Yo-Yo Ma - Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites (2CD) (2018) [24/96]



Artist: Yo-Yo Ma
Title Of Album: Six Evolutions - Bach: Cello Suites
Year Of Release: 2018
Label (Catalog#): SONY CLASSICAL
Country: USA
Genre: Classical
Quality: WEB FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [24/96]
Time: 02:13:43
Full Size: 2,33 gb

Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Yo-Yo Ma’s new album Six Evolutions – Bach Cello Suites, his third and final recording of these works. Bach and his Cellos Suites entered Yo-Yo Ma’s life when he was four, when he learned the first measure of the Pr?lude to Suite No. 1 under his father’s instruction. Ma has never lost his initial fascination. “Bach’s Cello Suites have been my constant musical companions,” Ma writes of the music. “For almost six decades, they have given me sustenance, comfort and joy during times of stress, celebration and loss. What power does this music possess that even today, after three hundred years, it continues to help us navigate through troubled times?” Ma is more convinced than ever of the suites’ ability to create shared meaning that extends far beyond the here and now. The suites’ collective vision – at once divergent and coherent, empathic and objective – reminds us of all that connects us despite an increasingly discordant public conversation.

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Best of Leonard Bernstein (2018) [24-44]



Artist: Leonard Bernstein
Title Of Album: Best of
Year Of Release: 2018
Label (Catalog#): Sony
Country: EU
Genre: Classical
Quality: WEB FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [24-44]
Time: 2:40:27
Full Size: 1.48 Gb

In the year of Leonard Bernsteins centenary, Sony Classical is pleased to present the perfect introduction to this legendary American musician. Many of the conductor-composers most celebrated interpretations and works are sampled here, every track chosen to display a facet of his unparalleled dynamism and versatility. There is music by Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mahler, Shostakovich and Copland, with great soloists like clarinettist Benny Goodman and mezzo Frederica von Stade, violinists Joshua Bell and Zino Francescatti, pianists Glenn Gould and Philippe Entremont, not to mention Bernstein himself playing and conducting Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue. Writing about these benchmark 1960s and 1970s New York interpretations, The Guardians reviewer declared: Theres a raw ebullience to the performances that is typical of Bernstein at his best They are all historic performances. Bernstein the composer is represented also. Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age, wrote conductor John Mauceri, in a tribute to his late mentor. In addition to highlights from concert works such as the Age of Anxiety, Serenade and Mass, there are selections from Bernsteins ballets and musicals, including excerpts from the original Broadway cast recording of West Side Story from 1957 as well as his later New York Philharmonic recording of the Symphonic Dances. Bernsteins friend and colleague, composer Ned Rorem, summed up Leonard Bernsteins achievement admirably when he said in 1987: If he were not a composer he would not be the worlds best conductor. Alone among conductors he knows that the essence of music is not what it sounds like, but what the sounds are intended to communicate. Since he too is a composer, he knows that the magic lies not in the communication of sound, but in the sound of communication.

Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 'Italian'- I. Allegro vivace (10:21)
Leonard Bernstein - Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453- III. Allegretto - Presto (8:00)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor- IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam (11:02)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica'- IV. Finale. Allegro molto (11:23)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98- III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto (5:55)
Glenn Gould, Leonard Bernstein - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: III. Rondo - Molto allegro (Remastered) (5:31)
Leonard Bernstein - Appalachian Spring: Doppio movimento (3:05)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47- IV. Allegro non troppo (8:59)
Leonard Bernstein - Rhapsody in Blue (Remastered) (16:29)
Leonard Bernstein - Candide Overture (Remastered) (4:11)
Leonard Bernstein - Three Dance Episodes (From 'On the Town'): III. Times Square: 1944 (4:39)
Original Broadway Cast of West Side Story - West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) - Act I: Maria (2:39)
Original Broadway Cast of West Side Story - West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) - Act I: Tonight (3:53)
Original Broadway Cast of West Side Story - West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) - Act I: America (4:34)
John Williams - Make Our Garden Grow (From 'Candide') (3:46)
Leonard Bernstein - Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium' for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion: IV. Agathon (Adagio) (6:57)
Leonard Bernstein - Mass A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers I - I. Devotions before Mass: 2. Hymn and Psalm: 'A Simple Song' (4:45)
Leonard Bernstein - Mass A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers I - V. Meditation No. 1 (5:11)
Leonard Bernstein - The Age of Anxiety, Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (after W. H. Auden): c. The Seven Stages: Variations 8-14 (6:16)
Leonard Bernstein - Trouble in Tahiti - An Opera in Seven Scenes: Prelude (3:14)
Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free Ballet - VI. Three Dance Variations: Variation I (Galop) (1:21)
Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free Ballet - Variation II (Waltz) (2:24)
Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free Ballet - Variation III (Danzon) (2:38)
Benny Goodman - Prelude, Fugue & Riffs - III. Riffs (4:12)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances (From 'West Side Story') - I. Prologue - Allegro moderato (4:07)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances (From 'West Side Story') - II. Somewhere - Adagio (3:51)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances (From 'West Side Story') - III. Scherzo - Vivace leggiero (1:17)
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances (From 'West Side Story') - IV. Mambo - Meno presto (2:17)
David Zinman - Lonely Town (From 'On the Town') [Arr. for Violin & Orchestra] (4:08)
Leonard Bernstein - Take Care of This House (From '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue') (3:07)

