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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra - Järvi | Athenaeus - March 22, 2023

The track lengths aren't available yet, it seems. But yes, the album should have about an hour of music on it. I'm fine with that. While I was trying to find the track ...

The Cardigans: First Band on the Moon | Downunderman - March 12, 2023

This is the Swedish bands third album and was first recorded/released back in 1996. This SACD was released as a limited numbered edition in July 2022 by Universal Hong Kong. ...

Bill Evans: You Must Believe in Spring | analogue - February 24, 2023

I am impressed with the sound of this sacd. It is full bodied and has depth. While I would have liked the transfer to have been pure dsd from the original tape ...

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra - Järvi | Graham Williams - March 21, 2023

About an hour is hardly generous. The Miraculous Mandarin performed here is only the Suite not the full ballet.

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra - Järvi | hiredfox - Today 02:41 am

Indeed, the RCA Red Label brand has always been true to the DSD recording cause. Point noted Graham, thanks for the heads up.

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra - Järvi | hiredfox - March 19, 2023

Quite a generous coupling.

Jeff Beck: Truth | analogue - February 24, 2023

Both the Steve Hoffman sacd and the Mofi version are a great listen. To be sure there are slight differences as different hardware and different human beings created the ...

Williams: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Gerhardt | Gurkensalat - February 26, 2023

I have listened to this disc now, and I do not agree that the MC mix is conservative. Rather the orchestra is arranged in a circle around the listener in Tacet-style. The ...

Otto Klemperer conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra

Archiphon  ? (24 discs)

Mono Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Works by Mendelssohn, Mahler, Bruckner, Beethoven, Mozart, Janacek, Bartók, Henkemans, Falla. Schoenberg, Hindemith, Bach, Brahms, Strauss, Stravinsky, Schubert, Wagner, Gluck, Klemperer

Jan Bresser [Mozart], Johanna Martzy [Mendelssohn] (violins)
William Primrose [Bartok] (viola)
Hubert Barwahser [Henkemans] (flute)
Haakon Stotijn [Mozart] (oboe)
Willem Andriessen [Falla], Annie Fischer [Beethoven, Mozart], Maria Curcio [Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?] (pianos)
Gré Brouwenstijn [Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Symphony No. 9], Jo Vincent [Mahler: Symphony No. 2], Cory van Beckum [Mendelssohn], Heleen Verkley [Mendelssohn], Maria Stader [Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, Mahler: Symphony No. 4], Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?, Bach, Beethoven: Missa Solemnis] (sopranos)
Annie Hermes [Beethoven: Symphony No. 9], Nan Merriman [Beethoven: Missa Solemnis] (mezzo-sopranos)
Kathleen Ferrier [Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Symphony No. 2] (contralto)
Ernst Haefliger [Beethoven: Symphony No. 9], József Simándy [Beethoven: Missa Solemnis] (tenors)
Herman Schey [Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen] (baritone)
Hans Wilbrink [Beethoven: Symphony No. 9], Heinz Rehfuss [Beethoven: Missa Solemnis] (bass)
Toonkunstkoor Amsterdam
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Het Residentie Orkes [Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto]
Otto Klemperer (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (49)

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten - Cantata, BWV 202
• Béla Bartók: Concerto for Viola, Sz. 120 BB 128
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Ah! Perfido for Soprano and Orchestra, Op. 65
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus - Overture, Op. 43 (The Creatures of Prometheus)
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore - Overture No. 3, Op. 72b
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
• Johannes Brahms: Variations for Orchestra on a Theme (Haydn) in B flat major, Op. 56a
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 'Romantic'
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106
• Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de España for Piano and Orchestra (1909-16)
• Christophe Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30
• Hans Henkemans: Flute Concerto
• Paul Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione - Suite (1938)
• Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta, JW 6/18
• Otto Klemperer: Symphony No. 1
• Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
• Gustav Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Incidental music, MWV M 13 Op. 61
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture, MWV P 3 Op. 21
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Concerto for Violin in E minor, MWV O 14 Op. 64
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: The Hebrides - Overture, MWV 7 Op. 26 'Fingal's Cave'
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te? - Concert Aria, K. 505
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Oboe in C major, K. 314/285d
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano No. 22 in E flat major, K. 482
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin No. 5 in A major, K. 219 'Turkish'
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni - Overture, K. 527
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate - Motet, K. 165/158a
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music for Orchestra in C minor, K. 477/479a
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade for Orchestra No. 13 in G major, K. 525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201/186a
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 'Jupiter'
• Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for String Orchestra, Op. 4
• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417 'Tragic'
• Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche - Symphonic Poem, TrV 171 Op. 28
• Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements, K073
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96

Comments (1)

Comment by CARLOS DA COSTA - February 10, 2022 (1 of 1)

These recordings with the Concertgebouw are just fabulous! It would be necessary to quote everything, but Mahler's 2nd with Kathleen Ferrier is out of time, the best I've heard to date (even that of Walter with NY). There is a real added sound value compared to the DECCA edition. Unfortunately, the sound is not as good as the rest of the other recordings, but it becomes acceptable. I bought this box, initially, for this recording...but everything is of an incredible standard. The box is neat, the sound, even if it is in mono, is good (except Mahler's 2nd), and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Archiphon for having published them on SA-CD, and with so much care. For the deserted island with the set of war recordings by Furtwanger (DG), Walter's Mahler (SA-CD Sony), Das Lied von der Erde by the same Klemperer (SA-CD Warner) and the set of the Second School of Vienna by Karajan (SA-CD DG).