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Thursday, 27 February 2014

Amadeus - Italy



Italy's leading classical music monthly magazine, each edition is accompanied by a high-quality CD. Features historical articles and important news from the spheres both of opera and contemporary music, together with analysis by the most authoritative critics. Printed in the Italian language.



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AVM - Ovation MA8 Mono-Poweramp





The OVATION MA8 delivers nearly any desired power level even into critical loudspeakers without loss of control. Far over 1000 Watts into 4 Ohms are surely sufficient for reproduction of any kind of music even when listening at original sound levels. Nevertheless this amplifier can also play at moderate levels without loosing precision or missing even finest details.

The OVATION MA8 has been developed to satisfy even highest demands on reproduction of music. Forget about noise and distortion and enjoy it's warm and powerful music reproduction – regardless which loudspeaker you use.

It's excellent musical quality comes together with a very worthy finish: The case is totally made of aluminum. The power transformers inside (2 x 1000 VA, 2 x 120 VA) are mounted into a shielding case that ensures that no mechanical hum or electrical stray fields can influence the electronic circuitry of the amplifiers.




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The power supply consists of two 200.000 uF Capacitor banks. The power amplifier itself is a balanced construction. That means two amplifiers in bridge connection. Each of the power amps has it's own transformer and capacitor bank. The amplifiers use 24 output-FETs each and thus are able to deliver over 180 amperes - if needed. The input circuitry is also a balanced construction and offers RCA-Cinch (WBT-socket) and as well balanced XLR (Neutrik) inputs. The speaker terminals are finest WBT 0705 NEXT GEN sockets, naturally in bi-wiring configuration.
Besides that we have built in a brilliant blue VF display which informs you about the actual power (power bar) and the peak power (numeric). It is also useful to make settings via the intuitive menu system: Configuring the display (power bar & value display, peak power only and display off).

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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

"Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" German advance poster - Very rare! / expressionist art



This listing is for a very rare film memorabilia. It is an original issue German 1919 advance poster of "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (dir. Robert Wiene) sized at 37" x 55" (94cm x 140 cm). The poster is in fine condition from Studio Decla and was Japanese paper-backed sometime in the 1930s. The artists are Erich Stahl and Otto Arpke, with both of their surnames appearing clearly on the bottom left hand corner of the poster. The artwork is a perfect example of the expressionist style of World War I. This poster would have appeal to both modern art expressionists or motion picture collectors. (Please excuse the white flash from our camera in the images) This is the only known copy of this style. No other "Caligari" German large posters have ever been for sale. The original German Metropolis sold recently for $800,000 in a private sale and there are only 4 known copies. I am sure this "Caligari" piece is the only one now.



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Chris Botti in Boston (CD/DVD)



