Amy Porter, Nikki Chooi, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & JoAnn Falletta – Lukas Foss: Symphony No. 1 & Renaissance Concerto (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:52 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neo-Classical period and exemplify his dictum that “to have a big foot in the future, you’ve got to have a big foot in the past.” Symphony No. 1 in G major is lyrical, bucolic and subtly jazz-influenced, while the Three American Pieces show Aaron Copland’s “open air” influence. Foss’s Ode expresses his feelings about the loss of American lives during the Second World War, and Renaissance Concerto is a “handshake across the centuries” ingeniously spiced with unexpected harmonic twists.
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JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Gliere: Symphony No. 3, ‘Il’ya Muromets’ (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:35 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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This is an important recording for several reasons. First, it contains the finest version yet recorded of Glière’s epic Third Symphony, “Il’ya Muromets”. Second, it defines once and for all how the piece is supposed to go. In order to understand this latter point, we need to take a moment and review the work’s history on disc.
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Michael Ludwig, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – Corigliano: Violin Concerto, The Red Violin – Phantasmagoria (2010/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:57 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic continue their revelatory exploration of Corigliano’s highly engaging and imaginative symphonic music on this Grammy nominated album. Music from the composer’s third film score, The Red Violin, provided elements which Corigliano elaborates in the Violin Concerto which features violin soloist Michael Ludwig. The programme also includes Phantasmagoria, drawing material from his immense opera The Ghosts of Versailles with subliminal quotes from Mozart, Rossini and Wagner.
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, Alain Lefèvre – Mathieu: Concerto No. 3 / Gershwin: An American in Paris (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:56 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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André Mathieu was born in Montreal on February 18, 1929. He received his first music lessons from his father Rodolphe Mathieu, and was already composing little piano pieces by the age of four. Noël Strauss of The New York Times wrote that even Mozart, the greatest musical prodigy of all time, only began composing at the age of four, and his first works were much simpler in nature than those of the young Canadian. André Mathieu astonished audiences far and wide with his pianistic prowess from a very young age: at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal at six, in the Salle Pleyel and Salle Gaveau in Paris at seven, in Carnegie Hall, New York at ten. Rachmaninov pronounced him “a genius, more so than I am.”
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, Op. 54 “Poème de l’Extase” & Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 29 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:32 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Scriabin composed most of his single-movement fourth symphony The Poem of Ecstasy between 1905 and 1908 in Italy and France. He originally intended it to be called Poème orgiaque (‘Orgiastic Poem’) with its unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering aesthetic, taking chromaticism beyond even Wagnerian voluptuousness. His earlier Symphony No. 2 in C minor adopts César Franck’s cyclical ideas to which Scriabin layered sweeping climaxes, majestic intensity and rich orchestral colour that enliven its five movements with ceaseless invention.
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Genre: Classical
Year of publication: 2012
Duration: 00:58:37
Quality: Blu-ray Disc
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-2
Audio Codec: DTS-HD Master Audio | LPCM
George Gershwin’s Concerto in F was a response to demands for a ‘proper concerto’ after the success of Rhapsody in Blue, avoiding programmatic content while providing a feast of tunes both uplifting and nostalgic. Originally intended as music for a film, his up-beat Rhapsody No 2 describes the bustling Manhattan cityscape while under construction. Sourced from his hit musical Girl Crazy, I Got Rhythm Variations was Gershwin’s last full score. Pianist Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators of his generation of young American musicians.
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige (2013/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:26 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington wrote some of the twentieth century’s greatest Big Band music, but he also wrote in a variety of forms. The boisterous and evocative Harlem pays tribute to Ellington’s roots, Black, Brown, and Beige sets work songs and spirituals, whilst the suite from The River shows his genius in writing for the stage. Three Black Kings, scored as a ballet, was left unfinished at his death, but shows no lessening of invention. Ellington’s arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s Take the ‘A’ Train became famous around the world after the outbreak of World War II, and ranks among the most widely recorded standards of all time.
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JoAnn Falletta, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Schmitt: Orchestral Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:36 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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Florent Schmitt was a student of Massenet and Fauré, and winner of the coveted Prix de Rome. His impressionistic style blends influences ranging from Debussy to Wagner, with references to Stravinsky and other contemporaries. Conceived as a ballet but revised as a symphonic poem, La Tragédie de Salomé depicts Salome’s dangerous seductiveness with subtle magnificence. Narrative symbolism also applies to the evocative word painting of the exquisite Musique sur l’eau. The perilous saga of Oriane et le Prince d’Amour contrasts with the poetic tapestry of orchestral colours in Légende, in a version that replaces the original solo saxophone with violin.
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Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – R. Strauss: Le bourgeois gentilhomme Suite & Ariadne auf Naxos, Symphony-suite (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:31 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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Richard Strauss’ Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite was one of his own favourite scores, an absolute jewel of incidental music that combines the composer’s romanticism with his love of the Baroque music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. D. Wilson Ochoa has created a new symphonic orchestral suite from Strauss’ opulent Ariadne auf Naxos, enabling the orchestra to revel in music of extreme beauty and sensuous luxury, studded with gorgeous instrumental solos and the composer’s incomparable blend of poignancy, humour and melodic richness.
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Orion Weiss, John Fullam, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta – Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue – Strike Up the Band: Overture – Promenade – Catfish Row (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:07 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
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George Gershwin fired up the New York music scene with his mélange of alluring tunes and refinement of the jazz vibe. His Strike up the Band Overture opened a flashy broadway hit and, inspired by a train ride, the composer heard his masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue as a “musical kaleidoscope of America”. Promenade was reconstructed from a 1937 film score, and Catfish Row was Gershwin’s concert suite from the opera Porgy and Bess. Acclaimed as a “bold, gutsy performance with plenty of pizzazz” and with “impressive brilliance and depth”.