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Cristina Ortiz, Paul Tortelier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Berglund - Shostakovich (2024)

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Cristina Ortiz, Paul Tortelier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Berglund - Shostakovich (2024)

Cristina Ortiz, Paul Tortelier, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Paavo Berglund - Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1 & Fantastic Dances (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 309 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 174 Mb | 01:15:07
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

In addition to his symphonic recordings, Berglund also recorded concertos by Shostakovich with Tortelier and Ortiz. The album also includes the piano solo "Three Fantasy Dances", recorded in 1973-1975.

Paavo Berglund, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel - Prokofiev: Summer Night, Op. 123 (2024)

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Paavo Berglund, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel - Prokofiev: Summer Night, Op. 123 (2024)

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel - Prokofiev: Summer Night, Op. 123 (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 251 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | 00:54:54
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Here comes another splendid album by Paavo Berglund, devoted to Russian music that was so dear to his heart. This recording includes two suites excerpted from major operas: Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel, a cruel tale about the devastating effects of ambition and power quest, and Prokofiev’s frivolous Betrothal at the Monastery, the suite of which he entitles Summer Night.

Paavo Berglund & Staatskapelle Dresden - Smetana: Má Vlast - Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 & Scherzo capriccioso (1979/2024)

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Paavo Berglund & Staatskapelle Dresden - Smetana: Má Vlast - Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 & Scherzo capriccioso (1979/2024)

Paavo Berglund & Staatskapelle Dresden - Smetana: Má Vlast - Dvořák: Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 & Scherzo capriccioso (1979/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 462 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 238 Mb | 01:40:44
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Má vlast, also known as My Fatherland, is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. The six pieces, conceived as individual works, are often presented and recorded as a single work in six movements. They premiered separately between 1875 and 1880. The complete set premiered on 5 November 1882 in Žofín Palace, Prague, under Adolf Čech.

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6, 10 & 11 "1905" (2024)

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Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6, 10 & 11 "1905" (2024)

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 6, 10 & 11 "1905" (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 614 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 350 Mb | 02:31:20
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The sixth, tenth and eleventh symphonies by Shostakovich are among the most popular of the corpus. They showcase the composer’s quintessence: with atmospheres by turns sombre, deceptively merry, or ironical, this is music often imbued with pomp and militarism… A great specialist in Russian music, Paavo Berglund dedicated a large part of his career to promoting the works of Shostakovich, during a time when it was still poorly considered in the West.

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7, Tapiola, The Oceanides & Luonnotar (2024)

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Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7, Tapiola, The Oceanides & Luonnotar (2024)

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 7, Tapiola, The Oceanides & Luonnotar (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 281 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 145 Mb | 01:01:02
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

A true specialist of his fellow countryman Jean Sibelius’ music, Paavo Berglund recorded no less than three complete symphony cycles for EMI/Finlandia! That makes him the most devoted Sibelius conductor of the whole discography. The first symphony Berglund ever put on record was Sibelius’ seventh, his musical testament and a pure concentrate of his musical genius. It is made available in a brand-new audio cut, and coupled with other late masterpieces such as Tapiola or The Oceanides.

Paavo Berglund - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 - Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19 - Järnefelt: Praeludium (2024)

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Paavo Berglund - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 - Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19 - Järnefelt: Praeludium (2024)

Paavo Berglund & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 - Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19 - Järnefelt: Praeludium (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 271 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | 00:58:22
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Paavo Berglund (1929-2012) was recognised as a father-figure in modern Sibelius conducting. He notably recorded no less than 3 times his complete symphonies, with the Bournemouth Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic and later with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Besides much music of his homeland and Scandinavia in general he was able to demonstrate his prowess in Russian music, particularly Shostakovich, and flair for British music including Vaughan Williams and Bliss. After his time in Bournemouth and Helsinki he conducted all the major British orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Staatskapelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestras.

Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Paavo Berglund - Johannes Brahms: The Symphonies (2013) 3CD Set

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Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Paavo Berglund - Johannes Brahms: The Symphonies (2013) 3CD Set

Johannes Brahms: The Symphonies (1-4) (2013) 3CD Set
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Paavo Berglund

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 727 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 374 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 990-2T | Time: 02:42:04

Like Paavo Berglund’s Sibelius symphony recordings, also with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, these Brahms performances inject a certain novelty that will be appreciated especially by the listener who has wearied of them due to excessive repetition. While these are not radically desiccated renditions in the manner of Chailly or Harnoncourt, the COE’s smaller-scaled string body does require a bit of time at first for your ear to adjust to the thinner timbres. But the reward is a harvest of inner detail, much of it barely audible in full-size orchestral performances (but well captured by Ondine’s vivid recordings), which continually surprises and delights.

Paavo Berglund, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 (2007)

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Paavo Berglund, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 (2007)

Paavo Berglund, Chamber Orchestra of Europe - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue) ~ 424 Mb | Total time: 61:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Finlandia | # 0630-14951-2 | Recorded: 1995

It would be difficult to speak about the life and work of Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund without mentioning the name of his illustrious compatriot, composer Jean Sibelius—but the reverse is also true, as Berglund spent a lifetime exploring the profound depths of Sibelius's music and bringing it to an ever wider public. After three recordings of the complete Sibelius symphonies on CD, Berglund returned to these titanic works in 1998, aged nearly 70, with a level of insight—shaped over the course of decades—that perhaps no other conductor has ever achieved.

Ida Haendel, Bournemouth SO, Paavo Berglund - Benjamin Britten & William Walton: Violin Concertos (1978/1992) [Re-Up]

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Ida Haendel, Bournemouth SO, Paavo Berglund - Benjamin Britten & William Walton: Violin Concertos (1978/1992) [Re-Up]

Benjamin Britten & William Walton: Violin Concertos (1978) Reissue 1992
Ida Haendel (violin); Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Berglund

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 270 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # CDM 7 64202 2 | Time: 01:02:27

Ida Haendel’s sinewy and athletic reading of the often under-rated Britten combines toughness with a cumulative dramatic impetus which is hard to resist. Berglund and the Bournemouth players respond with a terse and argumentative vigour, suitably balanced between resignation and defiant rhetoric, especially in the closing Passacaglia. The Walton Concerto, also dating from 1938-9, is played with an apposite blend of inscrutable panache, as in the irrepressibly brilliant central movement, and elsewhere, a sensuous, if occasionally over-indulgent languor. Rare lapses in the finale can be safely overlooked, in a performance of eloquence and undisputed stature.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund - Jean Sibelius: Orchestral Works (1997) 2CDs [Re-Up]

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund - Jean Sibelius: Orchestral Works (1997) 2CDs [Re-Up]

Jean Sibelius: Orchestral Works (1997) 2CD
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Paavo Berglund, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 626 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 388 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI | # 7243 5 69773 2 7 | Time: 02:33:33

This double CD from EMI features the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by their Finnish principal conductor at the time (1970s), Paavo Berglund. It doesn't have to be that a conductor originates from the same country as the composer whose works he or she is conducting, but it often happens that this combination seems to produce performances of greatest sensitivity. So it is here, as Berglund conducts 10 works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The discs include quite familiar works like En Saga, one of Sibelius' first compositions when he was in his late 20s. We also have Pohjola's Daughter, The Bard and two of the four Lemminkäinen Legends, and a beautiful version of Luonnotar sung by the Finnish soprano Taru Valjakka. The rest of the discs is made up of less frequently heard pieces. We have the five-movement suite from the incidental music Sibelius wrote for Adolf Paul's play King Christian II (1898); the Spring Song (Vårsång) of 1894; the suite of incidental music from Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande.