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Playboy Magazine's Iconic Alcohol Advertising in the 1980s

Playboy Magazine, a hallmark of 20th-century popular culture, was known for many things - its groundbreaking interviews, in-depth articles, and iconic centerfolds. But, often overlooked, was its strategic and stylish portrayal of alcohol advertising, particularly during the exuberant decade of the 1980s.

Playboy Magazine's Iconic
Alcohol Advertising in the 1980s

Denys Darlow, London Handel Orchestra, Gillian Fisher, Patrizia Kwella - George Frideric Handel: Aminta e Fillide (2001)

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Denys Darlow, London Handel Orchestra, Gillian Fisher, Patrizia Kwella - George Frideric Handel: Aminta e Fillide (2001)

Denys Darlow, London Handel Orchestra, Gillian Fisher, Patrizia Kwella - George Frideric Handel: Aminta e Fillide (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 54:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66118 | Recorded: 1984

Handel wrote ‘Arresta il passo’ (which Hyperion has renamed after its hero and heroine) for Rome’s Arcadian Academy in 1708. A suitably pastoral cantata for two voices, strings and continuo, it depicts the shepherd Aminta’s wooing of the initially reluctant nymph Fillide in a series of charming arias (some of which Handel reused in Agrippina and Rinaldo).

Graham Pushee, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Handel: Arias from Alcina, Julius Caesar and Rinaldo (1994)

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Graham Pushee, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Handel: Arias from Alcina, Julius Caesar and Rinaldo (1994)

Graham Pushee, Paul Dyer, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Handel: Arias from Alcina, Julius Caesar and Rinaldo (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 65:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ABC Classics | # 446 272 2 | Recorded: 1994

The great Australian countertenor, Graham Pushee with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed by Paul Dyer, stuns us all in this program of favorite arias by Handel.

Mia Martini - Il giorno dopo: 50th Anniversary Edition (Remastered 2023) (1973/2023)

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Mia Martini - Il giorno dopo: 50th Anniversary Edition (Remastered 2023) (1973/2023)

Mia Martini - Il giorno dopo: 50th Anniversary Edition (Remastered 2023) (1973/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 360 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 158 MB
48:28 | Pop, Vocal | Label: BMG Rights Mgmt Italy S.R.L.

Minuetto di Mia Martini compie 50 anni! Una delle più belle canzoni italiane scritta da Dario Baldan Bembo con le parole di Franco Califano , arrangiamento e direzione orchestrale del Maestro Natale Massara. Viene pubblicata dalla Dischi Ricordi il 25 maggio 1973 nell’album IL GIORNO DOPO. Minuetto proprio nel 1973 vince il Festivalbar.
Oltre a Califano e Baldan Bembo molti gli autori e compositori che partecipano a questo Album : Antonello Venditti , Bruno Lauzi , Maurizio Fabrizio , Franca Evangelisti, Luigi Albertelli, Paolo Limiti.

Musica Solare - Attilio Ariosti: The Flowering and Fading of Love (2005)

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Musica Solare - Attilio Ariosti: The Flowering and Fading of Love (2005)

Musica Solare - Attilio Ariosti: The Flowering and Fading of Love (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 385 Mb | Total time: 78:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557573 | Recorded: 2003

Attilio Ariosti was a particularly versatile Italian composer, musician and poet, known throughout Europe. As an operatic composer his name was joined in London by those of Handel and Bononcini, and his 'Carillano' of 1723 and 'Vespasiano' of 1724 were much acclaimed. The cycle of Six Cantatas 'The Flowering and Fading of Love', only recently discovered and here receiving its first recording, forms a sonnet sequence about the journey of love, ranging from 'La Rosa' (the Rose) to 'Il Naufragio' (The Shipwreck) and the final 'La Gelosia' (Jealousy).

