RCA LIVING STEREO: Hi-Fi Fiedler - Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops Orchestra

Artist: Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops Orchestra

Album: Hi-Fi Fiedler

Released: 2005
Label: RCA Living Stereo
Catalog N°: 67895
Genre: Classical
File Format: eac_wv_cue_log  377mb, complete scans 27mb, MP3 (LAME) VBR 245 V0 120mb

On this disc:

01. Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq D'Or - King Dodom in his Palace 09:43

02. Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq D'Or - King Dodom on the Battlefield 04:45

03. Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq D'Or - King Dodom with the Queen of Shemakha 06:59

04. Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq D'Or - March 03:39

05. Rossini - William Tell Overture 11:53

06. Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave 09:47

07. Chabrier - Espana 06:27

08. Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 09:38

09. Liszt - Rakoczy March 06:42

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RCA Victor began recording in multichannel five years before the introduction of the first single-groove stereo LPs in l958. They began using two-channel 1/4-inch Ampex decks but soon moved up to three-channel  1/2-inch models as the Mercury Living Presence label had been doing from the start. The idea was to provide the mixing engineers with more flexibility in preparing the final master for production.  The center channel signal could be raised slightly in level to bring a solo violin or piano more forward, and/or its signal could be mixed in varying amounts into the left and right channels to achieve a more uniform and balanced stereo soundstage.  But also at this time things weren’t completely jelled as to stereo being limited to only two channels. Alan Blumlein had never stated in his original patent that only two channels were required. It was just as easy to make tape heads with three channels as two.  But  the single-groove stereodisc locked the format into two channels - it was quite impossible to get three channels with the 45/45 system of cutting and playback...

Fiedler conducted the Boston Pops for 50 years and became the best-selling conductor in history. His 78rpm disc of the tango Jalousie had been one of the top-selling classical records in history - one million copies. He had a lifelong goal of bringing light classical music to the millions.  Perhaps he was celebrated more than was his due, but Fiedler did have a way to bringing life and excitement to just about everything he chose to conduct - and he had a catholic and voracious taste for new works. Never before has the general public had the opportunity to hear these examples of his work as the RCA engineers heard them in the control room - from the original three channel tape playback.  The soundstage is deepened and widened.  Even a mint vinyl copy of the original pressing on a quality turntable doesn’t equal the impact of this three-channel hi-res digital disc, and it’s only around $10.  

John Sunier. audaud.com

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Cameron Carpenter (Organ) - Revolutionary!

KOMMERSANT (Saint Petersburg, Russia) for December 5, 2009:

One American organist has emerged, like a Jack-in-the-Box, onto the international stage. To say that Cameron Carpenter is a virtuoso is to say nothing. He is an exorbitant virtuoso, the Vladimir Horowitz of the organ. Following graduation from The Juilliard School in 2006, his web cast concert on the virtual pipe organ included Frederick Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude, in which the most virtuosic passages were played on the pedal keyboard.

The image of an organist is as a self-absorbed intellectual, analyst, and aesthete. That is not just a cliché, but a realistic description of a typical concert organist. Carpenter breaks that stereotype. He appears in various eye-popping, skin-tight costumes, the most familiar of which is all white with Swarovski crystal elements; and he acts more like a pop musician. That implies his wide-ranging choice of repertoire, as well: he has made 200 arrangements for the organ of various compositions, including classical and jazz piano works and such complex orchestral works as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (the latter at age 15).

One can say that it is too much of a circus, and that it is better to listen to Chopin played on the piano, sans pedals. Our cold musical age can demand such a straight division of labor. But Carpenter seems to appear from the time of Franz Liszt and Nicolò Paganini. In his playing there is the wild passion of virtuosos of the past, who destroyed borders of genres and broadened repertoire for their instruments.

What Cameron Carpenter lacks, however, is cheap populism. He is a musician and interpreter.

Artist: Cameron Carpenter. Rieger Organ, Basilika Vierzehnheiligen

Album: Revolutionary!

