St. Olaf Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Ma mère l’oye & Valses nobles et sentimentales (Remastered 2024) (1975/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

St. Olaf Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Ma mère l’oye & Valses nobles et sentimentales (Remastered 2024) (1975/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:05 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vox

This varied and vivid selection of works shows Ravel as the master of the ‘choreographic symphony’, words he himself used to describe his masterpiece Daphnis et Chloé, which contains some of his boldest and most resplendent music. His imagination retained a direct link to the poetry of children, as shown in Ma mère l’oye, whilst in Valses nobles et sentimentales he set out to write a sequence of waltzes following the example of Schubert. These classic VOX recordings from 1974 by Stanisław Skrowaczewski and the Minnesota Orchestra are critically acclaimed. The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings.

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

奇跡のタクトから生み出される感動のドラマ!“スクロヴァ”ならではの濃厚にして精緻な「ツァラ」
最後の巨匠、スクロヴァチェフスキが読売日響の常任指揮者に就任して2年、緊密な一体感に結ばれた両者による至福の名演。
マエストロのタクトが縦横に冴えわたる「ツァラトゥストラ」の細密にして壮大なドラマ、緊密なアンサンブルと爆発的な推進力に彩られたショスタコーヴィチ。
いまや世界第一級の水準にある読売日響の演奏も見事です。
名ホールに響きわたる白熱の名演をあますところなくとらえた素晴らしいレコーディング。
話題の高音質素材によるリリースも大きな魅力です。

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London Philharmonic Orch., Stanislaw Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (1878 Version) [Live] (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Philharmonic Orch., Stanislaw Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (1878 Version) [Live] (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:50 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LPO

This live concert recording features renowned Bruckner expert Stanisaw Skrowaczewski, who commands a rare position within the international musical scene, being both a renowned conductor and a highly-regarded composer. This recording is an interpretation of humility from nonagenarian Stanisaw Skrowaczewski, a performance in which the listener can hear the remarkable connection between conductor and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; the Orchestra has performed Bruckner’s symphonies under his baton many times. Anton Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony is one of the grandest of his so-called ‘cathedrals in sound’. From the first movement’s monumental tone, via the dance-haunted Scherzo, to the beautiful yet finally enigmatic Adagio, Bruckner’s ‘fantastic’ Fifth ends with a triumphant orchestral finale, among the finest ever written. Skrowaczewski’s interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 with the LPO is also available on the LPO’s record label (LPO-0084). Released in 2015, the recording received excellent reviews, with BBC Radio 3 commenting that ‘it sounds throughout as if the LPO is completely in sympathy with the conductor’s carefully controlled approach … It feels right, end to end.’ This recording was taken from a live concert performance at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 31 October 2015.

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:35 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

なんという90歳!赤色巨星と化した第五の中心核に、作曲者の誠と悲しみを見た。
今最も尊崇を集める指揮者の一人であるスクロヴァチェフスキは、90歳の記念すべき誕生日を、昨年の2013年10月にこの日本で迎えました。その直後の演奏が、最高の録音でこのディスクに刻まれています。ベートーヴェン、ブラームスやブルックナーなどのドイツ・ロマン派本流とともに、作曲家でもあるミスターSの本領が最も良く発揮されるのが、近・現代のレパートリー。作品の本質を深く鋭く抉ったこの空前絶後のショスタコーヴィチで、巨匠が立っている地平の高さには目が眩むようです。快刀乱麻を断つがごときだった前作のベートーヴェンから一転、赤色巨星のような尋常ならざる巨大な結構は、巨匠が長年の探求の末にたどり着いた設計に他なりません。この質量あってこそ、楽譜の裏に封じ込められた作曲者の真実の声と悲痛なうめきが染み出してくるのです。プログラムの前半に演奏されたベルリオーズ:ロミオとジュリエットの4曲から、ワーグナーが「今世紀における最も美しいフレーズ」と激賞した「愛の情景」を併録

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Walter Klien, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Walter Klien, Minnesota Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:16 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Vox

Collectors of a certain age may remember this attractive pairing of Mozart’s 17th and 27th piano concertos through its original LP release on Vox’s subsidiary label Candide. It also turned up on CD as part of Vox’s long gone budget Prima series. Newly remastered for Vox’s new Audiophile Series, this 1978 Elite Recordings production supervised by Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz retains its vivid impact and vibrant detail.

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:34 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

2007年に読売日本交響楽団の第8代常任指揮者のポストに就き、日本中のファンを驚かせ、また喜ばせたマエストロも、今シーズンを最後に惜しまれつつそのポストから去って桂冠名誉指揮者となりました。
掉尾を飾るプログラムは、ブルックナーの第8交響曲。言わずと知れたミスターS再評価のきっかけを作ったブルックナー・チクルス中の畢生の大作です。
スクロヴァチェフスキ=読響は、デンオン・レーベルにてブラームスの交響曲全集が進行中で、残すところ第4番のみとなっていますが、この機会に合わせ、先の9月に行われたブルックナーの交響曲第9番のライヴ録音を先行して発売します。
8番の後に書かれ、未完に終わった第9番は、その神々しいまでの宗教性によって、凡百の指揮者の入山を許さない峻厳な霊峰に喩えられます。
86歳の巨匠が読響をして顕現せしめた奇跡的な音空間の中で、幸運にもコンサート会場に居合わせた聴衆は神の声を聴いたといいます。このCDは、その機会に恵まれなかった人々への、日本を愛するマエストロSからの素晴らしい贈り物といえるでしょう。
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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:13 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

