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Ole Kristian Ruud, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites (2006)

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Ole Kristian Ruud, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites (2006)

Ole Kristian Ruud, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 70:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-1591 | Recorded: 2003-2005

Since the release of the first volume, (Piano Concerto and Symphony, BIS-SACD-1191), in February 2003, this series has been gathering the most extravagant praise, both for the committed performances of Ole Kristian Ruud and the Bergen Philharmonic – Grieg's 'own' orchestra – and for the sound quality, which has been held up as a model for all labels making orchestral Surround Sound recordings. With this, the sixth, instalment the turn has come to the Peer Gynt Suites, possibly the best-loved of all Grieg's orchestral music.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Grieg: Symphonic Dances (2024)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Grieg: Symphonic Dances (2024)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Grieg: Symphonic Dances (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | 01:03:48
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Grieg’s four Symphonic Dances are a late work, completed in 1898. Grieg takes his inspiration (as in so much of his output) from traditional Norwegian folk tunes, and the four movements together deliver a symphonic unity in their overall effect. Both Bergliot and Before a Southern Convent are written on texts by Grieg’s good friend the author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, who was also a theatre manager in Oslo. Bjørnson is considered one of the four great Norwegian authors alongside Ibsen, Lie, and Kielland, received the 1903 Nobel Prize for literature, and wrote the words for the Norwegian national anthem. Bergliot – a declamation with orchestra – tells the story of a dramatic episode involving the chieftain Einar Tambarskjelve and his son Eindride, killed by King Harald Hårdråde. Before a Southern Convent is a more traditional setting – requiring two vocal soloists, female choir, and orchestra rather than the narrator of Bergliot – of the story of the folk-hero and barbarian Arnljot Gelline.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Mark Elder - Delius: A Mass of Life (2023)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Mark Elder - Delius: A Mass of Life (2023)

Roderick Williams, Gemma Summerfield, Claudia Huckle, Bror Magnus Tødenes, Collegium Musicum Choir, Edvard Grieg Kor, Collegium Musicum Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Mark Elder - Delius: A Mass of Life (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 340 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 220 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:34:21
Classical, Choral, Vocal | Label: LAWO Classics

Roderick Williams heads up the cast for this new recording of Delius' A Mass of Life with the Bergen Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. Accompanied by soloists Gemma Summerfield, Claudia Huckle and Bror Magnus Todenes, the Bergen Philharmonic Choir and Edvard Grieg Kor join Collegium Musicum Choir to complete the tour de force needed to perform and record this monumental work.

John Storgårds, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Per Nørgård: Symphony No. 8; 3 Nocturnal Movements; Lysning (2023)

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John Storgårds, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Per Nørgård: Symphony No. 8; 3 Nocturnal Movements; Lysning (2023)

John Storgårds, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Per Nørgård: Symphony No. 8; 3 Nocturnal Movements; Lysning (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 242 Mb | Total time: 54:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2502 | Recorded: 2019, 2022

Per Nørgård has been hailed as the leading Danish contemporary composer and has often been described as eclectic. With this recording, the reasons for that will likely be evident both to listeners who are familiar with this celebrated composer and those who are new to his stylings. Nørgård has written in many genres – chamber music, concertos, operas, and orchestral music, including eight symphonies – and has drawn inspiration from a myriad of sources, such as the symphonies of Sibelius and Vagn Holmboe, jazz, artist Adolf Wölfli, and serialism, even taking the latter to a new level with his "infinity row," which, in turn, inspired numerous composers that followed.

Dmitri Kitajenko, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (1996)

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Dmitri Kitajenko, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 (1996)

Dmitri Kitajenko, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonies Nos. 1-3, Capriccio espagnol, Russian Easter Overture, Sadko, Piano Concerto (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 617 Mb | Total time: 77:06+79:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 7029(2) | Recorded: 1993, 1994

Chandos’ Rimsky-Korsakov symphony cycle effectively steals the thunder from Neeme Järvi’s set on Deutsche Grammophon. Dmitri Kitajenko’s grittier and bolder readings better present the music. While Järvi luxuriates in Gothenberg’s smooth sonorities, Kitajenko draws more stark sounds from his Bergen Philharmonic players. This is especially telling in the Antar Symhony (which Rimsky-Korsaskov later published as a “symphonic suite”) where Kitajenko’s gruff approach makes the second movement’s growling argument more forbidding.

Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Arne Nordheim: The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet (2023)

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Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Arne Nordheim: The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet (2023)

Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Arne Nordheim: The Tempest, Suite from the Ballet (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 211 Mb | Total time: 49:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: LAWO Classics | # LWC1250 | Recorded: 2021

Arne Nordheim was Norway’s most significant and respected composer until his death in 2010, and one of the few figures in contemporary western music who proved himself able to move beyond traditional harmonic relationships while maintaining a distinct ability to communicate widely through his striking, physical music. The Bergen Philharmonic has been far from immune to that music’s power, championing it throughout the composer’s lifetime and premiering his first orchestral work, Canzona, as well as his last, Fonos. It has given multiple performances of Nordheim’s orchestral works and has recorded Tenebrae (Cello Concerto), Aurora and Wirklicher Wald. In 1992, Nordheim was the subject of a special focus at the Bergen International Festival, where the orchestra premiered Magic Island – a revised version of Be Not Afeard (the starting point for The Tempest).

Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)

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Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)

Øystein Baadsvik, Mats Rondin, Lewis Lipnick, Andrew Litton - Kalevi Aho: Tuba and Contrabassoon Concertos (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 238 Mb | Total time: 63:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1574 | Recorded: 2006

Recent BIS issues of Kalevi Aho’s concertos for flute and clarinet – entrancingly beautiful and elementally energetic works, respectively – have confirmed him as one of the foremost composers of concertos in our day. The two concertos on this new disc for the bassi profundi of the orchestra strike me as less instantly rewarding, but that may be just that their rewards are more of the slow-release kind.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazić & Jan Willem de Vriend - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14 (2023)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazić & Jan Willem de Vriend - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14 (2023)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Dejan Lazić & Jan Willem de Vriend - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 14 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 217 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 126 Mb | 00:55:06
Classical | Label: Challenge Classics

Dejan Lazić: The concept behind our present undertaking, the Mozart Piano Concertos CD-trilogy, is to bring together concertos of Mozart’s miscellaneous composing and performing periods, styles, techniques, and instrumentations side by side, thus to deeply examine and throughout his travels more closely explore his many creative phases within this genre. That is linked further with an encore-like single work on each CD, yet the additional connecting link between these initially planned six piano concertos is the Cadenzas & Lead-ins which I have composed myself.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds, Jakob Kullberg & Peter Herresthal - Per Nørgård: Orchestral Works (2023)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds, Jakob Kullberg & Peter Herresthal - Per Nørgård: Orchestral Works (2023)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds, Jakob Kullberg & Peter Herresthal - Per Nørgård: Orchestral Works (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 131 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:54:00
Classical | Label: BIS

Celebrating his 90th birthday in 2022, Per Nørgård is undoubtedly one of the most important Danish composers since Nielsen. His important production that covers all genres is a highly personal travel document based on his endless incursions through the sonic labyrinths of this world.

Peter Herresthal, Tim Weiss, Arctic Philharmonic - Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright (2023)

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Peter Herresthal, Tim Weiss, Arctic Philharmonic - Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright (2023)

Peter Herresthal, Tim Weiss, Arctic Philharmonic, James Gaffigan, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 313 Mb | Total time: 66:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2572 SACD | Recorded: 2021, 2022

Named ‘2022 Composer of the Year’ by Musical America, Missy Mazzoli inhabits an exquisite and mysterious sound-world in which indie-rock sensibilities meet American minimalism, European modernism and classical traditions. The first woman ever to receive a commission from the Metropolitan Opera, she has also composed for prominent soloists, ensembles and orchestras around the world. Through her music, she reaches to the roots of tradition, inhabits and renovates older forms while using every resource at her command. Mazzoli, who says that she likes “to tell stories”, always imagines actors, singers and dancers grappling with a situation, even when she composes instrumental works.

James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012)

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James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012)

James Ehnes, Robert deMaine, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:25:10 | 699 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHSA 5113(2)

This two-disc set marks the beginning of a new project devoted to Tchaikovsky's ballet scores. We start the survey with the complete score of The Sleeping Beauty, recorded on SACD. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker will follow in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Tchaikovsky was approached by the Director of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, in 1888 about a possible ballet adaptation of Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty).

James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)

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James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)

James Ehnes, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Edward Gardner - Nielsen: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 269 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 156 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:51
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Nielsen’s epic Violin Concerto was premiered in Copenhagen in February 1912, by violinist Peder Moller. Nominally the work is set in two movements; both open with a slow section and move to a faster one. Whilst unusual, this could be seen as a more usual fast – slow – fast three movement form, but with an extensive slow introduction to the first movement. The music moves quickly from one idea to the next, and overall has a bold, playful and optimistic feel. In stark contrast, although written only a few years later, the fourth symphony is more cohesive and unified as a work. Written against the background of the first world war, the work is a celebration of life itself. Just before the premier in 1916, Nielsen described it as: ‘Music is Life, and, like it, inextinguishable.’ Composed in the usual four movement form, each movement continues from the last without a break. The final movement features two sets of timpani battling each other across the orchestra.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2023)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2023)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 233 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:12
Classical | Label: BIS

After acclaimed recordings of the Third (‘Dausgaard… makes the music sound vital and even revolutionary’, Fanfare) and Sixth (‘This persuasively played work could be no better served’, MusicWeb International), Thomas Dausgaard and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra now present Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, ‘Romantic’ in its second version (1878-1880), the one with which this work has become widely known.

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.2 (2010)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.2 (2010)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) - 298 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 199 MB | Covers Included | 75:50
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN 10614

This new Chandos CD of the music of the neglected Romantic-era Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen is an absolute delight from first note to last. Until recently, when music-lovers were asked: "How many Norwegian works can you name?" they typically replied: "Grieg's Piano Concerto and Halvorsen's 'Entry of the Boyars'."

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2010)

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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2010)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jaarvi - Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) - 329 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 197 MB | Covers Included | 76:48
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHAN 10584

In the 1980s and 1990s, Neeme Järvi was conducting second- or third-rate repertoire for Chandos, and he's doing the same in the 21st century, but this time his performances demonstrate his serious commitment to the repertoire, which was not the case with his distinctly disinterested recordings of such third-raters as Reger and Kalinnikov.