Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2021) MCH SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 68:09 min | Digital Booklet | 3,73 GB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Digital Booklet | 1,53 GB
or FLAC 2.0 (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Digital Booklet | 700 MB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Challenge Classics # CC72895

Bernard Haitink was born and educated in Amsterdam. His conducting career began at the Netherlands Radio where in 1957 he became the Chief Conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. The links between Bernard Haitink and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have withstood the test of time, even when his career was taking him all over the world. He returned on 15 June 2019, when he gave his very last concert in Amsterdam, with Bruckner Symphony no. 7, a work that has always been especially dear to him.

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

“Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink’s death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of concerts from past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony documents concerts given in November 1981 at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on was a regular guest with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either at the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or at the Philharmonie im Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestra musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian Late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem throughout the world. With him, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner were always in the best of hands. His driving principle was to make the sound architecture of a musical composition, with its complex interweaving, transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was combined with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. The premiere of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony in 1884 was an immediate success with the public. It was with this powerful work that Bruckner, already in his 60s and long denied fame and recognition, achieved his long-awaited breakthrough. The key work in this late triumph was the Seventh Symphony. Composed between September 1881 and autumn 1883, it paved the way for a wider acceptance of his music. One reason for its success was that Bruckner was chosen by Richard Wagner’s followers to fill the gap left by the Bayreuth master’s death in February 1883. The Seventh Symphony thus bears witness to Bruckner’s veneration of Wagner, manifested both in certain instrumental and melodic similarities to the motivic world of the “”Ring”” and in the explicit dedication of the symphony’s central Adagio movement “”to the memory of the blessed, beloved, immortal Master””. Bruckner’s homage takes the form of a harrowing piece of funeral music – a resounding Wagner epitaph. The symphony, dedicated to Ludwig II of Bavaria, was premiered on December 30, 1884 by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Arthur Nikisch.”

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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:42 minutes | 4,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The London Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink’s first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink’s revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer’s music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms’ final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms’ Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Brahms: Symphonies Nos 1-4 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 04:04:42 minutes | 4,86 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

The London Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Brahms symphonies was Bernard Haitink’s first set of recordings on the LSO Live label, originally released individually throughout 2004-05, and then as a boxed set in 2005. This collection of remastered recordings is now available on SACD, and digitally in spatial audio. Bernard Haitink’s revelatory Brahms recordings with the LSO have demonstrated why fresh new interpretations of his major works are so important, and why the composer’s music is still so relevant today. After struggling for years to come to terms with his fear of comparison to Beethoven, Brahms finally completed his First Symphony at the age of 43. It was hailed as a triumph and the remaining three symphonies followed relatively easily. His Symphony No.2 overflows with a relaxed, pastoral beauty, while the Third Symphony contains some of the most dramatic music Brahms was to compose. Finally, loaded with German Romanticism and including variations on a Bach cantata, Brahms’ final symphony is a remarkable example of his mastery of symphonic composition. A rich, warm work that builds on a sense of movement and intensity right up to the final bars. Along with the symphonies, this release also includes Brahms’ Double Concerto, Tragic Overture and Serenade No.2.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chor & Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Te Deum (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chor & Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Te Deum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 23:28 minutes | 212 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

The Te Deum in C major, WAB 45, is a setting of the Te Deum hymn, composed by Anton Bruckner for SATB choir and soloists, orchestra, and organ ad libitum.

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Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (Ed. R. Haas) (Live) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (Ed. R. Haas) (Live) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:28:04 minutes | 905 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR Klassik

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Bruckner’s “Te Deum” and his Eighth Symphony (version by Robert Haas, 1939) documents concerts performed in the Philharmonie im Gasteig in November 2010, and in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz in December 1993.

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:03 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR Klassik

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony documents concerts from January 2012 in Munich‘s Philharmonie im Gasteig.

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Bernard Haitink & Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Bernard Haitink & Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:08 minutes | 621 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics

Bernard Haitink was born and educated in Amsterdam. His conducting career began at the Netherlands Radio where in 1957 he became the Chief Conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. The links between Bernard Haitink and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have withstood the test of time, even when his career was taking him all over the world. One fine example of this was Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust in 1998, later issued on Challenge Classics. He returned on 15 June 2019, when he gave his very last concert in Amsterdam, with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, a work that has always been especilly dear to him.

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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Bernard Haitink – Mahler Symphony No. 7 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Bernard Haitink – Mahler Symphony No. 7 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:21:52 minutes | 762 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony documents concerts from February 2011 in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on he repeatedly stood on the podium of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – either in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Philharmonie im Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestral musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem worldwide. With him, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler were always in the best of hands. His driving principle was to take the sound architecture of a musical composition with its many-layered interweavings and render it transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was paired with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. A valid recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony places the highest demands on the skills of the conductor as well as on the virtuosity of each individual orchestral musician. Only under such circumstances can the highly complex individual voices merge to form a magnificent whole – an undertaking that achieves breathtaking effects time and again. A conductor is required here who unites the ensemble of individual, soloist-level musicians with an overarching musical concept. With its two grotesque ‘night musics’, its sounds of nature, naïve folk motifs and intoxicating orchestral tutti, the Seventh Symphony is highly typical of Mahler’s unique sound world.

