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Bruno Walter - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Great Symphonies [4CDs] (2003)

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Bruno Walter - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Great Symphonies [4CDs] (2003)

Bruno Walter - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Great Symphonies (2003)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 997 Mb | Total time: 03:58:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM4K87989 | Recorded: 1953-1956

This set restores to circulation Bruno Walter's New York Philharmonic versions of the mature Mozart symphonies (35-41). These were recorded in decent mono during the early LP era (1953-1956). Listeners familiar with his stereo versions of these works with the Columbia Symphony (an ad hoc ensemble formed largely for the sake of Walter's Indian Summer recording projects) will note some marked interpretative differences in the earlier recordings. The NYPO provides leaner textures and more alert playing, and Walter's conducting conveys greater vitality, than in the plusher and sometimes too languid Columbia Symphony recordings.

Arturo Toscanini & New York Philharmonic - Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert & Sibelius (2024)

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Arturo Toscanini & New York Philharmonic - Bruckner, Strauss, Schubert & Sibelius (2024)

Arturo Toscanini & New York Philharmonic - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7, Strauss: Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils, Schubert: Symphony No. 9 & Sibelius: En Saga (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 613 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 368 Mb | Covers included | 02:17:23
Classical | Label: Immortal Perfomances

Toscanini conducted the music of Bruckner on five separate occasions. In December of 1896 in Turin, Toscanini led the Adagio of the Seventh Symphony in commemoration of Bruckner’s passing. In March of 1931, Toscanini conducted the NY Phil in a series of concerts featuring the complete Bruckner 7. Toscanini and the NY Phil performed the Bruckner 4 in November, 1932, and February, 1934 (in a 1932 response to a questionnaire from the Berliner Börsen Zeitung, Toscanini revealed: “In recent years I have thoroughly studied Bruckner’s monumental symphonies”). January 1935 concerts included the Bruckner 7. The January 27, 1935 NY Phil performance of the Bruckner 7 is the only recording of Toscanini conducting music by the great Austrian composer.

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein - Brahms, Liszt, Enescu & Borodin (2011)

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New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein - Brahms, Liszt, Enescu & Borodin (2011)

New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein - Brahms, Liszt, Enescu & Borodin (2011)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 352 MB | 01:11:54
Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Les danses hongroises n°5 et 6 de Brahms (respectivement captées en 1967 et 1966) mettent d'entrée de jeu l'auditeur au parfum : c'est à une démonstration de dynamisme et de lyrisme que le grand chef américain nous convie. Ces danses de Brahms se hissent parmi les meilleures, et ne font poindre qu'un seul regret : qu'il n'y en ait que deux !
Les Préludes de Liszt (1963) nous rappellent alors quelles formidables affinités Bernstein trouvait dans l'univers lisztien (il faut connaitre absolument sa fantastique Faust-Symphonie ).

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)

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Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Parisiennes (2001)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 750 Mb | Total time: 144:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM2K 89566 | Recorded: 1964,1967,1968

2 CDs mit Leonard Bernsteins herausragenden Interpretationen der Haydn-Sinfonien mit dem New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Als erster US-Amerikaner war Leonard Bernstein von 1958-1969 Musikdirektor des New York Philhamonic Orchestra. In seinem Wirken als Dirigent fand er weltweit große Beachtung mit einem Repertoire, das von der Klassik bis zur Avantgarde reichte.

New York Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev (2023)

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New York Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev (2023)

New York Philharmonic - Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.4 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 880 MB
05:33:38 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The world-renowned New York Philharmonic (officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York) is America's oldest symphony orchestra, a prime example of high standards of performance to musicians and audiences everywhere. Beginning in the 1820s, there were several attempts to found an orchestra in the city, the more successful of which were the Philharmonic Symphony Society (established in 1842) and the New York Symphony (established in 1878). The Philharmonic had a reputation for conservatism and high standards, hiring primarily European conductors, such as Gustav Mahler. The Symphony seemed more ambitious and interested in new music. It received patronage from Andrew Carnegie, enabling the building of Carnegie Hall (1891), with an inaugural concert led by Walter Damrosch and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky.

Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic - Bernstein Conducts Copland: Inscape & Connotations for Orchestra (1970/2024)

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Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic - Bernstein Conducts Copland: Inscape & Connotations for Orchestra (1970/2024)

Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic - Bernstein Conducts Copland: Inscape & Connotations for Orchestra (1970/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 163 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 75 Mb | 00:32:31
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

Copland describes the material for Inscape as coming from two different series of twelve tones that in turn give rise to subsidiary serial patterns. He felt that serialism "freshened his harmonic palette," although this one-movement piece is more tonal than is customary in serial composition. While Copland never attached a great deal of significance to titles, he admitted to being drawn to a literary source for Inscape, the title of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Aaron Copland & New York Philharmonic - The Tender Land (1965/2024)

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Aaron Copland & New York Philharmonic - The Tender Land (1965/2024)

Aaron Copland & New York Philharmonic - The Tender Land (1965/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 310 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 152 Mb | 01:05:59
Classical, Opera | Label: Sony Classical

Following the less than enthusiastic reception of his only full length opera, Copland arranged an orchestral suite from the score. It includes the love duet, the lively square dance, and the stirring and beautiful The Promise of Living drawn from the quintet at the end of the opera's first act. The composer was gratified when the Suite garnered the good reviews he had hoped the opera would inspire. In 1996, Murry Sidlin created a new suite for soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble based on his successful reduced orchestration of the opera, which uses the same scoring as the 13 instrument version of Appalachian Spring.

