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Castalian String Quartet, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Kemp – Strata: Eleanor Alberga Orchestral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:14:49 minutes | 2,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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British composer Eleanor Alberga is renowned for her mastery of orchestral colour and form. With her distinctive blend of lyricism and rhythmic dynamism, Alberga crafts a sonic journey that is both exhilarating and deeply moving.
From the arresting grandeur of the symphonic landscapes in her first symphony, Strata, to the pulsating and evocative energy of Mythologies, each piece is a testament to Alberga’s boundless creativity.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Thoimas Kemp, are joined by the Castalian String Quartet for Tower with its cascading melodies and rhythmic intensity, embodying both strength and intimate intricacies.
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Simon Höfele, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Geoffrey Paterson – Nobody Knows (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:48 minutes | 597 MB | Genre: Classical
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One of the most versatile trumpeters in the classical world, Simon Höfele, releases a new album “Nobody Knows” together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Geoffrey Paterson and Ilan Volkov. On his 4th album on Berlin Classics he plays the trumpet concertos by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Christian Jost and Toshio Hosokawa, spanning an arc from the 20th to the 21st century and proves once again that the trumpet can do more than just “shine”. “These three works are really important to me. I have played all three before and I was always fascinated by their darkness.”, he explains his choice of repertoire. “This is heavy, almost depressive music, and that applies to all three of these works. This is heavy music in two respects: loaded with gloom, and also not at all easy to play. The is a definitive political message to “Nobody Knows de Trouble I see”, which makes it even more fascinating.”
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 & 8 [2 SACDs] (1958-1969/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:22:05 minutes | 5,74 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-160/61
没後50年企画。バルビローリが残したステレオ録音のベートーヴェンの交響曲3曲他と、小品2曲を2枚組に集成。世界初SACD化。本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから最新復刻。藤野俊介氏による新規解説付
バルビローリが残したステレオ録音のベートーヴェンの交響曲3曲と「レオノーレ序曲第3番」他を2枚に集成。ベートーヴェンの録音自体は少ないものの、生涯最後の演奏会(1970/7/25)で指揮したのが「交響曲第7番」であるなど、バルビローリにとっては重要な作曲家の一人でした。稀少なBBC交響楽団との晩年の「英雄」は繰り返し聴き継がれきた名演。今回、現況での最高音質を目指し、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てSACD層、CD層別々にマスタリングを行っています。新規解説付。永久保存盤です。
2020年はベートーヴェンの生誕250年という記念の年ということもあり、バルビローリが残した重要な録音である「英雄」を外す訳には行きません。英国ではレーベル側の方針もあって、通常のコンサートレパートリーでありながらも、元来ドイツものを英国の指揮者が収録する機会はそれほど多くはありませんでした。バルビローリも例に漏れず、ベートーヴェンの交響曲はモノラル音源を入れて5曲のみです。今回はステレオで収録された第1番、第3番、第8番の3曲と、「レオノーレ序曲第3番」を2枚に集成しました(他にステレオでは「皇帝」もあり)。尚、BBC交響楽団との録音は少ないので「英雄」は貴重です。この音源はバルビローリの数ある録音の中でも隠れた人気があり、CD時代では復刻が遅れましたが再発された際は大いに話題になりました。曲本来の持つ重厚さを引き立てた稀に見る充実した「英雄」です。今回の復刻では加えて、最晩年の1969年の録音であるハレ管弦楽団とのパーセルとバッハの小品2曲も収録しています。特にパーセルの「組曲」は、ニューヨーク・フィル時代に元々の弦楽合奏の編曲から、木管とホルンを入れた編曲を自ら行っている版でのもので、モノラル時代の1956年にも同じくバルビローリの編曲でPYEに録音していました。バルビローリが気にいっていた作品です。
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BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Pumeza Matshikiza, Sarah Connolly, Joshua Stewart, Ashley Riches – Tippett: A Child of our Time (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tippett’s A Child of Our Time begins in sorrow: ‘The world turns on its dark side. It is winter.’ Composed at the start of the Second World War but provoked by decades of intolerance, Tippett’s ‘modern oratorio’ is built around the soul-shaking melodies of African-American spirituals. But the human spirit is unbreakable, and this great British choral masterpiece is anything but a counsel of despair.
