Takako Nishizaki, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser – Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 – Brahms: Violin Concerto (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Takako Nishizaki, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser – Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 – Brahms: Violin Concerto (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:34 minutes | 633 MB | Genre: Classical
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Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the best-selling violinists of all time. Her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was named the 8th best-selling classical CD of all time with sales exceeding 1,000,000 copies to-date.

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Paul Phillips, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra – William Perry: Toujours Provence & Other Music for Stage and Screen (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Paul Phillips, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra – William Perry: Toujours Provence & Other Music for Stage and Screen (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:22 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

William Perry is best known as a composer of film scores, and especially for silent films from which Swordplay! raises the curtain on the swashbuckling films of Douglas Fairbanks. This sparkling selection of world premiere recordings comes from Perry’s substantial catalogue of music for the theatre and the concert hall. Toujours Provence takes us on a cinematic journey through France’s most picturesque region, while the ballet suite derived from his Tony-nominated Broadway score for Wind in the Willows vividly brings to life favourite characters from the story such as Mole, Rat, Toad and the Chief Weasel.

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Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky – Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky – Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:29 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

The symphonic poems Smetana wrote during his stay in Sweden were composed during a pivotal time in his life. Financial prospects at first seemed better in Gothenburg than in his native country, while the dual influences of Berlioz and Liszt were informing the direction of his music. Richard III is not a programmatic drama, but focuses instead on the haunting scene before the Battle of Bosworth in Shakespeare’s play. Wallenstein’s Camp is symphonically structured, while Hakon Jarl dramatises the life of the tyrannical Viking warrior with memorable flair.

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Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdeněk Košler – R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra – Salome’s Dance (1988/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdeněk Košler – R. Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra – Salome’s Dance (1988/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:13 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2xHD

Czech conductor Zdeněk Košler leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra on this 1989 album featuring Richard Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, one of the most recognizable pieces in all of classical music. Strauss makes use of an unusually large orchestra, deployed in the most varied way, while there is a tonal ambiguity that remains to the final bars.

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