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Richard Wagner / Hansjörg Albrecht – Der Ring: An Organ Transcription (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Richard Wagner / Hansjörg Albrecht - Der Ring: An Organ Transcription (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Richard Wagner / Hansjörg Albrecht – Der Ring: An Organ Transcription (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.45 GB (ISO) + 10.4 GB (DSF) + 4 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Oehms Classics | Germany | Cat#: OC-612 | Genre: Classical

Adapting orchestral music for the organ can be a tricky matter, and few transcriptions work ideally despite the similarity of the organ’s varied stops to the instruments of the orchestra and its capacity to imitate an orchestra’s massed forces and wide dynamic range. However, when the music happens to be arrangements of excerpts from Richard Wagner’s opera tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen the trickiness of the project becomes even more obvious, for the difficulties of these complex orchestral pieces are only compounded when transferred to the organ. Continue reading “Richard Wagner / Hansjörg Albrecht – Der Ring: An Organ Transcription (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Ola Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Charles Bruffy – Northern Lights: Choral Works By Ola Gjeilo (2012) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ola Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Charles Bruffy - Northern Lights: Choral Works By Ola Gjeilo (2012) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Ola Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Charles Bruffy – Northern Lights: Choral Works By Ola Gjeilo (2012)
[Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.16 GB (ISO) + 8.43. GB (DSF) + 3.41 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Chandos | UK | Cat#: CHSA 5100 | Genre: Classical, Choral

Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo, born in 1978, received his training at Juilliard and has made New York his base of operations. This 2012 CD includes almost all of his published works for mixed voices to date. He served as composer-in-residence with the Grammy Award-winning Phoenix Chorale, which performs his music here under the leadership of Charles Bruffy. Gjeilo uses exclusively sacred texts, set mostly in Latin, except for English translations of two texts by St. Augustine and St. John of the Cross. Continue reading “Ola Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Charles Bruffy – Northern Lights: Choral Works By Ola Gjeilo (2012) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Roger Waters – Discography (1984-2020)

Roger Waters - Discography (1984-2020)

Roger Waters is Pink Floyd’s grand conceptualist, the driving force behind such albums as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Wall. In the wake of Syd Barrett’s departure, Waters emerged as a formidable songwriter, but it’s this stretch of ’70s albums — each one nearly symphonic in its reach — that established him as a distinctive, idiosyncratic voice within rock, one with a sober morality and sardonic sense of humor. Continue reading “Roger Waters – Discography (1984-2020)”

Tonhalle Orchester Zürich / David Zinman – Beethoven, Symphonien Nr. 7 & 8 (1998) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Tonhalle Orchester Zürich / David Zinman - Beethoven, Symphonien Nr. 7 & 8 (1998) [2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Tonhalle Orchester Zürich / David Zinman – Beethoven, Symphonien Nr. 7 & 8 (1998)
[2005, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.04 GB (ISO) + 7.36 GB (DSF) + 2.98 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sonocord / Edition 100 | Germany | Cat#: 35091 8 | Genre: Classical
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Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra - Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 997 MB (Hi-Res) + 280 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-175 | Genre: Classical, Progressive Rock
Half-Speed Mastered

The rather wordily titled “Andrew Powell and the Philharmonia Orchestra Play the Best of The Alan Parsons Project” was mainly recorded at Abbey Road, with the exception of the orchestral session for the I Robot Suite, which was done at CTS in Wembley. It was Helmut Fest at EMI Records who suggested using the Scrabble board as a way of getting around the world’s longest album title. One of the biggest difficulties I found in orchestrating these tunes is that certain kinds of “rock” themes sound like muzak if they are played by a violin or other string section: hence the solo sax on Games People Play. Continue reading “Andrew Powell And The Philharmonia Orchestra – Play The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project (1983) [MFSL, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]

Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]

Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Remastered, WEB Hi-Res]
WEB Download | Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 2.05 GB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: UMC| Genre: Rock Opera, Classical
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Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
[2021, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 833 MB (CD-Quality) + 1.41 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: UMC | Genre: Rock Opera, Classical

