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The Not-So-Classical Chamber Ensemble - Classical Expressions (2013) [Official Digital Download DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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The Not-So-Classical Chamber Ensemble - Classical Expressions (2013) [Official Digital Download DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

The Not-So-Classical Chamber Ensemble - Classical Expressions (1981/2013)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,64 MHz | Time - 33:25 minutes | 2,28 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 33:25 minutes | 688 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The pieces on this recording are performed on a wide variety of instruments. There is a piece for solo harp (Whirlwind), pieces for cello and harp; cello and accordian; two guitars; cello, harp, accordian and piano; through those including the entire ensemble of cello, harp, accordian, two guitars, piano, marimba, string bass, and percussion. Except as noted, the compositions were arranged or transcribed by Richard Amoroso to take advantage of the many instrumental colors available within the group.

Makaya McCraven Quartet - Makaya McCraven Quartet (2017) [HDTT DSD256 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Makaya McCraven Quartet - Makaya McCraven Quartet (2017) [HDTT DSD256 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Makaya McCraven Quartet - Makaya McCraven Quartet (2017)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,2 MHz | Time - 33:50 minutes | 1,58 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 33:50 minutes | 737 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

McKaya McCraven is not your typical jazz drummer. No indeed he is not–his music spans so many generations of jazz. He and his groups are always pushing the boundaries of jazz and in an unique way. Case in point, here he is found with a quartet (drums, vibes, bass and cello) of world class musicians playing rhythmic layers and textures of sound somewhat reminiscent of Miles’ “In A Silent Way”. Further enhancing the experience, the sound was captured on the highest quality equipment using a custom Studer 8-track tape deck and world-renown vintage tube microphones. The result is a recording of startling presence and of natural sound. Many have commented that the vibes and drum sound on this recording are as good as ever recorded. Combined with an original, yet easy-to-listen-to performance, this is a true gem of modern jazz and a true delight for those interested in the highest quality sound.

Eugen Jochum, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Schöneberg Boys Choir - Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (1966/2014) HDTT

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Eugen Jochum, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Schöneberg Boys Choir - Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (1966/2014) HDTT

Eugen Jochum, Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Schöneberg Boys Choir -
- Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (1966/2014) [HighDefTapeTransfers]

FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 55:44 minutes | 1,99 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 55:44 minutes | 1,06 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Since its original release, Jochum's performance has consistently been a prime recommendation for this much-recorded piece, listening to it again in the superbly remastered sound, one can easily hear why. He pays great attention to detail - particularly with regard to tempo and articulation - yet the performance as a whole has a tremendous cogent sweep and the choruses have terrifiс power. The more reflective sections are not neglected, however, and movements such as "Stetit Puella", with Janowitz sounding alluring and fey, have surely never been more sensitively handled. Stolze is ideal as the roasted swan and Fischer-Dieskau encompasses the very varied requirements of the baritone's music with ease. In spite of the presence of more than 30 rivals in the catalogue, this distinguished performance, authorized by the composer and now sounding better than ever, easily retains its place at the head of the queue.

Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland (1960/2014) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland (1960/2014) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Louie Armstrong and The Dukes of Dixieland (1960/2014)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 48:32 minutes | 2,65 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 48:32 minutes | 1,01 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The albums featuring Louis Armstrong's collaborations with the Dukes of Dixieland were among the first stereo recordings to fully capture Louis' magic sound. He played wonderful trumpet and vocal solos on classic songs that weren't part of his usual repertoire, such as 'Dixie', 'New Orleans' and 'Sweet Georgia Brown', which he had never previously recorded.

Bernard Haitink, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam - Mahler: Symphony No.7 (1986/2012) [HDTT 24bit/192kHz]

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Bernard Haitink, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam - Mahler: Symphony No.7 (1986/2012) [HDTT 24bit/192kHz]

Bernard Haitink, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam - Mahler: Symphony No.7 (1986/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 69:02 minutes | 2,96 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 69:02 minutes | 1,53 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

The Mahler Seventh comes not from a commercial recording but from someone connected with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Made in 1983, it is of excellent fidelity but also suffers somewhat from the stridency problem. Possessed of the two mysterious “Night Music” movements with the devilish scherzo in between, plus a gangbusters rousing conclusion in the key of C, the Seventh has been my personal favorite Mahler symphony for some years. The Dutch audience is very quiet in spite of this being an exciting live recording.

