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Renée Fleming, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Homage: The Age of the Diva (2006)

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Renée Fleming, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Homage: The Age of the Diva (2006)

Renée Fleming, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Homage: The Age of the Diva (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 296 MB | 01:07:26
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca

Acclaimed throughout the world's great opera houses, American soprano Renee Fleming enjoys particular success in roles from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when glorious vocal writing and opulent orchestrations took the art of opera to new heights. In studying and performing this passionately lyrical music, Fleming became increasingly fascinated with her predecessors-sopranos of a golden age who made this intensely emotional music their own. Homage: The age of the Diva is a tribute to these iconic sopranos and their signature arias.

Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2007)

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Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2007)

Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 575 MB | 01:46:21
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca

Anyone who has been searching for a powerful rendition of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Op. 20, should consider this dynamic performance by Valery Gergiev and the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, undoubtedly one of the most forceful available, and perhaps one of the very best, notwithstanding one idiosyncrasy that must be directly addressed.

Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)

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Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)

Deborah Riedel, Della Jones, Michael Kraus, Lawrence Foster - Waxman: The Song Of Terezin (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:04 | 260 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 4602112

Waxman is best known as a writer of film music, like Korngold. He was also a fine composer, again like Korngold, and in his threnody in memory of child holocaust victims, he composed a masterpiece. This work is roughly comparable in subject matter with Survivor from Warsaw, or the War Requiem, but is more accessible than the former and more sincere than the latter sounds (or so it seems to me). This is one of those odd masterpieces that should be well known but isn't. The recording is clear and immediate.

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)

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András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)

András Schiff - Schubert: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:46 | 288 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 440 310-2

This set of recordings, as testified to by Mr. Cesar above, are simply breathtaking, individually, and as a complete traversal of Schubert's finest work for solo instrument. His painstaking preparation and studious forethought shine through clearly, illuminating and bringing to us deeply introspective yet fleet traversals of this amazingly sad, yet wistful, ponderously illuminated and wonderously elated and shot-through, delicately, with wispy tenderness, are simply positive testament to the caliber of this great artist.

Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)

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Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)

Prague Chamber Orchestra - Jacques Loussier: Two concertos, Tableaux venitiens (1992)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 58:09 | 298 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 436 798-2

Jacques Loussier, of course, moved on from ''Play Bach'' a long time ago, although the wider musical audience no doubt has little recollection of him away from that context. Yet the pianist always had a rigorous intellectual grasp of his musical ends and means, even when the average album by his group was capable of selling half a million copies. In a sense, Bach was never the focal point of his musical discourses, although the great man's music remained the bedrock of Loussier's questings.

Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)

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Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)

Clifford Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:34:12 | 700 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 468 491-2

This pair of discs brings together five of the legendary Mozart concerto performances, somewhat reluctantly approved of for publication by Curzon. Curzon was at the same time, a recording artist of choice but also a recording nightmare commercially. There are many of his recordings still in the vaults that were made at considerable expense, but which were then refused permission for publication by Curzon for reasons that few would consider essential.

Renée Fleming - Dark Hope (2010)

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Renée Fleming - Dark Hope (2010)

Renée Fleming - Dark Hope (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 318 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 125 MB | 48:24
Genre: Classical Crossover, Pop | Label: Decca

It’s fitting that Renée Fleming, “the people’s diva,” would make an album of pop songs that feels more like a labor of love than a crossover attempt. Dark Hope is filled with songs and arrangements that wouldn’t appear on a typical attempt to bring a classical vocalist into the mainstream – witness her dark, intricate take on the Mars Volta’s “With Twilight as My Guide.” It should almost go without saying that Fleming's voice is just as remarkable here as it is in her usual milieu, but the album proves time and again that she is game for just about anything.

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)

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András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)

András Schiff - J.S. Bach: Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions (1985)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) | Covers Included | 47:04 | 167 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 411974

The set of Inventions being reviewed here doesn’t suffer from any of these flaws – they are refined and musical and sound like Schiff is enjoying himself while playing them. The 2nd of the Three-Part Inventions is a sad, reflective piece in C minor and Schiff executes it with sensitivity and finesse, with a careful ear for the balance of the voices , with the upward and downward scale that Bach includes inserted into the texture with elegance. The next Invention, in D major, is completely different in feeling and Schiff makes it dance.

Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)

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Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)

Janine Jansen - Beethoven & Britten: Violin Concertos (2009)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:20 | 391 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 478 1530

This unusual coupling works surprisingly well, God only knows why. Perhaps the Britten’s neo-classical (or Baroque) leanings and formal freedom sit well next to Beethoven’s echt-Classical language, but whatever the reason the performances of both works are extremely fine. Paavo Järvi’s expertise in Beethoven with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is by now well-known, and in Janine Jansen he has a soloist who matches him for vibrancy and freshness.

Max Richter - Spaceman Soundtrack (2024)

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Max Richter - Spaceman Soundtrack (2024)

Max Richter - Spaceman Soundtrack (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 73 min | 168 / 237 Mb
Genre: Classical Soundtrack

The unique collaboration stemmed from a suggestion by the film’s director Johan Renck, with Richter creating the music for the track before Sparks contributed melody and lyrics to create the melancholic finale to the film’s soundtrack.

Blandine Verlet - Goldberg Variations & French Suites (2024)

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Blandine Verlet - Goldberg Variations & French Suites (2024)

Blandine Verlet - Goldberg Variations & French Suites (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:44:15 | 378 Mb / 1.2 Gb
Genre: Classical

Blandine Verlet a suivi les cours d'écriture, d'esthétique avec Marcel Beaufils, d'histoire de la musique avec Norbert Dufourcq et de clavecin avec Marcelle de Lacour au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. En 1963, elle a obtenu un Premier Prix de clavecin à l'unanimité et le Prix spécial du Concours International de Munich.

Seiji Ozawa - Bach - Seiji Ozawa (2024)

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Seiji Ozawa - Bach - Seiji Ozawa (2024)

Seiji Ozawa - Bach - Seiji Ozawa (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:24:29 | 943 Mb
Genre: Classical

Seiji Ozawa, born of Japanese parents in Manchuria, began music lessons at the age of seven. At 16 he entered the Toho School of Music in Tokyo, intending to pursue a career as a professional pianist. He abandoned that plan after breaking both of his index fingers in a rugby game. It was then that he turned to conducting and composition. While still a student Ozawa gained podium experience with professional ensembles, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic. He graduated in 1959 with first prizes in conducting and composition and traveled to Europe to pursue further studies.

Brian Byrne, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Tales From The Walled City (2012)

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Brian Byrne, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Tales From The Walled City (2012)

Brian Byrne, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra - Tales From The Walled City (2012)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 219 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 118 MB | 45:51
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca

Irish composer Brian Byrne has been active in both his home country and the U.S., in the latter specifically in Los Angeles, both in pop music and in the film industry. His Tales from the Walled City the Walled City is Derry, Ireland make up an eight-part suite of short pieces that heavily reflect the latter influence.

Gabrieli Quartet, Borodin Quartet - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Shostakovich: String Quartets (1990)

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Gabrieli Quartet, Borodin Quartet - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Shostakovich: String Quartets (1990)

Gabrieli Quartet, Borodin Quartet - Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Shostakovich: String Quartets (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 75:41 | 406 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 425 541-2

A slightly curious compilation (two Russian performances dating from 1962, one English from 1976) but an attractive one, and very good value. I had not heard the Gabrieli's Tchaikovsky before, and liked it a great deal: properly chamber-scale, in colour as well as tone of voice, and nice underlining of the lyricism in even Tchaikovsky's most exuberant pages.

Aleksandra Kurzak - Gioia! (2011)

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Aleksandra Kurzak - Gioia! (2011)

Aleksandra Kurzak - Gioia! (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 320 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 159 MB | 01:00:49
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca

Rising star Aleksandra Kurzak is a Polish coloratura soprano who tackles a diverse repertoire of arias on her 2011 Decca debut. Beginning with Rossini, Kurzak's "Una voce poco fa" demonstrates her power, solid technique, and unique dark vocal color. Her sound is clean, and she is clearly a wonderful musician, as she gives careful attention to each phrase and score marking: she is not simply a singer with a good, big sound.