Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1987/2022) SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1987/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:15:02 minutes | 3.01 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90266

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Ferenc Fricsay, Wiener Philharmoniker – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 39, 40 & 41 Jupiter by Ferenc Fricsay (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ferenc Fricsay, Wiener Philharmoniker – Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29, 39, 40 & 41 Jupiter by Ferenc Fricsay (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:49:01 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording

Ferenc Fricsay’s career lasted barely 20 years, from the period immediately prior to World War II until his incapacity from illness forced him to curtail his musical activities in the early 1960’s. During that time, however, he became one of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and left behind a major body of recordings which are still admired more than 30 years after his death at age 50. Fricsay was born in Budapest, Hungary, and studied at the Budapest Academy of Music under both Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok, whose music he later came to champion. He was appointed to his first conducting post in Szeged in 1936, remaining there until 1944.

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm – Bruckner: Symphonies 7 & 8 (1977) [Japan 2019] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Bohm – Bruckner: Symphonies 7 & 8 (1977) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | 2x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 146:28 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,96 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 3,55 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 3,04 GB

Led by Karl Böhm, the 3rd and 4th symphonies have long been recognised as classics of the Gramophone, but the ‘Vienna Philharmonic Bruckner cycle’ also contains several less-familiar recordings. Böhm’s lyrical and expansive approach to Bruckner is probably best suited to the 7th symphony, which was certainly the best recorded legacy. Also on the disc the eight symphony of the Nowak edition, including the 1976 studio recording for Deutsche Grammophon.

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Pierre Boulez, Wiener Philharmoniker – Mahler: Symphony No.6 (1995/2020) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Pierre Boulez, Wiener Philharmoniker – Mahler: Symphony No.6 (1995/2020)
DSD64 2.0 | 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Time: 01:19:24 | ~ 3.23 GB
or 24-bit/96 kHz | Flac(Tracks) | ~ 1.21 Gb
Classical/Orchestral | Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric | SACD-R

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Mariss Jansons – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2016) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD 5.1

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2016
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Mariss Jansons
Artist: Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Philharmoniker

Production/Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Duration: 02:07:01+ 00:38:59
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24963 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4235 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 38.58 GB

The Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert took place under the baton of Mariss Jansons on January 1, 2016, in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. Mariss Jansons, whose musical collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic goes back to 1992, conducted the New Year’s Concert for the third time, following 2006 and 2012. The New Year’s Concert 2016 also represented the 75th anniversary of this unique cultural event.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2015) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2015
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Zubin Mehta

Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 01:55:11
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 34482 kbps 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio German 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio German 4368 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4368 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 45.57 GB

The New Year’s Concert live from Vienna is one of the world’s most famous and spectacular classical music events. It is broadcast from the flower-filled Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on TV and radio in almost 80 countries around the world with over 40 million viewers. The annual New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna has been a major event for more than seven decades. The resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the most classical important releases available today. For the 2015 concert, the Vienna Philharmonic has invited Zubin Mehta to conduct. This will be the fifth time that Maestro Mehta has ascended the podium. He previously conducted in 1990, 1995, 1998 and 2007. The list of conductors who have led the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concerts reads like a veritable who’s who of great maestros including Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, and Franz Welser-Möst among many more. World-renowned Indian conductor Zubin Mehta (b.1936) and the Vienna Philharmonic share many years of intensive artistic collaboration with one another. Even in Mehta’s youth, Vienna was at the centre of his musical interest, having completed his education under Hans Swarovsky at the Music Academy and observed his future musical colleagues from the standing room in the Musikverein. In 1961, he conducted his first concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, and in 2001 after 40 years of artistic collaboration, he was awarded Honorary Membership in the Vienna Philharmonic as the orchestra’s longest serving conductor. (more…)

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Daniel Barenboim – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2014) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2014
Release Date: 2014
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim

Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 02:03:26
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3938 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.75 GB

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2014 New Year’s Day concert from the Musikverein, Vienna. Alongside waltzes, polkas and marches from the Strauss family, the programme features music by Richard Strauss.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Most – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2013) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2013
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most

Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 02:03:04
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 24998 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3821 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.75 GB

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2013 New Year’s Concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in the annual celebratory concert of waltzes, polkas and marches, this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst for the second time.

As well as popular works by members of the Strauss family, we hear from anniversary composers Verdi and Wagner as well as Lanner and Hellmesberger.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Mariss Jansons – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2012) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2012
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Mariss Jansons

Production/Label: Sony Music
Duration: 01:51:35
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 32400 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4037 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.45 GB

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs the 2012 New Year’s Concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna featuring waltzes, polkas and marches. This years event is conducted by Mariss Jansons for the second time.

The works featured this year are by members of the Strauss family, as well as Tchaikovsky, Joseph Hellmesburger Jr and Hans Christian Lumbye.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Franz Welser-Most – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2011) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2011
Release Date: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Franz Welser-Most

Production/Label:  Decca
Duration: 01:56:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 32400 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4037 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 39.45 GB

The first major TV event of the year on Blu-ray:

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert – this year conducted by Franz Welser-Möst

For decades, the Vienna Philharmonic has been presenting its audiences with a cheerful yet contemplative program from the rich repertoire of the Strauss dynasty and its contemporaries at the turn of the year. These New Year’s concerts are not only very popular in the Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, but also enjoy a high degree of recognition and popularity at home and abroad thanks to worldwide television broadcasts, which now reach over 70 countries. Today, millions of people all over the world are touched by this sometimes light-hearted, sometimes profound music, giving them joy and optimism for a new year.

