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Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 11, 2022
Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)

Victoria Baroque - Companions of the Baroque (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 335 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 01:00:19
Classical | Label: Marquis Classics

Celebrating 10 years of concerts, Victoria Baroque has released a new CD of ravishing Baroque concertos for multiple instruments. The concerti on the recording represent innovative baroque works by both famous composers - Vivaldi and Telemann, and less known composers Dall'Abaco and Heinichen working during the same period. They are influenced by the operas and sacred cantatas of the period. The Victoria Baroque is a leading ensemble specializing in the concerti of the baroque era.
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell - Tomas Luis de Victoria: Missa Dum complerentur (1996) Reissue 2011

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Missa Dum complerentur; Motets (1996) Reissue 2011
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral; James O'Donnell, Master of Music

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 278 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral, Sacred | Label: Helios/Hyperion | # CDH55452 | Time: 01:09:54

Tomás Luis de Victoria was the greatest composer of the Spanish sixteenth-century ‘golden age’ of polyphonic music. This recording is of the six-voice Missa Dum complerentur, the five-part motet on which the Mass is based, and six further hymns and sequences including the great Popule meus, a setting of the Improperia (Reproaches) which form the heart of the liturgy for Good Friday. This is music of compelling beauty, which illustrates well Victoria’s extraordinary capacity to create through simple homophony extremely moving music of great expressiveness.

Anna-Victoria Baltrusch - Liszt: The Organ Composer (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 5, 2022
Anna-Victoria Baltrusch - Liszt: The Organ Composer (2022)

Anna-Victoria Baltrusch - Liszt: The Organ Composer (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 314 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:26:53
Classical | Label: audite Musikproduktion

Franz Liszt was not an organist. On the organ he never acquired anything like the level of virtuosity that distinguished his pianism; his pedal playing in particular remained limited. Nevertheless, Liszt regularly appeared at the organ, even during his years as a travelling piano virtuoso. His earliest performance probably took place in the Swiss city of Fribourg in 1835. In 1839 he played in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, in 1843 in St Peter and Paul in Moscow and in 1845 in Mulhouse in Alsace.

VA - Sweet Relief: A Benefit For Victoria Williams (1993)  Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 28, 2023
VA - Sweet Relief: A Benefit For Victoria Williams (1993)

VA - Sweet Relief: A Benefit For Victoria Williams (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 380 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Scans included
Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Country Rock | Label: Columbia | # OK 57134 | 00:55:02

The shear breadth and diversity of artists gathered for this benefit project, Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams, is a tribute to the affection Victoria Williams' peers had for her. It conveniently also makes for heady listening for any fan of contemporary music. The hard, brittle edges of Soul Asylum ("Summer of Drugs") and Buffalo Tom ("Merry Go Round") stand shoulder to shoulder with the country-folk of Lucinda Williams ("Main Road") and Maria McKee (an inspired and riveting "Opelousas (Sweet Relief)"). Sweet Relief offers a unique opportunity to introduce yourself to an enduring songwriter while savoring some of the day's most intriguing musicians. How sweet it is!
Nigel Short, Tenebrae - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2013)

Nigel Short, Tenebrae - Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 72:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD 304 | Recorded: 2012

Tenebrae return to the sublime music of Tomás Luis de Victoria on Signum with this recording of his timeless Tenebrae Responsories. The works mix the words of the Gospels with other texts commenting on collective suffering written around the 4th century, and would traditionally have been performed as part of a moving service in which candles are slowly extinguished to mark the progress and suffering of Christ that forms the Passion story.

Victoria Pavlova by Vyacheslav Ivanov  Girls

Posted by nrg at Jan. 7, 2024
Victoria Pavlova by Vyacheslav Ivanov

Victoria Pavlova - Vyacheslav Ivanov Photoshoot
6 jpg | up to 2560*2048 | 3.93 MB
Russian model

Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)  Music

Posted by Designol at June 26, 2023
Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)

Victoria Williams - Swing The Statue! (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 104 Mb | Scans ~ 57 Mb
Label: Rough Trade | # Rough US 50 CD | Time: 00:45:30
Alternative Folk, Alternative Country, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

