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Yasmin Levy - Sentir (2009)

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Yasmin Levy - Sentir (2009)

Yasmin Levy - Sentir (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 344 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 197 Mb
Full Scans | 00:45:00 | RAR 5% Recovery
World, Latin, Sephardic, Flamenco | Adama Music #AD20520

In Yasmin Levy’s music there is an undeniable tension between the purity of Ladino (the Judeo-Spanish music of Spain) and the fiery heart of flamenco. For her fourth album Sentir she has finally found a vision that integrates effortlessly these various musical directions. Produced by the acclaimed Javier Limón (who has worked previously with the likes of Portuguese fado star Mariza), the album’s programme draws songs not only from Ladino (’Mi Korason’, ’Londje de Mi’) and flamenco (Javier Limón’s ’Nos Llego El Final’) traditions but also contemporary material (by Javier, Yasmin) and even Leonard Cohen (in a remarkable and fresh version of ’Hallelujah’). An important factor in Yasmin’s life and musical direction has been the legacy of her father Yitzhak Levy, who died when Yasmin was only one year old. ’Una Pastora’ allows Yasmin, by the miracle of modern technology, to duet with him. With Sentir, Yasmin’s music truly becomes ’of the world’.

Yael Naim & David Donatien - Yael Naim (2007)

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Yael Naim & David Donatien - Yael Naim (2007)

Yael Naïm & David Donatien - Yael Naim (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 316 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans included
Label: Tôt Ou Tard/Atlantic | # 461628-2 | Time: 00:51:52
Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk, Pop/Rock

2007 sophomore album from the Paris-born and Israel raised singer, songwriter and musician who has also recorded under the name Yael. This album, which features songs sung in French, English and Hebrew, features the worldwide sensation 'New Soul', a track that has gained fame as being the music played during Apple's Macbook Air ad campaign in 2008.

Sophie Milman - Make Someone Happy (2007)

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Sophie Milman - Make Someone Happy (2007)

Sophie Milman - Make Someone Happy (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 320 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Vocal Jazz, Standards, Vocal Pop | Label: Linus | # 2 70077 | 00:49:43

Sophie Milman exudes confidence on her second solo effort, though she draws material from a much wider range of music styles for this session. The singer is still a fine interpreter of standards and show tunes, offering a flirtatious "People Will Say We're in Love" as a solid opener and an imaginative setting of "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" that showcases harmonica player Gregoire Maret and pianist Paul Shrofel. The addition of a droning opening vamp in "Fever" updates Peggy Lee's hit while keeping its hypnotic flavor intact. Arranger Cameron Wallis is added on tenor sax for Milman's torchy interpretation of "Make Someone Happy," while he wrote the bossa nova "Reste (Stay)" in which she negotiates the multilingual lyrics flawlessly.

The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, Dennis Russell Davies Philip Glass: Akhnaten (1987) 2CDs

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The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, Dennis Russell Davies Philip Glass: Akhnaten (1987) 2CDs

Philip Glass - Akhnaten: An Opera in Three Acts for Orchestra, Chorus and Soloists (1987)
The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Soloists, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 630 Mb | Scans included | Time: 02:08:37
Genre: Classical, Minimalism, Opera | Label: CBS Masterworks | # M2K 42457

The third in the Glass’ trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas, “Akhnaten”‘s subject is religion. The Pharaoh Akhnaten was the first monotheist in recorded story, and his substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship in use when he came to power was responsible for his violent overthrow. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus. Libretto (Egyptian, Arcadian, Hebrew, and language of the audience) by the composer in association with Shalom Goldman, Robert Israel and Richard Riddell. Vocal text drawn from original sources by Shalom Goldman.

Chicago a cappella - Miracle of Miracles: Music for Hanukkah (2023)

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Chicago a cappella - Miracle of Miracles: Music for Hanukkah (2023)

Chicago a cappella - Miracle of Miracles: Music for Hanukkah (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 244 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:04
Classical, Vocal | Label: Cedille Records

Chicago a cappella, the innovative vocal ensemble praised for its “clarity, well-balanced tone, and deep emotional involvement” (Washington Post), presents Miracle of Miracles — Music for Hanukkah, a new recording aimed at unveiling the richer meaning of the Festival of Lights, with music that ranges from heartfelt prayers to jazzy and playful holiday favorites, showcasing the creativity and vitality of American Jewish musical traditions.

