Kian Soltani, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra & Daniel Barenboim – R. Strauss: Don Quixote – Ravel: Bolero (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:25 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
On October 25, Peral Music releases its latest album, celebrating twenty years of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. In August 1999, Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as a workshop for Israeli, Palestinian, and other Arab musicians to promote coexistence and intercultural dialogue. In order to celebrate this significant anniversary, Peral Music releases a digital album featuring “Don Quixote” (Richard Strauss) with cellist Kian Soltani and the famous “Boléro”(Maurice Ravel).
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Kian Soltani, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim – Dvořák: Cello Concerto (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:28 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
To say that Kian Soltani’s concerto debut for Deutsche Grammophon packs a punch is something of an understatement, and indeed long before Soltani even enters the fray, given that I’m not sure I’ve ever heard an orchestra sounding quite so dangerously, growlingly foreboding and theatrical at the opening of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto as is heard here from Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin in what was a live performance at the Berlin Philharmonie: markedly slower than the score’s metronome marking of 116 to a crotchet; little shivering swells added to the pianissimo crotchets concluding the first phrase; then not just a crescendo up to the first fortissimo statement of the main theme, but also a rushing accelerando; while this revving of the accelerator ultimately lands us smartly at Dvořák’s actual tempo marking, the effect is one of being caught up in a lethally super-speed, supremely polished whirlwind. If you’re a stickler for keeping to the score then you might balk, but there’s no question that it’s electrifying stuff. And on that note, remember Karajan’s glorious bar 72 injection of an ardent and thoroughly unscripted portamento swoop for DG, back in 1968 with Rostropovich? Well Barenboim’s repeated that trick here, and every bit as gloriously.
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Jacqueline Du Pre, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Dvorak: Cello Concerto & Silent Woods (1971) [Japan 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 49:12 minutes | Basic Scans included | 1,97 GB
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At a young age, cellist Jacqueline du Pre achieved mainstream popularity. She is regarded as one of the most distinctive cellists of the last half of the 20th century. Her career was cut short by a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis which stopped her performances at the age of 27. This release was recorded in November 1970 at the Medinah Temple in Chicago & contains Dvorak’s 3 movements: Allegro, Adagio ma non troppo & Finale: Allegro Moderato as well as the additional piece of music Silent Woods, Op. 68. This is a pure analogue tape recording re-mastered for SACD.
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Jacqueline du Pré, English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Haydn & Boccherini: Cello Concertos (2011 – Remaster) (1967/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:48 minutes | 986 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics
This pivotal recording features classic performances of late eighteenth-century cello concertos, one by Haydn and Friedrich Grutzmacher’s 1895 arrangement of Boccherini’s work in B flat. The album demonstrates the enormous gifts of Jacqueline du Pre. Recorded in London in 1967, Jacqueline du Pre is accompanied by her husband Daniel Barenboim and the English Chamber Orchestra.
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Daniel Barenboim – Brahms: Piano Concertos & Academic Festival Overture (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:54:55 minutes | 4,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Daniel Barenboim wurde am 15. November 1942 in Buenos Aires als Sohn von russisch-aschkenasischen Eltern geboren. Ab seinem fünften Lebensjahr erhielt er privaten Klavierunterricht von seinen Eltern – sein Vater blieb sein einziger Klavierlehrer– und am 19. August 1950 gab er im Alter von sieben Jahren sein erstes Konzert in Buenos Aires.
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Alisa Weilerstein, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim – Elgar & Carter Cello Concertos (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:23 minutes | 631 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Records
Alisa Weilerstein makes one of Decca’s most exciting debuts in recent years. The renowned cellist is joined by Decca fan-favorite Daniel Barenboim. Alisa Weilerstein is the first cellist in many years to play the Elgar Concerto with Daniel Barenboim, and his decision to record it with her is a major statement. Her technique has earned her international recognition.
