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Harmonia Mundi's Century Collection - A History of Music
Posted By : Flush | Date : 25 Dec 2007 14:00 | Comments : 58


Harmonia Mundi's Century Collection - A History of Music
Classical, Opera, Sacred | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 20CDs/6.36GB | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“With Century, the artists of harmonia mundi invite you on a thrilling voyage of discovery of music through the ages. Each CD provide the following information: a definition of the music of the period; reproduction of the complete painting featured in the cover detail, with a concise text relating it to its period; a map of the geographical region concerned at the relevant period... How? Every CD contains four or five general headings, each of which is given a page of detailed presentation intended to answer the most frequently asked questions.”





Century 1 - Antiquité (Music of the Ancient World) HMX2908163
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/292MB (306.514.826 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“On this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, you will hear astounding reconstructions of the music of the Mediterranean basin before and at the very start of the Christian era, from Athens to Jerusalem, from Constantinople to Lutetia.”

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Century 2 - Le Chant des Premiers Chrétiens (Chant of the Early Christians) HMX2908164
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/290MB (305.104.856 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, constitutes an incredible jigsaw puzzle in sound which proves that Christianity did not forge its repertory in a single day, or even a single century – and certainly not all by itself!”

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Century 3 - 1000 Ans de Chant Grégorien (Gregorian Chant) HMX2908165
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/333MB (350.155.338 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, presents some of the peaks of a repertory which, whatever its name suggests, was only unified well after the death of Pope Gregory the Great . . . Here is the music of Romanesque Europe.”

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Century 4 - Trouvères & Troubadoures (Minnesänger & other Courtly Arts) HMX2908166
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/351MB (368.702.212 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, features the poems and songs of the trouvères, troubadours and Minnesingers. These inventors of an (almost) exclusively secular poetic style were also the first musicians to emerge from anonymity . . .”

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Century 5 - La naissance de la Polyphonie (The Birth of Polyphony) HMX2908167
Classical | EAC APE+CUE-LOG | 1CD/330MB (346.375.208 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“On this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, you will find out how the clerks of the Middle Ages learnt to sing together in several distinct voices, from the most rudimentary ‘discant’ to the most complex sonic structures!”

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Century 6 - Le Siècle de l'Ars Nova (A Revolution in the Late Middle Ages) HMX2908168
Classical | EAC APE+CUE | 1CD/342MB (359.543.396 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“Here, shuttling between Rome and Avignon, you will plunge into the midst of the Trecento, the 14th century, which saw a drastic change in the relationship between western man and his God, evoked in masterly fashion by Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose.”

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Century 7 - Ars Subtilior (Dawn of the Renaissance) HMX2908169
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/339MB (356.252.386 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, features the quintessentially Gothic Ars subtilior, a term referring to one of the most extravagant periods in musical history, which also saw the first glimmers of the Renaissance!”

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Century 8 - Musique Sacrée de la Renaissance (Renaissance Sacred Music) HMX2908170
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/336MB (353.221.944 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The Renaissance was not only the age of Humanism, it also marked the apogee of the motet inherited from the Middle Ages, and a certain . . . renaissance of the Mass – even though composers did not hesitate to draw their musical material from all over the place!”

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Century 9 - Chansons de la Renaissance (Songs of the Renaissance) HMX2908171
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/313MB (328.307.884 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, focuses on the three key schools of secular polyphony that flowered during the Renaissance: the Italian madrigal, the Franco-Flemish chanson and the Elizabethan song.”

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Century 10 - L'émergence de la Musique Instrumentale (The Rise of Instrumental Music) HMX2908172
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/329MB (345.072.082 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, gives a glimpse of the innumerable occasions in the late Renaissance period when lutes, organs and sackbuts resounded with no need of help from the human voice.”

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Century 11 - La Révolution du Baroque Italien (The Italian Baroque Revolution) HMX2908173
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/331MB (347.806.060 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“With the programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, relive the extravagant, richly diverse creative adventure of Baroque Italy – the birthplace of modern music!”

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Century 12 - L'Angleterre Baroque (Baroque England) HMX2908174
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/357MB (374.498.596 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“This CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, presents nearly 150 years of musical life in a (sometimes dis-) United Kingdom which gave birth to the supreme genius of Henry Purcell, and later offered Handel an opportunity to revivify Italian opera.”