Ofra Haza - Fifty Gates Of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs) (1984)

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Ofra Haza - Fifty Gates Of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs) (1984)

Ofra Haza - Fifty Gates Of Wisdom (Yemenite Songs) (1984)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 93 Mb
Label: Shanachie | # 64002 | Time: 00:38:35 | Scans included
Ethnic Pop, Worldbeat, Middle Eastern Traditions

It would have been groundbreaking enough for the Israeli Ofra Haza to have performed an album of Yemeni Jewish songs. But when she and producer Bezalel Aloni added synthesizers, drum machines, and a generous helping of dance beats, they ended up creating one of the seminal records of world music–one of the very first ethno-techno releases whose reverberations extended into dance clubs around the globe, most especially with "Galbi." While its contemporary sound might make it seem shallow, there really is a lot of depth here, the lyrics coming from the poetry of 16th-century rabbi Shalom Shabazi. Along with fellow spirits like Dissidenten, Haza helped pave the way for Transglobal Underground, Natacha Atlas, and Banco de Gaia.

Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis (2004)

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Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis (2004)

Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, The London Oratory School Schola - Leonard Bernstein: Kaddish; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 71:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10172 | Recorded: 2003

Jamie Bernstein has reworked the narration written by her father, adding to the works frenetic complexity, which registers powerfully in this recording. Fans of heart-on-sleeve Berntsein will enjoy bold versions of his Chichester Psalms and Missa Brevis.

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Granada 1013-1526 (2016)

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Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Granada 1013-1526 (2016)

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Granada 1013-1526 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 474 Mb | Total time: 78:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: AliaVox | # AVSA9915 | Recorded: 2013

Jordi Savall examines 500 years of history in this portrait of a city that symbolises like no other the fruitful, and at the same time, conflictual encounter of the three monotheistic religions. The succession of the Zirid, Almoravid, Almohad and Nasrid dynasties, their relationship with the neighbouring Christian kingdoms and the often precarious situation of the Jews (the first inhabitants of this area) are reflected in this wide musical fresco, in which each culture displays its most advanced refinement.

Cecilia Bartoli, Myung-Whun Chung - Chant d'amour: Melodies française: Bizet, Delibes, Viardot, Berlioz, Ravel (1996)

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Cecilia Bartoli, Myung-Whun Chung - Chant d'amour: Melodies française: Bizet, Delibes, Viardot, Berlioz, Ravel (1996)

Cecilia Bartoli, Myung-Whun Chung - Chant d'amour: Mélodies française: Bizet, Delibes, Viardot, Berlioz, Ravel (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 67:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: DECCA | # 452 667-2 | Recorded: 1996

This disc demonstrates that Cecilia Bartoli is as much at home in the world of the salon recital as she is in the swoops and vocal acrobatics of the Rossini coloratura repertoire. Her voice is in fine form here- -rich, resonant and full of surprising colours–but her talent for characterisation is even finer. In Pauline Viardot's "Havanaise" for example, she perfectly captures the flirtatious, almost desperate pleadings of a Spanish sailor for a French girl to accompany him on his boat –and then switches easily to the more capricious and teasing reply of the girl in French. In a number by Ravel (sung in Yiddish and Hebrew) she brings a rather elliptical exchange between a father and his young son to life with exquisite tenderness, and finds yet another voice out of her repertoire to characterise the little boy.

Friedemann Layer, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Christian Joseph Lidarti: Esther (2003)

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Friedemann Layer, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Christian Joseph Lidarti: Esther (2003)

Friedemann Layer, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Christian Joseph Lidarti: Esther (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 544 Mb | Total time: 1 h 59 min | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accord | # 476 1255 | Recorded: 2003

Cet enregistrement, comme les mémorables Fées du Rhin d'Offenbach, chef-d'oeuvre de l'édition 2002 où Friedemann Layer était déjà au pupitre, fait partie de la série consacrée aux oeuvres "redécouvertes", si l'on peut dire, par René Koering à travers le Festival de Radio France-Montpellier dont on saluera au passage la programmation courageuse et originale.

