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Emil Gilels - The Seattle Recital (2016)

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Emil Gilels - The Seattle Recital (2016)

Emil Gilels - The Seattle Recital (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 247 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 200 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 6288 GH | Time: 01:14:45

This release features a previously-unreleased recording of pianist Emil Gilels, captured live in an acclaimed 1964 Seattle recital. With the exception of a single work, this recital has never before been made available to the general public and is now being released for the first time. Released in time to celebrate the pianist’s 100th anniversary, the recital includes works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and more.

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)

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Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6 (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 232 Mb | Total time: 56:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555 240-2 | Recorded: 2014

Donizetti Edition with the Pleyel Quartet Gaetano Donizetti not only was very well acquainted with the Viennese models that then were dominant on the international market; at the latest since his study years in Bologna he had also been familiar with the most important exponents of Italian quartet culture. This is why his string quartets offer valuable insights into his education and early artistic development and are important documents attesting to the existence of a chamber music culture specific to Bergamo. In Quartets Nos. 4-6 conventional and innovative elements combine to form an astonishing synthesis.

Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)

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Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)

Nikolai Lugansky - César Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 210 Mb | Total time: 66:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902642 | Recorded: 2019

Given the paucity of César Franck's piano music on disc, Nikolai Lugansky's focus on this composer is to be commended. On his third release for harmonia mundi, the Russian pianist reveals an organ master strongly attached to the musical forms inherited from J.S. Bach: the prelude, the fugue, and the chorale. Translated to the piano keyboard, Franck's music, with its expansively conceived structures, requires a completely fresh approach that puts the greatest performers to the test: here, Lugansky took on an additional challenge by preparing his own transcription (a brilliant one, at that!) of Franck's celebrated Choral pour grand orgue No.2.

Arabella Steinbacher & Robert Kulek - Brahms: Complete Works for Violin & Piano (2011)

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Arabella Steinbacher & Robert Kulek - Brahms: Complete Works for Violin & Piano (2011)

Arabella Steinbacher & Robert Kulek - Brahms: Complete Works for Violin & Piano (2011)
XLD | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 1:18:55 | 347 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: PentaTone Classics | Catalog: PTC 5186 367

This album features two major artists, past and present: Johannes Brahms and Arabella Steinbacher. However, even the best of artists have their less than perfect moments or works. These three sonatas, as played hereby Steinbacher and Kulek, come across as less exciting, lesser works by Brahms. The Sonata No. 1 sounds rather anemic as it begins (partly because of the recording quality), but Steinbacher chooses to play without much fullness or vibrato, even though she is playing a Stradivarius.

SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius - Mendelssohn: Chöre für Männerstimmen (2023)

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SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius - Mendelssohn: Chöre für Männerstimmen (2023)

SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius - Mendelssohn: Chöre für Männerstimmen (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 366 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 196 Mb | 01:25:14
Classical, Vocal | Label: Carus

Between 1820 and 1847, Felix Mendelssohn composed a total of 38 songs for a cappella male voices. Many of these were written for his own use at home or in the company of friends. He also liked to personally gift or dedicate these songs to others. This recording by the male voices of the SWR Vokalensemble under conductor Frieder Bernius affords the opportunity to enjoy these wonderful compositions that are among the least explored parts of Mendelssohn’s vast oeuvre.

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2017)

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Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2017)

Pleyel Quartett Köln - Gaetano Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 261 Mb | Total time: 55:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 909-2 | Recorded: 2013

The renowned American music magazine Fanfare called the first cpo production featuring Gaetano Donizettis string quartets a compelling demonstration on behalf of some of the most dazzling works of the quartet literature. Now the Pleyel Quartet of Cologne, which during the course of its existence has gained fame above all for its rediscoveries of forgotten masterpieces of the string quartet literature, presents three more quartets by the Bergamo master his early Quartets Nos. 1-3. Performed on original instruments, these quartets offer astonishing examples of Donizettis compositional talent. Since they are obliged to an older ideal, they combine seriousness and delightful sound; both technically and musically, demanding and entertaining elements maintain a balance.

Sabina Puértolas & Rubén Fernández Aguirre - Emilio Arrieta & Alberto García Demestres: Los Cisnes en Palacio (2023)

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Sabina Puértolas & Rubén Fernández Aguirre - Emilio Arrieta & Alberto García Demestres: Los Cisnes en Palacio (2023)

Sabina Puértolas & Rubén Fernández Aguirre - Emilio Arrieta & Alberto García Demestres: Los Cisnes en Palacio (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 312 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:38
Classical, Vocal | Label: IBS Classical

Emilio Arrieta (1821-1894), the first Spanish composer whose music was heard at the Royal Theatre (Ildegonda, in 1854), and the first to have it sung in Spanish (Marina, in 1871), is an essential figure in 19th-century musical Spain.

Manuela Custer, Raffaele Cortesi & Quartetto Dafne - Liriche sui testi di Dante (2023)

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Manuela Custer, Raffaele Cortesi & Quartetto Dafne - Liriche sui testi di Dante (2023)

Manuela Custer, Raffaele Cortesi & Quartetto Dafne - Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Rossini, Puccini & Others: Liriche sui testi di Dante (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 355 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:53
Classical, Vocal | Label: Tactus

The collection presented in this recording by the voice of the mezzo-soprano Manuela Custer – accompanied by Raffaele Cortesi on the piano and the strings of the Dafne Quartet – offers us a series of valuable composers trying their hand at the genre of vocal chamber music. The common denominator of the compositions presented are the Dante Alighieri rhymes – certainly one of the greatest poets of all time – whose immortal verses inspired generations of artists over the centuries. Starting from the notes by Gioachino Rossini, the album then focuses on the historical period going from the nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, including, alongside famous names (Giacomo Puccini, Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco) a series of less known composers to the general public but of extraordinary importance for the understanding of this historical period.

