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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)

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Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel, Alun Francis - Darius Milhaud: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 (2000)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:59 | 326 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 066-2

The symphonies date from a more mature period of Darius Milhaud compositional life and confronts the listener with music he or she probably didn't expect if one is familiar with the more bizarre, witty, early music with its many influences by light music, like Le Boeuf sur le Toit and La Creation du Monde. The sixth symphony of Milhaud is definitively his greatest. It contains two slow and two fast movements. The slow movements (2/3rd of the music) are of an astonishing beauty! This music of wide open spaces is full of calmness, austerity, clarity, with beautiful changing harmonies and slowly spiralling melodies. The fast movements make a lively contrast to this.

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)

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Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)

Pietari Inkinen, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - Antonín Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SWR Music | # SWR19130CD | Recorded: 2021, 2022

In 1884, Antonín Dvořák undertook his first concert tour to England. This was to become a highlight of his career to date and brought him international recognition and economic security. It was a time of private and professional bliss. It is interesting to note, however, that the Seventh Symphony by no means reflects a consistently pastoral, idyllic atmosphere. On the contrary, the music often has a dramatic and sombre effect. It is possible that Dvořák was coming to terms with the blows of fate he had suffered: he had lost his mother and three children.

Wen-Sinn Yang, Taiwan Philharmonic, Shao-Chia Lü - Gordon Chin: Cello Concerto No.1, Symphony No.3 'Taiwan' (2015)

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Wen-Sinn Yang, Taiwan Philharmonic, Shao-Chia Lü - Gordon Chin: Cello Concerto No.1, Symphony No.3 'Taiwan' (2015)

Wen-Sinn Yang, Taiwan Philharmonic, Shao-Chia Lü - Gordon Chin: Cello Concerto No.1, Symphony No.3 'Taiwan' (2015)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:12 | 318 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570615

Gordon Chin is one of Taiwans leading composers, and increasingly honoured by commissions and performances from major ensembles in North America, Asia and Europe. Featuring an array of exotic Chinese percussion instruments, Symphony No. 3 Taiwan is a dramatically powerful work cast in three movements which explore his native countrys turbulent history. Specific literary quotations from Shakespeare, Blaise Pascal and Samuel Johnson elucidate the expressive moods of the three-movement Cello Concerto No. 1.

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)

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Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:11 | 290 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.225087

There has not been much of a symphonic tradition in Portugal, but this century has thrown up two symphonists of some significance – Luis de Freitas Branco (brother of the conductor Pedro), who is absent from the catalogues, and, more importantly, his pupil Joly Braga Santos, whose own protege Alvaro Cassuto is opening our eyes and ears to his stature. His First and Fifth Symphonies (Marco Polo, 7/98) came as something of a revelation: here again we have one work from each of his two contrasting compositional periods.

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Ole Schmidt - Børresen: Symphony No. 1 (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:04 | 356 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999 578-2

As is evident in these works, Børresen was a highly talented Danish composer. His first symphony bears some resemblance to Tchaikovsky's Sixth, in particular in the last movement that ends quietly like Tchaikovsky's. However, it is an independent, assured symphony that is well worth hearing. Indeed, after listening to it several times, it is difficult to understand why this tuneful and highly likeable work is not played regularly in concerts anymore. Ole Schmidt and the Saarbrücken orchestra certainly make a strong case for the music.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.4; The Wood Nymph (2023)

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Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.4; The Wood Nymph (2023)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.4; The Wood Nymph (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 64:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 1008 | Recorded: 2021-2023

The Fourth is Sibelius's most difficult symphony. For some, it is his masterpiece. When the symphony was premiered on 3 April 1911 in Helsinki, one critic compared it to Barkbröd - tree bark eaten by the Finns in times of famine! It is fittingly a Finn, conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who explores this symphony that lays bare our emotions. With his Göteborg Symphony Orchestra, he continues his cycle of the complete Sibelius symphonies, with the addition of the famous Valse Triste and the symphonic poem inspired by Swedish folklore called The Wood Nymph.

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Nikos Athinäos - Josef Rheinberger: Symphonic Works (2010)

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Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Nikos Athinäos - Josef Rheinberger: Symphonic Works (2010)

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Nikos Athinäos - Josef Rheinberger: Symphonic Works (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 124:44 | 544 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Christophorus | Catalog: CHE 0153-2

This two-CD package brings together several orchestral works and two choral pieces by nineteenth century Germanic composer Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901). Born in Liechtenstein but resident most of his life in Germany, Rheinberger wrote only two symphonies, and is known today more for his chamber music and religious works. The first CD comprises Wallenstein, described by the composer as a symphonic tone painting in four movements.

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)

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Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)

Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto - Braga Santos: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:16 | 310 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Marco Polo | Catalog: 8.223879

Hearty thanks to Marco Polo for finding another lost gem. Braga Santos (1924-1988) was born in Portugal and, through his teacher, Luis de Freitas Branco, inherited a fondness for music that mixed elements of Modernism with Portuguese Renaissance polyphony. Yet Vaughan Williams is the greatest influence in Braga Santos's music. Braga Santos, like Vaughan Williams, hunted down and extensively used folk melodies, folk songs, and anonymous sacred compositions for church services.

