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    Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988)

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    Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988)

    Charles Mackerras, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 & A Midsummer Night's Dream (1988)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 63:17 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # VC 7 90725-2 | Recorded: 1987

    If there is one Mendelssohn symphonic recording that makes the case for a more favorable reassessment [of the composer], it's this pairing of the Italian Symphony and some of the Midsummer Night's Dream music by Sir Charles Mackerras…. The clarity of texture here [in the Symphony] is extraordinary, even when the brass and winds add their clout. As a result, every line of Mendelssohn's orchestration comes through clearly, leaving a listener with a renewed respect for this composer's inventiveness…. The Midsummer Night's Dream music is even more miraculous….

    Angela Hewitt - Robert Schumann: Humoreske Op.20 ; Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor Op.11 (2007)

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    Angela Hewitt - Robert Schumann: Humoreske Op.20 ; Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor Op.11 (2007)

    Angela Hewitt - Schumann: Humoreske Op.20 ; Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor Op.11 (2007)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 180 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67618 | Time: 01:05:53

    One of the pleasant surprises of the first decade of the twenty first century was the way pianist Angela Hewitt developed from one of the most celebrated of Bach specialists into an all-around first-class performer in a much wider range of repertoire. Take her 2007 disc with Schumann's Humoreske with his Piano Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor. While one might have expected clarity and drive from Hewitt, who had long mastered those qualities in Bach, the evident passion and fantasy reveal new aspects of her playing, especially in her F sharp minor Sonata, which sounds like an ardent musical bildungsroman. Her Humoreske, similarly, has the poetic imagination and the lyrical fervor characteristic of great German romantic poetry. As on her Bach recordings, Hewitt's tone is pearly, her technique formidable, and her interpretations combine thoughtfulness with spontaneity. Recorded by Hyperion with winning warmth and an uncanny sense of immediacy, this disc will delight Hewitt's fans and enlarge Schumann's discography by one excellent disc.

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2007)

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    Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2007)

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3, Orchestral Suite "Rakastava" (2007)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 59:56 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Exton| # OVCL-00279 | Recorded: 2007

    Vladimir Ashkenazy's style of conducting, not dissimilar to his keyboard style, is unmatched in the development of long climaxes, exploding in the end with a surge of precise power. Sibelius is one of the composers most suited to his style, and you can confidently pick from among his recordings of the Finnish master. His reading here of the Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39, the most purely Tchaikovskian work among Sibelius' seven symphonies, is among the very best available, with awe-inspiring control in the development of the first-movement material and the emergence of a superbly responsive instrument in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, whose recordings of large-orchestra music in recent years have been second to none.

    Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies (2025)

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    Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies (2025)

    Nicholas Collon, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphony 5; Two Serenades; Two Serious Melodies; Swanwhite (2025)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 77:16| Scans included
    Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1468-2 | Recorded: 2022, 2024

    Conductor Nicholas Collon’s second Sibelius album together with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra focuses on works written by Sibelius during or just before World War I, and culminating in the 5th Symphony, one of the composer’s symphonic key works. Two opuses for violin and orchestra, Two Serenades and Two Serious Melodies, one of Sibelius’ most religious works, are featuring star violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Sibelius’ music for Strindberg’s Symbolistic play Swanwhite is a rarely performed gem with interesting thematic connections to other works included on this album, including the 5th Symphony.

    Ludwig Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 (2017)

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    Ludwig Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 (2017)

    Ludwig Quartet - Johannes Brahms: String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 (2017)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 271 Mb | Total time: 59:58 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553635 | Recorded: 1995

    Like Mozart, Brahms was a bit uncomfortable writing string quartets, where the desire to maintain an absolutely democratic discourse among the participants often led to overly dense textures and rhythmic heaviness. The extra viola part offered by the quintet medium, however, allowed both composers to relax a bit and write music with the richness of texture they both loved, without forcing. These two works really don't seem to get the attention that they deserve, either on recordings or in concert, but they are both vintage Brahms. Fortunately, Naxos seems to be dedicated to a complete survey of the chamber music of the great composers, and they are working with a very fine stable of artists.

    Leos Janacek - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set

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    Leos Janacek - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set

    Leos Janáček - Chamber Music, Orchestral Works (2004) 5CD Box Set
    Paul Crossley, Christopher Van Kampen, Kenneth Sillito, Thomas Trotter
    Gabrieli String Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
    Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Chailly
    Charles Mackerras, François Huybrechts, Neville Marriner, David Atherton
    Eva Urbanová, Vladimir Bogachov, Marta Benacková, Richard Novák

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 1.48 Gb | Scans ~ 20 Mb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 523-2 DC5 | Time: 06:04:07

    To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Janáček’s birth, this Decca Collector Edition brings together most of the composer’s chamber works and solo pieces plus his most popular orchestral works and the magnificent Glagolitic Mass in a superb digital recording with Riccardo Chailly and Wiener Philharmoniker. The recordings of the solo works and chamber pieces feature one of the world’s most distinguished ensembles: the London Sinfonietta and David Atherton. Their recordings were originally released as a 5-LP set in 1981 and many of these performances have not been available for several years; many also make their first international appearance on CD. This set provides the listener with all the essential non-operatic Janáček in one convenient collection.

    Roger Norrington, London Classical Players - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4 (1990)

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    Roger Norrington, London Classical Players - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4 (1990)

    Roger Norrington, London Classical Players - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4 (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 64:34 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: EMI | # CDC 7 54000 2 | Recorded: 1989

    What is so good about Sir Roger's performances are that they are alive, vibrant, full of colour, devoid of clichés, utterly musical, coherent and convincing. Like Thomson he has a reliable ear for balance and texture and an instinctive ability to gauge the correct and most effective tempi.

