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From: "HDtracks Press" To: "jeevacation®gmail.com" <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: HDtracks Newsletter for 11.12.09 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:03:24 +0000 2 HDtracks Newsletter for 11.12.09 Would audiophiles go for it? That's HDtracks' prime directive, but I don't think the high-resolution download store is just for audiophiles. - CNET.com Rebecca Pidgeon — The Raven: The Bob Katz 15th Anniversarj• Remaster a The Raven: The Bob Katz 15th Anniversary Remaster (88.2kHz/24bit) Rebecca Pidgeon Reflective yet contemporary, Rebecca Pidgeon's lovely voice rings with honest, unpretentious confidence and vivid tenderness. While her Celtic melodies set the mood, her lyrics tell stories, full, rich, textured and open hearted. This amazing talent made her U.S. debut with The Raven. The Raven was Chesky Records' most striking, powerful and fully realized vocal record to date. Now, this classic audiophile album has been carefully remastered by Bob Katz, the original engineer from the session. Bob painstakingly built the finest tube playback electronics for his custom Ampex all-tube tape recorder, hand-picked his favorite analog-to-digital converter and spent hours listening and aligning the original master to tape in order to extract every nuance of music out of it. We at Chesky Records and HDtracks are amazed at how good this new version is. This album has stood the test of time and now, with great improvements in the remastering technology, you can experience it the way we have been listening to it in our studios. The new high-resolution master is available exclusively on HDtracks as an 88.2/24 file. HDtracks Interview with Bob Katz EFTA00768674 Bob Katz: What more can I say? If you think you already know this album, you don't! Rebecca's sound is more alive than it has ever been. You will get to hear all the inner details of the original analog master tape transferred to state-of-the-art digital. The drum hits on "The Witch" will knock you off your couch! Complete HDtracks Interview with Bob Katz Featured Label: Moment! Records Moment! Records was founded to record and present great moments from performances of the classical music of India and contemporary world music. Indian classical music, based on improvisation, spontaneity and a refined concept of the relation between performer and audience, has certain demands all of its own. We at Moment Records feel that, by recording live performances with innovative, state of the art techniques, we are faithfully presenting the experience of this great music. Moment Records was founded in 1991 by tabla maestro and world music legend Zakir Hussain and Karthak dancer Antonia Minnecola. Featured Artist: Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain is today appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have not only established him as a national treasure in his own country, India, but gained him worldwide fame. His playing is marked by uncanny intuition and masterful improvisational dexterity, founded in formidable knowledge and study. The favorite accompanist for many of India's greatest classical musicians and dancers, he has not let his genius rest there. Featured Albums Gr Zakir Hussain & The Rhythm Experience Selects Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain & The Rhythm Experience is a Zakir Hussain's Selects presents the maestro's world percussion ensemble that weaves the own selections from some of his favorite tabla rhythms of India, Cuba, Africa, the Middle East solos of the past several years. EFTA00768675 and Indonesia into a repertoire which combines skillfully improvised exchanges with precise unison drumming. 96 kHz/24-bit and 88.2 kHz/24-bit releases on HUtracks MOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 and 24 Flute Waves (88.2kHz/24-bit) (88.2kHzI24-bit) 14 Berlin Flutes Martin Helmchen I Netherlands Chamber Orchestra I Gordan Nikolic The 14 Berlin Flutes ensemble performs works from Mozart, Verdi, Ravel, and more on this "25 year old Berlin native Martin Helmchen audiophile classic from MDG. John Sunier of makes an impressive debut with the Netherlands Audiophile Audition wrote, "The arrangements Chamber Orchestra under Gordan Nikoli in two are just superb - in some convincing one that brilliant works by Mozart...Both show the perhaps the particular work should have dramatic as well as the purely lyrical side of the originally been written for a flute ensemble rather composer, allowing Helmchen ample opportunity than the orchestra, or piano or whatever it was to display his firm, beautiful tone, his feeling for written for." rhythm, and his strong sense of the harmonic structures of both works." - Dr Phil Muse, Atlanta Audio Society James MacMillan: The Sacrifice: 3 Interludes / Michael Tippett: The Rose Lake / Ritual Dances Quickening_(88.2kHz/24-bit) (88.2kHz/24-bit) BBC Symphony Orchestra I City Of Birmingham BBC National Orchestra Of Wales I Richard Symphony Chorus I Hilliard Ensemble Hickox As James MacMillan celebrates his 50th birthday To coincide with the centenary year of Tippett's he here conducts his large-scale, complex work, birth, and following on from his highly successful The Quickening coupled with the symphonic recordings of the symphonies and other orchestral suite The Sacrifice: Three Interludes, taken from works, Richard Hickox has recorded two of the his opera, The Sacrifice, a work based on a composer's most famous orchestral works, The EFTA00768676 medieval Welsh tale and focusing on issues of Rose Lake and the Ritual Dances from the opera love and conflict. Co-commissioned by the BBC The Midsummer Marriage. Proms and the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Quickening sets poetry by MacMillan's frequent collaborator Michael Symmons Roberts. MORE NEW RELEASES IN 96 kHz/24 bit and 88.2 kHz/24 bit Classical Britten's Orchestra BEETHOVEN: Piano Trios in C minor and B flat Michael Stem I Kansas City Symphony Major, "Archduke" Kempf Trio The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a symphonic tour-de-force and audio spectacular, Last year's recording debut of the Kempf Trio featuring all sections of the symphony, separately was welcomed