Dvoark Serenade

Washington Square Serenade ultimately sounds a bit less focused than its immediate predecessors, the politically minded Jerusalem and The Revolution Starts…Now (despite the presence of "Red Is the Color" and "Steve's Hammer"), but it also finds Earle trying out some new tricks both as a performer and a songwriter, and it's exciting and encouraging to hear him exploring fresh turf after two decades of record-making, and there's lots of fine music to be had on this set.

Charles Munch - Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | Full Scan Covers | MU, RS | 803 MB 3% recovery
1958 | Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | LSC-2105 | US pressing circa 1970
Listed in TAS (The Absolute Sound) issue #36

In October of 1880, Tchaikovsky reported to the admiring Madame von Meck that "recently my Muse has been benevolent. I have written two long works very rapidly - the 1812 Overture and a Serenade in four movements for string orchestra. The Overture will be very noisy. I wrote it without much warmth of enthusiasm; therefore it has no great artistic value. The Serenade, on the contrary, I wrote from an inward impulse. I felt it, and I venture to hope that this work is not without artistic qualities."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade No. 5 K 204 & March K 215
Collegium Aureum - F.J. Maier
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 202 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # 77568-2-RV | Country/Year: US 1991, 1983
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

The Collegium Aureum considers itself a "resurrected court orchestra" that attempts to play music with the authentic performance practice and sound using the actual historical instruments of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods of European music. The orchestra itself was founded in 1962 by the West German record company Harmonia Mundi, …