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Rufus Beck, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – The Five Thieves and the Secret in the Sack (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:24 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Classical
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Together with narrator Rufus Beck, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin presents this magical story about the power of friendship by Katharina Neuschaefer. The richly coloured music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” musically illustrates the story.
In the great, wide desert, a band of robbers does not have it easy. And a robber chief even less so. The other robbers are always expecting something big from their leader: a clever plan, a brave raid, precious booty… But lately things just don’t work out. When the robber chief only gets an old sack during his next robbery, there is a mutiny in the robbers’ gang. And the robbers have no idea that this old sack contains one of the greatest treasures of the Orient. And the cruel Sultan is after it too…
Author Katharina Neuschaefer and illustrator Martin Fengel take the young audience into the vastness of the desert in this story inspired by 1001 Nights. The story is richly coloured with the music of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:45 minutes | 618 MB | Genre: Classical
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“To mark the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) in 2024, the BR-KLASSIK label is now making previously unreleased recordings of concerts worth listening to available for the first time on CD and as a stream. Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of concerts from past years. This recording of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony documents a concert given in September 2006 at Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on was a regular guest with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either at the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or at the Philharmonie im Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestral musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian Late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem throughout the world. With him, Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphonies were also always in the best of hands. Haitink’s driving principle was to make the sound architecture of a musical composition, with its complex interweaving, transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was combined with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. For Shostakovich’s contemporaries, educated in the spirit of Socialist Realism, it was clear that the Eighth Symphony had to have a programme and, even more specifically, a topical reference to current events. And at the time, there could hardly have been anything more topical than the recent, decisive turning point in the war in the form of the battle for Stalingrad. It is therefore hardly surprising that the Eighth Symphony, composed in less than nine weeks between July 2 and September 9, 1943, was also referred to as the “”Stalingrad””. Under the pressure of circumstance, Shostakovich was obliged to develop an aesthetic of ambiguity, secret hidden meanings and abysmal irony that was almost without parallel in cultural history. This work also expresses the sheer compulsion under which a musical language in conformity with the system had to be created.”
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of concerts from past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony documents concerts given in November 1981 at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on was a regular guest with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either at the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or at the Philharmonie im Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestra musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian Late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem throughout the world. With him, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner were always in the best of hands. His driving principle was to make the sound architecture of a musical composition, with its complex interweaving, transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was combined with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. The premiere of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony in 1884 was an immediate success with the public. It was with this powerful work that Bruckner, already in his 60s and long denied fame and recognition, achieved his long-awaited breakthrough. The key work in this late triumph was the Seventh Symphony. Composed between September 1881 and autumn 1883, it paved the way for a wider acceptance of his music. One reason for its success was that Bruckner was chosen by Richard Wagner’s followers to fill the gap left by the Bayreuth master’s death in February 1883. The Seventh Symphony thus bears witness to Bruckner’s veneration of Wagner, manifested both in certain instrumental and melodic similarities to the motivic world of the “”Ring”” and in the explicit dedication of the symphony’s central Adagio movement “”to the memory of the blessed, beloved, immortal Master””. Bruckner’s homage takes the form of a harrowing piece of funeral music – a resounding Wagner epitaph. The symphony, dedicated to Ludwig II of Bavaria, was premiered on December 30, 1884 by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch.”
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle – Wagner: Siegfried (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:53:00 minutes | 4,40 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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Following the 2015 release of “The Rhinegold” – the Vorabend or „preliminary evening“ of Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” – and of “The Valkyrie” in 2019, BR-KLASSIK is now releasing “Siegfried” as the second day of the enthusiastically received tetralogy under Sir Simon Rattle – recorded live on February 3 and 5, 2023 at Munich’s Isarphilharmonie im Gasteig. With “The Rheingold”, Rattle had already decisively refuted the longstanding claim that he and Wagner were not a good match, and with “The Valkyrie”, he dispelled any remaining doubts. His recent performance of “Siegfried” – with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and a first-class lineup of Wagner singers – proves yet again how well the conductor understands and is able to interpret Wagner’s music. Now, just a few months after the live event, this powerful and immensely popular music drama has been released on three outstanding CDs.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28, TrV 171 (Rehearsal Excerpts) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:56 minutes | 564 MB | Genre: Classical
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Das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO) ist in München beheimatet. Es ist der größte der drei Klangkörper des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Hauptspielstätten des Orchesters sind der Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz und die Philharmonie am Gasteig.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – R. Strauss & Brahms: Orchestral Works (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:20 minutes | 697 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mariss Jansons has been relatively ill and frail since suffering from a heart attack in 1996 while conducting Puccini’s La Bohème at the Oslo Opera House. He has since suffered from several more heart attacks, forcing him to cut down on his heavy workload. Feeling back on track in the early 2000s, he accepted the position of musical director for Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, one of the best orchestras in Germany.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:03 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony documents concerts from January 2012 in Munich‘s Philharmonie im Gasteig.
