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Corigliano: Violin Concerto, "The Red Violin"

Listening to a new Disc - very nice! :

[kishnevi]

Just finished this
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First hearing of the works themselves (which can fairly described as sonatas a4 and a5),  but performances seemed fine, and sonics excellent.  Only cause to complain is the shortness of the CD--only 45 minutes long!  Seriously, Biber didn't write enough other stuff that they couldn't find anything else to include?

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Listening to Nocturnes. Fantastic performance.

[listener]

finishing Sunday with Domenico MASSENZIO  Compline Service  (1630)
The Choir of St. John's College Cambridge   George Guest, cond.
clear sound but lots of space audible, quite splendid cathedral atmosphere

[Justin]

On Spotify:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 28  Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano

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Listening to Symphony No. 3 'Sinfonia Rustica'. Absolutely mesmerizing symphony. I'm thankful for this set from Hughes, but I'd love to hear someone like Vanska or Dausgaard conduct all of these symphonies. Holmboe clicked for me in a big way last year and that was when I finally heard his music for the first time even though I've owned this set for years. Time away from the music can definitely give you a new outlook on the music you were once indifferent to.

[listener]

MOZART Piano Concertos 17 in G K.453, 18 in B^b K.456
Murray Perahia, piano and cond.   English Chamber Orch. 
SIBELIUS: music for brass-  Overture in f, Petite suite for Brass Septet, Allegro for Brass Septet, Tiera
MERILÄINEN: Partita for Brass    RAUTAVAARA: A Requiem in Our Time
Finnish Brass Ensemble    Jukka-Pekka Saraste,, cond.

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Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.13

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[Lisztianwagner]

An eerie, haunting work, Ilaria. I'm curious, what Schoenberg recordings do you own?

Indeed, a hauntingly beautiful, thrilling piece; I love its violent dissonances, the orchestration and the voices creating a so tense, dramatic atmosphere; it was the very first Schoenberg's work I've listened to.
Well, I have got: all Karajan's recordings, Hahn/Salonen/SRSO for Violin Concerto, Uchida/Boulez/CO for Piano Concerto and Klavierstucke, Chailly/RSO for the Gurrelieder, the Boulez for Serenade, 5 Pieces for orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire, Herzgewächse and Ode to Napoleon and Rattle/CBSO for A Survivor from Warsaw.

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Listening to Nocturnes. Fantastic performance.

Was listening to this myself last night, but the Pelléas suite rather than the Nocturnes...I should buy Abbado's complete recording of the opera, which I understand is quite an achievement....And I still have room for another complete Pelléas on my shelves (next to Boulez--on CD and on DVD--, Désormière and Vittorio Gui), as I really love this opera...

[Harry]

 

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[Sergeant Rock]

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D, Barbirolli conducting the Philharmonia




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

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Listening to Symphony No. 4. Exhilarating performance!

A beauty!  And notwithstanding the fine point or two with which I might quarrel, I remain greatly fond of this recording.

[Karl Henning]

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No.13

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Marvelous!

[Karl Henning]

Prokofiev
Symphony No. 6
Ozawa & BPO
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Yum!

[Karl Henning]

RVW
Symphony № 5
London Phil
Haitink

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[Harry]

 0:)

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[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky ~ Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Sviatoslav Richter; Orchestra of the Moscow State Conservatoire, Yuri Nikolayevsky conducting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgiGj1KcZlc

Igor Stravinsky - Threni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFTGo3iM6E

Love both of these.