Horst Stein

Horst Stein, Philharmoniker der Staatsoper Hamburg - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2008)

Horst Stein, Philharmoniker der Staatsoper Hamburg - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2008)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 156 min | 7,52 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano | Recorded: 1971

This 1971 film version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Magic Flute is based on a production at Hamburg State Opera staged by the multi-talented stage, television and film author, director and actor Sir Peter Ustinov, with decor and costumes by Jens-Denis Malclès. The cast brought together by Rolf Liebermann for this film version of the Magic Flute consists of stars with established international careers but also of singers who were just on the point of breaking through to international fame at the time.
Horst Stein, NHK Symphony Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies 3, 5, 6 & 7 (2012)

Horst Stein, NHK Symphony Orchestra - Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies 3, 5, 6 & 7 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 839 Mb | Total time: 6:24+62:03+61:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: King International | # KKC 2053-5 | Recorded: 1985, 1989, 1992

For anyone who is a devotee of Otto Klemperer’s readings of the Beethoven Symphonies, they will not be disappointed with much of what is on offer here. In the main, these are weighty and highly-charged performances, with a certain grandeur…Horst gives us monumental, full-blooded and noble readings of these symphonies.
Horst Stein, Orchester & Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (2006/1984)

Horst Stein, Orchester & Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2006/1984)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.67 Gb+7.27 Gb (2xDVD9) | 267 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Staged and directed by Richard Wagner's grandson Wolfgang at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 1984, this production of Wagner's only comedy dispenses with the common cliches to reveal the humanity of each character. Here, Beckmesser is no longer a foolish caricature but a cultivated intellectual; Stolzing emerges as a thoughtful individual rather than aggressive aristocret; and Hans Sachs sheds his solemn patriarchal veneer to become a likeable middle-aged man. “Hermann Prey´s interpretation of Beckmesser as a cultivated intellectual is a triumph of dramatic and vocal artistry: a stunning performance . . . Brilliant . . . Bernd Weikl as Sachs – an almost unique combination of musical refinement and expressive power.” (Abendzeitung, Munich)
Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland, Horst Stein, Josef Sivo - Glière: Coloraturo Concerto; Glazunov: Violin Concerto (1990)

Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland, Osian Ellis, Horst Stein, Josef Sivo - Glière: Coloraturo Concerto, Harp Concerto; Glazunov: Violin Concerto (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 293 Mb | Total time: 62:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 430 006-2 | Recorded: 1968, 1971

Of the rarities presented in this unusual Russian music collection, the most tantalizing is Gliére’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra. Judging by the slight surface noise, it sounds as if this transfer could have been made from an LP. No matter, the sound is fine, and Joan Sutherland sings radiantly, pouring out beguiling tone throughout her range, while her trademark trills are put to good use by Gliére’s vocal writing, which isn’t particularly original, especially considering it was composed in 1943. The same can be said for Gliére’s 1938 Harp Concerto: beguiling solo writing set against standard-fare 19th-century orchestral accompaniment.
Horst Stein, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randova - Wagner: Parsifal (2007/1981)

Horst Stein, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Siegfried Jerusalem, Eva Randova - Wagner: Parsifal (2007/1981)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.20 Gb+7.57 Gb (2xDVD9) | 233 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Wolfgang Wagner’s arrestingly beautiful production, filmed live at Bayreuth in 1981 and directed by Brian Large, features a stellar cast led by Eva Randova, Bernd Weikl and Siegfried Jerusalem. “A production and performance that showed the festival at its finest… Wolfgang Wagner’s Bayreuth production of his grandfather’s “farewell to the world” has “an unusual beauty and logic of its own… There is an air of magic and mystery about the staging… The performance was excellent… Horst Stein [conducted] a beautifully proportioned Parsifal.” (The New York Times)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Horst Stein - Max Reger: Suite in Olden Style, Serenade (1995)

Bamberger Symphoniker, Horst Stein - Max Reger: Suite in Olden Style, Serenade (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:06:09 | 299 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Koch Schwann | Catalog: 3-1566-2 H1

The suite is in three movements the first and last of which has flashing woodwind in the style of Bach's second suite for orchestra with its prominent role for flickering solo flute. Bachian lightness and Regerian lumber meet and for the most part settle in favour of the lighter hand. The contrasting central largo is rather modern in style. The substantial Serenade in G Major is for full orchestra. Its first movement boasts memorably satiny strings. The style? Well, if Brahms 1 was spoken of by some as Beethoven's 10th symphony then this is Brahms' Third Serenade. A contented Beethovenian allegro.

VA - Max Reger: Orchestral Edition (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 3, 2018
VA - Max Reger: Orchestral Edition (2018)

VA - Max Reger: Orchestral Edition (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 2,92 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1,63 Gb | 12:07:30
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916), commonly known as Max Reger, was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Leipzig University Church, as a professor at the Royal Conservatory in Leipzig, and as a music director at the court of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen. Reger first composed mainly Lieder, chamber music, choral music and works for piano and organ. He later turned to orchestral compositions, such as the popular Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, and to works for choir and orchestra such as Gesang der Verklärten (1903), Der 100. Psalm (1909), Der Einsiedler and the Hebbel Requiem (both 1915).
Bamberg Symphony - The First 70 Years (17CD Limited Edition Box Set, 2016)

Bamberg Symphony - The First 70 Years (17CD Limited Edition Box Set, 2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (*image+.cue+.log,scans) | Run Time: 19:40:57 | 4,78 Gb | Covers 50,3 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

This 17CD Limited Edition Set encompasses the 70-year history of one of Germany’s leading orchestras. Includes no fewer than 5 CDs of world premiere recordings by luminaries such as Kertész, Sinopoli, Blomstedt as well as definitive recordings by all the famous conductors who shaped the orchestra’s distinctive style. Apart from the label’s own repertoire, this set contains recordings licensed not only from various radio stations, but also from numerous classical labels that the orchestra has worked with over the decades (among them Warner, Sony, Tudor and Orfeo). Highlights include some rare historical recordings going back as far as 1940 when the Bamberg Symphony was still the Deutsches Philharmonisches Orchester Prague.
V.A. - Decca: Wiener Philharmoniker - The Orchestral Edition (65CD Box Set, 2014) Part 2

V.A. - Decca: Wiener Philharmoniker - The Orchestral Edition (65CD Box Set, 2014) Part 2
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans) | Run Time: 1d 1:25:03 | 6,47 Gb | Artworks 1,27 Gb
Genre: Classical, Orchestral | Label: Decca

A luxurious and authoritative 64CD orchestral and concerto set, celebrating one of the world’s great orchestras and their 64-year relationship with Decca Classics. Few labels can claim to be so associated with a city as inextricably as Decca is with Vienna. No history of classical recordings would be complete without a chapter documenting how both Decca and the WP worked to perfect the art of recording in the city’s great concert halls, most notably in the famous Sofiensaal.
V.A. - Piano Masterworks - The World's Favourite Piano Classics: Box Set 50CDs (2008) [Re-Up]

V.A. - Piano Masterworks - The World's Favourite Piano Classics: Box Set 50CDs (2008)
Classical | Run Time: 50:35:26 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 7,59 Gb
Label: Decca (UMO) | Release Year: 2008

A special limited-edition 50 CD set of the world's favourite piano concertos, sonatas and other solo pieces. A host of famous pianists perform music from J.S.Bach to Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Gershwin. This collection of discs includes the five Beethoven Concertos, three Rachmaninov Concertos as well as concertos by Brahms, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Schumann and Ravel as well as six Mozart Concertos.