Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2008/2016) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2008/2016)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 62:03 minutes | 2,44 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 62:03 minutes | 1,2 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Source: e-Onkyo 

Takashi Asahina was a Japanese conductor. He founded the Kansai Symphonic Orchestra (today the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra) in 1947 and remained its chief conductor until his death in Kobe. Inspired by a meeting with Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1950s, he began a lifelong attachment to the music of Anton Bruckner, recording the complete Bruckner symphonies several times. Presented here, the Fourth Symphony ‘Romantic’, have been recorded shortly before his death.

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Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ (2008) DSF DSD64

Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ (2008)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz  | Time – 01:02:03 minutes | 2,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: ISO SACD, OVCL-00313 | © Exton / Octavia Records Inc., Japan | Front Cover

2008年生誕100周年を迎える指揮者朝比奈隆。
当代きってのブルックナー指揮者でもあった彼のラスト・ブルックナー・シリーズとも言えるEXTONでの録音をHYBRID盤で再リリースいたします。
朝比奈隆が贈る最後の交響曲第4番は長年深化に深化を重ねた朝比奈こそがたどり着けた究極の純粋美。
骨太かつ歌に満ち、生命感に溢れるこの演奏は、まさに朝比奈が行き着いた最後の「ロマンティック」。SACDの高音質でご堪能下さい。

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Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Symphonies (2008/2014) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Takashi Asahina, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra – Ludwig van Beethoven – Complete Symphonies (2008/2014)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 06:34:52 minutes | 15,5 GB  | Source: highresaudio.jp
FLAC Stereo 192kHz/24bit  | Source: DSD64 (converted at KORG AudioGate 2.3.3 / DSD Filter Soft Roll-off -3dB/50kHz / TPDF Diter) | 15.9 GB
© Exton / Octavia | Genre: Classical  | Recorded: 1996-97

“Born on July 9, 1908 in Tokyo, Maestro Asahina taught himself the violin and played in the Kyoto University Law School Orchestra. He graduated at the Kyoto University in 1931 with a law degree because his family insisted on a legal career and he stuck with it for as long as he could. Before he became a professional conductor, he joined an Osaka law firm, worked as a sales clerk in a department store and for the Kankyu railway company. One of his favorite jokes was that he was probably the world’s only conductor to have operated a train.
Maestro Asahina founded the Kansai Symphony Orchestra, now the Osaka Philharmonic, and remained as its musical director until he passed away on December 29, 2001 at the age of 93. He started his international career in 1956 which he gave a concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. Asahina met Furtwängler in the early 1950s. Furtwängler discussed his views on conducting Bruckner, and Bruckner became one of Asahina’s specialties.
Though Asahina often chose to use slower tempi, he managed to get his orchestra to sustain the line over long phrases. Bar lines disappeared, he conducted in paragraphs, not sentences. His sonority was built from the bottom up, founded on the basses and cellos, and also built around a rich string sound. Although the music had force and power, it was never angular, never overly aggressive. It always had beauty, an inner beauty and even spirituality. –Martin Anderson”

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