Aaron Copland Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi 3rd Symphony & Music For The Theather (1989)

Aaron Copland & London Symphony Orchestra - Copland Conducts Music for a Great City & Statements for Orchestra (1966/2024)

Aaron Copland & London Symphony Orchestra - Copland Conducts Music for a Great City & Statements for Orchestra (1966/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 218 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 Mb | 00:42:42
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Copland was drawn to the film, Something Wild, an unusual psychological drama about the feelings of a young girl learning to live with violence and with the moods of the city. The scenario required long stretches of uninterrupted music which Copland later shaped into a symphonic suite to satisfy a commission from the London Symphony Orchestra. The four movements are titled: Skyline, Night Thoughts, Subway Jam, and Toward the Bridge.
Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3 (1958/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra - Copland: Symphony No.3 (1958/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 40:19 minutes | 1,48 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 40:19 minutes | 825 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Aaron Copland composed his Third Symphony on a commission from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. He formulated initial plans for it in 1943, but actual work on the symphony was not begun until August, 1944, while he was staying in a little village in Mexico. The symphony was completed on September 29, 1946, barely in time for its premiere by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 18 of that year. The score bears a dedication “To the memory of my dear friend Natalie Koussevitzky”.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Shaw - Philip Glass: Itaipu; The Canyon (1993)

Philip Glass: Itaipu; The Canyon (1993)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 285 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism, Choral | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 46352 | 00:55:52

Itaipu (1989) is something of a cantata-cum-symphony-cum-oratorio with no clear text. Its topic is the world's largest hydroelectric dam, built on the Rarana River between Paraguay and Brazil, and the piece–in Glass's trademark punctuating minimalism–is filled with distinct South American instrumentation, particularly in the percussion. The music itself is noble, conjuring the human endeavor to build the five-mile-wide dam near the town of Itaipu. The Canyon (1988) is about no canyon in particular but tonally suggests the mystery of canyons in general. Both these compositions are among Glass's better works.
Helen Callus, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Marc Decio Taddei - British Music for Viola Concertos (2018)

Helen Callus, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Marc Decio Taddei - British Music for Viola Concertos (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 334 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | 01:18:09
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

The ‘warm voice’ of the viola has long been associated with pioneering British performers such as Lionel Tertis, for whom Vaughan Williams wrote his tuneful and elegantly crafted ‘Suite.’ Tertis famously rejected the score of Walton’s ‘Viola Concerto,’ but instantly regretted his decision on hearing its lyrical warmth and piquant blend of delicacy and bite at the premiere performed by Paul Hindemith. Howells’s somber but noble ‘Elegy’ is a memorial for a student colleague killed in action during World War I. Hailed as “one of the world’s greatest violists” (American Record Guide), Helen Callus continues to captivate audiences with her lyrical tone, technical command, and profound artistry. She is a sought-after recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloists. She has performed with such world-class ensembles as the Tokyo and Juilliard String Quartets, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and delighted audiences across the world. She is an award-winning recording artist and her seven releases have been met with the highest critical acclaim.
Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; The Tempest (1992)

Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; The Tempest (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 72:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Victor Red Seal | # RD60425 | Recorded: 1984

Leonard Slatkin has a special affinity for Russian music, and he conducts these Tchaikovsky performances with great authority and passion. The Fifth Symphony, despite its popularity, has proved an elusive piece to record really well. The problem lies with the finale, which can sound inflated and artificial after the moody music that precedes it. Slatkin paces the music to perfection, keeping up momentum and allowing time to savor the music's many attractive details. The slow movement rises to a climax of great intensity, without a trace of false hysteria. The Tempest is a gorgeous tone poem that ought to be better known that it is. Its inclusion here adds to the disc's attractions.
Fábio Brum, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra & Noam Zur - Alchemy: New Music For Trumpet and Orchestra (2022) [24/96]

Fábio Brum, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra & Noam Zur - Alchemy: New Music For Trumpet and Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 68:50 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download

Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto’s Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the vast megapolis, whereas Dimitri Cervo’s The Brazilian Four Seasons offers a colourful, energetic panorama of the natural and human worlds. Fábio Brum’s very personal musical journey is highlighted by the contrast between the Talmudic contemplation of Menachem Zur’s De Profundis and the abstract ruminations of Nicola Tescari’s Trumpet Concerto ‘Nine Moods’.
Fábio Brum, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra & Noam Zur - Alchemy: New Music For Trumpet and Orchestra (2022)

Fábio Brum, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra & Noam Zur - Alchemy: New Music For Trumpet and Orchestra (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 292 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:50
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto’s Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the vast megapolis, whereas Dimitri Cervo’s The Brazilian Four Seasons offers a colourful, energetic panorama of the natural and human worlds. Fábio Brum’s very personal musical journey is highlighted by the contrast between the Talmudic contemplation of Menachem Zur’s De Profundis and the abstract ruminations of Nicola Tescari’s Trumpet Concerto ‘Nine Moods’.
Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Wild and Wonderful Denmark (Music from the Original TV Series) (2020) [24/48]

Danish National Symphony Orchestra - Wild and Wonderful Denmark (Music from the Original TV Series) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 132:17 minutes | 1,31 GB
Classical, Soundtrack | Label: EuroArts Music, Official Digital Download

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and The Danish National Girls’ Choir celebrates the Danish nature in a magnificent soundtrack to the nature documentary series Wild and Wonderful Denmark. The spectacular documentary depicts the life of nature and animals on the closest possible way experiencing the big and the small dramas that take place all the time all around the nature. It’s about birth and death, about starving, breeding, hunting and being hunted. The score is composed by Peter Due, Rasmus Zwicki, Anthony Lledo.
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter - Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter - Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America
FLAC tracks | 1:06:43 | 294 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Florence Price was one of the most versatile and accomplished american musicians of her generation whose unstoppable creativity and earliest successes were set against the backdrop of 1930s economic depression. The Third Symphony expresses aspects of Price’s cultural heritage in a symphonic framework. Avoiding direct references to existing folk songs and dances, it creates highly distinctive African spiritual moods and uses the syncopated rhythms of the Juba in its jazzy third movement. This world premiere recording of Ethiopia’s Shadow in America traces the American experience of enslaved Africans, while The Mississippi River Suite quotes several famous spirituals, capturing the struggles of Black migration across the United States.
Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas & Music for The Gordian Knot Unty'd  (1994)

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas & Music for The Gordian Knot Unty'd (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 265 Mb | Total time: 60:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HMU 907110 | Recorded: 1993

HENRY PURCELL'S chamber opera, "Dido and Aeneas," is plentifully represented on disk, but Nicholas McGegan's new recording, with the Philharmonia Baroque and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge is the freshest and most compelling since Andrew Parrott's magnificent account of 1981 (on Chandos). Mr. McGegan's soloists – Lorraine Hunt as Dido, Lisa Saffer as Belinda and Michael Dean as Aeneas – work wonders with the concise characterizations provided by Purcell and his librettist, Nahum Tate.