![Ruby Hughes, Clara Mouriz, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena - Montsalvatge: Partita 1958, Cinco Cancione Negras, Calidoscopi simfònic & Simfonia de Rèquiem (2012/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/18/t6y9gauzpt6bb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Ruby Hughes, Clara Mouriz, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena – Montsalvatge: Partita 1958, Cinco Cancione Negras, Calidoscopi simfònic & Simfonia de Rèquiem (2012/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:55 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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This album of orchestral works marks the centenary in 2012 of the birth of the Catalan composer Xavier Montsalvatge.
It is released as part of our Spanish music series, conducted by Juanjo Mena, a fellow Catalan national and Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic. Montsalvatge was one on the most influential musical figures in Catalan music during the latter half of the twentieth century. He explored virtually every musical form, but many of his most significant works, including Cinco Canciones Negras (Five Negro Songs), were written after his discovery of the art of the Antilles. He was fascinated by West Indian music, which, as he wrote, ‘was itself originally Spanish, exported to the Caribbean, and then re-imported’. In Cinco Canciones Negras for mezzo-soprano and orchestra he set a varied collection of poems from the Caribbean and Spain, adopting the captivating rhythms of the West Indies. ‘Canción de Cuna para Dormira a un Negrito’ can only be described as one of the tenderest lullabies in the repertoire, presenting a vivid contrast to the exhilarating display of rumba-like rhythms in ‘Canto Negro’.
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![Paul Watkins, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins - Scott: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra & Symphony No. 1 (2008/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/16/b95i8as4afmdc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Paul Watkins, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins – Scott: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra & Symphony No. 1 (2008/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:00 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Classical
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Our survey of orchestral music by Cyril Scott comes to a close with the premiere recording of the Cello Concerto and Symphony No. 1. The BBC Philharmonic is conducted by Martyn Brabbins, with Paul Watkins as the cello soloist. From an early stage of his musical education Scott was influenced by German artistic ideas and his Symphony No. 1 is dedicated to the poet Stefan George. We have Percy Grainger to thank for preserving the score, in which Scott experiments with a modern rhapsodic style. The Cello Concerto is a later work and shows the influence of Ravel and Debussy. This is a virtuosic and extravagant work full of mysticism and haunting melodies.
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![Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Kathryn Stott - Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphony No. 2 (2006) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/05/uh46gf93r1foa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Neeme Järvi, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Kathryn Stott – Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 4 & Symphony No. 2 (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:47 minutes | 893 MB | Genre: Classical
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Kathryn Stott completes her cycle of Kabalevsky Piano concertos with nos. 1 & 4. coupled with the popular Symphony No. 2. Neeme Jarvi returns to Chandos for this recording and conducts the BBC Philharmonic in some spectacular music full of Russian folk themes.
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![Karen Geoghegan, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda - Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2009/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/05/hkk31huotre4b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Karen Geoghegan, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2009/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:18 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gianandrea Noseda continues his survey of Italian orchestral music with a disc of works by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, which is the Chandos March Featured Release. Wolf-Ferrari was the son of a German painter and his Italian wife and although acknowledged as an Italian composer, he was perhaps better known in Germany. Wolf-Ferrari achieved his greatest success with a string of operatic works, especially Il segreto di Susanna. The recording includes orchestral excerpts from five operas, together with the Suite-Concertino for bassoon and orchestra. The bassoonist in Karen Geoghegan, runner-up on TV’s ‘Classical Star’ programme and now a Chandos artist. Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music obviously very close to his heart.
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![Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Pop Songs (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/07/04/nxkjupy3r1n2b_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Jan Vogler, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Pop Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:45 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a cellist, Jan Vogler is always looking for interesting repertoire extensions for his instrument. After the world premiere recording of the “Three Continents” cello Concerto written for him by three composers for his last album, Jan Vogler now lets his cello “sing” the “pop songs” of the past centuries. His partners are the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Omer Meir Wellber. The new arrangements span a range from Monteverdi to Michael Jackson, from Mozart to the Beatles.
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![Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Roderick Williams - Elgar: Falstaff & Orchestral Songs (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/03/d06g4co39l0dc_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Roderick Williams – Elgar: Falstaff & Orchestral Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:23 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Aside from Elgar’s fascinating and obligatory Falstaff composed in 1913 (a Symphonic Study according to the partition, but in reality a symphonic poem in the grand tradition of Strauss— about whom Elgar probably thought when he wrote his masterpiece, and the rather present solo cello cannot help but remind us of Strauss’ Don Quixote, composed sixteen years earlier), the album distinguishes itself by a few melodies with orchestra from the same Elgar, a repertoire unfortunately too often neglected and yet of breathtaking beauty (we hear, in a pinch, the Sea Pictures performed from time to time, but that’s all folks). And when you know that it’s the now very famous baritone Roderick Williams on the mic, we can only applaud the initiative of Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic to feature these splendors once again. Elgar proves to us here that, far from just being a great master of large symphonic-vocal soundscapes in the form of oratorio (we obviously think about The Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles and The Music Makers), he handles the miniature with genius. Roderick Williams, one of the most beautiful voices of today’s British scene, grasps these rarities with a joy that is as rare as these pieces. The album closes on a hilarious wink, the Smoking Cantata, a cantata with a ginormous orchestration but that lasts… only 49 seconds, and whose text is limited to: “Kindly, Kindly, kindly do not SMOKE in the hall or staircase”. It’s the best British humor!
