Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, Yakov Kreizberg – Dvorak & Tchaikovsky (2003)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 66:55 minutes | Front + PDF Booklet | 3,55 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Front + PDF Booklet | 1,59 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Front + PDF Booklet | 1,33 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Pentatone # PTC 518 6019
Yakov Kreizberg leads the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra on this exciting live recording of Dvořák’s classic Symphony No. 9 “New World” paired with another eternal favourite, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture. Both of these energetic performances were recorded in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw in 2003 in what has been praised by critics as stunning audiophile sound quality.
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Julia Fischer, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Yakov Kreizberg – Mozart: The Violin Concertos (2019/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:14:03 minutes | 3,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
“All of these Mozart recordings featuring the remarkable young violinist Julia Fischer have been favorably reviewed on this site and elsewhere. Now Pentatone is issuing them in this boxed set that also includes a DVD of excerpts from recording sessions for Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Sinfonia Concertante. a delight to watch and it also gives us the opportunity to observe Yakov Kreizberg, who died of cancer recently at the age of 51, the estranged brother of Smyon Bychkov. Kreizberg made a number of recordings for Pentatone, and he will be missed. The set’s booklet is a part of the packaging making it rather difficult to use. It is a pleasure to watch the graceful young violinist at work you also can see her in a remarkable concert on DVD in which she gives sterling performances of Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto and the Grieg Piano Concerto, a remarkable display of double virtuosity (REVIEW). If you don’t already have Fischer’s Mozart recordings, here’s your opportunity to acquire them at about half of the price of original issues.” (classicalcdreview.com)
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Julia Fischer, Gordan Nikolić, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg – Mozart: Works for Violins and Orchestra (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:33 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
German violinist Julia Fischer, 24 years old when this recording was released, is surely a bright new star, all charisma as her diminutive self stands between conductor and collaborator Yakov Kreizberg and violist Gordan Nikolic on the cover of this disc. She has a steely technique that she brings to Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K. 364 — not a steely work, but the musicianship here is superb. Fischer and Nikolic make an attractive pair in the work, her razor-sharp tone set against his gutsier sound production, all the contrasts held together by Kreizberg’s brisk tempos and no-nonsense forward drive. There are recordings of the Sinfonia Concertante that play more directly to sentiment, but the work’s intricate architecture breathes in this interpretation. An additional bonus is the inclusion of the rarely heard Concertone in C major for two violins and orchestra, K. 190, a work that also has solo oboe and cello parts and seems to hang in the balance between the concerto and sinfonia concerante (multiple-soloist) genres. The performers bring a nice lilting quality to the first two movements, rather sprawling creations of the young Mozart that demand really compelling soloists of the sort on display here. The only complaint is over-resonant sound, the result of PentaTone’s decision to record in a Haarlem church — the wrong place for music intended for a medium-sized, crowded, well-upholstered room. It destroys the intimate scale of the performance and causes the soloists and the harpsichord continuo of the Concertone, especially, to sound a bit like they are swimming in a watery chamber. The clarity of Fischer’s playing, however, is not compromised, and it’s a real wonder. She has also recorded two of Mozart’s solo violin concertos with the same forces, but this disc in a way suggests even greater talents. –James Manheim, AllMusic
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Julia Fischer, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg – Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:41 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
It takes a lot of guts to write your own cadenzas. After all, most of the concertos in the standard repertoire already have their standard cadenzas, usually supplied by either the composer or some exceedingly well-known soloist, and the chance of any current soloist touching the same celestial heights is doubtful at best. Nevertheless, on this disc of Mozart’s Third and Fourth violin concertos coupled with his Adagio K. 261 and Rondo K. 269 for violin and orchestra, Julia Fischer not only writes most of her own cadenzas, she touches the same celestial heights as the greatest masters of the bow. Fischer has a pure tone, an impeccable intonation, and an immaculate technique, but she also has a warm heart and a radiant soul, and her performances of Mozart’s concertos are as clear and luminous as the music. Beyond that, Fischer has the rare talent of writing cadenzas that partake of the substance of the music but transfuse it with the joy of Fischer’s soul, and the result not only touches the heart, it touches the infinite. Yakov Kreizberg leads the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in stylishly polished performances and provides the cadenza for the central Adagio of the Third concerto, but this is Fischer’s show and she proves herself a star. PentaTone’s 2005 sound is warm, deep, and full. –James Leonard
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Julia Fischer, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg – Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 5 (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:48 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Julia Fischer is joined by Yakov Kreizberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, as the musicians explore three Mozart concertos for violin and orchestra. The program includes Mozart’s joyous first two concertos and his complex fifth. This highly anticipated work follows the pair’s successful recording of Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 3 and 4. Fischer delivers a radiant performance filled with lyricism and refined charm, while Kreizberg commands the well-balanced orchestra with vibrant spontaneity.
