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Royal Scottish National Orchestra - The Essential Royal Scottish National Orchestra (2024)

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra - The Essential Royal Scottish National Orchestra (2024)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra - The Essential Royal Scottish National Orchestra (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:20:42 | 321 / 580 Mb
Genre: Classical

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra In the decades since its founding, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has earned a reputation as a distinguished ensemble with an extensive concert schedule, wide-ranging repertoire, and a significant representation on recordings. In 2021, the orchestra was heard on the album Xiaogang Ye: Winter, as well as a recording of Mozart Concertos, backing Francesca Dego. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is the direct descendant of the Scottish Orchestra, founded in Glasgow in 1891. Throughout its first 40 years, the Scottish Orchestra had a series of principal conductors, beginning with George Henschel from 1893 until 1895. In 1933, while the orchestra – along with the rest of the world – was facing financial difficulties, subscribers and patrons kept the ensemble afloat. That year, John Barbirolli assumed the post of principal conductor; since that time, the orchestra has been helmed by many well-known conductors, including George Szell, Walter Süsskind, and Alexander Gibson (the first Scot to lead the ensemble and the longest-tenured), among others.

Nordic Symphonies: Sibelius, Nielsen, Svendsen, Alfvén, Stenhammar, Grieg [10CDs] (2024)

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Nordic Symphonies: Sibelius, Nielsen, Svendsen, Alfvén, Stenhammar, Grieg [10CDs] (2024)

Nordic Symphonies: Sibelius, Nielsen, Svendsen, Alfvén, Stenhammar, Grieg (2024)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2.79 Gb | Total time: 11:48:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96936 | Recorded: 1970-2005

This generous 10 CD set presents a comprehensive collection of symphonies written by Nordic composers: Sibelius (1865-1957), Grieg (1843-1907), Stenhammar (1871-1927), Alfvén (1872-1960), Nielsen (1865-1931) and Svendsen (1840-1911). Their Symphonies hold a unique place in music history, blending lush melodies with the evocative power of nature. They drew inspiration from their rugged landscapes, infusing their works with a deep connection to their Nordic roots, enriching the classical repertoire with unparalleled emotional depth.

Elmer Bernstein - To Kill A Mockingbird: Original Motion Picture Score (1997) from 1962 film, directed by Robert Mulligan

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Elmer Bernstein - To Kill A Mockingbird: Original Motion Picture Score (1997) from 1962 film, directed by Robert Mulligan

Elmer Bernstein - To Kill A Mockingbird: Original Motion Picture Score (1997)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Elmer Bernstein

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 178 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 110 Mb | Scans included
Soundtrack, Score | Label: Varese Sarabande | # VSD-5754 | Time: 00:41:58

Elmer Bernstein's score for To Kill a Mockingbird is regarded as one of the greatest film scores and has been recorded three times. It was first released in April 1963 on Ava; then Bernstein re-recorded it in the 1970s for his Film Music Collection series; and finally, he recorded the complete score (below) in 1996 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the Varese Sarabande Film Classics series.

Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.3; Legend of the Skerries (1999)

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Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.3; Legend of the Skerries (1999)

Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.3; Legend of the Skerries (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 78:46 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.553729 | Recorded: 1996

The melodious Andante is the longest of the four movements [of Alfvén’s Third Symphony], deftly written and beautifully performed (particularly by the RSNO’s woodwinds and their delightful contributions). The piece enjoys an expansive climax, given all the space in the world by Willén.

Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.1; The Mountain King (2020)

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Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.1; The Mountain King (2020)

Niklas Willén, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Hugo Alfvén: Symphony No.1; The Mountain King (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 70:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553962 | Recorded: 1996

The selections begin with the Festival Overture, a somewhat blustery, bombastic piece that, nevertheless, makes a good, rousing curtain raiser. So, it works in the capacity for which the composer doubtless intended it. Maestro Niklas Willen and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra give it their all, and if one doesn’t expect something more substantial, it does its job.

