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Kenny Burrell - Love Is the Answer (1998)  Music

Posted by intothe at April 12, 2010
Kenny Burrell - Love Is the Answer (1998)

Kenny Burrell - Love Is the Answer (1998)
Jazz | EAC rip (FLAC+CUE+LOG) | 327 MB | full artwork
Concord Jazz | 57:17 | RAR with 5% recovery
Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill - Thomas Tallis: Spem In Alium & Other Choral Works (1990)

Thomas Tallis: Spem In Alium & Other Choral Works (1990)
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester Quiristers, Winchester Vocal Arts
David Hill (conductor); Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ)

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 220 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66400 | Time: 00:59:01

This recording has a huge advantage over most of its rivals for the attention of Tallis listeners: the wonderful acoustics of Winchester Cathedral. In this magnificent space, the soaring lines and resplendent harmonies of Tallis's greatest masterpieces find sympathetic resonance, resulting in a heightened dramatic presence that takes the music beyond earthly confines. Of course, beyond the exceptional quality of the writing, credit must go to the phenomenal men and boys of Winchester Cathedral Choir. Where, even in England, does one find trebles who sing with more assuredness, musicality, and beauty of tone? With a repertoire including "In ieiunio et fletu," "Salvator mundi," "In manus tuas," "The Lamentations of Jeremiah," "O nata lux," and the unbelievable 40-part motet "Spem in alium," this is the Tallis disc to own if you're buying only one.
Mozart: Missa Solemnis, Vesperae De Dominica, Regina Caeli - Carwood, St. Paul Cathedral Choir (2012)

Mozart: Missa Solemnis, Vesperae De Dominica, Regina Caeli - Carwood, St. Paul Cathedral Choir (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 282 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67921

After almost a decade, Hyperion is delighted to welcome back the world-famous St Paul’s Cathedral Choir under its new director of music, Hyperion artist and also director of The Cardinall’s Musick, Andrew Carwood. Joined by the St Paul’s Mozart Orchestra and a quartet of renowned soloists, Carwood leads sparkling performances of a selection of Mozart’s sacred music. Although they were commissioned to be sung at church services in Salzburg, all these compositions are suffused with Mozart’s typically unerring sense of dramatic pacing and a sensuous, operatic treatment of solo lines, as well as crisp and energetic choral writing.

Janet Klein And Her Parlor Boys - 8 Albums (1998-2015)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 26, 2017
Janet Klein And Her Parlor Boys - 8 Albums (1998-2015)

Janet Klein And Her Parlor Boys - 8 Albums (1998-2015)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 08:15:08 | 1.2 Gb | Covers
Vocal Jazz, Swing | Country: Los Angeles, California, United States

With her sleek bob haircut (usually with a flower placed just so), vintage fashion sense, strikingly beautiful looks and artfully customized ukulele, Janet Klein might seem at first to be a simple novelty act, a 21st-century hipster "ironically" recreating the subtly naughty looks of a fin-de-siecle French postcard. Then she opens her mouth to sing. There's no Betty Boop hiccups or Mae West-style brassiness in her charmingly original voice. And when she starts to play her ukulele, it's clear that this oft-ridiculed cousin of the guitar is neither prop nor gimmick, but a delightful and under-utilized musical instrument. Bearing an ever-expanding repertoire of, as she puts it, "obscure, lovely and naughty songs from the 1910's , 20's and 30's," Janet Klein is a musical archeologist hiding in the body of an F. Scott Fitzgerald heroine.
Choir of Saint Thomas Church New, John Scott - Christmas on Fifth Avenue (2019)

Choir of Saint Thomas Church New, John Scott - Christmas on Fifth Avenue (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 364 MB | Cover | 01:04:47 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 150 MB
Classical | Label: Pro Organo

The Choir of Men and Boys of Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City, under the direction of John Scott, sing music for the Advent and Christmas seasons.
Massimo Palombella, Sistine Chapel Choir - Veni Domine: Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel (2017)

Massimo Palombella, Sistine Chapel Choir - Veni Domine: Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 271 Mb | Total time: 64:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 479 7524 GH | Recorded: 2017

The Sistine Chapel Choir were quite late to the recording scene, but they are making up for lost time under director Massimo Palombella. The strengths of the choir's performances on this holiday release are threefold. First of all is the sound environment of the chapel itself, resonant and big, yet hospitable to dense polyphony since Josquin was a choirboy there. Josquin appears on the program here, but the motet Missus est Gabriel is not a common work, and that points to the choir's second strength: they work from a manuscript tradition, that of the Vatican, that is different from the set of scholarly publications that have long shaped the Renaissance performing repertory, and several pieces here are world premieres, or otherwise seldom heard.
Choir of St John's College, Cambridge - Mozart: Coronation Mass, Ave Verum Corpus, Missa Brevis (2012/2022) [24/96]

Susan Gritton, Choir of St John's College, Cambridge & Andrew Nethsingha - Mozart: Coronation Mass, Ave Verum Corpus, Missa Brevis & Exsultate, Jubilate (2012/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 70:33 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

On this album, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge performs alongside four soloists and the period instrument ensemble St John’s Sinfonia. The tenor Sam Furness and bass George Humphreys both started their careers as Choral Scholars with this very choir.
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell - Maurice Durufle: Requiem; Quatre motets; Notre Pere, Messe Cum jubilo (1995)

Maurice Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre motets; Notre Père, Messe Cum jubilo (1995)
Simon Keenlyside (baritone); Aaron Webber (treble); Ian Simcock (organ); Natalie Clein (cello)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (The Master of Music)

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 224 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 170 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66757 | Time: 01:10:35

"O'Donnell's achievement becomes the reference point against which future recordings of this repertoire are measured" (Choir & Organ). "The Westminster Cathedral boys and men carry the lyricism and harmonic luxuriance to an ethereal plane. The choral singing is superb … helping one to bathe in Duruflé's sumptuous ideas" (The Daily Telegraph).
Leonhardt-Consort, King's College Choir, Brüggen-Consort - Henry Purcell: Anthems, Instrumental Music, Songs (1993)

Gustav Leonhardt, Leonhardt-Consort, David Willcocks, King's College Choir, Frans Brüggen, Brüggen-Consort - Henry Purcell: Anthems, Instrumental Music, Songs (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 556 Mb | Total time: 50:30+60:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Teldec | # 9031-77608-2 | Recorded: 1967, 1968, 1970

This 2 CD-set presents two aspects of Purcell's music: religious music and instrumental music. Let's start by the first CD. It includes magnificent anthems for the Church for soloists, choir, and orchestra. The first track to open the CD, "Rejoice in the Lord alway", is probably one of Purcell's most famous anthem. The beautiful introduction (sometimes known as the Bell Anthem) prepares the entry of the two countertenors who expose the melody, intoned by the choir later. As with Purcell's style, the music is always refined. The soloists are all top-notch here, and the choir (King's College of Cambridge) is, as always, magnificent. It is really nice to hear the soprano part sung by boys, as I think it gives another dimension to Purcell's music.
Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Sinfonia; James O'Donnell - Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Mass; Canticum Sacrum (1991)

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Mass; Canticum Sacrum (1991)
Westminster Cathedral Choir; City of London Sinfonia; James O'Donnell, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 233 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66437 | Time: 01:07:58

Here's a Symphony of Psalms that successfully captures the spirit and letter of the work–reverence, jubilation, and celebration, as well as specifics of orchestral color and texture. Boys' voices–supposedly Stravinsky's original choice–contribute their share to the bright choral timbre, an effect that works very well. We also get first-rate performances of the Mass and the rarely recorded Canticum sacrum.