New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Hamish McKeich – Symphony No. 6 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:09 minutes | 974 MB | Genre: Classical
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‘Symphony No.6’ was begun during the first lockdown in New Zealand March-April 2020, and to some extent informed by the crisis enveloping the country and the world. However, the work is also inspired by personal experiences, beginning in 2019 and book-ended by the composer’s serious illness in 2021.
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Darrell Ang – Zhou Long / Chen Yi: Symphony, ‘Humen 1839’ (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:05 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Classical
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The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Darrell Ang turn their attention to one of China’s leading composers, Pulitzer Prize-winning Zhou Long, on this album of world premiere recordings. Long writes consistently compelling music, demonstrated here by The Rhyme of Taigu, which revives the spirit of Chinese court music from the Tang dynasty, drawing on traditional percussion instruments. Symphony “Humen 1839”, co-composed with Chen Yi, vividly commemorates the public burning of over 1000 tonnes of opium, an event that was to lead to the First Opium War between Great Britain and China.
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey – Christopher Blake: Symphony – Voices (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:01 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Classical
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A dramatic symphonic journey through T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, recorded live at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, May 2016.
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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey, Madeleine Pierard & Paul Gittins – Michael F. Williams: Symphony No. 1 “Letters from the Front” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:43 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
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Commissioned and performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey, and based on letters from soldiers serving on the battlefields of Gallipoli, France, and Belgium. Soprano Madeleine Pierard, narrated by Paul Gittins.
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Eldar Nebolsin, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Michael Stern – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Concert Fantasia (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:15 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Uzbekistan-born pianist Eldar Nebolsin takes centre stage on this Tchaikovsky programme featuring the Piano Concerto No. 2, performed here in the composer’s original version, full of life-enhancing character and emotion. Also included is Tchaikovsky’s rarely presented but beautiful Concert Fantasia; both works allowing unique interaction between soloist and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Stern.
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