Sir Andrew Davis understands that; and after a lifetime championing British music, there are few artists better equipped than our Conductor Laureate to bring out Tippett’s boundless optimism as well as his burning sorrow. The BBC Symphony Chorus is joined by a truly exceptional team of soloists, and it all begins with a great leap of hope and joy: the ever-fresh Concerto for Double String Orchestra.
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Peter Donohoe, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Op. 33, Symphony in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 41 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:57 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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Countess Mária Theodora (Dora) Paulina Pejačević was born in September 1885 in Budapest. Young Dora grew up with all the advantages of an aristocrat: a fairy-tale life of opulent palaces set in idyllic landscapes; privilege, comfort, leisure, and wealth. From an early age she defied convention and walked her own path, one that eventually led her to ‘despise’ the aristocracy. Her father, Count Teodor Pejačević, a lawyer, held several high posts, including that of Civil Governor of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia (1903 – 07). Her mother, Lilla Vay de Vaya, an ‘exceptionally beautiful’ Hungarian countess, was a gifted pianist and singer, and a fine amateur artist. Her parents arranged private lessons with teachers at the Music School of the Croatian Music Institute, at Zagreb, which lead to further instruction in Dresden and Munich. Dissatisfied with the ‘limits’ of her formal studies, Pejačević pursued her own intensive course of self-instruction in composition. Having taken her music education into her own hands, she set off to enrich and broaden her intellectual horizons, travelling to cultural centres in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. During these travels, she came to know the leading artists, poets, and intellectuals of the day. The Piano Concerto was her first orchestral composition, and the first piano concerto by any Croatian composer. She composed the Symphony in F sharp minor during the first world war, whilst also working as a volunteer nurse. For its first complete performance, in 1920, she revised the work, which is here recorded in this final version.
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Francesca Dego, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska – Brahms & Busoni Violin Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:25 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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The celebrated violinist Francesca Dego is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and her regular collaborator Dalia Stasevska for this recording of the violin concertos by Brahms and Busoni. A cornerstone of the repertoire, Brahms’s Concerto dates from 1878, a year after the Second Symphony, and was composed for (and dedicated to) the virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The Concerto takes the standard three-movement form, and as in Beethoven’s Concerto (considered by many as Brahms’s inspiration for the work) the first movement is significant in its length and its complexity. Busoni’s Violin Concerto in its turn is inspired by both Brahms and Beethoven, and like both previous works it is in the key of D major. Premièred in Berlin in 1897 by the Dutch violinist Henri Petri, the Concerto is dazzlingly virtuosic. Francesca Dego writes: ‘To be able to record Brahms’s Violin Concerto is a dream and a milestone for every violinist and I feel that with “my” Brahms I do not want to compete with the many gorgeous versions out there but instead to declare my own love and history with my favourite violin concerto. Busoni’s Concerto, however, is a rarely performed work, brought to the studio only a handful of times. It represents a different kind of responsibility, one that pushed me to want to rediscover every detail of this music as if it had never been played before.’
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo – Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:50 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
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The three works on this album were all composed between 1943 and 1953. Despite the extreme experiences and difficulties she faced during this undoubtedly most tragic time in Poland’s history, Grażyna Bacewicz managed to compose outstanding works which constitute splendid testimony to the vibrant creative potency for which she was renowned. Until 1939 her career as a virtuoso violinist and an emerging composer evolved naturally. Trained by the best Polish pedagogues at the Warsaw Conservatory, she went on to acquire an international education thanks to an Ignacy Paderewski Scholarship, which allowed her to pursue her studies in Paris: composition with Nadia Boulanger, violin with André Touret (1932 – 33) and Carl Flesch (1934 – 35). In spite of her soloistic successes she decided to join the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra as its leader, in order that an improved knowledge and understanding of an orchestra should inform her composition. Poland then suffered terribly at the hands of Hitler and Stalin, before coming under the control of the Soviet Union. This album was recorded and released in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, a state cultural institution promoting Polish culture around the world and actively participating in international cultural exchange.
