London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:19 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This high-quality vinyl edition contains Claudio Abbado’s unforgettable interpretations of Gioachino Rossini’s overtures. Thanks to Claudio Abbado’s brilliant inventiveness, these recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra are among the musical and stylistic milestones of the Rossini interpretation, presented here in an unprecedented recording full of care and sophistication. The ravishing recordings date from the early 1970s and are now being reissued by Deutsche Grammophon in an audiophile format, in honor of a composer Gioachino Rossini, who has always been acclaimed. Abbado brings out Rossini’s characterful music with meticulousness and the finest flair, the “Semiramis” overture as well as the overtures to “The Thieving Magpie”, “The Barber of Seville”, “The Italian Woman in Algiers”, “La Cenerentola”, “The Silk Ladder” and “Wilhelm Tell”.
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London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records

International award-winning composer, Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dynamic new work that merges music and science. The seven-movement symphony dramatizes past, present and future moon explorations, and highlights discoveries that have been made in our search for other worlds that could possibly sustain life. Through the persuasive and powerful forces of music, the symphony offers Earthlings a chance to contemplate who and where we are in the universe. In 42 minutes they will be taken on an emotional journey, marveling at the wonders of these moons, the beauty of our planet, and possibly even experience their own perspective shift as crew-mates aboard this spaceship we cruise, Earth. This is the story of THE MOONS SYMPHONY.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:42 minutes | 4,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The London Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink’s first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink’s revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer’s music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms’ final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms’ Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens - Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel

Das verlangte Orchester ist groß, zur üblichen Besetzung mit dreifachem Holz kommt ein Altsaxophon (einer der wenigen Fälle eines Saxophons in der klassischen Musik), stark erweitertes Schlagwerk (3 Pauken, Tamburin, Triangel, Kleine und Große Trommel, Becken, Tamtam, Glockenspiel, 3 Glocken), Klavier und eine Harfe. Das Werk gilt in der Orchesterliteratur als anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Es ist dem Philadelphia Orchestra und seinem damaligen Chefdirigenten Eugene Ormandy gewidmet, die das Werk auch am 3. Januar 1941 uraufführten. Erst während einer Aufführung unter Dimitri Mitropoulos und dem Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra im November 1942 entdeckte Rachmaninow, dass in der Partitur des ersten Satzes statt Allegro ein Non Allegro gedruckt war; das Non wurde ausgestrichen. Bis heute findet sich Non Allegro aber häufig noch als Satzangabe. Die Aufführungsdauer des Satzes variiert nicht zuletzt daher beträchtlich zwischen einzelnen Aufführungen. Eine eigene Aufnahme, die Rachmaninows Sicht dargestellt hätte, war geplant, wurde aber nie durchgeführt. 2018 erschien ein Mitschnitt bei Marston Records, in dem Rachmaninow Eugene Ormandy in einer Version für Solo-Klavier das Werk erläutert. Das Tempo zu Beginn des ersten Satzes ist in dieser Erläuterung am Klavier mit 116 Schlägen minimal unter Allegro im oberen Moderato-Bereich.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Miran Vaupotić – Sparks: Eye of London (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Miran Vaupotić - Sparks: Eye of London (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Miran Vaupotić – Sparks: Eye of London (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:47 minutes | 990 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona

Navona Records presents SPARKS: EYE OF LONDON, an assembly of original fanfares performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Drawing from the compositional strengths of today’s composers, the orchestra navigates chaos and order, isolation, and ascension towards triumph through passionate orchestral writing reminiscent of the fire that burns within us. A collection spanning thought-provoking narratives, scenic synesthesia, soothing passages, and the whimsically abstract, the London Symphony Orchestra explores a vast musical landscape of emotions, tackling each with precision and verve.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Boyer – Peter Boyer: Balance of Power & Other Orchestral Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Boyer – Peter Boyer: Balance of Power & Other Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. Balance of Power was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, while Fanfare for Tomorrow was composed for the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Each of these pieces displays Boyer’s vivid soundscapes and tuneful American sensibilities, from the cinematic sweep of Rolling River to Radiance, composed especially for this album.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:06:37 minutes | 3,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The air shimmers and glows, and somewhere in the mists, a solitary horn gives a lonely call. The stuff of fairytales? The truth is, it’s impossible to write about Bruckner’s majestic Fourth Symphony without letting the imagination soar; he never wrote anything more colourful, or more poetic. In Germany, they call it the ‘Romantic’ symphony, and it’s easy to hear why.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 – Rimsky-Korsakov: Kitezh Suite (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 – Rimsky-Korsakov: Kitezh Suite (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:45 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

History, heritage, and fate combine in this recording from Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra, bringing together the music of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, brimming over with drama and emotional intensity, charts a course from darkness to a final, life-affirming glimmer of optimism. Composed in 1888 and conducted by Tchaikovsky for it’s November premiere that year, the symphony makes use of a recurring main ‘Fate theme’ to bring together the work’s four movements. Rimsky-Korsakov dug deep into Russian legends and folk tales for his opera. “The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh”. Follow the mythical, magical story of the ‘Russian Atlantis’ in this orchestral suite, told through the composer’s glittering orchestral palette.

