Brainwave Symphony CD 4

Beethoven: “Egmont” Overture; Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98 –
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Rene Leibowitz (Beethoven); Fritz Reiner (Brahms)
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 229 MB | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: Chesky Records

Editorial Reviews- Amazon.com
Noted podium tyrant and sadist Fritz Reiner must have scared the daylights out of the Royal Philharmonic, which plays this music as though their very lives depended on it. This is one of the great Brahms Fourth Symphonies, a performance of eruptive force and barely contained fury. It's been superbly transferred to CD, and anyone who loves this symphony simply has to own this recording. No question about it. –David Hurwitz

MTT, leading American champion of Ives’ work, states: “At its core, the music of Charles Ives is an expression of the heart and soul of America. The complexity of Ives’ rhythmic and harmonic ideas was very much ahead of his time, and, even as he was often labeled eccentric by his peers, he created a uniquely American sound. My aim with this album is to reveal the true essence of Ives’ music in order to allow the audience to see America through his eyes.”

Dmitri Borisovich Kabelevsky (1904-1987) is long remembered mostly as an innovative pedagogue and the one who sought to upgrade the curriculum so as to enhance music education for the youth. And like Kodaly of Hungary, Kabalevsky was something of a musical, cultural ambassador. As a composer, he wrote many pieces for children (for examples, the First Cello Concerto, Third Piano Concerto, a Violin Concerto and a song cycle "School Years"). His operas in particular were well known in Soviet Russia while about a few of his orchestral works had some currency in the West, including the Comedians, overture to Colas Breugnon, and to a lesser extent, the Second Symphony.

Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies were greeted by his contemporaries as the most promising answer to Beethoven’s legendary legacy, and they have remained at the core of the symphonic repertoire ever since. Steering clear of poetic titles and adhering to traditional forms, they are nonetheless full of drama and musical innovation. This digital boxset presents the symphonies in chronological order, performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of Marek Janowski, one of the greatest interpreters of German Romantic repertoire.

A very rare CD of a wonderful label Russian Disc with one of the Shostakovich most remarkable symphony - No.4, performed by Gennady Rozhdestvensky with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.

Two symphonies from Beethoven's so-called 'Heroic' period—No 4 completed in 1806 and the supremely defiant No 5 begun in the same year and completed two years later.

David Bernard leads the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies—works that evoke a deep and profound connection between the composer's heart and mind with listeners and performers. This new album on Recursive Classics features Bernard’s critically acclaimed release of Tchaikovsky’s poignant and brilliant “Pathetique” Symphony (“…an impressively elegant, thoughtful, well balanced and sophisticated Tchaikovsky Pathétique… parts emerge like newly scrubbed details in a restored painting…Bernard and his musicians frequently shed new and valuable light on a thrice-familiar standard, abetted by a recorded ambiance that evokes concert hall realism.” –Gramophone) along with Program Notes written by David Patrick Stearns and Maestro Bernard's thoughts on Tchaikovsky's late symphonies.

Gerhard was commissioned to write his Fourth Symphony in 1966 by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and it was first performed in New York on December of that year, conducted by William Steinberg. The following year the score was revised for its continental premiere. In terms of orchestral forces, Gerhard made the most of the commission and scored it for quadruple woodwind, six horns, four trumpets, four trombones, tuba, celesta, piano, two harps, four timpani, four percussion players and full string orchestra. The overall form of the symphony is extremely ….

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 & Capriccio Italien op. 45
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Daniele Gatti
SACD ISO: 2,89 GB (Stereo + MCH DSD) | FLAC @ 24bit/88.2kHz: 930 MB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMU 807393 | Country/Year: Europe 2005 | 5% Rec. Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

…If old timer stereo buffs still hold to the iron-handed Mravinsky or the leather-gloved Abbado, even they will have to admit that only Jansons of digital recordings comes close to Gatti in making the case for Tchaikovsky's Fourth as a masterful symphony. Harmonia Mundi's English-based recorded sound is just as clear and bright as its French- or American-based recorded sound, but also warmer and lusher and more vivid.