Released: 2008

Label: Telarc

Catalog N°: 60711

Genre: Classical, Organ

File Format: eac_wv_cue_log 229mb, mp3 (lame) VBR-250 V0 113mb, DVD Decrypter ISO 0,99gb, covers complete 41mb

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Revolutionary showcases an artist who is not only breaking ground, but who runs a musical gamut that any musician would be extremely hard-pressed to match. There are only four organ works included. Three are major pinnacles of the organ repertoire (the blistering, nearly unplayable Etude in Octaves by the French modernist Jeanne Demessieux; Prelude and Fugue in B major by Marcel Dupré; and Bach's deeply moving chorale-prelude Now Come, Savior of the Gentiles, while the fourth is the world premiere recording of Cameron's suggestive Love Song No. 1 (2008). The album's major departures, though, are found in Duke Ellington's Solitude (wittily combined with Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze); Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, and Vladimir Horowitz' Carmen Variations. Here are two of Chopin's Études in versions so convincing that they might have been organ music; and Cameron's Evolutionary Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, an outrageous survey of the various instrumental arrangements that made Bach's work famous. All this is recorded not on a pipe organ, but on the equally revolutionary Marshall & Ogletree Virtual Pipe Organ at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City - an organ that, rising out of the destruction of Trinity's pipe organ on September 11, 2001, continues to challenge the status quo of the pipe organ and the artistic possibilities of organ playing in general.

01. Chopin: Etude, Op. 10, No 12 in C minor, "The Revolutionary" 03:03

02. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 08:48

03. Solitude 06:08

04. Demessieux: Octaves, from Six Etudes Op. 5 03:44

05. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, "The Dance in the Village Inn" 12:18

06. Carpenter: Love Song No. 1 05:49

07. Dupre: Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1 06:36

08. Chopin: Etude in C Major, Op. 10, No. 1 02:38

09. Bach: Chorale Prelude on Nun komm, der heiden Heiland, BWV 659 04:24

10. Horowitz: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen 04:42

11. Carpenter: Homage to Klaus Kinski 06:16

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Max Baumann (1917-1999): Organ Works. Vol. 2 - Rosalinde Haas

Artist: Rosalinde Haas. Rieger Organ, Basilika Vierzehnheiligen

Album: Max Baumann (1917-1999): Organ Works. Vol. 2

Released: 2002

Label: MDG gold

Catalog N°: 315 1085

Genre: Classical, Organ

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01. Toccata op. 100,8 02:07

02. Intonation aus op. 84,1 02:11

03. Intonation aus op. 84,2 01:52

04. Sonatine fuer Orgel op. 74: I. Grave-Allegro-Grave... 03:53

05. Sonatine fuer Orgel op. 74: II. Lento 03:35

06. Sonatine fuer Orgel op. 74: III. Toccata. Allegro vivace 05:08

07. Intonation aus op. 84,3 02:13

08. Intonation aus op. 84,4 02:38

09. Invocation fuer Orgel op. 67,5 14:45

10. Praeludium op. 100,9 01:42

11. Litanei op. 100,7 01:56

12. Postludium op. 100,10 01:55

13. Postludium op. 100,4 02:49

14. Partita op. 100,5 02:14

15. Postludium op. 100,6 02:16

16. 5 Intonationen aus op. 86: 1 00:45

17. 5 Intonationen aus op. 86: 2 00:42

18. 5 Intonationen aus op. 86: 3 00:41

19. 5 Intonationen aus op. 86: 4 00:43

20. 5 Intonationen aus op. 86: 5 00:44

21. Orgel-Suite op. 67,1: I. Kanon, Lento 03:28

22. Orgel-Suite op. 67,1: II. Aria I 03:30

23. Orgel-Suite op. 67,1: III. Invention. Allegro deciso 02:09

24. Orgel-Suite op. 67,1: IV. Aria II 08:58

25. Orgel-Suite op. 67,1: V. Toccata 05:50

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Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake - Don Jackson, The London Philharmonic. 2001 [DVD-Audio]

DVDFab rip, scans, mds | 4,74 GB | Sound: PPCM 96/24 5.1, 2.0, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1

Silverline Classics. 2001 / 86032-9

One of the 19th century's greatest musical talents, Tchaikovsky, left a legacy as the composer of phenomenal scores written specific for ballet. Here, the London Philharmonic performs the most famous ballet in world presented for the first time in stunning DVD-Audio six-channel sound.

Special Features include: -Beautiful presentation of Program Notes and photographic stills -Plays on ALL DVD players -Supports Dolby Digital and DVD-Audio 5.1 formats -Stunning six-channel "surround sound" audio -More than twice the quality of today's CD whether played through stereo or six-channel surround -Can be enjoyed as an audio experience alone or in conjuction with a TV to access the visual content

On this DVD:

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SCENE NO. 1

3. THE WALTZ

4. DANSE DES COUPES

5. SCENE NO. 10

6. DANSES DES CYGNES - NO. 1 CYGNES

7. DANSES DES CYGNES - NO. 5

8. WHITE DES CYGNES - NO. 5

9. FANFARE & WALTZ

10. DANSE HONGROISE(CZARDAS)

11. DANSE ESPAGNOLE

12. DANSE NAPOLITAINE

13. MAZURKA

14. FINALE

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