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Leonard Bernstein - An American in Paris (7 CDs) (2018) [24/96]



Artist: Leonard Bernstein
Title Of Album: An American in Paris
Year Of Release: 2018
Label (Catalog#): Warner Classics
Country: France
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [24/96]
Time: 06:40:49
Full Size: 7.25 Gb

This 7CD set is the fruit of the love affair that developed in Paris between Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestre National de France in the 1970s. Beside long-admired studio recordings, featuring Mstislav Rostropovich and Alexis Weissenberg among the soloists, it presents live performances completely new to the catalogue: a 1975 programme to celebrate Ravel’s centenary – with Bernstein himself as soloist in the G major piano concerto – and orchestral suites taken from two of Bernstein’s most celebrated and brilliant works, both infused with jazz: the film score On the Waterfront and the landmark Broadway musical West Side Story. 25th August 2018 marks the centenary of the birth of American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). He was one of the most celebrated and charismatic musicians of his time, an artist who transcended conventional boundaries between genres. Warner Classics owns the treasurable and substantial catalogue of recordings made in Paris in the latter part of the 1970s during Bernstein’s ‘love affair’ with the Orchestre National de France (ONF). A key selling point of this box is that it complements these well-known studio recordings with previously unreleased live recordings (radio broadcasts) that Bernstein made with the ONF in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Among these are two famous works by Bernstein himself, including Symphonic Dances of West Side Story. The project will be highly supported by The Bernstein Office, running the Leonard Bernstein at 100 website ( in which you can find events related to the Bernstein year all over the world) and socials (400k likes on Facebook, 6k followers on Twitter, etc.) The Artist Leonard Bernstein, born near Boston in 1918, was one of the most prominent musicians of the mid-to-late 20th century. The Los Angeles Times recently described Bernstein as “the most celebrated, most multitalented and most American musician of his time”. -As a composer, Bernstein is best known for the landmark Broadway musical West Side Story, which is represented in this set. In addition to other musicals and the score for the 1954 film On the Waterfront (also represented here) he wrote a substantial and artistically ambitious body of compositions for the concert hall, two operas and two ballet scores. As a conductor, Bernstein had a 47-year relationship with the New York Philharmonic. He also enjoyed close links with the Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and of course the Orchestre National de France where he remains, 40 years after their collaboration, a musical and human hero Bernstein was the first conductor to give a series of television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. Leonard Bernstein died in October 1990. On Christmas Day 1989 he had conducted Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in the former East Berlin to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. This ‘Ode to Freedom‘ was described by Die Welt’s writer Klaus Geitel as marking “the absolute climax in the public life of the world citizen Leonard Bernstein”. The Repertoire Two works by Bernstein himself feature in the box: The Symphonic Dances from West Side Story The symphonic suite drawn from his jazz-influenced film score On the Waterfront Live recordings that are receiving their world premiere release with this box. Both works were recorded at a concert in Paris in 1979. A significant emphasis on French music: Berlioz (including the Symphonie fantastique) Ravel (all but Sh?h?razade are previously unreleased live recordings from concerts given at the Th??tre des Champs-?lys?es in 1975 to mark Ravel’s centenary). Bernstein himself is soloist in Ravel’s G major piano concerto Milhaud (including La Cr?ation du monde and Le B?uf sur le toit, both works with a strong element of jazz) Legendary Concertos albums with Rostropovich (Schumann-Bloch), and Weissenberg (Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3) The set also includes 3 rehearsal sequences (of music by Ravel) which showcase Bernstein’s passion as a musician and demonstrate the close relationship between him and the Orchestre National de France Remastering

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Libera - Angels Sing - Libera in America (2018)(24-96)



Artist: LiberaAnna Fedorova
Title Of Album: Angels Sing - Libera in America
Year Of Release: 2018
Label (Catalog#): Warner Classics
Country: France
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless [24/96]
Time: 01:01:40
Full Size: 1,32 Gb

Libera - Beethoven / Arr Prizeman: Joyful, Joyful, We adore Thee (3:33)
Libera - Lowry / Arr Prizeman: How can I keep from Singing (3:18)
Libera - Trad / Arr Prizeman: Morning has Broken (3:09)
Libera - Ward / Arr Prizeman: America the Beautiful (3:58)
Libera - Trad / Arr Coates: Wayfaring Stranger (4:05)
Libera - Trad / Arr Prizeman: Amazing Grace (3:48)
Libera - Thiele & Weiss / Arr Prizeman: What a Wonderful World (4:13)
Libera - Foster: The Prayer (4:34)
Libera - Sibelius / Arr Prizeman: Be Still My Soul (3:56)
Libera - Trad: How Great Thou Art (3:56)
Libera - Skellern: Rest In Peace (3:17)
Libera - Pachelbel / Arr Prizeman: Sanctus (Choral Version of Canon in D Major) (3:30)
Libera - Muramatsu / Arr Prizeman: Song Of Life (3:25)
Libera - Schubert / Arr Prizeman: Ave Maria D. 839 (4:25)
Libera - Prizeman: Voca me (4:28)
Libera - Prizeman: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (4:05)

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