Live from the Musée d’Orsay,Paris,1 May 2019,
Berliner Philharmoniker-Daniel Harding AKA EUROPAKONZERT.2019 Live from Paris
Daniel Harding
Sir Bryn Terfel
Henning Kasten.
Tracklist:
Opening 0:40
Richard Wagner
Parsifal-Good Friday Spell 10:36
Hector Berlioz
Les Troyens-Chasse royale et orage 10:38
Claude Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande-Suite/Extracts 25:19
Prélude à I’après-midi d’un faune 10:24
Hector Berlioz
Romeo et Juliette-Scène d’amour 16:24
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre-Wotan’s Farewell and Magic Fire Music 18:44
Tristanund Isolde-Liebestod 7:40
Applause & End Credits 1:58
Bonus:
Documentary
Interview with Bryn Terfel
Verbier Festival Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:24:25 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mahler famously stated, that “a symphony must be like a world; it must contain everything”. Guided by this saying the British conductor Daniel Harding and the Verbier Festival Orchestra, capture the colossal spectrum of emotions in Mahler’s last completed symphony (1908–1909). Their performance of the 9th Symphony has been recorded live at the 2017 Verbier Festival and will be released on February 2. The symphony’s rustic second movement is now available to listen to.
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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:22:35 minutes | 812 MB | Genre: Classical
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Although a valedictory mood underpins it, Mahler’s Ninth Symphony offers above all a profound meditation on the fate of humanity and seems to exude an immense love of life. Sustained by the commitment and excellence of the artists, this recording reveals the formal, technical and orchestral modernity of a work that was to exert a genuine fascination on the Viennese composers of the following generation.
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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Harding – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:21 minutes | 714 MB | Genre: Classical
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As the last completed symphony that Mahler wrote, the Ninth has often been heard by audiences as the composer’s swan song: a nostalgic, moving farewell from a composer conscious of his own mortality. This interpretation is of course easily justifiable, as etched into the musical fabric of the symphony are references to the tragedies that befell the composer in the years before his death. Furthermore, it is wholly plausible that for a man as melodramatic as Mahler, the idea of a symphony that centres around themes of loss and finality would surely have been an appealing prospect.
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Saito Kinen Orchestra, Daniel Harding – R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:57 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Classical
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This sonically spectacular recording of Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony was made with the internationally hand-picked players of the Saito Kinen Orchestra and recorded at the Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto, at the heart of the Japan Alps. Daniel Harding was specially invited to conduct the orchestra in the absence of Seiji Ozawa who, at that time, was still recuperating from treatment for cancer.
Voted among the World’s Greatest Orchestras by Gramophone magazine, the Saito Kinen Orchestra boasts the best Japanese players from the leading orchestras of Europe and North America as well as selected wind and brass principals from Berlin, Vienna, Philadelphia and Boston among others. It is one of the world’s elite festival orchestras
Demanding an unprecedented orchestra of 125 players, the Alpine Symphony was the last of Strauss’ great series of tone poems. Specially released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’ birth and the centenary of the symphony’s composition, this is the first Decca recording since 1988 and utilizes the latest 24 bit 96khz technology for a truly spectacular sound.
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Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra & Malin Broman, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Harding – Nordin: Voices From the Past (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:40 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Classical
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Leading Swedish composer Jesper Nordin’s soundscape lies at the crossroads of Swedish traditional music, rock and improvised music. On this recording, Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Röster (‘voices’), a trilogy whose works are each based on different kinds of Swedish music which the composer sees as being part of his background. In Åkallan (‘Invocation’), Nordin has used the traditional vocal technique called kulning as his starting point. Extreme metal rock (through the band Meshuggah) provided the material for Ärr (‘Scar’) and the result is an explosive rhythmic scream that has seldom been heard in classical music. Finally, Öde (‘Fate’ or ‘Deserted’) incorporates recordings by the legendary Swedish opera singers Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling in an electronic part which interacts with the orchestra.
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Matthias Goerne, Daniel Harding & The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – The Wagner Project (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:02:04 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Thanks to the combined talents of Matthias Goerne and Daniel Harding at the head of the excellent Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the music of Richard Wagner glows here with a special radiance. In the finest scenes for baritone or bass from Tristan und Isolde, Der fliegende Holländer, Parsifal and other operas, the themes dear to the composer (gods, men and redemption) inspire him to deploy supreme expressive resources and show the incontestable genius of this born orchestrator in a new light.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunk & Daniel Harding – Gustav Holst: The Planets with Daniel Harding and the BRSO (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:45 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Classical
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Seven musical character images – each one immensely sensual and expressive, and standing on its own like a monument. The British composer Gustav Holst, fascinated by (esoteric) astrology, chose the planets of our solar system and the characteristics attributed to them as the basis for what he referred to as musical “”mood pictures”” or “”embodiments””. Ultimately, the seven movements of his orchestral suite “The Planets”, op. 32, composed between 1914 and 1916, can also be understood as general explorations of human traits. The work had not been performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for almost three decades when, on February 25, 2022, the British conductor Daniel Harding brought it back to Munich’s concert audience in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz, and with great success. During a trip to Mallorca in the summer of 1913, Holst’s friend Clifford Bax introduced him to astrology for the first time and the composer immediately began to draw up horoscopes for himself and his acquaintances. The extent to which he actually believed in the influence of celestial bodies on personality formation played only a subordinate role here; it was the notion of a holistic system that could encompass both man and the world that fascinated him the most. His interest in astrology also offered him a welcome break from the monotony of his life as a teacher – at St. Paul’s School for Girls and at Morley College, where he taught working-class adults.
