Daniel Barenboim – Encores (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Daniel Barenboim – Encores (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 57:17 minutes | 465 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

To follow up on a monumental project, his last acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, Daniel Barenboim has chosen for his new album an intimate and very personal program of his favorite encores, recorded at the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin during the lockdown. This new record comes to celebrate not only its eightieth anniversary in 2022 but also its seventy years of stage. The multifaceted musician lavishes his art on gems such as Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Schumann’s Reverie and an array of other masterpieces by Chopin, Schubert, Liszt and Albéniz.
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Daniel Barenboim & Wiener Philharmoniker – Neujahrskonzert 2022 / New Year’s Concert 2022 / Concert du Nouvel An 2022 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Daniel Barenboim & Wiener Philharmoniker – Neujahrskonzert 2022 / New Year’s Concert 2022 / Concert du Nouvel An 2022 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:43:31 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauß and its contemporaries. These concerts not only delight the audiences in the Musikverein in Vienna, but also enjoy great international popularity through the worldwide television broadcast, which now reaches over 90 countries.
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Itzhak Perlman, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim – Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Itzhak Perlman, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim – Vieuxtemps: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:13 minutes | 958 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

A successor to Paganini, Henri Vieuxtemps was, in company with Sarasate and Wieniawski, one of the great violin virtuosos of the nineteenth century. These performer-composers have often been accused of possessing an overly showy style, too centred on their own capabilities and inclined to alternate between speed and sentimentality. While it is true that most of their works were written to showcase their own instrumental skills, highlighting a number of technical innovations in the process, it would be unfair to dismiss their music as nothing but spectacular effects and languorous melodies. By skilfully blending a knowledge of the legacy bequeathed to them by their predecessors and a fondness for their respective national folk traditions, Sarasate, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski all in their own ways succeeded in continuing the virtuoso tradition of expansive passion and exaltation.

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Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel – Brahms: The Piano Concertos (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin, Gustavo Dudamel – Brahms: The Piano Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:42:06 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This album was recorded live at the Berliner Philharmonie in September 2014 with high critical acclaim of the performances. Not only the common South American roots of both artists but also the precise and energetic playing of Barenboim and the “volcanic” temperament of Dudamel make them a “Dream couple”.
Barenboim himself has a very high opinion of Dudamel which he expressed after one of the concerts: “Whenever I had to play myself, I was able to count on him completely. And when I didn’t have to play, it was a joy to see how well he works with the orchestra. I’m well placed to make this observation as I’ve been playing these concertos since 1958.”

After his successful album together with Yuja Wang, this is Dudamel’s second recording as conductor with a soloist.

The second Piano Concerto with its four movements is one of the longest and most demanding concertos ever written and the final Allegretto grazioso features one of the most carefree movements that Brahms ever wrote and which is also notable – in Alfred Brendel’s words – for its “unsurpassable pianistic perversions”.
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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Hommage à Boulez (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Hommage à Boulez (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:22:23 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Hommage à Boulez celebrates Daniel Barenboim’s and Pierre Boulez’ association, starting in June 1964, that for length and multifariousness, has few parallels in the history of music.
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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 – Bruch: Kol Nidrei (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 – Bruch: Kol Nidrei (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:55 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Jackie was always the most exciting cellist,” Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline du Pré’s fellow-cellist, has said. “It would be hard to think of another that took as many risks as she did… always for expressive reasons. There is no other artist who can transfer that sense of excitement onto vinyl.” Here, with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, du Pré performs perhaps the most widely-loved of all cello concertos, Dvorák’s lyrical and stirring epic.
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Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman & Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven: Piano Trios (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman & Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven: Piano Trios (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 04:23:18 minutes | 9,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Could this be the definitive version of the admirable cycle of Beethoven’s piano trios? Surrounding Jacqueline du Pré then at the peak of her artistic talent are her closest musical partners Daniel Barenboim and Pinchas Zukerman. A power trio whose obvious affinity, mutual-understanding and equilibrium have made this recording a must-have for every chamber music lover.

It also includes the Gassenhauer Trio with clarinet, featuring Gervase de Peyer.

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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129 – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Schumann: Cello Concerto, Op. 129 – Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:52 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Among the revered concertante recordings of Jacqueline du Pré and her husband Daniel Barenboim, Schumann’s concerto holds a particular place in her discography as it was her favorite piece, one that she studied for years with her masters Paul Tortelier and Mstislav Rostropovich before giving this legendary version, coupled with a splendid Saint-Saëns.
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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Haydn & Boccherini: Cello Concertos (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim – Haydn & Boccherini: Cello Concertos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:01 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Jacqueline du Pré, performing with the two conductors most closely associated with her career, brings characteristic exuberance, passion and colour to three cello concertos rooted in the 18th century. In his memoir A Life In Music, Daniel Barenboim wrote: “I have never encountered anyone for whom music was such a natural form of expression as it was for Jacqueline … She had a capacity to imagine sound such as I never met in any other musician.”
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (Live) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Anne-Sophie Mutter, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven: Triple Concerto & Symphony No. 7 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:52 minutes | 798 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim present a joint recording of the Triple Concerto and the Seventh Symphony on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. The Album also celebrates 20 years of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the interaction of Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma after 40 years!
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Gervase de Peyer, Jacqueline du Pré & Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven: Clarinet Trio, Op. 11 “Gassenhauer” – Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gervase de Peyer, Jacqueline du Pré & Daniel Barenboim – Beethoven: Clarinet Trio, Op. 11 “Gassenhauer” – Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:22 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

This recording has been exhumed from the archives – a previously unissued clarinet trio by Brahms with Jacqueline du Pré, Gervase de Peyer and Daniel Barenboim! It is coupled with Beethoven’s Gassenhauer Trio!

One of six new digital albums released recently by Jacqueline du Pré, all in brand new high resolution remasterings!

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Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim – Liszt, Schubert, Wagner, Widman – West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the BBC Proms 2016 (2018) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim – Liszt, Schubert, Wagner, Widman – West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the BBC Proms 2016
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Classical

Production/Label: EuroArts Music International
Duration: 03:07:42
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: H.264
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 19778 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio #1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio #2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1958 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Size: 21.05 GB

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are not only an internationally-acclaimed touring orchestra but also a symbol of tolerance and understanding between people. Their Prom opens with Jörg Widmann’s riotous overture Con brio, which uses fragments of Beethoven’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies and looks at them through a 21st-century prism. Orchestra and conductor are joined by the legendary Martha Argerich. Argerich, gives an “unforgettable performance” of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 dazzling the audience with “her playing as frighteningly precise as it has always been.” (The Guardian) For the encore, the two childhood friends join forces at the piano for a four-handed rendition of Schubert’s Rondo in A which ”for 12 minutes provided a glimpse of paradise” (The Standard), holding “6000 people spellbound” (The Times). The concert is completed with popular excerpts from Wagner’s Tannhäuser and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – both of which feature a song contest at their heart – as well as from Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner’s Ring. “Proms don’t come more stellar than this! Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra would have comfortably filled the hall on their own, while Martha Argerich could have filled it three times over.” (Independent)

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