Sviatoslav Richter – Piano Concertos [4 SACDs] (1969-1979/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 04:33:16 minutes | 11,02 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-196/9
リヒテルが旧EMIレーベルに収録したソロのピアノ協奏曲8曲を4枚組に集成。それぞれ名盤として名高い壮年期の重要な記録。
最上の音質を目指し新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化し最新復刻。
8曲目のモーツァルトは、新規でマルチチャンネルのマスターよりミキシングしマスタリング。
DISC4は世界初SACD化。新規解説付
リヒテルが1969年から79年にかけて4名の指揮者、5つのオーケストラと共演した旧EMIレーベルへのピアノ協奏曲8曲を収録。一部世界初SACD化。壮年期のテクニック溢れるリヒテルのこれらの録音はレコード史的にも重要な録音ばかりで、それぞれが名演として知られています。クライバーとの唯一の共演盤となったドヴォルザークを始め、自ら評価していたグリーグの圧倒的名演等、聴きどころが満載。今回、従来以上の192Khz/24bitのスペックであらためて本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープよりデジタル化を行った上で最新のマスタリングを施し、神髄に迫りました。SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリングしているのは従来通りです。新規解説付。永久保存盤です。(1/3)
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Joanna Wang – The Things We Do For Love (2011)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:37 minutes | Scans included | 997 MB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 1,56 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Scans included | 705 MB
Joanna Wang’s English + Mandarin album titled “The Things We Do for Love” features 15 self-selected tracks including 10 English track (including 3 acoustic tracks) and 5 Mandarin tracks. The 1st single “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”, also the theme song of 1969’s American film “Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid”, was a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award nomination.
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István Kertész, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Brahms: The Four Symphonies & Haydn: Variations (2016) [Japan]
SACD Rip | 3x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 186:09 minutes | Front/Rear covers | 7,47 GB
or DSD64 2.0 (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 7,35 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear covers | 3,9 GB
There have been many recordings of the Brahms’ symphonies but few have the passion, vitality and drive of István Kertész’s Vienna Philharmonic cycle. This collection brings together all of Kertész’s Brahms recordings for Decca. His Wiener Philharmoniker Brahms cycle began in May 1964 with a recording of the Second Symphony and continued in 1972-73 with the remaining symphonies and the Variations on a theme of Haydn. Recording of the Variations commenced on March 1, 1972 and upon Kertész’s passing (April 16, 1973), the orchestra completed the recording on May 14, 1973, conductor-less, in his memory.
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Paquito D’Rivera – Portraits Of Cuba (1996) [Reissue 2005]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:35 minutes | Front/Rear + PDF book | 2,82 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers + PDF | 1,48 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front/Rear + PDF booklet | 1,34 GB
Features Stereo and Quardrophonic Surround Sound | Label: Chesky Records # SACD 298
This absolutely classic jazz recording is entitled Portraits of Cuba and is a milestone project of Paquito D’Rivera. Arranged by Carlos Franzetti, the large band ensemble provides an orchestral ambiance akin to the legendary Gil Evan sound with Miles Davis, in the classic “Sketches of Spain.” This recording couldn’t come at a better time, as it presents an artistic commentary on a national and social transition as it unfolds in a new and evolving Cuba. It is truly a work that will be applauded worldwide as the quality of the writing and performance is at a level few artists are capable of achieving today. Paquito D’Rivera provides some of the most inspired improvisation in his career to date and the material chosen for this recording are familiar classics in the popular Latin music tradition. Best Latin Jazz Album of the 39th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Smetana Quartet – Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 (1978) [Japan 2007]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 46:19 minutes | Basic Scans | 2,83 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Basic Scans included | 1,21 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Basic Scans incl. | 1,01 GB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Supraphon/Columbia/Denon # COGQ-24
The Smetana Quartet are a true legend. For over four decades (1945-1989), the ensemble gained critical acclaim and enthused audiences all over world, particularly in the UK, USA and Japan. They attained perfect chime and extraordinary flexibility in voice leading, resulting in part from their playing the entire repertoire by heart. This quadrophonic recording featuring Two String Quartets of Bedřich Smetana. It have been recorded in February 1976 in Praha and originally released through local Supraphon label.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet – Debussy: 12 Etudes (2005) [Japan]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 70:01 minutes | Front/Rear Covers | 3,38 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,59 GB
or FLAC Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front/Rear Covers | 1,18 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Octavia Records Japan # OVCT-00024
After a series of popular and award-winning recordings running over a wide range of the piano repertoire, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a well-known name in the piano lover’s world. But back in the 90’s, Bavouzet was just a name on a little known Japanese label specializing in piano music. The Études as presented here by Bavouzet are marvels of musical insight and control. Debussy’s studies of tone and rhythm are brought to life with understated virtuosity. Bavouzet plays with great subtlety and fluency and the results are completely engaging. The Children’s Corner is equally compelling. An entrancing creation of swirling colours and emotions, at no stage does Bavouzet allow Debussy’s whimsical setting for this collection of musical tableaux to become cloying or distracting. Also on this disc presented other Debussy’s works as Page d’album, Berceuse héroïque, La plus que lente, and Elégie. As with the Etudes, the recorded sound of the piano is miraculously good. The recording was made in 1996 but not released by the Japanese label, Octavia Records, until 2005. This perhaps explains its obscurity relative to Bavouzet’s more recent recordings of the same material.
