Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru – Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3; 2 Romanian Rhapsodies (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:42:19 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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DG present a new recording of fascinating repertoire completely new to the Universal Music catalogue: Symphonies No. 1–3 by George Enescu, plus his most well-known works, the Romanian Rhapsodies. GRAMMY® Award winning conductor Cristian Măcelaru, Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival, and his Orchestre National de France are the perfect ambassadors for the symphonic works by Enescu (1881–1955). Enescu, composer and violin virtuoso was teacher of Yehudi Menuhin, lived in Romania, the US and France. Inspired by the musical heritage of his home country he created a completely unique oeuvre. Pablo Casals called him „The most amazing musician since Mozart“. And while the Romanian Rhapsodies (especially No.1) included here are much loved, the three symphonies are yet to be discovered as truly centre pieces of the symphonic repertoire.
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Simon Trpčeski, Cristian Măcelaru, WDR Sinfonieorchester – Brahms: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:35:09 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
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This eagerly-awaited new release sees Simon Trpceski reunite with conductor Cristian Macelaru to record Brahms Piano Concertos. Their unrivalled chemistry, paramount in Brahms’s chamber-like concertos, is on full display in these new performances which puts the two artists’ musical affinity in the spotlight. These two contrasting concertos, one beginning in darkness, the other in light, mark Brahms’s major contribution to the genre. With Trpceski’s flawless technique and sensitive playing, pianophiles are in for a treat. Macelaru’s orchestra, WDR Sinfonieorchester, joins the pair to complete the line-up; a perfect companion to their previous album, Shostakovich Piano Concertos, which garnered numerous accolades (BBC Music Magazine Concerto Choice, Le Choix de France Musique, among others).
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The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru & Wynton Marsalis – Blues Symphony (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The blues is one of America’s greatest cultural inventions—and now, it provides the backbone for one of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis’s most innovative and colossal works. In the hands of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of celebrated conductor Cristian Măcelaru, Blues Symphony (Marsalis’s second symphony) takes the 12-bar blues and explodes it into a lyrical, kaleidoscopic history of American music.
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Cristian Măcelaru – Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Dance Suite (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:30 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following their first album for Linn (Dvořák: Legends Op. 59, Czech Suite Op. 39), the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Cristian Măcelaru pursue the same folk vein with two orchestral works by Béla Bartók. Based on a rather childish tale (prince, princess, fairies, and of course a happy ending!), the music of the ballet The Wooden Prince – recorded in full here – has all the ingredients of a masterpiece: masterful scoring for large forces, use of musical themes, an effortless amalgam of folk and late-Romantic elements. Composed in 1923 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the merging of the towns of Buda and Pest – alongside commissions by Ernö Dohnányi and Zoltán Kodály – the century-old Dance Suite is a six-movement work that has become one of Bartók’s best known compositions. Born in Timișoara, a short distance from Hungaria, Măcelaru can boast an unparalleled understanding of Bartók, as evident here.
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Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Cristian Măcelaru & WDR Sinfonieorchester – Brahms: Violin Concerto & Songs (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:14 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Classical
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The music of Johannes Brahms has long been close to Emmanuel Tjeknavorian’s heart. Now, with the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Cristian Măcelaru, he has recorded Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Zwei Gesänge,op. 91 with Anna Lucia Richter and Andreas Haefliger. On this album he not only plays the violin, but also the viola.
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Cristian Măcelaru, WDR Sinfonieorchester – Dvořák: Legends Op. 59, Czech Suite Op. 39 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:42 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Linn is thrilled to commence a new collaboration with one of the most renowned orchestras in Germany, Cologne based WDR Sinfonieorchester, with the fast-rising star of the conducting world, Cristian Măcelaru, at the helm.
In this first album, the all Dvořák programme includes the composer’s Legends, Op. 59 and the Czech Suite in D major, Op. 39. Initially written for piano four-hands – a highly profitable market in those days – the rather contemplative Legends were shortly later orchestrated for relatively small forces by Dvořák. Though not carrying a specific story, the ten Legends have somewhat an epic character as if they fused in one continuous narrative.
The dance based Czech Suite epitomizes Dvořák’s unrivaled folk suffused writing. The four-movement work ends with a superb Furiant, which brings the album to a close.
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Cristian Măcelaru – Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:44:33 minutes | 2,74 GB | Genre: Classical
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In a release that marks the centenary of Camille Saint-Saëns’ death in December 1921, the Orchestre National de France, conducted by its music director Cristian Măcelaru, performs the composer’s five symphonies: Nos 1, 2 and 3 and two unnumbered works, the early Symphony in A major and the Symphony in F major, ‘Urbs Roma’. The works span some 35 years of the composer’s dazzling career – from around 1850, when he was 15, to 1886, the year that the Symphony No 3 was premiered. By far the best known of the five, No 3 famously complements the orchestra with an organ, played on this new recording by Olivier Latry.
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Augustin Hadelich, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cristian Măcelaru – Recuerdos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:55 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
“A program can tell a story – the way different musical works follow one another has a great effect on the listener. It can sometimes reveal unexpected things, even refreshing connections …”, violinist Augustin Hadelich describes the approach to his new album Recuerdos – Erinnerungen. The Grammy Award winner built it thematically around Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto, the complexity of which has preoccupied him for years.
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