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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Dvořák: Cello Concerto & Silent Woods (1971/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:08 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Classics
This remastered blockbuster features the extraordinary virtuoso Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as the performers explore two dynamic works by Dvorak: his Cello Concerto in B Minor, B.191, Op.104 and the Silent Woods. Jacqueline du Pre masterfully displays her outstanding technique with vivid vibrancy, while Barenboim commands the renowned orchestra.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini – Schubert: Symphony No.4 in C minor, D.417 / Symphony No.8 in B minor, D.759 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:49 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Except that the playing is nowhere near at the same level as the conducting and the recording is nowhere near at the same level as the playing, this disc of early recordings of the great Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini would be a success. And despite the orchestras’ extremely limited capacities, Giulini’s charismatic personality, intrinsic sense of drama, and sheer strength of will achieve much: his 1954 Schubert B minor Symphony is almost entirely convincing and his 1956 Brahms E minor nearly totally persuasive. But the Milan Radio Symphony’s scratchy strings and breathless winds do compromise the radiant lyricism of Giulini’s Schubert and the Rome Radio Symphony’s braying horns and keening flutes do wound the heroism of Giulini’s Brahms, and not even the conductor’s faith in the music and in his musicians can overcome the orchestras’ “every man for himself” approach to ensemble. And if the Italian radio playing wasn’t enough of an impairment, the live Italian radio sound is painfully antique with brief but agonizing bursts of static to remind the listener of its broadcast origins. (AMG)
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No.5 In C-Sharp Minor (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 2,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon
As with just about all the Mahler symphonies, Abbado has made multiple recordings of the Fifth, but this, his first, remains his finest, and an exceptional performance by any standard. It has all of the famed Chicago virtuosity but also a welcome attention to detail and willingness to savor a phrase that you almost never find with Solti’s Chicago Mahler. It’s great to hear a coda to the second movement that for once does not sound anti-climactic. We expect the horn playing in the scherzo to be stunning, and so it is, but the music also has grace, charm, and plenty of atmosphere at an appropriately relaxed basic tempo that, as you can hear, leaves plenty of space for the big moments to expand.
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Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, WAB 109 (Original 1894 Version) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:20 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CSO Resound
The latest CSO Resound release features Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a compelling performance of Bruckner’s formidable Ninth Symphony. Left unfinished at the time of the composer’s death in 1896, the immense work unfolds with stirring climaxes, daring chromaticism and harmonic richness. It is perfectly executed by the CSO, long-admired for its Bruckner interpretations. The Orchestra also holds the distinction of presenting the American premiere of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony in 1904. Muti brings remarkable lyricism to this dramatic work in a performance that embodies the exceptional synergy between the distinguished maestro and the CSO. A musical force in Chicago and around the world, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the finest international orchestras. The orchestra has earned 62 Grammy awards for its extensive catalog. “Muti, with an orchestra that is invariably sublime, shaped the meandering work with total conviction- from the opening sound of horns and the hum of strings, through richly lyrical sections, to sudden storms and then to sudden bits of quiet.” (Chicago Sun-Times) “Nobility, lyrical feeling and dramatic thrust are keys to Muti’s approach to the Bruckner symphonies… like a quiet and controlled church ritual that suddenly bursts forth in powerful glory.” (Chicago Tribune)
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini – Mahler: Symphony No.9 in D (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:28:29 minutes | 3,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Recently deceased conductor Carlo Maria Giulini had a long and distinguished career and many regard his years at the helm of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as among his most inspired. The work receive appropriately expansive readings with Giulini taking great care in drawing out the orchestral sonorous and chromatic potential. Giulini’s judicious moderate tempos particularly in the Mahler, are especially well suited to the composers spiritual grand plan. Deutsche Grammophon’s sound is remarkably good with exceptional presence and detail.
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Carlo Maria Giulini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.1 (1971) [Japan 2016]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 57:09 minutes | Basic Scans included | 2,3 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 2,26 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans included | 1,19 GB
Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a Grammy winning performance of Gustav Mahler’s four-movement Symphony No. 1 in D. If you want a Mahler First above all for beauty of tone and phrasing and precision of ensemble, then this is a plain first choice. In addition Giulini’s qualities suit this work. For all the orchestral sophistication, he has a transparent honesty which accords well with Mahler in ‘Wayfaring Lad’ mood. Nor does he use the Chicago orchestra’s virtuosity to whip up excitement in fast tempo.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Edwin Outwater, Mason Bates – Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 22:58 minutes | 256 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Inspired by a desire to offer my own kids a fresh guide to the orchestra, Philharmonia Fantastique was created to showcase both the artistic and technical wonders of the medium. Like its predecessors Peter & the Wolf and Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, it colorfully presents the instruments of the orchestra in the medium of a film soundtrack. Philharmonia Fantastique uses both musical genre and electronic sounds for characterization: noir-ish jazz for the woodwinds; bending lyricism in the strings; dark techno for the brass; drum-corps in the percussion; and, for our Sprite protagonist, a simple yet harmonically wandering piano melody.
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Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus – Verdi: Messa da Requiem (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:29:39 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CSO Resound
Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “a glorious achievement,” conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus through a breathtaking performance of Verdi’s epic masterpiece.
*Winner of two 2010 Grammy Awards including Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:00 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CSO RESOUND
The Chicago Tribune described the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s May 2007 performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 as a “glowing and eloquent account.” Now available to the world as the second release from CSO Resound, this recording showcases the remarkable chemistry between the CSO and Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink, who perform with what the Chicago Sun-Times calls “an almost extrasensory connection.”
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Itzhak Perlman, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini – Brahms: Violin Concerto (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:11 minutes | 804 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Brahms’s Opus 77 exemplifies the violin concerto of the Romantic era, just as Beethoven’s Opus 61 does that of the Classical age. As imposing as it is virtuosic, more than almost any other work in the genre, it leaves the soloist with nowhere to hide. For generations, it has been a work that any violinist aspiring to join the very select club of great masters of the instrument has had to conquer.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5 (1973/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:57:01 minutes | 2,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
This Grammy-winning release marks Vladimir Ashkenazy’s first of three cycles of the complete Beethoven piano concertos and captures the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sir Georg Solti at the peak of their careers. Ashkenazy recorded these concertos in May 1971 and May 1972: in 1971 the third and fifth concertos were recorded; a year later the cycle was completed with the first, second and fourth concertos.
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![Peter Serkin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa - Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (1966/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/08/23/0886446324067_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Peter Serkin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa – Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (1966/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 52:17 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
What fun this album is! True, today you can get all three Bartk piano concertos on a single disc, but these two performances from the mid-1960s, featuring the hot young talent of Peter Serkin and Seiji Ozawa, really deserve a home in the collection of anyone who cares about this music. With the Chicago Symphony in top form, the team blazes through the percussive First Concerto with take-no-prisoners gusto, especially in the finale. The Third Concerto, a more lyrical work to begin with, still sustains a remarkable degree of tension, and sounds as fresh as the day it was written. The central Andante religioso is completely captivating, the tempo perfectly chosen and Serkin finding poetry in just about every bar. The sonics are very clear, but also somewhat two-dimensional. Bartk’s interesting writing for low winds and percussion in the First Concerto is very well caught, but given the spotlight on the piano you’ll need to fiddle with the volume to find a comfortable listening level.” (David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday). Still, these are undoubtedly great performances, and it’s delightful to see them reissued on HighResAudio.”
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