![Nektar - Remember The Future (Deluxe Edition) (1973/2023) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2024/05/01/NjktMTk3MS5qcGVn.jpg)
![ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop - R. Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/16/ajxs3vuv0migb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – R. Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:00 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Robert Schumann’s works lie at the centre of German Romanticism, with an essentially lyrical style that reflects his quintessential place among the great German composers. From 1840 Schumann switched from writing, primarily, piano music and Lieder, to writing orchestral music, with the joyful First Symphony written in just four days, and the uplifting tone of the Second Symphony a remarkable triumph over depression and illness. But the effectiveness of Schumann’s orchestration in his symphonies has been the cause of much debate. Gustav Mahler’s re-orchestrations from the early 1900s provide models of tasteful modification that are suited to the larger orchestras of today.
(more…)
![ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 (1876 Version) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/12/16/sydpcl6wins8a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 (1876 Version) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:50 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
This Complete Versions Edition includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition)
(more…)
![Michael Gielen, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Leonard - Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, I/17b & Other Works (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/25/pisq5gpual39a_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
Michael Gielen, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Leonard – Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi, I/17b & Other Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:33 minutes | 593 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo
5th instalment of the Michael Gielen / ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna series on Orfeo. What makes Olivier Messiaen’s œuvre so special is, to a great extent, his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations, and convictions into a wholly individual and perfectly coherent musical language. This includes the development of the modal harmonies of earlier centuries as much as it does an engagement with rhythms from non-European traditions. The wealth of colors in his works stems, in part, from Messiaen’s synaesthetic ability to perceive chords as various shapes and colors. As an enthusiastic ornithologist, he spent much time in nature, notating birdsong and then working those, in stylized form, into his compositions. But most importantly, Messiaen’s work is governed by his profound faith. Messiaen once said of himself that he didn’t primarily see himself as a composer but as an “ornithologist and rhythmist”. Captured in 1991 and 1996, remastered from original ORF archive tapes.
(more…)
Wiener Jenesse Chor, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Günther Theuring – Eisler: Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:36 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Of particular importance to Eisler was the principle of synthesis, working with a variety of musical aesthetics, and merging them to an autonomous whole… albeit always with an eye to also wanting to “change the world” with his music. The October Revolution of 1917 and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia shaped young Hanns Eisler already for the rest of his life. Later on, in the 1930s after all, there was no topic that preoccupied him more, during the years of exile, than the sustained protest against National Socialism. Eisler wanted to make a musical stance against Fascism with his Opus 50; he wanted to show – together with his collaborating librettist Brecht – that there was not just a Germany Nazis but another, better Germany… driven into Exile or interned in concentration camps. The Deutsche Sinfonie is arguably Eisler’s most important composition; she is unique in its ingenious combination of symphony, cantata, and oratorio.
Read more![ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Henze: Nachtstücke und Arien, Los caprichos & Englische Liebeslieder (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/02/11/yhdf2zucn9yla_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra – Henze: Nachtstücke und Arien, Los caprichos & Englische Liebeslieder (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:20 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos
Hans Werner Henze was initially an avant-garde composer but Nachtstücke und Arien symbolised his departure from dodecaphonic writing, to the annoyance of his contemporaries Boulez, Nono and Stockhausen at Darmstadt. With this new direction Henze’s music became highly rhapsodic, as heard in the challenging but lyrical solo cello that suggests the intimate texts of the Englische Liebeslieder. Referring to Goya, Los caprichos captures the strangeness of this artist’s visions with long-breathed melodic lines and fleeting changes of texture, from military-sounding bustle to moments of profound stillness.
(more…)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Hindemith: Nusch-Nuschi Tänze, Sancta Susanna, Op. 21 & Symphony
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:57 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Paul Hindemith’s life was dominated by the events of the two world wars. In 1917, his discovery of contemporary Expressionist poetry and drama transformed him from a talented student to Germany’s leading new composer. His one-act operas Sancta Susanna and Das Nusch-Nuschi date from this period. Sancta Susanna – Hindemith’s first masterpiece – combines religious and erotic symbolism into an eerie narrative that was shocking for its time, whereas the dance suite from Das Nusch-Nuschi emphasises the plot’s origin as a Burmese comedy. The three symphonic movements from the opera Mathis der Maler refer to the three panels of the Isenheim Altarpiece by Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald, but also graphically reflect Hindemith’s own artistic struggles in Nazi Germany.
Read more
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Paternostro – Dohnányi & Weiner: Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:34 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
Ernst von Dohn’anyi was one of the most versatile and influential musicians of his time but his works are now seldom played. A gap which Capriccio want to fill now with this already fifth recording of his late romantical, sensual music, deeply rooted in the Austro-German classical tradition.
Read more
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Arthur Fagen – Dawson & Kay: Orchestral Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:40 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934 to huge enthusiasm. Its traditional form houses a continuous process of variation and introduces little-known spirituals in fragmentary form, while the work’s recurring motifs, remarkable transitions and syncopations are enhanced in Dawson’s 1952 revision heard here. The Fantasy Variations by composer and teacher Ulysses Kay employs dissonance with great expressivity in a work of textural and coloristic variety. Umbrian Scene, despite its pictorial suggestion, is lean and sombre. Arthur Fagen has conducted at the world’s most prestigious opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera, and has led acclaimed orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie. He has recently conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia. Fagen has served as principal conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, chief conductor of the Vlaamse Opera and music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra. From 2002 to 2007, he was music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera.
Read more![ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop - Voyages – Orchestral Music by James Lee III (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download](https://i0.wp.com/imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/10/yuy2i09qhdqtb_600.jpg?resize=500%2C500&ssl=1)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Voyages – Orchestral Music by James Lee III (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:51 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Avie Records
In “Voyages”, prolific American composer James Lee III takes the listener on a colorful journey through his endlessly creative orchestral music; painting biblical imagery in Beyond Rivers of Vision and celebrating the joyous Feast of Tabernacles in Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula, using well-known spirituals to celebrate the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman (Chuphshah! Harriet’s Drive to Canaan) and reflecting on the ongoing fight for freedom through his grandfather’s personal experiences in WWII (A Different Soldier’s Tale). His music is played here by the renowned ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.
(more…)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 “Romantic” (2nd Version) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:54 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CapriccioNR
This complete versions edition of the Bruckner symphonies includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe. “I am completely convinced that my Fourth Symphony “Romantic” is in pressing need of a thorough revision” (Anton Bruckner, 1877).
Read more