ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop – John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:06 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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John Adams’ music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it ‘an imaginary film score’ in its evocation of a terse, melodramatic and menace-drenched sound world. Fearful Symmetries exemplifies Adams’ steamroller motor rhythms, endlessly inventive in their shifts of timbre, texture and color. The album ends with a work dedicated to Marin Alsop, a capricious “Spider Dance” of memorable rhythmic drive.
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London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Amanda Lee Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 48:26 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Classical
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International award-winning composer, Amanda Lee Falkenberg has composed a dynamic new work that merges music and science. The seven-movement symphony dramatizes past, present and future moon explorations, and highlights discoveries that have been made in our search for other worlds that could possibly sustain life. Through the persuasive and powerful forces of music, the symphony offers Earthlings a chance to contemplate who and where we are in the universe. In 42 minutes they will be taken on an emotional journey, marveling at the wonders of these moons, the beauty of our planet, and possibly even experience their own perspective shift as crew-mates aboard this spaceship we cruise, Earth. This is the story of THE MOONS SYMPHONY.
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Marin Alsop, London Symphony Orchestra – Bernstein: Candide (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:56:43 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein’s riotous satirical operetta, Candide. Made almost three decades after the composer’s own iconic recording with the Orchestra, Alsop’s new version was captured during celebratory concerts marking Bernstein’s centenary year, and features an outstanding array of soloists, including Leonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cun gonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (The Old Lady) and Sir Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss, Narrator). With lyrical contributions from acerbic writers Richard Wilbur, Dorothy Parker and a young Stephen Sondheim, Candide marries raucous humor with the extraordinary genius of Leonard Bernstein.
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Marin Alsop – Malek Jandali: Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:59 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Clarinetist Anthony McGill and violinist Rachel Barton Pine are featured soloists on a new recording of two concertos composed in response to societal injustices by Syrian composer Malek Jandali, performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and led by Marin Alsop, a champion of the composer’s work.
Malek Jandali, called “deeply enigmatic” by Gramophone, has been praised for writing “heart-rending melodies, lush orchestration, clever transitions and creative textures” (American Record Guide). His repertoire, which ranges from chamber music to large scale orchestral works, integrates Middle-Eastern modes into Western classical forms and harmony.
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Lester Lynch, Kevin Short, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Marin Alsop – Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (Highlights) [Live] (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:59 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop present a live recording with highlights of Gershwin’s self-proclaimed American “Folk Opera” Porgy and Bess, together with a stellar cast and the Morgan State University Choir. Since its premiere in 1935, Porgy and Bess has been one of the most significant attempts to – following Antonin Dvor’ak’s famous instruction of 1893 – create American classical music inspired by Afro-American styles such as jazz, spirituals and the blues. It has also proven to be a powerful catalyst for bringing more diverse casts to the opera stage. The hard-knock life at a Charleston waterfront tenement is presented here by an outstanding cast including Lester Lynch (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess, Clara and Serena), Chauncey Packer (Sportin’ Life) and Kevin Short (Crown, Jake).
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Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Kevin Puts: To Touch the Sky, If I Were a Swan, Symphony No. 4 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:59 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (born 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly colored musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (“From Mission San Juan”), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this program of world première recordings, Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: “To Touch the Sky” and “If I Were a Swan”.
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Inbal Segev, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Marin Alsop – Anna Clyne: DANCE – Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:12 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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This formidable release features Inbal Segev performing Elgars emotive Cello Concerto coupled with DANCE, an inspiring new work by Grammy-nominated English composer Anna Clyne that was commissioned by Inbal. On this powerful recording, Marin Alsop conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Marin introduced Inbal to Anna, sparking a special synergy between the three women. While Anna was composing DANCE, a five-movement concerto inspired by the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi, further connections ensued. Annas soulful and vibrant music combines cultures that include her Irish-English family, Polish-Jewish ancestry and Inbals Israeli-American heritage. Inbal expounds, Annas music has an old-soul sensibility but is fresh and modern at the same time. This juxtaposition of old and new has always appealed to me; it suits my playing, as well as the tone of my 1673 Ruggieri cello. Inbals idea to record Anna Clynes DANCE alongside Elgars Cello Concerto is timely: the two works were composed exactly 100 years apart. Inbal enthuses, It is so rewarding to record and perform the work of a contemporary female composer whose music withstands comparison with Elgars. The two pieces share a certain sensibility a romanticism, warmth and humanity that transcends any stylistic differences. Elgars Cello Concerto, written in the wake of World War I, is deeply reflective. Anna Clynes DANCE is optimistic and forward-looking. Inbals recording of these two cello concertos is timeless.
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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Historisch war Robert Schumann einer der wichtigsten Komponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts“ erläutert Daniel Barenboim im Interview zu seiner neuen Einspielung sämtlicher Symphonien des Komponisten. Aus diesem Grund wurden nun, einige Jahre nach dem sehr erfolgreichen Zyklus der Brahms-Symphonien, auch die Werke Schumanns bei Konzerten in der Staatsoper Berlin sowie der Berliner Philharmonie mit der Staatskapelle Berlin aufgenommen.
