2L Archive
![SKJELBRED: Waves & Interruptions [TrackList follows] – Eirik Raude, marimba and vibraphone/Ida Bryhn, viola/ Tom Ottar Andreassen, flutes/ Thomas Kjekstad, guitar – Pure Audio Blu-ray – 2L](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wavesinterruptionsSA.jpg)
SKJELBRED: Waves & Interruptions [TrackList follows] – Eirik Raude, marimba and vibraphone/Ida Bryhn, viola/ Tom Ottar Andreassen, flutes/ Thomas Kjekstad, guitar – Pure Audio Blu-ray – 2L
Relaxing contemporary percussion-based music with state-of-the-art recording.
Audio News for September 19, 2014
LSO Live Begins Releasing Audio-Only Blu-rays; CEA Adapts and Supports Wrong Use of 4K to Promote UHD; Yamaha Back In Computer Speaker Market; New Debate Between DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI
“Ja, vi elsker” – Staff Band of Norwegian Armed Forces/ Schola Cantorum/ Ingar Bergby – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray+SACD
Patriotic? Yes. Norwegian? Yes. Nationalistic? Yes. Fabulous? Absolutely!
FARTEIN VALEN: String Quartets, No. 1, Op. 10; No. 2; Three Poems by Goethe – Hilde Haraldsen Sveen, sop./ Hansakvartetten – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
Not for everyone, but of intense interest for those who need more of the Second Viennese School tradition.
![“Song” – Uranienborg Vokalensemble/ Elisabeth Holte, dir. [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SONG-Blu.jpg)
“Song” – Uranienborg Vokalensemble/ Elisabeth Holte, dir. [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
Another 2L choral delight.
* “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” = HINDEMITH: Konzertmusik; Symphony in B-flat; SCHOENBERG: Theme and Variations; STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; ROLF WALLIN: Changes – Royal Norwegian Navy Band/ Ingar Bergby – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
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Great works long overdue recordings of this quality and format.
STALE KLEIBERG: David and Bathsheba – Soloists/ Trondheim Sym. Vocal Ens. / Trondheim Sym. Orch./ Tõnu Kaljuste – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray & SACD
A piece from an accomplished composer that treats a revered subject with great dignity and perception.
TORBJORN DYRUD: Out of Darkness—the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ – Soloists/ Nidaros Cath. Choir/ Vivianne Sydnes – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
This spectacular recording ushers in a new voice in passion plus expression, enhancing a genre with new ideas and solemnity.
* Hymn to the Virgin – Schola Cantorum/ Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray
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This release is unbelievably spectacular in any category you care to name.
FLINT JOVENTINO BEPPE: “Remote Galaxy” – Remote Galaxy: Distant Worlds: Lost in September: Tightrope walking beneath heaven: Flute Concerto No. 2 – Philharmonia Orch./ Vladimir Ashkenazy & soloists – 2L (Pure Audio Blu-ray)
An amazing contemporary collection of works in first rate surround sonics.
“The Lyrical Bassoon” = Works of SAINT-SAENS, HINDEMITH, TANSMAN, BUTILLEUX, KOECHLIN & KVANDAL – Per Hannisdal, bassoon/ Vebjorn Anvik, piano – 2L
Nice to hear this combination offered up in such flawless sound.
MOZART: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 in G Major & No. 4 in D Major – Marianne Thorsen, v./ Trondheim Soloists/ Øyvind Gimse – 2L vinyl
One of Stereophile’s “Records to Die For”.
JAN GUNNAR HOFF, solo piano – Living -2L (audiophile vinyl)OLA GJEILO, solo piano – Piano Improvisations – 2L (audiophile vinyl)
Audiophile vinyl versions from two of 2L’s recent Pure Audio Blu-ray piano albums.
Hans Olav Gorset and Friends: Popular Music in Eighteenth Century Norway – Nodebog – 2L (audio-only Blu-ray + SACD)
Ever wondered what popular music sounded like 300 years ago? Now you can find out.
![Jan Gunnar Hoff, piano – Living – [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Living-Blu.jpg)
Jan Gunnar Hoff, piano – Living – [TrackList follows] – 2L Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD
A solo piano audio-only Blu-ray release from the Norwegian jazz pianist/bandleader.
HAYDN: String Quartet in G Major; ARNE NORDHEIM: Duplex for violin and viola; BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 5 – Engegård Quartet – 2L
An intriguing program from a very fine Norwegian string quartet.
Hommage a Grieg = BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn; PLAAGE: Grieg metamorphosis; BJORKLUND: Hommage a Grieg; SAINT-SAENS: Variations on Theme of Beethoven – Denna Piano Duo, Vol. III – 2L (Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD)
The cleanest and most realistic reproduction I have ever heard of a grand piano duo.
R. STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18; ENESCU: Violin Sonata in a, Op. 25 – Kolbjorn Holthe, violin/ Tor Espen Aspaas, piano – 2L
Gorgeous playing of these diligently conceived strict sonata form pieces waves a rhapsody of lush romanticism.
KENNETH KARLSSON = “the view was all in lines” = ROLF WALLIN: Seven Imperatives; SCHOENBERG/ SCHAATHUN/ WALLIN: Zwölf kleine klavierstücke; SCHAATHUN: Transcriptions of an Unknown Symphony; SCHAATHUN: Stravinsky goes Bach and Schaathun goes Frescobaldi; WALLIN: Etude 3; SCHOENBERG: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke – Kenneth Karlsson, p. – 2L
Somebody was thinking in overdrive in the conception of this program.
SIGURD ISLANDSMOEN: Requiem; Kristiansand Symfoniorkester/Det Norkse Solistkor/soloists/ Terje Boye Hansen – 2L Records
Stirring work receives a bit of a revival.
“La Voie Triumphale” (The Triumphal Way) = BERLIOZ: Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale; SAINT-SAENS: Orient et Occident March; DUKAS: Fanfare from La Peri; MILHAUD: Suite Francaise; TOMASI: Fanfares Liturgiques; BOZZA: Children’s Overture – Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces/ Ole Kristian Ruud – 2L Blu-ray+SACD
A powerful program of concert band selections in state-of-the-art surround sound.
EIVIND BUENE: ‘Possible Cities/Essential Landscapes’ = Possible Cities; Grid; Landscape with Ruins; Ultrabucolic Studies; Molto Fluido; Nature Morte – Cikada (ens.)/ Christian Eggen, cond. – 2L audio-only Blu-ray + SACD
Intriguing stereo test of some spatial music for modernists.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
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