BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Dimitri Mestdag, Laurent Ben Slimane & Martyn Brabbins – Mythologies and Mad Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:25 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Mythologies and Mad Songs” explores the nuanced compositions of American composer Geoffrey Gordon, in a thoughtfully-crafted selection performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. The album opens with “PUCK – fleeing from the dawn,” an overture marked by captivating intensity, introducing Gordon’s signature elements of passionate melody and refined orchestration. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by Brabbins, brings these compositions to life, creating a tapestry of dark and luminous musical expressions. Dimitri Mestdag’s cor anglais adds an unnerving layer in “Mad Song,” a new sonority further explored in the following “ICE – aut inveniam viam aut faciam,” showcasing Gordon’s adept handling of sonic textures. The journey concludes with “Prometheus,” a bass clarinet concerto after Franz Kafka, featuring bass clarinettist Ben Slimane and the Philharmonia. Geoffrey Gordon’s remarkable contributions to contemporary music, characterised by infectious style and sonic experimentation, resonate throughout the album. In “Mythologies and Mad Songs,” Gordon’s music invites listeners on a reflective journey, where myth and melody converge in a harmonious dance. The album promises a symphonic exploration that captivates and challenges, leaving its own unique dent on the canvas of modern classical music.
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard – Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:32 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer. Normally performed and recorded in its non-revised full-length version, it has been a joy now to follow Bartok’s inspired last wish revision of this mystic, vital, otherworldly, and grotesque fantasy music. (Thomas Dausgaard)
This album is the third in Thomas Dausgaard’s survey of Bartok’s orchestral works, and as before, he has recorded a version of a major work seldom heard. The rare and final version of the Wooden Prince is coupled with the masterful Divertimento and the Romanian Folk Dances.
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Alpesh Chauhan – Tchaikovsky Orchestral Works Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:07 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alpesh Chauhan’s début recording for Chandos – Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (CHSA 5300) – met with widespread critical acclaim and awards, including recording of the week for both The Times and Presto Music, and the BBC Music magazine’s Orchestral Choice. This second volume – with the same forces – offers equally crisp and attentive playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in another album that mixes well-known and less-heard Tchaikovsky. Three purely orchestral works form the core of the programme: Fatum (an early concert piece inspired by and dedicated to Balakirev), Hamlet (the last of his Shakespeare-inspired pieces), and Capriccio italien. These are interspersed with works conceived for the theatre: the Introduction to his opera The Queen of Spades and excerpts from The Oprichnik (an early opera) and The Snow Maiden (incidental music for a play by Ostrovsky).
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:56 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classique
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Ludmil Angelov, Vladimir Kiradjiev, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – The Romantic Piano Concerto – 68 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:13 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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The first recording of Moritz Moszkowski’s long-lost—and eagerly awaited—early Piano Concerto makes for a particularly important addition to the Romantic Piano Concerto series. The coupling is another rarity (and recorded premiere): the Russian Rhapsody by Adolf Schulz-Evler.
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Thomas Dausgaard, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Bartok: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:35 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Always keeping one eye on educating tomorrow’s audiences, Danish orchestral conductor Thomas Dausgaard accords great importance to the role that music can play in the lives of young people. That is why he has collaborated with young people’s orchestras like the Baccarelli Institute in Brazil, the Toronto Youth Symphony and the Australian Youth Orchestra. This unique conductor is a real free radical in the often-hidebound world of classical music. His curiosity goes far beyond the borders of music. He is fascinated in particular by the ways of life of faraway peoples: he has visited head-hunting tribes in Borneo, worked on a Chinese farm, and lived with villagers on a remote South Pacific island.
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Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov – Stravinsky: Complete music for piano & orchestra (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:15 minutes | 916 MB | Genre: Classical
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A new album from the Gramophone Award-winning team of Steven Osborne, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov. Here they present Stravinsky’s complete music for piano and orchestra as a rare complete set, plus the Concerto in D for string orchestra. The taut rhythmic brilliance of this music is perfectly suited to the particular artistry of these performers. Volkov’s mastery of Stravinsky’s neo-classical idiom is clear from the ecstatic critical response to his recordings of many of the composer’s orchestral works.
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Bartłomiej Nizioł, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz – Stojowski & Wieniawski: Violin Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:50 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of Zygmunt Stojowski has yet to benefit from the renaissance enjoyed by other Polish composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His violin concerto—enthusiastically received at its premiere—is here revivified alongside Wieniawski’s dazzling Fantaisie in volume 20 of our Romantic Violin Concerto series.
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Natalie Clein, Andrew Manze, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:43 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Natalie Clein adds a remarkable collection of Saint-Saëns’ music for cello and orchestra to her impressive discography. Clein first came to prominence when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 1994; it is appropriate that she performs the music of an extraordinary child prodigy.
The first cello concerto has always been one of Saint-Saëns’ most popular pieces, Casals choosing it for his London debut in 1905. It is a gloriously playful piece that carries the listener along on a melodic and emotional rollercoaster, from the jaunty opening to the eloquence of the second movement minuet, with a persistent yearning threading its way throughout. The second concerto will be less familiar to listeners. The soloist for whom it was written, Joseph Hollman, was an energetic, muscular player and Saint-Saëns seems here to turn his back on the suave style of the first concerto. When Saint-Saëns’ pupil and friend Gabriel Fauré chose the concerto as a Conservatoire test piece, the composer was duly grateful, but admitted ‘it will never be as well known as the first; it’s too difficult’. This it certainly is, with many solo passages, huge leaps and runs that require two staves to accommodate them, and a large amount of doublestopping. Natalie Clein meets these challenges with marvellous technique, musicianship and the passion for which she has become so well known.
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Simon Callaghan, Ben Gernon, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Rheinberger & Scholz: Piano Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:13 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Just what the Romantic Piano Concerto series does best: three works unlikely to be encountered in the concert hall, in performances by artists who wholeheartedly—and justifiably—believe in the music. The high expectations of this series are amply realized in volume seventy-six.
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Steven Osborne; Ludovic Morlot: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – Ravel: Piano Concertos; Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:59 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Steven Osborne’s solo Ravel for Hyperion has invited comparisons with the distinguished interpretations of the past; this new recording of the concertos is certain to win similar plaudits. The Falla is a generous and appropriate coupling, perfectly complementing these wonderful works.
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