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Otto Klemperer - Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 27, 2025

Otto Klemperer - Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 5:03:28 | 1.47 Gb
Genre: Classical

German conductor Otto Klemperer attended the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt-am-Main, studied violin and piano at the Klindworth-Scharwenka and Stern Conservatories in Berlin, and composition with the German composer Pfitzner. He made his début in Berlin in 1905, where he conducted fifty performances of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, not a work that would now be identified with Klemperer's serious and profoundly personal approach to music. Shortly afterwards, he visited Gustav Mahler in Vienna and impressed the composer by playing a scherzo from a Mahler symphony by memory at the piano. With Mahler's personal recommendation, Klemperer was appointed choirmaster and conductor at the German Opera in Prague. He held this post for three years, during which he returned to Vienna to assist in rehearsals for Mahler's later symphonies.

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Co. (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 21, 2025

Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Co. (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 6:53:59 | 1.68 Gb
Genre: Classical

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Perhaps no single musician ever achieved such high accomplishment across such a broad span of repertory as Nikolaus Harnoncourt. His first professional job was as cellist for the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Almost immediately, however, Harnoncourt sought to specialize in performing music of the past upon historically correct instruments; he was one of the first professional musicians to do so. Over the course of a stunningly influential career, Harnoncourt gradually worked forward into more modern repertories. His many awards included repeated top recording medals from at least six European countries, and a Grammophone Award for Special Achievement in 1990.

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Otto Klemperer - Brahms The Complete Symphonies, Overtures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto (2024) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 23, 2024

Otto Klemperer - Brahms The Complete Symphonies, Overtures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto, Deutsches Requiem & Alto Rhapsody (2024) [24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 05:21:37 minutes | 12,12 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Klemperer and Brahms had much in common, which may go some way to explaining the empathy with which Klemperer conducts the works of the great composer. As Richard Osborne says in the accompanying liner notes: ‘no detail was insignificant, yet none was allowed to subvert the larger whole’. The recordings in this box have all been remastered in HD from original tapes for the Otto Klemperer Complete Edition in 2023.

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Otto Klemperer - Brahms The Complete Symphonies, Overtures, Haydn Variations, Violin Concerto (2024) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Aug. 23, 2024

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Sir John Barbirolli - Brahms- Symphonies, Concertos, Overtures & Haydn Variations (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at March 17, 2023

Sir John Barbirolli - Brahms- Symphonies, Concertos, Overtures & Haydn Variations (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 06:28:22 minutes | 13.88 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

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Dimitri Mitropoulos - Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos - Brahms: Haydn Variations (Remastered) (2022) [Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 24, 2022

Dimitri Mitropoulos - Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos - Brahms: Haydn Variations (Remastered) (1950/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 36:08 minutes | 397 MB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical, Official Digital Download

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos' height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos' finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been "remastered").

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Sir John Barbirolli - Brahms: Symphonies, Concertos, Overtures & Haydn Variations (2023) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at March 17, 2023

The music of Brahms held an important place in Sir John Barbirolli's repertoire, and these recordings of the symphonies, made with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1966 and 1967, stand as one of the peaks of his discography. Barbirolli's relationship with this music is rooted in his time as an orchestral cellist, and these performances are notable for their rich, ripe sonorities and expansive warmth.

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln & Jukka-Pekka Saraste - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Haydn Variations (2018) Music

Posted by SERTiL at March 6, 2018

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln & Jukka-Pekka Saraste - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Haydn Variations (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & front cover | 246 MB
Label: Profil | Tracks: 14 | Time: 60:23 min

Jukka-Pekka Saraste became principal conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2010/11 season. This release features Brahmss Second Symphony, which is often called his 'Pastoral'. It was written during a happy holiday in Pörtschach in 1877. Brahms wrote to his friend in Vienna, the critic Eduard Hanslick: 'The Wörthersee is virgin ground. Melodies fly around there, so that you have to take care not to step on them'. The work was premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Hans Richter in December 1877, where it was a great success.

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Dimitri Mitropoulos - Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos - Brahms: Haydn Variations (Remastered) (1950/2022) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 24, 2022

Dimitri Mitropoulos - Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos - Brahms: Haydn Variations (Remastered) (1950/2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 93 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 83 Mb | 00:36:08
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960) was a Greek conductor who came to America in the 1930s and made many recordings with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Like Wilhelm Furtwangler of Arturo Toscanini, Mitropoulos' height of popularity came just before the advent of modern sound technology, so that many of Mitropoulos' finest recordings are marred by distortion and background noises that may make those recordings practically un-listenable to some classical music enthusiasts (although the new Sony Mitropoulos set has advertised that most of those very rough recordings have been "remastered").

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Andreas Staier - Mozart: Piano Sonatas (2012) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 9, 2022

Behind every Mozart solo piano composition is the human voice, and many interpreters understandably build their interpretations from the melody line down. By contrast, fortepianist Andreas Staier generates rhythmic and dramatic momentum by letting his left hand lead, so to speak. His firm, sharply delineated bass lines in the C minor sonata's outer movements and the E-flat sonata's Allegro finale evoke a symphonic rather than operatic aura that proves far more stimulating than Paul Badura-Skoda's equally rigorous yet less vibrant fortepiano traversals.

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