Artists: Tarja Turunen & Mike Terrana
Title: Beauty & the Beat
Genre: Classical Music, Symphonic Music, Opera
Label: earMusic / Edel Records
Released: 2014
Recorded: Apr 2013, Kongresové centrum, Zlin, Czech Republic
Artists Country: Finland / US
Release Country: Germany
Format: Blu-ray video
BD specs:
Video:MPEG 4 AVC Video / 1920*1080i / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1 / 29.97 fps
Audio:
A1: LPCM / 2304 kbps / 2 ch / 48.0 khz / 24 bit
A2: Dolby Digital Audio AC3 / 448 kbps / 6 ch / 48.0 khz
A3: DTS-HD Master Audio / 4648 kbps / 6 ch / 48.0 khz / 24 bit
(DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24 bit)
Personnel:
Tarja Turunen – vocals (soprano)
Mike Terrana – drums
‘Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra’
‘Pěvecký Masarykovy Univerzity Brno Choir’
“Beauty & The Beat” is something very different than your ordinary rock show, let alone your ordinary classic concert. It’s music played in an unorthodox manner, it’s the performance of a wide range of classical pieces and rock songs together with an orchestra and choir. It strikes you with awe. Originally planned as a one-time event – the first performance was already held in 2011, the show was too successful with fans and critics to simply never happen again. In spring 2013, Tarja Turunen and drummer Mike Terrana, who is also part of her current live band, toured throughout the world, from Poland over Russia to Mexico. During this tour, the live CD, DVD and Blu-ray was recorded in stunning HD. “Beauty & The Beat”‘s music ranges from immortal classic music pieces ranging from Bach, Strauss and Mozart to Rossini, and doesn’t neglect pure rock music with songs from Led Zeppelin, Queen and Tarja’s as well as Mike’s own pieces. All combined with an enormous orchestra sound, energetic drums and Tarja’s angelic voice. Tarja and Mike complement each other musically. Whereas Mike bangs his drums like a mad man, Tarja shines with her crystal clear voice and incredible stage presence all lulled with the warm, full sound of an orchestra. Tarja Turunen explains: “The idea of having a symphonic orchestra, choir and Mr. Terrana on drums was originally mine. I believe this kind of combination of instruments, particularlyplaying mainly classical music, is very unique. I have been making collaborations with orchestras before, but those concerts were different. Our main goal with this kind of concerts is that the younger audience experiences the beauty and power of a symphonic orchestra and choir. Hopefully it will serve as an introduction to classical music for some of our fans.” Mike Terrana jokingly adds: “It’s obvious that I provide the BEAT & Tarja provides the BEAUTY.”
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Mark Tremonti – Mark Tremonti Christmas Classics New & Old (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:37 minutes | 357 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JMM – Take A Chance For Charity
With the commercial and critical success of his tribute to Frank Sinatra on his album Tremonti Sings Sinatra, Mark Tremonti returns with an album of holiday standards – Christmas Classics Old & New. The album features numerous holiday favorites as well as an original Christmas song penned by Tremonti – a first in the immense musical catalog of the GRAMMY® award winning songwriter/singer/guitarist. “Christmas Morning” – the original composition from Mark – talks about the excitement of waking up on Christmas morning and fits in perfectly alongside any traditional holiday classic. Songs like “Jingle Bells,” “The Christmas Song” and “O Holy Night” find new warmth behind Mark’s unique vocals and original musical arrangements. The album presented an opportunity for Mark to reunite with his Tremonti Sings Sinatra orchestra. These orchestra members have performed with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra Jr to name a few. Christmas Classics Old & New will be a welcome addition to any holiday celebration as presented in the style that only Mark Tremonti can.
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The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra – Last Moments of Greatness, Vol. II (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:57 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz King Records
Jazz King Records presents a retrospective collection of the great Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra with Last Moments of Greatness. Dorsey formed his orchestra in 1935 and disbanded a first time in 1946. By late 1946, the band business was indeed having problems. In December 1946, some members of the band (including Tommy Dorsey) were calling it quits. However, less than two years later, he formed an orchestra with exactly the same name (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra), but with different members.