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 (2005)

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    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 (2005)

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 3 (2005)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 77:14 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907288 | Recorded: 2002

    This is listed as the final installment in the Eroica’s Mendelssohn quartets series. It also happens to come on the heels of two brand new complete sets—one from the preeminent Emerson Quartet, the other from the pacesetting Pacifica Quartet. Comparisons to these ensembles, though probably unavoidable, are not particularly apt or instructive, for the Eroica is a period-instruments group dedicated to interpretations of 19th-century Romantic works that reflect as closely as possible the performance practices that would have been in vogue at the time the music was written.

    Steven Osborne - Modest Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition; Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives, Five Sarcasms (2013)

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    Steven Osborne - Modest Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition; Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives, Five Sarcasms (2013)

    Steven Osborne - Modest Musorgsky: Pictures From an Exhibition;
    Sergei Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives, Five Sarcasms (2013)

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 175 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67896 | Time: 01:05:57

    GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER: INSTRUMENTAL AWARD 2013 & BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF THE MONTH. Steven Osborne has become one of the most valuable pianists recording today. His recent complete Rachmaninov Preludes release was critically acclaimed as the greatest modern version since Ashkenazy. Now he turns to further cornerstones of the Russian repertoire in this recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition (a work which has been in Osborne’s concert repertoire for many years), and two sets of Prokofiev’s miniatures. Musorgsky’s masterpiece is one of the most popular programmatic works of the 19th century. Yet it is also a great pianistic challenge, with the spectacular textures of the climactic movement ‘The Great Gate of Kiev’ requiring the highest technical accomplishments.

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2002)

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    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2002)

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2002)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 59:08 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907287 | Recorded: 2001

    This disc is a perfect example of what a quartet recording, especially of standard repertoire, should do. It is fresh and invigorating and invites us to reexamine the work of a composer whom we think we know very well. In this second volume of its Mendelssohn series, the Eroica quartet simply dazzles–the ensemble's previous foray (which was its debut recording) clearly was no fluke. As far as the Eroica quartet is concerned, Mendelssohn's quartets are the equal of any of his larger-scale works, and these players show that they can generate the muscle and power to match their conception. The first movement of the third quartet is marked "Molto Allegro vivace".

    Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind (1990)

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    Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind (1990)

    Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 & Anton Webern: Im Sommerwind (1990)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224Mb | Total time: 56:30 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Decca | # 430 324-2 | Recorded: 1989

    Chailly has radically rethought his approach to these works, re-examining the scores and returning to the recorded interpretations of a generation of conductors alive during Brahms lifetime, principally Felix Weingartner and one of his Gewandhaus predecessors Bruno Walter.

    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set

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    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set

    Leopold Stokowski - Decca Recordings 1965-1972: Original Masters (2003) 5CD Box Set
    with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
    New Philharmonia Orchestra; Hilversum Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
    J.S. Bach, William Byrd, Jeremiah Clarke, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Henri Duparc
    P.I. Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Elgar
    Cezar Franck, Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.85 Gb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | # 475 145-2 | Time: 06:14:01

    This fabulous five disc set is replete with some of those old Stokowski warhorses all recorded in absolutely mind boggling Phase 4 sound, overblown perhaps but astounding for its time. Decca's remastering is absolutely magnificent and the discs are jam packed with almost six hours of music. This is another fine memorial to a great conductor who remained astonishingly vital until the very end of his life.

    Yefim Bronfman, Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman - Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anton Arensky: Piano Trios (1994)

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    Yefim Bronfman, Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman - Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anton Arensky: Piano Trios (1994)

    Yefim Bronfman, Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman - Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Anton Arensky: Piano Trios (1994)
    dBpoweramp | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 320 Mb | Total time: 76:13 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Sony Classical | SK53269 | Recorded: 1992

    Tchaikovsky's Trio has become more popular of late, with the newest Gramophone Classical Catalogue listing 13 groups whose versions are currently available. This is one to take its place in some very august company, and that in particular offers new insight into the nature and structure of the long, difficult opening movement. Partly, this is achieved through a flexible approach to tempo. The work is dedicated ''To the memory of a great artist'' (Tchaikovsky's mentor Nikolay Rubinstein), and the movement is entitled Pezzo Elegiaco. The players treat it with considerable flexibility of tempo, which works extremely well when their understanding of its unusual structure is so acute.

    Borodin String Quartet - Alexander Borodin: String Quartets No. 1 in A & No. 2 in D (1987)

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    Borodin String Quartet - Alexander Borodin: String Quartets No. 1 in A & No. 2 in D (1987)

    Borodin String Quartet - Alexander Borodin: String Quartets No. 1 in A & No. 2 in D (1987)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 301 Mb | Total time: 66:22 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: EMI / Melodiya | # CDC 7 47795 2 | Recorded: 1980

    The Borodin Quartet plays the music of its namesake as to the manner born. Theirs is a beautiful, lush realization of this lyrical work, polished and full of nuance, and well-served by the 1980 analog recording. The coupling with Borodin's First Quartet is especially attractive.

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (1999)

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    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (1999)

    The Eroica Quartet - Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Vol. 1 (1999)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 78:04 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMU 907249 | Recorded: 1998

    Here is an entirely unaccustomed perspective on Mendelssohn's quartets. These English "period" musicians believe that Romantic music, too, should be played in the original style, with sparing vibrato, distinct articulation, great clarity, and transparency. They even discovered–and use–the bowings and fingerings of Mendelssohn's friend, the violinist Ferdinand David. Since they play extremely well, with a beautiful, full, warm, homogeneous tone, they give the music extraordinary vitality, excitement, and passion as well as a wistful, dreamy inwardness.