Sergiu Celibidache, Munchner Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphony 8 (2008) [Japan 2012] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Sergiu Celibidache, Munchner Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphony 8 (2008) [Japan 2012]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 87:48 minutes | Scans NOT included | 3,91 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans NOT included | 3,85 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Scans NOT included | 0,98 GB

Sergiu Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker revisited Japan after 4 years, in October 1990. The performance on the last day, was selected as the best orchestra concert in the year, receiving rave reviews from the local media. Some said, given this is a long performance, that concentration of the musicians could tend to wander, but on the 20th concentration was perfect.

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Sergiu Celibidache, Munchner Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphony 5 (2008) [Japan 2012] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Sergiu Celibidache, Munchner Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphony 5 (2008) [Japan 2012]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 91:06 minutes | Scans NOT included | 3,65 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans NOT included | 3,59GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Scans NOT included | 927 MB

Maestro Sergiu Celibidache was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of making recordings because he feared they misrepresented his musical intentions. This recording of Anton Bruckner’s fifth symphony was made in October 1986 in Japanese Suntory Hall.

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Münchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe – Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 [3 SACDs] (1974-1975/2020) SACD ISO

Münchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe – Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 [3 SACDs] (1974-1975/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:53:11 minutes | 6,94 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): BASF / Tower Records Japan – ATKSA1003/5

ケンペ最晩年のブラームス:交響曲全集を最新復刻。ケンペの境地が最高の形で結晶した名盤が、過去最高峰の響きで蘇る!未亡人公認の復刻。オリジナルマスターを彷彿とさせるかつてない響きを再現。世界初SA-CD化!

亡くなる約2年半前から半年前にかけて収録された、ケンペの代表作のひとつである名盤。ブラームスはベルリン・フィルとも交響曲全曲を録音していましたが、2曲はモノラル録音であったため、全曲では唯一のステレオ録音です。元々BASFレーベルで収録された、晩年のケンペとミュンヘン・フィルによる貴重なセッション録音。様々なレーベルの盛衰と共にオリジナル・アナログマスターテープは消失してしまったため、今回はオリジナル盤の旧発売元から提供されたマスターを使用して製品化を行いました。これは現存するマスターの中で最良の状態のものとなります。さらに丁寧なマスタリングを施し最大限の音質改善を図りSA-CDハイブリッド盤として復刻。音質に恵まれてきたとは決して言い難いこの名盤が、今までにない鮮度で蘇りました。
ケンペは伝統や古いしきたりに影響されない、まさに「音楽の自然法則」に則って開放的な音楽作りを行ってきた指揮者であり、このブラームスにおいては特にその姿勢と成果が最大限に発揮されている、といって良いでしょう。そのため、このブラームスは発売以来、代表作のひとつとして多くの支持を得てきました。第1番では落ち着いたテンポながらも推進力が強固で、一気呵成に聴かせます。また、この全集中最も音質的にも演奏的にも最高と言える第2番は白眉であり、第3番では確かな構成力と前進する勢いにケンペならでは美学を感じます。そして、全集中最初の録音である第4番では、コントロールの行き届いた適格な指揮が非常に魅惑的。どれも傾向が同じという訳では決してなく、曲の本質を掴み、楽譜からの自然は発露によって音楽が生じているというのが、特に高音質においては顕著に理解できると思います。しかしながら録音面においてはLPでも硬質で不明瞭な印象があり、CD時代でもいくつかの輸入盤ではその状況は同じでしかも解像度が悪いなど、状態が良くない状況が続きました。約10年前XRCDでは過去最高といって良いほどの明瞭な音質で復刻されましたが、今回、最新でさらに1歩進み、潤いが増した滑らかな音質を目指してSA-CD化を行いました。収録場所は同じながらも、曲によって録音状態はそれぞれ異なっていましたが、最新マスタリングには、ALTUSの新技術〈High sampling overtone〉を採用。音質に恵まれてきたとは言い難いケンペの名盤が、過去最高峰の響きでSA-CDハイブリッド化されます。
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Münchner Philharmoniker – Debussy: Nocturnes & Franck: Symphony in D Minor (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker – Debussy: Nocturnes & Franck: Symphony in D Minor (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:23:28 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

This release from the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra’s archive pays tribute to two iconic works from the French symphonic repertoire of the late 19th century: Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D minor and Claude Debussy’s Nocturnes. Franck’s only symphony testifies to grandeur and French elegance, while Debussy’s Nocturnes capture the special atmosphere of the night with all its twilight colors and movements. In the remastered concert recordings from 1991 and 1983, legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache interprets the two masterpieces with all their drama and finesse.