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Sviatoslav Richter, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber – Dvorak: Piano Concerto Op. 33 (1976/2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:38:31 minutes | 1,55 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI Music Japan – TOGE-12056
https://www.discogs.com/release/30392888-Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k-Carlos-Kleiber-Sviatoslav-Richter-Bayerisches-Staatsorchester-M%C3%BCnchen-Piano-Concerto-In-G-
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 (1974-1976/2018)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:11:54minutes | 2,89 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90190
Long regarded as the quintessential interpretation of the most popular and best-loved symphony ever written, this performance of the Fifth has everything: passion, precision, drama, lyric beauty, and a coiled fury in the first movement that sets your pulse racing from the very first note. Carlos Kleiber has made very few recordings in his distinguished career, but almost all are special. If you own no other copy of this symphony, this is the one to get. It comes with an exceptional performance of the Seventh–not quite as gripping as the Fifth, but definitely one of the great ones. There is classical music, and there are classic recordings of classical music. This one’s a classic. — David Hurwitz
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel – Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (1974/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:16:19 minutes | 3,06 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Decca / Tower Recods Japan – PROC-2328
ブルックナー: 交響曲第5番 / ロリン・マゼール (指揮)/ウィーン・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団
[デッカ ザ・ベスト1200] クラシックの名門DECCAの黄金期である60～70年代録音の名盤を中心にセレクト。高精度なルビジウム・カッティングによって、よりマスターに忠実な音を再現! オリジナル・ジャケットを生かした高級感あるジャケット。50歳を超えたブルックナーが書いた第5交響曲は、対位法的に綿密に作曲され、作曲者自身「対位法交響曲」と呼んでいた。確かに第1楽章や第4楽章での効果は素晴らしく、その後の改訂が他の作品に比べて少ないのも納得できる。このディスクでは、40代半ばのマゼールが、早くも巨匠的な風格を漂わせながらウィーン・フィルを指揮している様子がうかがえる。1974年3月 ウィーンでの録音。
https://www.discogs.com/release/30368303-Bruckner-Wiener-Philharmoniker-Lorin-Maazel-Symphony-No-5/image/SW1hZ2U6MTA5NDM4NTU2
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Orchestre de Paris, Charles Munch – Brahms: Symphony No.1 (1968/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:47:59 minutes | 1,92 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): La Voix de son Maître / Esoteric – ESSW-90264
https://www.esoteric.jp/en/product/essw-90264/top
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Peter Rösel, Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Kurt Sanderling – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody (1978-1982/2022)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:44:36 minutes | 6,6 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Berlin Classics / Tower Records Japan – 0302751BC-1
These recordings by pianist Peter Rösel and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Kurt Sanderling were made in 1979. They are very well remastered here by the team of reissue producer Marcus Heinicke, and it might have been good to have a bit more information in the annotations about the original recordings and the reissue process. However, annotator Dirk Stöve provides valuable background about the meeting of the minds between Rösel and Sanderling that makes the recordings so distinctive. Sanderling, one learns, delayed recording Rachmaninov with the Berlin Symphony until he could find a pianist who shared his vision of the composer’s concertos, which he regarded as ill-served by the general perception of them as merely “virtuoso” works. Sanderling believed in a relatively dry approach, marked by clarity and a restrained use of vibrato, and in pianist Rösel, he found a kindred spirit. There is a certain amount of support in historical recordings for this view, and it is quite bracing to hear the music done this way. Sample the finale of the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40, glittering and coruscating as the piano enters. There are certainly weightier versions of the slow movements out there, and in general, the recording isn’t for those who like their Rachmaninov with blood and thunder. However, this is a needed look at a somewhat forgotten aspect of Rachmaninov and a highly worthwhile reissue.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Mariss Jansons – Tschaikowsky: Symphonie Nr. 5, Francesca da Rimini (2010)
DFF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:09:48 minutes | 2,75 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © BR-KLASSIK
In two live-recordings from the Philharmonie München with Tchaikovskys Symphony No. 5 and his Orchestral Fantasia “Francesca da Rimini” Mariss Jansons proves his deep understanding and close relationship to the music of Peter Tchaikovsky. Jansons shows his “Russian Soul” and makes the music shine with all its emotions and powerful colors.
