Emil Gilels, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – Beethoven: 5 Piano Concertos (1968) [Japan 2015]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 274:39 minutes | Front/Rear covers | 7,1 GB
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“Emil Gilels stands out as giant among giants”, wrote Gramophone when the Odessa-born pianist died in 1985. “In terms of virtuosity he was second to none, yet his leonine power was tempered by a delicacy and poetry that few have matched and none has surpassed”. Ludwig van Beethoven was at the heart of Gilels’ repertoire and in 1968 he recorded this complete cycle of the composer’s piano concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra and its long-standing maestro, another musical titan of the era, George Szell.
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Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 (1970/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:57 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Classics
Legendary conductor George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra deliver distinguished performances of undeniable masterpieces. The recording features outstanding musicianship, performed at the highest standard. This is an essential release for any music lover’s collection.
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Cifford Curzon, Leonard Rose, George Szell, New York Philharmonic – George Szell conducts Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 live (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:02 minutes | 776 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
George Szell (* June 7, 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; † July 30, 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an Austro-Hungarian conductor, pianist and composer. He had American citizenship. From 1946 until his death, he conducted the Cleveland Orchestra. With the exception of Eugene Ormandy, no conductor in the 20th century led one of the American big Five orchestras for longer than George Szell. The conductors Szell, Ormandy, Solti, Doráti and Reiner, all from Budapest, brought the American orchestras from the middle of the 20th century. At the end of the XIX century, it reached a level on a par with that of European orchestras.
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New York Philharmonic, George Szell, Clifford Curzon – Bruckner and Mozart complete live concerto conducted by George Szell (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:40:16 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archipel
The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.,globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City. It is one of the leading American orchestras popularly referred to as the “Big Five”.The Philharmonic’s home is David Geffen Hall, located in New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Founded in 1842, the orchestra is one of the oldest musical institutions in the United States and the oldest of the “Big Five” orchestras. Its record-setting 14,000th concert was given in December 2004.
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David Oistrakh, The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op.77 (1970) [Japan 2010]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 40:40 minutes | Scans NOT included | 1,63 GB
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This new audio version feature newly remastered DSD master / Esoteric Japan # ESSE-90044
David Oistrakh, the celebrated Russian violinist, was one of a small group of Soviet artists invited by EMI to participate in their program of recording for the first time with major orchestras in the USA, following the end of the company’s long-standing reciprocal licensing arrangements with CBS and RCA. EMI’s first venture in this field was a set of Beethoven Piano Concertos with Emil Gilels as soloist, made with the Cleveland Orchestra under its Hungarian conductor George Szell in the Severance Hall, Cleveland, in April and May 1968. This was followed in May 1969 with the Brahms Violin Concerto with Oistrakh and the Brahms Double Concerto with Oistrakh and Rostropovich. The Penguin Guide said of the LP of the Violin Concerto that the performance was “full of controlled feeling and disciplined vitality that must be numbered among the finest of the full-price versions available”.
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Clifford Curzon; George Szell; London Symphony Orchestra – Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (1962/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:24 minutes | 1,99 GB | Genre: Classical
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…Pianist Clifford Curzon joins the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Szell for this recording of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15.
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Cleveland Orchestra & George Szell – Schubert: Symphony No. 9, D. 944 “The Great” (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 50:25 minutes | 2,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Schubert’s Ninth Symphony (“The Great”) was a particular favorite of George Szell. He performed it frequently with the Cleveland Orchestra during his tenure as music director, and it remained a staple of his repertoire throughout his long career. Szell recorded the work twice with the Cleveland. This late fifties Sony recording and the 1970 version for EMI are both revered. While admirers of this conductor may argue that one is better than the other for various reasons, the truth is they are both superb performances and you really can’t go wrong with either one of them. If you collect Szell you will probably want them both.
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George Szell – Brahms: Smyphony No. 3, Op. 90 & Haydn Variations, Op. 56a (Remastered) (1964/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:03 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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The time when performers and composers had personal mottoes – Wieniawski’s “Il faut risquer” (I must risk it), Joachim’s “Frei aber einsam” (Free but lonely), Brahms’ “Frei aber froh” (Free but happy) – is long since past, but still such mottoes are more than just biographical curiosities: there are at least two very well-recognized musical encryptions of those mottoes. Schumann, Albert Dietrich, and Brahms put their collective talents together to compose the “F-A-E” Sonata as a gift for Joachim, and, when Brahms came up with his own motto, he decided to use the pitches of its initials – F-A-F – as the motto theme for his Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90.
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David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – Brahms: Violin Concerto & Double Concerto (1969)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:11 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
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Brahms: Double Concerto – Violin Concerto is the stunning encounter that features prominent violinist David Oistrakh, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor George Szell and the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. The performers craft a compassionate reading that radiates with integrity and commitment. The sonics are well-balanced and warm.
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George Szell – Symphony No. 1, Op. 68 (Remastered) (1957/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:19 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
What can you say about George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra? No other conductor and orchestra has ever turned in performances of such discipline and transparency of sound–not Karajan and Berlin, not Solti and Chicago–no one! In Brahms, where the natural thickness of the orchestral writing is always a peril, they never put a foot wrong. And all of this at budget price, too! Simply amazing.”
(David Hurwitz)
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George Szell, Vienna Philharmonic, Georg Hann, Jarmila Novotna – R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:01:19 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Richard Strauss is most conspicuously represented in the symphony hall through a handful of the tone poems he produced from the late 1880s through the early years of the twentieth century, some of which—like Death and Transfiguration, Till Eulenspiegel, and Thus Spake Zarathustra—represent high points of their genre. He seemed to draw a double-bar on that phase of his career after writing Symphonia domestica in 1902-03, and he returned to the genre only once more, when An Alpine Symphony occupied him from 1911 to 1915. Apart from that, his production of symphonic poems gave way to his growing interest in composing operas, which was most immediately manifested in Salome (premiered in 1905) and Elektra (1909).
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