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#115580
May 28, 2018, 08:32:21 AM
Nielsen
Prelude, Theme, and Variation, Op. 48
Tue Lautrup, violin

Que

#115581
May 28, 2018, 08:50:00 AM
Quote from: Mandryka on May 28, 2018, 02:50:42 AM


Tomadin Lubeck Ich ruff zu dir . . . Hmmm, all I could think of is that the music sounds a lot more interesting if the temperature is unequal.

Lübeck on that fob off reconstructed generic sounding "German Baroque" organ by Francesco Zanin?

No thanks...  ::) High time Brilliant stops using it...

Q

Harry

#115582
May 28, 2018, 08:55:25 AM
Quote from: Que on May 28, 2018, 08:50:00 AM
Lübeck on that fob off reconstructed generic sounding "German Baroque" organ by Francesco Zanin?

No thanks...  ::) High time Brilliant stops using it...

Q

O, dear it so happens I find this to be a brilliant organ, and a fine sounding instrument. Zanin is a great master, and I sincerely hope, nay I know that Brilliant will use this organ many a time to come.
The Lubeck has yet to arrive, but the samples sounded wonderful
I am shocked Que! :) I row against the stream it seems, but then my knowledge of organs is very limited.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Mandryka

#115583
May 28, 2018, 09:23:26 AM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 09:25:51 AM by Mandryka
Quote from: Pjotr on May 28, 2018, 08:55:25 AM
but then my knowledge of organs is very limited.

Passive aggressive.


Anyway, it was the temperament which made me react, partly because I'd been recently listening to Martin Böcker play it and I thought it sounded much more tangy.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Maestro267

#115584
May 28, 2018, 10:24:01 AM
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis
Watson (soprano), Jones (contralto), Hill (tenor), Maxwell (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus
London SO/Rozhdestvensky

Que

#115585
May 28, 2018, 10:51:56 AM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 10:53:41 AM by Que
Quote from: Pjotr on May 28, 2018, 08:55:25 AM
O, dear it so happens I find this to be a brilliant organ, and a fine sounding instrument. Zanin is a great master, and I sincerely hope, nay I know that Brilliant will use this organ many a time to come.
The Lubeck has yet to arrive, but the samples sounded wonderful
I am shocked Que! :) I row against the stream it seems, but then my knowledge of organs is very limited.

The organ definitely sounds good, though rather generic and lacking in individual  character.
If the aim was to build an organ that sounds has a bit of everything in Gernan organs, Zanin succeeded.

And I guess I'm getting a bit tired of hearing it in almost every other German Baroque recording on Brilliant...  :P

Q

prémont

#115586
May 28, 2018, 11:06:17 AM
Quote from: Mandryka on May 28, 2018, 02:50:42 AM



The great organ works on this release are not played on a Zanin organ - but on the van Hagerbeer/F.C. Schnitger organ in Alkmaar. This is a historical organ, but ironically tuned in equal temperature by F.C Schnitger around 1723/25. So Mandryka is right. However this organ is so unique, that every recording made on it is interesting.
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

SymphonicAddict

#115587
May 28, 2018, 11:12:12 AM
Quote from: Christo on May 28, 2018, 12:05:28 AM
Both the Suite Op. 25 and Sinfonia Op. 28 - one of those 1928 Schubert Centenary competitors (others were Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, Ludvig Irgens-Jensen's Passacaglia and Franz Schmidt's Third) that could have won the prize, hadn't it been awarded to Kurt Atterberg's 'Dollar' Symphony - are fine.


Interesting. I don't know his music, so I ask: how is his style?

ritter

#115589
May 28, 2018, 11:19:42 AM
Quote from: Draško on May 28, 2018, 11:14:28 AM

Are you liking that disc, Draško? I remember enjoying it a lot when I purchased it, but haven't revisited it since. Pity about the IIRC sub-par sound (even for its vintage) of the Metamorphosen...

Mirror Image

#115590
May 28, 2018, 11:55:14 AM
This entire disc:

Draško

#115591
May 28, 2018, 12:11:12 PM
Quote from: ritter on May 28, 2018, 11:19:42 AM
Are you liking that disc, Draško? I remember enjoying it a lot when I purchased it, but haven't revisited it since. Pity about the IIRC sub-par sound (even for its vintage) of the Metamorphosen...

I like it a lot. Yes, Metamorphosen do sound a bit wiry and tubby, it is an early 50s radio broadcast, but it's a fine performance and I'll take Krauss' Metamorphosen over a many other in better sound. Don't know why D&T wasn't included in Krauss' Strauss box, it is a few years earlier than the rest, and with the LPO, but it is Decca studio recording, as the rest. Wagner bits are excellent as well; flowing and smooth yet lyrical and intense, typical Krauss. D&T and Wagner sound very good for their day and age (late 40s studio recordings). One of my favorite conductors. Shame his discography is so scattershot and random.

Que

#115592
May 28, 2018, 12:21:39 PM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 01:50:39 PM by Que
Quote from: (: premont :) on May 28, 2018, 11:06:17 AM

The great organ works on this release are not played on a Zanin organ - but on the van Hagerbeer/F.C. Schnitger organ in Alkmaar. This is a historical organ, but ironically tuned in equal temperature by F.C Schnitger around 1723/25. So Mandryka is right. However this organ is so unique, that every recording made on it is interesting.

I didn't properly check the fine print... Alkmaar (for disc 1) sounds good! :) (I've heard it live)

Q

Mirror Image

#115593
May 28, 2018, 01:44:39 PM
Malipiero
Symphony No. 6, 'Degli archi'
Andrea Vitello
Orchestra Nazionale Artes

Mirror Image

#115594
May 28, 2018, 02:23:23 PM
Rubbra
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 63
Hickox
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Moonfish

#115595
May 28, 2018, 03:17:33 PM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 10:17:32 PM by Moonfish
Operatic Recital                   Suzanne Danco

Charpentier; Verdi; Massenet; Bizet; Gluck; Purcell; Debussy; R. Strauss; Schubert


"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Mirror Image

#115596
May 28, 2018, 04:22:18 PM
It's difficult to listen to just one Rubbra symphony without feeling the urge to hear them all...

Rubbra
Symphony No. 6, Op. 80
Hickox
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Mahlerian

#115597
May 28, 2018, 04:32:23 PM
Takemitsu: Voyage for three biwas
Kinshi Tsuruta (x3)
[asin]B000066I9B[/asin]
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Mirror Image

#115598
May 28, 2018, 04:41:33 PM Last Edit: May 28, 2018, 05:03:00 PM by Mirror Image
Since it's Memorial Day here in the States...

Copland
Appalachian Spring (original version for 13-instruments)
Wolff
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

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