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[North Star]

That does look good: trigger pulled! : )

I don't think you'll be disappointed, all of the pieces are great, and Gibbons, while maybe not a super-virtuoso like Hamelin, might be the better interpreter. Not that there's anything wrong with Hamelin either, his recording of the sonatas and Le festin d'Ésope is wonderful.

[classicalgeek]

I don't think you'll be disappointed, all of the pieces are great, and Gibbons, while maybe not a super-virtuoso like Hamelin, might be the better interpreter. Not that there's anything wrong with Hamelin either, his recording of the sonatas and Le festin d'Ésope is wonderful.

Agreed - I'm glad to have both Gibbons and Hamelin!  I've been less impressed by Stephanie McCallum on ABC Classics, though...

Thread duty: Up now, Holmboe's Symphony no. 1.  Great stuff.  Hard to classify Holmboe's style, but I know I really like it
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Previously, the Ebony Concerto from the Stravinsky box:
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During which my headphones (Sennheiser HD485s, ca. 2007) died  .  Well, just the right side, actually, but I prefer not to listen 'one-eared'.  I fiddled around and couldn't revive them, so it's time for a replacement - listening with the earbuds now .  Off to the Headphones thread for recommendations: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,1482.  Two caveats for said 'cans': 1) They should cost around US$60 or less and 2) They should work with an iPod.

[sheffmark]

Due to the recommendations of you fantastic forum members,i went out and bought Mahler's Symphony#4 & Symphony#5.
I've listened to each three times now i have to say i'm smitten! They are so beautiful!!
Or i could say i'm madaboutmahler!!
Now i understand!!

[Sadko]

Now listening to some Glinka...piano music. To my surprise, I really enjoyed this series (3 discs)...

Yes, I like this one too (I guess the "Manchester" edition is the same recording).

EDIT: Ah, no, mine is a single disk:



... I started listening to it: Really nice how enjoyable the pianist plays these little pieces.

[Mirror Image]

Due to the recommendations of you fantastic forum members,i went out and bought Mahler's Symphony#4 & Symphony#5.
I've listened to each three times now i have to say i'm smitten! They are so beautiful!!
Or i could say i'm madaboutmahler!!
Now i understand!!

Which recordings did you buy of these symphonies?

[Mirror Image]

Listening to this one again:

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An excellent performance of The Rose Lake and Ritual Dances.

[sheffmark]

Which recordings did you buy of these symphonies?

Hi!
As far as i can decipher on the CD,

Symphony#4 in G major, composer Antoni Wit and orchestra is the Polish National Symphony Orchestra.
Symphony#5 in C sharp minor, composer Sir Charles Mackenzie and orchestra is the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hope that helps!

[Lethevich]

Coronation Cantata, Commemorative Cantata

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[J.Z. Herrenberg]

This performance can hold its own next to Thomson and Handley. Just saying...

[Lethevich]

This performance can hold its own next to Thomson and Handley. Just saying...

I prefer this one to Thomson as a personal choice, but feel T. to be the most cherishable of any of the recordings for its distinctive take on the music - it makes the rest almost sound samey I would love to hear a conductor go all-out Shostakovich on Bax sometime, and throw it around, abuse the tempo markings, etc. The 1st might even respond well to it. The 7th would fall apart so impressively I would have to hear it.

[Mirror Image]

Hi!
As far as i can decipher on the CD,

Symphony#4 in G major, composer Antoni Wit and orchestra is the Polish National Symphony Orchestra.
Symphony#5 in C sharp minor, composer Sir Charles Mackenzie and orchestra is the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hope that helps!

Yes, thank you, but Antoni Wit and Charles Mackerras are conductors not composers .

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Quote from: Lethevich on Today at 01:36:39

I prefer this one to Thomson as a personal choice, but feel T. to be the most cherishable of any of the recordings for its distinctive take on the music - it makes the rest almost sound samey I would love to hear a conductor go all-out Shostakovich on Bax sometime, and throw it around, abuse the tempo markings, etc. The 1st might even respond well to it. The 7th would fall apart so impressively I would have to hear it.



I was sold when I heard the opening of the Sixth, in Thomson's performance, on the BBC World Service in the 80s (The Gramophone's Edward Greenfield presented a programme called Classical Record review, iirc). When I was in London in August 1986 I bought the cassette at Tower Records, Piccadilly. I don't think there is much to choose between the three performances, they all have their strengths and what weaknesses they have has more to do with Bax than with them. The final climax in the last movement, described once as the climax of all of Bax's symphonies, always sounds a bit underwhelming to me. Bax isn't a killer like Brian, though he comes very close in Symphonies 1 and 2...

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Now:

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Ooo...I like this...really fantastic. Listening to Jeux now. Maazel is in rare form here. I've never been too fond of his conducting, but this is really good so far.

[kishnevi]

This performance can hold its own next to Thomson and Handley. Just saying...

There, I disrespected Bax and seem to have touched off a mini-craze for him here.

Wondering if you've ever heard the Bostock performance from the Membran box I was not sold on yesterday  (Bostock, Munich Symphony).

Thread duty:  definitely not Bax.

Vivaldi: La Cetra, op. 9  Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood, Simon Standage solo violin. 
From the Vivaldi AAM/Hogwood box, which landed today.  These were the recordings that were originally on L'Oiseau-Lyre.

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There, I disrespected Bax and seem to have touched off a mini-craze for him here.

Wondering if you've ever heard the Bostock performance from the Membran box I was not sold on yesterday  (Bostock, Munich Symphony).

Thread duty:  definitely not Bax.

No worries, Jeffrey. I'm not a fan of Bax. As I said, I like his chamber music. That's about it. Nothing really remotely interesting about his music for me.

[Todd]

Hard to think of a more devoted Enescu conductor than Lawrence Foster.  A most excellent if imperfect set.  (This is not the BPO, nor will it be confused for the BPO.)

Good stuff, though.  Very good stuff.

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Now:

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Listening to The Rose Lake for the third time today, but this time with Davis at the helm in the world premiere recording. Davis does an excellent job, but there are aspects of Hickox's performance that I like more like, for example, the gorgeous movement The Lake Song leaves the sky was handled rather passionately by Hickox whereas with Davis its kind of subdued. Hickox put more emphasis on that ostinato in the beginning of the movement that builds up to a crescendo. To those that know the work and know the particular movement I'm speaking of, am I making any sense? Anyway, Davis' performance is still all you could ask for really. I will say that both recordings of The Rose Lake have attractive couplings: the Hickox has Ritual Dances while Davis' has The Vision of St. Augustine which is another Tippett gem.

[Conor71]

Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit


Wonderful piece! - this set is full of great music and performances

[Conor71]

Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 In B Minor, Op. 58, B 155


Continuing to listen to the wonderful Argerich box-set - Have listened to Discs 1, 3 and 5 and now playing Disc 2 which is all music by Chopin

[fridden]

Saturday morning here, and it looks like a beautiful spring day.
So I did a first listen to an album I have had for some time, but somehow it got lost among all others.

Bernstein with the London Symphony Orchestra in Rite of Spring.

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