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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen - Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53 & Penderecki: Dies Irae (2022)

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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen - Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53 & Penderecki: Dies Irae (2022)

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen - Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, Op. 53 & Penderecki: Dies Irae (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | 00:59:42
Classical | Label: Orfeo

Despite all the differences in the musical language of the works by the Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki included on this recording, they are united by their quality as a lament: Szymanowski's Stabat mater, completed in 1926 and based on a Polish translation rather than the original Latin text of the medieval poem, is still considered one of the most important contributions to 20th-century music.

Karan Armstrong, Roland Hermann, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (2021)

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Karan Armstrong, Roland Hermann, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (2021)

Karan Armstrong, Roland Hermann, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen - Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 (Live) (2021)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Digital booklet | 01:02:15 | 145 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Orfeo

Alexander Zemlinsky composed his Lyric Symphony, Op. 18 for soprano, baritone and orchestra during his time as musical director of the New German Theatre in Prague, where he had moved in 1911 from Vienna. It was generally regarded as his corresponding equivalent to Mahler’s Lied von der Erde and is based on Nobel Prize laureate and most important representative of modern Indian literature Rabindranath Tagore. The work is combined with the befriended and three years older "phantasmogorist" Franz Schreker’s Prelude to a Drama, which is a version of the overture of his Die Gezeichneten. It might be considered symptomatic for the most notable characteristic of Schreker’s music: the dominance of chordal sounds over the melodic element.

Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem; Aventures; Nouvelles Aventures (1985)

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Gyorgy Ligeti - Requiem; Aventures; Nouvelles Aventures (1985)

György Ligeti - Requiem; Aventures; Nouvelles Aventures (1985)
Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Liliana Poli, soprano; Barbro Ericson, mezzo-soprano
Sinfonie-Orchester Des Hessischen Rundfunks Frankfurt, conducted by Michael Gielen
Gertie Charlent, soprano; Marie-Thérèse Cahn, alto; William Pearson, baritone
Internationales Kammerensemble Darmstadt, conducted by Bruno Maderna

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 173 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 115 Mb | Covers included
Contemporary Classical, Avant-Garde | Label: WERGO | # WER 60045-50 | 00:49:39

György Ligeti's "Requiem" for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two mixed choirs and orchestra is one of his most impressive compositions - especially, when directed by Michael Gielen - and at the same time "the" requiem of the 20th century: Sound which is chromatically layered moves gradually from the lower registers to the higher, thus changing from mourning sounds into the promise of the eternal light. In the Kyrie the polyphonic net which was previously static begins to move gently. It was a part of this composition that Stanley Kubrick used to accompany the discovery of the monolith in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Also on this WERGO disc are two other essential works, "Aventures" and "Nouvelles Aventures", highly theatrical and justly celebrated choral works.

Alison Hargan, Marjana Lipovšek, Thomas Moser, Matthias Hölle, Wiener Singverein, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Micha

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Alison Hargan, Marjana Lipovšek, Thomas Moser, Matthias Hölle, Wiener Singverein, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Micha

Alison Hargan, Marjana Lipovšek, Thomas Moser, Matthias Hölle, Wiener Singverein, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Michael Gielen - Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123 (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 364 MB | Tracks: 5 | 74:24 min
Style: Classical | Label: Orfeo

Missa solemnis was Beethoven’s response to the appointment of his student Archduke Rudolph (youngest brother of Emperor Franz I of Austria) as Archbishop of Olmütz in 1819. He set to work spontaneously, without a direct commission. He planned for the piece to be completed on the occasion of Rudolph’s enthronement, on 19 March 1820, but the work proved to be much more of a challenge for the composer than he had anticipated. Accordingly, the premiere did not take place for another four years, on 7 April 1824, at a charity concert given by the Philharmonic Society of St Petersburg. Missa solemnis still faces challenges today.