Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony No.6 “Pastoral” – Schubert: Symphony No.5 (2015/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony No.6 “Pastoral” – Schubert: Symphony No.5 (2015/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:09 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

For many music lovers, this is the most purely beautiful performance of Beethoven’s most purely beautiful symphony ever recorded. The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic is the last word in gorgeousness-the woodwind chords chime with such purity that they practically glow with an inner light. But it’s not a self-indulgent interpretation at all: the storm rages as violently as anyone has a right to expect, and Karl B”ohm keeps the music moving along impulsively, always highlighting the symphonic strength of Beethoven’s musical argument. What makes the recording even more special is a Schubert Fifth with exactly the same qualities. Someone at DG clearly knows where the treasures are buried. A great disc. -David Hurwitz

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 25:56 minutes | 248 MB | Genre: Classical
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Die Symphonie Nr. 8 F-Dur op. 93 ist Ludwig van Beethovens k”urzeste Symphonie. Nach den Vorst”ossen in vollkommen neue symphonische Gefilde besonders mit den Symphonien Nr. 3, 5 und 7 erscheint die Achte wie eine R”uckbesinnung auf ein klassisches Grundmodell und auf Haydn. Das kompakte Werk ist allerdings hochexplosiv und enth”alt neuartige Substrate, die f”ur das weitere Gedeihen der Gattung Wirkung zeigten. Viele Skizzen zum ersten Satz weisen auf eine urspr”ungliche Konzeption als Klavierkonzert hin. Irgendwann schwenkte Beethoven aber zur Symphonie um, die er haupts”achlich im Sommer und Herbst des Jahres 1812 komponierte. In Linz, wo sich Beethoven in Familienangelegenheiten wegen seines Bruders Johann aufhielt, begann er offenbar mit der Niederschrift der Partitur der weitgehend fertig skizzierten Symphonie. Jedenfalls findet sich auf der Originalhandschrift der Hinweis <>. …. Schon bevor Simon Rattle sein Einstandskonzert als Chef der Berliner Philharmoniker gab, sorgte er mit einem anderen Weltklasseorchester f”ur Schlagzeilen: Es war der Zyklus der neun Beethoven-Sinfonien, den er mit den Wiener Philharmonikern in Tokio, Berlin und – nat”urlich – Wien dirigierte. Rattle setzte damals im Mai 2002 Massst”abe mit dem traditionsreichsten Orchesterrepertoire “uberhaupt. Der Live-Mitschnitt erschien im M”arz 2003. Nach wie vor gilt dieser Zyklus, der jetzt im Budget-Segment wiederver”offentlicht wird, als Referenzeinspielung des neuen Jahrtausends

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:41 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven’s Sixth evolves as an exploration of an unemphatic harmonic progression that embodies a feeling of calm. Beethoven employs this exploration in charting the broad structure of the symphony’s movements individually, and of the work as a whole. The first movement prefigures the aura of calm by drawing out harmonies over uncharacteristically long spans, spacious expanses of serene relaxation in which the ear is busied only by the surface details of fragmented melodies. So when the first movement returns to action after its opening phrase, it quickly stumbles into a sort of stuttering repetition. The same melodic fragment is repeated verbatim through ten measures, changed only by a swelling and then a diminishing of volume, with the bassoons reinforcing the texture at the loudest point. Similar repetitions appear elsewhere in the movement. The harmony can prove just as static as the melody. In fact, the first movement is practically devoid of dissonance-the spice of harmony-and even minor chords are nearly banished. Like a good recreation director at a summer retreat, Beethoven is forcing his audience to relax. The proceedings do not grow bland, however, thanks in part to the composer’s ingenious use of rhythmic dissonance, with conflicting groups of two and three notes overlapping in the same spaces of time.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:45 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
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Wildly heroic: Ludwig van Beethoven’s ” Eroica “is still associated with an anecdote to this day: when the composer learned that Napoleon was crowned emperor, he angrily tore the title page of the score of the Symphony in E flat major, on which there was an appropriation of the work to” Bonaparte”. This is how Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries described it in a publication that appeared in 1838, more than three decades after the alleged incident.

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Sung in German) [Remastered 2022] [Live] (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Sung in German) [Remastered 2022] [Live] (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:59:25 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Andromeda

The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; German: Wiener Philharmoniker), founded in 1842, is an orchestra considered to be one of the finest in the world.

The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its members are selected from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Selection involves a lengthy process, with each musician demonstrating their capability for a minimum of three years’ performance for the opera and ballet. After this probationary period, the musician may request an application for a position in the orchestra from the Vienna Philharmonic’s board.
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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 (2003/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 (2003/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:56 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Classical
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Simon Rattle heads the Wiener Philharmoniker in this rendition of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony! The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is a choral symphony, the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. It was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as Beethoven’s greatest work and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. One of the best-known works in common practice music, it stands as one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world.
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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Remastered 2022) [Live] (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 (Remastered 2022) [Live] (2022)
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Don Giovanni is one of the three great operas that Mozart wrote to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte: the first being The Marriage of Figaro and the third Così fan tutte. It was first performed on 29 October, 1787, at the National Theatre in Prague. It has since become one of the most popular operas in the repertoire.
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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn, Strauss & Schumann: Orchestral Works (Live) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn, Strauss & Schumann: Orchestral Works (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:21 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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On 28 March 1842, the orchestra of the Vienna Court Opera, organised as a symphonic ensemble by composer-conductor Otto Nicolai, presented a concert that would develop into the Philharmonic Concerts and the Vienna Philharmonic. The principles on which the orchestra operates today were established then: artistic, organizational, and financial self-responsibility, with decisions made by the main body of active members, administrative work carried out by an elected committee, and membership made up only of musicians engaged by the Vienna State Opera.

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