Lisa Batiashvili, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Visions Of Prokofiev (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:48 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
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In addition to Prokofiev’s two violin concertos – whose ample discography is brilliantly enriched by this interpretation of Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the excellent conductor Yannick Nézet-Seguin –, the album also features three treats from Prokofiev arranged by Tamás Batiashvili, the father of the aforementioned Lisa and a renowned teacher in his country. These are rewritings for solo violin and orchestra of the Dance Of The Knights from Romeo and Juliet, the Grand Waltz from Cinderella and the nefarious and quirky Grand March from The Love For Three Oranges. Batiashvili – the father – streamlines the message, allowing the solo violin to showcase its full power in moments that were bloated in the original partition, particularly in the rather bulky Dance Of The Knights which, losing some of its imposing weight, gained lyricism in return. As for the two concertos, they benefit greatly from the reasonably sized Chamber Orchestra of Europe, as it perfectly lets Prokofiev’s writing shine through.
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Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 3 & 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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ATMA Classique proudly presents Jean Sibelius’ Symphonies No. 3 & 4 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal. Recorded at Maison symphonique de Montréal, this new release is part of our complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies, launched in 2019 with Symphony No. 1.
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000, Yannick Nézet-Séguin signed a “lifelong” commitment with the Orchestre in September 2019. In September 2018, he became the third Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera (MET) in New York in addition to his ongoing duties as Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he has served since 2012.
The Orchestre Métropolitain (OM) is one of Quebec’s key cultural ambassadors. Since its inception in 1981, the OM has set the bar high, building a unique relationship with the community through high-impact initiatives. Over the past 20 years, the Orchestre has grown alongside its artistic director and principal conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, whose career continues to reach new heights.
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Beatrice Rana, The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:21 minutes | 1,92 GB | Genre: Classical
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“How rich in invention, how interesting from beginning to end it is,” Clara Schumann once enthused about Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor when she premiered it. With her album Clara & Robert Schumann: Piano Concertos, pianist Beatrice Rana shows that the piano virtuoso could hold a candle to her husband in terms of composition. Together with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, she complements Robert Schumann’s imaginative Piano Concerto in A minor with a piano concerto that his wife had already composed as a 13-year-old – also in A minor and almost more ingenious than that of her husband.
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Daniil Trifonov, The Philadelphia Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:21:53 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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After the highly acclaimed album “Destination Rachmaninov – Departure” Daniil Trifonov concludes his Rachmaninov project with a coupling of the composer’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Including Trifonov’s own transcriptions of Rachmaninov’s famous, beloved, heart-rending “Vocalise” and virtuosic “The Silver Sleigh Bells”
The Grammy and Gramophone winning pianist follows in the composer’s footsteps to record with the Philadelphia Orchestra, again conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin & RIAS Kammerchor – Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5 (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:20:13 minutes | 3,49 GB | Genre: Classical
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2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the European Reformation, started by Martin Luther in 1517. To honor this occasion, Deutsche Grammophon is releasing a new interpretation of the complete Mendelssohn symphonies, crowned by a recording of the Reformation Symphony No. 5.
The symphonies were recorded in February 2016 during a celebrated Mendelssohn festival over the course of two days at the Philharmonie de Paris – all under the baton of young, exciting conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Designate of the Metropolitan Opera New York.
This release is the first complete symphonic cycle to be recorded at the new Philharmonie de Paris, which opened in January 2015!
For this recording, Christopher Hogwood’s editions of the symphonies were chosen because of their particular importance for the Reformation symphony:
Mendelssohn, the often self-critical (and self-revising!) composer, who “in the process of trying to reduce the work to a length suitable for its celebratory function, [he] cut out one entire movement preceding the Finale, a passage that expands on the flute cadenza and prepares the arrival of the chorale theme with more engaging musical drama”. (Christopher Hogwood)
The original version of the work may now be listened to in its entirety!