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Julia Fischer, Russian National Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg – Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Glazunov: Russian Violin Concertos (2004)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:22 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
“A very generously filled CD with three appealing Russian violin concertos played by this month’s ’One to watch’, Julia Fischer. [The RNO] under Yakov Kreizberg accompany superbly and if, as the booklet implies, this CD was made in two days then the concentration level must have been immense!” –James Jolly, The Gramohone
“Julia Fischer stands out. What’s most impressive on this disc is [Julia Fischer’s] revitalization of the Khatchaturian Violin Concerto… Fischer makes it sound fresh again. In part, the bloom results from her burnished tone (sensuous but firmly focused) and her confident technique (note the rhythmic definition of her opening gestures); simply as virtuoso display, this is a charismatic performance. But there’s a lot more than surface appeal. Because of her unwavering concentration, she manages…to make each detail, each swing in mood, register clearly, and because of her unflagging sense of shape, she makes sure that each element contributes to a lucid unfolding of the overall structure…. a nobility unmatched by any other recording I know…urgently recommended.” –Peter J. Rabonowitz, International Record Review
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Julia Fischer, Daniel Müller-Schott, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam, Yakov Kreizberg – Brahms: Violin Concerto; Double Concerto (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:55 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone
Is violinist Julia Fischer in the same league as David Oistrakh in her recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto? Are Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in the same league as Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich in their recording of Brahms’ Double Concerto? No: Oistrakh and Rostropovich are playing big, muscular, and heroic music while Fischer and Müller-Schott are playing intimate, sensuous, and lyrical music. Fischer’s tone is lovely, her technique is impeccable, but best of all his interpretation of the Violin Concerto is sweet, smiling, and joy-filled. Müller-Schott’s tone is warm, his technique is impressive, but best of all his interpretation of the Double Concerto with Fischer sounds like a love duet from an Othello written by a German. Together with the lush and enveloping accompaniment of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam led by Yakov Kreizberg, Fischer and Müller-Schott turn in performances that aren’t in the same league as Oistrakh and Rostropovich — they’re in a wonderfully seductive league of their own. PentaTone’s super audio digital sound is rich, full, deep, and just about real. –James Leonard, AllMusic
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Wiener Symphoniker, Yakov Kreizberg – STRAUSS: Waltzes (2006)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:22 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
Yakov Kreizberg and the Wiener Symphoniker recorded this collection of Strauss waltzes in June 2004; the album has been highly widely-praised for Kreizberg’s interpretations as well as its sonic qualities, described as “dreamy” by Audiophile Audition.
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Wiener Symphoniker, Yakov Kreizberg – Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major (2005)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:52 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PentaTone
A performance of Anton Bruckner’s best known symphony under the baton of Yakov Kreizberg, recorded in 2004 at the suberb sounding Vienna Konzerthaus. This was Kreizberg’s first recording with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and garnered two Grammy nominations in 2005 including Best Orchestral Performance.
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Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Yakov Kreizberg – Wagner: Overtures/Preludes (2004)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.0 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Digital Booklet | 4.06 GB
FLAC 2.0 24bit/88.2 kHz | Digital Booklet | 1.33 GB
“I do not know precisely what is my destination: however, I do know that 1 evening, after for the 1st time hearing a symphony by Beethoven, I became feverish & ill. As soon as I recovered, I became a musician.” Thus Richard Wagner described the enormous impression that Beethoven’s music had made on him in his novelette Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven (a pilgrimage to Beethoven). Although it is difficult to separate fact & fiction in this novelette, Beethoven’s music did indeed exert a major influence on the life of the young composer. Wagner was 17 years old when he 1st heard Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, a work which was to play a central role during his entire life, & which he was, for instance, to conduct in 1846 at the opening of the Festival Theatre in Bayreuth. (more…)
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