Abbey Road Studios appears freshly remastered, and the CD also includes the previously unreleased film tracks, demos, alternates and bonus material. The Italian Job is a 1969 British comedy caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson. It tells the story of Charlie Croker (Michael Caine), the leader of a cockney criminal gang released from prison with the intention of doing a "big job" in Italy to steal gold bullion from an armoured security truck. It's soundtrack was composed by Quincy Jones, and includes "On Days Like These" sung by Matt Monro over the opening credits, and "Getta Bloomin' Move On" (usually referred to as "The Self-Preservation Society", after it's chorus) during the climactic car chase. Lead actor Michael Caine is among it's singers. Packaging includes a superb 24 page full colour booklet, housed in a jewel case.
Anthony Phillips - Archive Collection Vol I & II (Remastered) (2022)

Anthony Phillips - Archive Collection Vol I & II (Remastered) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,75 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 757 Mb | 05:30:11
Progressive Rock, Art Rock | Label: Cherry Red Records, Esoteric Recordings

Esoteric Recordings releases of a newly remastered 5CD clamshell boxed set comprising the two original ‘Archive Collection’ albums by celebrated composer and Genesis founder member Anthony Phillips. Aside from his work as a solo artist, Anthony has been a composer of music for television for many years, going back as far as 1976 and those compositions form the backbone of these collections.

Leonard Bernstein - The Remastered Edition Part 5 (100CD Box Set, 2017)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Jan. 29, 2020
Leonard Bernstein - The Remastered Edition Part 5 (100CD Box Set, 2017)

Leonard Bernstein - The Remastered Edition Part 5 (100CD Box Set, 2017)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 15:56:35 | 2,19 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

On the eve of his centenary in 2018, Sony Classical releases the most important collection, Leonard Bernstein’s classic American Columbia recordings, remastered from their original 2- and multi-track analogue tapes. This has allowed for the creation of a natural balance (for example, between the orchestra and solo instruments) that brings the quality of these half-century-old recordings, excellent for their time, up to the standards of today’s audiophiles. In addition, there has been a meticulous restoration of some earlier masterings in which LP surface noise was too rigorously eliminated at the expense of the original brilliance.