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Isabelle Faust, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Bartók: Violin Concertos No. 1 & 2 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:57 minutes | 902 MB | Genre: Classical
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Isabelle Faust’s first recording for harmonia mundi, Bartok Sonatas, won her a Gramophone Young Artist of the Year. Here she returns to Bartok, perfoming the two concertos, accompanied by Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio SO.
Such is the fame of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto (1937-38), that it has virtually eclipsed the First, written 30 years before. Yet, this earlier work, rediscovered long after the composer’s death, has a fascinating story all of its own. True to form, Isabelle Faust has gone back to the multiple musical sources of this First Concerto, a work that came ‘straight from the heart’, as Bartók’s romance with a young violinist lay at the core of its creative process.
‘I owe my enthusiasm for the music of Béla Bartók to the wonderful Hungarian violinist Dénes Zsigmondy, who was privileged to know the composer personally. At the age of eleven, I was lucky enough to study the Sonata for solo violin with him and thus to discover Bartók’s world in a very emotional and instinctive way. In the years since then, Dénes Zsigmondy, his conception of music, and especially his interpretation of Bartók have formed an important component of my artistic career. It seemed only logical to choose the Bartók sonatas for my debut CD. I am now delighted to present the two violin concertos in this recording. It is intended as a musical expression of my admiration for the composer Béla Bartók and my gratitude for the continued inspiration and faithful friendship of Dénes Zsigmondy. My warm thanks go to László Somfai and László Vikárius of the Bartók Archives in Budapest and to Felix Meyer of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel for their generous support of this project. Finally, I would like to express my profound appreciation of and indebtedness to Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra for their absolutely fantastic contribution to the recording sessions.’ (Isabelle Faust)
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Isabelle Faust, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Daniel Harding – Schoenberg: Violin Concerto – Verklärte Nacht (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:10 minutes | 621 MB | Genre: Classical
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Almost forty years separate Verklärte Nacht from the Violin Concerto – the former still influenced by the idiom of Brahms and Wagner, the latter deriving from the richness of that later period when Schoenberg managed to combine a multiplicity of approaches within his twelve-note system. Between post-Romantic twilight and ‘classical’ rigour, Isabelle Faust and her most faithful partners offer us an extraordinarily lively interpretation of some of the most remarkable pages in twentieth-century musical literature.
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Daniel Harding – Sommernachtskonzert 2021 / Summer Night Concert 2021 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:29:09 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Classical
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Vienna has a habit of throwing up beautiful settings for unique events. The Summer Night Concert (“Sommernachtskonzert” in German) is a prime example.
Each year, the world-renowned Wiener Philharmoniker gives a free open-air performance in the Sch”onbrunn Palace gardens.
Picture a huge stage standing among sculpted flower beds and lawns, a golden Imperial palace on one side, the majestic Neptune fountain on the other. Then add lights, fireworks and, most importantly, one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
That’s the Summer Night Concert.
The tradition began in 2004 as a “concert for Europe”, conducted by none other than Bobby McFerrin, and has since gone global: TV stations around the world broadcast the event.
The programme usually features more accessible classical pieces, with the occasional surprise: perhaps my favourite moment was a rendition of the Imperial March from Star Wars.
(Apparently the Philharmoniker are a fan of that particular piece. In 2020, they performed with its composer, John Williams, and made a special request that the march be included in the programme.)
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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:51 minutes | 683 MB | Genre: Classical
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A world might seem to divide the unbridled Romanticism of Berlioz from the highly controlled art of Rameau, standard-bearer of the French Late Baroque. And yet, at a distance of less than a century (‘Hippolyte’ was premiered in 1733, the ‘Fantastique’ in 1830), the same passion links two works more similar than their stylistic divergence might suggest. There is the same audacity in the orchestration, combined with an innate sense of drama that springs repeated rhythmic and harmonic surprises.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs here a task requiring unusual versatility under their Music Director, Daniel Harding, with his matchless gift for establishing a dialogue between two pioneers of genius. Harding is also Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Music Partner of the New Japan Philharmonic. He takes up the baton at the Orchestre de Paris -the first British maestro in the orchestra’s history – in September 2016. He has been honoured with the lifetime title of Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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Christiane Karg, Matthias Goerne, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestar and Choir & Daniel Harding – Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:30 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Classical
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Ein deutsches Requiem, Brahms’s longest choral work, was composed during three different periods of his life but completed between 1865 and 1868, perhaps as a result of the death of the composer’s mother. It is a sacred work, but non-liturgical. It features text chosen by Brahms from the German Lutheran Bible, with passages from both the Old and New Testament. However, it does not include material about the Last Judgment, and was written primarily (according to Brahms), to comfort the living. On this recording, soloists Christiane Karg and Matthias Goerne are joined by the Swedish Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all under the direction of maestro Daniel Harding.
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Isabelle Faust, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Brahms: Violin Concerto, String Sextet no.2 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:47 minutes | 720 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi
Isabelle Faust goes back to the roots of one of the most famous Romantic concertos, which is also one of the most difficult from a technical point of view: did Hans von Bülow not call it a ‘concerto against the violin’? Born of close collaboration between Brahms and the violinist Joseph Joachim, the work is a fine testimony to friendship – whereas the Sextet op.36 is directly linked to the love affair between the composer and the beautiful Agathe von Siebold.
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Paul Lewis, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15; Ballades Op. 10 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:10 minutes | 660 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Harmonia Mundi
A renewal of forms, Too innovative for its time, Brahms’s Piano Concerto no.1, premiered in Hanover in 1859, needed a few years to become established in the repertory. It is a work that redefines the norms of the genre. The traditional confrontation between virtuoso soloist and orchestra is bypassed in favour of a balanced treatment and a more ‘symphonic’ approach. The Ballades op.10 too derive from the impetus towards a renewal of forms characteristic of the young Brahms’s output.
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