(ClassicalPlanet) Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky 8CDs (EAC-Ape-Cue)

Karajan Conducts Tchaikovsky 8CDs Exact Audio Copy | APE (image + cue), English Booklet (HQ Scans) Deutsche Grammophon, Release: 2000 Dim. 2.67 Gb Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, seven symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky's education prepared him for a career as a civil servant, despite the musical precocity he had demonstrated. Against the wishes of his family he chose to pursue a musical career, and in 1862 entered the St Petersburg Conservatory, graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart, musically, from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the group of young Russian composers known as "The Five", with whom Tchaikovsky sustained a mixed professional relationship throughout his career. As his style developed, Tchaikovsky wrote music across a range of genres, including symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song. Although he enjoyed many popular successes, he was never emotionally secure, and his life was punctuated by personal crises and periods of depression. Contributory factors were his suppressed homosexuality and fear of exposure, his disastrous marriage, and the sudden collapse of the one enduring relationship of his adult life, his 13-year association with the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck. Amid private turmoil Tchaikovsky's public reputation grew; he was honored by the Tsar, awarded a lifetime pension and lauded in the concert halls of the world. His sudden death at the age of 53 is generally ascribed to cholera, but some attribute it to suicide. Although enduringly popular with concert audiences across the world, Tchaikovsky has at times been judged harshly by critics, musicians and composers. However, his reputation as a significant composer is now generally regarded as secure. In the early and mid-20th century, Western critics dismissed his music as vulgar and lacking in elevated thought, but this disdain has largely dissipated. Enjoy and Seed!!

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scoobydoo2u2 (2009-10-10)

Wow, Thanks for this upload. I actually have the whole set but it's great as a backup.
However, next time could you rip CDs as ordinary FLAC instead of APE. APE is a pain in the behind as I don't burn onto CD but play it directly from my hard drive and the only thing on Windows that plays APE is MPC, and MPC is not really a music player but more for Home Cinema. With normal FLAC I can play back on anything.
Anyway, Cheers and Thanks again.

tabuubat (2009-10-11)

@scoobydoo2u2
use foobar2000 or songbird 1.2.0 to play ape

scoobydoo2u2 (2009-10-12)

@taboobat
Thanks very much for your help. I used foobar many years ago but abandoned it for winamp. Now I'm getting reacquainted with foobar again. Best of all, foobar can convert all my APE files back into standard FLAC. Yeah!
Thanks and Cheers mate.

penfold_3946 (2010-01-09)

Took me 10 minutes to figure how to convert it to FLAC installing couple codecs to my dBpoweramp converter then using batch converter converted all tracks, Until this point I never knew APE codec and still non wiser why it was chosen,

ack0pb (2010-02-08)

FACTS ABOUT APE (Monkey's Audio):
* Better compression than FLAC
* Plays with Winamp and many other players
* Older and more mature than FLAC
Those who gripe should learn, first!
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

silgt (2010-03-17)

Foobar2000 don't work...Monkey's Audio won't work...help???

dezzert (2010-04-05)

I use Songbird and it plays ape with no problems.
Thanks a lot for the great upload

dezzert (2010-04-06)

I wonder though, why do you have to put all the movements into one single file? I've noticed that a lot of people are doing this. I'm I missing something here?

simpyalex (2010-06-06)

Spasibo!

russell1nash (2010-08-29)

thanx!

Forfai (2011-10-06)

It plays with VLC, great. Thanks!

spen007 (2012-12-04)

Thank you!