Various Artists – Pentatone Limited: Creating Timeless Classics (2015)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:12:41 minutes | 3,66 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): PentaTone
Compiled by PENTATONE’s very own Dirk van Dijk, the February release of Creating Timeless Classics is pretty much every piece you would expect to be included, and then some. A good variety of music to please every palate, from an incredibly precise performance by Julia Fischer to Mari Kodama’s solo piano whose splendid movement allows you to experience the full glory of Beethoven’s music. This 15-track compilation CD can be enjoyed by both the curious beginner and classical fanatic!
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Stanley Cowell Trio – Dancers In Love (2018)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:49:26 minutes | 1,99 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Venus Records – VHGD-290
アート・テイタム、バリー・ハリスをベースに正統派ジャズ・スタイルで気持ち良くスイングするカウエルの輝かしいばかりの鮮烈さが一挙に開花したジャズ・ピアノ2000年スタイルがこれだ!!
恋のダンサー
DANCERS IN LOVE
スタンリー・カウエル・トリオ
STANLEY COWELL TRIO
1. A Whole New World《 Menken, Rice 》
ホール・ニュー・ワールド
2. Ole Texas《American Folk Song / Trad 》
オーレ・テキサス
3. Charleston Rag《 E. Blake 》
チャールストン・ラグ
4. I Never Dreamed《 S. Cowell 》
アイ・ネバー・ドリームド
5. St. Croix《 S. Cowell 》
セント・クロイ
6. Confirmation《 C. Parker 》
コンファメーション
7. Dancers In Love《 D. Elllington 》
ダンサーズ・イン・ラブ
8. But Not For Me《 G. Gershwin 》
バット・ノット・フォー・ミー
9. As The Sun Goes Down《 South African Trad 》
アズ・ザ・サン・ゴーズ・ダウン
(P) (C) 2016 Venus Records, Inc. Manufactured by Venus Records, Inc., Tokyo, Japan.
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Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm – Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [3 SACDs] (1958/2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 03:08:10 minutes | 7,55 GB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Universal Music Japan – UCGG-9155/57
https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=13595
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Shirley – Blen (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:01:30 minutes | 2,47 GB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Publisher (label): ABC Record – AJ0008S
聽，天天天藍
她的爵士很靜很深。靜如寂寞心跳，聲聲句句絕非傾訴，而是自己與自己的對話。
深似菊花古井，偶爾會散逸出獨有的清香。
如止水？心塵灑落，漾起三兩漣漪。
是晴空？雲如水洗，不見一絲雜色。
她深沉的情懷，就是一隻充滿魔力的手。
我沉淪許久的心弦被輕輕撥動，為她的歌，奏出旁人聽不見的和聲。
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (1956-1957/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:57:52 minutes | 2,32 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90219
ビーチャム没後60年企画。ステレオ初期の歴史的名盤「シェエラザード」が64年の時を超えて最新で復活!優秀録音!世界初SACD化。新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitで新たにデジタル化。新規解説付
サー・トーマス・ビーチャム(1879-1961)没後60年企画。1957年録音の「シェエラザード」は発売時より優秀録音盤としてオーディオファイルに聴き継がれてきた名盤。64年経過しているとはにわかに信じ難い程の素晴らしい録音・演奏です。これぞレコード芸術の神髄のひとつと言える音源を最新で復刻!”音楽が生きている”ビーチャムらしさが満載。名盤たる理由がある歴史的演奏を、最高音質で再現しました。本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化したマスターを用い、SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリング。新規解説訳付。永久保存盤です。
最新のDefinition Seriesは2021年に没後60年を迎えた、未だ英国を代表する指揮者のひとりと言っても過言ではないサー・トーマス・ビーチャム(1979.4.29-1961.3.8)の名作を取り上げます。旧EMIレーベルへの収録である1956年と57年のステレオ初期録音ですが、ほぼ60年以上前の録音でありながら、その鮮明さと音楽の瑞々しさに驚くほどで、DECCAのステレオ初期とは異なる、既に当時世界最高峰のひとつであったEMIの録音技術の素晴らしさに感嘆する出来映えです。これまでCD化されている音源とも差があり、今回の192kHz/24bitでの新規デジタル化の効果とマスターテープの状態が良かったことや復刻技術の進歩が大きいとはいえ、耳を奪われるくらいの解像度・鮮度に驚嘆ください。