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Century 13 - La Musique du Grand Siècle (French Music in the Age of Louis XIV) HMX2908175
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/362MB (380.575.742 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“This CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, takes you through a day at the court of Louis XIV, no less – sacred music in the chapel, a few instrumental pieces for light entertainment, and to round things off, an evening at the royal opera!”

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Century 14 - L'Allemagne du Barouque (Late Baroque Germany) HMX2908176
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/404MB (424.581.242 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD concentrates on the period that saw musical supremacy in Europe shift from Italy to Germany. Paradoxically, Bach was not particularly famous there in his own time – but his sons made the most of their musical inheritance . . .”

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Century 15 - Le Style Classique (The First Viennese School) HMX2908177
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/331MB (347.984.418 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“On the programme of this CD, the three composers who, each in his own way, truly created the Classical style . . . so much so that they gave birth to the expression ‘classical music’: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Not forgetting the precursor, Gluck.”

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Century 16 - L'âge d'or du Romantisme (The Golden Age of Romanticism) HMX2908178
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/264MB (277.119.268 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, deals with that – surprisingly short – period when Romanticism flowered in its pristine glory, in the gigantic shadow of Beethoven.”

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Century 17 - L'éveil Musical des Nations (Nations awakening) HMX2908179
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/300MB (314.753.146 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“This CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, charts the invigorating contribution of composers from many different backgrounds to the rise of a nationalism that was not necessarily aggressive. Together they founded the concert of Europe, rich in its diversity.”

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Century 18 - Du Post Romantisme à l'Ecole de Vienne (Wien 1900; The Death of Tonality) HMX2908180
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/299MB (314.567.784 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD explores the final splendours of a tonal system driven (apparently) to its furthest limits – before being insolently challenged by the irrepressible inventiveness of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern in the creative hub that was Vienna.”

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Century 19 - Les Voies de la Musique (Paths of Modern Music) HMX2908181
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/279MB (293.455.984 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“This survey of the years 1900-1950 explores the multiple paths followed by composers working within tonality or using the serial methods that challenged it. Though it was the most violent in history, the 20th century was also one of the richest artistically . . .”

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Century 20 - Des Musiques pour le Présent (Music of Today) HMX2908182
Classical | EAC APE+CUE+LOG | 1CD/309MB (335.464.194 bytes) | Covers+Booklet | RS.com

“The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, is a varied if not exhaustive overview of avant-garde creation since World War II. ‘Experimental music’, it is sometimes called – but how many successful experiments there have been in the last 60 years!”

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All of the above albums in 192 mbps Mp3 lossy quality incl. covers and booklets. Download it here.



Password for all of the albums is as usual: Sankerib

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Posted By: dmfm Date: 25 Dec 2007 14:27
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Posted By: soloweb Date: 25 Dec 2007 15:12
my students will very thankful for this one!
Posted By: karuna Date: 25 Dec 2007 15:48
Flush thanks a lot!

We've got a tiny problem - ProjectHMX_HMX2908165.part3.rar is missing. Could you check it please!

Seasons Greetings!!!
Posted By: Edmond Mach Date: 25 Dec 2007 16:08
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Posted By: acanik Date: 25 Dec 2007 16:20
Thank You VERY Much
We've got a tiny problem - ProjectHMX_HMX2908182.part4.rar is missing. Could you check it please!

Seasons Greetings!!!
Posted By: acanik Date: 25 Dec 2007 17:06
Century 18 - Du Post Romantisme à l'Ecole de Vienne (Wien 1900; The Death of Tonality) HMX2908180 - I am unrar (CDImage.ape-288520KB) play in WinAmp/ape and no music !!!
Posted By: nng38 Date: 25 Dec 2007 17:09
Project HMX2908182 part 4 Missing(?). Pls re-upload. Tks.
Posted By: Hausser Date: 25 Dec 2007 17:40
Remarkable... wonderful, marvelous, magnificent, excellent! Thanks a lot!
Posted By: Flush Date: 25 Dec 2007 17:47
@karuna
ProjectHMX_HMX2908165.part3.rar and ProjectHMX_HMX2908182.part4.rar has now been proper uploaded to ftp2share and is awaiting uploading to the different filehosts. Thanks for letting me know! I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

