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[listener]

quite wet today, so I'll stay in and listen to:
STANFORD: Irish Symphony
Bournemouth Sinfonietta /Norman Del Mar   (cielo!)
organ music by GRUNENWALD  Hymne aux Mémoires Héroïques, Diptyque Liturgique
LANGLAIS Pasticcio, 3 Poèmes Évangéliques
David Britton,    organ of the First Presbyterian Church, Trenton, NJ  (Turner 1974)
BRAHMS  Songs for Womens Chorus, harp and 2 horns op. 17
SCHUBERT: Nachthelle  D.892    Ständchen D.921
CHARPENTIER: La Pest de Milan
Musica Æterna Chamber Orch. and Chorus / Frederick Waldman, cond.
no texts, so I could not recommend it unless you had good knowledge of German and French or were really interested in the works.

[classicalgeek]

Saw some Stravinsky in the Purchased... thread, been months since I've hung out with him, piling up my favorites...



...L'Histoire du Soldat - Suite: Boulez...Concerto in E flat "Dumbarton Oaks": Dutoit...and Symphony of Psalms and Symphony in C: Tilson Thomas

The Boulez and Dutoit are excellent choices - particularly the latter (I'm not familiar with the MTT recording.)  Apollon contains some really beautiful music!

[TheGSMoeller]

I don't really dig the MTT Stravinsky symphony recording. There are better performances elsewhere like for example:

Symphony In C: Robert Craft's performance is the best one I've heard
Symphony In Three Movements: Boulez makes a strong case for the work as does Stravinsky's own performance
Symhony of Psalms: Love Stravinsky's own recording, Boulez's recording, and the recording on Hyperion (the conductor's name slips my mind at the moment)

I may have to check them out, the MTT is the only recording of these pieces I've owned, always been pleased with them, but I have heard good things about Craft's Stravinsky.

The Boulez and Dutoit are excellent choices - particularly the latter (I'm not familiar with the MTT recording.)  Apollon contains some really beautiful music!

I don't endorse too much of Dutoit's recordings, but this is one I couldn't be without, such clean and pleasant performances. And I stand by Boulez in anything he conducts.

[Mirror Image]

I may have to check them out, the MTT is the only recording of these pieces I've owned, always been pleased with them, but I have heard good things about Craft's Stravinsky.

Most of Craft's Stravinsky recordings can be bought in a box set now, but there are 4-5 more recordings that are outside of this set that are worth obtaining as well.

[Conor71]

Quote from: Conor71 on March 22, 2012, 05:07:41 PM>Brahms: Serenade No. 1 In D Major, Op. 11


Re-listening to this one again - I want to get to know this music

[classicalgeek]

Quote from: Conor71 on March 22, 2012, 05:07:41 PM>Brahms: Serenade No. 1 In D Major, Op. 11


Re-listening to this one again - I want to get to know this music

Enjoy!  They're wonderful works, too little-known, relatively speaking.  I'm not acquainted with the Tilson Thomas, but Mackerras' recording is true 'desert island' material for me:
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[Lisztianwagner]

Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony

[Lethevich]

Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony

!!!

[Lisztianwagner]

!!!

I absolutely love the Playful Pizzicato, beautiful!

[Papy Oli]

Finishing a first run through this set with :

Stenhammar - Piano concerto No.2 in D Minor Op.23
Paavo Jarvi - Goteborg SO / Cristina Ortiz (piano)

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[madaboutmahler]

As I type now....
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Symphony no.1

Great symphony!

[Papy Oli]

Nice view on the marshes and the estuary of Snape from that seat (on the path at the bottom of the first picture)



Not a bad place to spend a concert interval on a summer evening before heading back into the concert hall behind him 

[Lisztianwagner]

Nice view on the marshes and the estuary of Snape from that seat (on the path at the bottom of the first picture)



Not a bad place to spend a concert interval on a summer evening before heading back into the concert hall behind him 

Haha, definitely, lovely landscape!

[marvinbrown]

 

  I have embarked on my Haydn string quartet journey with the Angeles set. Currently listening to CD1 and CD2 (the early string quartets) and I must say that I am impressed. The delightful sweetness in tone that I heard whilst sampling this set prior to purchasing it is there in spades! There is a wonderful consistency in the recorded sound. Not once did I ever fatigue or "zone out" or tire of boredom. Pure delight:

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  marvin

[Sergeant Rock]

Havergal Brian Symphony #17




Sarge

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As I type now....
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Symphony no.1

Great symphony!

You have to time to listen to this junk but you can't make time for Tippett? Oh how I'm about to throw a Tippetian harpoon in your direction.

[classicalgeek]

As I type now....
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Symphony no.1

Great symphony!

Agreed!  One of the great twentieth-century symphonies, in my opinion.

Speaking of Walton, the Piano Quartet from here:
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Lovely slow movement!

Followed by Boccherini's Cello Concerto in D (no. 7) from the Bylsma box:

[Lethevich]

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Now:



Truly a passionate performance from Gardiner and the LSO. Gardiner has served Boulanger's music well. Absolutely gorgeous.

[Antoine Marchand]

Sonatas from the Dresden Pisendel Collection (Torelli, Handel, Bach, Porpora, Brescianello)
Batzdorfer Hofkapelle

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Now playing Handel's Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV 386a. I have always liked very much this music, so much that frequently I have suspected it's wrongly attributed to Handel. I mean I don't see here any of his usual features, typical of his production later in his life. It's like he had been another composer when he wrote this and other instrumental music.