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Elizabeth Joy Roe, London Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov – Britten, Barber: Piano Concertos & Nocturnes (2015)
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This solo release, a unique coupling of two of the 20th Century’s greatest piano concertos marks Decca’s first-ever recording of the Barber concerto and the first of the Britten since the classic Richter account conducted by the composer in 1970.
Elizabeth Joy Roe has been performing both works since a student at Julliard and has written extensive booklet notes which detail the intriguing parallels between the two composers. Her New York concerto debut was in the Britten conducted by James Conlon at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and in 2003 she was invited to replace the Barber concerto’s dedicatee, John Browning, at a performance with the Delaware Symphony shortly after Browning’s death.
The album is completed with two solo piano nocturnes by each composer: Britten’s ‘Night Piece’ and Barber’s ‘Nocturne – Homage to John Field’, widely-considered the father of the nocturne.
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Gianandrea Noseda, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Sabina Cvilak, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of Eltham College, London Symphony Orchestra – Britten: War Requiem (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:44 minutes | 726 MB | Genre: Classical
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Premiered in 1962, the War Requiem is one of the twentieth century’s defining works. Britten was commissioned to write it for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed during the Second World War. Interspersing the Latin mass of the dead with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war.
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![Janine Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano - Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/10/0002894788415_600.jpg)
Janine Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano – Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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With this release, acclaimed violinist Janine Jansen becomes the first major artist to couple these two landmark concertos by Brahms and Bartók on the same album. As Jansen says, to her “they seem a natural pairing.” Her visionary and profound interpretations of Brahms’s monumental Violin Concerto and Bartók’s youthful Violin Concerto No. 1 express the magical blend of lyrical beauty and symphonic power of these works, captured in vibrant high-definition sound. Jansen recorded the Brahms live with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia over three concerts in February 2015; the Bartók with the London Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
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Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No.4 (2011)
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Bernard Haitink & London Symphony Orchestra started their Bruckner cycle with this album. Haitink’s previous releases on LSO Live (Beethoven: Complete Symphonies & Triple Concerto & Strauss: Ein Alpensinfonie) are very good, & now he continues this line. Bernard Haitink is internationally renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner and is widely recognised as the world’s leading Bruckner conductor.
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Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms: Serenade No.2, Symphony No.3 (2004)
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The 1st & final movements of Brahms’s 3rd Symphony contain some of the most dramatic music he was to compose, yet both end serenely & enclose 2 beautiful inner movements. The equally exquisite Serenade No 2, unusually scored for wind instruments, violas, cellos & double basses, was 1 of his own personal favourites & both receive superb performances under Bernard Haitink in the 3rd part of his internationally acclaimed LSO Live Brahms cycle.
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Bernard Haitink, London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms: Symphony No.4 (2005)
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Loaded with German Romanticism & including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms’ final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement & intensity right up to the final bars. This release also represents the completion of Bernard Haitink’s celebrated LSO Live Brahms cycle that has included the symphonies, Double Concerto, Tragic Overture & Serenade No 2.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto (2019)
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LSO Live celebrates the 90th birthday of one of the conducting world’s greats, Bernard Haitink. Few artists have a deeper understanding of the music of Beethoven than the celebrated Dutch conductor, who is known for his mastery of the great symphonic repertoire. This album focuses on Haitink’s interpretations of Beethoven’s concerto writing, coupling a new recording of Piano Concerto No 2 by Maria João Pires with a virtuosic performance of the Triple Concerto by Lars Vogt, Gordan Nikolitch and Tim Hugh, which was originally made alongside Haitink’s now iconic cycle of the composer’s complete symphonies.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev – Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:30:24 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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Released in the year of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, Valery Gergiev and London Symphony Orchestra are joined by soloists Olga Borodina, Kenneth Tarver and Evgeny Nikitin for Berlioz Roméo et Juliette, recorded live at the Barbican Hall in November 2013. Part of a major series of eight concerts, this work toured to venues in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and France.
A large-scale ‘symphonie dramatique’, Roméo et Juliette was the fruit of the composer’s dual fascination with Shakespeare and with the actress Harriet Smithson, whom he was later to marry. Using the story of the star-crossed lovers as a starting point, Shakespeare’s passion and drama is deftly portrayed through his music, as well as through the abundance of lyrical poetry, written by French poet Émile Deschamps.
Grammy-award winning mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina is a star of the Mariinsky Theatre, regularly appearing at major opera houses and with great orchestras around the world. A winner of the Rosa Ponselle and Barcelona competitions, Borodina made her highly acclaimed European debut at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1992, sharing the stage with Plácido Domingo in Samson et Dalila – a performance that launched her international solo career as one of the most sought-after mezzos for her repertoire.
Kenneth Tarver is considered one of the outstanding tenore-di-grazia of his time. He has appeared at the most prestigious opera houses and concert halls around the world specialising in Mozart and challenging, skilled oratorio repertoire. He is a graduate of prestigious institutions including Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Yale University School of Music, and was also a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artist Development Program. He has appeared on previous LSO Live recordings, notably the double Grammy Award winner Les Troyens, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin trained at the St Petersburg State Conservatory, graduating in 1997. He has been described as ‘physically, vocally, a complete star’ by The Independent. His premiere solo performance was with the Mariinsky Orchestra and was followed by invitations to perform at major theatres and festivals across the world. His discography includes other recordings with Valery Gergiev, including Wagner Parsifal on the Mariinsky Label.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis – Berlioz: L’enfance du Christ (2007)
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Described as a ‘sacred trilogy’, Berlioz’s oratorio L’enfance du Christ began as a short piece called Shepherds’ Farewell. It tells the story of the birth of Jesus and the journey of the Holy Family as they escape Bethlehem and head across Egypt to the city of Saïs. Unlike many of the composer’s more flamboyant works, it is an exquisite and gentle composition scored for relatively small forces.