“Their interpretation is one of poise, heft and ardor, the soloist’s superb control keenly matched by the conductor’s insightful support.” – New York Times
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Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin – Elgar: Symphony No 2 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:02 minutes | 1023 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Following his critically-acclaimed Elgar Cello Concerto recording with Alisa Weilerstein, Barenboim turns to the symphonies. The Second Symphony is released first, in a 2013 recording with the Staatskapelle Berlin. The First Symphony will follow in 2015.
“To hear an orchestra with such a distinctive central European sound playing Elgar, and relating his music so securely to the wider late-romantic tradition, is one of the disc’s great pleasures.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian (of the Cello Concerto recording)
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Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim – Elgar: Symphony No.1 in A Flat Major, Op.55 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:24 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
Daniel Barenboim continues his acclaimed Elgar series with the landmark First Symphony. These new issues mark the first time that indefatigable maestro Barenboim has returned to recording Elgar’s symphonic works since the 1970s.
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Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim – Dvořák: Violin Concerto; Romance (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:12 minutes | 844 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Antonín Dvorák had about as much luck with the dedicatee of his violin concerto, the great Joseph Joachim, as Tchaikovsky had with his, the no less illustrious Leopold Auer. Although Joachim agreed to do a critical analysis of the first draft — resulting in a radical reworking of the piece – he did not give the premiere of the finished article, that privilege instead falling to the young Czech violinist František Ondrícek (1857–1922), in Prague on 14 October 1883. Acclaimed from the outset by both performers and audiences, the work soon took a place of honour among the great Romantic concertos, if without achieving quite the same level of celebrity as the Brahms or the Tchaikovsky. That said, there are today more than fifty official recordings available: before Perlman, all the stars of the violin world, with the exception of Heifetz, who never recorded it, had left their stamp on it. Yehudi Menuhin recorded the concerto as early as 1936, and was followed by Georg Kulenkampff (1941), Váša Príhoda (1943), David Oistrakh (1949), Nathan Milstein (who became the work’s champion, with three versions, in 1951, 1957 and 1966), Johanna Martzy (1953) and Isaac Stern (1965). This performance by Perlman, on one of his earliest albums, revealed the depth of his affection for Dvorˇák’s music — he would go on to record the Sonatina and Four Romantic Pieces as well (see volume 36). His choice to couple the Concerto with the delightful Romance in F minor underlines his particular fondness for the latter, a work he had already recorded for RCA in 1967, and which he would return to again years later, this time for Sony in 1993. The Romance is Dvorák’s 1877 violin arrangement of the slow movement of his String Quartet, Op.9, later published as his Op.11. Brimming with gentle languor and delicate charm, the arrangement works perfectly for the discreetly sentimental Romantic solo instrument. While there is also a version with piano accompaniment, it is more frequently recorded with orchestra, and the versions set down by Josef Suk (1960) and Isaac Stern (1966) in this form probably inspired the young Itzhak Perlman to follow suit. ~~Jean-Michel Molkhou
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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Dvořák: Cello Concerto & Silent Woods (1971/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:08 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Classics
This remastered blockbuster features the extraordinary virtuoso Jacqueline du Pre, Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as the performers explore two dynamic works by Dvorak: his Cello Concerto in B Minor, B.191, Op.104 and the Silent Woods. Jacqueline du Pre masterfully displays her outstanding technique with vivid vibrancy, while Barenboim commands the renowned orchestra.
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Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim – Mozart, Schubert & Stravinsky Piano Duos (Live) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:25 minutes | 724 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Group International
A magic moment in the history of classical music: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim – both from Buenos Aires – team up for a duo recital at Berlin’s Philharmonie.
A reunion of the two classical superstars after more than 15 years.
THE concert highlight from Berlin’s fully packed Philharmonie on the occasion of the “Festtage der Berliner Staatsoper 2014”
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Daniel Barenboim, Martha Argerich, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Argerich – Barenboim – Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven, Ravel (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:42:16 minutes | 957 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Group International
As the orchestra today inaugurates its summer performances, the digital record label Peral Music has released Live from Teatro Colón, an extraordinary new album that captures the reunion of legendary pianists Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich in their home city of Buenos Aires, in concert with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
La Nación hailed the occasion as “a masterly return – a memorable concert – the audience at the Teatro Colón cheered as rarely before.” The new album comprises Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with Argerich, Mozart’s Overture to Le nozze di Figaro, and Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Bolero, as well as works by Schumann, Mores, and Bizet.
