Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Tod und Verklärung; Till Eulenspiegel; Salome’s Dance (Live) (2019)
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The dream team of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly return with over 85 minutes of some of the greatest orchestral music ever written. Continuing the critically acclaimed Lucerne/Chailly partnership launched by the world premiere recording of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song.
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Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly – La Scala: Overtures, Preludes & Intermezzi (2017)
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After almost 40 years on Decca and over three million albums sold, in January 2017 Riccardo Chailly became music director of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the world’s most iconic opera house. Milanese by birth, Chailly made his conducting debut at La Scala in 1978 as assistant to Claudio Abbado. Chailly’s father Luciano had also served as artistic director at La Scala, completing a family dynasty. This Filarmonica della Scala album is a sonically spectacular recording celebrating three centuries of music first performed at La Scala: overtures, preludes and intermezzi from Verdi, Rossini, Puccini and many others, all new to Chailly’s discography.
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Riccardo Chailly & Filarmonica della Scala – Respighi (2020)
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Ottorino Respighi is often thought of as a four-hit wonder for the so-called “Roman Trilogy,” plus the Ancient Airs and Dances, orchestral renditions of Renaissance lute pieces, one suite of which is heard here. However, he wrote a good deal of other music, including nine operas that would bear performers’ exploration. The listener surely has plenty of strong recordings of The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome to choose from, but there are several reasons to pick this 2020 release from Riccardo Chailly and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, a group with which Chailly has developed a close relationship. What makes the two tone poems enduringly listenable is their compactness and their quasi-symphonic structure, each with four movements falling into something like the traditional configuration, and with each of the movements unfolding according to an internal logic even as it memorably fills the programmatic bill. It’s this balance that Chailly gets: he never overdoes the pictorial aspect, but he delivers plenty of thrills to the listener as The Pines of Rome marches along the Via Appia, or the fountain of the Villa Medici quietly winds down the day. Further, Chailly offers a trio of early Respighi works that may be called rarities. From the first years of the 20th century, these pieces show Respighi’s melodic gift and the way he began to tailor it to larger structures, which is just the thing that makes the famous tone poems work. A delightful release that lives up to its single-name Respighi title, it gives a sense of the whole composer.
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Nelson Freire, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly – Beethoven : Piano Concerto No.5 “Emperor” – Piano Sonata No.32 in C Minor, Op.111 (2014)
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Released to celebrate his 70th birthday, Nelson Freire presents three landmark albums on the Decca label – the first in a brand new Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle begins with Piano Concerto No. 5, universally known as the “Emperor.”
This is the first recorded collaboration between the great Brazilian pianist and Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester since their highly acclaimed Gramophone Recording of the Year, the two Brahms piano concertos, in 2007, which went on to win multiple awards.
The concerto is paired alongside the C minor Piano Sonata no. 32, the composer’s last.
This album will be simultaneously released with Radio Days in September, followed by a Chopin album including Piano Concerto No.2 and other solo gems in January 2015.
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Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly – Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps – Chant funèbre (2018)
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The rediscovery of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song, from a recording made in St Petersburg in Spring 2015, was a major event. Composed over the summer of 1908 in honour of his late teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, who died in June that year, it marked a moment where Stravinsky was working at many different types of writing, looking for a personal language. The work was first performed at a memorial concert in St Petersburg in January 1909 but thereafter it disappeared without a trace: the only evidence of its existence was in accounts of the concert and the composer’s own nostalgic memories of the work he saw as “the best of my works before Firebird, and the most advanced in terms of chromatic harmonies.” And here at last is the world’s first ever recording of it! A stunning little treasure in which we can still hear Rimsky, and also the Stravinsky of Firebird, but perhaps also still the Stravinsky of the Rite of Spring, which was still very recent, a testimony to the composer’s breakneck evolution. It was in the same year, 1908, that Stravinsky interrupted his writing of Fireworks when he heard the news of Rismsky’s death in order to compose his Funeral Song; the Scherzo Fantastique was the last score by the young composer that the old master would ever get to read, although he never heard it performed. With this recording, Riccardo Chilly offers us a judicious selection of four works from the composer’s youth (we also findThe Faun and the Shepherdess of 1906, a little cycle of three melodies with orchestra, sung in French, here with Sophie Koch) followed by the big turning point that is theRite of Spring, with a reading which is both clear and fiery.