@acanik
Century 18 should be working just fine once you've downloaded all FOUR files and extracted it properly. Altogether they should be 314.567.784 bytes.
Posted By: acanik Date: 25 Dec 2007 17:56
Century 13 - La Musique du Grand Siècle (French Music in the Age of Louis XIV) HMX2908175 like Century 18 (CDImage.ape-353877KB) play in WinAmp/ape and no music !!!
Posted By: Flush Date: 25 Dec 2007 18:22
@acanik
Please hold your fire dude! The files are all okay. I'm pretty sure that you are having the same problems with Century13 as you are having with Century18. Untill someone else steps forward with the same problem with the same albums I can't help you more than I already did. Sorry! Hope you'll sort it out eventually. :-)
Posted By: tycho Date: 25 Dec 2007 18:22
@acanik: Century 13 (CDImage.ape 362.369.992 B) is ok.
Posted By: tlb Date: 25 Dec 2007 18:49
Thank you!
Very interesting!
Posted By: teekacid Date: 25 Dec 2007 19:35
i can not find the following link for volume 3:

ProjectHMX_HMX2908165.part3.rar

is it there? i keep looking and do not see it.

thanks for any help.
Posted By: teekacid Date: 25 Dec 2007 19:41
thank you!
Posted By: knmn Date: 25 Dec 2007 21:30
Many thanks! :)
Posted By: blomberg Date: 25 Dec 2007 22:52
Thank you! That's a marvellous gift! Please is there a rapidshare or other server link for ProjectHMX_HMX2908165.part3.rar? Thank you! Merry Xmas!
Posted By: califex Date: 26 Dec 2007 00:39
Thanks Flush you are incredible THANKS!!!
Posted By: Vaudeville Date: 26 Dec 2007 02:04
I hope Harmonia Mundi will open a download shop, and not just cell CDs. I love your HM series, Flush, and would like to remunerate HM for the joys they've given me through them, but truly don't care for paying extra for the plastic, postage, customs and whatnot.
Posted By: Vaudeville Date: 26 Dec 2007 02:04
So if they could offer what you offer (lossless downloads), only with a pay button, I'd press the button.
Posted By: xesemesa Date: 26 Dec 2007 02:23
Who needs Santa? I know who gave me Christmas cheer!
Posted By: torelli Date: 26 Dec 2007 11:47
MANY thanks!!
Posted By: mojojo Date: 26 Dec 2007 12:13
Many Thnx You are GENIAL
Posted By: carrak Date: 26 Dec 2007 13:48
Thanks a lot!
Posted By: acanik Date: 26 Dec 2007 15:18
Thanks Flush you are incredible THANKS!!!
But:
HMX2908180 - unrar: 305197357b(CDImage.ape-288520KB) no music,
HMX2908175 - unrar: 369289005b(CDImage.ape-353877KB) no music,
HMX2908168 - unrar: 348868022b(CDImage.ape-330527KB) no music,
HMX2908166 - unrar: 357760696b(CDImage.ape-340585KB) and no music
The rest is OK and fantastic
Posted By: carrak Date: 26 Dec 2007 16:42
I also had problems with the APE files (not recognizable by foobar2000 - "Unsupported file format" message). So I converted them to FLAC and now they are OK.
Posted By: Flush Date: 26 Dec 2007 21:50
@All in general and acanik in particular

I have now added the total file size of the uploaded rar-files for each album.
If the files you've downloaded don't have the exact same size please dont claim that my uploads dont work.
Most likely you have yourself an incomplete download or something so just re-download the missing files.
Please don't make me repeat myself again on this subject, it's getting boring! ;-)

Regards... Flush
Posted By: acanik Date: 27 Dec 2007 14:37
Flush
Thank You very very much anyway
Posted By: bradure Date: 27 Dec 2007 21:05
As usual, it's a wonderful post
Posted By: shropshire Date: 28 Dec 2007 04:06
Flush,

Thank you for the amazing post. It has taken me several days to download this massive share, especially with all the links from ftp2share. :) Again, thank you.
Posted By: geobaby Date: 29 Dec 2007 20:09
Many thanks for this most outstanding post, and for the various mirrors, which proved very useful

All files were duly downloaded and extracted

Happy New Year!
Posted By: Kagome Date: 30 Dec 2007 09:57
Thank you very much Flush for this amazing post:-)And i'll add i really appreciate the multiple choice of mirrors. Everything's ok.

Once again, thank you:) and happy new year!!!
Posted By: Ivan78 Date: 30 Dec 2007 20:18
Flush, thank you for this marvelous share!

