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Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Brahms: Symphony No.4 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:26 minutes | 752 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Although his catalog lists just four symphonies, Brahms wrote several other works that come close to that genre: his First Piano Concerto was indeed planned as a symphony, and the Second (which is in four movements) has been called a symphony with piano obbligato. Although the Second and Third Symphonies were introduced in Vienna, Brahms decided to give his Fourth Symphony an out-of-town tryout. He himself conducted the premiere (in October 1885) with the Meiningen Court Orchestra, where the audience was enthusiastic. Vienna was not so receptive when the work was introduced there a few months later. As it turned out, a mere ten years after his First Symphony had been given its premiere, Brahms had written his last symphony. Two years later came the Double Concerto, whose two solo parts (violin and cello) remind us of the old sinfonia concertante form, but there were to be no more symphonies.
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Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:50 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
In his “Fantastic Symphony in Five Parts,” a literal translation of the composer’s final title, Berlioz tells a musical tale with himself as the central character – creating not only a mood (as in Liszt’s symphonic poems), but states of mind and precise, physical situations. Nothing like it had been attempted on this scale before.
Berlioz’s new concept of how far one could go in dramatic music without resorting to a vocal text once caused considerable polemicizing over whether such music was viable without reference to the “story.” Wagner’s great friend and champion, Eduard Dannreuther, took the negative tack: “The Symphonie fantastique, particularly its finale, is sheer nonsense when the hearer has no knowledge of the program.”
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Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel – Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:43 minutes | 608 MB | Genre: Classical
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“… Dudamel lives up to the hype, the hype being a youthful and energetic interpreter who brings a refreshing vivacity to his performances … has plenty of surface excitement, a good deal of which is provided by the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s polished virtuosity and expertise with the score …” –ClassicsToday.com
Gustavo Dudamel, one of the fastest-rising young stars in classical music, leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic on this live album of Bartók’s Concerto For Orchestra, the composer’s most popular orchestral work. This energetic performance was recorded at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2007.
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Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic – Holst: The Planets, John Williams: Star Wars Suite (1971/1978)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 79:47 minutes | Scans included | 3,24 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,38 GB
Uses 2012 DSD master based on the Decca’s original analog tape
Genre: Classical
Written by Gustav Holst over a three-year period in 1914, The Planets is a true masterpiece of classical music and features seven movements based on the planets in our own solar system excluding Pluto and the Earth itself. This world renowned piece, that has always overshadowed Holst’s other famous works of music, is conducted by Zubin Mehta and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Also, the disc includes Star Wars suite wriiten by John Williams.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gustavo Dudamel – J. Adams: The Gospel According To The Other Mary (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:13:03 minutes | 2,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, first performed in 2012 in Los Angeles, is something of an expansion on the composer’s El Niño, a Passion story adorned with a variety of contemporary themes and musical materials. Like the earlier work, it features a libretto by longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars, and it may be sung on-stage as an oratorio or presented as an opera. Mary Magdalene is indeed a central figure in the work, but actually it is more than the trick perspective the title might imply; as with El Niño Sellars incorporates such devices as set pieces featuring poetry by other writers (this time poet Louise Erdrich plays the central role). Jesus seems to appear as through a prism, embodied by a trio of countertenors: a typical Adams masterstroke. Bach’s Passions are obvious antecedents, but Andrew Clements of the London Guardian has accurately pointed out a resemblance to a work by a composer not much mentioned in the same breath as Adams: Leonard Bernstein’s Mass. The music has similar ambitions and a similar way, although not so extreme, of veering off into contemporary vernacular materials according to the text. This doesn’t suit Adams perfectly, although he takes steps, including a recurring use of the cimbalom, to tie all his diverse materials together. At any rate, the work is never boring and often absorbing; the enthusiasm of conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the vocal performers, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra for the material is palpable; and this sprawling score is clearly recorded. Time will tell whether concert-music big events like this one will have staying power, but there’s a lot to chew on here for anyone with the slightest liking for Adams and his democratic, synoptic musical world.
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