Label: Warner

Christina Pluhar - Alla Napoletana (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 28, 2021
Christina Pluhar - Alla Napoletana (2021)

Christina Pluhar - Alla Napoletana (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:44:21 | 512 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Christina Pluhar a le don de concevoir des programmes riches, singuliers et enchanteurs. Mieux encore, elle sait choisir avec soin les musiciens les mieux indiqués pour s’en emparer. À la tête de son incontournable ensemble L’Arpeggiata, elle déniche depuis le début des années 2000 de nombreuses perles du répertoire qu’elle enfile au même collier d’une œuvre de premier ordre.

Michael Spyres - Mozart Mitridate, rè di Ponto (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 28, 2021
Michael Spyres - Mozart Mitridate, rè di Ponto (2021)

Michael Spyres - Mozart Mitridate, rè di Ponto (2021)
FLAC tracks | 2:31:06 | 713 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

On peut toujours compter sur Marc Minkowski et Les Musiciens du Louvre pour ruer dans les brancards, et c’est sans surprise que les premiers accords pleins d'élan de cet opéra écrit par Mozart alors qu'il n'avait que quatorze ans, percent l'air comme un glorieux ballon de canon musical multicolore. Texture hérissée, énergie ardente, c'est ce son d'ensemble pétillant - le doux râle des bois et des cuivres d'époque, le mordant résineux des cordes en boyau, leur polissage technique, les détails de l'interprétation et l'exubérante joie de vivre - qui vous frappe constamment de nouveau. Le solo suivant ne se fait pas attendre bien longtemps, car la sonnerie lumineuse de la marche de l'Acte I est déjà sur vous avant même que vous le sachiez.

Shani Diluka - The Proust Album (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 30, 2021
Shani Diluka - The Proust Album (2021)

Shani Diluka - The Proust Album (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:26:46 | 285 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

A great project dedicated to Marcel Proust and composers he loved, to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of his birth in 2021 and the 100-year anniversary of his death in 2022.

Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Liszt (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Oct. 31, 2021
Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Liszt (2021)

Georges Cziffra - Cziffra Plays Liszt (2021)
FLAC tracks | 4:29:53 | 820 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

The name of Georges Cziffra is unswervingly linked to Franz Liszt, an exiled Hungarian as he was himself. Cziffra was a passionate and tireless advocate of Liszt’s music, which he would record and tour all along his career: in 1956, having just fled the repression in Budapest, Cziffra won the French public’s heart performing the first concerto. This compilation gathers the most beautiful of Cziffra’s many Liszt recordings, from absolute hits such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies, to the Études d’exécution transcendante, and the piano concertos, both being digital premieres (under the batons of Pierre Dervaux and André Vandernoot respectively).

Sabine Devieilhe - Bach & Handel (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 4, 2021
Sabine Devieilhe - Bach & Handel (2021)

Sabine Devieilhe - Bach & Handel (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:23:37 | 393 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

“Nous avions presque la sensation d’être clandestins, l’ensemble Pygmalion et moi, en cette semaine de décembre 2020 quand nous passions la grande porte de l’église dans laquelle nous enregistrions. Justificatifs de déplacement et tests n’ont finalement pas fait le poids face à la magie de cette musique. Bach et Haendel sonnent si familiers que l’apaisement opère. Nous voulions par ce programme rendre l’affliction, le repentir et la joie, le désir à travers des pages profanes et sacrées de ces deux compositeurs. De Cléopâtre à la figure du Pécheur dans la cantate BWV 199, les larmes coulent, et l’âme cherche le repos”.

Sabine Devieilhe - Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 4, 2021
Sabine Devieilhe - Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)

Sabine Devieilhe - Rameau: Achante et Céphise (2021)
FLAC tracks | 2:10:26 | 795 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Composée en 1751 par Rameau, sur un livret de Marmontel, pour célébrer la naissance du fils aîné du Dauphin et frère de Louis XVI, la pastorale Achante et Céphise ou La Sympathie vaut surtout par son exceptionnelle richesse instrumentale au sein de laquelle les clarinettes reçoivent pour la première fois une partie séparée, en particulier dans sa riche ouverture. L’ouvrage fut donné quatorze fois, un record pour l’époque, grâce à sa valeur propre mais, peut-être avant tout, grâce au merveilleux et aux machines qu’on voyait sur scène, véritable cinéma à effets spéciaux de l’époque.
André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker & Highlights from Swan Lake (2021)

André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker & Highlights from Swan Lake (2021)
FLAC tracks | 02:07:23 | 613 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

André Previn’s performances of the three ballets of Tchaikovsky with the London Symphony Orchestra were some of the most successful classical recordings of the 1970s. Here is a complete version of the enchanting Nutcracker in its latest remastering, enhanced with bonus tracks from the most famous pages of Swan Lake: magical renditions that have not aged a bit!

Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 7, 2021
Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)

Nigel Kennedy - Uncensored (2021)
FLAC tracks | 3:07:51 | 820 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Nigel Kennedy is releasing his second book in autumn, titled Uncensored. This is not an autobiography, but a journey through Nigel Kennedy’s sixty-four seasons played home and away. It begins on a freezing balcony in Brighton before taking in the Yehudi Menuhin School and New York’s Julliard School (of Artistic Mediocrity), various concert halls and recording studios, police forces around the world, Aston Villa and classical music as redefined by Nigel. Here are Nigel’s thoughts on boxing, composing, Aston Villa, Vivaldi, violins and much more, all told in Nigel’s inimitable voice and idiosyncratic fashion.

Bernard Haitink - Bernard Haitink - Homage (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 6, 2021
Bernard Haitink - Bernard Haitink - Homage (2021)

Bernard Haitink - Bernard Haitink - Homage (2021)
FLAC tracks | 04:51:48 | 1,02 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

Bernard Johann Herman Haitink built a reputation as one of the finest conductors of the 20th Century with a wide repertory and meticulous yet warm and exciting performances. He studied violin at Amsterdam Conservatory, and began his musical career as a violinist in the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. He took conducting studies with Felix Hupka when he was at conservatory and then two Netherlands Radio Union conducting courses with Ferdinand Leitner. He was named second conductor with the Radio Union, leading four different orchestras or ensembles. He was promoted to principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic itself, at the age of 27. After his good showing when called as a last-minute replacement at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Cherubini's Requiem in 1956, the Concertgebouw Orchestra frequently engaged him as a guest conductor. After Eduard van Beinum died, two conductors were named principal conductor of the Concertgebouw: Haitink (at thirty-two the youngest principal conductor ever) and the veteran Eugen Jochum. Two years later, Jochum left, leaving Haitink in sole charge. He became the principal conductor and then artistic director of the LPO, retaining that position until 1979. He recorded frequently with both orchestras, taking care not to favor one over the other out of concern for the musicians' feelings. An example of this occurred when he was planning a recording of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, which has one of the most prominent of solo violin parts for a concertmaster.
Sondra Radvanovsky, Ermonela Jaho, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano - Puccini: Turandot

Sondra Radvanovsky, Ermonela Jaho, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano - Puccini: Turandot
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:04:56 | 290 / 500 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

This new version features the original finale composed by Franco Alfano (Puccini died before completing the score), including the ~104 bars famously omitted by Toscanini. And of course, the world-famous opera hit “Nessun dorma” sung by Jonas Kaufmann