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)

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Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 665 Mb | Total time: 69:27+48:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SM2K-60205 | Recorded: 1956

This version of Handel's 'Messiah' could quite possibly be feasible today only as a Bernstein reissue. The quest for authenticity has overtaken the performance and recording of early music, and even a conductor recording 'Messiah' without attempting a historically-informed style of performance wouldn't dare introduce the level of revision that Bernstein did for this 1956 recording and the Carnegie Hall performances which preceded it.

Emil Gilels, David Oistrakh - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto (1990)

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Emil Gilels, David Oistrakh - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto (1990)

Emil Gilels, David Oistrakh - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 70:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SBK 46339 | Recorded: 1959, 1980

TDavid Oistrakh was one of those violinists beloved by people who don't especially like violinists. Don't get me wrong, plenty of violin aficionados love him too. But the fact that he played with such warmth of tone and musicality, never indulging in the screeching cat-music stuff that some violinists think sounds flashy, makes him uniquely listenable to folks not into violin playing for its own sake. Perhaps the fact that he was also a distinguished conductor had something to do with it, for he always seems to know where he is–how everything fits together. His performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is a case in point: soulful, exciting, never ragged or overblown. Add Emil Gilels' epic rendering of the Piano Concerto and how can you refuse?

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philarmonic - George Frideric Handel: Song for St Cecilia's Day (1999)

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Leonard Bernstein, New York Philarmonic - George Frideric Handel: Song for St Cecilia's Day (1999)

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philarmonic, Rutgers University Choir - George Frideric Handel: Song for St Cecilia's Day (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 62:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SMK 60731 | Recorded: 1959

Leonard Bernstein was not a specialist in Baroque music, but he approached the composer's famous "Messiah" during his performing career, among other works. With the New York Philharmonic, in December 1956 Bernstein led his own, abridged version of Messiah with movements reordered into two parts rather than three. Later as music director he led "The Passion according to St.John", the "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day", and various solo concertos and concerti grossi. Several of these performances recognized the bicentennial of Handel's death in 1959. Bernstein recorded his version of "Messiah" in late 1956 and the "Ode for St.Secilia's Day following those performances with the NYP.

New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta & Gary Graffman - Music From The Woody Allen Film "Manhattan" (1979/1986)

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New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta & Gary Graffman - Music From The Woody Allen Film "Manhattan" (1979/1986)

New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta & Gary Graffman - Music From The Woody Allen Film "Manhattan" (1979/1986)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 173 MB
40:48 | Jazz, Classical, Stage & Screen, Soundtrack | Label: CBS

Manhattan is the original motion picture soundtrack to Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan with music by George Gershwin. It was performed by the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. It was nominated for Best Soundtrack in the 33rd British Academy Film Awards.

Kurt Masur, New York Philharmonic - Brahms: The Symphonies, Overtures, Song of Destiny & German Requiem (2006)

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Kurt Masur, New York Philharmonic - Brahms: The Symphonies, Overtures, Song of Destiny & German Requiem (2006)

Kurt Masur, New York Philharmonic - Brahms: The Symphonies, Overtures, Song of Destiny & German Requiem (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.3 Gb | 04:40:40
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics

I have to recommend this box set of Brahms Symphonies and other works including his Requiem recorded in the 1990's by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic. Warner Classics released this edition in 2014 and it seems fitting for me to be the first one to review it now as Kurt Masur sadly passed away at the end of 2015. He had been the music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1991 until 2002 and this had been seen as a very successful period for the Orchestra which had been a bit wayward until he took over.

John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, New York Philharmonic - A Gathering of Friends (2022)

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John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, New York Philharmonic - A Gathering of Friends (2022)

John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, New York Philharmonic - A Gathering of Friends (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 338 Mb | Total time: 68:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 19439983662 | Recorded: 2021

The 40-year friendship between two musical titans, John Williams & Yo-Yo Ma, reaches a new peak with “A Gathering of Friends.” The incredible warmth & brilliance of composer/conductor John Williams is felt throughout this album of both his concert music (a newly revised Cello Concerto) and his legendary film music, including a powerful new arrangement of the Theme from “Schindler’s List,” brought to life by Yo-Yo Ma and the world-renowned New York Philharmonic. Another highlight from the John Williams film music catalog is Yo-Yo Ma’s performance of “With Malice Toward None,” an inviting and uplifting melody from the movie “Lincoln,” inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address.

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 7: Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Debussy (2008)

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Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 7: Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Debussy (2008)

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 7: Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Debussy (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,17 Gb | Total time: 04:49:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88697334532 | Recorded: 1961-2006

This Sony-made 30CD classical music collection covers almost all classical music, from the early Baroque period represented by Bach to the schools of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms represent romantic, national and even modern musical schools led by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, etc. representative, everything wonderful and vivid.

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 5: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms (2008)

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Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 5: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms (2008)

Sony The Classical Collection [30CDs], Vol. 5: Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,20 Gb | Total time: 04:22:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 88697334532 | Recorded: 1961-2006

This Sony-made 30CD classical music collection covers almost all classical music, from the early Baroque period represented by Bach to the schools of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms represent romantic, national and even modern musical schools led by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, etc. representative, everything wonderful and vivid.