Hi-Res Highlights,
Hi-Res Highlights - August 2017
Vintage Pavarotti, Zukerman and Barenboim are among the highlights of this month's crop of Hi-Res downloads, which also includes several world premiere recordings - five of Elliott Carter's late works, and the original version of one of Bellini's earliest operas on Naxos.
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Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra perform Debussy's 'Poème dansé', plus Khamma and La Boite A Joujoux; their previous volume of Debussy orchestral works was praised by Gramophone as 'stylistically astute' with 'plenty of character'.
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Gringolts Quartet are joined by Swedish soprano Malin Hartelius for the Second String Quartet, often viewed as a turning-point in Schoenberg's relationship with tonality, coupled with the Fourth (composed three decades later, shortly after the composer emigrated to America).
Available Formats: SACD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Fifty years since he made his sensational recording debut with Brahms's Third Piano Sonata, the veteran Brazilian pianist returns to the work in his first recording for Decca since his Brahms concerti with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester, which won Gramophone Record of the Year in 2007.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Five world premiere recordings, including Carter's final composition Epigrams, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Isabelle Faust and Jean-Guihen Queyras. Recently praised by The Guardian as 'a perfect introduction to the spare, regularly surprising world' of Carter.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Captured at Bad Wildbad in July 2016, this premiere recording of the original version of Bellini's first professionally staged opera (the title was altered to avoid using the name of the heir to the throne) stars Silvia Dalla Benetta and Maxim Mironov as the eponymous siblings.
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Tal & Groethuysen Duo bring a near-orchestral range of colour to arrangements of Debussy and Strauss for piano duet: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune in the composer's own transcription, plus La Mer, Till Eulenspiegel, waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier, and Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Re-issues
Barenboim conducts the Orchestre de Paris in Chabrier's España, Ibert's Escales, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and the second suite from Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé; originally released on Columbia Masterworks in 1976.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Claudio Abbado conducts the legendary tenor and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in arias from Ernani, I due Foscari, Les vêpres siciliennes, Don Carlo, and Attila, plus orchestral excerpts from the first version of Simon Boccanegra and the Cairo version of Aida.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
Pinchas Zukerman joins the English Chamber Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim for performances that were described as 'finely etched' by the Los Angeles Times.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC, Hi-Res+ FLAC
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