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Sing and Dance With Frank Sinatra – Impex Records Hybrid SACD
£39.95“Sing and Dance With Frank Sinatra” reissued by Impex Records as a Hybrid SACD showcases Sinatra’s vibrant and charismatic early recordings, delivering a pristine listening experience that captures the warmth and depth of his iconic voice. This edition, remastered in high-definition audio, brings a new level of clarity and detail to classics from Sinatra’s formative years, making it a valuable addition to any music enthusiast’s collection.
Please Note: Due to additional time afforded by the SACD/CD format, this version contains material not included on the 33-RPM vinyl edition.
Concerts and Follies in Pergolesi’s Time – I Musici – XRCD24
£39.95Directly Recorded to Half Inch Analog Tape & Mastered Using K2 Technology!
This album is released in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the composer Giovanni Pergolesi. I Music performs compositional works by Geminiani, Pergolesi, Vivaldi and Durante.
“Concerts and Follies in Pergolesi’s Time” performed by I Musici and released on XRCD24 offers a refined auditory experience, capturing the elegance and emotional depth of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s compositions. This album, mastered in the high-resolution XRCD24 format, provides an immaculate sound quality that brings the intricacies and subtle nuances of baroque music to life, offering listeners a deep immersion into the musical aesthetics of the 18th century.
Vanilla Fudge Limited Edition Hybrid Mono SACD
£35.00This edition is strictly limited, enhancing its collectibility among audiophiles and fans of the band’s groundbreaking psychedelic rock sounds
Permission to Get Weird: Vanilla Fudge shape-shifts the familiar into original, uncharted psychedelic excursions marked by mesmerizing arrangements, bizarre timing and grinding soul.
Mastered from the original master tapes and strictly limited to 2,000 copies on hybrid SACD: sonically superb Mobile Fidelity reissues present the record in true-to-the-original mono.
1967 cult classic features stretched-out covers of familiar works by the Beatles, Supremes, Curtis Mayfield and more: Vanilla Fudge plays with a maverick streak and offbeat vision.
Miles Davis – Porgy and Bess – Mofi Hybrid SACD
£39.95Mastered from the Original Master Tapes and Strictly Limited to 3,000 Numbered Copies
If a more significant, influential, and lasting result of a creative musical partnership exists than that of Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ Porgy and Bess, society hasn’t seen it. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the pair’s collaboration on the landmark 1959 update of George Gershwin’s opera.
Transcending genre, time, and place, the profound statement finds Evans and Davis implementing modal approaches in a mainstream context and advancing jazz idioms that would become the foundation of the form’s still-classic era. And that’s saying nothing of the soulful playing – legendary performances by Davis’ first great quintet that can now be heard in pristine detail courtesy of this definitive digital edition.
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet: Free Jazz Speakers Corner 180g Vinyl
£35.00The term ‘free jazz’ was already in existence – but it had a quite different meaning, namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket.
The album “Free Jazz”, however, was intended to lend its name to a quite different style of jazz. ‘
Free’ playing – now this meant that no one was bound to conventions, you could let your imagination run loose. Free jazz gave one the chance to find new rules for every new composition. And it was to be the greatest boost to innovation in the world of jazz.
Ornette Coleman’s album from December 1960 stands at the beginning of the free jazz era like a massive portal.
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Leshnoff – Reference Recordings HDCD
£29.95Reference Recordings® proudly presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in an exquisite interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is coupled with a World Premiere recording of leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon, featuring the extraordinary talents of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s own Principal Clarinet Michael Rusinek and Principal Bassoon Nancy Goeres. This hybrid SACD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound.
Doug MacLeod – Break The Chain – Reference Recordings HDCD
£29.95Winner of the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year
Nominated for the 2018 Blues Blast Music Awards Acoustic Blues Album of the Year
Hi-Fi News Top Audiophile Vinyl Album of 2019!
In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. Recorded by Reference’s Grammy-winning engineer ‘Prof.’ Keith O. Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain brings twelve new MacLeod originals. Each song is extremely personal and at the same time, universal; covering subjects topical, humorous, and soulful; from the satirical to the sublime.
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – Lieutenant Kijé Suite – Reference Recordings HDCD
£29.95Utah Symphony
Thierry Fischer, music director
ALISA KOLOSOVA, MEZZO-SOPRANO
Utah Symphony Chorus
University of Utah A Cappella Choir
University of Utah Chamber Choir
Barlow Bradford, Director
Reference Recordings is proud to present the Utah Symphony conducted by Thierry Fischer, in grand new performances of Alexander Nevsky and the Lieutenant Kijé Suite, two of Prokofiev’s most brilliant and dramatic musical works. The music of Lieutenant Kijé was originally written as the score to the film of the same name, released in March 1934. It was Prokofiev’s first film music and his first commission. Prokofiev soon adapted it into the five-movement Lieutenant Kijé Suite, first performed in December 1934, and which quickly became a favorite in the international concert repertoire. Then, in 1938, Prokofiev collaborated with film director Eisenstein to create the score for the film Alexander Nevsky. He later adapted much of his score into the large-scale cantata for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and chorus featured on this recording.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk : Blacknuss – Pure Pleasure Records Vinyl LP
£29.95From its opening bars, with Bill Salter’s bass and Rahsaan’s flute passionately playing Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine”, you know this isn’t an ordinary Kirk album (were any of them?). As the string section, electric piano, percussion, and Cornel Dupree’s guitar slip in the back door, one can feel the deep soul groove Kirk is bringing to the jazz fore here.
CHASING THE DRAGON II – Audiophile Recordings CD
£25.00Audiophile Demonstration & Test Disc! A treat to listen to, a great way to test and show off your system!
This audiophile demonstration album contains 17 tracks, including a microphone comparison, the giant organ at Temple Church, and a fantastic drum solo, which will test your loudspeakers to the limit!
A selection of tracks which should take you and your Hi-Fi system on an interesting journey.
This audiophile demonstration recording samples classical compositions by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach and Corelli, alongside a drum solo improvisation, a choir performance, microphone comparison of male voice recording, rehearsals, and more.
Flying Burrito Brothers – The Gilded Palace Of Sin – Intervention Records 180g Vinyl
£45.00180g Vinyl LP Reissue Mastered 100% AAA Analog by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio & Pressed at RTI.
“The Gilded Palace of Sin” by the Flying Burrito Brothers is a seminal vinyl LP that blends country rock with soul and psychedelia, marking a pivotal moment in music history. Released in 1969, the album features Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, formerly of The Byrds, who deliver poignant lyrics and innovative arrangements. With standout tracks like “Christine’s Tune” and “Sin City,” this record is revered for its heartfelt storytelling and genre-defying sound, making it a timeless classic.