I would be nice if people knew how to use „Find” in their browsers…

Happy New Year, I wish you all the best!
Posted By: Mobius Date: 31 Dec 2007 20:34
I think..
this is my best gift in 45 years......

very thanks Flush

and peace for all the people.....
Posted By: pan_onufriy_zagloba Date: 01 Jan 2008 15:38
Thank you Flush for your time and efforts. It's people like you who make avax a greatest place on the web. Peace to you and your family and God Bless!
Posted By: erec Date: 09 Jan 2008 12:28
Thank you for this great, great post!
Posted By: erec Date: 09 Jan 2008 12:32
Thank you for this great, great post!
Posted By: pensiveCat Date: 15 Jan 2008 14:48
It's amazing, great collection! Thanks a lot!
Posted By: josuelito Date: 18 Jan 2008 17:43
Flush,
Thanks a lot for this (and for so many other top posts you've done and do)! Your work is Titanic!
Posted By: mendelfan Date: 02 Feb 2008 23:17
thanks a lot for this collection, and thanks for the mp3 option :-D
Posted By: vn232 Date: 04 Feb 2008 17:33
Excellent!!
Posted By: melomanic Date: 07 Feb 2008 22:02
Flush: you are my hero!!! You work its fantastic!!!
Posted By: Sylph Date: 08 Mar 2008 21:01
Hey, Flush! Thank you so much for the wonderful uploads!

Do you happen to have Schönberg's Gurre-Lieder? If you do, would you be kind to upload it? Thank you so much!
Posted By: j657 Date: 08 Jun 2008 16:58
This is an incredible share Flush, but be certain that all your effort can't be in vane because all the people that, first, didn't know about this collection and knowing it wanted to have it, second, the ones who can't afford it and thanks to you, all can ear it and enjoy it...

Thanks again for this enormous work Flush.
Posted By: peluzo Date: 08 Jun 2008 19:48
Thank you so much Flush for this excellent collection of HM !!!

It´s really fantastic, amazing and wonderful this work !!!

Have a nice week!!! :)
Posted By: peluzo Date: 08 Jun 2008 19:49
Thank you so much Flush for this excellent collection of HM !!!

It´s really fantastic, amazing and wonderful this work !!!

Have a nice week!!! :)
Posted By: Sonleitner78 Date: 18 Jun 2008 19:51
Absolutely superb! Marvelous! Thank you very much Flush for making this HM collection available to us!
Posted By: plakatos Date: 10 Sep 2008 21:00
Dear Flush,
first of all - thanks a lot for re-upload - you made my day ;)
Unfortunately, I have noticed that some files are missing in the list:
ProjectHMX_HMX2908171.part4.rar ( 9 )
ProjectHMX_HMX2908172.part4.rar ( 10 )
ProjectHMX_HMX2908173.part4.rar ( 11 )

Could you check this, please? I would be very thankful to you ...
Posted By: Flush Date: 20 Sep 2008 17:33
Unfortunately I can't fix the missing links in this post as long as AvaxHome is STILL not running at a 100% so here they are in a comment instead...

http://rapidshare.com/files/78511428/ProjectHMX_HMX2908166.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78540858/ProjectHMX_HMX2908171.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78547327/ProjectHMX_HMX2908172.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/78553919/ProjectHMX_HMX2908173.part4.rar
Posted By: ajajaj Date: 23 Sep 2008 07:19
Thank you very much
Posted By: panpanou Date: 25 Sep 2008 14:32
GREAT !!! GREAT !!!! GREAT !!!!
thank you VERY MUCH .....
much appreciated !!!! thanks for all your music and your effort !!!
regards !!!
Posted By: panpanou Date: 27 Sep 2008 11:31
Thank you Flush !!!
Posted By: Flush Date: 27 Sep 2008 12:13
Thanks for the attention panpanou! Error corrected... :-)
Posted By: afoforeta Date: 22 Oct 2008 00:06
¡Hola Flush! Impresionante trabajo, ¡gracias por compartirlos con todos!
Posted By: televr Date: 22 Oct 2008 12:27
Awesome collection! Thanks very much Flush, you're a virtuoso!!
Posted By: ladomi Date: 21 Nov 2008 12:48
Thanks Flush! It's really Great!

I found it ! :)
Posted By: jaben Date: 22 Nov 2008 05:35
Esta colección es maravillosa.
Mil gracias, Flush!
Posted By: bailoni Date: 26 Dec 2008 11:40
Unfortunately, I have noticed that some files are missing in the list:
ProjectHMX_HMX2908171.part4.rar
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