London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:24 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live
Prokofiev’s Symphony No 3 is dedicated to Myaskovsky and first performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris on 17 May 1929. It is one of Prokofiev’s most intense works, unleashing a barrage of confrontational energy that carries with it as much relentless forward momentum as pulverising anxiety. ‘I had never before felt anything similar when listening to music,’ remarked Prokofiev’s colleague, the pianist Sviatoslav Richter, on hearing the piece; ‘it felt to me like an apocalypse’.
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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.
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Amanda Majeski, Simon ONeill, Katarina Dalayman, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – Janáček: Katya Kabanova (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:39:26 minutes | 3,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live
The second release in LSO Live’s cycle of Janáček opera recordings, Katya Kabanova tells a story of love, entrapment and, ultimately, tragedy. The album’s cast includes the superb tenor Simon O’Neill and, appearing in one of her signature roles as seen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Amanda Majeski as Katya.
“Majeski gives such heartfelt commitment to the role of Katya that one worries how she can come back down from the emotional peaks and precipices that she scales.” – Opera Today
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London Symphony Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:52:41 minutes | 6.94 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Krystian Zimerman, Sir Simon Rattle, and Ludwig van Beethoven: three exceptional musicians and five great piano concertos are brought together for a landmark recording. This release is among the highlights to conclude our Beethoven anniversary celebrations.
Over 30 years ago, in 1989, Krystian Zimerman and Leonard Bernstein recorded Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5. They were united in their total dedication to music – in mind, heart and soul – resulting in an exceptional recording. Sadly, Bernstein died before the cycle was recorded in completion. Zimerman went on to conduct the remaining Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 from the keyboard in 1991. Now, 30 years after his first recordings, Zimerman returns to Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. He offers an exceptional new interpretation recorded with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Recording all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos during the pandemic was “like chamber music on a great scale“, as Krystian Zimerman tells Apple Music. Read on in the editor’s notes and listen to this album in Apple Music.
The album is available for download & streaming (including in Dolby Atmos), as a 3-CD digipack, 5-LP vinyl box, and as an exclusive and limited edition of the 5-LP vinyl-box with a signed booklet by Krystian Zimerman.
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Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling – Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 129; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (2016/2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 6.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:14:23 minutes | 3.91 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Challenge Classics – CC 72689
This is the world premiere recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in its original version. There are a few different notes and phrasing bowings than in what is usually played. The most obvious audible difference is that the complete second movement is played with mute, while it has become a tradition that the violinist take the mute off for the second theme and therefore for most of that movement. This was never intended by Tchaikovsky. The work is the coming back to life and light, a work of positiveness. His music was strongly connected to his personal life. Linus Roth has played the piece for twenty years and feels confident to record his unique interpretation. Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto is a late work by the composer who at that time was already ill and knew that his life would soon be over. The conductor of the recording, Thomas Sanderling, was a close friend of his and remembers him well in his late years. Clearly this is not a funny piece, but tha
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Arthur Grumiaux, Sir Colin Davis & London Symphony Orchestra – Mozart: The 5 Violin Concertos by Arthur Grumiaux (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:55 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote at least five violin concertos between 1773 and 1776 in Salzburg, Austria, most likely for his own use as concertmaster of the Archbishop of Salzburg’s orchestra.
Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 207
This concerto is scored for violin solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings, and was composed in Salzburg on April 14, 1773 or 1775. The date is uncertain. There are three movements: Allegro moderato; Adagio; Presto.
All three movements are written in sonata form, a form reserved by classical composers for their more serious works. The second movement is marked Adagio, a more intense tempo than Mozart’s usual Andantes.
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 211
The D major concerto is scored for violin solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. It was written in Salzburg and dated June 14, 1775. It consists of three movements: Allegro moderato; Andante; (Rondeau) Allegro.
