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Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay – Mozart: Don Giovanni (1959/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:45:46 minutes | 6,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
An absolute classic of music history is making a comeback with a carefully restored sound. Performed in the favourable acoustics of the Jesus Christus Church in Berlin in 1958 by Deutsche Grammophon, this recording came right after Josef Krips’ (Decca), and before Giulini’s (EMI), both of which are considered the very best recordings of Don Giovanni. The main hero of this recording is undeniably Ferenc Fricsay. The Hungarian conductor, a great Mozartean, injects this version with tremendous theatrical vibrancy thanks to sharp and fast tempo. The stereophonic sound recording is particularly clear. The casting features some of the greatest voices of the time, such as Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sena Jurinac, Irmgard Seefried, Maria Stader and Ernst Haefliger, while the style (and pronunciation) for this Italian version remains Germanic. Therefore, the re-release should be recognised above all else for its extraordinary musical direction, a rare testament of the art of a legendary conductor, who died much too young. – François Hudry
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Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin – Igor Stravinsky : The Firebird Suite – Manuel de Falla : El Amor Brujo – El Sombrero De Tres Picos (1971/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:08 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
‘The most striking thing about Maazel’s El amor brujo is the splendid contribution of Grace Bumbry … she catches the flamenco style vibrantly and her dark timbre has an idiomatic ‘throaty’ clang. There has never been a finer recorded account of the 1919 version of the Firebird Suite than Maazel’s. This is a truly legendary performance.’ (The Penguin Guide)
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Géza Anda, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Pierre Fournier, Janos Starker, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay – Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Brahms: Double Concerto (1961/1962/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:24 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Fricsay conducts concertos by Beethoven and Brahms: Friendship is the connecting link between the two works here. Beethoven is thought to have written his Triple Concerto in 1803 – 04 for his favorite pupil, the Archduke Rudolph. Brahms composed his Double Concerto in 1887 as a peace offering, to heal a breach with his friend the violinist Joseph Joachim. It seems to have done the trick; and it was canny of Brahms, who conducted the first performance (Cologne, October 1887), to have the cellist of the Joachim Quartet, Robert Hausmann, sharing solo hon- ours – it would have been difficult for Brahms and Joachim to have a row with a third party present. I do not know how friendly the soloists on these two famous recordings were, but I recall what a strong “house style” manated from Deutsche Grammophon productions in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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