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Münchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe – Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies [6 SACDs] (1971-1973/2020) SACD ISO

Münchner Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe – Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies [6 SACDs] (1971-1973/2020)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 06:14:57 minutes | 15,05 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Warner Music Japan / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-136/41

2020年度タワー企画盤CLASSICのベストセラー!最高音質を目指しSACDで復刻。
昨今評価が高まっているケンペ指揮のベートーヴェン:交響曲全集を、タワー企画盤として満を持してリリース!復刻方法にも拘り、新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープを使用しています。1971年から73年にかけて録音が行われたもので、正統的なベートーヴェン演奏として発売以来多くの支持を得てきた名盤中の名盤です。重厚でありながらもケンペらしい溌溂とした閃きと強固な推進力を持った、稀に見る録音。第13回(1975年)レコード・アカデミー賞交響曲部門受賞盤。
(C)商品企画開発統括部:北村 晋

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Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado – Schumann: The Complete Symphonies (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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Münchner Philharmoniker, Pablo Heras-Casado – Schumann: The Complete Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:07:25 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

Four symphonies were enough for Robert Schumann to leave his mark. Without allowing himself to be overawed by Beethoven’s shadow, he succeeded from the outset in coining a highly personal idiom, with an astonishing combination of formal rigour and freedom of inspiration. Pablo Heras-Casado and the Münchner Philharmoniker offer their interpretation of this corpus, more mysterious than it appears, which tells of its composer’s passionate and tormented soul.
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Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:53 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

When this recording was released in 2021, conductor Zubin Mehta was 85; it was made over three days in 2019. There isn’t an absolutely compelling novelty contained here, and this is very much an old-school Haydn performance with a full symphony orchestra and chorus (not that you’d want anything less in this work, whose rock-concert atmosphere at the initial performance is well described in the booklet). For those in search of the combination of Mehta and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Mehta’s performance some years ago with the Israel Philharmonic, with the sublime Barbara Hendricks as the soprano soloist, has a bit more of an edge. However, there is something satisfying about a maestro who continues to issue masterly performances at an advanced age. Part of the appeal is that all the musicians here made it their business to be at their best, not only the Münchner Philharmoniker, but the soloists, soprano Mojca Erdmann, tenor Dmitry Korchak, and bass René Pape, and the Philharmonischer Chor München. Everything comes off smoothly and nobly and certainly shows that Mehta is not done yet. The orchestra’s engineers deliver superior sound from the Philharmonie im Gasteig; the recording’s clarity enhances the enduring Enlightenment mood.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Live) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Live) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:22 minutes | 1001 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

We have curated 125 years of music history, we have chosen some of the most sought after recordings with the great conductors of this and the last century. We are looking back upon more than a hundred years of musical collaboration and artistic frugality. Our exclusive selection includes recordings together with Hans Knappertsbusch, Fritz Rieger, Eugen Jochum, Sergiu Celibidache, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Günter Wand, Horst Stein, James Levine, Christian Thielemann and Valery Gergiev.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:37 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

Hardly any other concert marks the city of Munich’s musical history as strikingly as the premiere of Gustav Mahler’s 8th symphony, the Symphony of a Thousand, which struck real waves of enthusiasm within the city’s cultural scene, and beyond. It marked a memorable triumph for the composer, whose works had regularly been performed in Munich since 1896. Mahler felt his art form was understood by the people of Munich.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:41 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:42 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Live) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Valery Gergiev – Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:30 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

The Münchner Philharmoniker have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Günter Wand and Oswald Kabasta.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Friedrich Gulda – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 26, “Coronation” (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Friedrich Gulda – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 26, “Coronation” (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:23 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

During his years in Vienna, Mozart wrote a series of keyboard concertos in which the soloist faces off for the first time against an orchestral part of symphonic aspirations. The famous D minor Concerto reveals this to particularly impressive effect, its dark passion and drama setting it apart from the rest of the series. The popular “Coronation” Concerto is geared more to the brilliance of its keyboard writing and impresses, rather, by dint of its radiance and charm. These two contrary works are at the same time quite complementary, in the sense that they portray the spectrum of Mozart’s art: drama and passion, glamour and grace.

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Münchner Philharmoniker – Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker – Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 19:09 minutes | 345 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

Eine weitere digitale Neuerscheinung des Labels MPHIL: Die »Variationen über ein Rokoko-Thema« für Violoncello und Orchester von Peter Tschaikowsky mit Andrei Ioniţă und Valery Gergiev, aufgenommen im Mai 2017 in der Philharmonie im Gasteig.

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Münchner Philharmoniker – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:53 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

The Munich Philharmonic (German: Münchner Philharmoniker) is a German symphony orchestra located in the city of Munich. It is one of Munich’s four principal orchestras, along with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Bavarian State Orchestra. Since 1985, the orchestra has been housed in the Gasteig culture centre.

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