Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdeněk Košler – R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra – Salome’s Dance (1988/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:13 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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Czech conductor Zdeněk Košler leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra on this 1989 album featuring Richard Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, one of the most recognizable pieces in all of classical music. Strauss makes use of an unusually large orchestra, deployed in the most varied way, while there is a tonal ambiguity that remains to the final bars.
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Zdenek Kosler, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Oistrakh Trio, Smetana Quartet – Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9, Piano Trio No. 2 & String Quartet No. 3 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:35 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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In the spring of 1945, the intelligentsia in Russia and the rest of the world expected Shostakovich’s Symphony No.9 to glorify Stalin’s victory with a hymn worthy of Beethoven’s. What emerged was a symphonic scherzo, more Rossini-like than majestic, except for the solemn brass call of the largo. Performed here by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra led by Zdenek Koler, the symphony is paired with the Piano Trio in memory of his the composer’s friend Ivan Sollertinsky, who had lost favor with the Kremlin, and the String Quartet No.3, his last diatribe against vice and violence.
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