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Rafael Kubelik, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Choral” (1975) [Reissue 2018]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 69:51 minutes | Scans included | 2,8 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,33 GB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | PentaTone # PTC 5186 253
PentaTone’s fourth release from Rafael Kubelik’s acclaimed Beethoven cycle of symphonies in its Remastered Classics series is his commanding reading of the ninth symphony performed by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, joined by the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks and a quartet of outstanding soloists in the famous choral finale with the “Ode to Joy”.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Mahler : Symphony No. 9 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:20:43 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Classical
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Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is primarily regarded as the composer’s reaction in the summer of 1908 to the diagnosis of a heart ailment, which he received just before writing the first sketches for the work. Mahler was deeply distraught and cannot have known how few years he still had left to live. His processing and exploration of his life experiences, and of valedictions, the meaning of life, death, salvation, life after death and love, always took place in and through his music. The Ninth Symphony was composed between 1909 and 1910 in Toblach, in a kind of creative frenzy, and was first performed in Vienna on June 26, 1912 by the Vienna Philharmonic, under the baton of Bruno Walter. Mahler had already died on May 18, 1911, and was no longer able to experience the premiere of his last completed work. Willem Mengelberg, the first ardent conductor of the composer’s works, wrote in his score: “Mahler’s soul sings its farewell!” Mahler’s Ninth Symphony represents the culmination of a development process. The progressive chromaticism and maximum utilization of the tonal are here taken to their limits – and, for the first time, beyond them. Indeed, the two movements that frame the work, in particular, depart from the tonal entirely, pointing clearly to the dawn of a new musical epoch. Alban Berg even called this symphony “the first work of New Music”. The Munich concert event of October 2016 is now being released on CD by BR-KLASSIK – it is an outstanding interpretation of one of the most important compositions of the international symphonic repertoire of the early 20th century.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Giovanni Antonini – Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066 (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:06 minutes | 268 MB | Genre: Classical
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With gravitas and grace: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Since Johann Sebastian Bach came from an old family of musicians, there was no other way for him to earn his bread. Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, at the foot of the world-famous Wartburg Castle, he was orphaned at the age of ten, whereupon his eldest brother – also an organist – immediately took over his further education. The exceptionally talented Bach received a scholarship to the prestigious Michaelis School in the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony. After his time as a brilliant organist, court musician, and concertmaster in Thuringia (Arnstadt, Weimar, and Mühlhausen), he moved to the magnificent court in Köthen (Saxony-Anhalt) in 1717. From 1723 until his death in 1750, he famously served as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Saxony, already a thriving university and trade fair city. In Bach’s day, by the way, it had one of the first street lighting systems in Germany, with over 700 lanterns. …
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Anja Petersen, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Arnulf Herrmann: 3 Gesänge am offenen Fenster & Tour de Trance (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:31 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Classical
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Drei Gesänge am offenen Fenster (Three Songs at the Open Window) for soprano and large orchestra, based on texts by Händl Klaus and Arnulf Herrmann, was commissioned by musica viva/BR. The BR-KLASSIK album documents the live recording of its premiere on October 24, 2014 in a musica viva concert at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. The performers are Anja Petersen (soprano) and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Stefan Asbury.
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Mariss Jansons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus – Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live) & [Rehearsal Excerpts] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 06:26:53 minutes | 3,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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In his nine symphonies, Gustav Mahler created an entire world for himself and his listeners. More than any other composer, he tries in his symphonic oeuvre to get to the very depths of the circle of life – the eternal cycle of growth and decay. What set of complete works would be more appropriate, therefore, for bringing the qualities and the unique sound of one of today’s leading orchestras to their fullest expression? In the Mahler complete edition released by BR-KLASSIK, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – under some of it’s most influential conductors, but above all it’s current chief conductor Mariss Jansons – tackles Gustav Mahler’s symphonic works. The performances were recorded live between 1996 and 2016 in the Philharmonie i’m Gasteig and the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, and most of them are recent. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Mariss Janson conducts Symphonies Nos 2, 5, 7 and 9, Bernard Haitink Nos. 3 and 4, Daniel Harding No. 6 and Colin Davis no. 8, the “Symphony of a Thousand”. Numerous soloists and choirs are also featured. The recordings form a challenging part of the symphonic repertoire from the recent history of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; under the baton of Mariss Jansons, and other conductors of the late 20th and early 21st century especially associated with it, this renowned orchestra, with the musical and interpretive mastery for which it is justly famed, provides truly memorable performances.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Friedrich Schloffer – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, TH 30 Pathétique (Rehearsal Excerpts) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:41 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city’s four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestras operated under the auspices of Bayerischer Rundfunk, or Bavarian Broadcasting (BR). Its primary concert venues are the Philharmonie of the Gasteig Cultural Centre and the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 “Leningrad” (Rehearsal Excerpts) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:33 minutes | 532 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mariss Jansons ranks among the outstanding podium personalities of our time. His orchestral work is recognized not only because of his busy touring activities but also because of television and radio broadcasts world-wide, also documented by a sizable number of recordings.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Franck Ollu – Wolfgang Rihm, Vol. 40 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:39 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Classical
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Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without him. His knowledge of music is all-encompassing, as is his mastery of the arts, literature and philosophy – all of which serve as sources of inspiration for his composing. With more than 400 compositions, he has created a universe that cannot easily be defined. Rihm has written New Music – the titles of his compositions have come to symbolize the musical history of recent decades. Other works by him refer to music history – they include, for example, oratorios inspired by Bach, orchestral works based on Brahms, or chamber music inspired by Schumann.
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