Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano, Javier Camarena – Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:39 minutes | 2,65 GB | Genre: Classical
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Berlioz composed his Requiem at the request of a French government minister to commemorate the soldiers who died in the July Revolution in 1830. The Requiem would become one of Berlioz’s most popular works, among other things because of its imaginative instrumentation and gigantic orchestration, including four brass ensembles distributed throughout the hall. The work was also dear to the composer’s own heart. He once said, ‘If someone were to threaten to destroy all my works, I would beg for mercy on behalf of my Grande messe des morts.’
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Concertgebouworkest – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1-9 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 05:46:05 minutes | 3,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Nine Symphonies’ are the core repertoire of virtually every orchestra in the world and the Concertgebouworkest is no exception. Until the 1960s the Beethoven tradition of the Concertgebouworkest meant yearly symphony cycles that closed concert seasons. Later on Beethoven ‘Symphonies’ were mainly programmed one at a time, with a different (guest) conductor. This box set offers the finest recorded Concertgebouworkest live performances of the ‘Nine Symphonies’ since the 1970s. With a variety of conductors, from Leonard Bernstein to Nikolaus Harnoncourt it demonstrates the orchestra’s incredible versatility.
The Beethoven symphonies: all nine of them stunning masterworks, all nine performed countless times. Be that as it may, there are conductors who can recontextualise these symphonies in such a way that they sound completely new, as Iván Fischer proved in 2013 and 2014 in his Beethoven Series with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, spread out over two seasons. A veritable journey of discovery through a familiar landscape.
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Concertgebouworkest – R. Strauss: Orchestral Works (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:16:51 minutes | 766 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mariss Jansons leads the Concertgebouworkest in one of his party pieces: Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. Strauss dedicated the work to the Concertgebouworkest and its former conductor Willem Mengelberg.
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Behzod Abduraimov, Concertgebouworkest, Valery Gergiev – Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:33 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Classical
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Serge Rachmaninoff himself played his Third Piano Concerto in 1911 in the Netherlands with the Concertgebouworkest and Willem Mengelberg. He noted at the time: “The musicians thought it was beautiful, but the audience and the critics did not.” In the end, pianist Vladimir Horowitz was able to inspire the audience for the work, and today ‘Rach 3’ is considered to be one of the warhorses in the repertoire. With this notoriously difficult concerto the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov made his dazzling Concertgebouworkest debut under the direction of Valery Gergiev.
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