The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:53 minutes | 790 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

Written during the final months of World War II, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 was described by the composer as “a symphony of the greatness of the human spirit, a song of praise of free and happy mankind.” While these words must be taken with a grain of salt — more likely to have been generated by an apparatchik than Prokofiev himself — melody, rhythmic invention, and unfettered delight abound within this beloved work.

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Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:47 minutes | 716 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra will release a new audio recording of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor on Friday, December 1, 2023. Led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the recording will be available worldwide for digital streaming and download in spatial audio on all major platforms. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 was recorded live at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, the home of The Cleveland Orchestra, during two community appreciation concerts in the fall of 2021.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Most – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2013) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2013
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most

Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 02:03:04
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3821 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.75 GB

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2013 New Year’s Concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in the annual celebratory concert of waltzes, polkas and marches, this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst for the second time.

As well as popular works by members of the Strauss family, we hear from anniversary composers Verdi and Wagner as well as Lanner and Hellmesberger.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Most – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2011) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2011
Release Date: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most

Production/Label:  Decca
Duration: 01:56:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 32400 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4037 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.45 GB

The first major TV event of the year on Blu-ray:

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert – this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst

For decades, the Vienna Philharmonic has been presenting its audiences with a cheerful yet contemplative program from the rich repertoire of the Strauss dynasty and its contemporaries at the turn of the year. These New Year’s concerts are not only very popular in the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, but also enjoy a high degree of recognition and popularity at home and abroad thanks to worldwide television broadcasts, which now reach over 70 countries. Today, millions of people all over the world are touched by this sometimes light-hearted, sometimes profound music, giving them joy and optimism for a new year.

It is the wish of the Philharmonic Orchestra not only to offer musically valuable interpretations of the masterpieces of this genre, but also to convey a greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace to all people as musical ambassadors of Austria.

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The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major “The Great” – Křenek: Static and Ecstatic (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major “The Great” – Křenek: Static and Ecstatic (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:17:02 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

This new album is the second release from the conductor Franz Welser-Möst and his Cleveland Orchestra on Welser-Möst’s own label. It also marks their final performances before their entire tour around Europe and the UAE was cancelled due to coronavirus. This recording took place on March 12, 2020 in front of a few donors and staff members under Ohio’s strict state rules. This feeling permeates Franz Welser-Möst’s rendition of Andante con moto from Schubert’s 9th Symphony and it sounds as though the conductor is conscious of the fact that this would the last time he would be conducting his orchestra for a while. This gives the calm, quiet work a very personal twist. The album also includes a work by Ernst Krenek commissioned for the Swiss patron Paul Sacher in 1972. Static and Extatic consists of ten short movements for chamber orchestra, percussion and piano. They are like musical haikus, each one lasting between one and three minutes. They are written in a serial style and present a retrospective of Ernst Krenek’s compositional technique that he developed throughout his long career. The resulting atmosphere is unexpected, enchanting and truly poetic. – François Hudry

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Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E-Flat Major (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:26 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

Written in the final year of his life, Schubert’s Mass No. 6 in E-flat major is often regarded as the composer’s own requiem. In this recording, The Cleveland Orchestra is joined by soprano Joélle Harvey, mezzo-soprano Daryl Freedman, tenors Julian Prégardien and Martin Mitterrutzner, bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.

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Franz Welser-Möst & Wiener Philharmoniker – New Year’s Concert 2013 (Neujahrskonzert 2013) (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Franz Welser-Möst & Wiener Philharmoniker – New Year’s Concert 2013 (Neujahrskonzert 2013) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:55:52 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Sony Classical are proud to release the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes the famous waltz “The Blue Danube” & the “Radetzky March”. Usual promo & marketing activity across specialist media.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Möst – Neujahrskonzert 2023 / New Year’s Concert 2023 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Möst – Neujahrskonzert 2023 / New Year’s Concert 2023 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:42:10 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

The prestigious concert will be conducted by Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst for the 3rd time (2011, 2013).

The New Year’s Concert live from Vienna is one of the world’s most famous and spectacular classical music events. It will be broadcast on TV and radio and reaches over 90 countries around the world with more than 50 million viewers.

The annual New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna has been a major event for more than eight decades, since 1939.

Conducted by world-famous maestros such as Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, Gustavo Dudamel and Christian Thielemann.

The Vienna Philharmonic, as musical ambassadors of Austria, send people all over the world a New Year’s greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace with the lively and light-hearted and at the same time nostalgic and profound music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and its contemporaries.

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Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Walker Antifonys, Lilacs, Sinfonias Nos 4 & 5 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cleveland Orchestra & Franz Welser-Möst – Walker Antifonys, Lilacs, Sinfonias Nos 4 & 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:31 minutes | 788 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

The fifth audio release on The Cleveland Orchestra’s own label once again showcases the ensemble’s unparalleled artistry and polished music-making, alongside as its longstanding commitment to perform and present new repertory under the direction of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. This album features four works spanning half a century by pioneering American composer George Walker (1922-2018). Together, they demonstrate his wide-ranging musical vision and meticulously-crafted sound-worlds.

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Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Yefim Bronfman – Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst, Yefim Bronfman – Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:06 minutes | 964 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cleveland Orchestra

Two live recordings from Cleveland and Miami. The Schnittke Concerto for Piano and Strings was recorded in Cleveland’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance in October 2020. It features pianist Yefim Bronfman with the Orchestra’s strings. Prokofiev’s Second Symphony was recorded in January 2020 on tour in Miami, in Knight Concert Hall and features full orchestra ensemble in this work inspired by the early 20th century’s fascination with mechanics and industry.

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The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (2010) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD 5.1

Technical Specs
Blu-ray
BD-25 Single-Layer Disc
Video Resolution/Codec
1080i/AVC MPEG-4
Aspect Ratio(s)
1.78:1
Audio Formats
DTS-HD MA 5.1 (48 kHz / 2403 kbps / 24-bit)
LPCM 2.0 (48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles/Captions
None
Supplements
Pre-concert talk with Dee Perry, Franz Welser-Möst and William Cosel
With its majestic themes soaring upwards like gothic pillars and its brilliant chorales and fanfares glowing like stained – glass windows, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 is the most monumental of his orchestral works, a cathedral in sound that grows out of pianissimo murmurs. Coming after the triumphs celebrated by the composer’s Seventh Symphony and Te Deum, the Eight was considered by Bruckner as the artistic climax of his career. Cleveland‘s Severance Hall is the venue for this performance. This hall, an eclectic yet elegant mix of Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Classicism, Egyptian Revival and Modernism was inaugurated in 1931 and is still hailed today as one of the world‘s most beautiful concert halls. The Cleveland Orchestra, founded in 1918, began its ascent to the upper ranks of the world‘s ensembles after it moved to Severance Hall in 1931.
Recorded live at Severance Hall, Cleveland, August 2010.

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The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst – Richard Strauss: Three Tone Poems (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst – Richard Strauss: Three Tone Poems (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:42 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association

This fourth release for The Cleveland Orchestra’s own label again showcases the unparalleled artistry, refined Polish, and emotional power of this ensemble under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst. The album features three of Richard Strauss’s early tone poems, providing a tantalizing window into Welser-Möst’s reputation as a renowned conductor of Strauss’s music. Strauss wrote a total of nine tone poems-orchestral works that depict a storyline. Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks are among his earliest successes and became instant hits with audiences worldwide. These Cleveland Orchestra recordings were captured in September and October 2021. The album includes a 40-page booklet featuring an essay by Franz Welser-Möst about Strauss’s tone poems and artistry, along with program notes about each piece and an overview of Strauss’ career and legacy.

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