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Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber – Wagner: Tristan und Isolde [3 SACDs] (1980-1982/2018)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 03:53:27 minutes | 9,36 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric – ESSG-90183/5
https://www.discogs.com/release/18874828-Richard-Wagner-Staatskapelle-Dresden-Carlos-Kleiber-Tristan-Und-Isolde
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck – Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Barber: Adagio for Strings (2017)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:00:08 minutes | 2,38 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © PentaTone
2018 Grammy Winner – Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical
In his fascinating and scholarly music notes, Maestro Manfred Honeck gives us great insight into the history of both pieces and describes how he conducts and interprets each. He reminds us that Joseph Stalin’s Soviet government was offended by Shostakovich’s previous works. Under threat of arrest or banishment to Siberia, Shostakovich devised a new, less-complex compositional style for the 5th Symphony, still full of irony and double meaning, to appease Stalin and appeal to the common people.
The Adagio of Samuel Barber is his most performed work, and one of the most popular of all 20th Century orchestral works. It is beloved for its beautiful simplicity and emotion. Manfred Honeck describes Barber’s 1967 acapella version for mixed choir using the “Agnus Dei” text and tells us his own interpretation is inspired by this text. He says it is “for me, without a doubt, the key to finding a deeper sense of this piece. Perhaps it is for this reason that the Adagio has enchanted and moved audiences around the world since its very first incarnation and has continued to do so in all subsequent versions born since.”
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Ewald Kooiman, Ute Gremmel-Geuchen, Gerhard Gnann & Bernhard Klapprott – Bach Complete Organ Works [19 SACDs) (2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 24:12:21 minutes | 68,28 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Aeolus
This is the first complete Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Edition on Super Audio CD available in surround sound and played on famous historic organs on a label which is famous for it’s experience with organ recordings. In the same time it is a very precious and detailed documentation of the Silbermann organ tradition in the Alsace and includes the most beautiful and important instruments of this organ builder dynasty.
It was in April 2008 at the Abbatiale St.Maurice at Ebersmunster (Alsace) that I started working on Aeolus’ biggest recording project so far: the complete organ music by Johann Sebastian Bach with the dutch organist Ewald Kooiman for an ambitious SACD Edition with a total of 19 Super Audio CDs (compatible with any CD-Player). For this edition Aeolus and Ewald Kooiman chose the famous alsatian organs built by Andreas Silbermann (1678-1734) and his son Johann Andreas Silbermann (1712-1783).
Tragically Ewald Kooiman died totally unexpectedly during his holidays in Egypt on January 25, 2009, at the age of 70, after having recorded only eight SACDs. We have been discussing whether it would make sense to release these eight recordings as a kind of musical testament. On the other hand there were so many important organs works that had not yet been recorded by Ewald Kooiman. Finally I contacted three of his former students and asked them if they would like to complete this edition as a homage to their teacher: Ute Gremmel-Geuchen (Kempen), Gerhard Gnann (Mainz) and Bernhard Klapprott (Weimar). They were all enthusiastic about the idea and immediately agreed. These recordings started in 2010 and were finally finished in July 2011.
All the recordings have been realized simultaneously in two channel stereo and in five channel surround sound with state of the art equipment using the famous DPA 4006 microphones all over.
The booklet texts have been written by the German musicologist Peter Wollny (Bach-Archiv Leipzig) and by the alsatian Silbermann expert Marc Schaefer (on the instruments).
Comment by producer Christoph Martin Frommen:
“I feel immensely honored to have had the unique opportunity to realize this great project and to have spent five years with the music of J.S. Bach. I extend my warmest thanks to all those who have supported me and without whose help it would not have been possible to make it happen, especially to Mr. Anne den Hartigh.”
https://aeolus-music.com/ae_en/content/view/full/3030