The Light of Christmas

Marc Bolan & T. Rex - The Best Of The BBC Recordings (2008) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 17, 2024

2008 archive release featuring the best of Marc Bolan and T. Rex's recordings for the BBC. If there's one artist whose success can be almost directly attributed to support from the BBC, it's Marc Bolan. His initial success was unquestionably down to the close friendship he had forged with John Peel, who had Bolan on his show on countless occasions recording sessions, reading poetry, even singing Christmas carols. On his last Radio London show before the station was shut down Peel played no less than six Bolan recordings. This single disc set is the best of the BBC recordings, taken from the three CD retrospective released in 2006. 24 tracks including 'Telegram Sam', 'Ride A White Swan', 'Debora' and more.

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The Divine Comedy - Venus, Cupid, Folly And Time: Thirty Years Of The Divine Comedy (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 7, 2022

The Divine Comedy - Venus, Cupid, Folly And Time: Thirty Years Of The Divine Comedy (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 22:16:05 | 7,94 Gb
Indie Rock, Chamber Pop | Label: Divine Comedy Records

In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the band's classic albums.

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The Alchemy of Us : How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another eBooks & eLearning

Posted by readerXXI at April 11, 2021

The Alchemy of Us : How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by Ainissa Ramirez
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0262542269 | 327 Pages | PDF | 12.3 MB

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The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation eBooks & eLearning

Posted by arundhati at Jan. 1, 2022

, "The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation"
English | ISBN: 0300093527 | 2003 | 528 pages | PDF | 17 MB

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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another (The MIT Press) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by ksveta6 at May 13, 2020

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Kate Rusby - Light Years (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Nov. 30, 2023

'Light Years', released a few days before Kate's 50th birthday, is Rusby's 7th Christmas record and features vocals by Alison Krauss and Ron Block. Her love of Christmas music and upbringing on a rich tradition of 'local carols' is no secret to her many fans.' Light Years', a lyric in one of the albums songs, is full of Rusby-fied versions of carols and well-known songs which depict in her own words, "Joyful memories of music, family, community, warmth and happiness - and a little wine!"

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Elaine Paige - Christmas (1986) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 27, 2024

Christmas is an album Elaine Paige, released in 1986, the fifth and final album to be released on the label until the release of Piaf in 1994. The album reached number 27 in the UK album charts. The album was recorded at Visconti's Good Earth Studios in September 1986. In contrast to Paige's musical theatre background, a feature of all her Visconti-produced recordings is the pop arrangements.

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David Willcocks & The Choir Of King's College Cambridge - The Complete Argo Recordings [29CD Box Set] (2015) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Aug. 16, 2023

David Willcocks & The Choir Of King's College Cambridge - The Complete Argo Recordings [29CD Box Set] (2015)
MP3 320 Kbps | Run Time: 24 hours 37 minutes 46 seconds | 3.43 GB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Decca Classics

Decca's 2015 limited-edition box set of the complete Argo recordings of the King's College Choir of Cambridge, directed by David Willcocks, consists of 29 CDs spanning the period from 1957 to 1973. The albums, presented with their original jacket art, offer some of the choir's finest performances, which include three recordings of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (1954, 1958, 1964), anthems by Gibbons, Blow, and Handel, masses by Byrd, Taverner, Haydn, Tye, and Blow, and other great choral works by Bach, Allegri, Palestrina, Tallis, Vivaldi, Howells, and Vaughan Williams. The choir is world famous for its purity of tone and beautiful blend, and under Willcocks' masterly direction it became the exemplar of British choral singing, unmatched by any other ensemble of men and boys.

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Emmylou Harris - Light Of The Stable (1979) Music

Posted by v3122 at Aug. 20, 2021

Emmylou Harris - Light Of The Stable (1979)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2004 | Warner Bros., 8122-76110-2 | ~ 253 or 106 Mb | Scans
Country, Pop, Vocal

Light of the Stable is a Christmas album by Emmylou Harris. It was originally released in 1979 by Warner Bros. Records but has since gone through several intervening releases. The 1992 Warner release was a remastered version of the original with a different album cover. The latest edition was released in 2004 by Rhino Records. It contains three newly recorded tracks in addition to remastered versions of the ten original tracks…

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Kristin Chenoweth - HAPPINESS is…Christmas! (2021) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 21, 2021

Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth releases her first collection of holiday music in more than a decade. 'Happiness is…Christmas!' puts Chenoweth's unmistakable stamp on a dozen songs celebrating everyone's favorite time of year. 'The inspiration for this album was light. Light at the end of the tunnel,' says Chenoweth. 'It's been a difficult time for all. With the cover and some of the songs, light is a big theme. I wanted to make a Christmas album for everybody.' Producers Jay Landers and Fred Molin enlisted a group of Nashville's most in-demand musicians for the recording sessions, including guitarists Bryan Sutton and Kerry Marx, bassist Larry Paxton, drummer Tommy Harden, pianist and keyboard player Pat Coil, and harpist Kirsten Agresta Copely.

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