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Valery Gergiev, Antoine Tamestit, Karen Cargill, London Symphony Orchestra – Berlioz: Harold en Italie (2015)
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Violist Antoine Tamestit and mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill join forces with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev in the latest instalment of their Berlioz exploration.
Harold en Italie was composed in 1834 at the suggestion of Paganini (he wanted a showcase for his new viola). Inspired by Lord Byron’s poetic oddessy Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Berlioz wrote of it that he ‘wanted to make the viola a kind of melancholy dreamer’. The cantata Cléopâtre was written for the 1829 Prix de Rome, and remains among Berlioz’ most neglected works.
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Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge – Bellini: I Puritani (1973/2013)
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Pavarotti made only one studio recording of I Puritani. In 1973 he recorded the opera with Richard Bonynge conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and with Joan Sutherland as Elvira.
“Sutherland’s singing here is brighter and fresher than her earlier recording, with the lovely aria ‘Qui la voce’ no longer a wordless melisma…The recording is vivid and atmospheric and one marvels at Bellini’s gorgeous melodies…with Sutherland, Bonynge and all on electrifying form.” –The Penguin Guide
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Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Josephine Veasey, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge – Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda (1966/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:46 minutes | 2,90 GB | Genre: Classical
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„Bellini’s penultimate opera – written for La Fenice, Venice, in 1833 – has never enjoyed the popularity of such works as La sonnambula, Norma and I puritani. Listening to this vintage Joan Sutherland recording dating from 1966, it is hard to fathom why. The story is strong and stirring – a sort of cross between Maria Stuarda and La Gioconda – and offers fine roles for the wronged titular heroine, her villainous husband Filippo, her platonic admirer Orombello and his would-be mistress, Agnese del Maino (a Princess Eboli avant la lettre). How odd that Sutherland never managed to persuade Covent Garden to mount it for her, especially with this glorious cast. The Decca set is historic because it offered the legendary Sutherland/Pavarotti collaboration for the first time on disc. Luciano is wonderfully stylish here, elegant and ringing: Nureyev, vocally-speaking, to Sutherland’s Fonteyn. La Stupenda was going through one of her ‘moony’, muddy-diction phases, but the vocalism is quite dazzling. It’s a joy to encounter Josephine Veasey in her only commercially recorded Italian role: velvet-toned, shining, she is Sutherland’s most lustrous mezzo rival in any bel canto recording. More recent recordings include a Rizzoli set – Mariana Nicolescu in the title role – and a brand new one starring Edita Gruberova on the ominously named Nightingale label, which I have not yet heard.“ –Hugh Canning, BBC Music Magazine
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London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:50 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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This beautiful “nature” symphony receives an exquisite performance at the hands of a noted Beethoven interpreter. The composer’s sounds of nature are reproduced with like naturalness in Everest’s incomparable recording.
Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony lives up to its name in more ways than one. To begin with, it is the most relaxed of his nine symphonies. Sir Donald Francis Tovey has written of it that it “has the enormous strength of someone who knows how to relax.” Composed in 1808, hard upon the heels of the stormy, dramatic Fifth Symphony, it came as a sort of feminine companion to its definitely masculine predecessor.
It is not at all surprising that Beethoven should have written a work like the Pastoral. Throughout his life, his favorite pastime was taking long, solitary walks in the countryside, mostly in the vicinity of Vienna. It was during these quiet hours that he could commune with Nature, unhampered by his ever-increasing deafness. And it was these nature walks that inspired so much of his writing. Perhaps the most directly traceable manifestation of Nature’s influence upon the composer is the Sixth Symphony, with its imitations of the smooth-flowing brook, the bird-calls, the rustic peasant dances, the thunderstorm and the shepherd’s song.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 & Egmont Overture (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:05 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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In presenting a new recording of one of the world’s most popular symphonies, the Fifth Symphony of Beethoven, it is fitting that it should be conducted by a musician internationally acclaimed as one of the foremost Beethoven interpreters of our day, Josef Krips. All the dynamism of the music and its performance has been faithfully preserved through the magic of Everest sound.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Leonore Overture No. 2 (2006)
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Much is made of the revolutionary nature of Beethoven’s Third Symphony. It marked the transition to a more complex symphonic world for the composer, and simultaneously embodied his admiration for the ideals of the French revolution: the symphony’s one-time dedicatee was Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon had to be erased from the symphony’s title page once his overweening imperial ambition became known. It also suited Beethoven to ditch the reference, given that he could then earn a royal patron’s fee from another quarter (the ultimate dedicatee is Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz). The concept of the third symphony as something ‘heroic’ nonetheless remained, and its published title became the ‘Sinfonia eroica’ instead of ‘the Bonaparte’.
The work is rightly admired for its ground-breaking attributes, formal innovations and harmonic shocks, but this particular recording has another revolutionary dimension. No stranger to Beethoven symphonies, Bernard Haitink took a completely new approach to this cycle, adopting more daring Beethovenian tempi as well as reining in the customarily full sound of the symphony orchestra to something sparer. The rhythmic audacity and percussive qualities of the work are that much clearer as a result, the reading nimbler. If Napoloen was the hidden hero of the symphony, the time in which he lived feels that much closer with this fabulously vigorous interpretation.
Beethoven’s opera ‘Fidelio’ was subject to revision a number of times and the composer wrote a total of four overtures for it. Only one of them became the official Fidelio overture, the other three bearing the title ‘Leonora”, an allusion to the opera’s heroine. Leonora Overture No. 2 was written for the performance of Fidelio in 1805, not quite two years after the completion of the Eroica. It makes an interesting foil for the symphony. –James Mallinson, LSO Live Producer
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