What is new in my music library? (recent purchases I enjoy)

Beguiled
Tim Story

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000X5X?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

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Schubert: Winterreise D. 911
Composers
Schubert, Franz
Performers
Eschenbach, Christoph
Goerne, Matthias
Label Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue number 902107
Release date 2014-11-03
Discs 1
Orig. sample rate 44100Hz (24 bit)

This Winterreise ends Matthias Goerne’s series of Schubert lieder recordings. Here everything is tenser, more urgent, more harrowing. At once backdrop and metaphor for a soul chilled by the ineluctable, this winter landscape expects no spring to come. Nor will the Hurdy-Gurdy Man give any answer. In the intimate atmosphere offered by a recording, still more than in concert, this path to oblivion finds its echo in our innermost selves.

http://www.eclassical.com/harmonia-mundi/schubert-winterreise-d-911.html

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Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Composers
Mahler, Gustav
Genres
Vocal/Choral
Performers
Liang, Ning
Mok, Warren
Orchestras / Ensembles
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Instruments
Mezzo-soprano
Tenor
Periods Romantic
Conductors
Lan Shui
Label BIS
Catalogue number BIS-1547 SACD
Release date 2007-10-25
Discs 1
Orig. sample rate 44100Hz (24 bit)
Total time 71:14

The poems that in 1908 inspired Mahler to Das Lied von der Erde had been printed a year earlier in Hans Bethge's Die chinesische Flöte ('The Chinese Flute'). But they had already before that travelled huge distances in both time and space. Hans Bethge's poems were in fact paraphrases of Hans Hellmann's 1905 collection Chinesische Lyrik, which itself was based on French translations of 8th century Tang dynasty poems. The Hongkong-based enthusiast Daniel Ng has now, through untiring research, established the most likely sources of Bethge's poems, and prepared a Chinese Song of the Earth, replacing the German texts with the original Chinese poems. The result, soon to be published, has been recorded with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui, and the Chinese-born international stars Ning Liang and Warren Mok singing the texts by Li Bai, Wang Wei and other Tang master poets. During their long-standing collaboration, the SSO and Lan Shui have been tireless in promoting Chinese and Asian composers, an undertaking that on disc has born fruit in recordings of works by Zhou Long, Chen Yi and Bright Sheng. The team's imaginative approach to programming has also resulted in discs such as the recent Seascapes, with sea-depictions by among others Frank Bridge and Debussy. This release was greeted warmly by the reviewers, and the SSO/Shui interpretation of La mer was described as 'an unequivocally world-class performance' in the BBC Music Magazine. Now, with the present disc, another masterpiece from the early 20th century gets the Singapore treatment!

http://www.eclassical.com/composers/mahler-gustav/mahler-das-lied-von-der-erde.html

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Victorious Love - Carolyn Sampson sings Purcell
Composers
Purcell, Henry
Genres
Vocal/Choral
Performers
Cummings, Laurence
Kenny, Elizabeth
Lasla, Anne-Marie
Sampson, Carolyn
Instruments
Harpsichord
Lute
Soprano
Theorbo
Viol
Periods Baroque
Label BIS
Catalogue number BIS-1536 SACD
Release date 2007-08-30
Discs 1
Orig. sample rate 44100Hz (24 bit)
Total time 71:40

For many SACDs, eclassical only provides 24-bit/44.1. Strange.

http://www.eclassical.com/performer...rious-love-carolyn-sampson-sings-purcell.html

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