Columbia Records Recording Artist Chris Botti Expresses His Love For Romantic Melodies From Across the World On His New Album, “Impressions.”
Playing with his uniquely expressive sound and soaring musical imagination, trumpeter Chris Botti is joined by featured artists Andrea Bocelli, Vince Gill, Herbie Hancock, Mark Knopfler, David Foster and Caroline Campbell in a warm, intimate celebration of melodic balladry.
Impressions, trumpeter Chris Botti’s new Columbia Records CD, is the latest in a stellar parade of albums -- starting with 2004’s When I Fall In Love and continuing with To Love Again, Italia and the CD/DVD Chris Botti In Boston -- that have firmly established him as the world’s largest selling jazz instrumentalist. Add to that a cluster of Grammy nominations and three #1 albums on Billboard’s Jazz Albums listings.
As Botti began his planning for the new album, he was determined to do some “familiar songs” for Impressions, songs that reached back to his fascination with the melody and balladry that have been essential to his music since he first picked up a trumpet.
Songs such as “What A Wonderful World,’ “Summertime” and “Over the Rainbow” certainly fulfill that desire. But the album’s far-ranging program also encompasses many other areas, deeply influenced by conversations Botti had with fans during the busy, world-wide touring that keeps him on the road as much as 300 days a year.
“People kept mentioning Chris Botti In Boston,” he recalls. “They loved the music in that program. But they talked a lot about the variety among the performers, too – Yo Yo Ma, Steven Tyler, Sting, John Mayer, Josh Groban.”
Unlike the Boston album, however, Impressions was planned as a studio recording rather than a concert performance. So Botti and his manager/producer Bobby Colomby, put together a wish list of possible guest artists. The game plan: to match the variety in music and performers present in Chris Botti In Boston. But to do so in a very different way. At the top of the wish list, the legendary rocker from the band Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler.
“We had the idea,” says Botti, “of asking Mark to sing ‘What A Wonderful World.’ How much more different could we get than that?”
When Knopfler, who rarely sings songs by other writers, agreed to do the tune, the first important piece of the album was in place. Others quickly followed, some from unlikely sources.
Botti had been commissioned to do his version of Chopin’s Prelude No. 20 in C minor, and perform it in Warsaw for the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Always intrigued by the opportunity to take a classical work and, as he explains it, “play with the time, move things around,” Botti accepted the commission. “And I immediately realized,” he adds, “that Prelude could be the starting point for Impressions, as well.
Another serendipitous event – a concert at the White House – added a completely unexpected composition to the program. After Botti performed with pianist Herbie Hancock at the event, a state dinner for the President of China, Colomby suggested they compose a piece together. An afternoon of free improvising at Hancock’s house resulted in Tango Suite. And Hancock’s presence as a guest on the album.
A similar afternoon of creative compatibility – this time between Botti and pianist/composer/producer David Foster, with lyrics by Tiziano Ferro – produced “Per Te.” Sung by the incomparable tenor of Andrea Bocelli, it already sounds like a classic.
Country star Vince Gill, doing Randy Newman’s “Losing You,” was another of the album’s featured artists, his conversational, story-telling style adding more of the variety that Botti and Colomby were slowly accumulating for the album.
At the suggestion of arranger Mendoza, Colomby brought Brazilian guitarist Leonardo Amuedo to the studio, a further vital element was added. “We’d heard a lot of other guitar players, and liked everything they did,” says Botti. “But as soon as we heard Leo, we just started replacing all the guitar parts we’d already recorded. His beautiful, nylon classic Spanish guitar sound is all over this record.” And especially present in Brazilian songwriter Ivan Lins’ lovely “Setembro,” the soaring lines of Rodrigo’s “En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor,” “Over the Rainbow” and the contemplative Botti/Amuedo duet interpretation of R. Kelly’s “You Are Not Alone,” a hit for Michael Jackson.
Three other pieces brought more of the variety Botti was seeking. “Oblivion” is an Astor Piazolla tango, originally written for a chamber ensemble, here a romantic vehicle for Botti’s trumpet. “Sevdah,” with its cinematic Eastern European qualities and dramatic choral climax offers yet another hue to Impressions’ many musical colors. And “Contigo en La Distancia” adds the rich sensuality of a Cuban bolero.
As the songs began to accumulate, producer Colomby insisted on maintaining an open-minded receptivity, eager to allow the creative process leeway to produce the best possible results.. ‘His attitude,” says Botti, “was that it would be okay to record 19 songs even if we only used 13. That’s the way it turned out, and it was the right way to do it.”
Botti seemed destined to become a musician -- and even to become the kind of musician he is today -- almost from the very beginning. Born in Portland, Oregon, he was encouraged to pursue music by his mother, a concert pianist. He also had an early taste of the international world that would become his primary territory as a successful performing artist. His father, who is Italian, taught English and Italian languages, and he took the family to live in Italy for several years, beginning when Botti was in the first grade.
“I was speaking fluent Italian before we came back,” he recalls. “But, sadly, I’ve forgotten most of it.”
That he still feels a firm connection with his Italian roots, however, was fully manifest in the title song he composed, with David Foster, for the album, Italia.
A different, but equally significant connection took place when Botti was twelve, and he heard Miles Davis play “My Funny Valentine.” The impact it had not only persuaded him to make a life time commitment to the trumpet, it also launched the affection for melody, space and balance that have been intrinsic aspects of Botti’s musical vision.
After attending Indiana University, and studying with the highly regarded jazz educator David Baker, the great trumpet teacher Bill Adam, jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw and jazz saxophonist George Coleman, he moved to New York in the mid-‘80s.
His early career was spent crafting his skills in settings reaching from the Buddy Rich Big Band and Frank Sinatra to Natalie Cole and Joni Mitchell. Throughout the ‘90s and into the new century, Botti played extensively with Paul Simon, and had an especially creative association with Sting.
Those gigs – and those relationships – were, he says, powerful learning experiences.
“Watching artists like Sting and Paul and Joni Mitchell,” explains Botti, “how they get in and out of songs, how they introduce people, whether they would do this or that sort of thing, what they would say about one of their players. All that was a huge asset for me. I wouldn’t be the performer I am today without that background.”
Now a major artist in his own right, performing worldwide, selling more than three million albums, he has found a form of creative expression that begins in jazz and expands beyond the limits of any single genre. With Impressions and the albums that preceded it, Chris Botti has thoroughly established himself as one of the important, innovative figures of the contemporary music world.


