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Owain Arwel Hughes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 5, 6 & 7 (2022)

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Owain Arwel Hughes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 5, 6 & 7 (2022)

Owain Arwel Hughes, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 5, 6 & 7 (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 83:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics | # RCD1073 | Recorded: 2021

The final volume of the complete Sibelius Symphonies from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Owain Arwel Hughes contains the ever popular 5th coupled with the beautiful less well known 6th, and the ground breaking single movement 7th, the composer's final word on the symphony. His 8th, apparently completed, was consigned to the fire by Sibelius. The first volume in this cycle was made a Gramophone Editors Choice and was praised for the performances, interpretation and the recorded sound.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Owain Arwel Hughes - Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 (2022)

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Owain Arwel Hughes - Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 (2022)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Owain Arwel Hughes - Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 331 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 194 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:23:08
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics

The final volume of the complete Sibelius Symphonies from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Owain Arwel Hughes contains the ever popular 5th coupled with the beautiful less well known 6th, and the ground breaking single movement 7th, the composer’s final word on the symphony. His 8th, apparently completed, was consigned to the fire by Sibelius.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63 (2022)

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63 (2022)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Owain Arwel Hughes - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43, Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63 (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 316 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:27:04
Classical | Label: Rubicon Classics

When Sibelius conducted the premiere of his Second Symphony in Helsinki on 8 March 1902, it was warmly received as a Finnish nationalist’s cri de cœur while his homeland struggled under Russia’s increasingly repressive yoke. Sibelius objected to such an interpretation of the Symphony, preferring that the work be regarded purely as a symphonic construct. Yet Sibelius’s Second seems to have had an ‘extra-musical’ narrative after all – only not the one of national aspiration long foisted on it. Sibelius’s first concrete idea to become at least part of the Symphony struck him while he was in Italy, with his family, between February and April 1901. While in Rapallo, Sibelius began to fancy that the villa they were staying in was Don Juan’s (the anti-hero he had first encountered through Mozart’s famous opera Don Giovanni). In his diary he wrote a scenario from the anti-hero’s perspective: ‘I was sitting in the dark in my castle when a stranger entered. I asked who he could be again and again – but there was no answer. I tried to make him laugh but he remained silent. At last, the stranger began to sing – then Don Juan knew who it was. It was death.’

Owain Arwel Hughes, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Herman D. Koppel: Moses Op. 76 (1996)

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Owain Arwel Hughes, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Herman D. Koppel: Moses Op. 76 (1996)

Owain Arwel Hughes, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra - Herman D. Koppel: Moses Op. 76 (1996)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 284 MB | 59:41
Genre: Classical | Label: Dacapo

When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940 Koppel, a Jew, immediately evacuated to Sweden. The post-War return to his native land coupled with the unfolding of the true nature and extent of the horrors perpetrated on the Jews and many other peoples drove Koppel back to the Old Testament. Three works, all from 1949, resulted: Three Psalms of David for tenor, choirs and orchestra and two song cycles - Five Biblical Songs and Four Love Songs from the Canticles of Solomon.

Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

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Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)

Vagn Holmboe: Concertos for Piano, Clarinet, and Oboe; Beatus Parvo (2004)
Gordon Hunt, oboe; Martin Fröst, clarinet; Noriko Ogawa, piano; Danish National Opera Choir
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 296 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 182 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1176 CD | Time: 01:18:06

Something of Vagn Holmboe's approach to writing concertos may be discerned in his numeration: they are not grouped according to the solo instrument (e.g., Piano Concerto No. 1), but counted merely as Concertos in the sequence of their composition, regardless of the featured instruments. This suggests that the soloist's role is somewhat altered: still central as a leading part, but frequently incorporated into the orchestral mass as a coloristic instrument among many others. The Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra, Op. 17 (1939), clearly demonstrates Holmboe's procedure, for the piano switches back and forth between lyrical solos and more emphatically rhythmic passages as a percussion instrument. Holmboe's Concerto No. 3 for clarinet and orchestra, Op. 21 (1940-1942), also presents interesting mixtures of the instrument's distinctive tone with other timbres, most strikingly with the brass section. The Concerto No. 7 for oboe and orchestra, Op. 37 (1944-1945), is most beguiling in the many chamber-like, concertino combinations of the oboe with other woodwinds. Pianist Noriko Ogawa, clarinetist Martin Frost, and oboist Gordon Hunt strike the right balance with conductor Owain Arwel Hughes and the Ålborg Symphony Orchestra, since all give prominence to the leading part where Holmboe indicates, but equal attention to the ever-shifting background textures.

Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)

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Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)

Noriko Ogawa, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes - Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 81:44 | 307 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BISCD975

Noriko Ogawa and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra return to the works of Rachmaninov with a disc featuring his first and fourth piano concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Rachmaninov’s first concerto was written while he was a student at the Moscow Concervatory, but underwent considerable revisions up to 1917. His fourth piano concerto was written after a considerable break from composition as he was kept busy as a touring performer in the USA. The unsuccessful first performance again led to considerable revisions.