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Part 10

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[Parsifal]

Milhaud Symphony No.5 op.322, Francis conducting the RSO Basel




Sarge

Your experience with the Milhaud symphonies has been good, or are wallowing in turgid hours of boredom? I've dug up my Milhaud cycle and am considering what to listen to first.

[San Antone]

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I like these Hat recordings.  Here's another one -



Oboe & Orchestra

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I like these Hat recordings.  Here's another one -



Oboe & Orchestra

Agreed.  I have several of those, but not that one.

[listener]

Wilhelm PETERSON-BERGER
Symphony no.4 "Halmia", Symphony no.5 "Solituda"
Violin Concerto in f# (three sharps in the key signature, as if in A, not as horrid a task for the performer as it appears)
The Flowers of Frösö Suite 1, Sleeping Beauty Suite
Norrköping S.O.   Michail Jurowski, cond.     Ulf Wallin,
a house-keeping first listen, bought long ago

[ritter]

Revisiting this CD:

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I've never been a friend of wagnerian "bleeding chunks", and even less so of their conversion into piano pieces. Somehow, Wagner's music (which is at the top of my personal musical canon), does not work for me when it becomes "abstract" and is robbed of its orchestration. But the Liszt pieces included here are simply wonderful, and very well played by Michele Campanella...

[North Star]

Revisiting this CD:

I've never been a friend of wagnerian "bleeding chunks", and even less so of their conversion into piano pieces. Somehow, Wagner's music (which is at the top of my private musical canon), does not work for me when it becomes "abstract" and is robbed of its orchestration. But the Liszt pieces included here are simply wonderful, and very well played by Michele Campanella...

Good evening, Rafael!
Campanella's Liszt on Brilliant, featuring Liszt's Bechstein, is a beauty.

Schoenberg
Piano Concerto
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Webern
Variations for piano, Op. 27 - I. Sehr mässig
Uchida
Cleveland Orchestra
Boulez
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[ritter]

Good evening, Rafael!
Campanella's Liszt on Brilliant, featuring Liszt's Bechstein, is a beauty.

Schoenberg
Piano Concerto
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Webern
Variations for piano, Op. 27 - I. Sehr mässig
Uchida
Cleveland Orchestra
Boulez
[asin]B000058BGZ[/asin]

Good evening, Karlo!

You mean this one?

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Indeed it is a beauty  ...there's some overlap of repertoire, but who cares? 

And that Uchida / Boulez CD you're listening to ain't half bad either....

[Spineur]

Revisiting this CD:
I've never been a friend of wagnerian "bleeding chunks", and even less so of their conversion into piano pieces. Somehow, Wagner's music (which is at the top of my personal musical canon), does not work for me when it becomes "abstract" and is robbed of its orchestration. But the Liszt pieces included here are simply wonderful, and very well played by Michele Campanella...

Wagner also wrote a number of piano pieces of his own.  I dont know all of them, but the Fantasy in F sharp minor WWV 20 is really beautiful and quite pianistic.

[North Star]

Good evening, Karlo!

You mean this one?

Indeed it is a beauty  ...there's some overlap of repertoire, but who cares? 

Yes, that's the one. And I imagine it would be very hard to have a decent selection of Liszt recordings without overlapping repertoire - and indeed hardly a thing to worry about.

And that Uchida / Boulez CD you're listening to ain't half bad either....

It sure isn't!

[ritter]

Wagner also wrote a number of piano pieces of his own.  I dont know all of them, but the Fantasy in F sharp minor WWV 20 is really beautiful and quite pianistic.

I'll have to revisit his piano music soon, and pay close(r) attention to that Fantasy. Thanks!

[Pat B]

It's a perpetually underrated orchestra. They had a great tradition with Steinberg and Previn too. The recent Honeck recordings are (in part thanks to the luxurious engineering) astonishing. I want to see that tandem live together in a season or two.

I have a bunch of their recordings with Steinberg (bought for the collaborations with Milstein) and was blown away by their precision of ensemble. Before Steinberg was Reiner; what I have from that partnership doesn't stand out in my memory as much but I should re-listen. I've heard a little of their more recent work, not enough to comment intelligently, but I hope to fix that soon.

TD: Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat (the early, un-numbered one). Eroica Quartet on HM.

[aligreto]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 [Ansermet]....


   

[aligreto]

Liszt: Fantaisie and Fugue on the chorale: Ad nos, ad salutarum undam....


   

[Todd]

[Kontrapunctus]

I'm listening for UPS to deliver my new turntable! In the meantime, this:

[Mahlerian]

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D, Symphony No. 3 in C
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, cond. Berglund
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[Turbot nouveaux]

Prokofiev
Piano Sonatas 1 - 4
Matti Raekallio [Ondine, 2011 but rec 1988 - 99]

I really don't know Prokofiev's piano sonatas, except for #6, but this seems a good introduction and came highly recommended. These seem powerful, incisive and exciting renditions of sonatas 1 - 4.

[TheGSMoeller]

Prokofiev
Piano Sonatas 1 - 4
Matti Raekallio [Ondine, 2011 but rec 1988 - 99]

I really don't know Prokofiev's piano sonatas, except for #6, but this seems a good introduction and came highly recommended. These seem powerful, incisive and exciting renditions of sonatas 1 - 4.

I think you'll find a lot of users here agree with that set from Raekallio. Good choice.

[Sergeant Rock]

Your experience with the Milhaud symphonies has been good, or are wallowing in turgid hours of boredom? I've dug up my Milhaud cycle and am considering what to listen to first.

I've heard the first five so far and my experience has been wholly positive.

Sarge