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Joseph Calleja, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly – Tenor Arias (2004)
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Label/Cat#: Decca # 470 648-2 | Country/Year: UK 2004 | 5% Recovery Info
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Opera
Review by Allen Schrott
On this introductory recording, the young maltese tenor Joseph Calleja displays the elegant, self-possessed singing that has made him a hot prospect on European stages. With the likes of conductor Riccardo Chailly weighing in behind him, Calleja is clearly on the fast track to success. That kind of backing doesn’t come easily for a young singer. But Calleja clearly has some growing to do, and this recording is best viewed as a glimpse of an emerging talent.
The main strength of Calleja’s voice is its youthful quality. It’s a lively sound that never lapses into the labored muscling that you often hear from operatic tenors in pursuit of loudness above all else. That will never be in the cards for Calleja, who has one of the lightest tenor voices to come along in a long time. As a result, he explores a much softer range of dynamics than listeners might be accustomed to in this music, often with charming results. He never seems to go for more than is available to him, which is a refreshing quality. But he also often lapses into nasality on certain vowels, disrupting the easy flow of his sound. His musical inexperience shows in the shaping of many phrases, some of which seem clipped, rushed, or inadequately motivated. The most appealing tracks are his “Questa o quella” from Verdi’s Rigoletto, which is by far the most stylish offering on the album, and, somewhat surprisingly, his “Tombe degli avi miei…Fra poco a me ricovero” from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. The “only try this on recordings” awards go to “Addio fiorito asil” from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and “Lamento di Federico” from Cilea’s L’arlesiana, both of which are too heavy for Calleja. Chailly and the Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra Milan are outstanding throughout — no singer could ask for better. ~allmusicguide
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Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly – Brahms: The Symphonies (2013)
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This comprehensive overview of Brahms’s orchestral works includes several rarities, among them world premieres of two piano intermezzi orchestrated by Paul Klengel (brother of the Gewandhaus’s long-standing principal cellist Julius Klengel) and the original first performance version of the Andante of Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.
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Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly – Verdi Choruses (2023)
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Celebrating his 70th birthday on February 20th 2023, Riccardo Chailly releases ‘Verdi Choruses’. The album includes the classic ‘Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves’ (‘Va, pensiero’ from Nabucco) as well as the Triumphal Chorus, March and Ballet from Aida and highlights from another 7 Verdi operas, recorded in Dolby Atmos in the auditorium of Teatro all Scala.
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Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly – The Fellini Album (2019)
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What a pleasure it is to return to Riccardo Chailly, at the head of the Filarmonica della Scala, with a collection on Rota (1911-1979) and more particularly his songs written for the great films of Fellini such as Amarcord, Huit et Demi, and La Dolce Vita! Before him, another Riccardo, Muti, had dedicated, in the 1990s, two albums with Sony Classical to the film scores of the Italian composer – with one collection on his non-cinematographic corpus. Whether Rota’s music was for cinema or the concert hall was of little importance as he rolled out, to the likes of Bernard Herrmann in the United States, a style that was true to himself where one feels his genius and prowess for evoking ambiance mixed with an incredible dexterity for the most diverse genres, as can be heard in Suite taken here from La Dolce Vita. The beginning (O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia) of the following Il Casanova di Federico Fellini, in which the chiming of the pendulum evokes the tragic destiny of the character and the harmonization of somber colors creates a sea-like atmosphere, remains without a doubt one of the most striking tracks on the album. This ambiance returns in the final part, this time all the more mind-blowing (The Dancing Doll). Often influences from the East, of Chostakovitch and Khachaturian (Il Duca di Württenberg), can be heard along with more meridian styles inherited from Italian symphonists from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. A passionate album not to be missed. – Pierre-Yves Lascar
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Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala & Riccardo Chailly – Messa per Rossini (2018)
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2018 also marks 250 years since Gioachino Rossini’s death in 1868. ‘Messa per Rossini’ was composed in his memory by Verdi and 12 other notable Italian composers Verdi himself composed the concluding Libera me, which he later used in his own ‘Messa da Requiem’
This rare recording represents the work’s triumphant return to the spiritual home of Verdi and Rossini: the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
“To honour the memory of Rossini I would like the most distinguished Italian composers to compose a Requiem Mass to be performed on the anniversary of his death.” (Giuseppe Verdi)
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Leonidas Kavakos, Péter Nagy, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly – Brahms – Violin Concerto, Hungarian Dances; Bartok – Rhapsodies (2013)
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Leonidas Kavakos tackles a pillar of the violin repertoire in a disc that establishes him as a concerto soloist for Decca Classics. His first concerto disc for Decca features the Brahms Violin Concerto, for which he is joined by one of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Riccardo Chailly. Leonidas is also accompanied by pianist Péter Nagy for Brahms’ timeless Hungarian Dances (No.s 1, 2 ,6 and 11) and Bartók’s energetic Rhapsodies and Romanian Folk Dances – two great composers hugely influenced by Hungarian folk music.
