Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle  – Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle  - Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle  – Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 09:56:01 minutes | 5,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Anton Bruckner is a composer with an unmistakable musical language: darkly glowing, overwhelmingly beautiful, but also energetic and innovative. For the Berliner Philharmoniker, this music has been part of their artistic identity for over a hundred years. The orchestra now presents Bruckner’s symphonies in an exclusive edition, recorded over the last ten years together with some of the foremost Bruckner interpreters of our time.
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Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle – Holst: The Planets (2006/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle – Holst: The Planets (2006/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:24:27 minutes | 701 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Is it chance or serendipity that Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic timed their new recording of Holst’s The Planets to coincide with the current astronomical upheaval? Though Holst learned of the discovery of Pluto four years before he died, it probably did not occur to him to add another movement, especially since the work’s last section, ‘Neptune, the Mystic,’ ends in an other-worldly, ethereal fade-out, enhanced by an off-stage wordless women’s chorus. He would have been surprised by the latest development in Pluto’s status, but undoubtedly pleased that his ultimately incomplete Suite– which had become more popular than he had expected or thought it deserved–had inspired another British composer, Colin Matthews, to write a successful companion piece, ‘Pluto, the Renewer,’ in 2000. Moreover, the Berlin Philharmonic added to Holst’s galaxy by commissioning four composers to write a movement each for a Suite called ‘Asteroids.’ This is its premiere recording.
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Sir Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker – Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9 (2016) [High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-Ray Disc]

Сomposer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Title: Beethoven – Symphonies 1-9
Genre: Classical
Label/Source: © Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings
Release Date: 2016
Recorded in 24-bit/192kHz at the Berlin Philharmonie, 6 & 12 October 2015 (1/3); 7 & 13 October 2015 (2/5); 3, 9 & 15 October 2015 (4/7); 8 & 14 October 2015 (8/6); 10 & 16 October 2015 (9)
Quality: Blu-Ray Audio
Duration: 05:45:13
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: German LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6409 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 31.1 GB

Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, and expectations are correspondingly high for this cycle conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Where does the special status of these symphonies come from? Simon Rattle has an explanation: “One of the things Beethoven does is to give you a mirror into yourself – where you are now as a musician.” In fact, this music contains such a wealth of extreme emotions and brilliant compositional ideas that reveal the qualities of the orchestra and its conductor as if under a magnifying glass.

On his personal approach to the performances, Sir Simon said, “You can make Beethoven too sophisticated or too elegant, you can clean him up too much. You can try to make him agree with himself when often he’s fighting with himself. I have the feeling probably that the more plain-spoken this music is, the better it is. And one knows with this orchestra, when you say ʻwill you joyfully motor this machine off the clifftop?ʼ, everybody says ʻof course we willʼ.” The concerts in which the Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief presented the symphonies in the Philharmonie in October 2015 were as thrilling as this suggests. The virtuosity of the works was revealed as impressively as their revolutionary energy. Performances in Paris, Vienna and New York followed and were rewarded with standing ovations from audiences.

The recording of the Berlin performances is available in an exclusive hardcover edition. It includes the cycle on five CDs and three Blu-ray discs as HD video, in uncompressed audio resolution and DTS surround sound. Its many extras include a video introduction with Sir Simon Rattle and a documentary about the making of the recordings with many interviews and glimpses behind-the-scenes. (more…)

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:43:32 minutes | 27,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Berlin Phil Media GmbH

Recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies with their chief conductor are always a milestone in the artistic work of the Berliner Philharmoniker. So it was with Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, and expectations are correspondingly high for this cycle conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Where does the special status of these symphonies come from? Simon Rattle has an explanation: “One of the things Beethoven does is to give you a mirror into yourself – where you are now as a musician.” In fact, this music contains such a wealth of extreme emotions and brilliant compositional ideas that reveal the qualities of the orchestra and its conductor as if under a magnifying glass.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (2003/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (2003/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:50:10 minutes | 1008 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics International