VA - Anthology of Traditional Musics: The Yemenite Jews (1978)

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VA - Anthology of Traditional Musics: The Yemenite Jews (1978)

VA - Anthology of Traditional Musics: The Yemenite Jews (1978)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 287 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 141 Mb | Booklet included | 00:48:55
World, Ethnic Fusion, Jewish Folk, Diwan | Label: Auvidis/UNESCO | # D 8024

After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE, a group of Jews settled in Yemen. They remained in exile, sometimes prosperous but frequently persecuted, until the 19th century. They then began to return to what is now Israel, first in small numbers and later in an organized wave with the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948. They brought with them a rich heritage of religious, secular, and devotional (diwan) music, the last of which includes both religious and secular subjects. Every Jewish community in Yemen had it's own diwan, consisting of works from the renowned medieval Spanish poets of the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry, as well as original writings from community members. These poems, in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic languages, were intended to be sung or chanted. According to the album's compiler Avner Bahat of the Jewish Music Research Centre, the Yemenite diwan is "the richest and most valuable of all." Eleven poems are presented in this 1976-77 recording.

Ofra Haza - Albums & Singles Collection 1987-2008 (8CD)

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Ofra Haza - Albums & Singles Collection 1987-2008 (8CD)

Ofra Haza - Albums & Singles Collection 1987-2008 (8CD)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 2.46 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 1 Gb | Complete Scans
Genre: Worldbeat, Ethnic Pop, Middle Eastern Traditions | Time: 05:42:29

Collection includes: Im Nin'alu (Played In Full Mix) (1987) Maxi-Single 1988; Shaday (1988); 5 Tracks (1989) Japan Only EP; Desert Wind (1989); Kirya (1992); Ofra Haza (1997); Forever Ofra Haza: Her Greatest Songs Remixed (2008).

Ofra Haza - Greatest Hits (2000) 3 CD Box Set

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Ofra Haza - Greatest Hits (2000) 3 CD Box Set

Ofra Haza - Greatest Hits (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.46 Gb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 514 Mb | Scans ~ 540 Mb
Genre: Ethnic Pop, Worldbeat | Label: Hed-Arzi | # 64027 | Time: 03:45:05

This triple CD set came out on the heels of Ofra Haza's tragic death. It contains all her greatest hits in Hebrew, Yemenite/Arabic and English, and also songs that have never before appeared on an album. This is the ultimate collection of one of Israel's most beloved performers.

Jennifer Johnson Cano, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore SO, Marin Alsop - Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)

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Jennifer Johnson Cano, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore SO, Marin Alsop - Leonard Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)

Leonard Bernstein - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (2017)
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 202 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Artwork included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.559790 | Time: 00:59:30

Leonard Bernstein’s legendary 1943 Carnegie Hall conducting début brought his name to national attention, and the event was followed a few months later by the triumphant reception of his Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah.’ This major symphonic statement explores a crisis in faith and employs Jewish liturgical sources, its final movement, Lamentation, being an anguished cry at the destruction of Jerusalem. Sharing the theme of loss of faith, Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ takes W.H. Auden’s poem of the same name and follows its four characters in their spiritual journey to hard-won triumph.

Steve Reich - Tehillim (1982)

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Steve Reich - Tehillim (1982)

Steve Reich - Tehillim (1982)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 171 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 72 Mb
Full Scans ~ 120 Mb | 00:29:58 | RAR 5% Recovery
Classical, Post-Modern, Choral, Contemporary | ECM New Series #ECM 1215 / 827 411-2

Steve Reich is the self-renewer of his one-time minimalist peers, able to revitalise his output just at the point when accusations of resting on laurels start to surface. By 1980, he had seemingly exhausted the possibilities of eight years of harmony-based writing, and aural wallpaper felt worryingly close. Tehilim changed all that: with its grounding in Hebrew cantilation and complex though always dancing rhythmic surround, this was Reich at his absolute best. The four Psalm texts–never so literal as to be settings–form a half-hour vocal "symphony", in impact though emphatically not in conception.