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Nora Cismondi, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, John Fiore – Pierre Wissmer, Concertos et Œuvres orchestrales (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:24 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records
While twentieth century Swiss composers often synthesize the Latin and Germanic sources of their country’s inspiration in their aesthetics, it is to France that Pierre Wissmer (1915-1992) is resolutely attached, both in his life’s journey as in his artistic ideals. Imbued at first with a post-Ravellian neoclassicism, over the years his style has shifted toward a more distanced relationship with tonality and a more inner language. However, the refinement of the contrapuntal writing and instrumentation will always remain a constant feauture of his art.
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada – Strauss, Liszt, Korngold, Busoni, Schreker: Ballet Music (2014)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:05:30 minutes | 2,59 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: ISO SACD | © Pentatone Music B.V. | Front Cover, Booklet
Recorded: Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland in July 2013
The second CD in Pentatone’s dance music series lets you savour the vibrant, famous compositions from the German speaking countries. Connected by the power of music, inspired by fin de siècle, this CD glorifies the influential ballet/theatre/opera music from the interwar period.
There are vigorous performances of famous works and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is in top form. All of the music is familiar, yet there is always room for conductor Kazuki Yamada and the orchestra to approach it with verve, inviting listeners to remember what they enjoyed so much about it in the first place.
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Orchestre De La Suisse Romande – Conductor’s Gallery, Vol. 20: Leo Blech, Sergiu Celibidache (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:15 minutes | 509 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
The Decca Conductor’s Gallery series presents an A–Z of 23 conductors in a feast of classic recordings from Decca’s early years – 1929–1949 – including the golden age of its ‘ffrr’ technology. Newly remastered from the best available sources by Mark Obert-Thorn, Ward Marston and Andrew Hallifax, this comprehensive set features several new digital releases. It is a must-have for any follower of historical recordings.
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Kazuki Yamada, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – Russian Dances (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82 MHz | Time – 01:10:44 minutes | 2,8 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: nativeDSDmusic | Digital Bookelt, Front Cover | © Pentatone
In an ideal situation, football players perform their “dance” on a grass pitch — as once did the “white ballet” of Real Madrid, led by its soloists Pusks and Di Stfano. But surely not on the ballet stage! Definitely not. However, not only was Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 — 1975) passionate about music, he was also a great football fan. More specifically, a fan of his hometown club Zenit St. Petersburg. The Russian language has a more intense description for the concept of the “fan” — one is considered “bolejet” (literally = ill) for one’s team: one shares the fever. And as a fan of Zenit, Shostakovich had his fair share of downright hard times: “Being a supporter is at times more frustrating than pleasurable.” He was often a guest at the stadium: even when Leningrad was under siege from the German army, he attended lower-league matches whenever possible. In 1929, Shostakovich composed his first, three-act ballet to a scenic design by film director Alexander Ivanovsky. Entitled The Golden Age, it portrays an away-game of a Soviet football team in an unnamed western city at the time of an industrial exhibition. During the away-game of the Soviet team, plenty of bizarre events take place in the ideologically “false” world, which allow for the inclusion of numerous dance interludes and parodies
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Arabella Steinbacher, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Charles Dutoit – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Op. 64 – Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
This release arguably features the two greatest concertos ever written for the violin: performed by one of the most brilliant violinists of her generation, together with one of the finest orchestras, and under the baton of one of the world’s foremost conductors. This recording of Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn violin concertos bears witness to the eminence of the collaboration between violinist Arabella Steinbacher, conductor Charles Dutoit and PENTATONE’s Orchestra of the Season January June 2015, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the result thereof.
After waiting for a long time to record these concertos with the perfect collaboration, Arabella Steinbacher didn’t waste any chance to shine with heart-felt enthusiasm and bravura in this recording.
Her performance produced such a pure, yet fierce sound that it allowed the music to speak in an immediate, translucent way. Recorded in September 2014 in the magnificent Victoria Hall, Geneva, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande were totally at home with the repertoires and performed with great confidence; they were led by Dutoit, who was vivid, rhythmic and clear in his direction. The vigorous playing results in a vibrant sound that is captured perfectly in this multi channel SACD recording.
