San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Edo de Waart & Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Neville Marriner – Grieg: Peer Gynt Op. 23 & Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (1983/1985) [Japan 2019] SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Edo de Waart & Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Neville Marriner – Grieg: Peer Gynt Op. 23 & Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (1983/1985) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:15 min | Basic Scans incl. | 2,7 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans included | 1,35 GB
Japanese SACD Reissue 2019 | Decca / Esoteric Company, Japan # ESSD-90205

Edo de Waart conducts the San Francisco Symphony for performances of Grieg’s “Peer Gynt” Op. 23: Incidental music to Ibsen’s Play and Sir Neville Marriner conducts for Holberg Suite, Op.40. This reissue series of classical music masterpieces by Esoteric has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound. This series marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections that have been mainstays of the catalog since their initial release.

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Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart – Elgar: Cello Concerto & Piano Quintet (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart – Elgar: Cello Concerto & Piano Quintet (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:00 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

After making several discs of chamber music by Brahms and Schubert, the cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker now records a large-scale concerto, showing the full range of her talent. Composed between 1918 and 1919, Elgar’s Concerto Op.85 was poorly received at its first performance but has since become established as one of the key works in the cello repertoire. To complete the programme, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker rejoins her chamber music partners, the violinists Carolin Widmann and David McCarroll, the violist Pauline Sachse and the pianist Martin Helmchen, in Elgar’s Piano Quintet, composed at the same time as the Concerto and premiered in London in 1919.

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