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VA - RCA Red Seal: Best 100 Vol.51-Vol.100 (2008) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at March 18, 2015

VA - RCA Red Seal: Best 100 Vol.51-Vol.100 (2008)
Classical, Opera | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 7,90 Gb | Covers - 48 Mb
Label: Sony Music | Release Year: 2008

RCA Red Seal is a classical music label and is now part of Sony Masterworks.
The Red Seal label was begun in 1902 by the Gramophone Company in the United Kingdom and was quickly adopted by its United States affiliate, the Victor Talking Machine Company, and its president, Eldridge R. Johnson. Distinctive, red paper information labels affixed to the centre of the two affiliated companies' black shellac discs inspired the name.

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Karl Münchinger - Karl Munchinger - The Classical Legacy (2019) Music

Posted by aasana at Dec. 3, 2019

Karl Münchinger - Karl Munchinger - The Classical Legacy (2019)
Classical, Orchestral | 09:33:57 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 2,4 GB
Label: AUSTRALIAN ELOQUENCE

A feast of Haydn and Mozart under the sure and stylish baton of Karl Münchinger, including several recordings making their first international appearance on CD. This box of Münchinger's legacy in Classical-era repertoire picks up where the Eloquence set of his Baroque recordings (484 0160) left off, with six symphonies of Haydn. He had founded the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1946, and Decca began making records with them three years later. The excellence and commercial success of these albums caused the label to invite him to work with orchestras other than his own, in Paris (the Conservatoire Orchestra) and, more prestigiously still, the Vienna Philharmonic. The first fruits of this new relationship were issued in May 1955: an LP of No.88 and No.101, the 'Clock'. Reviewers looked to the likes of Furtwangler and Toscanini for comparison respectively, and did not find Münchinger wanting for either grandeur or pathos in this music.

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Sir John Barbirolli - Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection (2020) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 20, 2020

Sir John Barbirolli - Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection (2020)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) | Cover | 05:54:35 | 1.34 GB
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Wer den großen britischen Dirigenten John Barbirolli nur aus seinen späteren, bisweilen knorrigen Aufnahmen - vor allem mit seinem Hallè-Orchester - kennt, wird überrascht sein von diesen, erstmals komplett auf 6 CDs vorgelegten Einspielungen des Enddreißigers mit dem New York Philharmonic, das er fünf Jahre (1936-41) als Nachfolger von Arturo Toscanini leitete. Zeigen sie doch durchweg einen muskulären, dabei überaus flexiblen Stil, der weniger auf minutiöse Genauigkeit, sondern eher auf poetisches Glühen abzielte, aber dabei Klangfarbenzauber und dynamische Expressivität keineswegs vernachlässigte.

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Debussy & Ravel Orchestral Works (Jean Martinon) Music

Posted by dino63 at Oct. 16, 2008

At long last, Jean Martinon's classic EMI Debussy and Ravel cycles from the 1970s have been gathered in a space-saving, budget-priced box set. If you love this repertoire, you'll gasp with joy at the conductor's crystal-clear orchestral balances, which truly reproduce what you see in the printed music. If you respond to a lean, sinewy approach to this repertoire in the manner of Toscanini and Boulez, but pine for the timbral characteristics that used to distinguish French orchestras (silver-coated strings, tart woodwinds, and slightly watery brass) in gorgeous, vibrant sonics, Martinon's your man. Aldo Ciccolini's crisp, diamond-edged finger work stands out in Ravel's two piano concertos and in Debussy's rarely heard Fantasie. The young Itzhak Perlman's dazzling, effortless traversal of Ravel's Tzigane will humble many an aspiring fiddler. And you won't find a more sparkling, translucent Ravel Mother Goose Suite on record. Martinon was a marvel, and a sadly underrated podium giant. Grab this set while you can.
Jed Distler

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Arthur Rubinstein - The Complete Album Collection (2012) Music

Posted by peotuvave at Nov. 26, 2015

Never before have all Arthur Rubinstein albums been available together like this. Arthur Rubinstein – The Complete Album Collection features all of the legendary pianist’s issued recordings made by RCA Victor between 1940 and 1976, plus one recording issued on the DECCA label in 1978. Also included in this set are the recordings Rubinstein made in England for the His Master’s Voice (HMV) label between 1928 and 1940. As a bonus, this special package also has the sensational world-premiere release of two Carnegie Hall concerts recorded on December 8 and 10, 1961.

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