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[jlaurson]

Thanks, just pulled the trigger on this and the Schubert as well.

Few regrets, I reckon... but especially the Schubert I should be surprised if you didn't love on first hearing.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Few regrets, I reckon... but especially the Schubert I should be surprised if you didn't love on first hearing.

HAVE you heard the new set from 2011 ?

[jlaurson]

HAVE you heard the new set from 2011 ?

The Beethoven set on Challenge? No, I have not heard that. (There's no new Schubert w/him, is there?)

[PerfectWagnerite]

Yes the Beethoven, there are videos on youtube but i do not know whether thry are the same as the cds.
Anyway a bit pticey at thid point.

[ritter]

Finally a chance to listen to music composed by Giuseppe Sinopoli (other than the Lou Salomé suite, long available on DG):

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All of the other stuff in this 2-CD set is available in other perfromances conducted by Sinopoli...

This is my wishlist, and wll be accompanied in my next order by these two:

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[kishnevi]

Yes the Beethoven, there are videos on youtube but i do not know whether thry are the same as the cds.
Anyway a bit pticey at thid point.

I have the 2011 set (on Glossa, btw)
The first eight symphonies are excellently excellent.  The first three and a half movements of the Ninth, ditto.

Then the baritone and tenor soloists open their mouths, and the music goes crashing down in flames.

Imagine Michael Phelps on pace to set a world record, only to get leg cramps in the very last lap.

[king ubu]

tempted bigtime to pre-order the Munch box ...

[kishnevi]

Opinions sought.  My interest in organ music not by Bach is growing, sparked by the Reger set I am currently traversing.
Should I get one, both, neither?


I have little to nothing of Vierne, and Rheinberger's piano works.

[jlaurson]

Opinions sought.  My interest in organ music not by Bach is growing, sparked by the Reger set I am currently traversing.
Should I get one, both, neither?


I have little to nothing of Vierne, and Rheinberger's piano works.

I love Rheinberger, to the point where I made that set of organ works one of my Top choices of 2014 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2014/12/22/best_of_2014_classical_reissues/2/#525b70f51932).
"...Innig isn't a flashy player and neither is Rheinberger a flashy composer. It's more like a mellow Max Reger kind of organ music, but most of the time a little less forbidding..."
But if you are at the beginning of your Rheinberger appreciation, I'd get a disc with the Organ Concertos or Suites for Organ, Violin & Cello, or Organ & Violin, which are super juicy romantic organ-writing, indeed.

[Florestan]

Suites for Organ, Violin & Cello

Wholeheartedly seconded. Splendid music, excellent performance.

This set is also mandatory for Rheinberger



One of my best discoveries this year.

[Madiel]

Anyone know this or the separate albums it brings together?

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Rattle seems to get stronger reviews for Szymanowski than for just about anything else.

[North Star]

Anyone know this or the separate albums it brings together?

Rattle seems to get stronger reviews for Szymanowski than for just about anything else.

Yes. I don't have much to compare it with, but I think very well indeed of all the recordings. The King Roger with Kaspszyk I recall to be even better, but the Rattle Roger is very good, too.

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[Drasko]

[arpeggio]

This is one thread I am going to have to pass on.  There are currently 208 albums on my wish list at ArkiveMusic.  It would be impracticable for me to submit a post on every one of them.

[North Star]

This is one thread I am going to have to pass on.  There are currently 208 albums on my wish list at ArkiveMusic.  It would be impracticable for me to submit a post on every one of them.

The idea is hardly to post all of them at once.   

[Artem]

Anyone know this or the separate albums it brings together?

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Rattle seems to get stronger reviews for Szymanowski than for just about anything else.

I assume you are familiar with the works of Szymanowski in general. I have one disk with 2 violin concertos and the 4th Symphony. I think the sound and the playing is fine, although I have nothing to compare it with.

[Madiel]

I assume you are familiar with the works of Szymanowski in general.

"Familiar" would be putting it too highly. I've just finished a listen to all the works I could find online (solo songs are a bit thin on the ground, often had to just use a preview of 30 seconds).  I own 1.5 albums.

[Jo498]

I am in no way an expert (and have not heard any of the Rattle) but I seem to recall that people more familiar with Szymanowski deplored to some extent that that because Rattle is a "big name" these recordings are far better known than some supposedly preferable ones (often by Polish musicians, e.g. the Wit on Naxos). There is also a somewhat older EMI/warner Szymanowski twofer with Polish musicians.

[jlaurson]

Anyone know this or the separate albums it brings together?



Rattle seems to get stronger reviews for Szymanowski than for just about anything else.

I am in no way an expert (and have not heard any of the Rattle) but I seem to recall that people more familiar with Szymanowski deplored to some extent that that because Rattle is a "big name" these recordings are far better known than some supposedly preferable ones (often by Polish musicians, e.g. the Wit on Naxos). There is also a somewhat older EMI/warner Szymanowski twofer with Polish musicians.

Symphonies 1 & 3, Hafiz Songs	Violin Concertos 1 & 2

These are two of my favorite Szymanowski discs...
I've written about the Gardner her: Best Recordings of 2015 (#2)
and a live performance of both VCs by Zimmermann here: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/03/ionarts-at-large-zimmermann-brso-do.html

[king ubu]

Easily endorse the Zimmermann disc ... not far with the symphonies at all yet, though - just picked up the LSO Live/Gergiev Nos. 1 & 2 disc from the bins and guess I'll add the other one with Nos. 3 & 4 and then go from there (if I feel further need).

Just in case, Boulez has done No. 3 (it's in his DG 20c cube) - no idea if that's a good (revered) performance or what.