Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado – Verdi: Requiem [2 SACDs] (1974-1980/2016)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:16:29 minutes | 5,48 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90151/2
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Read moreBerliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Janacek & Hindemith – Orchestral Works (1989-1995/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:10:13 minutes | 2,82 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90220
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Read moreAlfred Brendel, Radu Lupu, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, André Previn – Schumann, Grieg – Piano Concertos (1973-1979/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:24 minutes | 2,55 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Decca / Esoteric – ESSD-90228
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Read moreLondon Symphony Chorus and Orchestra & Claudio Abbado – Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Scythian Suite, Lieutenant Kije (1977-1979/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:51 minutes | 3,17 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90258
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Read moreMaurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (1994/2021)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 02:53:34 minutes | 6,85 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
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Read moreMaurizio Pollini, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [3 SACDs] (1992-1993/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:53:33 minutes | Full Scans included | 8,69 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG 90255/7
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, L’Oiseau de Feu, Jeu de cartes (2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:17:50 minutes | 3,13 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Universal SHM UCGG-9057
Uses 2012 DSD master based on the Deutsche Grammophon’s original analog tape. Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). *SHM-SACD (Super High Material SACD) is the ultimate Super Audio CD that utilizes the materials and technologies that were developed for the SHM-CD to further enhance the audio-resolution.
Read moreClaudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021) SACD ISO
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:28:05 minutes | 6.12 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms: The 4 Symphonies (Esoteric Japan 2018)
SACD Rip | 3x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 212:07 minutes | Full Scans included | 8,97 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 8,82 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 4,61 GB
For collectors of Claudio Abbado’s recordings, the performances on this three-discs Japanese Esoteric label’s remastered release of the Italian conductor’s digital recordings of Brahms’ symphonies with the Berliner Philharmoniker may seem redundant, since the symphonies were previously released as single discs in the late ’80s and early ’90s on Deutsche Grammophon. But this box set marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections. These new audio versions feature Esoteric’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.
Read moreLondon Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:19 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This high-quality vinyl edition contains Claudio Abbado’s unforgettable interpretations of Gioachino Rossini’s overtures. Thanks to Claudio Abbado’s brilliant inventiveness, these recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra are among the musical and stylistic milestones of the Rossini interpretation, presented here in an unprecedented recording full of care and sophistication. The ravishing recordings date from the early 1970s and are now being reissued by Deutsche Grammophon in an audiophile format, in honor of a composer Gioachino Rossini, who has always been acclaimed. Abbado brings out Rossini’s characterful music with meticulousness and the finest flair, the “Semiramis” overture as well as the overtures to “The Thieving Magpie”, “The Barber of Seville”, “The Italian Woman in Algiers”, “La Cenerentola”, “The Silk Ladder” and “Wilhelm Tell”.
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Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado – The Berlin Gala: A Salut to Carmen (1998/2014)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Run Time: 01:18:29 | 3,15 GB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
The reissue of classical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) technology to improve sound quality. This series marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections that have been mainstays of the catalog since their initial release. These new audio versions feature ESOTERIC’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.
Read moreOrchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado – Schubert: The “Great” C Major Symphony, D. 944 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:44 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Announcing a rare new album conducted by Maestro Abbado – still much missed by many in the concert hall and the studio. Schubert remained one of Abbado’s favourite composers throughout his life and since his first performance in Den Haag in 1966 he returned again and again to the “Great“ C Major Symphony.
This very special album combines live performances with Abbado’s beloved Orchestra Mozart, recorded in September 2011. Twenty-five years after his first recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado’s new interpretation of this symphony reveals a wealth of new details, making it his definitive take on the work.
Read moreMartha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (1995,1999/2021)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:17:16 minutes | 3,04 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:16 minutes | 1,1 GB
Souce: SACD-R | Artwork: Front Cover | Genre: Classical | © Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
As with just about all the Mahler symphonies, Abbado has made multiple recordings of the Fifth, but this, his first, remains his finest, and an exceptional performance by any standard. It has all of the famed Chicago virtuosity but also a welcome attention to detail and willingness to savor a phrase that you almost never find with Solti’s Chicago Mahler. It’s great to hear a coda to the second movement that for once does not sound anti-climactic. We expect the horn playing in the scherzo to be stunning, and so it is, but the music also has grace, charm, and plenty of atmosphere at an appropriately relaxed basic tempo that, as you can hear, leaves plenty of space for the big moments to expand.
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