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[Harry]

A few bargains

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[Sergeant Rock]

The postperson delivered another package this afternoon. (She's my favorite person in the entire world...don't tell Mrs. Rock!  )

I plan to collect all three discs of the Mandelring Brahms series. They couple each Brahms quartet with a quartet by one of his contemporaries, making this series unique and, I think, highly interesting.




More Brahms. Believe it or not, I didn't have a CD version of the G minor! I have a couple orchestrated versions but not one of the original. Rectified now:




I own the Lintu performance of the Third Symphony on Naxos (and am very satisfied with it) but I love this work and want to hear another interpretation. Along with the Shostakovich 15th, this is my favorite symphony written in the past 50 years.




Sampled this online and liked what I heard:




Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

More Brahms. Believe it or not, I didn't have a CD version of the G minor! I have a couple orchestrated versions but not one of the original. Rectified now:

That Schoenberg orchestration of op. 25 is exciting, but so is the original work, as you'll notice. And the op. 60 is dark and powerful. Both are among my favourite chamber works.

[rubio]

I found this OOP item at normal new CD-price:

[Drasko]

My libretto for Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias finally arrived, full month after placing the order at Met Opera Shop. Given the fact they mistyped both my street number and zip code good that it did arrive at all.

[ragman1970]

I own the Lintu performance of the Third Symphony on Naxos (and am very satisfied with it) but I love this work and want to hear another interpretation. Along with the Shostakovich 15th, this is my favorite symphony written in the past 50 years.

pls share you impression with us!

[Haffner]

I found this OOP item at normal new CD-price:

Hey!...good?

[rubio]

Hey!...good?

I listen to it within a week, and give some comments! I haven't heard many Zarathustras, though. The other ones I have are Reiner and Kempe.

[Haffner]

I listen to it within a week, and give some comments! I haven't heard many Zarathustras, though. The other ones I have are Reiner and Kempe.

I have the Reiner...good 'un! You have to get the Karajan, though.

[karlhenning]

That Schoenberg orchestration of op. 25 is exciting, but so is the original work, as you'll notice.

And of course, Schoenberg did not undertake the orchestration because he thought at all that the original needed improvement, but because he was fond of the piece and felt that it was not played enough.

[Brian]

I found this OOP item at normal new CD-price:

Awesome cover art!

[Brian]

Sampled this online and liked what I heard:



Sarge

I listened to the Penderecki Eighth recently and discovered a very eerie, mystical work. Here's what I wrote elsewhere on the forum about the CD:

I just listened to Penderecki's Eighth Symphony on Naxos. Don't know how many folks have heard this work, but it's a piece for mezzo, soprano, baritone, choir, and orchestra, and it's very ethereal, mystical. The way the piece ends is this: a triangle is struck, and then the choir begins to go up, and up, quietly, quietly, to the very top of their vocal range, as quietly as possible, and then abruptly stop - a mysterious ending to be sure! And right as they stopped singing, somebody in the next room flushed a toilet.

The effect was HILARIOUS.

[BorisG]

For Sinopoli enthusiasts, this is available. Details at DG website.

[Benji]

I own the Lintu performance of the Third Symphony on Naxos (and am very satisfied with it) but I love this work and want to hear another interpretation. Along with the Shostakovich 15th, this is my favorite symphony written in the past 50 years.



Sarge

Good choice - it's an excellent new performance. I think it is played better than the RSNO Naxos disc overall, though perhaps Lintu has observed the tempi directions more closely (There's definitely more Schnell in Lintu's Sehr Schnell  ), but they both feel right. The only minor criticism I have of Segerstam's account is of over-enthusiastic percussionists, which I find a bit distracting, but in fairness some of that might be attributed to my crappy bass-heavy speakers.

Let me know what you think

[Sergeant Rock]

pls share you impression with us!

Good choice - it's an excellent new performance....Let me know what you think

I will, in the Rautavaara thread, as soon as I have time to listen and compare the two. Maybe tomorrow.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I found this OOP item at normal new CD-price:

Excellent! It's my favorite Zarathustra. Someone mentioned the Reiner....Sinopoli couldn't be more different. That can either be a good, or a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. Me, I like interpretive extremes in my collection.

Sarge