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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2011)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2011)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 02:45:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA | # 88697 93349 2 | Recorded: 2010

After his highly variable Mahler cycle, it’s very good to be able to report that David Zinman is back in top form for Brahms. For the most part, these are splendid performances, beautifully played and recorded. The very opening of the First symphony sets the tone: rich, emphatic, but not exaggerated. Textures are clear, bass lines unusually audible. Zinman handles some of Brahms’ most intransigent bits of orchestration, such as the opening of the Third symphony, with its perpetually syncopated accompaniment, with effortless mastery. The inner movements of all four symphonies are without exception perfectly paced, including the slow movements of the Second and Fourth symphonies.

RSO Berlin, David Zinman - Charles Koechlin: The Jungle Book (Le livre de la jungle) (1994) 2CDs

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RSO Berlin, David Zinman - Charles Koechlin: The Jungle Book (Le livre de la jungle) (1994) 2CDs

Charles Koechlin: The Jungle Book (Le livre de la jungle) (1994) 2CD
Iris Vermillion, mezzo soprano; Ralf Lukas, baritone; Johan Botha, tenor
Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by David Zinman

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 351 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 204 Mb | Scans ~ 84 Mb
Classical | Label: BMG Classics | # 09026-61955-2 | Time: 01:29:54

This recording is the World Premiere of Charles Koechlin's Jungle Book and received the Orchestral Gramophone Award and was, memorably, accepted by the son of the composer. Charles Koechlin loved Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and set different parts of the book to music at various points in his career. The first of these - The Three Poems - bear the titles: Seal Lullaby, Night Song in the Jungle and Song of Kala Nag, with texts from The Jungle Book. The music, scored during 1904 - 04, is exotic and evocative. The lullaby mimics the gently lapping of waves as the soprano and chorus spin a soothing tapestry of sound. The Night-Song in the Jungle had a cadence that suggests movement (sung by the soprano, tenor, baritone and chorus) and is a song of well-wishing to the animals of the night. The Song of Kala Nag is a lament of an elephant that has been tamed for his old life in the jungle, sung by the tenor. The poem describes a night in the year when all of the elephants gather to dance together and, rather than being somber, the music is triumphant as the elephant recounts his past freedom and vows to have it again.

David Zinman, London Sinfonietta - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 (1992)

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David Zinman, London Sinfonietta - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 (1992)

David Zinman, London Sinfonietta - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No.3 (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 53:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Elektra Nonesuch | # 7559-79282-2 | Recorded: 1991

This album, which catapulted Polish composer Henryk Gorecki to into the international spotlight, takes texts born in pain and turns them into statements of affirmation through the use of music that ebbs and flows in mystic minimalism. The clear voice of soprano Dawn Upshaw, singing the Polish texts, is a large part of the success of this particular recording, but the music, contemporary without either dissonance or movie-music mawkishness, clarifies and uplifts the words. This is a moving and essential element of the modern repertoire.

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suites 1-3 (2021)

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Vladimir Ashkenazy - Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suites 1-3 (2021)

Vladimir Ashkenazy - Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suites 1-3 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 173 Mb | Total time: 92:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # KKC-2176/80 | Recorded: 1965, 2019

Legendary conductor and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy releases Johann Sebastian Bach's English Suites 1 - 3. This stunning, brand-new recording sits alongside a remastering of his first-ever Bach recording, the D Minor Concerto, recorded in 1965 in a must-have 2 CD Digipak collection. Amassing over 850M streams with a vast catalogue, Ashkenazy is amongst the foremost musical figures of our time and this release is a must-have for any classical music fan.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (2010)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (2010)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 78:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 76895 2 | Recorded: 2010

DAVID ZINMAN concludes his acclaimed Mahler symphony cycle with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the release of Symphony No. 10. Zinman describes the Tenth Symphony as the "saddest chapter" in this great, ten-part symphonic novel in which Mahler bids his wife Alma farewell, speaks of his disillusionment with life, and looks into the future of music. Zinman employs the lesser-known Clinton A. Carpenter version of this famously unfinished work as it "contains more of that specific Mahler sound … Sometimes one has to change the score on the basis of the sketches according to one s own judgment. So it will be exciting to perform this version of the piece."

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2010)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2010)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 389 Mb | Total time: 89:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 8869 772690 2 | Recorded: 2009

David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra have presented exceptional performances of Gustav Mahler's symphonies in the hybrid SACD format, and this recording of the Symphony No. 9 in D major follows suit in its spot-on reading and splendid sound. Among the most enigmatic and difficult of Mahler's completed symphonies to interpret (perhaps only exceeded in strangeness by the Symphony No. 7, or in mystery by the unfinished Symphony No. 10), the Symphony No. 9 is haunted by visions of death, and Mahler's range of expressions runs from poignant lyricism to abject terror, resignation, and finally, sublime transformation.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2010)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2010)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 339 Mb | Total time: 82:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 57926 2 | Recorded: 2009

David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich have received extraordinary praise for their polished recordings of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, and kudos will surely greet the appearance of the Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, the most ambitious work of the cycle and the greatest challenge to a conductor's ability to marshal several ensembles into one immense entity. Hallmarks of Zinman's earlier Mahler recordings and RCA's superb engineering are the crispness and clarity of details, and the ensemble sound is exquisitely balanced between the chamber groupings within sections and the towering orchestral climaxes.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2009)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2009)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 78:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 50650 2 | Recorded: 2008