James Judd, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Blumine (2011)

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James Judd, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Blumine (2011)

James Judd, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Blumine (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 64:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMA 1957118 | Recorded: 1993

Il existe de nombreux enregistrements de la Première Symphonie de Mahler, mais très peu d'entre eux proposent de découvrir un mouvement que le compositeur retira in fine : “Blumine”. “Après tant d’auditions comparées, il est donc assez rare d’être à ce point captivé dès les premières mesures ! […] Le dosage est tout simplement magistral entre parodie et poésie, entre lyrisme et dérision, entre la “laideur” délibérée des timbres de l’orphéon villageois et l’envoûtante magie sonore des cordes… un chef évidemment possédé par Mahler.

András Schiff & Jörg Widmann - Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (2020)

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András Schiff & Jörg Widmann - Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (2020)

András Schiff & Jörg Widmann - Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 207 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 149 Mb | Covers included | 01:04:49
Classical | Label: ECM Records

Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms’s late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between the sonatas Schiff plays Widmann’s evocative Intermezzi for piano. As Jörg Widmann explains in a programme note, these are works inspired by his friendship with András Schiff and by a shared love of Brahms, to whom they pay tribute. The album was recorded at Neumarkt’s Historischer Reitstadel.

Aldo Botta & Clara Dutto - The French Clarinet, 19th & 20th Century Music for Clarinet & Piano (2023)

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Aldo Botta & Clara Dutto - The French Clarinet, 19th & 20th Century Music for Clarinet & Piano (2023)

Aldo Botta & Clara Dutto - The French Clarinet, 19th & 20th Century Music for Clarinet & Piano (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 193 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 126 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:53:35
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

The developmental stages of the clarinet are marked by repeated interest in improving the instrument at crucial stages in its history, definitively accomplished in an ‘accelerated’ manner during the course of the 19th century thanks to daring projects that led to an extraordinary evolution. Consequently, interest in writing aimed at probing the peculiarities of the instrument was accentuated, with French composers' attention directed towards exploring the thousands of new expressive and technical possibilities, creating a catalogue of great interest demostrating both the instrumentalists’ mastery as well as musical effects to dazzle listeners.

Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Unfinished" (2023)

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Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Unfinished" (2023)

Freiburger Barockorchester & Pablo Heras-Casado - Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 "Unfinished" (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 121 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:52:26
Classical | Label: harmonia mundi

If the shadow of Mozart still haunts Schubert’s Symphony no.5, the Seventh (in no way ‘unfinished’ in the eyes of its creator) already looks far into the future. Pablo Heras-Casado and the musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester lead us towards that Romantic élan. Their flexible approach, keen and swift in the earlier symphony, making room for shadows and mystery in its successor, meets the challenge of bringing out the contrast between these ‘two Schuberts’, here more audible than ever.

Herman Krebbers, Amsterdam RCO, Kirill Kondrashin - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1980)

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Herman Krebbers, Amsterdam RCO, Kirill Kondrashin - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1980)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade, Op. 35 (1980)
Herman Krebbers, solo violin; Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam; Kirill Kondrashin, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 226 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 114 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Philips | # 400 021-2 | Time: 00:44:21

Even with 15 other versions of Rimsky's masterpiece of orchestral virtuosity to choose from — some in the top flight — this was recognized from the first as one of the most rewarding, thanks largely to Krebbers's exceptionally sweet, gently appealing and bewitching personification of the story - spinning Scheherazade and to Kondrashin's skill in pacing and shaping movements as a whole, relating the diverse tempos and building up tension and dynamics by careful control so as to create climaxes of thrilling intensity and power. the 'shipwreck' finale, in particular, was overwhelming; and this was achieved without resorting to the ultra - fast tempos adopted by some conductors to whip up excitement. The Concertgebouw's crisp, sonorous and sensitive playing (full marks both to the splendid strings and to the wind soloists) was caught with the utmost fidelity; but the Compact Disc's total exclusion even of minimal extraneous background now marks a still further improvement, as can be judged by the dead silence against which Scheherazade's pleadings are heard. The final coda is ravishingly beautiful.

Otto Klemperer - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2004)

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Otto Klemperer - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2004)

Otto Klemperer - Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (2004)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:34:15 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 7243 5 62742 2 8

Otto Klemperer's Brahms needs no introduction. It remains a classic reference edition, one of the very few complete cycles with absolutely no weak links. It's customary to call these performances "granitic", an adjective that certainly applies to the First Symphony but doesn't begin to describe the swift and thrilling finale of the Fourth, the grand but impulsive Third (with its first-movement repeat in place), or the warmly lyrical Second. In general Klemperer's unsentimental but always gripping approach to this music practically defines the word "idiomatic".

Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)

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Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)

Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7,51 Gb (DVD9) | 135 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Français, English

World-renowned tenor Roberto Alagna stars in the most passionate of French operas, conveying the young poet’s journey from naïve hope to the agony of the much-loved aria ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ and the shattering final tragedy.
Massenet’s glorious opera, based on a novel by Goethe, is regularly performed all over the world and its central role is one in which Roberto Alagna has been celebrated for more than a decade. The role of Werther’s beloved Charlotte is sung by American mezzo Kate Aldrich (an acclaimed Carmen at ‘The Met’), who has sung the role to critical acclaim in Europe and Japan. Filmed live at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the powerful stage production is the work of another member of the Alagna family – the tenor’s younger brother, David.