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Album title: The Nordic Sound – 2L Audiophile Reference Recordings
Performer: Various Artists
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Norway
Release date: February 2009
Recording date: 2004-2008
Original source: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:20:34
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 15000 kbps / 1080p / 24 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 10904 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: LPCM 5.1 / 192 kHz / 27648 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#4: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit

From combined musical and audiophile criteria we have compiled a collection of the most excellent and impressive recordings 2L (Lindberg Lyd) have to offer. Most tracks originate from DXD (352.8kHz/24bit), presented now in 192kHz on the Blu-ray and DSD on the SACD. This two-disc set contains both a Pure Audio Blu-ray and a hybrid SACD featuring the exact same music.
Two of the albums presented in this compilation is nominated for the GRAMMY Award “Best Surround Sound Album”. Discover what the unique Nordic Sound is all about!

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Cmposer: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Rolf Wallin (b.1957)
Album title: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Performer: Royal Norwegian Navy Band; Ingar Bergby, conductor
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: February 2014
Recording date: April 2013
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:02:15
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 943 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 12080 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 10.2 GB

“A composer speaking about his own problems is also speaking about the problems of mankind,” asserted Schoenberg. “I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself,” said Stravinsky. Hindemith spoke of a forthcoming “big battle over new music”, and added, “the need will be to prove whether or not the music of our day, including my own, is capable of survival.” Today these composers are regarded as being three of the most seminal figures in music history in the first half of the 20th century. Meanwhile a composer at the end of the same century, Rolf Wallin, has written music that portrays “the dancing dynamics of the universe”, where nothing is stable and everything is volatile. The works featured on this album by these four composers reflect the universal and timeless balance between tradition and innovation, and the Royal Norwegian Navy Band under Ingar Bergby illuminate this balance in their recordings of these works, and breathe new life into this music.

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Album title: Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred: Waves & Interruptions
Performer: Eirik Raude, marimba and vibraphone; Ida Bryhn, viola; Tom Ottar Andreassen, flutes; Thomas Kjekstad, guitar
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: August 2014
Recording date: August 2013
Original source: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Duration: 01:12:30
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 9757 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 14.1 GB

This album presents a collection of works by the Norwegian composer Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (b.1970), all composed between 2001 and 2013. The works have been written with melodic percussion as the central and dominating element – with various surrounding ensembles – performed by the recognized Norwegian percussionist Eirik Raude. The smaller chamber formations very suitably illustrate several of the central compositional and poetic aspects of Skjelbred’s music.

The music of Skjelbred is quiet, and just like his shy persona it is exactly this quietness that gives the music its character and originality. This is not music that leaps off the stage and authoritatively grabs the listener. It is rather music that encourages the listener to actively advance, to follow the finely chiselled processes that you will find under the surface, in sequences that in Skjelbred consciously avoid being directed towards final and unambiguous goals. One rarely finds that the composer in his works wishes to draw rigorous conclusions.

Skjelbred says himself: “I think that art is the place where the conclusions are not the most important thing, but the unanswered questions. I regard this as a logarithmic curve, a kind of parabola – where you have a steep development curve in the beginning that gradually approaches the base line but never reaches it completely. To fully understand another human being (or oneself) is thus impossible.”

In meeting Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred’s music, he does not ask that you as a listener fasten your seatbelt, but rather loosen it carefully, rise from your seat and approach the music, slowly walking, with your mind and ears open. You will hear a source of sound that illustrates paradoxes both in nature’s imminent, quiet (!) drama and in all the strange versions of our human social relations that basically, and finally, can be explained in a longing to understand the other person.

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Сomposer: Ståle Kleiberg (b.1958)
Album title: MEZZOTINTS – chamber music by Ståle Kleiberg
Performer: Marianne Thorsen, violin; Øyvind Gimse, cello; Bård Monsen, violin;  Ole Wuttudal, viola; Jørgen Larsen, piano
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Sofienberg Church, Norway
Release date: October 2015
Recording date: February 2015
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 1:10:18
Vidieo: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 10957 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 6664 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#3: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 14.6 GB

Since the early twentieth century there has been a radical renewal of pedigreed chamber genres. We need only think of the late sonatas of Debussy, or of the string quartets of Bartók; or, to enter a high modernist space later in the century, of the duos and quartets of Elliott Carter; or, to move into a less prescriptive space that some like to label postmodern, of Ståle Kleiberg in our own time. In the solo and chamber works recorded here, Kleiberg recaptures something of the ethos of the private sphere. The solo works have an inward character, occluding display, while the chamber works restore the thematic sharing and instrumental characterization of the classical era, but in both cases of an informal kind, shy of system, wary of rhetoric.
Ståle Kleiberg is a major Norwegian composer with a considerable international reputation. The works on this album represent a lesser-known, but valuable, part of his output. His innovatory approach, formal command and technical mastery are especially apparent in his chamber music oeuvre, and it is gratifying to be able to present the following selection here: String Quartet No. 2, Ruf und Nachklang, Ashes, Piano Trio No. 2, Sonata for Violin and Cello and Sonanza e cadenza.

Immersive Sound is a completely new conception of the musical experience. Recorded music is no longer a matter of a fixed one-dimensional setting, but rather of a three-dimensional enveloping situation. Stereo can be described as a flat canvas and Surround Sound as a field, but Immersive Sound is a sculpture that you can literally move around and relate to spatially; surrounded by music you can move about in the aural space and choose angles, vantage points and positions. The 9.1 Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray features sound reproduction that is more realistic than anything you’ve heard before. It delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the listener in a cocoon of life-like audio.

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Сomposer: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Album title: TARTINI secondo natura
Performer: Sigurd Imsen, baroque violin (#1-6) and Hardanger fiddle (#7-9); Tormod Dalen, baroque cello; Hans Knut Sveen, cembalo
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Release date: December 2015
Recording date: June 2014
Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 0:51:17
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 11850 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 192 kHz / 9216 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 11.46 GB

Amongst a plethora of musical styles and genres extant during the mid-18th century, the music of Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) finds a special place. Despite a quintessential expressive style of performance and embellishment, he was to become and remain influential across the known musical world, and his legacy was essential to violin playing for at least the next century. Tartini’s obscure writings about Nature and music reveal a close relationship to widespread ideas of a time that was to become known as The Age of Reason. However, these came with a twist: his 135 violin concertos and 200 sonatas, of which many are rarely performed today, still appear enigmatic – impalpable and mysterious. The sonorous Hardanger fiddle, an ideal instrument for imitating the traditional Italian bagpipes, appears in this recording as a tribute to the composer’s frequent use of traditional folk music motifs.

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