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London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski – Symphony No. 11 in G Minor “The Year 1905” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:40 minutes | 973 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
This recording was taken from a live performance during the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2019/20 season at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The recording captures the thrill and electricity of the live performance.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Vladimir Jurowski – Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 & Isle of the Dead (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:48 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 3 October 2014 (The Isle of the Dead) and 14 December 2016 (Symphony No. 1).
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski – Jurowski Conducts Mozart Wind Concertos (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:47 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
Mozart was a master at capturing the spirits of the instruments for which he wrote, perfectly exemplified here in the lighter-than-air Flute Concerto No. 2, the sprightly and playful Bassoon Concerto and in the interplay of the four soloists in the Sinfonia concertante. These three exceptional works come to life in this studio recording with soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Paavo Berglund – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:36 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund, who passed away in January 2012, was one of the last remaining conductors with a direct personal connection to Sibelius. With the Second and Seventh Symphonies already released on the LPO Label, Berglund’s Sibelius legacy is further cemented in these live concert recordings with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, in which he vividly captures the natural flight of the Fifth Symphony and the freefall journey of the Sixth.
The affinity Berglund felt with the music of Jean Sibelius went beyond shared nationality and personal acquaintance. Berglund revealed a rare physicality in Sibelius’s scores. It was there in his three recorded symphony cycles, but in these late London performances it emerged in a different, darker light. Berglund wasn’t as meticulous about observing marked tempi as some of his younger compatriots are. Instead he was impulsive, rugged and heartfelt. But his instincts always seemed to serve the musical architecture, the curious symphonic meta-flow unique to Sibelius. His death in January 2012 was talked of as a goodbye to one of the last conductors of the ‘old school’.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer – Rosner: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:28 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
The musical language of the New York-based Arnold Rosner (19452013) had its roots in the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony and evolved in an array of unusual directions, producing a style that is instantly recognizable and immediately appealing as can be heard in the three works on this recording. Rosners Nocturne suggests the immensity and the implacable violence of outer space, whereas his overture Tempus Perfectum has its starting point in Renaissance dance. The monumental Sixth Symphony opens with music of volcanic ferocity and vehemence; the central Adagio then provides an island of troubled calm before the dignified opening of the finale presages a symphonic Allegro of wild, freewheeling energy; only when its immense force is spent does this powerful masterpiece sink to an uneasy close.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Kurt Masur – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:22:58 minutes | 740 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 24 November 2004 (Symphony No. 3) and 27 November 2004 (Symphony No. 5).
This recording features former Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Kurt Masur, who conducted more than 150 performances in London and internationally during his tenure.
Masur inaugurated the launch of the LPO’s own label in 2005 with live performances of Shostakovich’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5.
Kurt Masur was renowned for conducting Beethoven with insight and cohesion; these concert performances were conducted from memory. He sadly passed away in December 2015; this captivating pair of concert recordings from 2004 pays tribute to his musical legacy.
London Philharmonic Orchestra & David Parry – Bellini: La straniera (2007/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:21:20 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Opera Rara
Bellini’s fourth opera, La Straniera, marked out the composer as one of the leading figures of the post-Rossini generation. Indeed, he then went on to receive a commission for I Capuleti e I Montecchi that far surpassed the record amount received by Rossini for his final Italian score.
Straniera is one of the pieces that most defines Bellini status as the instigator of a revolution in vocal technique in Italian opera. Gone are the incessant fioriture, the unmotivated decorations and the generation of excitement by unsubtle means; instead, the composer spins out long lines and focuses on the lyric element as the main tool of expression. Risible though the plot is at times, this vocal technique allows Bellini to render the main character a woman of extreme nobility and dignity.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & David Parry – Bellini: Il pirata (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:39:22 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Opera Rara
Bellini’s fourth opera, La Straniera, marked out the composer as one of the leading figures of the post-Rossini generation. Indeed, he then went on to receive a commission for I Capuleti e I Montecchi that far surpassed the record amount received by Rossini for his final Italian score.
