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Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)

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Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)

Sviatoslav Richter - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Sonata No.1 (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 358 MB | 01:18:40
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Back in the '50s and '60s when RCA was one of the two dominant American classical record companies, the big debate was over which of their two recordings of Brahms Piano Concerto in B flat major was better: the Emil Gilels with Fritz Reiner from 1958 or the Sviatoslav Richter with Leinsdorf from 1960. Both are with the Chicago Symphony at the peak of its strength and sensitivity.

Tokyo String Quartet - The Tokyo String Quartet Plays Haydn and Mozart (2015)

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Tokyo String Quartet - The Tokyo String Quartet Plays Haydn and Mozart (2015)

Tokyo String Quartet - The Tokyo String Quartet Plays Haydn and Mozart (2015)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.6 Gb | 05:04:55
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Founded in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music, the Tokyo Quartet have amassed a fine and distinguished array of recordings for various labels, many enthusiastically received. In 2013 they disbanded after their longest serving members, the second violin Kikuei Ikeda and viola Kazuhide Isomura, decided to retire. Their final concert took place in Norfolk, Connecticut on 6 July 2013. For the last ten years of their existence, they were contracted to the Harmonia Mundi stable.

See Siang Wong - Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023)

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See Siang Wong - Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023)

See Siang Wong - Beethoven Trilogy 3: Unheard (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:10:59 | 241 / 163 Mb
Genre: Classical

Pianist See Siang Wong completes his Beethoven trilogy with "Unheard". The third album features unfinished, previously unheard works by Beethoven. In his sketchbooks, which he always carried with him, Beethoven jotted down ideas and musical experiments that he often never realised and which have survived today as fragments in libraries and private collections all over the world. "Unheard" brings together reconstructions and rarities based on such sketches. They show Beethoven's incredible wealth of ideas and his creative power.

Richard Stoltzman, Tokyo String Quartet - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quintet (2004)

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Richard Stoltzman, Tokyo String Quartet - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quintet (2004)

Richard Stoltzman, Tokyo String Quartet - Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quintet (2004)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:47 | 281 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 60866

First released in 1991 and reissued in 2004, this CD of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and the Clarinet Quintet is fair in most regards except for the featured soloist's quirky playing. Richard Stoltzman's fans may like this disc in spite of its problems, especially if they are more interested in clarinet technique than in Mozart's music. But others may sense that he has little understanding of the composer or Classical style, and that these interpretations are superficial and whimsical, rather than deeply felt or carefully considered.

Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch - Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2004)

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Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch - Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2004)

Jascha Heifetz, Charles Munch - Beethoven, Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2004)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:01:54 | 328 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 82876 61391-2

These classic recordings need little comment from me on artistic grounds. Heifetz's account of the Mendelssohn never has been bettered for sheer dazzling virtuosity, and although the Beethoven is more controversial (some find it "cold"), I love its unaffected, truly classical purity. Besides, you also get Munch and the Boston Symphony, no mean bonus. It's interesting to compare the two performances in multichannel sound, since the Beethoven is two-track, while the Mendelssohn offers three.

Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner - Brahms, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (2005)

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Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner - Brahms, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (2005)

Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Reiner - Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos (2005)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 64:16 | 337 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 67896

While not technically awful, Jascha Heifetz's 1955 recording of Brahms' Violin Concerto with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony is still close to unbearable. By 1955, Heifetz's once sinewy tone had tightened, his once supple technique had hardened, and his once warm interpretation had grown cold. With the never sinewy, supple, or warm Fritz Reiner, Heifetz creates a performance of Brahms' lyrical masterpiece that grates on the sensibilities.

Sviatoslav Richter - Rediscovered (2001)

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Sviatoslav Richter - Rediscovered (2001)

Sviatoslav Richter - Rediscovered (2001)
EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:52:23 | 574 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 09026 - 63844 - 2

RCA Victor's Richter Rediscovered lets us hear Sviatoslav Richter perform with intensity and purpose he rarely matched and still more rarely surpassed. This two-CD set comprises Richter's entire Dec. 26, 1960, Carnegie Hall recital and several encores from the same program two days later in Newark's Mosque Theater. Most transcripts of Richter's live performances miss details in his playing the prismatic shimmer of his tone in all registers, for example, or the way he could instantaneously jump from triple pianissimo to triple fortissimo.

Kazuhito Yamashita - J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (2004)

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Kazuhito Yamashita - J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (2004)

Kazuhito Yamashita - J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo (2004)
EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:24:20 | 667 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 34115-16

Gone are the days when Kazuhito Yamashita amazed and delighted us with his remarkable transcriptions of "Pictures at an exhibition" or Dvorak's "New World" transcription. 53 years later (Yamashita was born in 1961) has reached impeccable artistic maturity. His prodigious musicality and remarkable virtuosity can be evidenced throughout this double album.

