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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op. 55 'Eroica' - Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan (DVD5) (request)

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 25 Dec 2011 16:09:55 | Comments : 1

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op. 55 “Eroica” – Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan
(live performance – Berlin, April 30, 1982)
Classical | DVD5 (no compression) | 3.10 GB; 3% recovery | Audio: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital | Full scans | Filesonic links
Publisher: Sony Classical | Recorded: 1982 | Published: 2005

“Jubilee Concert: 100 Years of Berliner Philharmoniker, April 30th, 1982
*
The performance itself ? Nothing short of revelatory. You are not likely to see or hear a reading of the tragic slow movement which digs as deeply as this one. Karajan and his orchestra present a very profound experience ; the visual aspect of the performance helps us to see the emotion being poured into this sublime movement, and the intense response from the players. The first movement doesn't exactly ignite initially, but it soon gathers steam, and the Karajan charisma settles in for a coda which blazes its way to the final chords. The third and fourth movements are beautifully played, too. - from Amazon.com		”
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Brahms: The Piano Concertos; Works for Piano Solo; Sephen Kovacevich; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 18 Dec 2011 18:56:17 | Comments : 18

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2; Works for Piano Solo –
Stephen Kovacevich, piano; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis
Classical | 4 CDs | EAC Rip | 942 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | Fson & RS links
Publisher: Philips | Recorded: between 1968 - 1983 | Published: 2005

“Let me say straight away that the performance is extremely fine; indeed, such is its eloquence that I put aside the score and notepad and just listened for pleasure the first time round. – On Concerto No. 1 – Gramophone
This new version of Piano Concerto no. 2 from Stephen Kovacevich and the LSO under Sir Cohn Davis must be numbered among the very finest of recent years... The performance combines poetic feeling and intellectual strength in no small measure, and it is one to which I am sure I will want to returnGramophone		”
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Liszt: Piano Concertos; Totentanz; Piano Sonta, etc - Krystian Zimerman; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 04 Dec 2011 17:59:20 | Comments : 17

Franz Liszt: Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2; Totentanz; Piano Sonata in B minor; etc – Krystian Zimerman, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Classical | 2 CDs | EAC Rip | 416 MB (3% recovery) | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | FSon & RS links
Publisher: DGG | Recorded: 1987, 1990 | Published: 2011

“Krystian Zimerman's benchmark 1987 and 1990 Liszt recordings. "My most personal recording" - Krystian Zimerman (Concertos CD)
"A combination of ardour, forcefulness, drive and sheer technical grasp which is tremendously exciting" - Gramophone (Sonata)
"It has poise and classicism and, as one listens, one feels that this music could not be played in any other way" - The Penguin Guide (Concertos CD)		”
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E minor - Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Ricardo Chailly

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 25 Nov 2011 18:26:01 | Comments : 8

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major – Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Ricardo Chailly, conductor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 310 MB (3% recovery) | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Partial scans
Publisher: Decca | Recorded: 1985 | Published: 2008


“This 1985 Seventh, the first release in Riccardo Chailly's 15 year-old Bruckner symphony cycle, is a wonderful performance, thankfully available again. Chailly takes a majestic view of the work... Decca's remastering for this release adds just a bit more clarity and presence to what was already a dynamic and full-sounding recording. A great Bruckner seventh. --Victor Carr; classicstoday.com”
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Liszt: Harmonies du soir - Neslon Freire, piano

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 12 Nov 2011 03:13:59 | Comments : 12

Franz Liszt: Harmonies du soir – Neslon Freire, piano
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 205 MB (3% recovery) | FLAC+LOG+M3U+Cue | Full scans | RS & FS links
Publisher: Decca | Recorded: 2011 | Published: 2011


“In short, Freire's gorgeous, utterly inspired Liszt playing belongs in every piano lover's collection. -Jed Distler www.classicstoday.com
With his new CD appropriately titled "Harmonies du soir" Nelson Freire brings a magnificent homage to Franz Liszt's bicentenary. This is a tremendous disc. Highly recommended. - Marc Haegeman; www.classical.net		”
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Mahler: Symphony No. 7 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti (repost)

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 08 Nov 2011 09:49:22 | Comments : 2

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 – Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 370 MB (3% recovery) | | FLAC+LOG+M3U+Cue | Full scans | FS & RS links
Publisher: Decca | Recorded: 1971 | Published: 1992

“GRAMMY WINNER - Best Classical Performance – Orchestra; 1972 - 15th Annual GRAMMY Awards”
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” - New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein (repost)

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 06 Nov 2011 08:18:37 | Comments : 10

Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor Op. 95 “From the New World”; Carnival Overture, Op. 92; 2 Slavonic Dances Op. 46 -
New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 329 MB (3% recovery) | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans
Publisher: Sony Classical | Recorded: 1963 | Published: 1998


“There's no such thing as a "definitive" recording, but if there were, this one would come close to that imagined ideal. Its special qualities haven't dimmed a bit in the four decades since it was recorded, and every interpretive decision comes across with the inevitability of fate itself... If you don't own this performance in some form, then you don't know the "New World". --David Hurwitz”
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Festive Overture - The Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 25 Jul 2011 19:19:24 | Comments : 3