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Orchestra del Teatro Dell’Opera di Roma, Tullio Serafin – Verdi: Messa da Requiem [2 SACDs] (1959/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:15:01minutes | 5,4 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-221/22
歌詞に心を込めたセラフィン渾身のレクイエムの歴史的録音。
イタリア以外のオケを指揮した貴重な「序曲集」も収録。
世界初SACD化。新規で本国アナログ・マスターテープより復刻。
歌詞対訳、新規解説付。シリアル・ナンバー付800セット限定盤
1959年10月に収録されたセラフィン(1878-1968)の重要な「ヴェルレク」録音を最新復刻。ダイミックな特徴ではなく、あくまで曲に忠実な演奏を行うことによりヴェルディの内面を描き出す、まさに正統的な解釈。これほどまでに合唱団やソリストの歌詞に対する意識が高い演奏はそうありません。さらに余白には同じく1959年に行われた「序曲集」全7曲も収録。ロンドンのオケを起用した珍しい録音です。今回の発売のために本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化したマスターを用い、SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリング。歌詞対訳、新規解説付。永久保存盤です。800セット限定のシリアル・ナンバー付。
この「レクイエム」は歌詞に主眼が置かれたまさにセラフィンらしい曲に忠実な演奏で、ヴェルディのファンならずとも規範的な録音と言って良い名盤です。余白には「序曲集」も収録しました。今回、同時発売のローマでの「椿姫」(TDSA223)とこのアルバムは共通点が多い録音で、1959年6月に「レクイエム」、8月に「椿姫」の収録が行われていました(そして両者とも10月4日も収録。恐らく取り残しもしくは不具合部分の再収録と思われます)。オーケストラも同じローマ歌劇場管弦楽団、収録場所やプロデューサー、エンジニアも全て同一です。しかし音質は異なっており、同じ要素が多いとはにわかに信じられません。もちろん、セッティングが異なりますので別の録音ではあるのですが質感はかなり違っていました。マスターテープの保存状態やミキシング要因ということも考えられます。現代の復刻技術の凄さもある一方、数十年経た復刻の難しさも感じられた次第です。尚、「序曲集」も1959年の録音で、こちらはロンドンでの収録です。安定感ある豊かな音色が捉えられており、この時期で既に録音として一定以上の水準が常に確保されていたことが窺えます。イタリア・オペラ指揮界の頂点に君臨したセラフィンがステレオ初期に残した重要な録音であり、そこにあるのは、効果よりあくまで曲が主体かつ作曲家が中心の解釈。その真摯な姿勢は現代においても魅力的に感じられます。
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Julia Fischer, Russian National Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op.35 (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:08:03 minutes | 3,34 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): PentaTone
The solo violin did not occupy a central position within the oeuvre of Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893). He was himself a pianist, and composed three piano concertos, as well as chamber music, operas and ballets. That probably explains why he composed no more than one violin concerto. Certainly, it was composed shortly after the most profound crisis in his personal life, i.e. his marriage to Antonia Milyukova in 1877: “The marriage ceremony had only just taken place, and I had been left alone with my wife, realizing that fate had linked us inseparably, when it suddenly came upon me that I did not feel even simple friendship for her – rather, an aversion in the truest sense of the word. Death seemed to me to be the only way out, yet I could not even contemplate suicide.” Admittedly, his friends, such as Nikolai Kashkin, were aware of this personal disaster: “Tchaikovsky himself looked somewhat bewildered, did not say a word about this new situation during our conversations, and his marriage remained – as it did for his other friends – a mystery to us.” However, Tchaikovsky did not seem to change as far as the rest of the world was concerned, as endorsed by his colleague Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who mentions the following in his autobiography My musical life: “After approximately 1876, Tchaikovsky – who was living in Moscow at the time – regularly visited our home about once or twice a year. Whenever he came to St. Petersburg, he enjoyed coming to see us. Usually, his visits took place on the days when our musical circle came together… In those days as also later on, Tchaikovsky was an endearing person with whom to talk and, in the best sense of the word, a noble man”. He reacted to his disappointment in the marriage with illness (gastritis, headaches, insomnia) and sought refuge in work: a hasty removal to St. Petersburg also helped him to overcome this “tense situation”, as his friend Nikolai Kashkin later recalled.