with open arms by the critics. In and together. Based on a famous theme by Henry Gramophone, the young trio's interpretations of Purcell, Britten writes in essence his "Concerto Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky were termed as for Orchestra," taking the ensemble apart, then "fine new performances which easily match the reassembling it in a grand and jubilant finale. best available" and the BBC Music Magazine Dynamic range is extreme. Perhaps the most reviewer went even further: "Easily the best striking aspect of this new recording is the interpretations in first-rate sound." Well, now the exceptional performance by Michael Stem and trio is back, with producer Jens Braun from the the Kansas City Symphony. This new release previous record as a guarantee that the sound will was produced by four-time Grammy Award be as first-rate. winner David Frost. Jan EFTA00768677 The Cure Jazz In Film Keith Jarrett I Jack DeJohnette I Gary Peacock National Youth Jazz Orchestra Recorded live at New York City's Town Hall in Jazz In Film features 12 tracks of jazz written for 1990, The Cure features Keith Jarrett with his film, from the earliest example of "Man With The Standards Trio, which, as befitting its stellar Golden Arm" to "Austin Powers." It also reputation, offers a set comprised of assorted includes a 7 minute suite from "Bullitt" and a 7 standards and covers, save the Jarrett-penned title and 'A minute suite from "Dirty Harry." Also a track. One of the high points is the Oscar Levant Tribute to the late Dudley Moore featuring his gem, "Blame it on My Youth." These three film scores "30 Is A Dangerous Age," "Cynthia" players bring so much sympathetic invention to and "Bedanled." bear that even an often-heard tune like "Body and Soul" is given fresh life. Qt, Tabla Duet Raga Rageshri Ustad Alla Rakha I Zakir Hussain Zakir Hussain I Pandit Shivkumar Sharma An electrifying tabla duet performance in Tintal Shivkumar and Zakir live -- one of the great by the legendary Ustad Alla Rakha and his musical feasts of our generation! The enormously illustrious son, Zakir Hussain. popular santoor pioneer performs raga Rageshri, displaying his amazing technical skill and musicianship. In concert with Zakir Hussain. Blues Live From Chicago - Mr. Superharp Himself? Memphis Blood - The Sun Sessions James Cotton James Blood Ulmer The king of boogie harmonica and his storming Hyena Records is happy to announce the return to band cut live in Chicago. This 1986 release was print of the critically acclaimed, Grammy Award- EFTA00768678 a Grammy nominee. As the Seattle Times wrote, nominated album, Memphis Blood: The Sun "A blistering set by a master musician." Sessions by the celebrated James Blood Ulmer. Recorded at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, TN, and produced by Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid in the Spring of 2001, the date finds Ulmer returning to his Southern roots to explore the blues. More New Additions Best Sellers Paris / London — Testament (96kHz/24bit) Where The Wild Things Are (96kHz/24-bit) Keith Jarrett Steve Vai This is Keith Jarrett,for thefirst time ever, in Where The Wild Things Are was recorded and 96/24 DVD-Audio quality FLAC. Available only filmed at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN at HDtracks.com. Jarrett's solo concert tradition before a sold-out audience as part of Vai's continues with Paris / London — Testament, two successful "Sound Theories" world tour. Vai is highly creative performances of recent vintage — widely known for both his unprecedented guitar from Paris's Salle Pleyel on November 26, 2008, playing techniques and the unique design of his followed by London's Royal Festival Hall on signature series Ibanez Jem guitar. But his fans December 1. The English date was Jarrett's first have become inextricably drawn to his melodic London solo concert in many years and, in the depth, and dynamic stage performance. The words of one reviewer, "triggered the sort of continued evolution of his craft is made apparent ecstasy that might greet a returning prophet." in the astonishing musicianship presented in Live In Minneapolis - Where The Wild Things Are. A Tribute To A Legend Modern Cool Les Paul & Friends Patricia Bather EFTA00768679 Les Paul & Friends-A Tribute To A Legend is a Thomas Conrad of Downbeat Magazine writes, fitting honor to the genre-crossing icon with an "For those who spent so many hours in Patricia eclectic collection of musicians spanning the Barber's underground classic Cafe Blue musical spectrum. From the hard hitting thunder (Premonition, 1994) and waited four years for its of Joe Bonammassa party rock guitar, to the fluid sequel, the opening track of Modern Cool, almost ethereal guitar groove provided by guitar "Touch of Trash," hits with a rush. There is icon Slash, this album covers the gamut of guitar Michael Arnopol's insidious bass again. There are and recording techniques. Solid tributes, most of Mark Walker's drums, shaking the cadence for which also include the 93-year old Les Paul are another Barber processional. And there is the turned in by Johnny Rzeznik covering U2's "All I Barber voice again, the near-whisper that can Ever Want Is You", Joan Osborne's smoky silence large rooms and turn even stockbrokers rendition of "I Don't Wanna Be With Anybody and computer programmers inward." But You", and even Richie Sambora's spiritual vocal on "Great Hall Of Fame." Specials of the Week In this section we are offering 20% discounts on select titles from your favorite artists and labels. XONAR Essence ST High-Resolution Computer Audio Card Contest For the next two months HDtracks is giving away the new XONAR Essence ST High Resolution computer audio card. We will have one drawing per week to win one card. As an HDtracks customer you are automatically entered to win. Hear the new Era in PC audio. Good Luck The HDtracks Team This message was sent from HDtracks Press to . It was sent from: HDtracks, 355 West Contact - Try It Free! 52nd Street Sixth Floor, New York, New York 10019. You can modify/update your subscription via the link below. Manage your subscription gr‘ Share this message with others: del.lcio.us Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon EFTA00768680