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[Sadko]

Gluck

Orfeo ed Euridice

Jochen Kowalski
Dagmar Schellenberger-Ernst
Christian Fliegner
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Kammerorchester C.P.E. Bach
Hartmut Haenchen

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[TheGSMoeller]

No shortage of great Op. 77 recordings available, this one from the Smithson SQ sits warmly next to the best. Haydn is the greatest "morning" composer, no better way to start the day.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Actually I'm not in the mood for Gesualdo. Changed to this:

We're always in the mood for Rossini, and if we're not - he quickly puts us in the mood!

[Mookalafalas]

I threw this on with very low expectations. I'm very pleasantly surprised. It's live, and the atmosphere, energy, and vitality of the performance is marvelous.  She plays with a muscular, unspectacular competence that allows the inner beauty of the music to radiate effortlessly and inevitably (the Berlin Philharmoniker probably doesn't hurt anything).  It reminds of the feeling I get listening to Kempff--like the performer isn't doing anything special, but for some strange reason every time he plays it I become acutely aware of how good the composer is...

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[Sadko]

just finished:

Schubert

Symphonies 1 & 2

Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner

[Sadko]

Schubert

Symphonies 3, 5, 6

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Beecham

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[Harry]

Some necessary works by J.S. Bach, CD III, second rerun.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/10/bach-js-complete-organ-works-cd-3.html?spref=tw

[SonicMan46]

Brahms, Johannes - Symphonies, German Requiem et al w/ Otto Klemperer & the Philharmonia Orch - now, I'm not usually into 'older' recordings (just prefer more modern sound processing) but these performances from the 50s & early 60s are just superb w/ excellent dynamics!  Dave

[Todd]

[TheGSMoeller]

Brahms, Johannes - Symphonies, German Requiem et al w/ Otto Klemperer & the Philharmonia Orch - now, I'm not usually into 'older' recordings (just prefer more modern sound processing) but these performances from the 50s & early 60s are just superb w/ excellent dynamics!  Dave

That's how I am, Dave. But I just discovered the Klemperer's Mozart set from Warner and it's amazing. I think I'll have to give this. Brahms set a listen.

[SonicMan46]

Paganini, Nicolo (1782-1840) - Solo Guitar Music w/ Luigi Attademo performing on an original 1851 guitar by Gaetano Guadagnini (the one shown below made by the same luthier but in 1836, so assume similar in appearance) - also have the 'Complete Quartets' (guitar & strings) on Dynamic in the mail - Dave

 

[The new erato]

Very fine disc indeed!

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[king ubu]

Just listening ... haven't read a thing about it (or about Zamponi) yet:

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[Drasko]

Both prompted by reading a Sergei Diaghilev biography.

Le Pavillon d'Armide was the first ballet Diaghilev produced for the Parisian audience in the first of the 'Saison Ruse' in 1909 at Theatre du Chatelet. Libretto, staging and costumes were by Alexandre Benois (based on Theophile Gautier novella), choreography by Fokine, Vera Karalli and Anna Pavlova alternating in title role with Vaslav Nijinski and Tamara Karsavina in supporting roles.

This Russian Season of ballet and opera in Paris was possible because of the roaring success Diaghilev had previous year with the first production in the west of Boris Godunov, with Chaliapin in title role, at Paris Opera.     

[listener]

Lodovico GIUSTINI:  Piano sonatas  1 in g, 4 in e, 7 in G, 10 in f
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Cristofori piano built in 1721
"the first known compositions written for the pianoforte" says the sleeve note
J.S. BACH: Chaconne from BWV.1004 arr. Busoni
BRAHMS: Variations on a theme of Paganini op. 35  (selected and rearranged)
MOZART:  Piano Concerto 15 in B^b, K.451
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano   'I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano' orch. Ettore Gracis, cond.

[king ubu]

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[Brian]

Carlos

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I'm a BIG Hardy fan - I've read all the novels, some of them twice or thrice, and much of his poetry, so naturally jumped at the opportunity to hear these two cycles of songs set to his work.  Leavened delightfully - with a hey and a ho and a hey nonino - by settings of Shakespeare.  So good it's a twin-spin.  Superb notes by Andrew Burn but no text, not that they're really needed; Baritone Roderick Williams' diction is clear and up-front.

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[psu]

Brahms, Johannes - Symphonies, German Requiem et al w/ Otto Klemperer & the Philharmonia Orch - now, I'm not usually into 'older' recordings (just prefer more modern sound processing) but these performances from the 50s & early 60s are just superb w/ excellent dynamics!  Dave

The Brahms set is excellent, especially the Requiem.

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[André]

JS Bach: cello and piano sonatas (runs for cover). Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould. Sony.

Julius Fucik and friends : Old Czech Marches. The Czech Philharmonic conducted by Vaclav Neumann.

Beethoven: symphonies 7 and 5. Concertgebouworkest, Eugen Jochum. 7 is ok no more, 5 is quite good.

Shostakovich: symphony no 4: Rozhdestvensky, Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra (Olympia). For  a long time now this has been my favourite DSCH Symphony, and movement I my favourite of any DSCH Symphony. This version has propelled this preference to unprecedented heights.