Dorsey’s orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
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The Doors – Waiting For The Sun (1968/2012)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 33:03 minutes | 1,3 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: AcousticSounds | Front Cover | © Analogue Productions XAPP74024D64
Waiting For The Sun, The Doors’ third album and its first chart-topper, delivered the No. 1 signature smash “Hello, I Love You” and the Top 40 hit “The Unknown Soldier.”
Slant Magazine proclaims that Waiting For The Sun contains some of The Doors’ prettiest, most genial lilts: “Love Street,” a fictionalized sketch of the Bohemian street where Morrison lived with his wife, Pamela Courson; the wistful “Summer’s Almost Gone,” which includes the lovely refrain, “Morning found us calmly unaware/Noon burned gold into our hair”; and the placid piano ballad “Yes, The River Knows.” More and more, says Slant, Morrison was starting to emulate one of his idols, Frank Sinatra — “after all, they had an insatiable taste for women and alcohol in common.”
Waiting For The Sun was also some of The Doors’ most combative, political work. “The Unknown Soldier” was a barefaced antiwar attack, a reaction to the Vietnam-era hostilities brewing on the home front.
Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce that six studio LP titles — The Doors, Strange Days,Waiting For The Sun, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman — are featured on 200-gram vinyl, pressed at 45 rpm. All six titles are also available on Hybrid Multichannel SACD! All were cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best analog tape copy.
A truly authentic reissue project, the masters were recorded on tube equipment, and the tape machine used for the transfer of these releases is a tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes baby!
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The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra – Vol. III – Last Moments of Greatness (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:20 minutes | 621 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz King Records
Jazz King Records presents a retrospective collection of the great Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra with Last Moments of Greatness. Dorsey formed his orchestra in 1935 and disbanded a first time in 1946. By late 1946, the band business was indeed having problems. In December 1946, some members of the band (including Tommy Dorsey) were calling it quits. However, less than two years later, he formed an orchestra with exactly the same name (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra), but with different members.
Dorsey’s orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
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Tierney Sutton – Dancing In The Dark (2004/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:16 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Telarc
Tierney Sutton has “paid her dues”. This is her fourth Telarc recording in the in the past four years. Do not be surprised if this is the one that pushes her over the boundary that will enable her to be regarded as one of the generation’s next great jazz vocalists.
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The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra – Vol. IV – Last Moments of Greatness (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:37 minutes | 587 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazz King Records
Jazz King Records presents a retrospective collection of the great Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra with Last Moments of Greatness. Dorsey formed his orchestra in 1935 and disbanded a first time in 1946. By late 1946, the band business was indeed having problems. In December 1946, some members of the band (including Tommy Dorsey) were calling it quits. However, less than two years later, he formed an orchestra with exactly the same name (Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra), but with different members.
Dorsey’s orchestra was known primarily for its renderings of ballads at dance tempos, frequently with singers such as Jack Leonard and Frank Sinatra.
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The Sleep Eazys, Joe Bonamassa – Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:34 minutes | 387 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J&R Adventures
Guitar master Joe Bonamassa once again hits it out of the park with his new all-instrumental project The Sleep Eazys and the group’s debut album Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell. The record comes out April 10th, 2020 via J&R Adventures and is a bit of a departure from the blues/rock sounds Bonamassa is known for. The record is a musical and spiritual tribute to the late Danny Gatton, an amazing genre-bending roots music picker often considered the world’s greatest unknown guitarist. Joe takes on a Gatton track here and reinvents a slew of other gems from Frank Sinatra, Tony Joe White, Hank Garland, King Curtis, Link Wray, and Jimmy Bryant. The lead single from Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell is Bonamassa’s take on John Barry’s 1969 James Bond theme “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” which will light up 007 fans with its blend of orchestral maneuvers and rock guitar.