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Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Bernard Haitink, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:41:28 minutes | 969 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony still ranks today as one of the greatest and most powerful creations of the Late Romantic period. The huge symphony, longer and more monumental than the others and containing texts from the collection of poems by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim entitled “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”, was composed over a period of four years from 1892 to 1896, and especially during the summers of 1895 and 1896, which Mahler spent at the Attersee in Austria. Following performances of several individual movements of the symphony, the complete work was premiered on June 9, 1902, at the 38th “Tonkünstler Festival” in Krefeld. Mahler conducted the Städtische Kapelle Krefeld and Cologne’s Gürzenich Orchestra at this exciting event. It was one of his greatest successes, and his contemporaries were deeply impressed. Between 1902 and 1907, the composer conducted his Third Symphony a further 15 times.

Of the six powerful movements, the slow fourth one requires not only a large orchestra but also a mezzo-soprano solo for a setting of the “Midnight Song” (“O Man! Take heed!”) from Friedrich Nietzsche’s poetical-philosophical “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” while in the cheerful fifth movement the mezzo-soprano soloist is joined by a children’s choir and a female chorus for the song Es sungen drei Engel from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”. The symphony is a huge challenge for all its performers, and this concert recording of June 2016 has a prestigious line-up: guest conductor Bernard Haitink with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Augsburger Domsingknaben and the Frauenchor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; the solo parts are sung by Gerhild Romberger.

This Munich concert event of summer 2016 is now being released on 2 CDs by BR-KLASSIK – a very recent interpretation of one of the most important compositions of the international symphonic repertoire.

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Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Hindemith, Ferdinand Leitner, Bernard Haitink – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. X – Wolfgang Schneiderhan plays Mozart, Henze & Martin (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Hindemith, Ferdinand Leitner, Bernard Haitink – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. X – Wolfgang Schneiderhan plays Mozart, Henze & Martin (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:04 minutes | 408 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audite Musikproduktion

In the spotlight of this latest volume in Audite’s Lucerne Festival edition is the Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915-2002). He was one of several artists who made an outstanding contribution to the Festival over the years since its inauguration in 1938. He first appeared there in 1949, and went on to make annual visits most years until 1985. His trio, in which he was joined by the pianist Edwin Fischer and the cellist Enrico Mainardi, appeared there several times. Schneiderhan also gave master-classes at Lucerne. The attraction of the present release is that it features three recordings revealing the diversity of the violinist’s work at the Festival. All are broadcast performances, culled from the archives of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF).

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London Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Choral” (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra & Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Choral” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is a landmark in the history of music, changing the concept of what a symphony could be. The use of solo singers and a chorus in the final movement was revolutionary, and the emotional journey to a glorious vision of a world of love and tolerance paved the way for idealistic symphonies to come.

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London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Special Edition Box) (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Special Edition Box) (2006)
SACD ISO: 24,81 GB (Stereo & MCH) | FLAC @ 24bit/88.2kHz: 6,73 GB | Artwork | 3% Rec. Info
Label/Cat#: LSO Live # LSO0598 | Country/Year: UK 2006
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School, Orchestral

This is the easiest review I shall ever have the pleasure of writing & can be summed up in two words:
Buy it!

It is not often one can hail a modern classic, especially of music that has been recorded so often in the past, but this is a rare standard of music making.

Full reviews can be found following the links given below but suffice to say that this is the most musical set of performances of Beethoven I have heard since first hearing Schnabel; it is also the most impressive I have heard from a playing perspective in Beethoven & I have never heard the LSO play like this on disc before now. Lastly, it is wonderful to hear Haitink bring all his experience with a truly fresh vision (for both him and us) of how this great music can sound.

From the opening of the first symphony, the notes sound as though the ink is still drying and this impression continues through the other 8 masterpieces. It is more than just sounding newly minted; the honesty, structure and emotion are all vividly conveyed too in the best sound that LSO Live have achieved to date from the Barbican. The Triple Concerto & Leonore Overture No.2 are just as successful and makes one wish for follow-up sets to complete the orchestral music together with a concerto cycle and Fidelio all under the baton of Haitink.

The box-set brings together all 6 discs (in slip-cases) with the original artwork used and the notes conflated into one booklet – very neatly done, even if not everyone admires the concept of the photos.

As I said before (and it cannot be said often enough) – buy it, not just for yourself but for all your friends/family/colleagues… they will all be profoundly grateful. Copyright © 2006 John Broggio

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Robert Haas Version) [Live] (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Robert Haas Version) [Live] (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:25:43 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

“… this reading is a very fine achievement indeed graced by superb playing.”
– MusicWeb International

This live recording, taken from concerts performed in 2005, offers a revealing glimpse at the approach to Bruckner’s music developed by Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra over their many years of working together. Haitink first conducted Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony with the RCO in 1959 and has performed the work with the orchestra more than 20 times in the years that followed. Under his direction, the Concertgebouw Orchestra has established a Bruckner tradition of international reputation.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major (2007) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz] Download

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:00 minutes | 996 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © CSO RESOUND

The Chicago Tribune described the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s May 2007 performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 as a “glowing and eloquent account.” Now available to the world as the second release from CSO Resound, this recording showcases the remarkable chemistry between the CSO and Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink, who perform with what the Chicago Sun-Times calls “an almost extrasensory connection.”
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