Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - French Music for the Stage (2021)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - French Music for the Stage (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 313 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:40
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

For their latest album, Neeme Järvi and his Estonian National Symphony Orchestra present a delightful programme of lesser-known stage music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Overtures by Thomas, Auber and Boieldieu were all composed for works staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and are wonderful examples of the period.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - French Music for the Stage (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - French Music for the Stage (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:40 minutes | 758 MB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

For their latest album, Neeme Järvi and his Estonian National Symphony Orchestra present a delightful programme of lesser-known stage music from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Overtures by Thomas, Auber and Boieldieu were all composed for works staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and are wonderful examples of the period.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 373 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:23
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Lalo considered himself to be first and foremost an opera composer, even though Le Roi d’Ys was his only opera to be performed in his lifetime. He is now best known for his symphonic and chamber music, largely because of the highly political musical establishment in France in his time. The Overture to the opera (which opens this album) is now the best-known music from the piece, which proved a considerable success in France.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Kapp, Lüdig & Lemba: Orchestral Works (2020)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Kapp, Lüdig & Lemba: Orchestral Works (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 309 MB | Tracks: 11 | 73:24 min
Style: Classical | Label: Chandos

In his latest recording for Chandos with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi explores pieces by three of Estonia’s first composers. The bulk of the works in the programme were composed in the first decade of the twentieth century, and are all excellent representations of the birth of Estonian Music, as Estonia transitioned from a territory in the Russian Empire to an independent nation state. As was the norm at the end of the nineteenth century, these composers studied at the St Petersburg Conservatory, and Estonian symphonic music certainly has its roots in the Russian nationalist style. Like so much of European music of this era, ethnic identity is emphasised by the inclusion of native folk tunes, and the ‘Nordic’ style of Grieg and others is clearly an influence.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024) [24/96]

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Lalo: Symphony in G Minor, Orchestral Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 77:23 minutes | 1,45 GB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

Lalo considered himself to be first and foremost an opera composer, even though Le Roi d’Ys was his only opera to be performed in his lifetime. He is now best known for his symphonic and chamber music, largely because of the highly political musical establishment in France in his time. The Overture to the opera (which opens this album) is now the best-known music from the piece, which proved a considerable success in France.
Daniel Reuss, Estonian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater, Sept Répons des Ténèbres (2014)

Daniel Reuss, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater, Sept Répons des Ténèbres (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 277 Mb | Total time: 62:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC902149 | Recorded: 2012

Poulenc's Stabat Mater, which the composer described as, "a requiem without despair," was written in 1950 following the death of Christian Berard, a leading figure of 1940s Paris who designed the sets for Cocteau's films and plays. This masterly work, dedicated to the Virgin of Rocamadour, gives pride of place to the chorus and clearly shows its line of descent from the French motets of the age of Louis XIV. It is paired with the Sept Repons de Tenebres, Poulenc's last choral work. Although sacred in nature, it was written for a non-religious celebration, the opening of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. This recording's superb cast features soprano Carolyn Sampson and the Estonian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra led by Daniel Reuss.
Peeter Lilje, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra - Einar Englund: Symphonies 1 & 2 (1990)

Peeter Lilje, Estonian State Symphony Orchestra - Einar Englund: Symphonies 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 215 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 751-2 | Recorded: 1990

Though he was born on the Swedish island of Gotland, Englund settled in Helsinki, where he studied and later, after a spell of study in Tanglewood with Copland, taught. On returning home after his service on the front in 1945, he burned all his wartime manuscripts and sketches, and wrote this symphony, his first orchestral piece—and a remarkably accomplished piece it is! It became known in his native country as the War Symphony, though the composer characterized it as an expression of ''a euphoric joy at having—by a sheer miracle—come through four years of hell during the Second World War alive''. The musical language has more in common with Shostakovich than any other modern composer, but it is far from derivative. The idiom is accessible and there are memorable melodic ideas.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Strauss in St. Petersburg (2017)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Strauss in St. Petersburg
Classical, Orchestral | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 82:34 min | 412 MB
Label: Chandos | Tracks: 20 | Rls.date: 2017

This is a double-anniversary disc, offering a rare collection of lively works to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra as well as the eightieth birthday of its principal conductor, Neeme Järvi. Cheerful marches and dances here trace the career of Johann Strauss II as it manifested itself in his much acclaimed seasons in St Petersburg, at the Russian summer concerts in the Vauxhall pavilion in Pavlovsk, where he appeared for eleven seasons (1856 65 and 1869), ten of them consecutively. It is an unmissable start to a year-long celebration for Neeme Järvi that will include concerts, promotions, and other CD releases.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Weiner: Serenade in F Minor, Op. 3 & 5 Divertimentos (Live) (2017)

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi - Weiner: Serenade in F Minor, Op. 3 & 5 Divertimentos (Live) (2017)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 331 MB
Label: Chandos | Tracks: 28 | Time: 82:52 min

Within his extended discography, Neeme Järvi has explored the work of some magnificent Eastern European composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, recently including Sucho and Scharwenka. He here reveals the delightful, witty Hungarian style of Leó Weiner, who found inspiration in the music of Bartók, his near contemporary, and taught such great figures of the Hungarian musical scene as Solti and Doráti, but also Kurtág.
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - Neeme Järvi in concert Mozart, Wagner, Brahms & Reger (2023) [24/48]

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra - Neeme Järvi in concert Mozart, Wagner, Brahms & Reger (2023) [24/48]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 73:39 minutes | 755 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Legendary Estonian conductor Neeme Järvi celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday this summer in Tallinn, where he also gave a series of concerts with his beloved Estonian National Symphony Orchestra.