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VA - Die Besten Märsche Aller Zeiten (3 CDs)(2008)
(The Best Marches Of All Times)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image) + LOG+CUE | MP3 CBR 320kbps | 02:50:20 | 1.04GB (FLAC) | 238MB (MP3) | no scans

Diese Zusammenstellung enthält die bekanntesten deutschen Märsche in einer hervorragenden Aufnahmequalität und sehr gut gespielt.
German Military marches played by Bundeswehr and other brass orchestras, very high quality recording. A must for the fans of the "genre" :)

Seiji Ozawa has been music director of the Vienna State Opera since the 2002-03 season and is an annual and favored guest of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to his Vienna State Opera appointment he served as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty-nine seasons (1973-2002)—the longest-serving music director in the orchestra’s history…

Leonard Slatkin’s more than 100 recordings have been recognized with seven Grammy awards and 64 nominations. He has recorded with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. European ensembles that he has recorded with include practically all the major London orchestras as well as those in Munich, Paris, Prague, Stockholm and Berlin.

The sad thing about this 2008 Deutsche Grammophon disc is not the music, which is unfailingly bright and cheerful, nor the program, which is consistently surprising and delightful, nor the performances, which are unendingly smiling and life-affirming. The sad thing about this disc compiled and conducted by Claudio Abbado called Marce & Danze (Marches and Dances) is that the Italian maestro is no longer performing or recording as nearly much he used to owing to the swift decline of his health.