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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo - Florent Schmitt: Suites from ‘Antoine et Cléopâtre’, Symphony No.2 (2018)

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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo - Florent Schmitt: Suites from ‘Antoine et Cléopâtre’, Symphony No.2 (2018)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo - Florent Schmitt: Suites from ‘Antoine et Cléopâtre’, Symphony No.2 (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:57 | 351 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHSA 5200

French composer Florent Schmitt, a part of Ravel's Les Apaches group around 1900, has received renewed attention from recording companies, and this release is part of a group of Schmitt discs from Chandos, which has the engineering chops to handle their bulk. The suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre here were part of the music written for a six-hour ballet commissioned by dancer Ida Rubinstein.

Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, Organ Symphony, El Salón México, Danzón Cubano (2000)

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Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, Organ Symphony, El Salón México, Danzón Cubano (2000)

Leonard Slatkin, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, Organ Symphony, El Salón México, Danzón Cubano (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 65:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BBC Music | # BBC MM98 | Recorded: 1996, 2000

Copland wrote Billy the Kid in 1938 on commission from Lincoln Kirstein, a noted New York impresario and cofounder of the New York City Ballet. The music became an instant success, incorporating as it does several well-known folk and Western tunes and telling an episodic story more about the Wild West in general than specifically about the notorious outlaw William H. Bonney (born Henry McCartney).

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy & Jules Massenet (2010)

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy & Jules Massenet (2010)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy & Jules Massenet (2010)
with BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 240 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5084 | Time: 01:17:00

This stunning and generous collection belongs right at the top of the heap in its respective repertoire. The Debussy is still a comparative rarity in concert if not on disc, a remarkable fact given that it's wholly gorgeous from first note to last. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's excellence as a Debussy pianist already has been acknowledged by just about everyone who has heard him, and needs no further advertisement here. The performance is outstanding, sensitive to every nuance, but also very French in its clear-eyed sensibility and understanding that focused rhythm and supple tempos prevent the music from turning excessively sentimental or blandly pretty. And in Tortelier, Bavouzet has a conductor who seconds him every step of the way. A similar sensibility informs these swift, razor-sharp, and utterly thrilling accounts of the two Ravel concertos. That for the left hand seldom has sounded so exciting, or in its jazzy central march section, so sinister. Listen to the bite that both soloist and orchestra bring to that descending scale theme, and notice the way Bavouzet shapes his cadenza so as to preserve the illusion of multiple parts played by multiple hands–all without slowing down at the tough passages. It's really an amazing performance by any standard. Even the dark opening, often merely murky on other recordings, has shape and urgency, the buildup to the initial entry of the piano creating incredible tension.

BBC SO, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Magnus Lindberg: Aura; Engine (2000)

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BBC SO, London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen - Magnus Lindberg: Aura; Engine (2000)

Magnus Lindberg: Aura (In Memoriam Witold Lutosławski); Engine (2000)
BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Sinfonietta; Oliver Knussen, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 261 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 125 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 463 184-2 | 00:51:21

Magnus Lindberg burst onto the contemporary music scene in the 1980s with his early work Kraft (as in "power", and not the American food conglomerate and inventor of Velveeta cheese by-product substance), an avant-garde spectacular that took the "sound mass" procedures of Berio or Xenakis and wedded them to an explosive rhythmic energy. He's broadened his style since then, taking in tonal elements and even the occasional tune, but the rhythmic vitality remains, and his coloristic gifts, his ear for ever new and remarkable instrumental sound combinations, have only increased. Aura is a four-movement symphony as indescribable as it is a joy to hear. Dedicated to the memory of Lutoslawski, the piece shows its composer similarly possessed of a vibrant, communicative personal musical language. Although it plays continuously for about 37 minutes, newcomers to Lindberg's sound creations should start with the finale, a sort of dance that begins with simple tunefulness before finding itself in a sort of riotous minimalist hell. It's hugely fun, as is the entire work.

Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

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Lumieres - La musique du XVIIIeme siecle (29 CD), Part 02 [2011]

Lumières - La musique du XVIIIème siècle (29 CD), Part 02: Vivaldi, Telemann, J.S.Bach, Tartini, Monn, C.P.E.Bach, J.C.Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Pleyel, Beethoven [2011]
EAC (flac, image, cue, log) | TT: 76.43+73.10+77.59+54.27 | Scans | 1.29 Gb
Classical | Harmonia Mundi | 2908601.30 | Rec: 1991-2011

The eighteenth century is probably the most extraordinary period of transformation Europe has known since antiquity. Political upheavals kept pace with the innumerable inventions and discoveries of the age; every sector of the arts and of intellectual and material life was turned upside down. Between the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the revolution of 1789, music in its turn underwent a radical mutation that struck at the very heart of a well-established musical language. In this domain too, we are all children of the Age of Enlightenment: our conception of music and the way we ‘consume’ it still follows in many respects the agenda set by the eighteenth century. And it is not entirely by chance that harmonia mundi has chosen to offer you in 2011 a survey of this musical revolution which, without claiming to be exhaustive, will enable you to grasp the principal outlines of musical creation between the twilight of the Baroque and the dawn of Romanticism.