Kellen Gray & Royal Scottish National Orchestra - African American Voices II (2023)

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Kellen Gray & Royal Scottish National Orchestra - African American Voices II (2023)

Kellen Gray & Royal Scottish National Orchestra - African American Voices II (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 171 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 113 Mb | 00:47:36
Classical | Label: Linn Records

Kellen Gray has reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a second instalment of African American Voices. Though representing differing schools of thought regarding African American classical music, the composers here are united by their roots in black history, culture and its rich musical heritage. Drawing upon jazz and spirituals – ‘I Want Jesus to Walk with Me’ serving as the source material – Margaret Bonds’ Montgomery Variations engages with African American history, namely the Montgomery bus boycott and the 1963 Birmingham church bombing. In this work, re-discovered in 2017, Bonds tackles the themes of strength, resistance, determination and faith.

Alan Cumming, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & John Mauceri - Tchaikovsky by Arrangement (2023)

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Alan Cumming, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & John Mauceri - Tchaikovsky by Arrangement (2023)

Alan Cumming, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & John Mauceri - Tchaikovsky by Arrangement: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King or The Clockmaker’s Tale: A Re-telling by John Mauceri (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 367 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:15:11
Classical | Label: Toccata Classics

Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, which has its origins in a novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann, contains some of the best-loved music ever written. But its composer wasn’t very happy with it, perhaps because the plot he was given to work with allowed him to present only a series of dances, losing the moral basis of Hoffman’s surprisingly modern tale, with its messages of inclusivity and what is now called ‘women’s agency’ – here it is the little girl who saves the prince. Hoffmann’s aspirational story continues well after the ballet ends, with the little girl, now grown up, marrying the prince, who is now king. John Mauceri has brought the ballet back to its inspiration, calling on music from elsewhere in Tchaikovsky’s orchestral output to fashion this ‘re-telling’, marrying Hoffmann’s text and Tchaikovsky’s music for the first time.

Rachel Barton Pine, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Tito Muñoz - Dependent Arising (2023)

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Rachel Barton Pine, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Tito Muñoz - Dependent Arising (2023)

Rachel Barton Pine, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Tito Muñoz - Dependent Arising (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 159 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:34
Classical | Label: Cedille Records

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s 24th recording for Cedille Records, Dependent Arising, reveals surprising confluences between classical and heavy metal music by pairing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 with Earl Maneein’s “Dependent Arising” — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Tito Muñoz.

Katherine Bryan, RSNO - Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse & Jacques Ibert (2013)

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Katherine Bryan, RSNO - Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse & Jacques Ibert (2013)

Christopher Rouse: Flute Concerto; Jacques Ibert: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Claude Debussy: Syrinx; Frank Martin: Ballade
Katherine Bryan, flute; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 241 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD 420 | Time: 01:03:13

Among the young British instrumentalists vying to pick up the mantles of the great soloists of a generation ago, flutist Katherine Bryan seems among the most promising, and she takes a major step forward with this, her second release. Her startlingly clear, bright articulation in the upper register is pleasing on its own, yet the real attraction here is that she approaches a repertory intelligently and brings fresh perspectives to it. The Flute Concerto (1993) of Christopher Rouse only seems to be the odd item in the set; Rouse's instrumental writing, with its intricate grasp of texture and register, is truly a descendant of the French (and French-Swiss) music on the rest of the album, and it was an inspired choice in terms of showcasing Bryan's technique as well. The three central movements have a memorial tone, with flute solos woven into Rouse's characteristically spacious chords, and Bryan has the stamina to stick with the long line here. Ibert's delightful Concerto for flute and orchestra (1934) receives an absolutely crackling performance from Bryan.

