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Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD - Symphonies 4 & 5

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 12 Nov 2008 18:08:00 | Comments : 3

Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD
DVD 3/8: Symphonies 4 & 5
DVD ISO | 3.92 GB | 2005 | PCM Stereo | NTSC 4:3 | Region 0
Subtitles: Mutli-Language | Cover: N/A | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 129 minutes

“Bernstein Collectors Edition & the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD

Deutsche Grammophon remembers the legendary Leonard Bernstein

October 14, 2005 will mark the 15th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's death. This lapse of time has only served to secure Bernstein's prominence as one of the most respected musicians of the 20th century and to affirm his reputation as a master conductor, composer, and teacher. Bernstein's sphere of influence extends past orchestral, operatic, and choral music to Broadway and beyond. His legacy is multiple, including that of a cogent writer, impassioned humanitarian, and engaging lecturer. In all of these capacities, Leonard Bernstein imparted his total enthusiasm for music and its importance in the life of every individual.		”
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Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD - Symphony 3

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 11 Nov 2008 19:08:00 | Comments : 12

Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD
DVD 2/8: Symphony 3
DVD ISO | 3.99 GB | 2005 | PCM Stereo | DTS Sound 5.1 | NTSC 4:3 | Region 0
Subtitles: Mutli-Language | Cover: N/A | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 105 minutes

“Bernstein Collectors Edition & the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD
Deutsche Grammophon remembers the legendary Leonard Bernstein
October 14, 2005 will mark the 15th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's death. This lapse of time has only served to secure Bernstein's prominence as one of the most respected musicians of the 20th century and to affirm his reputation as a master conductor, composer, and teacher. Bernstein's sphere of influence extends past orchestral, operatic, and choral music to Broadway and beyond. His legacy is multiple, including that of a cogent writer, impassioned humanitarian, and engaging lecturer. In all of these capacities, Leonard Bernstein imparted his total enthusiasm for music and its importance in the life of every individual.		”
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Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD - Symphonies 1 & 2

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 10 Nov 2008 03:52:00 | Comments : 15

Bernstein - the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD
DVD 1/8: Symphonies 1 & 2
DVD ISO | 3.80 GB | 2005 | PCM Stereo | DTS Sound 5.1 | NTSC 4:3 | Region 0
Subtitles: Mutli-Language | Cover: N/A | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 146 minutes

“Bernstein Collectors Edition & the Complete Mahler Cycle on DVD

Deutsche Grammophon remembers the legendary Leonard Bernstein

October 14, 2005 will mark the 15th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's death. This lapse of time has only served to secure Bernstein's prominence as one of the most respected musicians of the 20th century and to affirm his reputation as a master conductor, composer, and teacher. Bernstein's sphere of influence extends past orchestral, operatic, and choral music to Broadway and beyond. His legacy is multiple, including that of a cogent writer, impassioned humanitarian, and engaging lecturer. In all of these capacities, Leonard Bernstein imparted his total enthusiasm for music and its importance in the life of every individual.
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Mahler Plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 07 Nov 2008 16:27:00 | Comments : 9

Mahler Plays Mahler: The Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls
Classical | 1 CD | Cover: N/A | Recorded: 1905 | Released: 1993
Label: Innov. Music Prod. | FLAC | 212 MB | Duration: 66:25 min

“Gustav Mahler represents one of the keenest losses to early classical recordings. Despite his present fame as the last of the great German symphonic composers, during his lifetime Mahler was better known as a profoundly influential conductor. His obsessive intensity on the podium fueled headstrong, expressive performances of huge individuality. Mahler was the last and perhaps most extraordinary of all the authentic late-romantic conductors, who never hesitated to mold or even rewrite music to their own taste. Mahler records would provide an enormously valuable key toward reconstructing and understanding the lost performing style of his era. And yet, Mahler died in his prime in 1911, at age 51, without having recorded.