Ensemble Meridien; Laia Frigole, Juan de la Rubia - A German Soul: Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)

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Ensemble Meridien; Laia Frigole, Juan de la Rubia - A German Soul: Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)

A German Soul - Devotional Music from 17th-century Hamburg (2014)
Ensemble Méridien; Laia Frigolé, soprano; Juan de la Rubia, organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 340 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94717 | Time: 01:04:06

This stylishly devised programme juxtaposes cantatas by Rosenmüller, Krieger and Buxtehude with instrumental chorales and sonatas by Scheidemann, Praetorius, Tunder and Weckmann; most of these now known, if at all widely, as forerunners to Bach rather than as fine musicians in their own right as they deserve to be. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Hamburg became a leading commercial port where material and cultural goods circulated freely. Ensemble Méridien has chosen this city as the focal point of a fascinating musical journey through northern Germany, a journey that reveals different aspects of this artistic power. The port of Hamburg was also the driving force behind the north German organ school of the time. Churches were overflowing with magnificent organs, and their building and playing techniques reached extremely high standards, as is evident from the organ music included here. Though most of the music in this recital has been recorded before, it has only appeared on relatively obscure labels, and not in this imaginative context where one may more fully appreciate its dramatic as well as musical merits.

Reginald Mobley & Baptiste Trotignon - Because (2023)

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Reginald Mobley & Baptiste Trotignon - Because (2023)

Reginald Mobley & Baptiste Trotignon - Because (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 220 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 128 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:24
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

During the long era when Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were creating the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of African slaves resounded in the colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, expressing pain and longing, but also joy and the desire for freedom. The American countertenor Reginald Mobley - a rising figure in baroque music, notably under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner with whom he sings very regularly - and the French pianist Baptiste Trotignon, winner of numerous awards (Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or) have combined their talents and sensibilities to celebrate these spirituals and the music of Black composers including Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) and Florence Price (1887-1953), whose beautiful transcriptions and melodies blend with Baptiste Trotignon's subtle arrangements of the famous.

Dorothee Oberlinger, Andreas Scholl, Ensemble 1700 - Johann Sebastian Bach: Small Gifts (2017)

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Dorothee Oberlinger, Andreas Scholl, Ensemble 1700 - Johann Sebastian Bach: Small Gifts (2017)

Dorothee Oberlinger, Andreas Scholl, Ensemble 1700 - Johann Sebastian Bach: Small Gifts (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 396 Mb | Total time: 75:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88985428392 | Recorded: 2017

The acclaimed recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and her ensemble 1700 team up with famous countertenor Andreas Scholl for this inspiring new album featuring the work of J.S. Bach. The album includes arias from Bach cantatas for alto, a concerto for harpsichord arranged for flute, the cantata BWV 170 “Vergnügte Ruh” and the famed Brandenburg concertos No. 2 and No. 4. Dorothee Oberlinger is one of the most amazing discoveries of recent years, an expressive virtuoso who - quite rightly - received numerous awards while still very young.

Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Bernat Vivancos: Requiem (2015) 2CDs

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Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Bernat Vivancos: Requiem (2015) 2CDs

Bernat Vivancos - Requiem (2015) 2CDs
Latvian Radio Choir; Sigvards Kļava, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 365 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 228 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Choral | Label: Neu Records | # NEU 010 | Time: 01:37:54

Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos's 'Blanc', released by Neu Records in 2013, was an acclaimed double album of premiere recordings by the Latvian Radio Choir, one of the world's finest chamber choirs, conducted by Sigvards Klava. This follow-up reunites the composer with these forces in a performance of his profound Requiem. The renowned musician Jordi Savall first encountered - and was greatly moved by - Vivancos's music through 'Blanc'. He says: "The innovative richness of the works by Bernat Vivancos are, I believe, the clearest and most striking proof of the vitality of a new musical Renaissance. His extraordinary talent and his profound spirituality are placed at the service of a process that is the invention of a new language which, in spite of its complexity and modernity, is capable of transmitting to us pure beauty and emotion." Vivancos composed his Requiem - scored for mixed choir, soloists, cello soloist (here Pau Codina), cello quartet, accordion and percussion - in memory of his father.

Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory (2004)

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Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory (2004)

Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 283 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 131 Mb | Scans included | 00:57:07
Modern Classical, Vocal Music, World Fusion, Ambient | Label: 4AD | # CAD 2403 CD

Immortal Memory is a collaboration between vocalist Lisa Gerrard and Irish composer Patrick Cassidy. Billed as a cycle of life and death and rebirth, Immortal Memory is better described as an orphaned film score. Cassidy's warm arrangements allow the former Dead Can Dance singer to step out of the dark medieval world that she's called home for nearly 20 years – though there is much of that world within these castle walls – and focus on the simplicity of love, faith, and loss with a grace that's bereft of the icy perfection of her previous work. Gerrard, whose voice has aged like the finest oak, displays an almost supernatural mastery of the material. Her effortless contralto wraps itself around the ten Gaelic, Latin, and Aramaic spirituals like an evening prayer, making each stunning entrance the equivalent of audio comfort food.

