Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (2016)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:50 minutes | Scans NOT included | 2,56 GB
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The RCO’s performance history of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony is strangely uneven. Already three years after its completion the symphony was performed by Willem Mengelberg in a program that also boasted the composer as soloist in his own Piano Concerto No. 3. After that the symphony was on the program once more in 1921 and then there’s a gap of 59 years. From 1980 on no less than ten conductors (including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Kirill Kondrashin and Kurt Sanderling) put it on the RCO’s music stands. The latest RCO incarnation proved to be an ideal performance. With Mariss Jansons at the helm, mind and heart of this piece are totally balanced and the opulence of the RCO’s sound at the Concertgebouw iss perfectly suited to Rachmaninoff’s most beloved symphony.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition (2009)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 33:35 minutes | Scans included | 1,72 GB
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DSD Recording | Featues Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | RCO Live # 09004
Recorded live at the legendary Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2008, Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra present Mussorgsky’s much beloved and much recorded Pictures at an Exhibition in the orchestrated version by Maurice Ravel. This performance underlines the orchestra’s magnificent form and wonderful range of sonic colours and imagery.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dorothea Roschmann – Mahler: Symphony No.4 (2015)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:58 minutes | Digital Booklet | 2,51 GB
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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has enjoyed a very special relationship with Gustav Mahler; with this live release, recorded in February 2015, Mariss Jansons and the RCO add an impressive chapter to their recorded history of Mahler symphonies. Acclaimed German soprano Dorothea Röschmann joins the RCO on the work’s fourth movement.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.1 (2007)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 54:36 minutes | Digital Booklet | 2,56 GB
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Chief conductor Mariss Jansons leads his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on this live performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, recorded in Amsterdam in 2006. This album has earned Jansons and the RCO great praise for a skillful, energetic and evocative interpretation, called “as good as live performance can get” by BBC Music Magazine.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.8 (2013)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 80:05 minutes | Digital Booklet | 3,69 GB
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Mariss Jansons’s interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 is yet another landmark for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performed here with a star-studded cast. This recording is part of the orchestra’s full Mahler cycle presented from 2009 to 2011 to celebrate the composer’s 150th birthday and 100th anniversary of his death.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 + Henze: Sebastian im Traum (2006)
SACD Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 98:11 minutes | Digital Booklet | 5,32 GB
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Mariss Jansons joins one of the greatest Mahler traditions in the world with his first album leading the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on a Mahler symphony. For this 2005 live recording, Jansons and the RCO provide a superbly impressive performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, one of the greatest and most dramatic of Mahler’s works. The programme also includes the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze’s Sebastian im Traum.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.5 (2008)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 71:39 minutes | Digital Booklet | 3,33 GB
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The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and chief conductor Mariss Jansons have a long and cherished history performing the music of Gustav Mahler, whose compositions have become a staple of the RCO’s repertoire. These live recordings of Mahler’s majestic Symphony No. 5 are drawn from concerts presented in late 2007 and early 2008, commemorating the 120th anniversary of the RCO’s first performance. On this album Jansons underscores more than ever the symphony’s narrative, poetic side.
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Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.3 (2011)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 98:32 minutes | Scans & PDF included | 4,49 GB
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For the latest highly anticipated release in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Mahler symphony cycle under the direction of its chief conductor Mariss Jansons, the orchestra now turns its attention to the Third Symphony. Once again, Jansons stands out in this performance for his astonishingly keen eye for the minutest details. Like no other, Jansons possesses the ability to integrate all this beautiful detailing into the virtually infinite overarching climaxes that can make listening to Mahler’s symphonies such an exciting experience.
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Iveta Apkalna, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mariss Jansons – Saint-Saëns: Symphonie No. 3 “Orgelsymphonie” – Poulenc: Orgelkonzert (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:44 minutes | 601 MB | Genre: Classical
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Two great symphonic organ concertos can be heard on the new album from BR-KLASSIK: the famous Organ Symphony by Camille Saint-Saëns and the lesser-known but highly impressive Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani by Francis Poulenc. The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks is conducted by Mariss Jansons, and the organ soloist is the excellent Latvian musician Iveta Apkalna, one of the most renowned concert organists of our time.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 / Suk: Serenade (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 730 MB | Genre: Classical
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Dvořák’s lyrical and cheerful Eighth Symphony, which premiered successfully in Prague on February 2, 1890, is one of the famous Bohemian composer’s most often-played works. He succeeded here “in writing a work different from my other symphonies, with individual thoughts elaborated in a new way”. Every movement and every melody in this music reflects the fact that it was wholly inspired by the landscape of Bohemia. Dvořák’s close familiarity with and love of Slavonic folk music can be clearly heard, as can his deep preoccupation with the symphonies of Tchaikovsky: the rhapsodic Adagio and the waltz-like Scherzo, for example, in their melodic inventiveness as well as their formal structure, are both highly reminiscent of the famous Russian composer. – Alongside Dvořák’s much-performed Ninth Symphony, his Eighth is a further masterpiece of late 19th-century instrumental music. Josef Suk’s Serenade for Strings of 1892 is far more than a mere time-filler on this CD. The first successful composition by this budding Czech composer – who was Dvořák’s pupil and son-in-law – is audibly influenced by the musical and aesthetic ideas of his teacher and mentor, but is also a highly individual work in its own right and an important example of the genre. In the recordings of the two concerts performed in the Philharmonie im Gasteig on January 29 and 30, 2016, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Mariss Jansons successfully demonstrated that Dvořák’s traditional yet visionary symphonic writing continues to retain all its validity today: the interpretation is sensitive, dynamic and majestic. Suk’s Serenade for Strings was recorded in a studio only a few days beforehand.
