The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leland Chen – Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (2005)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:04:04 minutes | 3,4 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Membran
For a cost-cutter album of Felix Mendelssohn’s evergreen Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, and his brilliant incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61, this CD is a remarkably good deal, and newcomers to these essential Romantic works would do well to snap it up on sight. The vivid performance of the concerto by virtuoso violinist Leland Chen and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under Jane Glover, is transparent in line and crystal clear in all details, and listeners will be hard-pressed to find a more beautifully played or better sounding recording at the budget price. Similarly, the recording of A Midsummer Night’s Dream sparkles with bright timbres and scintillating rhythms, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra radiates light and warmth in its full-bodied ensemble sound, so the music comes across with absolute clarity and rich textures that are almost palpable in their immediacy. Originally released in 1996, this disc in the Tring’s Royal Philharmonic Collection audiophile series should find a place in any beginner’s growing collection and be equally welcome in many connoisseurs’ libraries.
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – James Bond Themes (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:20 minutes | Scans included | 2,27 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 465 MB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound
The world’s largest-ever classical recording contract with one of the most outstanding orchestras, was begun in September 1993 and has been build into a collection of over 150 albums of the world’s best classical music. Our aim is to present the ultimate in quality at an unbeatable price, making ‘The Royal Philharmonic Collection’ the only collection you will ever need.
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Great Western Themes (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:22 minutes | Scans included | 2,12 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Full Scans included | 419 MB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound
The world’s largest-ever classical recording contract with one of the most outstanding orchestras, was begun in September 1993 and has been build into a collection of over 150 albums of the world’s best classical music. Our aim is to present the ultimate in quality at an unbeatable price, making ‘The Royal Philharmonic Collection’ the only collection you will ever need.
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton – Franz Adolf Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2005)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,18 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 979 MB | Full Artwork: 91 MB
Label/Cat#: Membran # 222816-203 | Country/Year: Germany 2005 | 3% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic
This is the only Membran from the current batch thats getting 5 stars for both recording quality and performance. I am very fond of this music having grown to like the Bjorlin box of his 4 symphonies concertos and poems. I totally disagree that the later DGG version was anywhere near as good in either lp or CD format. The Chandos release was slightly better than the DGG but I am now totally convinced that this version by the same orchestra as Bjorlin used is a winner.
These two of his best symphonies are some where between Mendlessohn/Schumann/ Brahms and Schubert in style. If you are not familiar with these works I would suggest you just buy them and then start asking why his other works are not available. To be honest only the Violin concerto rises to the same heights.
Interestingly enough this was recorded at CTS studios London and its slowly becoming clear as to which venues produced the better sonics in these pretty varied quality Membran reissues.Its also nice to have something other than the standard rep…
60 minutes of delight. Strong recommendation..usual average out of date booklet and artwork with usual shortish gap between movements .Doesnt matter here…best of the batch so far …Dave sa-cd.net
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Shelly Berg, José Serebrier & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Gershwin Reimagined: An American In London (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:06 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC – Decca Gold
Gershwin Reimagined: An American in London features pianist Shelly Berg and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by José Serebrier, with special guest artists.
Produced by-Grammy Award-winning producer Gregg Field and recorded at the famed Air Lyndhurst Studios in London, the album is a sonically hi-def contemporary treatment of classic Gershwin pieces “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Fascinating Rhythm” “I Got Rhythm,” “Three Preludes,” “I Loves You Porgy/I’ve Got My Man Now,” and “American in Paris/Home Blues.”
It features virtuosic playing by the Shelly Berg Trio and Grammy-winning musicians Arturo Sandoval and Mark O’Connor, as well as vocal performances by Ledisi and Monica Mancini.
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Deep Purple & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Concerto For Group And Orchestra (1969) [Reissue 2002]
PS3 Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 112:49 minutes | Scans included | 8,19 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 2,16 GB
Back in 1970, it seemed as though any British group that could was starting to utilize classical elements in their work — for some, like ELP, that meant quoting from the classics as often and loudly as possible, while for others, like Yes, it meant incorporating classical structures into their albums and songs. Deep Purple, at the behest of keyboardman Jon Lord, fell briefly into the camp of this offshoot of early progressive rock with the Concerto for Group and Orchestra. For most fans, the album represented the nadir of the classic (i.e., post-Rod Evans) group: minutes of orchestral meandering lead into some perfectly good hard rock jamming by the band, but the trip is almost not worth the effort. Ritchie Blackmore sounds great and plays his heart out, and you can tell this band is going to go somewhere, just by virtue of the energy that they put into these extended pieces. The classical influences mostly seem drawn from movie music composers Dimitri Tiomkin and Franz Waxman (and Elmer Bernstein), with some nods to Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, and Mahler, and they rather just lay there. Buried in the middle of the second movement is a perfectly good song, but you’ve got to get to it through eight minutes of orchestral noodling on either side. The third movement is almost bracing enough to make up for the flaws of the other two, though by itself, it wouldn’t make the album worthwhile — Pink Floyd proved far more adept at mixing group and orchestra, and making long, slow, lugubrious pieces interesting. As a bonus, however, the producers have added a pair of hard rock numbers by the group alone, “Wring That Neck” and “Child in Time,” that were played at the same concert. They and the third movement of the established piece make this worth a listen.
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The Carpenters, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:22 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © A&M
The greatest classics from The Carpenters have resurfaced in a sublime blend of vocal harmonies and symphonic arrangements. For this project in 2018, Richard Carpenter himself went along to Abbey Road Studios. Their last album in 1981, Made in America, was a half-posthumous album (Richard’s sister Karen having died in 1983 at only 32 years of age) and invoked a certain feeling of nostalgia, showing that this legendary pop group shifting more towards easy-listening could still be deep. However, it is still very rooted in the American culture of the seventies, particularly through the classics Close To You, Rainy Days and Mondays and We’ve Only Just Begun.
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