Fidelio may seem like an isolated phenomenon in a career overwhelmingly dominated by instrumental music. But Beethoven’s letters reveal that from his early years in Vienna he was anxious to try his hand at opera. In 1803 he got as far as composing several numbers for a grand opera, Vestas Feuer, to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, Mozart’s collaborator on Die Zauberflöte. But the project foundered on the incongruity between the ancient Roman setting and what Beethoven called “language and verses that could only have come out of the mouths of our Viennese apple-women.” He continued to cast around for suitable librettos until near the end of his life, even making sketches for operas on Macbeth – a tantalising prospect – and Bacchus.
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Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 (Remastered) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:58 minutes | 371 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The year 1812 was a busy year for the well-known but deaf composer Ludwig van Beethoven. At last, Beethoven got the chance to meet that other famous German, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but Goethe’s personality proved a disappointed to Beethoven. The composer was carrying on a hectic love life: in 1812 he wrote his famous letter to an anonymous ‘Unsterbliche Geliebte’ (‘Immortal Beloved’). Moreover, he was getting involved in the life of his younger brother, who was infatuated with a housekeeper. Yet despite his activities, Beethoven found the time to compose several new works, among which his Seventh Symphony.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 (Remastered) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:57 minutes | 296 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as “one of the most important works of the time”. As is typical of symphonies during the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is in four movements.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Op. 36 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 2, Op. 36 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:08 minutes | 294 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Even before Simon Rattle gave his debut concert as head of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he made headlines with another world-class orchestra: It was the cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies that he conducted with the Vienna Philharmonic in Tokyo, Berlin and – of course – Vienna. Back in May 2002, Rattle set standards with the most traditional orchestral repertoire of all. The live recording was released in March 2003. This cycle, which is now being re-released in the budget segment, is still regarded as the reference recording of the new millennium.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 25:31 minutes | 231 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Even before Simon Rattle gave his debut concert as head of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he made headlines with another world-class orchestra: It was the cycle of nine Beethoven symphonies that he conducted with the Vienna Philharmonic in Tokyo, Berlin and – of course – Vienna. Back in May 2002, Rattle set standards with the most traditional orchestral repertoire of all. The live recording was released in March 2003. This cycle, which is now being re-released in the budget segment, is still regarded as the reference recording of the new millennium.

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:52 minutes | 313 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Die Wiener Presse scheute keine Superlative nach den Beethoven-Konzerten aus dem Goldenen Saal des Wiener Musikvereins (im Rahmen der Festwochen 2002) und lobte die “”uberw”altigende Pr”azision”, “Leuchtkraft” und “idyllische Sch”onheit” der Interpretation. Doch Rattles Besch”aftigung mit Beethoven hat schon lange vor diesem Konzertzyklus angefangen, eine weltbewegende Dimension einzunehmen. Ich denke an die Gesamtaufnahme der Klavierkonzerte mit Alfred Brendel, die 1999 Furore machte und seitdem ein H”ohepunkt der stattlichen Beethoven-Diskografie darstellt. Auch der danach erschienenen CD mit Beethovens 5. Sinfonie hat Rattle sein unverwechselbares sch”opferisches Zeichen aufgedr”uckt. Bereits hier erhielt man eine Vorahnung dessen, was Rattle nun mit der Gesamteinspielung der Sinfonien hervorbringt: ein Paradigmen-Wechsel, eine sanfte Revolution unserer H”orsitten “uber diese sinfonischen Meilensteine des 19. Jahrhunderts.

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 25:56 minutes | 248 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Die Symphonie Nr. 8 F-Dur op. 93 ist Ludwig van Beethovens k”urzeste Symphonie. Nach den Vorst”ossen in vollkommen neue symphonische Gefilde besonders mit den Symphonien Nr. 3, 5 und 7 erscheint die Achte wie eine R”uckbesinnung auf ein klassisches Grundmodell und auf Haydn. Das kompakte Werk ist allerdings hochexplosiv und enth”alt neuartige Substrate, die f”ur das weitere Gedeihen der Gattung Wirkung zeigten. Viele Skizzen zum ersten Satz weisen auf eine urspr”ungliche Konzeption als Klavierkonzert hin. Irgendwann schwenkte Beethoven aber zur Symphonie um, die er haupts”achlich im Sommer und Herbst des Jahres 1812 komponierte. In Linz, wo sich Beethoven in Familienangelegenheiten wegen seines Bruders Johann aufhielt, begann er offenbar mit der Niederschrift der Partitur der weitgehend fertig skizzierten Symphonie. Jedenfalls findet sich auf der Originalhandschrift der Hinweis <>. …. Schon bevor Simon Rattle sein Einstandskonzert als Chef der Berliner Philharmoniker gab, sorgte er mit einem anderen Weltklasseorchester f”ur Schlagzeilen: Es war der Zyklus der neun Beethoven-Sinfonien, den er mit den Wiener Philharmonikern in Tokio, Berlin und – nat”urlich – Wien dirigierte. Rattle setzte damals im Mai 2002 Massst”abe mit dem traditionsreichsten Orchesterrepertoire “uberhaupt. Der Live-Mitschnitt erschien im M”arz 2003. Nach wie vor gilt dieser Zyklus, der jetzt im Budget-Segment wiederver”offentlicht wird, als Referenzeinspielung des neuen Jahrtausends