This release underlines a strong ongoing collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe that already culminated in a successful release of the complete Schumann symphonies (March 2014) and the continuing Mozart Opera Cycle. Two instalments of the latter have been nominated for a Grammy: Le Nozze di Figaro and Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
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Chamber Orchestra Of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:14:15 minutes | 2,71 GB | Genre: Classical
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s saga on Mozart for Deutsche Grammophon continues: after The Clemency of Titus in 2018, it’s now time for The Magic Flute to pass under the Quebecois’ baton at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. His direction breathes life into all the magic that is required for such a fairy-tale, Mozart’s final opera, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe successfully communicates the opera’s majesty and depth, as heard in the radiant “Priest’s March”.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Beethoven: The Symphonies (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 05:46:27 minutes | 11,38 GB | Genre: Classical
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Originally planned for April 2020 in celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, this recording of Beethoven’s symphonies is the third composer-led collaboration between Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the COE having previously performed and recorded together complete Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles in 2014 and 2017 respectively. This Symphony Cycle was going to use the now complete performance material featuring the musical text of the “New Beethoven Complete Edition”. Especially in Symphony No. 9 one can literally hear and experience the difference, as Beethoven’s original and recently re-discovered double bassoon part is used for the very first time. The recording will also be the COE’s first complete Beethoven Cycle on record since the landmark recording with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in the 1990’s.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Christiane Karg – Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 554 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mahler’s Symphony No 4 conducted by Yannick is part of the magnificent MAHLER box set recently released by the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Indeed, to mark its last ten years as well as its Mahler tradition, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra has just released a set of the complete MAHLER on its prestigious house label: the composer’s 10 symphonies were engraved by eight conductors, on 10 CDs. In turn, we can hear the interpretations of Claudio Abbado, Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Yannick N’ezet-S’eguin, Kirill Petrenko and Sir Simon Rattle. Symphony No. 4 was recorded in March 2014, during one of Yannick’s many appearances at the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:08 minutes | 675 MB | Genre: Classical
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ATMA Classique is proud to announce the digital release of the first in a new series of recordings devoted to the symphonies of Jean Sibelius, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the helm of the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
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Orchestre Metropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Sibelius 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:33 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Classical
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This is the third album in a new series of recordings dedicated to the symphonies of Jean Sibelius on the ATMA label. Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 3. The Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52, by Jean Sibelius is a symphony in three movements composed in 1907. Coming between the romantic intensity of Sibelius’s first two symphonies and the more austere complexity of his later symphonies, it is a good-natured, triumphal, and deceptively simple-sounding piece.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rolando Villazón, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Ildar Abdrazakov – Duets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Three exceptional artists join forces for an operatic treat! Star tenor Rolando Villazón, who was just named artistic director of Salzburg Mozart week, Ildar Abdrazakov, one of the most sought-after young basses in the operatic world (Vanity Fair), who is debuting on Deutsche Grammophon with this album and the in-coming music director of the Metropolitan Opera Yannick Nézet-Séguin – a conductor full of vim and vigor – with Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal.
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Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Miah Persson, Chamber Orchestra of Europe – Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, K588 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:03:18 minutes | 3,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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The second of DG’s series of seven Mozart operas conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and initiated by Rolando Villazón. This Così fan tutte enchanted the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus audience when recorded in concert in 2012, with Nézet-Séguin inspiring his stellar cast to feats of vocal derring-do.
Starring a thrilling cast of both young and experienced Mozart opera stars including accomplished soprano Mojca Erdmann as Despina, acclaimed Mozartian soprano Miah Persson and prize-winning young American mezzo Angela Brower as the emotionally manipulated sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella. Also joining this crème-de-la-crème cast are distinguished Mozart bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Guglielmo and Italian buffo baritone Alessandro Corbelli as Alfonso.
Youthful exuberance tempered by depth of insight make this a rare Così, a must for even the most seasoned opera lover.
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Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Yannick Nezet-Seguin – Schumann: The Symphonies (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:04:19 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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This is music that is very close to Robin Ticciati’s heart; he describes Schumann as one of his favourite composers and has often spoken about how important poetry, colour and story are to Schumann’s music. Symphony No. 1 ‘Spring’, blazes and sparkles with joy, Symphony No. 2 finds its way carefully through to the safe haven of its final movement, the much-loved Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish’ moves with huge ease and assurance to a resonant and joyful conclusion. Symphony No. 4 is radical in the way each movement attacks the start of the next movement with barely a pause, and in its minute-and-a-half-long, shimmering and horn-call-filled transition to the finale. Under Ticciati and the SCO it is magnificent, the radical, soaring, disturbing and exhilarating symphony Schumann intended.
The SCO’s smaller forces bring a lightness of touch and a clarity to the counterpoint; under Ticciati they achieve a sense of movement that no previous recording has.
Composer: Robert Schumann
Conductor: Robin Ticciati
Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C Minor, Op.43 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 07:01:48 minutes | 6,59 GB | Genre: Classical
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This collection of previously unreleased live recordings celebrates the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra’s centenary and the ten-year residency, from 2008 to 2018, of its principal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic, under its long-term Principal Conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin, is widely recognised as one of Europe’s most distinguished orchestras. Celebrated for its winning combination of passionate commitment, boundless energy and scintillating virtuosity, the orchestra has come a long way since its relatively humble beginnings in 1918 as a private ensemble whose members initially paid for the privilege of joining its ranks.
The arrival of Canadian maestro Yannick Nezet-Seguin in 2008 signalled a new golden era for the Rotterdam Philharmonic, as is evidenced by this outstanding set of recordings, captured live in the Doelen concert hall between 2011 and 2016 and collected together here for the first time by Deutsche Grammophon. At the end of 2017/18 season Nezet-Seguin assumes the role of Honorary Conductor, handing over the post of Principal to 29-year-old Lahav Shani.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring – Stokowski: Bach Transcriptions (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:08 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Introducing the international debut Deutsche Grammophon orchestral album from leading French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the distinguished Philadelphia Orchestra. A powerful musical tribute to the mighty Leopold Stokowski (1882–1977), 35 years after his death, from the young conductor who now continues his legacy. Stokowski spent some of his most important and fruitful years in charge of the orchestra in Philadelphia, in a position that brought him some of his greatest accomplishments. Musical showmanship, free-thinking and a populist approach to contemporary music are characteristics of Stokowski’s distinguished conducting and recording career.
This new album focuses on Stravinsky’s daring, revolutionary and game-changing ballet score, The Rite of Spring – given its American premiere performance by Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra, and a work that reaches its centenary milestone in 2013.
Plus a selection of popular Stokowski transcriptions, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor (J. S. Bach), as heard in its Stokowski version in Disney’s classic Mickey Mouse movie, Fantasia.
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