Sol Gabetta, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Il Progetto Vivaldi (2007)

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Sol Gabetta, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Il Progetto Vivaldi (2007)

Sol Gabetta, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Il Progetto Vivaldi (2007)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:08:07 | 396 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 88697131692

Best known for his huge output of concertos for the violin, Antonio Vivaldi produced a sizeable number of concertos for other instruments including the cello, an instrument that was little used as a soloist during Vivaldi's time. In all, there are 27 extant cello concertos that, like the violin concertos, push the instrument's technical and expressive abilities.

Ofra Harnoy, Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos (2005)

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Ofra Harnoy, Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos (2005)

Ofra Harnoy, Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Vivaldi: Complete Cello Concertos (2005)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:08:45 | 1,3 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 67886

Vivaldi is greatly over-rated - a dull fellow who would compose the same form over many times. Such is the opinion of one of the great composers on the music of another great composer. Given the evidence of the present newly re-released complete Vivaldi cello concertos incredulity can be the only response to this assessment. But then Stravinsky was a man who voiced strong, often acerbic and sometimes outrageous opinions on virtually anything suggested to him. He had probably heard few, if any, of these cello concertos and irrespective would it have made any difference?

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi - Hans Rott: Symphony No.1, Suite (2012)

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Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi - Hans Rott: Symphony No.1, Suite (2012)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi - Hans Rott: Symphony No.1, Suite (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:38 | 301 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | Catalog: 88691963192

Like his father, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi is an internationally renowned classical music conductor of Estonian heritage with a deep catalog of recordings. Born on December 30, 1962, in Tallinn, Estonia, he and his family moved to the United States in 1980. His education includes studies at the Tallinn School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. For a decade he served as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra prior to being named music director of the Orchestre de Paris.

Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No

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Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No

Steven Isserlis, Christoph Eschenbach - Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 2, La Muse et le Poète, Romance Op. 76, Cello Sonata No. 2 (2000)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 325 MB | 01:14:39
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Steven Isserlis is a splendid cellist with a consummate technique and a focused, intense tone capable of infinite variety. He's an enterprising, imaginative musician with a penchant for centering programs on a single composer or national idiom. He has recorded French sonatas for Virgin Classics, and for RCA, the works of Mendelssohn, John Taverner, Haydn, and Czech and Russian composers. On his latest CD, Isserlis performs four relatively unfamiliar compositions of Saint-Saëns. Unfortunately, obscure works by a good composer are usually neglected for a reason.

Sir Colin Davis - Brahms: The 4 Symphonies & Haydn Variations & Piano Concertos (2004)

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Sir Colin Davis - Brahms: The 4 Symphonies & Haydn Variations & Piano Concertos (2004)

Sir Colin Davis - Brahms: The 4 Symphonies & Haydn Variations & Piano Concertos (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.7 Gb | 05:54:28
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Over the past 100 years, there have been recordings of the complete Brahms' symphonies that rank with the greatest recordings of anything ever made. There are wonderful Weingartners, the fabulous Furtwänglers, the monumental Klemperers, the amazing Abbados…the list goes on and on. Of course, over the past 100 years, there have been recordings of Brahms symphonies that rank among the worst recordings of anything ever made. There are the obdurate Davalos, the superficial Karajans, and the uncomprehending Jarvis…again, the list goes on and on.

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Schubert: Abendbilder (2006)

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Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Schubert: Abendbilder (2006)

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Schubert: Abendbilder (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 265 MB | 01:09:54
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Eschewing the eccentricities and exaggerations of some of his contemporaries, Gerhaher wonderfully exhibits the verities of Schubert interpretation in this well-planned and absorbing programme. Everything he does evolves from the song in hand and so accords with all that is needed in performing some of the composer's greatest Lieder.

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Melancholie: Lieder Von Robert Schumann (2008)

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Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Melancholie: Lieder Von Robert Schumann (2008)

Christian Gerhaher, Gerold Huber - Melancholie: Lieder Von Robert Schumann (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 253 MB | 01:12:45
Genre: Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal

Though the catch-all title 'Melancholie' is slightly misleading, Christian Gerhaher's enterprisingly planned programme provides a conspectus of Schumann's art as a Lieder composer. With his bright, burnished high baritone, expressive diction and alert, unexaggerated response to mood and nuance, Gerhaher confirms his credentials as one of the most probing Lieder singers of the younger generation. While it is virtually impossible for a single voice to do equal justice to all 12 songs of the Liederkreis, he succeeds better than most.