Neil Young – On The Beach (1974/2003/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 39:38 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: PonoMusic | © Reprise Records
On the Beach is the fifth studio album by Neil Young, released in 1974. It was unavailable on compact disc until it was released as a HDCD-encoded remastered version in 2003 as part of his Archives Digital Masterpiece Series. Here is the Hi-Res version of that remaster. (more…)
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Сomposer: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013), Emilio de’ Cavalieri (1550-1602), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970), Jacob Praetorius (1586-1651), Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999), Giulio Caccini (1545-1618), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Wolfgang Rihm (geb. 1952), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Title: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg – Grand Opening Concert/Das Eröffnungskonzert
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Classical
Director: Henning Kasten (concert), Thorsten Mack, Annette Schmaltz (documentary)
Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock
Artist: Philippe Jaroussky – countertenor; Pavol Breslik – tenor; Sir Bryn Terfel – bass baritone; Hanna-Elisabeth Müller – soprano; Wiebke Lehmkuhl – alto; Kalev Kuljus – oboe; Margret Köll – harp; Thomas Bloch – Ondes Martenot; Xie Ya-ou – piano; Iveta Apkalna – organ; NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Production/Label: C Major Entertainment GmbH
Duration: 01:52:01 + 00:52:30
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 28548 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 /
Audio#1: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3924 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: German, English, French, Korean, Japanese
Size: 40,99 GB
The Elbphilharmonie, the “hall of wonders” (The Guardian), is undoubtedly the new landmark of Hamburg, a monumental synthesis of breath-taking architecture, a unique location and a world-class concert hall. In varying instrumentation the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under the baton of Principal Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and several top-class soloists explores in the opening concert the possibilities of the Elbphilharmonie’s Grand Hall and its acoustics with an exciting programme that spans across all musical eras, from the Renaissance to the present. It culminates in a brand-new commissioned work, created especially for this occasion by the most important living German composer, Wolfgang Rihm.
“A striking building, a scintillating concert!” (The New York Times). BONUS: This documentary accompanies the formation process of this grand building, from the first sketch plans to the rehearsals before it´s festive inauguration and includes statements by the architects Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog, the acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, Christoph Lieben-Seutter, Thomas Hengelbrock and more. (more…)
Joris Verdin – Franck: Œuvres posthumes et inédites (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:33 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Booklet, Front Cover | © Ricercar
Alongside the Three Pieces, the Six Pieces and the Three Chorales that constitute the body of Franck’s organ works, there is also an entire series of organ works dating from Franck’s youth. These pieces, the majority of which exist only in manuscript, were published after Franck’s death by his son.
These works, often small in scale and clearly intended for organists to use during services, form an impressive collection. Even though the influences of his teachers and models are clearly to be heard, a fair proportion of these works already bear the stamp of the mature composer and pater seraphicus.
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Rod Stewart – Another Country (2015) [Deluxe Edition]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 60:04 minutes | 794 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | © Capitol Records
Another Country is Rod Stewart’s brand new studio album via Capitol Records. One of rock’s most gifted storytellers is back to continue the story he began with 2013’s Time.
“I’ve found that the only way to write songs is to be as personal and honest as possible, And when my last album was so well-received it gave me the confidence to keep on writing, and to examine and write about different things. It also gave me the freedom to experiment with different sounds like reggae, ska and Celtic melodies,” says Stewart. (more…)
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:41 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Alternative
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | Artwork: Front cover | © Warner Bros.
The Getaway is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 17, 2016. This is the band’s first studio album since 2011’s I’m with You. It was produced by Danger Mouse, who replaced Rick Rubin after twenty-five years and six albums as the band’s producer, making it the first non-Rubin produced album since 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The album received favourable reviews from critics… (more…)
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Title: Festival: Folk Music At Newport, 1963-1966
Release Year: 2017
Genre: Documentary, Music
Directors: Murray Lerner
Artists: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Theodore Bikel, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Cousin Emmy, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Ronnie Gilbert, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen, Sonny Terry, Odetta, Bobby Osborne, Sonny Osborne
Label: Criterion Collection
Duration: 01:38:13
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 35884 kbps / 1920*1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English LPCM Audio 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 44.52 GB
Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staple Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the legends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk music that encompassed the genre’s roots in blues, country, and gospel as well as its newer flirtations with rock and roll. Shooting in gorgeous black and white, Lerner juxtaposes performances with snapshot interviews with artists and their fans, weaving footage from four years of the festival into an intimate record of a pivotal time in music—and in American culture at large.
