St. Louis Symphony Orchestra & Walter Susskind – Smetana: Má vlast, JB 1:112 (Remastered 2024) (1975/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:15:56 minutes | 2,66 GB | Genre: Classical
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Amongst a pantheon of great Czech composers it is Bedrich Smetana who is revered as the musical personification of his country’s national spirit and the founder of its modern musical character. Composed after the onset of Smetana’s incurable deafness, Má vlast (My Fatherland) is an unprecedented cycle of six related symphonic poems that evoke ancient Czech legends and celebrate the majestic beauty of the country’s landscapes. Acclaimed with ‘unending storms of applause’ at its 1882 premiere, Má vlast reflects the unique characteristics that form the living heart and soul of the Czech nation.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin – Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Symphony in D Minor “Youth” & The Rock (2023 Remaster) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:21 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3 in A minor is a radiant synthesis of the composer’s early and later periods. Poorly received at the time, its lyricism and colour are pervasive and it has duly taken its place in the repertoire, not least because of its warm-hearted voluptuousness, rhythmic vitality and inventive structure. Written in 1891, a single movement is all that exists of the Symphony in D minor ‘Youth’, while The Rock is an early example of Rachmaninov’s powers of descriptive intensity. These acclaimed VOX recordings conducted by Leonard Slatkin were originally issued in 1979 and 1982.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Op. 35 (Sung in English), Spring, Op. 20 & 3 Russian Songs, Op. 41 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:39 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sergey Rachmaninov was better known in his day for his pianistic virtuosity than for his compositions, but his creative output has long been acknowledged as the enthralling legacy of a major creative artist. A thrilling masterpiece based on Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem, The Bells is a choral symphony in all but name, its theme giving Rachmaninov the opportunity to explore his fascination with bell sounds. Spring is a dramatic portrayal of rebirth in a land gripped by ice, while the Three Russian Songs are folk-song settings that became a hit at the premiere under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin – Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 & Prince Rostislav (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:12 minutes | 2,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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The premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in D minor was a notorious failure. It took until the 1940s for the work to gain recognition, and it contains much that is recognisable from the composer’s later works – brooding intensity, lyricism and yearning, orchestral colour and grandeur, written in a profoundly Russian manner. Unperformed during his lifetime, Prince Rostislav exudes Rachmaninov’s familiar qualities of melancholy and voluptuousness; and both works feature his pervasive use of the Dies irae theme. These acclaimed VOX recordings conducted by Leonard Slatkin were originally issued in 1977 and 1982.
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Kirill Gerstein, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson – The Gershwin Moment – Rhapsody in Blue & Concerto in F (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:43 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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After several albums respectively dedicated to Liszt’s Transcendental Études or Mussogorsky and Schumann, or to Concertos by Tchaikovsky (the First) and Prokofiev (the Second) for the Myrios Classics label, Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein is diving into the colourful and rhythmical world of Gershwin. Happily, he has chosen the Jazz Band (1924) version of Rhapsody in Blue, which he has transformed into an almost-cubist work, in perfect symbiosis with the equally-keen work of David Robertson: the piano-playing is really angular, sometimes chilling; the brass recalls the most modernist work of Bartók or Prokofiev or the new American music, at the start of the 1920s. The same goes for 1925’s Concerto in F, the extraordinary Earl Wild’s cool playing under the direction of Arthur Fiedler (RCA, 1959) dissipates with Gerstein and Robertson, to make way for more percussive sounds. Kirill Gerstein also offers – this album being made up of recordings made in concert – various arrangements (or paraphrases) of some of the more famous American songs, including a particularly juicy I Got Rhythm from Earl Wild. A particularly stimulating album for the winter months.
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