David Zinman's audiophile series of Gustav Mahler's symphonies for RCA has garnered much critical praise, due mainly to the coherence of his musical interpretations and the marvelous clarity of the playing by the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Both qualities are vital to understanding Mahler, whose intensely varied music is never easily pinned down, and often just as easily muddled. The Symphony No. 7 in E minor, unofficially nicknamed "The Song of the Night," is one of Mahler's most complicated works because it contains a sprawling symphonic dirge, a haunted yet charmingly pastoral nocturne, a grim danse macabre, a humorously amorous serenade, and a rondo finale based on nineteenth century musical clichés, all designed to showcase the many moods and mood swings of Mahler, perhaps the most complicated composer of the twentieth century.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2008)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2008)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 81:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 36465 2 | Recorded: 2007

David Zinman's recording of Mahler's Sixth Symphony, with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, is magnificent: dramatic, dynamic, heroic, and tragic. In the wake of many versions that are excessively emotional and hyperactive, Zinman's reading is refreshingly sane and lucid. Zinman has turned in great Beethoven and Schumann cycles with the Tonhalle Orchestra, and so far, his Mahler cycle seems set on the same trajectory. His Sixth avoids the extremes of heaviness and lightness; the tempos do not drag, the textures are rich but they do not clot, and the colors are beguiling without delaying forward motion.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2008)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2008)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 73:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 31450-2 | Recorded: 2007

David Zinman’s Mahler has been warmly received in many quarters. He is proceeding through the cycle chronologically and the Fifth will not disappoint those who like their Mahler sane and lucid. Sound quality remains near state-of-the-art even if there seems to be too much hall ambience for absolute clarity this time. The orchestra has been carefully drilled – individual members are named in the attractive, copiously annotated booklet – but it is idle to pretend that Zürich can offer either the characterful solo playing or the corporate weight of Chicago, Vienna or Berlin. That the back inlay and the track-listing misrepresent the work’s tripartite structure matters little.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2008)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2008)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 218 Mb | Total time: 57:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 16852-2 | Recorded: 2006

Of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, the Symphony No. 4 in G major is the most neo-Classical in character, the most lighthearted in expression, and the most compact in form, all of which make it the most accessible of the cycle. Because Mahler's effects are precisely calculated, the music invites few liberties, and performances of the symphony tend to be quite similar in style and pacing; consequently, David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich turn in a meticulous rendition that resembles many others in interpretation and is uncontroversial in execution.

David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (2008)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (2008)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 414 Mb | Total time: 99:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 88697 12918 2 | Recorded: 2006

David Zinman’s Mahler cycle really hits its stride with this remarkable performance of the Third Symphony. It only has two small drawbacks worth mentioning. First, alto Birgit Remmert sounds pretty good in her big fourth-movement solo, but she’s far less impressive during her brief contributions to the choral fifth movement. Perhaps this take came from another evening (the symphony was recorded during a series of live performances). Second, at the very end of the symphony, despite the very beautiful playing, the trumpets fail to ring out as Mahler’s score directs. Better this glowing sonority than stridency, but there’s no reason why we can’t have the best of both worlds (Haitink’s first recording with the Concertgebouw on Philips never has been surpassed in this respect).

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (2008)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (2008)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 81:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 82876 87157 2 | Recorded: 2006

Zinman's Resurrection is the second release in Mahler's complete series of works for this conductor with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. His Beethoven, Schumann, and Richard Strauss discs for Arte Nova have been a resounding success. The appearance of these Mahler discs on a full-priced label suggests that Sony-BMG Masterworks appreciates their potential to be the definitive Mahler recordings of the current decade.

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Blumine (2007)

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David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Blumine (2007)

David Zinman, Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Blumine (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 249 Mb | Total time: 61:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 82876 87156 2 | Recorded: 2006

This disc marks the beginning of a new Mahler cycle with these forces in SACD sound. If you collect SACDs, you’ll be impressed with the engineering in the surround-sound format, which is very natural, coherent, and has plenty of room ambience without excessive rear-channel emphasis. “Natural” also describes Zinman’s performances. The first movement has a great sense of flow, and he doesn’t drag out the introduction as relentlessly as some others have. He catches the rustic character of the scherzo to perfection, though I do wish he’d exaggerated the Jewish music in the funeral march a bit more. The music could take a bit more schmaltz, and a bit more spookiness in the march itself despite the careful observance of Mahler’s dynamics.

Valery Sokolov, David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Tchaikovsky, Bartók: Violin Concertos (2011)

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Valery Sokolov, David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Tchaikovsky, Bartók: Violin Concertos (2011)

Valery Sokolov, David Zinman, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - Tchaikovsky, Bartók: Violin Concertos (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 73:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 50999 642017 0 2 | Recorded: 2010

This pairing of concertos by Tchaikovsky and Bartók is the Ukrainian violinist Valeriy Sokolov’s first CD release as an exclusive Virgin Classics artist. The 24-year-old Ukrainian already features in the catalogue as the subject of a documentary released on DVD in 2006, Bruno Monsaingeon’s Natural born fiddler, while his interpretation of George Enescu’s Violin Sonata No 3 can be heard on a CD of the Romanian composer’s chamber music which became available in 2009. Recorded in Autumn 2010 with the Tonhalle Orchester conducted by David Zinman, this new concerto programme combines great works from the 19th and 20th centuries, both containing elements of folk music.