Paavo Jarvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra – Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and more (2019) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Paavo Jarvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra – Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, and more (2019)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 72:53 minutes | 2,87 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 72:53 minutes | 1,48 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover 

Béla Bartók’s masterpiece trilogy that set the tone for music in the 20th century. Bartók is a composer who best fits Paavo Järvi’s agile and dramatic musicality. This album, which contains three major pieces for orchestra composed by Bartok in the European era, is an album that Jarvi longed for recording. “Music for Strings, Percussion Instruments and Celesta”, composed in 1936, is an unconventional organization that divides stringed parts into two groups and contrasts them with percussion instruments / Celesta. The overwhelming virtuosity of the NHK Symphony Orchestra has been demonstrated with unprecedented strength. Both are the first recordings for both Paavo Järvi and the Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra.

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NHK Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic” (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

NHK Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Järvi – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:27 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Music Labels Inc.

It was Stravinsky who first brought international attention to Takemitsu’s music after he came across a recording of the Requiem on a visit to Japan in 1959. Its slow, yearning melodies lead into Mahler’s monumental ‘Tragic’ Symphony, known for the three sledgehammer blows in its final movement, which represent the blows of fate. The most traditional of Mahler’s symphonies, it draws listeners into its bleak yet irresistible momentum.

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NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Vladimir Ashkenazy – Ravel: Orchestral Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Vladimir Ashkenazy - Ravel: Orchestral Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, Vladimir Ashkenazy – Ravel: Orchestral Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:31 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Octavia Records Inc.

This album presents acclaimed conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy with the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo performing Maurice Ravel’s most famous orchestral works. The violinist Mayu Kishima joins the orchestra to perform the Tzigane. Ravel created this piece to suggest a Hungarian rhapsody, with a slow tempo in the first movement and a fast-paced second movement, Initially written for violin and piano, Ravel left this later arrangement for orchestra. Also included is the Bolero, Ravel’s last work for orchestra.
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