So what's this? Nothing less than Mahler himself at the keyboard--and in digital stereo!		”
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Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Unabridged MP3 Audiobook)

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 04 Nov 2008 17:26:00 | Comments : 2

Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Unabridged MP3 Audiobook)
| Audiobook | MP3 | 2005 | Run time: 8 hours | English | Publisher: Random House Audio | ISBN: 073933235X | 448 MB

“Oh, you are really going to enjoy this book...while you're reading it, that is. Then afterwards you'll be torn between the memories of the hilarious antics Bourdain describes in his book...and memories of the disgusting things that go on every day in restaurant kitchens. Believe it or not, it IS worth reading! (And take it from a former restaurant manager, it is, unfortuately, true - the after-hours shenanigans, especially!)
Bourdain has put together a truly gonzo collection of restaurant tales that aren't all depraved...but, like his restaurateur/chef subjects, most of them are! Kudos to him for a book that is this honest while being this hysterical. If you have the, um, stomach for it, this is a book you'll remember fondly. Well worth digesting!		”
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Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 04 Nov 2008 17:05:00 | Comments : 9

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
DVD ISO | NTSC | Region 1 | 1992 | Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 | Audio Format: PCM Stereo | Duration: ~57 min | 3.12 GB
Subtitles: Multi-Language

“After the Lion King, is there any more famous or lauded director today than Julie Taymor, a status confirmed again by her magical production of Magic Flute for the Met this season? Add in Euripides, Stravinsky, Jessye Norman, Seiji Ozawa and a young(er) Bryn Terfel - if this isn't this an all-star lineup made in heaven, what is?”
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The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 03 Nov 2008 00:26:00 | Comments : 2

Chandrasekhar's The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences)
667 pages | Oxford, 1983 | ISBN 0198512910 | DJVU | 2.2 MB

“Part of the reissued Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book was first published in 1983, and has swiftly become one of the great modern classics of relativity theory. It represents a personal testament to the work of the author, who spent several years writing and working-out the entire subject matter. The theory of black holes is the most simple and beautiful consequence of Einstein's relativity theory. At the time of writing there was no physical evidence for the existence of these objects, therefore all that Professor Chandrasekhar used for their construction were modern mathematical concepts of space and time. Since that time a growing body of evidence has pointed to the truth of Professor Chandrasekhar's findings, and the wisdom contained in this book has become fully evident.”
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Beethoven - Ode to Freedom (Symphony No. 9) - Leonard Bernstein

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 26 Oct 2008 03:59:00 | Comments : 5

Beethoven - Ode to Freedom (Symphony No. 9) - Leonard Bernstein
The Celebration Concert from Berlin
DivX AVI | DVD Rip | 1989 | 720x480 | VBR 1308 kb/s | MP3 128 kb/s | 899.57 MB
English + German | Duration: ~ 94 min

“The Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989. On Christmas Day 1989, only six weeks later, due to the organizational skills of Leonard Bernstein (and others) an historic concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was given in the Schauspielhaus in the former East Berlin with instrumentalists and singers from a number of different countries. These included orchestra members from the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Orchestra of the Kirov Theater of Leningrad, the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre de Paris. The choruses were those of Bavarian and Berlin Radio as well as, unusually, the Children's Choir of the Philharmonie Dresden. Soloists were June Anderson (soprano, American), Sarah Walker (mezzo, British), Klaus König (tenor, German) and Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass, Dutch). The concert was broadcast all over the world and the crowd in the plaza outside the Schauspielhaus could be also seen watching the event on television. I remember seeing the event but strangely remember it as having been an outdoors concert; obviously, I was mostly remembering that joyous crowd of Berliners outside the hall. One could see them and the audience inside the hall hugging in celebration of the event and of the new-found ability of citizens of the two Germanys to mix with each other again.”
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Little Drummer Boy - Essay on Mahler by & with Leonard Bernstein

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 20 Oct 2008 17:27:00 | Comments : 5

Little Drummer Boy - Essay on Mahler by & with Leonard Bernstein
DVD ISO | 3.74 GB | 1985 | Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 | Audio Format: PCM Stereo | Region Code: 0
Duration: 85 min | Cover + Booklet | Subtitles: Multi-Language

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In his 1985 BBC
Television essay examining the roots of Mahler's inspiration, Leonard Bernstein talks,plays and conducts the London Symphony, Vienna
and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras.

