Olympus Launch Mobile Multi-track

Olympus LS-100 Multi-Track Linear PCM Recorder: High performance, mobile multi-track recording

London, 14 December 2011 – Uncompromising sound quality and portable recording versatility have been the hallmark of the Olympus LS-range since its inception.  Now, the new LS-100 has gone further to provide musicians and broadcasters with a state-of-the-art tool enabling convenience of studio-grade, multi-track audio recording just about anywhere.   Furthermore, this impressive mobile recording studio is capable of handling a maximum sound pressure level of up to 140dBspl - The robust, mobile, Olympus LS-100 Multi-Track Linear PCM recorder, becomes available from January 2012 at a recommended price of £449.  As with its cousins in the LS-family, the new LS-100 delivers ultimate sound recording quality in uncompressed 96kHz/24bit Linear PCM splendour.   This extreme audio quality has now been amplified with eight-track recording and overdubbing capabilities to turn sounds and individual tracks into complete compositions – all within the palm of the hand.  Besides its integrated stereo mics, the LS-100 also features dual XLR/Phone combo jacks to facilitate the direct connection with professional external microphones or other musical equipment. Additional Recorders in the LS Product Range… LS-3 – Smallest & Slimmest LS Recorder The LS-100 joins the recently launched LS-3 and LS-20 to offer a complete range; The LS-3 is the smallest, slimmest linear PCM LS recorder to fit in your pocket and capture sounds and riffs on the go. LS-20 – HD Sound with HD Movie The LS-20 offers the ability to also shoot HD movies to accompany your HD sound, the added full HD movie at 1920 x1080P (30 fps) with image stabilizer allows you to live life on a film set ready for ‘action’. Whilst dual screens and magic movie effects ensure ultimate creativity.  The durable and compact Olympus LS-100 Multi-Track Linear PCM recorder bestows musicians and broadcasters a high performance, mobile multi-track recording studio to fulfil all their needs – from a single track to a complete composition – boasting highest possible audio qualities. Robust for difficult environments with its metal body and microphone protector the LS-100 will hit stores at a recommended price of £449 in late January 2012.  To see the complete LS range and full features, please visit www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/ls-series Available at Amazon and all good music retailers – www.amazon.co.uk

 

Sir Anthony Hopkins releases his first ever album

‘ANTHONY HOPKINS – COMPOSER’

Album released 16^th January 2012 through Classic FM

Composed by screen legend Sir Anthony Hopkins and performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Recorded at Birmingham Symphony Hall performance in July

Sir Anthony Hopkins, one of the world’s greatest living screen actors, is releasing the first ever album of his original classical music compositions through Classic FM. ‘Anthony Hopkins – Composer’ will be available from 16^thJanuary 2012 through Amazon, HMV, Play.com and iTunes.

It all began when Sir Anthony Hopkins was just six, his enduring love of the piano ignited by lessons from Mrs Jeffreys in the house where he was born in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales. His mother had great hopes that one day her son would become a famous pianist. Her child showed great promise, improvising with chords and melody from an early age, scribbling down thoughts on sixpenny sheets of manuscript paper from Mister Salter’s music shop in Neath but it is only now, after decades of playing and composing works of music, that a collection of her son’s original works is to be released on record for the first time.

In July this year, Sir Anthony joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on stage at Birmingham Symphony Hall to introduce a performance of his original compositions and scores from some of his best-known films. ‘Anthony Hopkins – Composer’ is the recording of nine of Sir Anthony’s original works from that evening including pieces composed for two films that he not only scored but also directed and starred in (‘Slipstream’ and ‘August’).

Sir Anthony’s love of the piano and fascination with orchestration has not waned during his exceptional career of Oscar-winning celluloid performances. From discovering the chapter on orchestration in a volume of his father’s Harmsworth’s Self-Educators encyclopaedias as a child, he has drawn inspiration from people, places, memories and moments in life to create beautiful, nuanced works of music that showcase his flair as a virtuoso musician and his vision as a talented composer.

The scraps of melody and sounds that were first jotted down in childhood have evolved over the years into pieces inspired by childhood memories of Wales, time spent with his parents and grandparents, plays he has seen, films he has worked on, holidays taken, dreams he has dreamt and  loved ones including an enchanting aria dedicated to his wife Stella. All these inspirations and more are represented in Sir Anthony’s classical music compositions.   

Sir Anthony Hopkins says: “I’m very pleased I’ve found an extra string to my fiddle. For years I mused and dreamt about turning my scribbled thoughts and bursts of melody into pieces of work to be performed by a full orchestra and to see this dream turn into a reality through working with CBSO and now Classic FM is something I treasure very much.”

As a child, Sir Anthony dreamt of “one day, perhaps, one day” becoming a composer. With the release of ‘Anthony Hopkins – Composer’, both his and his mother’s dream is now cemented for all to enjoy.

Tracklisting:

1. Orpheus
2. Stella *
3. Evesham Fair
4. And The Waltz Goes On**
5. Amerika
6. Margam ***
7. 1947 1^st Movement – Circus
8. 1947 2^nd Movement – Bracken Road
9. 1947 3^rd Movement – The Plaza *

* From the score for the film ‘Slipstream’

** Composed by Sir Anthony Hopkins; Arranged by: André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu;
Publisher: Malibu Blueberry Hill Music (BMI) and André Rieu Publishing BV*** From the score for the film ‘August’

‘Anthony Hopkins – Composer’ is released on 16^th January 2012 and is available through Amazon, HMV, Play.com and iTunes. The album can be pre-ordered at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anthony-Hopkins-Album/dp/B005K7HBMS/

www.classicfm.com/anthonyhopkins