It is the wish of the Philharmonic Orchestra not only to offer musically valuable interpretations of the masterpieces of this genre, but also to convey a greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship and peace to all people as musical ambassadors of Austria.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Daniel Barenboim – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2009) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2009
Release Date: 2009
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim

Production/Label:  Decca
Duration: 01:56:05
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 4091 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 41.38 GB

Neujahrskonzert / New Year’s Concert 2009 Review by Blair Sanderson
Daniel Barenboim led his first New Year’s Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in 2009, thus becoming the 14th maestro in this series’ 69th year. This illustrious orchestra maintains a tradition of playing the most popular waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II, but there are two other composers honored on this program, Joseph Hellmesberger II, with his Valse espagnole, and Franz Joseph Haydn, with the Finale of the “Farewell” Symphony; the latter selection was picked to honor the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death. When it comes to Viennese light music, no ensemble plays it better, and the Vienna Philharmonic gives its all, no matter how frequently it has performed this extremely familiar repertoire. The audience contributes its own energy to the proceedings, and the recordings derive much of their fun from its participation, particularly in the rousing Radetzky March. There is really only one issue with this double-disc from Decca, pertaining to the bass-heavy audio quality that lends the music a thickness that runs counter to the bubbly spirit of the concert. But beyond that technical matter, which is due to the microphone positions, this is a relaxing and jovial celebration, and certainly a fine set of Strauss staples for beginners to explore.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Seiji Ozawa – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (2002) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.0

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2002
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Seiji Ozawa
Artist: Wiener Philharmoniker, Vladimir Malakhov & Vienna Operaballett, Spanish Riding School of Vienna

Production/Label: King Records (Jp)
Duration: 01:47:51 + 00:20:52
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 37943 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: DTS-HD MA 5.0 / 48 kHz / 2054 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 38.55 GB

Anyone still reeling from the revisionist austerities of Harnoncourt’s recent New Year’s concerts will be thrilled to hear these somewhat more traditional performances, in which Seiji Ozawa strikes an excellent balance between a healthy serving of Viennese Schlag and an altogether welcome rhythmic discipline. It helps that three of the most enjoyable pieces are making their New Year’s Concerts debut: Zivio (March) and Elisen (Polka francaise), both by Strauss Jr., and best of all the wonderfully energetic Danse diabolique by Joseph Hellmesberger II. This last is a real find. All three add sparkle to the usual fare, including a high-spirited Fledermaus Overture, lilting renditions of the Artist’s Life, Vienna Blood, and Blue Danube Waltzes,  and of course the concluding Radetzky March. Anyone cynical about Ozawa’s credentials in Strauss et al will find in this disc a welcome corrective: he makes wonderful music with what is now effectively his orchestra (in its operatic incarnation), and if you think that these pieces play themselves, try some of Lorin Maazel’s New Year’s outings. Excellent sonics too, bright and neat, top off a thoroughly entertaining concert. Pass the champagne! –David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com (more…)

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Carlo Maria Giulini, Wiener Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphonie No.9 (1989) [Japan 2019] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Carlo Maria Giulini, Wiener Philharmoniker – Bruckner: Symphonie No.9 (1989) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 68:37 minutes | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,83 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,66 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,44 GB

The Viena Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini performing Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor. The reissue of classical music masterpieces by Esoteric has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound. This series marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections. These new audio versions feature Esoteric’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony 6 & Schubert: Symphony 5 (1971 & 80) [Japan 2018] SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm – Beethoven: Symphony 6 & Schubert: Symphony 5 (1971 & 80) [Japan 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 74:03 minutes | Front/Rear Cover | 1,96 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,73 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear Cover | 1,54 GB

This famous 1971 recording of Beethoven’s Sixth by the Wiener Philharmoniker under Karl Böhm, now considered a reference, has been called one of the best versions ever recorded and one of Böhm’s greatest career performances. On this programme it is paired with Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, a 1979 recording which Gramophone praised as a “superb version of this lovely symphony”.

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Semyon Bychkov & Wiener Philharmoniker – Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 – Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Semyon Bychkov & Wiener Philharmoniker – Schmidt: Symphony No. 2 – Strauss: Dreaming by the Fireside (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:14 minutes | 568 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Franz Schmidt was a cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra himself and he allowed the orchestra to premiere his symphony in 1913, which since then belongs in the orchestra’s main repertoire.

With Semyon Bychkov, they are a proven team to champion Schmidt’s Symphony…

The second symphony is the most brilliant and extroverted one with the largest instrumentation. The Strauss „Dreaming by the Fireside“ is a famous intermezzo from the same-named opera by Strauss.

On this album, the work is performed by The Strauss Orchestra.

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