Philharmonia

Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer - Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (1967/2012) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer -
- Gustav Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (1967/2012) [EMI Remaster 2011]

FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 64:09 minutes | 1,31 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

This is one of the definitive performance of Mahler’s "Das Lied Von Der Erde". One of the great recordings of the century, the album features the sophisticated insight of renowned conductor Otto Klemperer. The singers are superb and the orchestras are in peak form. Ludwig’s angelic vocals flow effortlessly while Wunderlich delivers powerful and articulate phrasing. With lavish instrumentation, the remastered sound captures every nuance.
Emil Gilels, New Philharmonia, Sir Adrian Boult - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2011)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 (2011)
Emil Gilels, piano; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Sir Adrian Boult, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 372 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: ICA Classics, BBC Worldwide | # ICAC 5000 | 01:10:24

Emil Gilels, along with fellow Russian artists, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich represented four of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. These live performances from London's Royal Festival Hall in 1967 capture Gilels at his best playing in front of an audience away from the confines of the studio. William Mann in the Times wrote after the concert of Concerto No.3, "For all his truly Beethovian brio in the first movement, Gilels never allowed this to get the better of the clarity and firmness of his phraseology, indeed his opening was like chiselled stone. There was immense dignity in the Largo and in the Rondo, taken at what I thought to be exactly the right speed, came across with remarkable vivacity". These archive recordings in stereo are extremely rare and have never been issued before.
Tami Neilson - Kingmaker (Live with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra) (2023)

Tami Neilson & Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - Kingmaker (Live with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra) (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 363 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 126 MB | 53:16
Country, Americana, Singer-Songwriter | Label: Outside Music

Live: Tami Neilson & The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Live at the Kiri Te Kanawa theatre in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, July 30th 2022. Recorded By Radio New Zealand. Following the release of her acclaimed album “Kingmaker”, country music queen Tami Neilson, played a series of sold out concerts across Aotearoa in 2022. This King's Birthday Monday, RNZ played the show, ahead of it’s digital release.
Bruno Bartoletti, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo - Puccini: Tosca (2007/1976)

Bruno Bartoletti, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo - Puccini: Tosca (2007/1976)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.54 Gb (DVD9) | 115 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

This gripping and visually stunning film has been universally hailed as one of the most satisfying of all versions of opera on celluloid. Director Gianfranco de Bosio has given an extraordinary dimension of realism to this story of love, deception and murder by shooting it all in the original Roman location. Using diverse cinematic tricks and imaginative camerawork, this opera film is much more a visual interpretation of Puccini’s music than a theatre piece filmed in original settings.
Michael Collins, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Soloists & Robin O'Neill - Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos (2022)

Michael Collins, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Soloists & Robin O'Neill - Mozart & Birchall: Clarinet Concertos (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 338 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 189 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:21:16
Classical | Label: BIS

The two concertos performed here by Michael Collins and the Philharmonia Orchestra were both intended for a specific player – Mozart composed his for Anton Stadler and Richard Birchall for Michael Collins himself. Both works – as well as Mozart's Clarinet Quintet – were also written for a particular instrument: the basset clarinet, a slightly larger and deeper clarinet than the one in A which soon after Mozart had written his concerto became the standard. At the very core of the clarinet repertoire, the two works by Mozart have until recently been played on the A clarinet, with necessary adjustments being made to the solo part. Nowadays, however, they are more and more often performed on the instrument they were intended for.
Carlo Maria Giulini, Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra - W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (1959/2012) [Official Digital Download]

Philharmonia Chorus, Soloist & Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini - Mozart: Don Giovanni (1959/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time - 162:01 minutes | 1,78 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"The trouble with Mozart recordings is that there are so many great ones to choose from. But when it came to Mozart's darkest opera, no-one handles it better than the Philharmonia and Giulini." – 100 Classical Music Recordings You Must Own
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera (1820-1830) (1995)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera (1820-1830) (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:42:15 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Opera Rara | Catalog: ORCH104

The "100 Years of Italian Opera" series released by Opera Rara is unique in the annals of opera recordings. However, this installment is especially exciting as it documents the evolution of Italian opera during the 1820's, the decade when romanticism truly began to come into its own on the operatic stage. Opera Rara has lovingly compiled a variety of arcana written by composers famous and forgotten. Included is everything from overtures to arias, duets, ensembles, and entire scenes.
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen - Bela Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin; Dance Suite; Contrasts (2016)

Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Dance Suite; Contrasts (2016)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Philharmonia Voices; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano; Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, violin; Mark Van de Wiel, clarinet

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 289 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Signum Records | # SIGCD466 | Time: 01:08:31

Recorded as part of their critically praised ‘Infernal Dance’ season, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen explore three contrasting works by Bela Bartok – the chamber piece Contrasts, and the orchestral works Dance Suite and The Miraculous Mandarin. Contrasts is one of Bela Bartok’s most imaginative forays into the world of chamber music. His only chamber work involving a woodwind instrument (for Piano, Clarinet and Violin), Contrasts originated in a commission from the American ‘King of Swing’, Benny Goodman. Composed to mark the 50th anniversary of Budapest in 1923, Bartok’s Dance Suite is a rhapsodic collection of folk inspired tunes that marked a sonorous change in direction from the composer’s more dissonant works up to that point. The ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin is raw, dangerous, exotic and elemental: using the rarely performed full ballet score it is frenzied music, percussive, sensuous and violent, telling a shocking story of desire and death.
Christoph von Dohnányi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2011)

Christoph von Dohnányi, Philharmonia Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 349 Mb | Total time: 45:00+37:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum | # SIGCD250 | Recorded: 2009

It took Brahms many years to compose his First Symphony; he shared much of his compositional journey with Clara Schumann, sending her a birthday card in 1868 with the notation of an Alpine horn tune that became the famous theme of the symphony's finale. The whole work is underpinned by a version of Robert Schumann's own 'Clara' motif.
Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia & New Philharmonia Orchestras - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (1991)

Otto Klemperer, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich, Philharmonia & New Philharmonia Orchestras - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 63:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDC 7 47231 2 | Recorded: 1966

Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. Its six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved 4-year-old daughter and was diagnosed with a serious heart ailment, the music encompasses heart-rending anguish and sublime ecstasy; conceived in the shadow of death, it is suffused with a sense of sorrowful, reluctant leave-taking finally transformed into resigned renunciation.