Gerard Salonga & Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – The Metaverse Symphony (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Gerard Salonga & Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – The Metaverse Symphony (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:08 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Elliot Ho Yat Leung (IPA: eliːət lœŋ) is a composer who seeks to blend the five human senses through poignant musical storytelling. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Huabiao Award for music. The South China Morning Post observed Leung as a composer who writes “evocatively with flair and romance.”

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Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra - Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jaap van Zweden, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra – Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:23:28 minutes | 4,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

The Tetralogy in China: even Wagner himself would never have dreamt it, even in his wildest dreams of world conquest armed with his “Gesamtkunstwerk”. But Hong Kong Philharmonic finished recording the Götterdämmerung in January 2018, led by their musical director Jaap van Zweden. It is the product of four years of public performances and live recordings, a fine recipe for preserving the vivaciousness and continuity of the work. And if Wagner had had such a high-quality orchestra at his disposal, maybe he would have had the Bayreuth festival set up on the bank of the Pearl River in order to see real justice done for his masterpiece… The record itself brings in some of the most experienced voices of the time. The “touchstone versions” have some stiff competition in the form of this new complete edition. The Hong Kong Philharmonic may lack some of the sometimes-weighty “traditions” of some other outfits, but they play this music as if it had just been written…
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Peter Donohoe, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton – Stravinsky: Music for Piano Solo and Piano & Orchestra (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Peter Donohoe, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton – Stravinsky: Music for Piano Solo and Piano & Orchestra (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:08:40 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings

Peter Donohoe’s compelling journey through the complete Prokofiev and subsequently the complete Scriabin Piano Sonatas for SOMM has led him almost irresistibly to the piano music of Stravinsky whose exuberance and many technical challenges he seems to relish. He begins with three movements from Petrushka for solo piano, drawn directly from the ballet by the composer ten years after the completion of the orchestral score.

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