読売日本交響楽団の第8代常任指揮者としての最後のプログラムとなった、ブルックナーの第8。その3月25日のライヴ録音がついにディスクになりました。
最高の評価を得た前作の第9すら眼下に見えるほどの、この世のものとも思えない高みに達した演奏に、どれだけの聴衆が涙したことでしょう。その中には、ブルックナーにかけては殊の外厳しい審美眼を注ぐ、海千山千の評論家やプレス関係者も含まれています。この、まさに音楽の世界遺産といっても過言ではない演奏を、ベスト・チューニングされたサラウンドと高音質2チャンネルのSACDで、会場で聞き逃した多くのファンにお届けできるのは、発売日翌々日に創立100周年の日を迎えるコロムビアにとって大きな喜びです。
この演奏が偉大なのは、名演とされるブルックナー演奏に比較的多く聴かれる、神秘性や腹芸を旨とするのではなく、贅肉をそぎ落とした非常にタイトで若々しささえ感じさせる外装の下に、作曲家でもあるミスターSならではの、細部に至るまでの克明な彫刻と、全体を鳥瞰する何段階ものパースペクティヴとが稀有な同居を果たしているからでしょう。
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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (2011) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107 (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:38 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

現代最高のブルックナー指揮者、スクロヴァチェフスキが読売日本交響楽団第8代常任指揮者のポストを辞して、桂冠名誉指揮者となってから初めて行った公演のライヴ録音です。ミスターSと読響によるブルックナーの後期3大交響曲が、これで待望の完結を見ました。巨匠が到達した至高のブルックナー解釈が、ここ日本で完璧な結実を見せたことに感謝しないではいられません。読響の演奏も、日本のオーケストラ演奏史上のマイルストーンと言って良い奇跡的なものです。
秀抜な録音がとらえたこの名演を一人でも多くの方に味わっていただくため、コロムビア創立100周年を記念して、SACDの新録新譜としては画期的な低価格でお届けします。
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:50 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra

This live concert recording features renowned Bruckner expert Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who commands a rare position within the international musical scene, being both a renowned conductor and a highly-regarded composer.

This recording is an interpretation of humility from nonagenarian Stanisław Skrowaczewski, a performance in which the listener can hear the remarkable connection between conductor and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; the Orchestra has performed Bruckner’s symphonies under his baton many times.

Anton Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony is one of the grandest of his so-called ‘cathedrals in sound’. From the first movement’s monumental tone, via the dance-haunted Scherzo, to the beautiful yet finally enigmatic Adagio, Bruckner’s ‘fantastic’ Fifth ends with a triumphant orchestral finale, among the finest ever written.

Skrowaczewski’s interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 with the LPO is also available on the LPO’s record label (LPO-0084). Released in 2015, the recording received excellent reviews, with BBC Radio 3 commenting that ‘it sounds throughout as if the LPO is completely in sympathy with the conductor’s carefully controlled approach … It feels right, end to end.’

This recording was taken from a live concert performance at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 31 October 2015.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor ‘Wagner Symphony’ (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor ‘Wagner Symphony’ (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra

From its opening expectant hush via its central Adagio movement (composed in memory of Bruckner’s mother) to its Austrian folk dance-influenced final movement, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 displays both the key influence of Wagner on the composer, and his structural flair, which earned his symphonies the description ‘cathedrals of sound’.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, currently the world’s oldest major working conductor, is renowned for his affinity with Bruckner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra has performed Bruckner’s symphonies under his baton many times. Skrowaczewski’s decorations include the Knight’s Cross of Polonia Restituta, one of Poland’s highest decorations, six honorary Doctorates, and the Gold Medal from the Mahler-Bruckner Society; each indicating the massive contribution he has made to music-making throughout his career.

This recording was taken from a live concert performance at Royal Festival Hall, London, in March 2014, which was very well received critically.

Skrowaczewski uses his own, unpublished, edition of the Symphony in this recording, offering the listener a unique experience, and an opportunity to get inside the mind of Bruckner’s greatest interpreter.

Skrowaczewski’s interpretation of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with the LPO is also available on the LPO’s record label (LPO-0071). Released in 2013, the recording received rave reviews, with Gramophone commenting that ‘It has a quiet dignity and integrity, and one is left in no doubt that the man on the podium comes with a wealth of experience and is in love with every bar.’
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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 0 in D minor, WAB 100 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski – Bruckner: Symphony No. 0 in D minor, WAB 100 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:39 minutes | 939 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Denon/Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.

91歳を超えて、なお進化・深化を続ける巨匠による、一音千金の居くべき奇貨。
読売日本交響楽団桂冠名誉指揮者、スクロヴァチェフスキによる、91歳を迎えたすぐ後の読響定期公演を収録したライヴ録音盤。老巨匠の豊富なレパートリーの中でも、特に高い世評と人気を誇るのがブルックナーで、これまでリリースしてきた3曲の後期交響曲は、いずれも最高の評価を得ています。
公開演奏・出版には至らず、「第0番」と呼ばれるようになった経緯も判然としないものの、第1番の後に続くものとして、試行錯誤の末に完成されたこの交響曲には、まぎれもないブルックナーの美質が横溢しています。他に単曲で入手できる良盤に恵まれず、中・後期作品のような深淵を垣間見せてくれたこの演奏がCD化されれば、必ずや代表盤となるであろうとの大きな期待が寄せられていました。
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