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Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra - The Essential Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (2024)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra - The Essential Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:23:57 | 568 / 325 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Slovak Symfonický orchester Slovenského rozhlasu, or SOSR, was the first professional orchestra established in what is now the country of Slovakia. It remains one of the country's most prominent ensembles, and its recordings for Western labels have propelled it to international fame.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard - Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances (2024) 24/192

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 74:32 minutes | 2,35 GB
Classical | Label: Onyx Classics, Official Digital Download

‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer. Normally performed and recorded in its non-revised full-length version, it has been a joy now to follow Bartok’s inspired last wish revision of this mystic, vital, otherworldly, and grotesque fantasy music. (Thomas Dausgaard)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version) (2024)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bartok: The Wooden Prince (Final Version) (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:14:19 | 300 Mb
Genre: Classical

‘From a musical point of view, but especially with regard to the stageworthiness of the work, these cuts represent an absolute improvement’ Bartok wrote to his publisher when he had finished his definitive revision of his Wooden Prince – cutting out much of the music relating to specific stage action, but also generally tightening the symphonic structure, making its large-scale mirror form appear clearer. Normally performed and recorded in its non-revised full-length version, it has been a joy now to follow Bartok’s inspired last wish revision of this mystic, vital, otherworldly, and grotesque fantasy music. (Thomas Dausgaard)
Boston Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 & 15; Chamber Symphony in C Minor (2021)

Boston Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1, 14 & 15; Chamber Symphony in C Minor (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 671 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 361 Mb | 02:37:24
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

In this installment in 'an ongoing Shostakovich survey that has rightly won him three Grammy Awards' (New York Times), Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bookend the composer's brilliant, often turbulent symphonic career. Nearly half a century lies between Shostakovich's triumphant debut with the 'First', premiered before his 20th birthday, and the 'Fifteenth', an inventory of influences written under the shadow of his own mortality. Penned just two years earlier, the 'Fourteenth' is a symphonic song cycle, and the Chamber Symphony is a skillful adaptation of that tragic masterpiece, the Eighth String Quartet.
Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra - Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta (2020) [Of Digital Download 24/96]

Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley & Sophia Burgos - Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 119:37 minutes | 2,04 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: LSO Live, Official Digital Download

Melodious and charming, The Cunning Little Vixen is a work rooted in Czech history and folk music; a sentimental journey through the cycles of life. For Sir Simon Rattle, it's a deeply personal and emotional work. "It's the piece that made me want to become an opera conductor… and still one of the pieces that reduces me to tears more easily than any other," says the LSO's Music Director.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Johnathan Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet & Bassoon (2020)

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 - Johnathan Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet & Bassoon (Live) (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 273 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:08
Classical | Label: Reference Recordings

Music Director Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, with Reference Recordings, are pleased to announce the release of a new recording in superb audiophile, pairing Tchaikovsky’s iconic Symphony No. 4 with the world premiere of leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon, featuring the orchestra’s own Michael Rusinek, Principal Clarinet, and Nancy Goeres, Principal Bassoon. This HIGHRESAUDIO release was recorded in Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts, the acoustically outstanding and historic home of the orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)

London Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,01 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 562 Mb | Digital booklet | 04:04:42
Classical | Label: LSO Live

The London Symphony Orchestra's cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink's first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink's revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer's music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms' final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms' Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
Seattle Symphony & Thomas Dausgaard - Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Live) (2020)

Seattle Symphony & Thomas Dausgaard - Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Live) (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 310 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:05
Classical | Label: Seattle Symphony Media

Thomas Dausgaard and the Seattle Symphony bring you electric and superbly played performances of Nielsen’s early symphonies. Dausgaard has championed the music of his countryman throughout his career, and this album features the Danish composer’s ecstatic First Symphony and the strong-willed Second Symphony. The live concert recordings capture the vitality and energy shared by the orchestra and their new Music Director, all in the spectacular acoustics of Benaroya Hall.
Okko Kamu, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies (2015) 3x MCH SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Okko Kamu, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: The Symphonies (2015)
SACD Rip | 3x SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 240:15 minutes | F/R & Digital Booklet | 11,14 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | F/R Covers & Digital Booklet | 5,21 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | F/R Covers & Digital Booklet | 4,57 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: BIS Records # BIS-2076 SACD

During this 150th anniversary year of Jean Sibelius, his music is being performed and discussed more widely than ever. As might be expected, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, noted for its numerous and often revelatory Sibelius recordings, is planning its own homage: all seven symphonies will be performed at the 2015 edition of the orchestra's annual Sibelius Festival. With principal conductor Okko Kamu the Lahti SO has also prepared a special birthday present for their great compatriot. Recorded between 2012 and 2014 this new anniversary cycle is released as a boxed set of three SACDs with a surround sound option, and is accompanied by an ample booklet with informative notes by Andrew Barnett, author of a Sibelius biography. Needless to say, Kamu has conducted these works numerous times since then, in Finland and abroad, but has never before put his name to a complete cycle on disc.
Boston SO, Andris Nelsons - Dmitri Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; Passacaglia (2015)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 283 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 5059 GH | Time: 01:04:50

The "Under Stalin's Shadow" subtitle of this release may be confusing inasmuch as the opening Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District dates from before the period when Stalin made Shostakovich's life a living hell, and the main attraction, the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, was finished ten months after Stalin's death. Actually the album is the first in a set of three; the others will cover the symphonies No. 5 through No. 9, all written during the period of Stalinist cultural control. But even here the theme is relevant: the pieces are linked by a dark mood that carries overtones (of a feminist sort in the case of the opera) of repression. And the Symphony No. 10 is decidedly some kind of turning point, with repeated (and finally triumphant) assertions of the D-S-C-H motif (D, E flat, C, B natural in the German system) that would appear frequently in the composer's later work.