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor Op. 47; Festive Overture Op 96 – The Philadelphia Orchestra; Riccardo Muti
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 251 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Booklet scans | RS links
Publisher: EMI Classics | Recorded: 1992 | Published: 1993
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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasía para un gentilhombre, Songs - Barrueco; Philharmonia Orchestra; Domingo (reupload)

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 07 Jul 2011 11:15:04 | Comments : 3

Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasía para un gentilhombre, Songs with guitar, Guitar solo works –
Manuel Barrueco, guitar, Philharmonia Orchestra, Placido Domingo, conductor; tenor
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 258 Mb | Flac+Log+Cue | Individual flac files | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: EMI Classics | Recorded: 1995 | Published: 1997

“...Barrueco has one more trump card to play – his partnership with Placido Domingo in four songs, selected from those for which Rodrigo himself has made adaptations for the guitar of the original piano accompaniments (the texts are given in four languages). Their coming together was no public relations exercise, for both are longstanding devotees of Rodrigo’s music, and it shows. The partnership extends through the whole of this recording, in which Domingo also conducts the orchestra, an exercise in which both parties demonstrate their happy meeting of minds.'
Reviewed: Gramophone 4/1998, John Duarte		”
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Daniele Gatti

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 08 May 2011 18:44:22 | Comments : 1

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Daniele Gatti
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 296 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Complete scans | RS links
Publisher: RCA Red Seal/BMG | Recorded: 1997 | Published: 1998

“It is a reading with a uniquely radiant atmosphere and one that I would urge you to add to your collection even if your instinct is to trust to grander symphonic visions and bigger names. - DSG, The Gramophone
It is a worthy contender and I recommend it. - Tony Duggan		”
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Mussorgsky: Pictuers at an Exhibition; Kodaly; Prokofiev - Cleveland Orchestra; Szell

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 04 May 2011 18:14:53 | Comments : 7

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Zoltan Kodaly: Harry Janos Suite;
Sergei Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kije, Symphonic Suite, Op. 60 – Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 372 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Complete scans | RS links
Publisher: Sony Classical | Recorded: 1963/69 | Published: 1991

“Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com Essential recording
How do you describe perfection? George Szell's legacy in Cleveland emphasized the great classical and Romantic symphonic repertoire, with relatively few forays into more modern music. But no orchestra ever played these 20th-century masterpieces with more glitter and precision, and the Prokofiev/Kodaly works, when first issued together on LP, immediately became the standard by which all other performances are measured. In fact they still are, and at budget price, not only do they cost less than they did when they were first recorded, you get a spectacular ‘Pictures’ thrown in as a bonus... --David Hurwitz		”
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Dukas: The Sorcere's Apprentice; etc. - The Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 29 Apr 2011 15:06:56 | Comments : 3

H. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Op. 14; P. Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; M. Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain –
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Eugene Ormandy
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 345 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: Sony Classical | Recorded: 1961/63/67 | Published: 1990

“The main interest in Eugene Ormandy's Symphonie fantastique is the excellent playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which gives a good old-fashioned virtuoso performance highlighted by marvelous solo work from the principals… Ormandy displays his typical mastery of orchestral "fireworks" in these bracing renditions of The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountain, done with all the swagger and sparkle the music requires (you can almost see the marching broom in Sorcerer). --Victor Carr Jr, classicstoday.com”
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Judith Raskin; The Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 27 Apr 2011 19:45:25 | Comments : 1

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major – Judith Raskin, soprano; The Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 236 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: CBS Masterworks | Recorded: 1966 | Published: 1988

“Superb… Szell shows the utmost sensitivity to every facet of the music… His interpretation is backed by flawless playing by the Cleveland Orchestra. – The Gramophone”
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 6; Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Antonio Pappano

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 10 Apr 2011 14:05:03 | Comments : 3

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphonies No.4 in F minor Op.36; No.5 in E minor Op.64; No.6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathétique' -
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Antonio Pappano
Classical | 2 CD | EAC Rip | 624 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RSlinks
Publisher: EMI Classics | Recorded: 2006 | Published: 2010

“Alt three performances convey an unfailing sense of dramatic imperative; all three display a suppleness of phrasing that comes from working with voices ... In the Fourth Symphony, I am entirely sure that Pappano and his orchestra have crossed that indefinable threshold to achieve something exceptional. Gramophone”
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (1881, ed. R. Haas) – Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan

Posted By : waldstein | Date : 20 Mar 2011 22:20:07 | Comments : 1

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (1881, ed. Robert Haas) – Berliner Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan
Classical | 1 CD | EAC Rip | 319 MB, 3% recovery | FLAC+LOG+Cue | Full scans | RS links
Publisher: EMI Classics | Recorded: 1970 | Published: 2005

“The recording of the Fourth Symphony is one of the finest ever made in Berlin's Jesus-Christus Kirche, the church's clear but spacious acoustic allowing the Berlin playing to be heard in all its multicoloured, multi-dimensional splendour… Richard Osborne; Gramophone”
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