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Daniel Barenboim, Wiener Philharmoniker – New Year’s Concert 2014 / Neujahrskonzert 2014 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:31 minutes | 2,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Daniel Barenboim conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the 2014 News Year’s Concert, an annual celebration that showcases classics by the venerable Strauss family and the light music of other composers. True to tradition, this concert offers selections by Johann Strauss I, his sons Johann Strauss II, Eduard Strauss, and Josef Strauss, as well as the unrelated Richard Strauss, Joseph Hellmesberger, Joseph Lanner, and for the first time on a New Year’s concert, the French composer Léo Delibes. However, this is not a completely familiar program, because Barenboim has chosen pieces that are mostly unfamiliar to audiences outside Austria. Except for the universally known Strauss classics (Tales from the Vienna Woods, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, and the Radetzky March), as well as the Pizzicato from Delibes’ ballet Sylvia and the Mondscheinmusik excerpted from Richard Strauss’ opera Capriccio, the selections are primarily standards among the Viennese, who regard them as their birthright, and they are seldom heard in the west. Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic play with high energy and spontaneity, and the fun atmosphere of the evening comes across in these glittering and buoyant performances.
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Daniel Barenboim & West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Beethoven For All – Symphonies 1- 9 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:56:00 minutes | 6,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
About the Series
Beginning this summer, Decca Records will release an unprecedented series of Beethoven recordings – all of the composer’s complete symphonies, piano concertos and piano sonatas. The label has recruited one of Beethoven’s greatest interpreters, Daniel Barenboim.
Daniel Barenboim Speaking About the Project
“I think the Beethoven symphonies with the Divan orchestra is different in the sense that there is a terrific amount of energy because of the youth of the people – but there is just as much rigour. The combination of rigour with youthful energy is very strong” (Daniel Barenboim, speaking in the TV documentary on this project).
Esteemed conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra explores the celebrated repertoire of composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. His compositions have a universal appeal, speaking to music lovers around the world. Performing in a duel role, as composer and pianist, Daniel Barenboim has been dubbed one of Beethoven’s greatest interpreters. With the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the ensemble breathes new life to these irresistible classics.Beethoven For All – Symphonies 1-9 is the first installment in this highly anticipated series. Recorded in August 2011 in Cologne, the performances are truly remarkable complemented by the extraordinary sound quality. A technically flawless reading of these beloved symphonies.
Daniel Barenboim & Kian Soltani & Michael Barenboim – Complete Mozart Trios (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:29:15 minutes | 1,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Daniel Barenboim is no stranger to complete collections. Glutton that he is, he records them several times over, whether it’s Beethoven’s Sonatas, or as here, Mozart’s Trios (already recorded for EMI in 2006 with violinist Nicolai Znaider and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov). And so it’s not the immortal Amadeus that we are hearing so much as a portrait of Barenboim that ages with the years. The accomplished artists create a close dialogue, greedily following each other’s music. Amongst all these scores, can we detect an aesthetic vision? The scores follow one after the other, like at a family musical soirée, with a convivial, sweetish piano sound – likely a matter of sound quality rather than sherry consumption – in particular on the Piano Trio in B Flat Major, K.502, but also in the opening passages of the Allegro of the Piano Trio in E Major, K.542, whose dramatic dimension is somewhat lacking here. But at least the piano doesn’t overshadow the strings or upset the balance required in these tightly-wound, respected works. Mozart’s chamber music isn’t simple: the contrapunctual writing builds a delicate world whose poetry is flavoured by harmonies and chromatism. Daniel Barenboim has found some fitting partners. – Elsa Siffert
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