Alexander Ullman, Andrew Litton, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Franz Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Piano Sonata (2022)

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Alexander Ullman, Andrew Litton, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Franz Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Piano Sonata (2022)

Alexander Ullman, Andrew Litton, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Franz Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Piano Sonata (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 72:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics | # RCD1057 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

Alexander Ullman was the winner of the 2011 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music. His teachers include William Fong, Leon Fleisher and Dmitri Alexeev. Alexander’s debut album on Rubicon was a recital of great Russian ballet music arranged for piano – Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky – and received enthusiastic reviews from around the world. This album is his first concerto recording – the two Liszt Concertos are coupled with the B minor Sonata.

James Ehnes, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis - Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra (2022)

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James Ehnes, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis - Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra (2022)

James Ehnes, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis - Berg: Violin Concerto, Three Pieces for Orchestra (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 253 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 153 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:06:01
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Born in 1885, Alban Berg was one of the most significant composers of the Second Viennese School, whose output proved tremendously influential in the development of music in the twentieth century. He was a student of Schoenberg, who found that his juvenile compositions were almost exclusively written for voice; his natural ability to write lyrical melodic lines (even in later life while following the restrictions of twelve-tone serialism) probably remained the most outstanding quality of his style. His Op. 1 Piano Sonata was the fulfilment of a task set by Schoenberg to write non-vocal music. The Passacaglia, written between the sonata and World War I was only completed in short-score, and may have been intended to form part of a larger work. Both pieces are recorded here in skilful orchestrations by Sir Andrew Davis. The Three Orchestral Pieces were composed alongside his first great masterpiece, Wozzeck, and could be seen as a tribute to his musical hero, Mahler.

Geoffrey Tozer, BBC SO, Matthias Bamert - Roberto Gerhard: Symphony No.3; Epithalamion; Piano Concerto (1997)

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Geoffrey Tozer, BBC SO, Matthias Bamert - Roberto Gerhard: Symphony No.3; Epithalamion; Piano Concerto (1997)

Roberto Gerhard: Symphony No.3; Epithalamion; Piano Concerto (1997)
Geoffrey Tozer, piano; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Matthias Bamert, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 260 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 157 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9556 | Time: 01:05:09

At a time when Schoenberg and Stravinsky were thought of as opposite poles, Roberto Gerhard was combining the density of the one with the dynamism of the other in a wholly personal synthesis. You can hear this in the Piano Concerto's mood swings from the dark and brooding to, in the finale, a Spanish take-off that Chabrier would have thought off the wall. Gerhard's 1960s music is in-your-face modernism that holds you in its grasp, embracing sound with an enthusiasm that remains inspirational today. Listen to the tape part of the Third Symphony–a cut-and-paste job that trounces most of the computer-music generation in its imagination and feeling for what's possible. Epithalamion features material originally intended for, of all things, Lindsay Anderson's film This Sporting Life. Not that its impact is any less than coherent; the percussion writing alone has a fantasy that will keep you entranced. Well prepared performances, superbly recorded. This is still music of the future.

BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures (2014) 2CDs

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BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures (2014) 2CDs

Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures (2014) 2 CDs
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano; Stuart Skelton, tenor; David Soar, bass
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 498 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 296 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5140(2) | Time: 02:04:44

Chandos Records is delighted to present this new recording of Elgar’s choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius and the enduringly popular song cycle Sea Pictures. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, a peerless Elgarian who this year was awarded the prestigious Elgar Society Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the composer’s music. In Gerontius the soloists are Stuart Skelton, David Soar and Sarah Connolly, who also sings in Sea Pictures. This recording was made in the days leading up to their triumphant live performance of Gerontius in April of this year in which Skelton was praised as ‘the ideal tenor for the role of Gerontius’, Soar described as ‘an implacable, dark sounding Priest’ and Connolly, ‘a consummately polished Angel’ (The Guardian).

Dmitri Alexeev, Alexander Lazarev - The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 8: Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 & Piano Quintet (1994)

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Dmitri Alexeev, Alexander Lazarev - The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 8: Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 & Piano Quintet (1994)

Dmitri Alexeev, Alexander Lazarev, BBC Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 8: Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 & Piano Quintet (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 288 Mb | Total time: 58:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66744 | Recorded: 1994

When one considers the life of Nikolai Karlovich Medtner it is impossible not to be amazed by his strange, tragic and yet marvellous destiny. He was recognized in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century as one of the most important composers and was, with Scriabin and Rachmaninov, an extremely influential, almost ‘cult’ figure for a whole generation of the Russian intellectual élite. He was also a great pianist and an outstanding musical thinker. His personality was completely divorced from everyday life, but the depth and power of his intellect, entirely absorbed in music, philosophy and the history of culture, were deeply respected by such contemporaries as Nikisch, Rachmaninov, Furtwängler, Koussevitsky, Glazunov and Prokofiev.