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The Persuasions – A Cappella Dreams (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:04 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: R&B
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records
The Persuasions have logged some serious miles driving from town to town over the years to deliver their a cappella message. To amuse themselves on the road, they sing old favorites: songs they perform in their shows, their own versions of songs of the day, and, of course, the good old stuff they’ve known since they were kids. This disc boasts the good stuff, including covers of Elvis Presley, Bill Withers and Otis Redding. Each selection is a song the band has known and jammed on and thought about for many years, over a lot of rough roads.
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The Sam Singers – Come Fly with Me (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:43 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SamsProductions
Set the stage – the big award ceremony is coming up! The Sam Singers are announced to receive 50,000 francs in foundation funds, but then they learn that there has been a misunderstanding. The show is already running, your thank-you speeches are written-and so things unexpectedly get out of hand …
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Ray Charles – INTEGRAL RAY CHARLES 1949-1962 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:47:17 minutes | 4,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Diggers Factory
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as “The Genius”. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called “Brother Ray”. Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma.
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Biréli Lagrène – Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:14 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dreyfus Jazz
Louis Gasté et Line Renaud avaient une profonde admiration pour Django Reinhardt dont on célèbre les 70 ans de la disparition cette année. Guitariste de renommée internationale, Biréli Lagrène aborde le répertoire de l’auteur-compositeur français Louis Gasté avec une aisance folle, comme si toute cette musique avait été composée pour lui. Le guitariste virtuose et le célèbre auteur-compositeur ont en point commun une passion pour Django Reinhardt. Ce disque est l’occasion de revisiter en mode jazz manouche des classiques tels que Ma cabane au Canada, Rose de mai ou le mondialement célèbre Feelings (repris par Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nina, Simone, Shirley Bassey, The Offspring…).
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The Jazzcats – Come Fly with Me (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:58 minutes | 372 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jotun Records
THE JAZZCATS take you back to the time when the Savoy Ballroom was at its peak with dance, laughter, and people toasting into the wee hours. Some of Sweden’s foremost young jazz musicians have come together in one band to carry on the tradition of jazz.
The Jazzcats sounds like a big band but in a smaller and more intimate format with a unique ”horn section,” consisting of trombone, clarinet, and violin. The repertoire includes instrumental jazz from the golden era of swing and contains songs written by composers such as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, and Count Basie as well as vocal hits made famous by Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. The upcoming album is a lovely mix of old musical songs, lindy hop hits and famous big band songs, which will instantly put you in a good mood!
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Teddi King – Now in Vogue 1955 (1955/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 707 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Teddi King (September 18, 1929 – November 18, 1977) was an American jazz and pop vocalist. Born Theodora King in Boston, Massachusetts on September 18, 1929, she won a singing competition hosted by Dinah Shore at Boston’s Tributary Theatre, later beginning work in a touring revue involved with “cheering up the military in the lull between the Second World War and the Korean conflict.” Improving her vocal and piano technique during this time, she first recorded with Nat Pierce in 1949, later recording with the Beryl Booker trio and with several other small groups from 1954-1955 (recordings which were available on three albums for Storyville). She then toured with George Shearing for two years beginning in the summer of 1952, and for a time was managed by the famed George Wein. King later began performing for a time in Las Vegas.
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Tony Bennett – MTV Unplugged (1994) [Reissue 1999]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:10 minutes | Scans included | 1,96 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,26 GB
This CD won Grammy Awards in 1995 for Album of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. Recorded live with Tony Bennett’s long-standing accompanists Ralph Sharon on piano, Doug Richeson on bass, and Clayton Cameron on drums, the set includes more than 20 songs, many of them standards Bennett has sung for years, such as “Old Devil Moon”, “I Wanna Be Around”, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, “All of You”, and “Body and Soul”. Guest artists k.d. lang and Elvis Costello appear on, respectively, “Moonglow” and “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”. It’s a joyful romp for Frank Sinatra’s favorite singer.
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