• New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Murray Lerner
• New reconstruction and remastering of the soundtrack from the original concert and field recordings, approved by Lerner
• Making “Festival,” a new program featuring Lerner, associate editor Alan Heim, and assistant editor Gordon Quinn
• When We Played Newport, a new program featuring archival interviews with Lerner, music festival producer George Wein, and musicians Joan Baez, John Cohen, Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, and others
• Selection of unreleased performances by Clarence Ashley, Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Cotten, John Lee Hooker, Odetta, and Tom Paxton
• Optional captions identifying artists and song titles (more…)
Сomposer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Title: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical, Opera
Stage Director: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Artist: Juan Diego Florez (Count Almaviva), Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Pietro Spagnoli (Figaro), Alessandro Corbelli (Doctor Bartolo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Berta), Changhan Lim (Fiorello), Bryan Secombe (Ambrogio), Christoper Lackner (Officer), Andrew Macnair (Notary); Orchestra & Chorus of The Royal Opera House
Production/Label: Erato/Warner Classics
Duration: 02:57:17
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video:MPEG-4 AVC Video / 20996 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 6000 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Italian LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Size: 45.49 GB
The 23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia with incredible speed – legend has it in just 13 days – which Rossini attributed to ‘facility and lots of instinct’. He adapted Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’ play Le Barbier de Séville, part of a dramatic trilogy that also inspired Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Within a few decades of its 1816 premiere, Il barbiere di Siviglia had been seen around the world, reaching opera houses in New York, Buenos Aires, Trinidad and Ecuador. The opera is characterized by youthful energy and bold wit: these qualities are brought to the fore in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s colourful and inventive production, a popular favourite at the Royal Opera House since its premiere in 2005.
Il barbiere di Siviglia has all the right ingredients for comic chaos: an imprisoned young woman, her lecherous guardian and a young noble suitor. Skilfully plotting behind the scenes is Figaro – an irrepressible and inventive character in whom many have seen a resemblance to the young Rossini himself. The score fizzes with musical brilliance, from Figaro’s famous entrance aria ‘Largo al factotum’ to the frenzy of the Act I finale, when the five principal voices all pile on top of each other.
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The Afghan Whigs – Black Love {20th Anniversary} (1996/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:49 minutes | 2,95 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front Cover | © Elektra Entertainment
Recorded: August–September 1995, Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
The Afghan Whigs hit a high-water mark with 1993’s Gentlemen, an album that upped their game musically and plumbed the depth of Greg Dulli’s self-loathing with its tales of a ladies’ man whose attitude toward women (and himself) borders on the malignant. It was the band’s finest and most most ambitious work, and the band was faced with the challenge of trying to top it. The Afghan Whigs’ follow-up, 1996’s Black Love, ultimately missed the mark, though not for a lack of trying. The performances were every bit as strong as those on Gentlemen, as Rick McCollum’s mix of hard rock riffing and wailing slide guitar grew even stronger and the rhythm section laid down a beat that hit hard but retained a bit of their more graceful R&B influences. And vintage soul and funk were a significantly bigger part of the band’s formula this time out, with the keyboards on “Bulletproof,” the strings and percussion on “Blame, Etc.,” and the hip-hop-influenced percussion on “Going to Town” serving as key signifiers. While the band was in great form on Black Love, Greg Dulli’s songwriting wasn’t as impressive; Black Love lacks the thematic unity and power of Gentlemen, the melodies just aren’t as compelling, and while songs like “My Enemy,” “Honky’s Ladder,” and “Night by Candlelight” are striking and well crafted, their strength points to the fact many of the other songs don’t quite click. And as a lyricist, here Dulli was reworking the themes he’d explored in depth on Gentlemen and Congregation, and by this time he’d just about run out of juice. The Afghan Whigs were just too good a band to make an album that wasn’t worth hearing, and the musicians blaze hard on Black Love, but the closer one scrutinizes the work, the more this record feels like a misstep after the excellence of Gentlemen and Congregation.
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The Afghan Whigs – Congregation (1992/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:38 minutes | 0,99 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records
Recorded: July–September 1991, Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington; Buzz’s Kitchen in Los Angeles, California; and Ultrasuede in Cincinnati, Ohio
Congregation was the Afghan Whigs’ breakthrough album and has been called the grunge era’s most overlooked masterpiece. The album was very well received by critics, and the band achieved a cult following, receiving offers from major record labels. They eventually signed with Elektra Records. Stylistically distinct from other Sub Pop grunge music, the album features songs with themes of pleasure and guilt, dysfunctional relationships and sexual deviancy.
