The Philadelphia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch – In Nature’s Realm (1999)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:13 minutes | Artwork | 2,63 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Artwork | 932 MB
This splendid disc was taped in early 1999 utilizing a simple pair of microphones, a custom built reel-to-reel tape deck, & a tube console. While the recording technology may be atavistic, the engineering is state-of-the-art. No noise reduction was employed, yet my less-than-golden ears fail to detect residual tape hiss enveloping the opulent analogue sonics. The music, though, is what really matters. Sawallisch leads his well-groomed Philadelphia musicians through a well paced, sensitively balanced Liszt Les Preludes. The Dvorak overtures, undervalued showpieces all, benefit from zippy tempos, sensitive section playing, & intelligent dynamic scaling that points up the music’s symphonic implications. Whether you’re a hard-core audiophile or a music lover with low-end components, this winning release does the Sawallisch/Philadelphia team proud all around. Enthusiastically recommended!
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Staatskapelle Dresden, Wolfgang Sawallisch – Schumann: The Four Symphonies, Ouverture, Scherzo & Finale (1973/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:00 minutes | 2,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Staatskapelle Dresden make fitting and eloquent interpreters of Schumann’s four symphonies, each a highly distinctive work. The city of Dresden was the composer’s home for six years, while Sawallisch was a keen advocate of his large-scale work. For all the energy and passion that Sawallisch communicates in these performances, he does not impose himself on the music; he is content to illuminate and reinforce Schumann’s inspired, if sometimes idiosyncratic arguments.
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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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Wolfgang Sawallisch – Schumann : The Four Symphonies, Ouverture, Scherzo & Finale (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:28:00 minutes | 2,94 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Since their release in 1972, these recordings have been highly regarded for their transparent orchestral textures, thus overcoming the frequent criticism that Schumann’s orchestration of these symphonies was clumsily dense. The performances are superb. Sawallisch has a mastery of orchestral dynamics which is crucial to successfully performing these works. Much of Schumann’s musical vocabulary and emotional expressiveness in these four symphonies is due to the extreme and unexpected transformations in their dynamics, especially in his symphonies nos. 2 and 3.
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