Straniera is one of the pieces that most defines Bellini status as the instigator of a revolution in vocal technique in Italian opera. Gone are the incessant fioriture, the unmotivated decorations and the generation of excitement by unsubtle means; instead, the composer spins out long lines and focuses on the lyric element as the main tool of expression. Risible though the plot is at times, this vocal technique allows Bellini to render the main character a woman of extreme nobility and dignity.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, London Philharmonic Choir – Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Bläue, Alleluia, The Stations of the Sun (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:36 minutes | 979 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
This recording features one of today’s most sought-after conductors, Vladimir Jurowski, who was appointed Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007, with many of his recordings on the LPO Label being chosen for special mentions by BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone Magazine. As Composer in Residence from 201014, Julian Anderson has a close affinity with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and this album is a celebration of his time at the LPO. This is Julian’s second release on the LPO label, featuring premiere recordings of Alleluia and In lieblicher Bläue. Two of the three pieces on this album were composed specially for these musicians: Alleluia for the London Philharmonic Choir, the LPO and Vladimir Jurowski to perform at the re-opening concert of the Royal Festival Hall in June 2007, and In lieblicher Bläue for Carolin Widmann, one of the leading violinists of her generation. This recording of In lieblicher Bläue is taken from its world premiere performance at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 14 March 2015. The recordings of Alleluia and The Stations of the Sun are also taken from live concert recordings at the Royal Festival Hall in March 2014 and December 2013 respectively.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ben Gernon – The Immersive Experience (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:11:27 minutes | 3,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The Immersive Experience is a spectacular collection of 35 of the greatest classical tracks, recorded in Dolby Atmos surround sound by the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir and young British conductor Ben Gernon at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss – Wagner: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:00 minutes | 305 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski – Vladimir Martynov: Utopia (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:15 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Martynov’s Utopia Symphony is a musical tribute to Singapore from a son of the Russian avant-garde of the 1970s. Martynov skillfully combines influences from American minimalism and Russian Orthodox chant with a libretto inspired by the ancient text of the Tao Te Ching to create a sound world which seeks to reimagine the concept of utopia. This world premiere recording was made at London’s Abbey Road Studios, under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra – Music From Great Film Classics (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Another spectacular soundtrack compilation from London Records Phase 4 Stereo. The scores are for the movies: Citizen Kane, Jane Eyre, The Snows Of Killimanjaro, and The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hermann Scherchen – Mahler: Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:04:23 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Andromeda
Hermann Scherchen was a figure of central importance in twentieth-century musical life, his continuing espousal of new music making him one of its foremost proponents in Europe. As a conductor he held a deep respect for the composer’s written text, for instance seeking to perform Beethoven’s symphonies at the tempi indicated in the manuscripts, an unusual practice for the time. Technically he believed that a conductor should commence work with an orchestra only when every aspect of a score had been completely memorised, and could be rehearsed from memory. Film of Scherchen conducting shows him to have possessed a very simple and clear beat. Yet he could summon up performances of raw power as well as of great character. He saw the conductor’s job very much as animating the music beyond the notes, writing in 1935, ‘A music devoid of any emotion, of any aesthetic pleasure or spiritual clarification may be of interest to the professional, but has no meaning whatsoever to the normal listener.’
On this classic record, he conducts Mahler’s mounmental 1st and 10th Symphonies at the head of the London Philharmonic Orchestra!
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London Philharmonic Orchestra – Boult Conducts Butterworth, Warlock, Hadley & Howells (2007/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:51 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lyrita
The reputation of George Butterworth, whose life was tragically cut short in WWI, rests on a handful of works including the orchestral pieces on this recording. Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) left just three orchestral works, including An Old Song. Hadley’s One Morning in Spring was written for his teacher Vaughan Williams. Herbert Howells’s early orchestral and chamber works have ravishing pastoral beauty.
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