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!

2L TRONDHEIMSOLISTENE–REFLECTIONS (2016) BLU-RAY AURO-3D 9.1 Dolby Atmos

Сomposer: Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

Album title: Reflections

Performer: TrondheimSolistene; Øyvind Gimse, artistic director; Geir Inge Lotsberg, guest leader

Genre: Classical

Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Location: Selbu Church, Norway

Release date: May 2016

Original Quality: Mastering in DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)

Quality: Blu-ray Audio

Length: 01:10:18 + 00:25:36

Vidieo: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1

Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 192 kHz / 11444 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: Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) 7.1 / 48 kHz / 5703 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)

Audio#3: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 7055 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

Size: 33.63 GB (BD-R COPY)

Composers reflect their contemporary world, and today’s performers mirror ourtime. The three works on this album all have a high degree of intensity and a strong personal character, as tributes, visions, fantasies, interpretations. As musical reflections they have these qualities in common, but at the same time they are very different works composed by three distinct musical personalities. Passion. Perfection. Raw intensity. With these fundamentals, the chamber orchestra TrondheimSolistene is carving out its own musical images in immersive audio.

Benjamin Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Igor Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète

Immersive Audio is a sonic 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. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio. Recorded in discrete 12.1 at DXD resolution.

Album title: TARTINI secondo natura
Performer: Sigurd Imsen, baroque violin and hardanger fiddleTormod Dalen, baroque cello Hans Knut Sveen, cembalo

Pure Audio Blu-ray Disc
DTS HD MA 192kHz/24 bit 5.1
LPCM 192kHz/24 bit STEREO
mShuttle: stereo FLAC 96kHz + MP3
Region: ABC - Region code free

Release date: December 2015
Recording date: June 2014
Location: Jar Church, Norway
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)

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.

2L Pure audio STORIES- Jan Gunnar Hoff Blu-ray Disc

Composer: Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Trygve Madsen, Kjell Flem
Performer: Terje Winge, organ
Genre: Classical
Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)
Release date: May 2016
Length: 01:09:22
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 / 11270 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: Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) 7.1 / 48 kHz / 4999 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1-EX / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Audio#4: Auro-3D 9.1 / 96 kHz / 6755 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Type: BD-25 (BD-R COPY)
Size: 22.04GB
Region Code: A,B,C

The organ music on this album is written by three composers with different musical backgrounds and development who nevertheless have something of the same close feeling for the instrument, almost an organic oneness with it. Trygve Madsen studied with organist-composer Egil Hovland, one of the 20th century’s most significant pioneers in the field of church music. Kjell Mørk Karlsen grew up in a rich church music milieu, inspired by his father, Rolf Karlsen, who was Oslo cathedral organist for over fifteen years. Kjell Flem studied piano and organ, gaining a close knowledge of the organ’s technical and musical possibilities. While Karlsen’s music builds on the long German-Lutheran tradition, the more playful style of Madsen is closer to that of the French organ symphony. Kjell Flem’s main inspiration has been the music of Olivier Messiaen, evident both in his compositional technique and in his interest in using musical impulses from more exotic parts of the world. However, for all the differences in their approaches and backgrounds, none of these composers have repudiated tonality as their musical foundation. While German organ music continued to adhere to the Lutheran chorale tradition, organ music in France began to see the organ as much more than a liturgical instrument. It is true that French organist-composers felt their roots lay in the melodious plainsong of the Gregorian chant, but, exploiting huge advances in organ-building, they managed during the 19th century to free themselves from the liturgical context and to demonstrate that the organ could match a symphony orchestra in its range of colours and fullness of sound.

Terje Winge (born 1950) is Professor of Organ at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he has taught since the early 1980s. He received his own organ education from the Norwegian organists Ludvig Nielsen and Arild Sandvold, before studying with Jiri Reinberger in Prague and Gaston Litaize in Paris.

Immersive Audio is a sonic 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. Dolby Atmos and the Auro-3D on this Pure Audio Blu-ray delivers a new standard in immersion, fully enveloping the audience in a cocoon of life-like audio.

Tracklist:

Kjell Mørk Karlsen

Sonata “De profundis” opus 143

1. I. De profundis clamavi 08:18

2. II. Monodi 05:35

3. III. Aus tiefer Not 07:20

Trygve Madsen

Le Tombeau de Dupré opus 62

4. I. Prelude 04:44

5. II. Fugue 03:24

6. III. Scherzo 05:23

7. IV. Cantabile 03:21

8. V. Final 05:37

Kjell Flem

Ecclesia in mundo

9. I. Ecclesia in mundo 06:10

10. II. Communion 06:22

11. III. Jubilus 13:03