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Elke Völker – Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Ultimate Organ Works Vol. 6 (2011)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:00 minutes | 3,21 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Aeolus – AE-10721
Volume 6 of Elke Völkers Karg-Elert series on Aeolus contains books no. 3 and 4 of the composer’s « Chorale-Improvisations » op.65 (based on chorals for new year, easter, ascension and pentecost).
As often at Aeolus, an instrument has been chosen that has not yet been recorded on CD before: the E.F.Walcker organ of the Christ Church in Lüdenscheid, which has been restored very carefully and re-inaugurated in 2008. Today Elke Völker is considered – last but not least thanks to her series of Karg-Elert recordings on Aeolus – as an expert for his music. Her version of the chorale improvisation demonstrates skill and great respect for the work of this composer and thus can be considered as a reference.
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Elke Völker – Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Ultimate Organ Works Vol. 5 (2006)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:30:00 minutes | 2,92 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Aeolus – AE-10591
Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Ultimate Organ Works Vol.5
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Elke Völker – Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Ultimate Organ Works Vol. 4 (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:09:35 minutes | 3,14 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Aeolus – AE-10511
Volume 4 of our Sigfrid Karg-Elert Edition contains an impressive collection of large scale secular organ works: Kaleidoscope, Seven Pastels from the Lake Constance, Rondo and Homage to Handel.
As already on volume 3 (AE-10431) of this editon, the Georg Stahlhuth organ (1912) of Saint-Martin in Dudelange, restored by Thomas Jann in 2002, again is an ideal instrument for Karg-Elert’s music – and Elke Völker is absolutely in her element here. She found incredibly beautiful registrations (based on Karg-Elerts indications of course!), especially in the Seven Pastels from the Lake Constance.
Kaleidoscope op.144 is a rather unknwon composition and can be considered as a brother of the big Symphonie in f sharp (op.143, recorded on Vol.1, AE-10121), because of some similarities in structure and harmonic language. The Seven Pastels are really close to the technical limits of the organ. The cycle is Karg-Elert’s only large-scale impressionistic composition and takes the expressive potential of the organ to its outer limits.
Rondo alla campanella is a dazzling 169-bar Allegrissimo in 3/8 time, in semiquavers throughout like a french Toccata.
Homage to Handel is a series of 54 variations on a ground bass of Handel. It’s a guide through all kinds of registrations of the wonderful Stahlhuth organ.
This is the first time we recorded this instrument in surround sound and as far as we know the first available Super Audio CD of this organ! The recording comes along in a nice digipack format with 28 pages booklet.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Wagner: Overtures and Preludes (1992-1994/2023)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:07:03 minutes | 2,72 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Warner Classics / Esoteric – ESSW-90287
https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/essw-90287/top
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Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer – Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 6 (2014)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0, 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:28 minutes | 4,12 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Channel Classics Records
Two fundamentally different symphonies: both works explore feelings from an entirely different point of view. The Fourth is about human feelings and moods: obsession, love (what a melody in the second movement!), happiness, fun, wit, (Beethoven’s most humorous finale!). The Sixth is about feelings that nature awakens in us: calmness, meditation, thankfulness.It has been an especially creative process to work on these masterpieces. We discovered that the Fourth Symphony sounds better with natural horns and trumpets. In the Pastorale we used a different seating arrangement, with the winds scattered among the strings, so that each soloist was surrounded by musicians playing the flow of Beethoven’s nature music. After the storm, when we hear the first tentative horn call with a bagpipe-like accompaniment, suggesting signals across the mountains, we found it appropriate to answer with a solo violin, which is gradually joined by the whole orchestra. Iván Fischer
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