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Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 “Pastoral” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:41 minutes | 412 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Beethoven’s Sixth evolves as an exploration of an unemphatic harmonic progression that embodies a feeling of calm. Beethoven employs this exploration in charting the broad structure of the symphony’s movements individually, and of the work as a whole. The first movement prefigures the aura of calm by drawing out harmonies over uncharacteristically long spans, spacious expanses of serene relaxation in which the ear is busied only by the surface details of fragmented melodies. So when the first movement returns to action after its opening phrase, it quickly stumbles into a sort of stuttering repetition. The same melodic fragment is repeated verbatim through ten measures, changed only by a swelling and then a diminishing of volume, with the bassoons reinforcing the texture at the loudest point. Similar repetitions appear elsewhere in the movement. The harmony can prove just as static as the melody. In fact, the first movement is practically devoid of dissonance-the spice of harmony-and even minor chords are nearly banished. Like a good recreation director at a summer retreat, Beethoven is forcing his audience to relax. The proceedings do not grow bland, however, thanks in part to the composer’s ingenious use of rhythmic dissonance, with conflicting groups of two and three notes overlapping in the same spaces of time.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker & Sir Simon Rattle – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 “Eroica” (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:45 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Wildly heroic: Ludwig van Beethoven’s ” Eroica “is still associated with an anecdote to this day: when the composer learned that Napoleon was crowned emperor, he angrily tore the title page of the score of the Symphony in E flat major, on which there was an appropriation of the work to” Bonaparte”. This is how Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries described it in a publication that appeared in 1838, more than three decades after the alleged incident.

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Katia & Marielle Labèque, Chris Richards, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – NAZARENO! Bernstein, Stravinsky, Golijov (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Katia & Marielle Labèque, Chris Richards, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle – NAZARENO! Bernstein, Stravinsky, Golijov (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:24 minutes | 740 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

Celebrating the union of classical and jazz, LSO Live’s latest release encapsulates the very best of the two genres with an irresistible selection of works by Bernstein, Stravinsky and Golijov, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Argentinian tango and jazz course through Golijov’s vibrant Nazareno. Superstar piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque are flanked by brass, percussion and cello in this special arrangement for two pianos and orchestra by Gonzalo Grau.

LSO Principal Clarinettist Chris Richards steps into the spotlight in Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto. The work is an era-defining amalgamation of jazz and classical, reflecting back the variety of a rapidly changing world, at turns frenetic and agitated, mournful and bluesy. This fluidity extends into Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs—an exuberant display of contrasting musical ideas, harmoniously intertwined together.

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Silvesterkonzert / New Year’s Eve Concert 2017 – Joyce DiDonato, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (2018) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD 5.0

Сomposer: Various
Title: New Year’s Eve Concert 2017 / Silvesterkonzert 2017
Release Date: 2018
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Artist: Joyce DiDonato, Berliner Philharmoniker

Production/Label: EuroArts Music International GmbH
Duration: 01:27:26
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29950 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 96 kHz / 6351 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 6.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 26.61 GB

With her flexible, slender but dark-timbred mezzo-soprano, Joyce DiDonato is the star guest at Sir Simon Rattle’s side during the
New Year’s Eve Concert, singing Richard Strauss’s lavishly beautiful orchestral songs. The programme also includes works by Dvořák, Stravinsky, Bernstein and Shostakovich and will create the perfect atmosphere for the New Year’s Eve celebrations. (more…)

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