On the follow-up to her landmark debut, Happy Come Home (1987), Victoria Williams' skills as a multi-faceted songwriter become increasingly stronger and more distinct. The lack of aural opulence – such as Van Dyke Parks' string arrangements – reveal a less-forced approach, resulting in a giant leap forward in terms of the development of Williams' own voice. Likewise, her rich Louisiana bayou roots increasingly influence her music and act as a strong motif throughout not only Swing the Statue, but her future releases as well – most notably her contributions to the Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers. Perhaps drawing upon her own experiences, Swing the Statue has an air of melancholia wafting throughout much of the album. Both "Boogieman" and "I Can't Cry Hard Enough" – while divergent in terms of musical style – speak directly to the feelings of loss and abandonment. These aptly juxtapose against the innocence and youthful awe of "Look at That Moon" and "Wobbling" as well as the spiritual guidance found in "Lift Him Up" and "Weeds." Unlike Happy Come Home, Swing the Statue is exceedingly more reserved and somewhat stark – with an emphasis on acoustic instrumentation. These aptly inhabit Williams' remarkably jazzy arrangements.
The Bowed Piano Ensemble, Victoria Hansen - Stephen Scott: The Deep Spaces (2006) [Re-Up]

The Bowed Piano Ensemble, Victoria Hansen - Stephen Scott: The Deep Spaces (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 227 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 103 Mb | Scans ~ 73 Mb
Classical, Avant-Garde, Experimental | Label: New Albion | # NA132 | Time: 00:45:22

While most classical composers attempt to spread around their artistry among various mediums, Stephen Scott has put all of his eggs into the proverbial one basket, specializing in bowed piano music as founder/leader of the Bowed Piano Ensemble, est. 1977. This is not as limited a resource as it sounds; in 1930, Henry Cowell stated he had discovered 165 ways to play the inside of a piano, though if he made a list of all those methods no one has been able to find it. Moreover, Stephen Scott doesn't seem to mind being regarded as "the Bowed Piano Guy." New Albion's The Deep Spaces is his sixth bowed piano CD and demonstrates some measure of stepping out of the box on Scott's part; The Deep Spaces is a song cycle, set to poems by Shelley, Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Pliny, and Pablo Medina and sung by soprano Victoria Hansen.
Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey - Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962) Remastered 1992

Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey - Songs We Taught Your Mother (1962)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 255 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 119 Mb | Scans included
Label: Original Blues Classics, Prestige Bluesville | # OBCCD 520-2, BV-1052
Classic Female Blues, Jazz-Blues | Time: 00:42:21

Although Alberta Hunter, who had briefly come out of retirement, gets first billing on this CD reissue, in reality she shares the spotlight with two other veterans of the 1920s: Lucille Hegamin and Victoria Spivey. Each of the singers is featured on four songs apiece while backed by such top players as clarinetist Buster Bailey, trombonist J.C. Higginbottham, and Cliff Jackson or Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano. Hunter is in superior form on such numbers as "You Gotta Reap Just What You Sow" and "I Got a Mind to Ramble," although she would soon be out of music for another 15 years, continuing her work as a nurse. Hegamin (who had not recorded since 1932) was having a brief last hurrah, despite sounding good, and Spivey, reviving her "Black Snake Blues," would soon be launching her own Spivey label. This is a historic and enjoyable set recommended to both classic jazz and blues collectors.

Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic (2021)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Sept. 16, 2021
Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic (2021)

Adia Victoria - A Southern Gothic (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 211 MB | Cover | 38:54 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 89 MB
Blues | Label: Atlantic Records

"I wanted you to get the humidity of it, the heat, the ways we reach to the pits of hell and the heights of heaven," South Carolina native Adia Victoria has said of her third album. "I wanted this record to encapsulate the extremes of the South." Mission accomplished; listening to A Southern Gothic, there is no escaping that uneasy—truly, haunted—feeling of so much beauty and so much menace all in one place. The singer-songwriter gets right to it with "Magnolia Blues": "I'm going back South/ Down to Carolina/ I'm gonna plant myself/ Under a magnolia/ I'm gonna let that dirt/ Do its work." The magnolia tree is both a symbol of deep-South femininity and strength as well as horror, given its association with lynchings.