2013

Innehåller följande album:<br/><br/>Little Queen (1977)<br/><br/>Dog & Butterfly (1978)<br/><br/>Bébé le Strange (1980)<br/><br/>Private Audition (1982)<br/><br/>Passionworks (1983)

Roses In The Snow<br/>Evangeline<br/>Cimarron<br/>White Shoes<br/>Thirteen

Queens Of The Stone Age har med åren vuxit sig till att bli ett av vår tids största rockband. Med<br/>fem tidigare album i ryggen och oräkneliga världsturnéer bakom sig spänner de återigen bågen och presenterar '...Like Clockwork', ett monumentalt album som gästas av Sir Elton John, David Grohl, Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Mark Lanegan, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) och många fler. Bandets sångare och frontman Joshua Homme beskriver albumet som 'en ljuddokumentär över ett maniskt år'. '...Like Clockwork', som följer upp 'Era Vulgaris' från 2007, spelades in i Pink Duck Studios i Burbank och är producerat av bandet själva.<br/><br/>"Utan tvekan är '.Like Clockwork' det mest genomarbetade från Queens of The Stone Age sedan 'Songs of The Deaf'" - Close-Up Magazine, 9/10<br/> <br/>"På rätt köl med lysande melankoli" - SvD, 5/6<br/> <br/>"om man ska ta den snart fridlysta gitarrocken vidare är det här ett utmärkt sätt att göra det på." - Aftonbladet, 4/5<br/> <br/>"Josh Homme kan mycket väl vara den coolaste i världen." - Nöjesguiden, 5/6<br/> <br/>"Omsorgsfullt komponerad och hjärtskärande uppriktig." - Göteborgs Posten, 4/5<br/><br/>"'...Like Clockwork' är en mycket lyckad återkomst och den cementerar bandet som ett av 2000-talets största rockband." - Festivalrykten, 8/10<br/> <br/>"De omöjligas mästare" - Uppsala Nya Tidning, 4/5<br/><br/>"Smygande briljans" - Nya Wermlands Tidning, 4/5<br/> <br/>"'Like clockwork' kan ses som en återgång till genombrottsskivan "Songs for the deaf" - Corren, 4/5<br/> <br/>Gaffa, 5/6

Royal Swedish Orchestra (Kungliga Hovkapellet) / Lawrence Renes<br/><br/>Henk de Vlieger's orchestral arrangement of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle boils down this monumental music drama in four parts to a symphonic poem with a duration of a fifteenth of the original score. Unlike certain other arrangements, de Vlieger's follows the chronology of the operas so that the irrevocable process towards the twilight of the gods is clearly delineated. His method has been to select and link together the most important orchestral passages in the score, already closely interconnected as a result of Wagner's leitmotif technique The excerpts have in most cases been taken over without alterations; only occasionally has an essential vocal line been replaced by wind instruments. Quite possibly, Wagner himself would have objected to the undertaking, but in fact one of his own strongly held convictions was that the text - or rather its content - should be continuously present, by means of the hidden-away orchestra exploring the dramatic background to the action presented on stage. With this orchestral arangement the turn has thus come for the Royal Swedish Orchestra to take its place on centre stage, in music which has been part of its repertoire for close to 120 years at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. (Some of that impressive history is reflected in the CD booklet through images from Ring productions past and present.) The conductor Lawrence Renes, recently named music director at the Royal Swedish Opera, has admired de Vlieger's arrangement since it was premièred, in 1991, by his own mentor, the conductor Edo de Waart. The arrangement has been recorded previously, but never before by a bona fide opera orchestra. The result is indeed an adventure, as well as a sonic spectacular, and an excellent calling card for a fine orchestra all too often relegated to the shadows.<br/><br/>"Hovkapellet stryker sångpartierna och rensar bort 86 procent av musiken. Så här har ni aldrig hört Wagners operor förr." <br/>/CarlHåkan Larsén (Sydsvenskan) <br/><br/>.

Winter Johnny: The essential 1969-80 (Rem) [2 CD]

Spears Britney: The essential 1999-2013 [2 CD]

McLachlan Sarah: The essential... 1989-2010 [2 CD]