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, “Strassburg”, K. 216
This concerto is scored for violin solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. It was composed in Salzburg and is dated September 12, 1775. It consists of three movements: Allegro; Adagio; (Rondeau) Allegro.
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218
The fourth concerto in D major is scored for violin solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. It was composed in Salzburg, and is dated October 1775. The autograph of the score is kept in Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków.
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, “Turkish”, K. 219
The fifth concerto in A major is scored for violin solo, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. It was written in Salzburg and is dated December 20, 1775. It consists of three movements: Allegro aperto; Adagio; (Rondeau) Tempo di Menuetto.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Stravinsky: Petrouchka, Ballet Suite in 4 scenes for orchestra (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:41 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Everest
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:44 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Everest
~ Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Manfred, Symphony in 4 Tableaux after the Dramatic Poem of Byron, Op. 58 ~
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London 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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London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records
International award-winning composer, Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dynamic new work that merges music and science. The seven-movement symphony dramatizes past, present and future moon explorations, and highlights discoveries that have been made in our search for other worlds that could possibly sustain life. Through the persuasive and powerful forces of music, the symphony offers Earthlings a chance to contemplate who and where we are in the universe. In 42 minutes they will be taken on an emotional journey, marveling at the wonders of these moons, the beauty of our planet, and possibly even experience their own perspective shift as crew-mates aboard this spaceship we cruise, Earth. This is the story of THE MOONS SYMPHONY.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:42 minutes | 4,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live
The London Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink’s first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink’s revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer’s music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and 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 and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms’ Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
Das verlangte Orchester ist groß, zur üblichen Besetzung mit dreifachem Holz kommt ein Altsaxophon (einer der wenigen Fälle eines Saxophons in der klassischen Musik), stark erweitertes Schlagwerk (3 Pauken, Tamburin, Triangel, Kleine und Große Trommel, Becken, Tamtam, Glockenspiel, 3 Glocken), Klavier und eine Harfe. Das Werk gilt in der Orchesterliteratur als anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Es ist dem Philadelphia Orchestra und seinem damaligen Chefdirigenten Eugene Ormandy gewidmet, die das Werk auch am 3. Januar 1941 uraufführten. Erst während einer Aufführung unter Dimitri Mitropoulos und dem Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra im November 1942 entdeckte Rachmaninow, dass in der Partitur des ersten Satzes statt Allegro ein Non Allegro gedruckt war; das Non wurde ausgestrichen. Bis heute findet sich Non Allegro aber häufig noch als Satzangabe. Die Aufführungsdauer des Satzes variiert nicht zuletzt daher beträchtlich zwischen einzelnen Aufführungen. Eine eigene Aufnahme, die Rachmaninows Sicht dargestellt hätte, war geplant, wurde aber nie durchgeführt. 2018 erschien ein Mitschnitt bei Marston Records, in dem Rachmaninow Eugene Ormandy in einer Version für Solo-Klavier das Werk erläutert. Das Tempo zu Beginn des ersten Satzes ist in dieser Erläuterung am Klavier mit 116 Schlägen minimal unter Allegro im oberen Moderato-Bereich.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Miran Vaupotić – Sparks: Eye of London (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:47 minutes | 990 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Navona Records presents SPARKS: EYE OF LONDON, an assembly of original fanfares performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Drawing from the compositional strengths of today’s composers, the orchestra navigates chaos and order, isolation, and ascension towards triumph through passionate orchestral writing reminiscent of the fire that burns within us. A collection spanning thought-provoking narratives, scenic synesthesia, soothing passages, and the whimsically abstract, the London Symphony Orchestra explores a vast musical landscape of emotions, tackling each with precision and verve.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Boyer – Peter Boyer: Balance of Power & Other Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. Balance of Power was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while Fanfare for Tomorrow was composed for the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Each of these pieces displays Boyer’s vivid soundscapes and tuneful American sensibilities, from the cinematic sweep of Rolling River to Radiance, composed especially for this album.
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