Urs Schneider, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice) - Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 6, Overtures (1994)

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Urs Schneider, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice) - Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 6, Overtures (1994)

Urs Schneider, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Košice) - Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 6, Overtures (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 65:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Marco Polo | # 8.223638 | Recorded: 1993, 1994

Joachim Raff enjoyed the highest reputation in his lifetime but was later remembered only for his famous Cavatina, an attractive short piece that appeared in many arrangements. Encouraged by Mendelssohn and then by Liszt, he served the latter as an assistant at Weimar, orchestrating Liszt’s earlier symphonic poems. His own work as a composer started in earnest when he left Weimar in 1856, to settle in Wiesbaden and then, from 1877, in Frankfurt as director of the Hoch Conservatory, a position he retained until his death in 1882.

Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)

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Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)

Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker - Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 59:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Philips | # 454 448-2 | Recorded: 1996

Die Wiener Philharmoniker sind häufig so etwas wie eine sichere Bank für R. Strauss - und für die Alpensymphonie allemal (man denke nur an die phantastische Aufnahme unter Thielemann). Und auch hier gelingt ihnen - unter dem sehr engagierten Dirigat von S. Ozawa eine herausragende Interpretation.

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Golden Spinning Wheel (1987)

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Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Golden Spinning Wheel (1987)

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 7, Golden Spinning Wheel (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:03:56 | 320 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: 8501

This disc, particularly well recorded in 1986, brings one of the best versions of the symphony coupled with an equally fine delivery of one of the finest for the late symphonic poems. Symphonic is the key word here as this symphony is the most non-nationalist symphony in the Dvorak canon and is without much doubt the most purely symphonic creation as well as being the most tautly argued and dramatic of the nine symphonies. Jarvi's style of conducting these symphonies is to take a straight view and play them very much as Dvorak wrote them. There are therefore no undue changes of tempi, either slowing down to underline climaxes or speeding up to create artificial excitement.

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, The Water Goblin (1987)

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Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, The Water Goblin (1987)

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 5, The Water Goblin (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:00:57 | 262 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN8552

The Scottish National Orchestra with Neeme Jarvi has traversed the entire Dvorak symphonic oeuvre with wonderful success. Jarvi brings a sense of live and vitality to each symphony and the orchestra responds wonderfully. Jarvi's rendition of the 5th is, at least in my opinion, the most convincing in the series. The playing is spectacular; the Scottish National Orchestra brings a beauty of phrasing that complements this symphony well. Of equal power and beauty is the Water Goblin, which Jarvi undoubtedly champions. This is a wonderful CD. S

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 6, The Noon Witch (1992)

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Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 6, The Noon Witch (1992)

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 6, The Noon Witch (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 55:42 | 257 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: 8530

In the 1980's, conductor Neeme Jarvi recorded the nine Dvorak symphonies with the Scottish National Symphony for Chandos. Most of the recordings have received favorable reviews, and some critics believe the cycle established Jarvi the interpreter of Dvorak's music. While I do not own all the recordings in the series and for that reason cannot compare it to other Dvorak recordings by Jarvi, I can say it is an excellent recording and one of my favorites in my collection (consisting of nearly 800 recordings). It begins with the tone poem "The Noon Witch." It is a musical telling of a story similar to "Hansel and Gretel" and Dvorak cleverly uses different instruments and themes to tell the story.

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 & My Home (1987)

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Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 & My Home (1987)

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 & My Home (1987)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 54:17 | 258 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN8510

This disc, made in 1987, is one of the many outstanding discs made by Jarvi and his Scottish orchestra during a very productive and noticeably vibrant point in Jarvi's recording career. Jarvi turned this orchestra from a fairly moderate ensemble into a far finer group with increased tonal resources and power and with a 'live' sounding recorded sound that was special then and remains special today. There were many successes but three cycles stand out - the Prokofiev symphonies, the Rimsky Korsakov Suites and the Dvorak symphonies.

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Rudolf Barshai - Mahler: Symphony No. 10 & No. 5 (2003)

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Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Rudolf Barshai - Mahler: Symphony No. 10 & No. 5 (2003)

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Rudolf Barshai - Mahler: Symphony No. 10 & No. 5 (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:23:34 | 1.4 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog: 92205

Simply put, this set is a treasure that is also a bargain. Two masterful performances by Barshai and the outstanding Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (a youth orchestra playing like a world class orchestra), both performances among the best available versions of each work. Mahler's unfinished score for his Tenth symphony has been ably projected and realized in performing editions of (most commonly) Deryck Cooke, Joe Wheeler, Clinton Carpenter, Remo Mazzetti, and others. Performances of the Tenth are now commonplace, and there are numerous recordings, many compelling.