Cootie Williams And His Orchestra - Cootie Williams In Stereo (1958/2015) [DSD256 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Cootie Williams And His Orchestra - Cootie Williams In Stereo (1958/2015) [DSD256 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Cootie Williams And His Orchestra - Cootie Williams In Stereo (1958/2015)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,2 MHz | Time - 21:07 minutes | 2,03 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 21:07 minutes | 460 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Cootie Williams, one of the finest trumpeters of the 1930s, expanded upon the role originally formed by Bubber Miley with Duke Ellington's Orchestra. Renowned for his work with the plunger mute, Cootie was also a fine soloist when playing open. This sessions from 1958 shows that Williams' broad style was still mightily intact some 30 years after joining the Ellington fold.

Rafael Kubelik, Bavarian Radio SO - Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1970/2014) [DSD256 & Hi-Res FLAC]

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Rafael Kubelik, Bavarian Radio SO - Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1970/2014) [DSD256 & Hi-Res FLAC]

Rafael Kubelik, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No.5 (1970/2014)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,28 MHz | Time - 67:30 minutes | 6,22 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:30 minutes | 1,2 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Founded in Munich in 1949 under Eugen Jochum, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra quickly won an international reputation, collaborating with leading conductors and contemporary composers, the latter notably under the Musica Viva programme. Jochum was succeeded by Rafael Kubelík, who held the position of principal conductor until 1979, to be followed by Colin Davis until 1992, and Lorin Maazel. In 2003 Mariss Jansons became principal conductor. Under successive conductors the repertoire of the orchestra has been widened, as well as under many other distinguished guest conductors. In addition to its broadcasts the orchestra gives regular concerts in Munich and elsewhere, and has participated in numerous festivals and recordings.

David Craighead, Rochester Chamber Orchestra - Howard Hanson: An American Romantic (1981/2014) [DSD256+FLAC]

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David Craighead, Rochester Chamber Orchestra - Howard Hanson: An American Romantic (1981/2014) [DSD256+FLAC]

David Craighead, Rochester Chamber Orchestra - Howard Hanson: An American Romantic (1981/2014)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,28 MHz | Time - 68:53 minutes | 6,23 GB
or FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 68:53 minutes | 1,31 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Composer, conductor, educator, and music theorist Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was, indeed, an “American romantic”. He was among the last of the breed, a kind of twentieth-century throwback to the nineteenth century, so you’ll find little of the avant-garde here, the experimental, the dissonant, the discordant, the odd, the atonal, or the eccentric. Yet as a prizewinning composer and director of the Eastman School of Music for over forty years, he continually championed new American music (Copland, Barber, Carter, Thomson, Sessions, Harris, etc.). On the present album, recorded over thirty years ago, released on the Albany label, and here remastered from the original tapes by HDTT (High Definition Tape Masters), we hear a lighter side of the composer, chamber and choral music mainly. It is not among his most-popular material nor is it his best, but some of it can be downright entertaining, and HDTT’s recording quality, as always, is excellent.

Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan - Getz Meets Mulligan (1957/2015) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan - Getz Meets Mulligan (1957/2015) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Stan Getz & Gerry Mulligan - Getz Meets Mulligan (1957/2015)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 37:11 minutes | 1,82 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 37:11 minutes | 804 MB
High Definition Tape Transfers, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Getz Meets Mulligan" (also released as "Gerry Mulligan Meets Stan Getz" and "Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi") is an album by American jazz saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz featuring performances recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label.

Gerry Mulligan and The Concert Jazz Band - At The Village Vanguard (1961/2014) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Gerry Mulligan and The Concert Jazz Band - At The Village Vanguard (1961/2014) [HDTT DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Gerry Mulligan and The Concert Jazz Band - At The Village Vanguard (1961/2014)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 40:34 minutes | 2,14 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 40:34 minutes | 869 MB
High Definition Tape Transfers, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard" is a live album recorded by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader Gerry Mulligan featuring performances recorded at the Village Vanguard in late 1960 which were originally released on the Verve label in 1961.