Jesus Christ Superstar started life as a most improbable concept album from an equally unlikely label, Decca Records, which had not, until then, been widely known for groundbreaking musical efforts. It was all devised by then 21-year-old composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and 25-year-old lyricist Tim Rice. Jesus Christ Superstar had been conceived as a stage work, but lacking the funds to get it produced, the two collaborators instead decided to use an album as the vehicle for introducing the piece, a fairly radical rock/theater hybrid about the final days in the life of Jesus as seen from the point of view of Judas. Continue reading “Various, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice – Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) [2021, Deluxe Edition, Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Omnibus Wind Ensemble – Music By Frank Zappa (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Omnibus Wind Ensemble - Music By Frank Zappa (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The Omnibus Wind Ensemble’s interest in Frank Zappa’s music dates back to the beginning of the 1980s, almost from their very beginnings. Under the motto “From Mozart to Zappa”, which also became the title of their first, widely acclaimed CD on the Opus3 label, they have had many of Frank Zappa’s compositions in their repertoire over the years. This Multi-Channel SACD contains 14 tracks of the music of Frank Zappa. Continue reading “Omnibus Wind Ensemble – Music By Frank Zappa (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Various Artists – Master Superior Audiophile 2011-2019 [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Various Artists - Master Superior Audiophile 2011-2019 [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

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Various Artists – Nobu’s Popular Selection (2010) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Various Artists - Nobu's Popular Selection (2010) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

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Zubin Mehta Conducts Suites From Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1978) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

John Williams / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta - Zubin Mehta Conducts Suites From Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1978) {MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}

John Williams / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta – Zubin Mehta Conducts Suites From Star Wars And Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1978)
{MFSL Remastered, CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip}
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 840 MB (Hi-Res) + 214 MB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | Pressed In Japan | Cat#: MFSL 1-008 | Genre: Soundtrack, Score, Classical
Half-Speed Mastered

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Charlotte Church – Dream A Dream (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Charlotte Church - Dream A Dream (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

The little girl with the big voice is back for a selection of popular Christmas songs and carols, ranging from the medieval “Coventry Carol” to the brand new title track, whose chorus will be recognized by classical music fans as the “Pavan” of Gabriel Faure. In between are pop standards like “Winter Wonderland” and Mel Torme’s “Christmas Song” as well as some less familiar fare such as the delicate calypso “Mary’s Boy Child” and the Welsh “Draw Tua Bethlehem”. Continue reading “Charlotte Church – Dream A Dream (2000) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

J. S. Bach / Anner Bylsma – Suites For Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007-1012 (1992) [2019, Japanese Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

J. S. Bach / Anner Bylsma - Suites For Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007-1012 (1992) [2019, Japanese Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

J. S. Bach / Anner Bylsma – Suites For Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007-1012 (1992) [2019, Japanese Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Scans Not Included
Total Size: 5.25 GB (ISO) + 2.18 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | Japan | Cat#: SICC 10299~300 | Genre: Classical

Anner Bylsma, who plays a Baroque cello in original condition, has written a whole book about the variety of bow strokes needed for this music. Fancying the use of the bow as an analogue to the use of a foil in a duel, he calls Bach a “fencing master,” a term that implies intense training, physical coordination used with spontaneity, and a readiness to change the approach instantly as each successive, fast-moving challenge demands. His playing makes the music fresh and new with a flexibility and vitality that illustrates the thesis of his book. Continue reading “J. S. Bach / Anner Bylsma – Suites For Violoncello Solo, BWV 1007-1012 (1992) [2019, Japanese Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Fiona Joy Hawkins – Christmas Joy (2011) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Fiona Joy Hawkins - Christmas Joy (2011) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

In Christmas Joy, Fiona Joy Hawkins has breathed new life into a repertoire of traditional music deeply in need of new perspective and new energy. The recording offers an inventive and, yes, joyful approach; bringing life to music which has been taken for granted for decades. Both in her unique slant on traditional music and in her own compositions for this recording, Christmas Joy is an utterly brilliant creation. Continue reading “Fiona Joy Hawkins – Christmas Joy (2011) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Orient – Occident II (Hommage À La Syrie) (2013) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall - Orient - Occident II (Hommage À La Syrie) (2013) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall – Orient – Occident II (Hommage À La Syrie) (2013) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz | Stereo & Multichannel
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.87 GB (ISO) + 1.44 GB (FLAC Stereo) + 3.33 GB (FLAC Mch) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Alia Vox | EU | Cat#: AVSA9900 | Genre: Classical, Folk, World, Medieval
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