Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti – Debussy: La Mer, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Images pour orchestre (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Orchestre National de France, Daniele Gatti – Debussy: La Mer, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Images pour orchestre (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:42 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

In 2012 the music world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Debussy’s birth. To mark the occasion, Sony Classical is releasing a new recording of some of the composer’s best-known orchestral masterpieces with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of its director of music, Daniele Gatti.

The Orchestre National de France is regarded as one of France’s greatest orchestras, and is predestined to perform the works of the country’s great impressionist composers, having focused on this repertoire for many years.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6 in B minor “Pathétique” Op. 74 (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky: Symphony 6 in B minor “Pathétique” Op. 74 (2006)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,98 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,21 GB | Full Artwork | 3% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMU 807394 | Country/Year: Europe 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

By now, the most you can hope for from a new recording of one of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies is not originality of conception but a performance that seizes on a particular (if familiar) element of the work and successfully runs with it. In his live recording on Naïve, Riccardo Muti makes the anguish in the first movement of Symphony 6 seem an end-of-the-world crisis. Herbert von Karajan’s outings with the Berlin Philharmonic on Deutsche Grammophon give the first-movement rhythms the pulsing regularity of a heartbeat that abruptly stops, with bone-chilling effect.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 & Romeo & Juliet (2004) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5 & Romeo & Juliet (2004)
SACD ISO (2.0/MCH): 3,12 GB | 24B/88,2kHz Stereo FLAC: 1,04 GB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMU 807381 | Country/Year: Europe 2004 | 3% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Review by Blair Sanderson
Considering that the marketplace is saturated with too many recordings of the same masterpieces, there ought to be compelling reasons to record works as overplayed as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Romeo and Juliet. Daniele Gatti takes the position that Tchaikovsky’s original tempi and dynamics have been ignored for generations and that restoration of these markings presents the works in a dramatically different light. Faster tempi make a real difference, and the music sounds less tortured and maudlin at Gatti’s brisk clip. The symphony has a clear trajectory, and Romeo and Juliet is more combative and driven without the usual languid pacing. But the speed of the performances is possibly less interesting than Gatti’s close attention to dynamics, for this is where the works benefit most. Tchaikovsky’s orchestration is brilliant in Gatti’s lucid and finely gauged readings, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra offers great depth of sound and vivid timbral distinctions. Is the restoration Earth-shattering? Perhaps not to the extent that Baroque works sound radically changed in authentic re-creations. With Tchaikovsky, the differences are subtle and may be less obvious to the untrained ear. Even so, these are refreshing alternatives to the commonplace performances of the past, and Gatti’s reappraisal of these warhorses opens a new area for debate. allmusicguide

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 & Capriccio Italien op. 45 (2005) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 & Capriccio Italien op. 45 (2005)
SACD ISO: 2,89 GB (Stereo + MCH DSD) | FLAC @ 24bit/88.2kHz: 930 MB | Full Artwork
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi USA # HMU 807393 | Country/Year: Europe 2005 | 3% Rec. Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic

Review by James Leonard
This is really good! No matter how little faith one has in the possibility that anyone could breathe life into a warhorse like Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, Daniele Gatti has done it with the Royal Philharmonic in this 2005 recording for Harmonia Mundi. Coupled with the equally venerable and equally successful Capriccio Italien, Gatti turns in performances that rip and roar, that excite and inspire, performances so cogent and compelling, so strong and sincere that they even make the doubter believe that Tchaikovsky knew what he was doing as a composer after his nearly fatal nervous breakdown after his spectacularly failed marriage attempt. But Gatti’s control of tempo and texture and his attention to color and line do more than breathe life into Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, his conducting puts some backbone into it. Gatti’s rhythms have real muscle, his developments have real point, and his forms have real power, and when combined with the composer’s glorious melodies and expressive harmonies, this Fourth shakes, rattles, and rolls. The Royal Philharmonic’s performance is first class with sweeping strings, warms winds, bold brass, a percussion section of tremendous might and majesty, and an ensemble both characterful and unified. If old timer stereo buffs still hold to the iron-handed Mravinsky or the leather-gloved Abbado, even they will have to admit that only Jansons of digital recordings comes close to Gatti in making the case for Tchaikovsky’s Fourth as a masterful symphony. Harmonia Mundi’s English-based recorded sound is just as clear and bright as its French- or American-based recorded sound, but also warmer and lusher and more vivid. allmusicguide