Exciting live atmosphere (Dvořák) combined with a studio production (Suk). Programme contains important works of late 19th-century Czech instrumental music. Recording of a concert that took place as recently as January 29 and 30, 2016 together with a studio production on January 25, 2016. The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under its chief conductor Mariss Jansons, regularly praised for his special sensitivity where Slavonic music is concerned.
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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Dvořák: Stabat mater für Soli, Chor und Orchester, Op. 58, B. 71 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:55 minutes | 749 MB | Genre: Classical
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Dvorák’s haunting „Stabat Mater“ for solo voices, chorus and orchestra is not only the most famous work of church music by the Bohemian composer – it is also one of the most impressive ever settings of the medieval hymn in which Mary, the mother of Jesus, gives vivid expression to the pain she feels at the sight of her crucified son. The terrible misfortunes that befell the composer in his private life during the creation of this work may have been a reason for this. It is the continuous expression of deep piety, above all, that gives this music its special dignity. It was precisely this intensity that was conveyed by the concert on March 26, 2015 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, where the four renowned soloists were in fine voice, and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks once again delivered the ‘crystal clear sound’ and ‘incredible three-dimensionality’ for which it is highly praised time and again. And the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Mariss Jansons, performed Dvorák’s deeply moving music authentically, in keeping with the composer’s intentions: sensitively felt, yet with a resonant, magnificent sound.
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Diana Damrau, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mariss Jansons – Richard Strauss: Lieder (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 681 MB | Genre: Classical
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“For me, Strauss is one of the greatest composers,” Diana Damrau has said. “The way he handles the soprano voice is a joy. And to be able to sing his music with my voice feels like coming home.” The centrepiece of this album of Strauss songs is the sublime Vier letzte Lieder, in which Damrau – born and trained in Bavaria – joins forces with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its long-standing Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons, in what was to become his final recording. Her partner in a tempting and diverse selection of songs with piano is Helmut Deutsch. “Not only is Strauss’s music gorgeous,” says Damrau, “there’s the way he combines words and notes – and the psychology.”
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Mariss Jansons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus – Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Live) & [Rehearsal Excerpts] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 06:26:53 minutes | 3,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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In his nine symphonies, Gustav Mahler created an entire world for himself and his listeners. More than any other composer, he tries in his symphonic oeuvre to get to the very depths of the circle of life – the eternal cycle of growth and decay. What set of complete works would be more appropriate, therefore, for bringing the qualities and the unique sound of one of today’s leading orchestras to their fullest expression? In the Mahler complete edition released by BR-KLASSIK, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – under some of it’s most influential conductors, but above all it’s current chief conductor Mariss Jansons – tackles Gustav Mahler’s symphonic works. The performances were recorded live between 1996 and 2016 in the Philharmonie i’m Gasteig and the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, and most of them are recent. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Mariss Janson conducts Symphonies Nos 2, 5, 7 and 9, Bernard Haitink Nos. 3 and 4, Daniel Harding No. 6 and Colin Davis no. 8, the “Symphony of a Thousand”. Numerous soloists and choirs are also featured. The recordings form a challenging part of the symphonic repertoire from the recent history of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; under the baton of Mariss Jansons, and other conductors of the late 20th and early 21st century especially associated with it, this renowned orchestra, with the musical and interpretive mastery for which it is justly famed, provides truly memorable performances.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons – Chabrier, Gershwin, Enescu, Ravel, Liszt: Rhapsody (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:56 minutes | 630 MB | Genre: Classical
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This latest recording from BR KLASSIK contains five great rhapsodies, devised and elaborated by very different composers from different regions, with a lot of imagination and local flavour. With his rhapsody ‘España’ the Frenchman Emmanuel Chabrier focused on the Iberian music and folk music so popular at the time, as did his more famous compatriot Maurice Ravel with his ‘Rhapsodie espagnole’, the four-movement structure of which still harks back to long-outdated symphonic forms. From the Hungarian-born Franz Liszt we have the famous ‘Hungarian Rhapsody’ No. 2, and from the Romanian composer George Enescu the scarcely less famous and popular ‘Romanian Rhapsody’. The American George Gershwin created what was probably the most famous example of the genre in the 20th century with his ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ for piano and orchestra…
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:30 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the requiem masses of Dvorák and Mozart in previous seasons, this performance of Brahms’s German Requiem would have been the third in a long series of Requiems conducted by Mariss Jansons. Unfortunately the ‘new tradition’ was cut short by Jansons’s departure as the RCO’s chief conductor during the 2014/2015 season. The performance was dedicated to Kurt Sanderling, one of the orchestra’s most beloved guest conductors. He passed away the year before and would have turned 100 that very month. It proved to be a very moving performance, a fitting salute to a great conductor.
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