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Sunday, 9 February 2014

18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin and Orchestra - Music Minus One


18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin & Orchestra - Music Minus One



18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin & Orchestra - Music Minus One 18th Century Violin Pieces for Violin & Orchestra - Music Minus One
"For violin solo. Baroque, Classical Period and Play Along. Sheet music and accompaniment CD. Standard notation. Published by Music Minus One "



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Hit Sheet



Hit Sheet is a British magazine that reviews and promotes music from established, breaking, and unsigned artists. Issues also include industry news, statistics, and viewpoints, and a free CD of recent releases.



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Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience World Tour Tickets at VenueKings.com! Save $10 off $30+, Use Code: 10off at checkout. Shop Now!



Access Virus TI Polar Dark Star



The Virus TI Polar is the last part of the Virus TI WhiteOut special edition. Only a limited number of units have been produced. The technical specifications are identical to the Virus TI Polar 2009, the color scheme of the housing does differ as you can see. This is the last part of the Virus TI WhiteOut special edition. The first two editions, a white Virus TI desktop and a white keyboard, were all sold on the first day.



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BUDDY (CHARLES) HOLLY - GREETING CARD SIGNED




BUDDY HOLLY. Greeting Card signed: "Buddy", 4x4 when closed. Printed on front: "For You,/DAD/on Father's Day". Printed greeting inside: "A hearty little greeting/That's especially meant to say/'Here's wishing Dad/the swellest kind/Of Happy Father's Day!'" Buddy was born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas in 1936. The youngest of four children Buddy grew up in a modest environment. His father, Lawrence Holley, worked various odd jobs and throughout the 1930's and 1940's was employed as a tailor and salesman in a local clothing store. His mother, Ella Drake Holley, was a full-time mother and housewife. Both encouraged their children's musical skills. Buddy's father became his manager. The "e" in Holly's name was dropped due to a spelling error on his first recording contract. "Buddy" was a childhood nickname and on legal documents not relating to music Buddy would sign: "Charles Buddy Holley". Fine condition. For more information contact HistoryForSale. DOCUMENT 254214.


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  • A unique centerpiece for the home or office!
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Four Seasons: The Vivaldi Album



Anne Akiko Meyers is one of today's most sought after violinists. She regularly performs as guest soloist with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, in recital, on television and radio. She is a top-selling recording artist who has close to 30 highly acclaimed albums to her credit.
In time for Valentine's Day 2014, the Four Seasons: the Vivaldi Album, will be the first commerical recording of the legendary 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri violin. The Four Seasons: the Vivaldi Album will feature works by Vivaldi and Arvo Pärt with the English Chamber Orchestra and David Lockington.
A champion of living composers, Meyers has actively added new works to the violin repertoire by Mason Bates, Jakub Ciupinski, John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Wynton Marsalis, Olivier Messiaen, Akira Miyoshi, Arvo Part, Gene Pritsker, Somei Satoh, and Joseph Schwantner. Recently, with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Meyers co-commissioned and premiered the Mason Bates violin concerto with Leonard Slatkin conducting. Additional performances of the concerto include the Chicago, Detroit, Nashville and Richmond Symphony Orchestras. In 2014, eOne Music plans to release the world premiere recording of the Mason Bates Concerto, Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto and John Corigliano's "Lullaby for Natalie", a piece written for the birth of Meyers's first daughter with Leonard Slatkin and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Meyers's most recent recording, 'Air-The Bach Album, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Classical chart and was one of the top-selling classical albums of 2012. The recording features Bach’s solo violin concerti as well as the double concerto with Meyers playing both solo parts on the 1697 ex-'Napoleon/Molitor' and the 1730 'Royal Spanish' Stradivari violins with the English Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Meyers has collaborated with pop singing sensation, Il Divo, top jazz artists such as Chris Botti, Wynton Marsalis and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and performed the National Anthem in front of 42,000 fans at Safeco Field in Seattle. She appeared twice on "The Tonight Show" and was named the #3 story of the year for her appearance on 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'.
She was also featured in a performance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Holland and performed in front of 750,000 people in Sydney, Australia's Harbour, celebrating their 200th Bicentennial and has performed for dignitaries including the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Meyers has been featured in numerous print and television commercials including Anne Klein’s “Women of Substance” fashion campaign that appeared in magazines around the world and was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and recently starred in ads for Tourneau. Michael Arad, the architect for the World Trade Center Memorial, also paired Anne's music in his winning submission entitled, Reflecting Absence. This design was one of 5,201 memorial submissions from 63 nations.
Anne was born in San Diego, California and grew up in Southern California. She studied with Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, Josef Gingold at Indiana University, and Felix Galimir, Masao Kawasaki and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. At age 23, she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, the only artist to be the sole recipient of this annual prize. Ms.Meyers has joined the advisory board at Young Concert Artists.
Ms.Meyers performs on the 1741 ‘Vieuxtemps’ Guarneri del Gesu, considered by many to be one of the finest violins in the world.

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