What are you listening to now?

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Diamond: Symphony No. 6

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After getting over the initial shock of this somewhat angry and acerbic symphony, so different from the beloved Symphonies 1-4, I think I'm getting a better handle on this music.  The performance is excellent, the recording clear, but a bit dry.

You're doing better than I am with this symphony.

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I wouldn't normally give out a weather report here;but it was a bit different,and the noise really was quite startling! Thanks for the weather,by the way!!   Not that I'm complaining. It's always quieter here when the weather's bad! I would say,bring it on;but you've got to be careful,these days. It was only the other week I was watching the old British sci-fi movie,The Day the Earth Caught Fire. Rather good,actually. I'd put it on one side,because I thought it would be boring (no aliens or giant insects!).

VW's Oboe concerto. I've actually never heard this before. This cd set arrived today. I haven't heard some of these recordings before. I'm quite excited at the prospect of hearing Barbirolli's Sinfonia Antartica,being a fan of the symphony. It's also nice to be listening to a composer I don't need to defend!!

I've always liked the Tuba Concerto, especially the central movement. James Day, in his biography of the composer, is quite snooty about the work ('the jokes fall flat') but that is not my view at all. That double album is very nice. I think that Boult's more objective way with Vaughan Williams works better in 'Antartica' (Decca) but I think that Barbirolli's somewhat warmer way with VW is appealing as well.

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JC Bach: Salve Regina [sung by Emma Kirkby]

[Biffo]

Ina Boyle: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Benjamin Baker (violin) with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - beautiful work, especially the first movement

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Strozzi: Lamento: Su'l Rodano Severo [sung by Judith Nelson]

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Ina Boyle: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Benjamin Baker (violin) with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - beautiful work, especially the first movement

Yes, that's a lovely CD.

[Biffo]

Rubbra: Sinfonia Concertante, Op 38 - Edmund Rubbra (piano) with the CBSO conducted by Hugo Rignold - live performance broadcast by the BBC. The booklet note says the work 'lacks the crowd-pleasingly virtuosic piano part' to be considered a concerto. Sounds like a concerto to me and a fine one at that.

[Christo]

Ina Boyle: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Benjamin Baker (violin) with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - beautiful work, especially the first movement

Love this CD.

[Judith]

For Sunday morning "brunch" it's Brahms Symphony no 4 which is my favourite Brahms Symphony. Performed by Riccardo Muti and Philadelphia Orchestra which is the best recording that I have heard. Vibrant and perfect tempo.

[Madiel]

BWV 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen

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I had to look up the soprano, because it's one that has not been in the series before this album, Rachel Nicholls. And while the sound of her voice is very nice, her diction is unexpectedly bad.

[eljr]

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 2 [von Karajan/Freni/Pavarotti/Ludwig/Kerns]

Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 2 [Barbirolli/Scotto/Bergonzi/Di Stasio/Panerai]





Act 2 just for comparison with the von Karajan interpretations. I may not be articulating this adequately but I feel that von Karajan is more steering towards the powerful and the dramatic whereas Barbirolli is steering more towards the emotional; not that the respective versions do not have elements of both.

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Ina Boyle: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - Benjamin Baker (violin) with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - beautiful work, especially the first movement

Love this CD.

Still on my List but I will get there!

[North Star]

Yesterday & today
Mompou
Scènes d'enfants (1915-18)
Pessebres (1914-17)
Adolf Pla
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Louis Couperin / Frescobaldi
Gustav Leonhardt
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Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pletnev


Schubert
Wanderer-Fantasie in C major, D. 760
Jan Vermeulen (Streicher 1825)
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[Maestro267]

Bliss: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
Donohoe, Roscoe (pianos)/Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Lloyd-Jones

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Chorus
London SO/Previn

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Mozart: Coronation Mass [Hogwood]

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HIP purists would faint dead away after/while hearing this! Massive amounts of rubato, exaggerated dynamics, unusual tempi--you name it. In other words, it has a lot of personality! Great sound, too.

[Biffo]

Earlier, Haydn: Mass in B flat Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida 'Heiligmesse' - Collegium Musicum 90 & soloists condcuted by Richard Hickox
Just now, Sibelius: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op 47 - Hilary Hahn with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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JC Bach: Symphonies Op. 18 Nos. 3 & 4 [Halstead]





Inventive, melodious music with appealing orchestration.

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HIP purists would faint dead away after/while hearing this! Massive amounts of rubato, exaggerated dynamics, unusual tempi--you name it. In other words, it has a lot of personality! Great sound, too.

Sounds....interesting