Nathan Milstein - Dvorak: Violin Concerto & My Home Overture (1958 & 1965/2012) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Nathan Milstein - Dvorak: Violin Concerto & My Home Overture (1958 & 1965/2012) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Nathan Milstein, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg - Dvořák: Violin Concerto (1958)
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész - Antonín Dvořák: "My Home" Overture (1965/2012)

DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 38:21 minutes | 2,05 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 38:21 minutes | 810 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra collaboration with William Steinberg exemplifies what Milstein could do with material often considered less than first rate. Milstein plays the concerto beautifully, with his typically aristocratic poise and a lightness of rhythm and purity of intonation that makes the music seem to float across the bar lines. The István Kertész inscription of Dvořák’s “My Home” fills out his survey of the complete symphony cycle for Decca.

Pierre Fournier; George Szell, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvorak: Cello Concerto (1962/2014) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Pierre Fournier; George Szell, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Dvorak: Cello Concerto (1962/2014) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Pierre Fournier; Berlin Philharmonic, George Szell - Dvořák: Cello Concerto (1962/2014)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 38:24 minutes | 1,97 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 38:24 minutes | 812 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

HighDefTapeTransfers chose another genuine classic to remaster, and one can hardly argue the importance of this 1961 recording of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104, B.191 from cellist Pierre Fournier ant the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell.

David Oistrakh, LSO - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy & Hindemith: Violin Concerto (1962/2014) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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David Oistrakh, LSO - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy & Hindemith: Violin Concerto (1962/2014) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

David Oistrakh, LSO - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy & Hindemith: Violin Concerto (1962/2014)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 60:12 minutes | 2,79 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 60:12 minutes | 1,23 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This disc coupling David Oistrakh’s magical & magisterial performances of Bruch’s Scottish Fantasia & Hindemith’s Violin Concerto. The performances themselves are superlative – Jascha Horenstein leads the London Symphony in a detailed accompaniment for Oistrakh’s expressive performance of Bruch’s Fantasia, & Paul Hindemith himself leads the LSO in an aggressive accompaniment for Oistrakh’s muscular performance of his own concerto.

Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley (1962/2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley (1962/2018) [DSD128 + Hi-Res FLAC]

Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley - Nancy Wilson with The Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1962/2018)
DSD128 (.dsf) 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time - 44:25 minutes | 2,21 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 44:25 minutes | 1007 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley is a studio album by Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley originally issued in February 1962 by Capitol Records. The Penguin Guide to Jazz states "The odd session out is the date with Nancy Wilson for Capitol, primarily designed as a showcase for the young singer but with five band-only tracks as well. Wilson had a self-conscious phrasing and melodramatic lighting-up of key lines - but there is a version of "A Sleeping Bee" here which is one of the most charming of all her recordings, and Cannon and the others play personably throughout". Wilson considered her vocals on the album "as a sort of easy-going third horn".

Oscar Peterson Trio - Plays The Richard Rodgers Song Book (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Oscar Peterson Trio - Plays The Richard Rodgers Song Book (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Oscar Peterson - Plays The Richard Rodgers Song Book (1959/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 30:25 minutes | 1,17 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 30:25 minutes | 642 MB
Transferred from 4-track tape / Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

In the 1950s and early '60s, producer Norman Granz perfected the songbook approach to album production by having vocalist Ella Fitzgerald interpret large segments of the standard jazz repertoire. In a frankly stated effort to expand the listening audience for this great body of work, Granz also asked Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson to churn out numerous instrumental songbooks albums under his own name with various combos. By the end of the decade, these included Oscar's newly reconfigured trio with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen. Like its companion albums, Peterson's Richard Rodgers Song Book was never intended as a set of exercises in soul-searching profundity. Instead what you get are simple, straightforward, well-played appreciations of great American songwriting.