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Ben Goldscheider, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lee Reynolds – Arnold, Schönberger & Gipps: Horn Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:40 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Willowhayne Records
This recording not only celebrates multiple centenaries of Malcolm Arnold, Ruth Gipps and Dennis Brain (the dedicatee of the Arnold concerto) who were all born in 1921 – but also three composers whose musical language and worlds bear striking similarities. Both Arnold and Gipps were writing at a time when the grain of musical fashion was going against them. It was composers such as Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen from the Darmstadt school who were the intellectual fashion of the time, the music much more experimental, serialist and philosophical in its makeup.
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Claudio Arrau, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini – Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:42:19 minutes | 3,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Two generous, aristocratic musicians, both of Latin origin, join forces for these magnificent performances of Brahms’ piano concertos. Claudio Arrau spent a substantial period in Berlin, and through his teacher Martin Krause had a line to Franz Liszt, while Carlo Maria Giulini’s relationship with Austro-German music was deepened by his years as a viola player in Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, performing under such conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter.
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Johanna Martzy, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch – Mozart & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:47 minutes | 1021 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Johanna Martzy (26 October 1924 – 13 August 1979) was a Hungarian violinist.
She was born in Timișoara, Romania in 1924 and debuted at 13. She toured in the 1940s and 1950s. After that decade her renown in North America, at least, declined and her death from cancer, in Glarus in 1979, was not well noted.
She was referred to by Glenn Gould in his essay “We who are about to be disqualified salute you,” as “an artist who has always seemed to me to be, at least in North America, the most underrated of the great violinists of our age.”
She won 1st prize at Geneva competition in 1947.[citation needed]
Among her chamber music recordings those of Schubert have been thought particularly special.
She was married to conductor Béla de Csillery during much of her period of renown in the 1940s and 1950s, but the marriage was dissolved in 1959.
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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Herbert von Karajan conducting music by Mozart & Handel (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:21 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition comprises 13 box sets containing official remasterings of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, and which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalogue.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Karajan conducts Respighi, Berlioz & Liszt (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:28 minutes | 972 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics International
The Karajan Official Remastered Edition contains official remastering of the finest recordings the Austrian conductor made for EMI between 1946 and 1984, which are now a jewel of the Warner Classics catalog.
For many, Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989) hailed early in his career as Das Wunder Karajan (The Karajan Miracle) and known in the early 1960s as the music director of Europe remains the ultimate embodiment of the maestro. The release of the Karajan Official Remastered Edition over the first half of 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the conductors death in July 1989 at the age of 81.
He was closely associated with EMI for the majority of his recording career (specifically from 1946 to 1960 and then again from 1969 to 1984). EMIs legendary producer Walter Legge sought him out in Vienna just after World War II and the long relationship that ensued embraced recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Philharmonia (the orchestra founded by Legge), the Berlin Philharmonic (of which Karajan became conductor for life in 1955), La Scala, Milan, and the Orchestre de Paris.
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Wilhelm Furtwängler, Philharmonia Orchestra – Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Choral” in D minor, Op.125 (1954/2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:11 minutes | 781 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Pristine Classical
XR Remastering from a radio broadcast by Sottens Beromünster and Monte Ceneri. Recorded live at Lucerne Festival in Switzerland on August 22, 1954.
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:05 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
“The five songs that follow the performance of the Fourth Symphony (two from Des Knaben Wunderhorn and three from the Rückert-Lieder) date from the time of the Klemperer/Ludwig Das Lied von der Erde, and rank among the finest examples of Mahler singing ever recorded. Christa Ludwig’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”–the most beautiful song in the world?–is every bit as fine as Janet Baker’s more celebrated version on the same label, and Otto Klemperer’s unsentimental conducting style suits the music’s “innigkeit” (“inwardness”) better than Barbirolli’s more affectionate approach.
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Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Järvi – Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:59 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Sir Edward Elgar’s sublime Cello Concerto receives an impassioned new performance from Steven Isserlis, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi. With additional works by Sir William Walton and Gustav Holst, as well as a miniature suite for solo cello by Imogen Holst, this is unquestionably one of the year’s most eagerly awaited releases.
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Dennis Brain, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan – Mozart: Horn Concertos (1954/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:48 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Erato/Warner Classics
Extraordinary horn player Dennis Brain is joined by Herbert von Karajan and the Philharmonia Orchestra as the ensemble renders riveting adaptations of Mozart’s four horn concertos. His unmistakable and immediately recognizable tone has made Brain an ideal Mozartian. Dubbed by Boyd Neel as one of the finest Mozart players of his generation, this collection exemplifies Brain’s unworldly virtuosity.
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Christian Ferras, Philharmonia Orchestra & Constantin Silvestri – Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (Remastered) (1958/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:05 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Christian Ferras, like Yehudi Menuhin, was a pupil of George Enescu. Born in France in 1933, he performed as a young man with such figures as Menuhin, Pablo Casals, Wilhelm Kempff and Karl Böhm, going on to become one of Herbert von Karajan’s favourite violinists. His career was cut short by depression, but this 1958 recording of the Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos shows his artistry – remarkable for its precision and uncontrived beauty – in all its youthful glory.
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Sir John Barbirolli, Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Elgar – Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36 by Sir John Barbirolli (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:28 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Sir John Barbirolli CH (né Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 1899 – 29 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943 and conducted for the rest of his life. Earlier in his career he was Arturo Toscanini’s successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, serving from 1936 to 1943. He was also chief conductor of the Houston Symphony from 1961 to 1967, and was a guest conductor of many other orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, with all of which he made recordings.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Alceo Galliera – Respighi, Rossini: La boutique fantasque – Dukas: L’apprenti sorcier (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:11 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
This album, released for the very first time in digital, include the irresistible Boutique fantasque of Respighi after Rossini’s themes: a joyful ballet taking place in a toyshop, choreographed by Léonide Massine with the help of André Derain, and premiered by the Ballets russes in 1919.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus & Carlo Maria Giulini – Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces (Quattro Pezzi Sacri) (Remastered) (1963/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:12 minutes | 1,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Legendary Italian conductor Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus in this stunning performance of Verdi’s late and contemplatvie work, “Four Sacred Peaces”.
The “Quattro pezzi sacri” are choral works by Giuseppe Verdi. Written separately during the last decades of the composer’s life and with different origins and purposes, they were nevertheless published together in 1898 by Casa Ricordi.
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Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy – Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:40 minutes | 1007 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Marking their latest collaboration with their conductor laureate Vladimir Ashkenazy, the Philharmonia return to disc with a stellar live-performance of Rachmaninov’s ebullient Symphony No.2 in E Minor. This is the second release in a new series of Rachmaninov’s symphonies, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy in live performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra. The first release of Symphony No. 1 (SIGCD484) was met by critical acclaim:
“Perhaps the most satisfying of all [Ashkenazy’s recordings of the Symphony]…” (BBC Music Magazine)
“Ashkenazy knows how to shape detail and soar in the big melodic moments. The Philharmonia sound is muscular and alert, from the opening woodwind solos to the mighty, stirring symphonic tutti of the finale.” (The Observer)
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Philharmonia Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli – Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:48 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
British conductor Sir John Barbirolli is remembered most for his relationship with the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, having saved the ensemble from dissolution in 1943. He spent the rest of his life with this ensemble. This release features Barbirolli conducting the Halle Orchestra, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Sinfonia of London. The works on this release are all by English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams, and were recorded between 1957 and 1962.
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