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Tenebrae, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Short – Symphonic Psalms & Prayers (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:26 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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The “symphonic” term in this album’s title is to be taken with a grain of salt: Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (1930) relies on a vast wind section, with only a few cellos and double basses, harp and piano, and no violins nor violas; Schoenberg’sFriede auf Erden (Peace on Earth, 1907) is here given in hits original version for choir a cappella; Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (1965) only require three trumpets and three trombones in addition to the strings and a rather Broadwayian percussions arsenal. Only the (rare and magnificent) Psalm 23 by Zemlinsky, composed in 1910, uses an almost “normal” orchestra for its time. The album’s symphonic honour is safe! It’s worth noting that Schoenberg’s specular and emotional Friede auf Erden is his last great reasonably tonal work, a masterpiece with a tendency for atonality – although a reasoned atonality, never sought for its own sake – that possesses a considerable expressionistic hue. The BBC Symphony Orchestra accompanies with great delight the phenomenal Tenebrae Choir under the lead of conductor Nigel Short.
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Tasmin Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Szymanowski & Karlowicz: Violin Concertos (2017)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:12:56 minutes | 3,3 GB | Genre: Classical | © Chandos
This SACD recording brings together some of Chandos’ greatest artists in a spellbinding programme.
It follows performances that The Guardian described as ‘a thrilling show of ferocity and feistiness’, given by the same forces in January at the Barbican. After widely acclaimed recordings of Walton’s and Lutosławski’s violin concertos, Tasmin Little again joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner, in intensely expressive interpretations of the concertos by the Polish composers Karłowicz and Szymanowski.
All were written within the space of a generation (1902, 1916, and 1933), and yet they belong to quite different worlds. One was composed at a time of national occupation, another in the throes of wartime, and yet another at a time of national renewal. The first inhabits the lyrical tradition developed by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, the second escapes towards Debussy and the exoticism of Mediterranean influences, while the third is imbued with the folk culture of the Tatra Mountains.
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Tasmin Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Szymanowski, Karłowicz: Violin Concertos (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:13 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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It follows performances that The Guardian described as ‘a thrilling show of ferocity and feistiness’, given by the same forces in January at the Barbican. After widely acclaimed recordings of Walton’s and Lutosławski’s violin concertos, Tasmin Little again joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner, in intensely expressive interpretations of the concertos by the Polish composers Karłowicz and Szymanowski.
All were written within the space of a generation (1902, 1916, and 1933), and yet they belong to quite different worlds. One was composed at a time of national occupation, another in the throes of wartime, and yet another at a time of national renewal. The first inhabits the lyrical tradition developed by Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, the second escapes towards Debussy and the exoticism of Mediterranean influences, while the third is imbued with the folk culture of the Tatra Mountains.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Andrews, BBC Singers – Smyth: Der Wald (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:21 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
For over 100 years the only opera by a woman to have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Der Wald
is a taut, brooding drama where the simplicity of village life comes under threat from the uncontrollable desires unleashed by the darkness of the forest.Richly orchestrated, harmonically daring, and demanding a huge expressive range from the cast, the narrative drives relentlessly forward from wedding to tragedy in a single act, observed pitilessly by the eternal spirits of the forest.John Andrews conducts the BBC Singers, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and an international cast in the first ever recording of this work, using Smyth’s English version of the libretto.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Jiří Bělohlávek – Smetana: The Bartered Bride (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:16:16 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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A classic! And yet Smetana was thoroughly irritated by the torrents of praise lavished, in the last years of his life, on this Bartered Bride which had been categorically rejected at its premiere (1866) by a Czech public waiting to hear the genuine national opera. Four versions of the work later, and after many critical complaints (sometimes it was found too long, sometimes too short), it was realised that the composer had given birth to a genre built to last. For nearly 150 years now, The Bartered Bride has triumphed in opera houses all over the world; and in the present recording it is in the hands of a true team of experts.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis – Bliss: The Enchantress, Meditations on a Theme by John Blow & Mary of Magdala (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:57 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Bliss composed The Enchantress in 1951, the year of his sixtieth birthday, for Kathleen Ferrier. The text is a free adaptation of the Second Idyll of Theocritus, made by Henry Reed, and well suited to Bliss’s love of classical Greek authors.
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