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The Afghan Whigs – Gentlemen (1993/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:53 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com | Front Cover | © Elektra Entertainment
Recorded: May–June 1993, Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee (except track 1 recorded April 1993 at Ultrasuede in Cincinnati, Ohio)
If there is one album fully deserving of a coming of age celebration, it is The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen. Since its original release in October of 1993, Gentlemen’s lore has grown in stature as fans new and old continue to embrace the album. 33 1/3 published a book about the album in 2008 and Stereogum proclaimed just last month, “From its bombastic opening to its understated end, Gentlemen remains a fine example of what exactly independent rock music is capable of accomplishing.”
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Bob Dylan – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: Bootleg Series Volume 12 (2015) [Collector’s Edition]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 19 hours 4 minutes 36 seconds | ~ 21,7 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | © Columbia/Legacy
The 18CD Collector’s Edition of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 is limited to a worldwide pressing of only 5,000 copies, and includes every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyrics. The 18CD edition includes Dylan’s original nine mono 45 RPM singles released during the time period, and rare hotel room recordings from the Savoy Hotel in London (May 4, 1965), the North British Station Hotel in Glasgow (May 13, 1966) and a Denver, Colorado hotel (March 12, 1966) as well as a strip of original film cels from “Don’t Look Back”. This HD version available as download coupon to Hi-Res files included in each box.
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Blind Faith – Blind Faith (1969) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010 # UIGY-9031]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 42:07 minutes | Scans included | 1,7 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 831 MB
Genre: Rock
Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players) and the latest DSD mastering in 2010 based on Japanese analogue master tapes. DSD Transferred by Hitoshi Takiguchi. (more…)
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Mike Oldfield – Discovery (1984/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Q0buz | © Universal Music GmbH
Originally released in June 1984, the UK Top 20 album contains two songs which Oldfield would later include on Two Sides his career best of – ‘The Lake’, an expansive instrumental reflection on Lake Geneva and ‘To France’, a classic folk-pop ballad featuring Maggie Reilly. Featuring the newest remaster. (more…)
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Title: Hansen & Friends – Thank You Wacken – Live
Release Year: 2017
Genre: Power Metal
Artists: Eike Freese (Dark Age), Alex Dietz (Heaven Shall Burn), Frank Beck (Gamma Ray), Michael Ehre (Gamma Ray), Corvin Bahn (Crystal Breed),
Clementine Delauney (Visions Of Atlantis) and Michael Kiske (Helloween, Unisonic).
Label: Ear Music – 0211945EMU
Duration: 01:19:34
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24996 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 17.64 GB
Filmed & recorded on a muddy vibrant summer evening at last year’s Wacken Open Air Festival, ‘Thank You Wacken’ is a unique snapshot in time as this was the first and only performance of Kai Hansen’s band, with whom he recorded and co-wrote his 2016 solo debut “XXX – Three Decades In Metal”. For this special occasion, Kai Hansen gathered a line-up of special friends to give the thousands of metalheads a once in a lifetime performance. (more…)
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Title: Jeff Beck Rock & Roll Party: Honoring Les Paul
Release Year: 2010
Genre: Rock’n’roll, Rockabilly, Blues
Artists: Jeff Beck, Imelda May, Gary U.S. bonds, Darrel Higham, Brain Setzer, Trombone Shorty
Released by: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Running time: 01:27:08
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 29860 kbps 1920x1080i/29.970 fps/16:9
Audio # 1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1/48 kHz/2797 Kbps/16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1/48 kHz/1509 Kbps/16-bit)
Audio # 2: English Dolby Digital 5.1/48 kHz/448 Kbps/DN-4dB
Audio # 3: English LPCM 2.0/48 kHz/1536 Kbps/16-bit
Subtitles (Interview): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Size: 34.76 GB
• On June 9, 2010, the legendary Les Paul would have celebrated his 95th birthday. To honor his memory, Jeff Beck and a host of special guests, amongst them Imelda May, Gary U.S. Bonds, Brian Setzer and Trombone Shorty, took the stage of New York City’s Iridium Jazz Club and performed a selection of rock classics. They chose the Iridium because Paul played there every week for years.
• The performances are great, filled with terrific energy and passion, and though as usual Beck shines, the star of the night is May. She delivers top-notch renditions of “Poor Boy”, “Cry Me A River”, “My Baby Left Me”, “High High The Moon”, “The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise”, and “Vaya Con Dios” amongst others.
• The entire show has a fantastic period feel. Obviously, the music has a lot to do with it, but the hair styles, the clothes, and the musicians’ attitude are also right. I’ve seen a lot of tributes where various stars would gather to honor one of their own, but many of them would lack chemistry. This is certainly not the case here – the entire show is about chemistry (see “Please Mr. Jailer” and “The Girl Can’t Help It”).