Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Böhm – Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (1971/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:14:14 minutes | 5,38 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90229/30
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Karl Bohm & Berliner Philharmoniker – Mozart: The Symphonies, Vol. 2 (1960/69) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | 4x SHM-SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 369:53 minutes | Scans included | 14,8 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Some Scans included | 14,5 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Some Scans included | 7,7 GB
Renowned as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Karl Böhm was entrusted in the 1960s with recording all of the Mozart Symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His interpretations, captured here, are lauded as brisk and rhythmically robust. These performances are warm and genial, with bold contrasts of dynamic and well-sprung rhythms, is that for the players as well as the conductor this was a voyage of discovery, and their enthusiasm never wanes.
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Karl Bohm & Berliner Philharmoniker – Mozart: The Symphonies, Vol. 1 (1969) [Japan 2018]
SACD Rip | 4x SHM-SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 382:03 minutes | Scans included | 15,3 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Some Scans included | 15,0 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Some Scans included | 8,06 GB
Renowned as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, Karl Böhm was entrusted in the 1960s with recording all of the Mozart Symphonies with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His interpretations, captured here, are lauded as brisk and rhythmically robust. These performances are warm and genial, with bold contrasts of dynamic and well-sprung rhythms, is that for the players as well as the conductor this was a voyage of discovery, and their enthusiasm never wanes.
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm – Bruckner: Symphonies 7 & 8 (1977) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 146:28 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,96 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 3,55 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 3,04 GB
Led by Karl Böhm, the 3rd and 4th symphonies have long been recognised as classics of the Gramophone, but the ‘Vienna Philharmonic Bruckner cycle’ also contains several less-familiar recordings. Böhm’s lyrical and expansive approach to Bruckner is probably best suited to the 7th symphony, which was certainly the best recorded legacy. Also on the disc the eight symphony of the Nowak edition, including the 1976 studio recording for Deutsche Grammophon.
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Karl Böhm – Mozart, Beethoven & Others: Orchestral Works (Remastered 2023) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 06:31:22 minutes | 3,88 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SWR Classic
The lasting fame of conductor Karl Böhm is based on qualities that were praised by listeners, musicians and critics throughout his long career: his discipline and meticulousness when rehearsing compositions as well as his modesty, his willingness to take second place to work and composer. After many years serving as principal conductor in several opera houses he left his administrative duties behind and embarked on an international career as an acclaimed guest, concert and opera conductor. He was regularly invited by the New York Met and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, to the festivals in Salzburg (as of 1938) and Bayreuth (as of 1962), he gave guest performances from Tokyo to Moscow, from Milan to Buenos Aires, and at the broadcasting corporations in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart where he was invited whenever there was something important to celebrate.
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony 6 & Schubert: Symphony 5 (1971 & 80) [Japan 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 74:03 minutes | Front/Rear Cover | 1,96 GB
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or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,54 GB
This famous 1971 recording of Beethoven’s Sixth by the Wiener Philharmoniker under Karl Böhm, now considered a reference, has been called one of the best versions ever recorded and one of Böhm’s greatest career performances. On this programme it is paired with Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, a 1979 recording which Gramophone praised as a “superb version of this lovely symphony”.
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Staatskapelle Dresden, Karl Böhm – R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64, TrV 233 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:07 minutes | 936 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Archipel
Die Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden zählt zu den führenden und traditionsreichsten Orchestern der Welt.
Herausragende Kapellmeister und international geschätzte Instrumentalisten haben die einstige Hof- und heutige Sächsische Staatskapelle seit ihrer Gründung geprägt. Sie wurde am 22. September 1548 im Auftrag des Kurfürsten Moritz von Sachsen von Johann Walter gegründet und gilt als einziges noch existierendes Orchester, das über mehr als viereinhalb Jahrhunderte hinweg musiziert hat und zugleich – wie zeitgenössische Berichte belegen – stets zu den führenden Klangkörpern der verschiedenen Epochen gehörte. Gegenwärtig verfügt sie über 150 Planstellen. Die ständige Wirkungsstätte der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Dresden ist die Sächsische Staatsoper (Semperoper) in Dresden, in der sie pro Spielzeit etwa 250 Opern- und Ballett- sowie rund 50 sinfonische und kammermusikalischen Konzerte spielt. Ihre Adventskonzerte in der Dresdner Frauenkirche und Silvesterkonzerte in der Semperoper werden jährlich vom ZDF übertragen.
Seit 2008 ist die Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden das Patenorchester des Meetingpoint Music Messiaen in der deutsch-polnischen Doppelstadt Görlitz-Zgorzelec, seit 2010 Mitträger der mit ihr gemeinsam ins Leben gerufenen Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch (Sächsische Schweiz), die als einziges Festival weltweit alljährlich dem Schaffen des russischen Komponisten gewidmet sind, und seit 2013 ist die Staatskapelle das Orchester der Osterfestspiele Salzburg, deren Künstlerische Leitung in den Händen ihres Chefdirigenten Christian Thielemann liegt.
Konzerttourneen führen die Sächsische Staatskapelle alljährlich zu international renommierten Musikfestivals und in die wesentlichen Konzertsäle.