Mark Elder, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario (2013)

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Mark Elder, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario (2013)

Mark Elder, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Gaetano Donizetti: Belisario (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 554 Mb | Total time: 60:16+64:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | # ORC49 | Recorded: 2012

Belisario is, quite simply, one of Donizetti’s finest achievements. Dating from the high watermark of Donizetti’s maturity, with its premiere in 1836 (the year after the debut of Maria Stuarda in Milan and Lucia di Lammermoor in Naples), Belisario proved a triumph on stages throughout the 19th century. Yet, incredibly, it is little known today. The libretto, by Salvadore Cammarano (who collaborated with Donizetti on Lucia di Lammermoor), tells the moving and typically complicated story of the 6th century Byzantine general. Falsely accused by his wife, Antonina, of killing their son, he was blinded and exiled as his punishment. Only the recognition by his daughter, Irene, that her father’s former captive, Alamiro, was her long-lost brother restores Belisario’s reputation; tragically, too late to save his life.

Alexander Ullman, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata (2022)

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Alexander Ullman, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata (2022)

Alexander Ullman, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Litton - Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Sonata (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 229 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 169 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:48
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics

Alexander Ullman was the winner of the 2011 Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. He studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music. His teachers include William Fong, Leon Fleisher and Dmitri Alexeev. Alexander’s debut album on Rubicon was a recital of great Russian ballet music arranged for piano – Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky – and received enthusiastic reviews from around the world. This album is his first concerto recording – the two Liszt Concertos are coupled with the B minor Sonata.

BBC Legends - Rudolf Kempe, Edith Peinemann: Michael Tippett, Alban Berg, Leos Janacek (2007)

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BBC Legends - Rudolf Kempe, Edith Peinemann: Michael Tippett, Alban Berg, Leos Janacek (2007)

Michael Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra;
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto; Leoš Janáček: Sinfonietta
Edith Peinemann, violin; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Rudolf Kempe, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 403 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:18:02
Genre: Classical | Label: BBC Music | # BBCL 4215-2

With Kempe at the helm we can be assured of elevated and noble performances. The BBC Legends issue captures him in two concerts given four months apart. The February 1976 concert was given at the Royal Festival Hall and gives us not unexpected fare – Berg – and decidedly unusual repertoire for Kempe in the form of Tippett’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra. This positively crackles with rhythmic energy and dynamism, the strings responding with admirable precision and unanimity of attack. The result is a performance of real standing and a precious surviving example of Kempe’s small repertoire of British works.

Peter Donohoe, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Op. 33, Symphony in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 4 (2022)

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Peter Donohoe, BBC Symphony Orchestra - Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Op. 33, Symphony in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 4 (2022)

Peter Donohoe, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo - Dora Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Op. 33, Symphony in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 41 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 277 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 164 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:10:57
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Countess Mária Theodora (Dora) Paulina Pejačević was born in September 1885 in Budapest. Young Dora grew up with all the advantages of an aristocrat: a fairy-tale life of opulent palaces set in idyllic landscapes; privilege, comfort, leisure, and wealth. From an early age she defied convention and walked her own path, one that eventually led her to ‘despise’ the aristocracy. Her father, Count Teodor Pejačević, a lawyer, held several high posts, including that of Civil Governor of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia (1903 – 07). Her mother, Lilla Vay de Vaya, an ‘exceptionally beautiful’ Hungarian countess, was a gifted pianist and singer, and a fine amateur artist. Her parents arranged private lessons with teachers at the Music School of the Croatian Music Institute, at Zagreb, which lead to further instruction in Dresden and Munich. Dissatisfied with the ‘limits’ of her formal studies, Pejačević pursued her own intensive course of self-instruction in composition. Having taken her music education into her own hands, she set off to enrich and broaden her intellectual horizons, travelling to cultural centres in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.

Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook With Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra (2021)

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Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook With Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra (2021)

Paul Weller - An Orchestrated Songbook With Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 504 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Covers included | 01:18:59
Pop, Classical | Label: Polydor Records

Weller releases the audio from his live performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley with special guests, Celeste, Boy George and James Morrison. An Orchestrated Songbook spans Paul’s career and includes ‘You Do Something to Me’, ‘English Rose’ and ‘Wild Wood’ alongside tracks from his latest two number 1 albums On Sunset and Fat Pop.