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Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)

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Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)

Christoph Spering, Das Neue Orchester - Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 'Lobgesang' (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 291 Mb | Total time: 64:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 / Naïve | # OPS 2030 | Recorded: 1993

Lobgesang, Mendelssohn's ''Hymn of Praise'', is no longer a rarity on disc, with a dozen versions listed. That makes it timely that Spering, following up the success of Herreweghe's Harmonia Mundi version of Elijah (4/94), here presents a performance in period style. When the composer's preference for fast speeds is well documented, and has so convincingly been followed up by his latterday successor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kurt Masur, it is perhaps surprising that Spering is far more relaxed in his choice of tempos. His overall timing—64'48'' as against Masur's 58'32''—shows what a wide discrepancy there is, and in no way does he let the music drag or become sentimental. For with clean, crisp textures this is a most refreshing performance, full of incidental beauties, of a work that for several generations was regarded as too sweet on the one hand, over-inflated on the other. Spering's clean directness and his obvious affection for the music reverses that jaundiced judgement.

Peter Hofmann, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti - Beethoven: Fidelio (1997)

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Peter Hofmann, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti - Beethoven: Fidelio (1997)

Peter Hofmann, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti – Beethoven: Fidelio (1997)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:59:15 | 547 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Decca | Catalog: 455 066-2

Solti's interpretations held more than surface excitement. In conducting Beethoven, for example, he long held that the symphonies should be played with all their repeats to maintain their structural integrity, and he carefully rethought his approach to tempo, rhythm, and balance in those works toward the end of his life. Solti began as a pianist, commencing his studies at age six and making his first public appearance at 12. When he was 13 he enrolled at Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy of Music, studying piano mainly with Dohnányi and, for a very short time, Bartók. He also took composition courses with Kodály.

Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)

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Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)

Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Digital booklet | 01:08:18 | 255 Mb
Classical, Vocal | Label: Chandos Records

Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately trained at Chetham's School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music. Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, she attended the prestigious Academy of the Verbier Festival. She writes of this project: 'It has been my great pleasure to record with Joseph once again. We have long shared a mutual passion for early-twentieth-century-romantic Lieder and talked of making a disc including songs by Mahler and Strauss.

Amon Düül II - Made In Germany (1975) [Reissue 2004]

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Amon Düül II - Made In Germany (1975) [Reissue 2004]

Amon Duul II - Made In Germany (1975) [Reissue 2004]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 453 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 164 MB | Covers - 141 MB
Genre: Progressive Rock, Krautrock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Garden of Delights (CD 099)

Made In Germany was a real musical transformation for Amon Düül II. If you took this album, and ADII's first album "Phallus Dei" and played them both for an unknowing listener, they would never even suspect it was the same band! The songs like "Ludwig" have an almost Beatlesesque quality to them (albeit on much more drugs). Ambitious vocal harmony arrangements, pristine production values, orchestral flourishes… Amon Duul? Anyway, this album is a masterwork of a completely different sort than their earlier releases, so naturally many fans will not still be onboard at this point. Short, vaguely Floydian spacy instrumental breaks replace the full-on sonic assaults of yore, and the main feature is… songs. Beautiful, sometimes achingly melancholic, sometimes witty and humorous, always honed like a gem; this is top-notch songwriting without ever losing ADII's keen eye for ambition.