Café Zimmermann, Rupert Charlesworth - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Der Frühling (2016)

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Café Zimmermann, Rupert Charlesworth - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Der Frühling (2016)

Café Zimmermann, Rupert Charlesworth - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Der Frühling (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 334 Mb | Total time: 63:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 257 | Recorded: 2016

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is the most famous of the sons of J.S. Bach. His magisterial oeuvre contains, notably, a large number of concertos for various instruments and keyboard pieces. But the composer also excelled at vocal music, thus continuing in the family tradition by composing, among other genres, sacred and secular cantatas and songs. His works respect the rules of Baroque style while also hinting at the dawn of the Classical style subsequently represented by Haydn and Mozart. Café Zimmermann has been including the music of C. P. E. Bach in its programmes for years, notably in a recording (ALPHA 107) that marked a turning point in the discography.

Michel Corboz - Chansons et madrigaux de la Renaissance avec leur double orné par Bassano (2023)

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Michel Corboz - Chansons et madrigaux de la Renaissance avec leur double orné par Bassano (2023)

Michel Corboz, Ensemble vocal de Lausanne, Michel Piguet & Anthony Bailes - Chansons et madrigaux de la Renaissance avec leur double orné par Bassano (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 190 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 105 Mb | 00:44:39
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics, Erato Records

This album compares hits from the Renaissance (by Rore, Lasso, Arcadelt and others) with their instrumental ornamented arrangement published in 1591 by Venetian Giovanni Bassano, author of a reference treatise on arrangement. It also includes some Paladino transcriptions for solo lute, performed by Anthony Bailes.

Charles Dutoit, Marius Constant - Arthur Honegger: Le Roi David (2005)

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Charles Dutoit, Marius Constant - Arthur Honegger: Le Roi David (2005)

Charles Dutoit, Marius Constant - Arthur Honegger: Le Roi David (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 145:02 | 611 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Erato | Catalog: 2564 62033-2

Honegger was an eclectic composer whose achievement is well reflected in this stimulating compilation. Dutoit’s recording of the oratorio King David is particularly compelling: on hearing it one understands why the composer frequently returned to the formula of narrator, soloists, chorus and orchestra.

Alicia de Larrocha & Victoria de los Ángeles - The Concert at Hunter College (2023)

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Alicia de Larrocha & Victoria de los Ángeles - The Concert at Hunter College (2023)

Alicia de Larrocha & Victoria de los Ángeles - The Concert at Hunter College (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 231 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 114 Mb | 00:48:14
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

May 23rd: centenary of the great pianist Alicia de Larrocha. Here is a live recording made in New York’s Hunter College in November 1971 with Larrocha’s close friend and the other great figure of Spanish classical music of 20th-century, Victoria de los Ángeles. A perfect communion between two artists at the height of their powers in a beautiful program including songs by Falla, Granados, and excerpts of zarzuelas.

Alexandre Baldo & Ensemble Mozaïque - Caldara: Arias for Bass (2023)

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Alexandre Baldo & Ensemble Mozaïque - Caldara: Arias for Bass (2023)

Alexandre Baldo & Ensemble Mozaïque - Caldara: Arias for Bass (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 305 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps -140 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:00
Classical, Vocal | Label: Pan Classics

Antonio Caldara, a native of Venice, spent almost two decades at the beginning of the 18th century in the service of the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI as Vice-Kapellmeister.

Sabine Devieilhe, Léa Desandre, Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d’Astrée - George Frideric Handel: Italian Cantatas (2018)

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Sabine Devieilhe, Léa Desandre, Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d’Astrée - George Frideric Handel: Italian Cantatas (2018)

Sabine Devieilhe, Léa Desandre, Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d’Astrée - George Frideric Handel: Italian Cantatas (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 497 Mb | Total time: 53:25+42:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0190295633622 | Recorded: 2018

Handel's Italian cantatas date from early in his career, with few exceptions (none on display here). As a group they are less well-known than his operas, but they're equally virtuosic, and performances of the cantatas whole, as with the three here, are a bit more satisfying than with the operas. The cantatas were composed for parties among powerful Roman cardinals, and they catch the young Handel at the peak of his first success, as Roman audiences hailed him as "il caro Sassone" (the dear Saxon).