Tchaikovsky’s sublime fifth symphony of 1888 is here coupled with the suite from Rimsky-Korsakov’s grandest mythological opera—The Legend of the invisible city of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, first performed in 1907.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Ludwig – Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Op. 40 (1959/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Ludwig – Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), Op. 40 (1959/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:24 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Everest

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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:06:37 minutes | 3,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The air shimmers and glows, and somewhere in the mists, a solitary horn gives a lonely call. The stuff of fairytales? The truth is, it’s impossible to write about Bruckner’s majestic Fourth Symphony without letting the imagination soar; he never wrote anything more colourful, or more poetic. In Germany, they call it the ‘Romantic’ symphony, and it’s easy to hear why.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens - Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Eugene Goossens – Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48 (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:56 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel

Das verlangte Orchester ist groß, zur üblichen Besetzung mit dreifachem Holz kommt ein Altsaxophon (einer der wenigen Fälle eines Saxophons in der klassischen Musik), stark erweitertes Schlagwerk (3 Pauken, Tamburin, Triangel, Kleine und Große Trommel, Becken, Tamtam, Glockenspiel, 3 Glocken), Klavier und eine Harfe. Das Werk gilt in der Orchesterliteratur als anspruchsvoll zu spielen. Es ist dem Philadelphia Orchestra und seinem damaligen Chefdirigenten Eugene Ormandy gewidmet, die das Werk auch am 3. Januar 1941 uraufführten. Erst während einer Aufführung unter Dimitri Mitropoulos und dem Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra im November 1942 entdeckte Rachmaninow, dass in der Partitur des ersten Satzes statt Allegro ein Non Allegro gedruckt war; das Non wurde ausgestrichen. Bis heute findet sich Non Allegro aber häufig noch als Satzangabe. Die Aufführungsdauer des Satzes variiert nicht zuletzt daher beträchtlich zwischen einzelnen Aufführungen. Eine eigene Aufnahme, die Rachmaninows Sicht dargestellt hätte, war geplant, wurde aber nie durchgeführt. 2018 erschien ein Mitschnitt bei Marston Records, in dem Rachmaninow Eugene Ormandy in einer Version für Solo-Klavier das Werk erläutert. Das Tempo zu Beginn des ersten Satzes ist in dieser Erläuterung am Klavier mit 116 Schlägen minimal unter Allegro im oberen Moderato-Bereich.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:42 minutes | 4,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The London Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink’s first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink’s revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer’s music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms’ final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms’ Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper – Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Bradley Cooper – Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:01 minutes | 641 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin/London Symphony Orchestra/Bradley Cooper – “Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (Original Soundtrack)” Deutsche Grammophon is proud to partner with Netflix to release the original soundtrack recording from one of the most anticipated films of the year: Bradley Cooper’s MAESTRO. Featuring Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the music of Leonard Bernstein with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra & Gianandrea Noseda – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:02 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

Prokofiev sends an urgent musical bulletin from Stalin’s Russia with his Symphony No. 5—music of iron and steel, forged in a time of war and tyranny.

“There was certainly plenty of optimism and heroism in Noseda’s approach to the symphony, and he conducted a pitch-perfect account, with all sections of the LSO blazing at every given opportunity. This was an exemplary performance, luckily recorded for release on the orchestra’s own label: LSO Live.” – Keith McDonnell, Seen and Heard International

Noseda is known for his mastery of Russian repertoire, and his previous Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich recordings on the LSO’s own label have attracted glowing reviews. This album marks the second in a new cycle of Prokofiev symphonies with Noseda.

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London Symphony Orchestra – Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady (1987/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra – Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady (1987/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:28 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra breathed new life into the orchestral pops repertoire, told new stories and brought in new audiences when it was revived under the conductor John Mauceri in the 1990s. At the centrepiece of this collection are all of the original HBO albums released by Philips from 1991–96.

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