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Marin Alsop – Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – Symphonic Variations (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 418 MB | Genre: Classical
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Coming as it does after disappointingly turgid readings of Brahms’ four symphonies with the London Philharmonic, Marin Alsop’s powerful recording of Dvorák’s Ninth with the Baltimore Symphony is a surprise. Recorded live in Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Alsop’s Ninth is robust and energetic, with muscular rhythms and stalwart tempos. Her Molto vivace Scherzo has real heft and weight and her closing Allegro con fuoco has drive and strength. Better yet, Alsop coaxes warm, characterful playing from the Baltimore musicians. The ensemble is tight and direct in the fast movements, but the playing is colorful and soulful in the slow movements. The burnished lower strings in the opening Adagio and the solemn trombones at the start of the central Largo are deeply felt and quietly affecting. Preceded by a brilliant and bumptious account of the same composer’s Symphonic Variations, this disc will add luster to both Alsop and the Baltimore’s reputation.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Antonin Dvorak – Symphony No. 9, ‘From the New World’ (2008/2015)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:04:09 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Marin Alsop is the first of three discs of Dvořák symphonies taken from live performances at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The most popular of all Dvořák’s works, Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ makes an immediate appeal by virtue of a seemingly inexhaustible flow of melody and sparkling orchestration. Based on a melody he had composed earlier for men’s chorus, I am a fiddler, the Symphonic Variations are one of the composer’s most beautifully crafted and beguiling works.
This album was mastered using our 2xHD proprietary system. In order to achieve the most accurate reproduction of the original recording we tailor our process specifically for each project, using a selection from our pool of state-of-the-art audiophile components and connectors. The process begins with a transfer to analog from the original DSD master, using cutting edge D/A converters. The analog signal is then sent through a hi-end tube pre-amplifier before being recorded directly in DXD using the dCS905 A/D and the dCS Vivaldi Clock. All connections used in the process are made of OCC silver cable.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Antonin Dvorak – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (2010/2015)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:01:51 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
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Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra follow a critically acclaimed recording of Dvorák’s Ninth, with this live album from Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. Dvorák’s most darkly dramatic and passionate symphony, the Seventh, is coupled here with this Eighth, notable for its dramatic contrasts, Bohemian lyricism and a seemingly spontaneous flow of thematic ideas. Audiophile Audition named this one of the best albums of 2011 for both its performances and sonic excellence.
This album was mastered using our 2xHD proprietary system. In order to achieve the most accurate reproduction of the original recording we tailor our process specifically for each project, using a selection from our pool of state-of-the-art audiophile components and connectors. The process begins with a transfer to analog from the original DSD master, using cutting edge D/A converters. The analog signal is then sent through a hi-end tube pre-amplifier before being recorded directly in DXD using the dCS905 A/D and the dCS Vivaldi Clock. All connections used in the process are made of OCC silver cable.
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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – R. Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 (Re-Orchestrated by G. Mahler) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:00 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Robert Schumann’s works lie at the centre of German Romanticism, with an essentially lyrical style that reflects his quintessential place among the great German composers. From 1840 Schumann switched from writing, primarily, piano music and Lieder, to writing orchestral music, with the joyful First Symphony written in just four days, and the uplifting tone of the Second Symphony a remarkable triumph over depression and illness. But the effectiveness of Schumann’s orchestration in his symphonies has been the cause of much debate. Gustav Mahler’s re-orchestrations from the early 1900s provide models of tasteful modification that are suited to the larger orchestras of today.
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Marin Alsop – Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ (To the Beloved Memory of John F. Kennedy) (1963/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 42:53 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Jennifer Johnson Cano, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Bernstein: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:26 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical
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Leonard Bernstein’s legendary 1943 Carnegie Hall conducting début brought his name to national attention, and the event was followed a few months later by the triumphant reception of his Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah.’ This major symphonic statement explores a crisis in faith and employs Jewish liturgical sources, its final movement, Lamentation, being an anguished cry at the destruction of Jerusalem. Sharing the theme of loss of faith, Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ takes W.H. Auden’s poem of the same name and follows its four characters in their spiritual journey to hard-won triumph. Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ can be heard on Naxos 8.559742.
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop – Bela Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (2012/2015)
DSF Stereo DSD64, 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 1:07:07 minutes | 2,65 GB | Genre: Classical
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Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, one of his greatest works, was written in the United States after the composer was forced to flee Hungary during World War II. It is not only a brilliant display vehicle for each instrumental section but a work of considerable structural ingenuity that unites classical forms and sonorities with the pungency of folk rhythms and harmonies. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta explores darker moods through a score of marvellously poised symmetry.
This release follows Marin Alsop’s ‘riveting’ (Gramophone) Baltimore Symphony recordings of Dvořák’s symphonies.
This has long been a popular coupling of works by Béla Bartók, but this new release rides on the crest of a wave of previous successes and will occupy a leading position amongst the competition on the quality of its recording and performance. Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have a synergy which has made their Dvořák symphonic recordings sound ‘as fresh as when Dvořák put pen to paper’ (BBC Music Magazine on the Symphonies 7 and 8, NBD0010). Of Dvořák’s New World Symphony (8570714) BBC Music Magazine also wrote, ‘it is rare to be able to say that a performance forces one to listen to a work anew, but this is exactly what Alsop’s reading achieves.’
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