Richly charismatic music in superbly spirited performances by musicians who have this repertoire in their blood.
Composer: Johannes Brahms, Béla Bartók
Performer: Leonidas Kavakos, Péter Nagy
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly – Brahms: Serenades (2015)
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Following the ‘Gramophone Record of the Year’ award-winning set of the Brahms Symphonies, Riccardo Chailly turns his “rare talent for transforming music ripe for rediscovery” to Brahms’s Serenades. This exquisite recording renews these unjustly neglected and rarely performed works in performances of “trademark clarity” (Gramophone Record of the Year 2014) and marks the first Decca recording of these works since Kertesz in 1968.
Forming part of the wider Brahms project undertaken by Chailly and his Leipzig orchestra, this release restores an importance to these works which they rarely receive. In Chailly’s hands they emerge not just as precursors of the symphonies but powerful and individual works in their own right.
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Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala & Riccardo Chailly – Cherubini Discoveries (2016/2020)
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The “discoveries” mentioned in the title of this record are mostly pieces of occasional light music, including a few marches, written by Luigi Cherubini when he was director of the French academy of music in Paris. But the lion’s share of the album conducted by Riccardo Chailly, head of the Filamornica della Scala in Milan, is the Italian composer’s sole symphony commissioned in London as a replacement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony which could not meet the required deadline.
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Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly – Musa Italiana (2022)
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Decca Classics is proud to present the new album from Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica Della Scala. Released on 20th May 2022, Musa Italiana celebrates the influence of the “Italian style” on three Austro-German composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn.
Recorded in Dolby Atmos in the auditorium of La Scala during the pandemic, this album utilizes the famous La Scala acoustic in a unique way. As Chailly explains,
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Сomposer: Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Artist: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly
Title: Brahms – The Symphonies
Genre: Classical, Romantic
Label: © Decca is a Universal Music Company
Release Date: 2013/22 Sep. 2014
Recorded: 2012-2013, Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 03:53:59
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 4087 kbps / 1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 2.0 / 96 kHz / 2608 kbps / 24-bit (AC3 Embedded: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps)
Size: 22.41 GB
Following his 2011 landmark Beethoven symphonic cycle, Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra return with new recordings of the complete Brahms symphonies as well as other orchestral works including overtures and the Haydn Variations.
The collection also features world premieres of two orchestrated piano intermezzi, and the nine Liebeslieder waltzes, the original first performance version of the Andante from Symphony No. 1 and the even rarer revised opening of the Fourth Symphony.
Since recording the Brahms symphonies 25 years ago, Chailly’s approach is radically rethought, re-examining the scores and the recorded interpretations of an earlier generation of conductors to bring a fresh, new and dramatic reading.
“For most listeners’ purposes, Riccardo Chailly’s set of Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies will seem standard-issue, with respectable and uncontroversial interpretations from an esteemed conductor, and rich and resonant performances by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Even in the choice of filler pieces, the set includes the three orchestral works that are usually packaged with the symphonies: the Tragic Overture, the Haydn Variations, and the Academic Festival Overture. However, this set offers welcome suprises and extra value for the purchase. Two orchestral arrangements of the Interludes, Opp. 116 and 117 for piano, are included, along with instrumental versions of a handful of Liebeslieder Waltzes and three of the orchestrated Hungarian Dances, which may be incentives to listeners who are looking for a little more. Also included are Brahms’ original version of the Andante of the First Symphony and the alternate opening of the Fourth. But no one should invest in a set solely on the basis of these extras, however unusual they may be. Since first recording the cycle with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, where he offered a rather heavy-handed modern take on the symphonies, Chailly has gone back to an older, more historically informed style of playing Brahms that was familiar to conductors of the early 20th century. The music is lighter and more transparent, so in some ways, his recordings are sometimes reminiscent of classic performances by Bruno Walter, George Szell, and other revered conductors. For traditionalists, this is a fine set to own, especially if a fresh digital recording is needed.” –Blair Sanderson, AllMusic (more…)
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