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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & John Storgards – Madetoja: Symphony No. 2 – Kullervo – Elegy (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:03 minutes | 2,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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This new release of works by Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja (1887-1947) features his Symphony No. 2, first performed in 1918, it is the most significant piece of music written in Finland since the symphonies of Sibelius. The album, originally recorded in DXD, was mastered using our 2xHD proprietary system. In order to achieve the most accurate reproduction of the original recording we tailor our process specifically for each project, using a selection from our pool of state-of-the-art audiophile components and connectors. The process begins with a transfer to analog from the original 24bits/96kHz resolution master, using cutting edge D/A converters. The analog signal is then sent through a hi-end tube pre-amplifier before being recorded directly in DXD using the dCS905 A/D and the dCS Vivaldi Clock. All connections used in the process are made of OCC silver cable. DSD and 192kHz/24Bit versions are separately generated, directly from the analog signal.
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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra & John Storgårds – Korngold: Much Ado about Nothing – Sinfonietta (2012/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:19 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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This release contains the world premiere recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing with the complete incidental music, written for chamber orchestra but performed here by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under John Storgårds. Completing the programme is Korngold’s Sinfonietta with its richly orchestrated melodies, dreamy music and imposing finale.
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Colin Currie, Truls Mork, Helsenki Philharmonic Orchestra & John Storgards – Rautavaara: Modificata – Incantations – Towards the Horizon (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:22 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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This Grammy-nominated recording of world premieres comes with a long list of critical accolades and awards from around the world. The programme by the Helsinki Philarmonic Orchestra under John Storgårds couples Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s most recent concerto works with an orchestral piece from his early Modernist period, Modificata. Rautavaara’s cello concerto Towards the Horizon was written for cellist Truls Mørk and is performed continuously in one 20-minute movement.
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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:45 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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1905 was a year of revolutionary upheaval in pre-Soviet Russia. Shostakovich based this work on the events of one episode of that year, when thousands of workers and their families converged on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to petition the Tsar over their working and living conditions. The Tsar had been advised to leave, no-one was there to accept the petition, and the authorities resorted to cavalry charges to disperse the crowd. With 200 dead and 500 wounded, this incident damaged the Tsar’s reputation and flamed the fire of revolution in the masses.
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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Antheil: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 and Other Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:52 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Alongside its ongoing much-lauded Copland series, the BBC Philharmonic embarks on a new American journey, this time with its chief guest conductor, John Storgårds.
Known as the ‘bad boy of music’, George Antheil began his career with a reputation as an enfant terrible, composing shockingly avant-garde works such as his ever-popular Ballet mécanique, inspired by the dynamism and dissonances of Stravinsky’s early ballets. Although he is well-established on the film music scene, too, it is his symphonic output – sampled here – that today survives in the concert hall.
This new series documents the evolution of his musical style, which moved towards a fundamentally tonal and melody-based idiom, Antheil joining the growing ranks of famous US symphonists. The war-inspired Fourth Symphony and ‘joyous’ Fifth clearly represent this compositional shift, breaking with what the composer called the ‘now passé’ modernism.
Also here is the premiere recording of the Texas-inspired Over the Plains, memorable for its allusions to cowboy music and offering some unexpectedly dramatic and atmospheric twists along the way.
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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds – Antheil: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:26 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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In this their third volume of orchestral works of Antheil, John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic present a collection of scores spanning the whole of Antheil’s compositional life. Written in the early 1920s, the First Symphony is full of Antheil’s enthusiasm for the mechanical, and takes strong leads from the prevailing sound of the jazz era as well as a nostalgic look back to its predecessor, ragtime. Antheil regarded this work as ‘a young symphony with the feeling of summertime in eastern America in it’. For it he drew heavily on his experiences of his home town of Trenton, and the nearby Delaware River.
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BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds – Antheil: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 & Over the Plains (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:40 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Alongside its ongoing much-lauded Copland series, the BBC Philharmonic embarks on a new American journey, this time with its chief guest conductor, John Storgårds.
Known as the ‘bad boy of music’, George Antheil began his career with a reputation as an enfant terrible, composing shockingly avant-garde works such as his ever-popular Ballet mécanique, inspired by the dynamism and dissonances of Stravinsky’s early ballets. Although he is well-established on the film music scene, too, it is his symphonic output – sampled here – that today survives in the concert hall.
This new series documents the evolution of his musical style, which moved towards a fundamentally tonal and melody-based idiom, Antheil joining the growing ranks of famous US symphonists. The war-inspired Fourth Symphony and ‘joyous’ Fifth clearly represent this compositional shift, breaking with what the composer called the ‘now passé’ modernism.
Also here is the premiere recording of the Texas-inspired Over the Plains, memorable for its allusions to cowboy music and offering some unexpectedly dramatic and atmospheric twists along the way.
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Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, John Storgards – Kalevi Aho: Rituals (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:19:34 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 2003 Kalevi Aho received the unusual commission of composing a complete concert programme. Kysymysten kirja, a meditative, philosophical song cycle using the Finnish translation of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s posthumous collection ‘The Book of Questions’. The poems included are made up exclusively of questions, of which Aho has chosen a number, combining them into eleven sets to be performed without a break. The concert leads immediately into the Viola Concerto, and ends with Symphony No.14, ‘Rituals’, scored for sixteen string players, wind quintet and two percussionists.
Aho, who this year celebrates his 60th birthday, is increasingly recognized as one of today’s leading orchestral composers.
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