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Opera - Léo Delibes: Ballet Suites - Cappélia, Sylvia, La Source (2020)

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Opera - Léo Delibes: Ballet Suites - Cappélia, Sylvia, La Source (2020)

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Opera - Léo Delibes: Ballet Suites - Cappélia, Sylvia, La Source (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 82:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA5257 | Recorded: 2017

Neeme Järvi returns to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a dazzling album of suites from the ballets Sylvia, La Source, and Coppélia by Delibes. Born into a musical family, Delibes enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire aged twelve, studying under several professors including Adolphe Adam. He spent the 1850s and early 1860s composing light operettas and working as a church organist, before achieving public recognition for his music for the ballet La Source in 1866. His later ballets Coppélia and Sylvia were key works in the development of modern ballet, giving the music much greater importance than was previously the case.

Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

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Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)
Doric String Quartet; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Peter Oundjian, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 322 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA5199 | Time: 01:11:23

As part of his final year as Music Director and following a two-season celebration of the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and the RSNO here present their second recording of music by John Adams, with the exceptional participation of the Doric String Quartet. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poetry as analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the ‘bipolar’ musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999. Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the music of Beethoven, which Adams has always deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of Beethoven’s music (mainly his string quartets) and facilitates a ‘hyperspace rate’ of virtuosity, which the Doric String Quartet here perfectly demonstrates.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Kellen Gray - African American Voices (2022)

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Kellen Gray - African American Voices (2022)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Kellen Gray - African American Voices (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 181 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 142 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:01:00
Classical | Label: Linn Records

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra teams up with its Assistant Conductor Kellen Gray to record works by three of the twentieth century’s greatest African American voices, which is released to coincide with Black History Month.

Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, RSNO, Neeme Jarvi - Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)

Sergei Taneyev: Suite de Concert; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Fantasy on Russian Themes (2008)
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Neeme Järvi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 268 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 151 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 10491 | Time: 01:04:52

Lydia Mordkovitch and the then Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi were a celebrated team in the 1980s, recording many notable Russian works, including the concertos by Khachaturian, Prokofiev and Shostakovich for Chandos, and winning a Gramophone Award. This ‘team’ has recently re-assembled to record little-known concertante works by Taneyev and Rimsky Korsakov. The unusual coupling of works by Taneyev and Rimsky-Korsakov, two great composer friends, neatly symbolises the era of the last decades of nineteenth-century Russia, with its great conservatories in Moscow and St Petersburg exerting enormous influence on the music of the country at the time.

Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Sir Roger Norrington - Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022)

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Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Sir Roger Norrington - Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022)

Francesca Dego, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Sir Roger Norrington - Mozart: Violin Concertos, Vol. 2 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 311 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:56
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Following their critically acclaimed first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos (CHAN 20234), Francesca Dego and Sir Roger Norrington complete the set, once again with outstanding support from a reduced Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This cycle not only represents the first time Sir Roger has recorded these concertos, but the present album is also his final recording project. All five concertos were written before Mozart was twenty; nevertheless, his rapid development as a composer is evident in the progression from the first to the fifth, which has an unusual Adagio section within the first movement, an extensive slow movement, and of course the extensive ‘Turkish’ episode in the final movement (probably based on Hungarian folk music). Whilst given on modern instruments with metal strings, these are performances immersed in Norrington’s lifetime of experience in period performance practise. As The Sunday Times noted of the first album: ‘Pairing the veteran Mozartian Norrington – a pioneer of historical performance practice – with the young Italian-American soloist Dego proves inspiring in what promises to be one of the freshest of recent cycles of the Mozart concertos.’

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies (2008)

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Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies (2008)

Neeme Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Prokofiev: Complete Symphonies (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 1.2 Gb | 04:21:08
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos

These symphonies, recorded between 1984 and 1985 have justifiably dominated the Prokofiev catalogue both individually and as a set ever since. The combination of Jarvi at a particularly vibrant time in his recording career coupled with a rejuvenated Scottish orchestra and both truthfully balanced and enhanced by Chandos' outstandingly clear recording technology makes for a potent mix. All the symphonies are very rewarding musically with the probable exception of the second which earned a famous critical comment from the composer himself - see below.