Ihre umfangreiche Diskografie reicht bis in das Jahr 1923 zurück. Heute werden zahlreiche Opern- und Konzertaufführungen der Sächsischen Staatskapelle live gesendet und für DVD aufgezeichnet. Als bislang einziges Orchester empfing die Sächsische Staatskapelle 2007 in Brüssel den Preis der Europäischen Kulturstiftung für die Bewahrung des musikalischen Weltkulturerbes.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 – 41 (1995/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:01 minutes | 2,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
These performances come from the first ever complete set of the Mozart symphonies, dating from the 1960s, and they still represent ‘big orchestra’ Mozart at its most congenial. The contrast here between Bohm’s sparkling Mozart, both elegant and vigorous, and the much smoother view taken by Karajan with the same orchestra, works almost entirely in Bohm’s favour. Interpretatively, these are performances very much of their time, with exposition repeats the exception (as in the first movement of No. 40) and with Minuets taken at what now seem lumbering speeds. Yet slow movements flow easily, and finales bounce along infectiously. Consistently they convey the happy ease of Bohm in Mozart, even if the recording is beefy by today’s standards, not as transparent as one now expects in this repertory, whether on modern or period instruments.
There is some inconsistency between the different recordings, all made in the Jesus-Christus Kirche in Berlin between 1959 and 1966. The best sound comes from the sessions in 1966 for the Linz and No. 39 – satisfyingly full with no edginess on violins – and the least good from 1959 for the Prague, where high violins sound rather fizzy. Yet the very precision of the CD transfers encourages one to highlight such points. In practice most collectors will find the sound more than acceptable enough in all six symphonies to convey the warmth of Bohm in Mozart without distraction. Peter Cosse contributes an informative note on Bohm, rightly bringing out his ”natural, unforced approach to Mozart”, but much of the booklet is given over to advertising the other issues in The Originals series. After all, what harm is there in encouraging nostalgia by making the CDs look like vintage LPs and by reproducing the original sleeve designs? –Edward Greenfield, Gramophone
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Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.19, K.459 & 23, K.488 (1976/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
[One] of the best versions of these works we have had in recent years… [O]ne could say that in general Pollini is a shade more open and direct in his projection of the solo part than Perahia, so that there are times when he suggests a greater freshness of feeling… Pollini is robuster in the finales, more overtly brilliant… Comments such as these are inadequate to pin down the qualities of…magnificent artists at the top of their form… –Gramophone
. . . la version de Maurizio Pollini, d’un luxe sonore inoui, présente une synthèse entre les grandes versions symphoniques et les approches chambristes, entre la simplicité de chant et la maîtrise supérieure de la forme . . . Il faudra attendre Wilhelm Kempff et la stéréo pour qu’enfin justice soit rendue à un ancien. La tendresse, la clarté, le style déclamatoire du pianiste sont incomparable. –Bertrand Dermoncourt, Classica – Repertoire
Pollini plays with classical poise and clarity, and the accompaniment, from Karl Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic, is very lively . . . as a Mozartian he was almost faultless. –David Mellor, Mail on Sunday
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Maurizio Pollini, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 19 (1976/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:10 minutes | 1,82 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
On his first concerto disc for Deutsche Grammophon and his first devoted to works by Mozart, Maurizio Pollini performs two perennial favourites: the sunny A major work and the lively F major K.459 with its overwhelming fugato finale. The veteran conductor Karl Böhm and sumptuous accompaniments by the Vienna Philharmonic provide the perfect background to Pollini’s immaculate playing.
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Karl Böhm – Karl Böhm: The SWR Recordings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 06:26:51 minutes | 3,83 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SWR Classics
The lasting fame of conductor Karl Böhm is based on qualities that have been attested to him with great unanimity by listeners, musicians and critics throughout his long professional life: Discipline, rigor and precision in the elaboration of compositions and, at the same time, unpretentious stepping back behind the work and the composer in performance. After several years as a conductor in opera houses, he left administrative duties behind and worked as a celebrated guest, touring, concert, and opera conductor. He was regularly invited to the New York “Met” and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, to the festivals in Salzburg (from 1938) and Bayreuth (from 1962), made guest appearances between Tokyo and Moscow, Milan and Buenos Aires, and last but not least at the radio stations of Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, which were happy to engage him when there was something important to celebrate.
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Karl Böhm – Karl Böhm: The Early Years (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 21:33:28 minutes | 18,85 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The Austrian conductor Karl Bhm is one of the towering conductors of the 20th Century. As the embodiment of the long Austro-German musical tradition, he helped to write musical history. This 19-CD set assembles all the extant recordings he conducted for EMI (notably its German Electrola label) over the period 1935 to 1949 in Dresden, Berlin, Vienna and London includes a number of rarities and the world premiere release of a version of Mozart’s Serenata notturna recorded in Vienna in 1947. It was during these years that Bhm cemented his reputation as a major conductor of Austro-German repertoire. Collectors will also be pleased to know that this set contains all the recordings that featured in the now-iconic series of Dresden-themed LP boxes released by EMI to mark Bhm’s 85th birthday in 1979.
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Karl Bohm, Berliner Philharmoniker – Mozart: Die Zauberflote (1964) [Japan 2016]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:27:11 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 5,92 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 3,01 GB
This is a very satisfying account of ‘Die Zauberflöte‘, principally on account of Böhm’s handling of the score. He inspires the Berlin Philharmonic to convey a Masonic ‘gravitas’ which is in keeping with the philosophy of Enlightenment Reason which lurks behind the pantomime elements of this unusual work. You will certainly find deliberate speeds here, which may not be to your taste if you like fleet, revisionist, original-instrument Mozart. Vocally it’s the women in this recording that have had a bad press: but Evelyn Lear has some lovely tones in her voice even if there are occasions when Pamina’s music presents her with challenges. If you want perfection in this part, go for Janowitz on the Klemperer recording (but be warned, that has no dialogue). Similarly you may feel that Klemperer’s young Lucia Popp easily outclasses Roberta Peters as Queen of the Night. But Peters still has pin-point accuracy and presents Pamina’s mother as an icy, calculating customer. It’s all a matter of taste.
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