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Robert Plane, Gould Piano Trio, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Isotonic: Commissions for Clarinet by Burrell, Boden, Watkins & Jenkins (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:50 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Throughout his career, clarinettist Robert Plane has giventhe premiere performances of a number of works writtenespecially for him, and is renowned as a champion ofcontemporary music.* This album celebrates the results of the intense and verypersonal collaborations between Plane and the composersDiana Burrell, Huw Watkins, Mark David Boden and SarahFrances Jenkins.* Plane is joined by pianist Benjamin Frith, the Gould PianoTrio and the BBC Philharmonic under the direction ofconductor Geoffrey Paterson
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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & John Wilson – Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:50 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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John Wilson’s third volume devoted to music by Eric Coates combines some of the composer’s larger-scale works with miniatures and two marches. The Cinderella Phantasy frames the well-known fairy-tale from Cinderella’s perspective, glossing over the more brutal elements of the original, with some notably descriptive writing for the dream sequences, the ball, and of course the happy ending. The Three Men is to some extent autobiographical, as Coates explores his love of his native Nottinghamshire countryside, his love for London, and his love of the sea. The Three Elizabeths is a suite of portraits of three great figures in English History – Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth of Glamis (then the Queen Consort, now remembered as the Queen Mother), and Princess Elizabeth (who of course would become Queen Elizabeth II). Last Love is a wistful Romance written in 1939, while the much later Sweet Seventeen, a beautiful waltz, was inspired by the love of dancing harboured by both Eric and his wife, Phyllis. In fact, the title refers to his first date with ‘Phyl’, at the Blenheim Restaurant, the day before her seventeenth birthday. Two marches complete the programme: Television March was commissioned by the BBC (just three weeks before the date of broadcast!) for the resumption of television broadcasting in 1946, while The Dam Busters was used as the main title for Michael Anderson’s 1955 film and is arguably the composer’s most widely known work.
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Karen Geoghegan, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Juanjo Mena – Weber: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Bassoon Concerto & Invitation to the Dance (2012/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:11 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
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This is the fourth release by the BBC Philharmonic under its Chief Conductor, Juanjo Mena, and the discography is going from strength to strength – their recording of orchestral works by Falla was ‘Recording on the Month’ in BBC Music. They are joined on this recording by the bassoonist Karen Geoghegan.
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![Jakob Kullberg, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia - Remembering (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/04/07/gs5x36g46cb6a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Jakob Kullberg, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia – Remembering (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:10 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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On “Remembering”, the Danish cellist Jakob Kullberg continues his collaborations with two of the foremost Nordic composers: Per Norgard and Kaija Saariaho. Praised internationally for his performances of the modern cello concerto, Kullberg regards the concerto form as the encounter of an individual soloist with the sound world of a composer. With living composers this approach often results in an unusual degree of collaboration, as the works gathered here bear witness to. Since 1999, Kullberg has enjoyed a close and unique partnership with Norgard which has resulted in a large number of works.
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![BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 12 and 15 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/09/j4rzk79xgpbqa_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgards – Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 12 and 15 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:01 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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The BBC Philharmonic and its new Chief Conductor, John Storgårds, follow their previous release of Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony with this album of Symphonies Nos 12 and 15. Subtitled ‘The Year 1917’, the Twelfth Symphony was a project which Shostakovich had been planning and discussing for two decades – a symphony about Lenin. The first movement, ‘Revolutionary Petrograd’, depicts the arrival of Lenin in Petrograd in April 1917 and his meetings with the working people of the city. The second, ‘Razliv’, commemorates the site of Lenin’s retreat to the north of the city. ‘Aurora’, the third movement, refers to the Russian battleship the revolutionary mutinous crew of which fired the first shot of the attack on the Winter Palace. Finally, ‘The Dawn of Humanity’ celebrates the ultimate victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Musically, the Twelfth seems to regress to a more simplistic musical language than that of the immediately preceding Symphony – which some commentators ascribe to Shostakovich’s joining the Communist Party and perhaps trying harder to meet its expectations. The Fifteenth (and last) Symphony was written entirely in July 1971, at a composer’s rest home in Repino, north-west of Leningrad. It was his first non-programmatic symphony since the Tenth, and Shostakovich was wary of discussing the meaning of it, but eventually commented that it might be understood as representing the journey from life to death.
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Louis Lortie, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner – Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 5 & Other Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:51 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Louis Lortie completes his survey of the piano concertos of Saint-Saëns with Nos 3 and 5 (the Egyptian), adding the Rhapsodie dAuvergne and Allegro appassionato for good measure. As before, he is joined by Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic.
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Rustem Hayroudinoff, James Ehnes, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Dvořák: Piano Concerto. Violin Concerto (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:29 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Classical
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When Gianandrea Noseda was appointed Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, great things were expected – the reputation of this young conductor preceded him. What was less expected was the diversity of repertoire that he would conduct, with equal success. His releases for Chandos, from Prokofiev to Dallapiccola, routinely pick up accolades from the critics. This disc features two of Dvorak’s neglected concertos, performed with great élan by soloists James Ehnes and Rustem Hayroudinoff. Both works have been overshadowed by Dvorak’s more popular Cello Concerto in B minor, but, as is apparent from this recording, both are delightful pieces, full of Slavic colour and folk rhythms, and characteristic of Dvorak at his best.
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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Jac van Steen – David Matthews: A Vision of the Sea (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:45 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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A frequent collaborator with both the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Jac van Steen, David Matthews’ new recording explores both the natural world and the symphonic idea, the second of which has, in his words, “obsessed me since I started composing at the age of 16”.
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