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Mieczyslaw Weinberg - String Quartets Vol 6 (Quatuor Danel)  Music

Posted by tapaz9 at Nov. 23, 2012
Mieczyslaw Weinberg - String Quartets Vol 6 (Quatuor Danel)

Mieczyslaw Weinberg - String Quartets Vol 6 (Quatuor Danel)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers + Booklet | 417 Mb
Label: CPO - Date: 2012

The music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who fled the Nazis and endured persecution from Stalin (although, as annotator David Fanning points out here, he regarded the Red Army as his savior), has increased sharply in popularity. Weinberg is part of Shostakovich's stylistic universe and, although the relationship was never a formal one, said that he regarded himself as Shostakovich's pupil. Yet he was no clone. Jewish motifs play a role in some of his music, and in the string quartets here, especially the String Quartet No. 12, Op. 103, Bartók is as important a model as Shostakovich. An excellent conclusion to the Quatuor Danel's Weinberg cycle.
James Manheim @ AllMusic
Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses & Raphaël Feye - Weinberg (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses & Raphaël Feye - Weinberg (2022) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] +Booklet | 68:21 | 1,18 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Evil Penguin Classic

Few composers can be said to be 'citizens of nowhere' and yet, exactly this moniker is appropriate for Mieczyslaw Weinberg. He was born and raised in Poland to a Jewish family, but for complex reasons spent the majority of his life in Soviet Russia. He had a prolific output (over 150 opus-numbered works, and more besides), but never reached international fame during his lifetime. Since his death in 1996, that has all changed. His powerful music speaks to generations, made all the more powerful by his emotive biography.
Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses & Raphaël Feye - Weinberg (2022)

Pieter Wispelwey, Jean-Michel Charlier, Les Métamorphoses & Raphaël Feye - Weinberg (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 68:12 | 281 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Evil Penguin Classic

Few composers can be said to be 'citizens of nowhere' and yet, exactly this moniker is appropriate for Mieczyslaw Weinberg. He was born and raised in Poland to a Jewish family, but for complex reasons spent the majority of his life in Soviet Russia. He had a prolific output (over 150 opus-numbered works, and more besides), but never reached international fame during his lifetime. Since his death in 1996, that has all changed. His powerful music speaks to generations, made all the more powerful by his emotive biography.
"Slava": The Complete EMI Recordings of Mstislav Rostropovich (CD 17)

"Slava" - The Complete EMI Recordings of Mstislav Rostropovich
Classical | EAC (APE & CUE) | 17 of 26 | 142 MB

While this collection brings together all the standard tunes Mstislav Rostropovich recorded for EMI Classics, the "Russian" recordings are deservedly the headline grabbers. World premieres abound, from a searing account of Prokofiev's Cello Sonata with Sviatoslav Richter to an especially probing Shostakovich Second Cello Concerto, both given in the presence of the composers. Benjamin Britten, meanwhile, conducts his own Cello Symphony in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. At the same time, Lutoslawski's Cello Concerto is simply staggering in its virtuosity and depth of musical feeling, as is its companion piece, the concerto Tout un monde lointain by Henri Dutilleux. Both are Rostropovich commissions. There are relative rarities too, in the Richard Strauss' Cello Sonata, some "lollipops" of Popper, Scriabin and Debussy, as well as the wonderful interpretation of the Miaskovsky's Cello Concerto. And there's a lot more. As the collection continues, dedications emerge from Russian composers far and wide. Boris Tchaikovsky gets a whole disc, with a Suite and a sizeable Concerto, while there are works from Tischenko and Weinberg. Shostakovich accompanies Rostropovich in the Cello Sonata, while yet more Russian contemporary composers, namely Ustvolskaya and Schnittke, are championed through the cellist.

This is the reincarnation of the same post brought earlier by slcn. Unfortunately, it's noteworthy debut was brutally cut short by a bandit of marauding trolls. Without further ado, a big shoutout of thanks goes out to slcn and many other contributors, without whose support this would not have been possible.
Martha Argerich - Live from Lugano 2014 (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Martha Argerich - Live from Lugano 2014 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 194:58 minutes | 1,81 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Warner Classics is pleased to release the 12th annual 3-album set of highlights from the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, described in The Times (London), as “community music-making on a deluxe scale, with performers and listeners mutually uplifted by music’s wonders.” The recordings celebrate the musical fruits of a project in which young artists join seasoned performers, including Martha Argerich herself, to explore wide-ranging chamber music and orchestral repertoire, both well-known and rarely heard.
Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 61:25 minutes | 598 MB
Classical | Label: CD Accord, Official Digital Download

String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt.
Mstislav Rostropovich - Russian Music: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov... (2024)

Mstislav Rostropovich - Russian Music: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov… (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,86 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1 Gb | 07:26:38
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

That the cello's repertoire has been so wonderfully enriched during the 20th century is due largely to Mstislav Rostropovich, the most influential cellist of his time, a champion of liberty, and also a noted conductor and pianist. Born In Baku on 27 March 1927 to a pianist mother and a cello-playing father who had studied with Pablo Casals, 'Slava' received early paternal grounding in his chosen instrument.
Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)

Silesian Quartet - Mieczysław Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5-6 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 331 MB | Tracks: 13 | 61:26
Style: Classical | Label: CD Accord

String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt. It was also then that he arranged his String Quartets No. 2 and No. 3 as Chamber Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, and in the summer of 1987 that he confided to a friend: “I’m looking through the baggage of my youth. Sometimes I find something in there that is worth rethinking.”
Alison Balsom - Seraph: Trumpet Concertos by MacMillan, Takemitsu, Arutiunian, Zimmermann (2012)

Alison Balsom - Seraph: Trumpet Concertos (2012)
by James MacMillan, Toru Takemitsu, Alexander Arutiunian, Bernd Alois Zimmermann
with Scottish Ensemble, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Renes

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 196 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 50999 6 78590 2 3 | Time: 00:56:05

Alison Balsom is the world’s preeminent female classical trumpeter. She is an unique and independent artist who have broken through to the mainstream whilst retaining her integrity and core musical values. Exceptional talent, a glamorous stage presence and a witty and engaging personality make Alison one of the most exciting and bankable artists in the core classical world today. Alison’s new recording of modern and contemporary repertoire marks an important artistic stepping stone in her career. This labour of love features the world premiere recording of Seraph, James MacMillan’s trumpet concerto written for Alison, works by Takemitsu and Zimmermann and includes her long-awaited recording of the ever popular Arutunian Trumpet Concerto.

Emil Gilels: The 100-th Anniversary Edition (50CD Box Sets, 2016)  Music

Posted by Discograf_man at April 25, 2019
Emil Gilels: The 100-th Anniversary Edition (50CD Box Sets, 2016)

Emil Gilels: The 100-th Anniversary Edition (50CD Box Sets, 2016)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 56:37:36 | 7,85 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya

For the 100th anniversary of Emil Gilels, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Melodiya presents an anthology of his pianistic legacy. “Titans of the piano like Gilels are born once in a hundred years,” wrote a Japanese correspondent in 1957; similar comments accompanied the musician’s performances throughout his performing career.
The performance of the young man from the Odessa Conservatory at the 1933 First All-Union Competition in Moscow came as a bombshell: the audience gave him a standing ovation, and unfamiliar people congratulated each other on the emergence of a genius.