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (2016) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Сomposer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Artist: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti
Title: Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830)
Genre: Classical
Label: © RCO Live
Release Date: 2016
Recorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 31 March, 1 and 3 April 2016.
Quality: Blu-ray
Duration: 01:35:06
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 21695 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: English DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 96 kHz / 6715 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)

With the release of this live recording of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, RCO Live celebrates the start of its collaboration with Daniele Gatti as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s seventh chief conductor on 9 September 2016. His unconventional take on this spectacular score evokes the astonishment audiences must have experienced at the time of the 1830 premiere. It is exactly this sense of surprise and freshness – founded on a thorough knowledge of the score – and the sheer joy of making music together that prompted the members of the RCO to choose Daniele Gatti as their new chief conductor. (more…)

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/352.8kHz]

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti – Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/352.8 kHz | Time – 58:13 minutes | 5,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

With the release of this live recording of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, RCO Live celebrates the start of its collaboration with Daniele Gatti as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s seventh chief conductor on 9 September 2016. His unconventional take on this spectacular score evokes the astonishment audiences must have experienced at the time of the 1830 premiere. It is exactly this sense of surprise and freshness – founded on a thorough knowledge of the score – and the sheer joy of making music together that prompted the members of the RCO to choose Daniele Gatti as their new chief conductor.
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Richard Strauss: Salome (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Richard Strauss: Salome (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:41:11 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

After Riccardo Chailly started the RCO’s celebrated association with the Dutch National Opera with masterpieces by Verdi and Puccini, Mariss Jansons continued with unforgettable Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich productions. With brilliant performances of Verdi’s Falstaff, Daniele Gatti (then not yet as chief conductor) started a new chapter of this collaboration. Their spectacular 2017 production of Richard Strauss’ Salome is another highlight in the already impressive list.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:08 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Daniele Gatti and the RCO are presenting an unconventional and thought-provoking approach to Mahler’s First Symphony. At the premiere in 1889, the audience was ill-prepared for Mahler’s bold orchestration, but the symphony gradually gained in popularity. The Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by the composer himself, gave the Dutch premiere in 1903. Mahler was absolutely delighted, exclaiming, ‘The musical culture in this country is stupendous! The way the people can just listen!’ This luxurious edition in book form is available in a limited edition.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 – Wagner: Parsifal (Excerpts) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 – Wagner: Parsifal (Excerpts) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:35 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Ninth is the last of Bruckner’s monumental symphonies. The final movement is unfinished, but the three completed movements are an astonishing tribute to God, his main source of inspiration. In addition to a deep sense of piety, this music expresses fear and despair, as Bruckner knew that death was at hand. The intense expressivity of the work makes it one of the most remarkable orchestral works ever composed, a tour de force for the musicians and a unique experience for the listener.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 57:57 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © RCO Live

Throughout his life, Gustav Mahler grappled with existential questions which were a source of both torment and inspiration for him. Perhaps the most important of these involved the existence of an afterlife, a theme which informs his first four symphonies to varying degrees, and which helps explain why Mahler considered his Symphony No. 4 from 1900 to be the conclusion of a ‘fully self-contained tetra- logy’. Despite Mahler’s doubts, bouts of writer’s block, changes of course in midstream and his reservations about written programmes, the overarching themes of the works in question are as clear as day. While the First Symphony was about suffering, death and transcendence, the Second about the possibility of resurrection after death and the Third about an order of living beings in nature and the cosmos as created by God, the Fourth focuses on the opposition between earthly life and paradise.

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