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Saint Etienne - Albums Collection 1991-2012 (12CD) [Re-Up]  Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 8, 2022
Saint Etienne - Albums Collection 1991-2012 (12CD) [Re-Up]

Saint Etienne - Albums Collection 1991-2012 (12CD)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 3.59 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1.32 Gb | Scans ~ 1.08 Gb
Genre: Synthpop, Electronic, Alternative Dance Pop/Rock, Indie Pop | Time: 09:47:28

One of the most dextrous indie/dance crossover bands, an intelligent, witty, and highly danceable amalgamation of British pop music. Collection includes: Foxbase Alpha (1991); So Tough (1993); Tiger Bay (1994); Good Humor (1998) 2CD Deluxe Edition 2010; Sound Of Water (2000) 2CD Deluxe Edition 2009; Finisterre (2002); Tales From The Turnpike House (2005) 2CD Limited Edition; Words and Music by Saint Etienne (2012) 2CD Deluxe Edition.
The Saint Tikhon Choir & Benedict Sheehan - Benedict Sheehan: Vespers (2021)

The Saint Tikhon Choir & Benedict Sheehan - Benedict Sheehan: Vespers (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 250 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:59:27
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Cappella Romana

GRAMMY®-nominated conductor and composer Benedict Sheehan leads The Saint Tikhon Choir in his new setting of Eastern Orthodox Vespers in English. Inspired by the great All-Night Vigil setting by Rachmaninoff, Sheehan’s composition expands the genre with full settings of Psalms. Each verse is treated with deep musical pathos to express a full range of human emotion. Vespers also features virtuosic vocal concertos, including the first for basso profundo in English. Encounter this music that projects a vision of hope and light for all. The Saint Tikhon Choir was founded in 2015 by Benedict Sheehan, the group’s artistic director, and Abbot Sergius of St. Tikhon’s Monastery. It is the first professional vocal ensemble connected with an Orthodox monastery in America, founded with a mission to foster and build up the American Orthodox choral tradition at the highest artistic level.
Monastic Chor of the Solemnity of Saint Benedict & Stefano Concordia - Vir Dei Benedictus (2021)

Monastic Chor of the Solemnity of Saint Benedict & Stefano Concordia - Vir Dei Benedictus (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 308 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 229 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:24
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: fonè Records

The laus perennis that the monks every day in their psalmody offer to the Lord, is adorned with hymns, antiphons and responsories; all chants drawn from the ancient gregorian repertory. With this daily practice and custom, the monks become almost the only custodians and specialists of this patrimony of the highest religious, cultural and artistic merit that is gregorian chant. The monks of Montecassino – always faithful cultivators of this venerable chant, proper to the lit- urgy of the Church – with the present CD want to make these melodies, which are an elevated form of prayer, resound also outside of the monastery walls. The recording was completed at the Tomb of St. Benedict and is intended as an affectionate hymn of sons towards their father and master: in fact, a good part of the liturgy of the Solemnity of St.Benedict of the traditional date of March 21 was performed.
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch -  The Queen's Delight (2020)

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - The Queen's Delight (English Songs and Country Dances of the 17th and 18th Centuries) (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 354 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:18
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

This programme reflects the full flavour and richness of English music and the instrumental and vocal repertory it inspired in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rhythmic impulse of this repertory sometimes making use of ostinato culminates in the grounds, jigs, contredanses and so on that were all the rage at the time and led to the publication of John Playford's collection The English Dancing Master in 1651. Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, showing their familiarity with early sources from England, Scotland and Ireland, also emphasise the melodic aspect of these dances, which in the course of time became sung airs the soprano Fiona McGown and the baritone Enea Sorini complete a colourful instrumentarium. Finally, the light-hearted dimension of entertainment is present everywhere in this repertory, which was popular in the sense that it was universally practised at the time, achieving a fame that spread far beyond the British Isles.
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Beauté barbare (2023)

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - Beauté barbare (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 301 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:38
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

This album owes its title ‘Beauté barbare’ to Telemann who described the music he discovered during a trip to Upper Silesia in 1705 as existing ‘in its true barbaric beauty’. Did he mean ‘wild’? ‘Exotic’? In any case, the composer was fascinated: ‘An attentive observer could gather from [those musicians] enough ideas in eight days to last a lifetime.’ An equally passionate admirer of folk music, whose Serbian roots link him to these cultures, François Lazarevitch has conceived this wildly swirling programme that mixes Telemann ( Concerto Polonois ) and eastern European Romani music of the eighteenth century, thanks to a collection of dance tunes from 1730 that he has unearthed. ‘What is interesting for us as Baroque performers is to try to find in the pieces of “art music” everything that is not written down, namely the energy and “swing” of the folk dances. I like the music we play not to sound like early music’, says the flautist and founder of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, who are joined for the occasion by a cymbalom virtuoso and a wide variety of percussion instruments.
Bergen PO, Neeme Jarvi - Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Le Carnaval des animaux; Africa (2016)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Le Carnaval des animaux; Africa (2016)
Truls Mørk, cello; Louis Lortie, piano; Helene Mercier, piano;
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 293 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 178 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5162 | Time: 01:15:30