"Mahler himself is the doomed little boy from the Knaben Wunderhorn longing for redemption..." 		”
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Bernstein - Mahler - Rehearsals

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 12 Oct 2008 15:02:00 | Comments : 9

Bernstein - Mahler - Rehearsals
DVD ISO | Download size: 3.62 GB | 1970s | Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 | Audio Format: PCM Stereo | Region Code: 0
Duration: 151 min | Cover + Booklet | Subtitles: Multi-Language

“As part of a 9 DVD series from Deutsche Grammophon, Leonard Bernstein rehearses Symphonies 5 and 9, and Das Lied von der Erde”
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Emile Norman: By His Own Design

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 06 Oct 2008 02:46:00 | Comments : 1

Emile Norman: By His Own Design
TVRip | XviD | 669 MB | 55 minutes | 640x368 | VBR 1567 kb/s | MP3 129 kb/s | 2008 | English

“Emile Norman: By His Own Design is a portrait of the self-taught California artist, Emile Norman, who at age 90 is still working with the same passion for life, art, nature and freedom that inspired him through seven decades of a changing art scene and turbulent times for a gay man in America.”
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Wine For The Confused

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 27 Sep 2008 20:31:00 | Comments : 1

Wine for the Confused (2004)
Xvid | 464x352 | 43 minutes | English | 2004 | 349.52 MB
with John Cleese and Alyce Faye Eichelberger


“A good introduction into wine without the pretension.”


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Paul Merton in China

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 25 Sep 2008 17:07:00 | Comments : 2

Paul Merton in China
TV rip | 720x400 | 29.970 fps | duration: 47 per episode | XviD MPEG-4 codec | MP3 210 kbit/s, | 700 MB | English | 2007

“Comedian Paul Merton ventures into the unknown as he embarks upon a six-week tour of China for Five. Paul’s trip will take in the major cities of China, as well some of the most breathtaking countryside and remote backwaters that this vast country has to offer. In his own inimitable style, Paul will attempt to unravel the deep mysteries and baffling contradictions of this ancient country.”
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Anthony Bourdain - Decoding Ferran Adria - No Reservations Special

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 11 Sep 2008 23:48:00 | Comments : 2


Anthony Bourdain - Decoding Ferran Adria - No Reservations Special
TV Rip | 640 x 480 | 29.970 fps | duration: 46:28 | XviD MPEG-4 codec | MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) | 128.0 kbit/s, | 350 MB | English | 2006

“New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain is invited to film the research laboratory of Ferran Adria, the most controversial and imitated chef in the world—chef/owner of El Bulli, voted "World's Best" by Restaurant Magazine and the most visited by chefs on sabbatical. The lab, an ultra modern, Dr. No-like facility with sliding walls, backlit ingredients, latest equipment and a full staff of devotees is tucked away inside a vast, renaissance-era palace in the old section of Barcelona, Spain. Adria and his chefs close the El Bulli restaurant for six months out of ever year to work on new concepts. Bourdain tracks Ferran's process from lab to a once-in-a-lifetime meal at El Bulli restaurant, enjoying a high-concept, surrealist, haute cuisine meal of unparalleled creativity and striking visual appearance.”
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Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations - Season 5

Posted By : jobanx | Date : 05 Sep 2008 04:54:00 | Comments : 1


Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations - Season 5
TV Rip | mkv & avi | 30 fps | 9 episodes | 2.7 GB (~300MB/episode, ~45 min each) | 128 kBit Rate | English | 2008

“Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations is an American travel and food show on the Travel Channel, which also airs on the Discovery Travel & Living channel around the world. Host Anthony Bourdain visits overseas countries, cities worldwide, and places within the US, where hosts treat him to local culture and cuisine. The format and content of the show is almost identical to Bourdain's earlier Food Network show, A Cook's Tour. The "Beirut" episode was nominated for an Emmy Award on July 18, 2007.”
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