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi – Joachim Raff: Orchestral Works Volume 2 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:51 minutes | 944 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
This is the second volume in a series from Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande dedicated to the orchestral music of the Swiss-born composer Joachim Raff. Although he was a highly popular and prolific composer during his day, his works quickly fell out of the repertoire after his death and are largely forgotten today. The idiomatic performances by Neeme Järvi and his Swiss orchestra in Volume 1, described as ‘peerless’ by BBC Music (*****), suggest that they are the perfect performers to reinvigorate interest in Raff’s music.
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Christopher Jacobson, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada – Saint-Saëns, Poulenc & Widor: Works for Organ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:31 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
The monumental and colourful sounds of the organ and symphony orchestra blend together perfectly on this splendid recording of Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony, Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani and the Toccata from Charles-Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony No. 5. The majestic organ chords at the start of the final movement of Saint-Saëns’s symphony equal the sublime effect of Beethoven’s choral conclusion of his Ninth, and have made it an audience’s favourite straight from the moment of its 1886 premiere. Poulenc’s organ concerto shows the composer’s retrospective side, while simultaneously offering flashes of his stylistic playfulness. After Poulenc’s serene concerto, Widor’s Toccata offers a vibrant conclusion to this programme.
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Christopher Jacobson, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada – Saint-Saëns, Poulenc, Widor: Works for Organ (2019)
DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11,29 MHz | Time – 65:29 minutes | 10,3 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 65:29 minutes | 1,89 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet
The monumental and colourful sounds of the organ and symphony orchestra blend together perfectly on this splendid recording of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony, Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani and the Toccata from Charles-Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony Number 5. The Geneva Victoria Hall organ is played by Christopher Jacobson, he works with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Kazuki Yamada. This new Pentatone release takes yet another step closer to audiophile nirvana, providing a natural concert-hall perspective that balances clarity and atmosphere while capturing the full power of organ and orchestra with stunning, floor-rumbling power.
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski – Bruckner, A.: Symphony No. 6 (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:37 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
This recording of Bruckner’s Sixth with Marek Janowski and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande starts out none too steadily and goes downhill from there. Janowski seems to have the measure of the Austrian Romantic composer’s work, and his conception is appropriately large-scaled and capacious, but the orchestra appears unable to realize his conception. The orchestra could be faulted for lacking the opulent string tone, big brass sound, and raw energy necessary to make the performance sound suitably Brucknerian. Janowski seems unable to successfully manage either the score’s myriad details or its long-range structure, much less give the orchestra clear enough cues. Whatever the cause, this Bruckner Sixth is decidedly unworthy to enter the ranks of the greatest recordings of the work, which include three by Jochum: with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in 1966, the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1978, the Concertgebouw in 1980, and the canonical 1965 version with Klemperer and the New Philharmonia. PentaTone’s super audio sound is transparent but disappointingly disembodied.
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David Lively, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Pascal Rophé – Blank: Reflecting Black (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:37 minutes | 586 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aeon
Here, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Pascal Rophé, with whom the æon label has collaborated since 2003, give us a very fine William Blank monograph, the fruit of the orchestra’s sustained work with this essential representative of Swiss creation, alongside his elder Heinz Holliger and his contemporary Michael Jarrell. Born in 1957 in Montreux, William Blank, composer and conductor, is performed the world over. With him, there are no (or few) evanescent layers, aleatoric or improvised passages. Rather, there is a sort of pointillism with a human face, a maniacal love of small detail behind which emotion is flushed out by harsh, searing intensity or dense outpourings. The works on this programme are representative of the recent evolution in his work, especially the piano concerto, Reflecting Black, written in homage to the painter Pierre Soulages and magnificently served in this recording by pianist David Lively.
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniel Reuss, Athena Poullos, Lucie Chartin, Marianne Beate Kielland, Thomas Walker, Christophe Balissat, Ensemble Vocal De Lausanne – Honegger: Le Roi David (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:35 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mirare
With Le Roi David, written when he was less than 30 years old, Honegger produced one of his first great masterpieces. In 27 numbers overflowing with astonishing musical invention, the oratorio brilliantly recreates a distant biblical past in a resolutely modern language. It enjoyed immediate and lasting popular success.
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