The essence of Camille Saint-Saëns' music comes through perhaps most clearly in his music for solo instrument and orchestra, which exemplifies his elegant combination of melody and conservatory-generated virtuosity. The two cello concertos are here, plus a pair of crowd-pleasing short works for piano and orchestra, and the evergreen Carnival of the Animals, with pianists Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier joining forces along with a collection of instruments that includes the often-omitted glass harmonica. There are all kinds of attractions here: the gently humorous and not over-broad Carnival, the songful cello playing of Truls Mørk, and the little-known piano-and-orchestra scene Africa, Op. 89, with its lightly Tunisian flavor (sample this final track). But really, the central thread connecting them all is the conducting of Neeme Järvi and the light, graceful work of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; French music is the nearly 80-year-old Järvi's most congenial environment, and in this recording, perhaps his last devoted to Saint-Saëns, he has never been better.
Saint Tropez - The Best Of Saint Tropez: Fill My Life With Love (Remastered) (1995)

Saint Tropez - The Best Of Saint Tropez: Fill My Life With Love (Remastered) (1995)
FLAC (tracks) - 502 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 175 MB
1:16:30 | Disco, Boogie, Funk | Label: Hot Productions / Butterfly Records

Like many disco groups of the 70s, Saint Tropez was a producers' brainchild, in this case of American producers Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis who had already been successful with disco groups El Coco and Le Pamplemousse. Saint Tropez was a female group made up of three session singers. The first two albums Je T'aime (1977) and Belle de Jour (1978), both hugely successful disco albums with big symphonic orchestrations and a tight disco backing, all the instruments played solely by the two producers. Je T'aime offered Serge Gainsbourg's well-known classic in an equally sensual disco symphony. They also covered material by Van McCoy and Gregg Diamond's "Heart To Heart" (sung in French as "Coeur à coeur"), originally written for The Andrea True Connection. Belle de Jour followed the same formula, yielding two successful 12"s "One More Minute" and "Fill My Life With Love", and also covering Gloria Gaynor's "Most Of All". Typical for this kind of studio projects, lots of different singers were involved in the earlier '77 and '78 projects.
Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony No. 3 'Organ Symphony'; Charles-Marie Widor - Allegro from Symphony No. 6, Op 42/2 (1985)

Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 'Organ Symphony';
Charles-Marie Widor: Allegro from Symphony No. 6, Op 42/2 (1985)
Jean Guillou, organ; San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Edo de Waart

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 231 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | # 412 619-2 | Time: 00:44:39

On this disc, Jean Guillou teams up with Edo DeWaart and the San Francisco Symphony for a lush performance of Camille Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, popularly known as the Organ Symphony. This is a lush performance of the Organ Symphony with spot-on tempi, great orchestral balance, and unsurpassed balance between organ and orchestra. This symphony has one long melodic line after another, and DeWaart keeps a long view that prevents any sense of meandering. The organ is stunningly recorded. Brass blaze with glory. Strings are lush. Timpani are extremely well-defined. The clarity of the recording provides an excellent window into finer details. It is difficult to imagine how anything could have been improved upon. The disc is filled out with a strong performance of Widor's Allegro from his Symphony No. 6. This account of the Organ Symphony has everything going for it. There are no obvious weaknesses. If you have excellent subwoofers, they will get the workout of their life. Very Highly Recommended!

Piers Lane - Camille Saint-Saens: The Complete Etudes (1998)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 15, 2023
Piers Lane - Camille Saint-Saens: The Complete Etudes (1998)

Piers Lane - Camille Saint-Saëns: The Complete Études (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 205 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 167 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67037 | Time: 01:12:10

Saint-Saens’s Etudes offer an intricate and scintillating panoply of the French school of technique (the basis and prophecy of what Jean-Philippe Collard so mischievously called Marguerite Long’s ‘diggy-diggy-dee’ school of piano playing). Yet as Piers Lane tells us in his alternately wry and delightful accompanying essay (obligatory reading for all lovers of French pianism), they can be as evocative (‘Les cloches de las Palmas’) as they are finger-twisting (‘En forme de valse’, to name but one). The left-hand Etudes, too, given their self-imposed limitation, are a fragile and poetic surprise. In other words Saint-Saens’s Etudes are more comprehensive than their equivalents by, say, Moszkowski or Lazare Levey (superbly recorded by Ilana Vered on Connoisseur Society and Danielle Laval on French EMI, respectively – neither issued in the UK).
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch -  The Queen's Delight (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch - The Queen's Delight (English Songs and Country Dances of the 17th and 18th Centuries) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:18 minutes | 1,3 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

This programme reflects the full flavour and richness of English music and the instrumental and vocal repertory it inspired in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rhythmic impulse of this repertory sometimes making use of ostinato culminates in the grounds, jigs, contredanses and so on that were all the rage at the time and led to the publication of John Playford's collection The English Dancing Master in 1651. Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, showing their familiarity with early sources from England, Scotland and Ireland, also emphasise the melodic aspect of these dances, which in the course of time became sung airs the soprano Fiona McGown and the baritone Enea Sorini complete a colourful instrumentarium.