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[aligreto]

Frescobaldi: Il Primo Libro Delle Canzoni Vol II....





I equally enjoyed this as much as I did Vol. I; good music, good playing and good recording.

[SonicMan46]

Boccherini, Luigi - Vol. 2 of the Divertimenti, Op. 16 w/ Marcello Gatti on the same Grenser flute reproduction - lovely recording on the Accent label - just arrived today.  Dave

Boccherini, Luigi - Divertimenti w/ the PI group 'Piccolo Concerto Wien' - really Flute Sextets - listening to the first disc below (left) w/ Marcello Gatti on a copy (Rudolf Tutz, 1997) of a Carl A. Grenser (Dresda) flute, ca. 1770 (pic of him @ the bottom - not sure which flute he is playing in that photo) - this CD has 3 works (nearly 71 mins); there are 3 others in the Op. 16 group - found V. 2 (below right) on Amazon and ordered a 'used' disc - this music is delightful and enjoying the performances of this group - attached an AllMusic review for those interested.  Dave

 

[Pat B]

My attention was caught by the Scarlatti k426 here played by someone called Eva Vicens, which is imaginative and is on a very bizarre instrument. Is it an Antunes harpsichord? Or some sort Spanish instrument?  It's on spotify and no doubt on other platforms. She appears to be a professional musician

I'm listening now. Don't know what an Antunes harpsichord is. This sounds more like a clavichord.

[Karl Henning]

I want to change my vote in the elimination thread!

Why, of course you do!

[Spineur]

Virginia Zeani was born in 1925 at Solovastru, a small transilvanian town in Romania.
She studied first at Bucharest conservatory and then with Aureliano Perile in Milan.

She did most of the lyric soprano roles on many international opera houses.  She is best known for her interpretation of Violetta, Cleopatre (Haendel, Guilio Cesare) and Blanche (Poulenc Dialogue des carmelites).

I find her interpretation of "Se Pieta" from Giulio Cesare, particularly moving:

https://www.youtube.com/v/RZfoAT9_UPA

I have only heard few of her recording and after hearing this, I plan do do a lot more. 

[Todd]

Disc 1.

[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Concert for Fløjte og orkester, FS.119 (1926)
Julius Baker, fl
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Serenata in vano, FS.68 (1914)

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[Karl Henning]

Birthday Boy!

Nielsen
Molto adagio (3 Piano Pieces, Op.59 posth. FS.131 № 2) — 1928
Herman Koppel

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[listener]

a gifted disc, so I had better listen quickly to keep friends
a musical about Shakespeare and a nephew of Nostrademus
Something Rotten!
and a disc from the Stokowski box,
SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Delila excerpts
Rise Stevens, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill, Robert Shaw Chorale
NBC Orchestra
does contain the Bacchanale and Mon Coeur s'ouvre à ta voix
TCHAIKOWSKY: Eugene Onegin: Tatiana's Letter scene
Lucia Albanese, Stokowski S.O.

[North Star]

Nielsen
Flute Concerto, FS119 (1926)
Gareth Davies, fl
Bournemouth Symphony
Kees Bakels

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[Brian]

List of Things Brian Can't Resist

1. Birthday parties
2. Wind quintets by Carl Nielsen

[SimonNZ]

Haydn's Symphonies 22, 24 and 30 - Adrian Shepperd, cond.

[ritter]

4 x Nous n'irons plus au bois  , as viewed by Claude Debussy, from this set:

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1890: La belle au bois dormant - Véronique Dietschy (sop.), Emmanuel Strosser (p)
1894: Quelques aspects de "Nous n'irons plus au bois" parce qu'il fait un temps insupportable (Images oubliées, No. 3) - Zoltán Kocsis (p)
1903: Jardins sous la pluie (Estampes, No. 3) - Zoltán Kocsis (p)
1905-1909: Rondes de printemps (Images pour orchestre, No. 3) - The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (cond.)

The catchy traditional childrens' song Nous n'irons plus au bois shows up in these four pieces, composed over a span of almost 20 years. In the mélodie La belle au bois dormant, it is used very effectively in the piano part. The Image oubliée is a rather humourous take on the song (starting by the title  ). The third number from Estampes is a much more subtle treatment. Finally, Rondes de printemps can almost be viewed as a set of orchestral variations on the tune (with a brief apparition of Do do, l'enfant do). I found it really worthwhile (and highly enjoyable) to listen to these compositions in chronological order... 

And as a bonus, Marc- André Dalbavie's homage to Debussy; an arrangement for counter-tenor and ensemble of the three popular songs used by Debussy in his orchestral Images (the two mentioed above in relation to Rondes de printemps, and The keel row used in Gigues).

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Marc-André Dalbavie: Trois chansons populaires - Yuriy Mynenko (counter-tenor), Orquestra Gulbenkian, conducted by the composer.

[aligreto]

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major K.493....

[Kontrapunctus]

I bought this strictly for "Seeing," which is basically a piano concerto. Very powerful.

[king ubu]

Not too big on András Schiff so far (don't ask why, it is how it is) ... starting with disc two (the fortepiano disc, adding the Bagatelles op. 126 at the end) was maybe a mistake, as this sounded somewhat dry and un-engaging (hey, it's my problem, I get that!), while disc one is really gorgeous - Schiff is heard with the final sonata, Op. 111, and then the Diabelli variations again, playing a 1921 Bechstein once placed at the exclusive disposal of Backhaus for concerts and recordings, that ended up in the late seventies in a piano store in the sleepy small town where I went to high school ten years later ... actually that piano store goes by the name my mother bore before getting married, but there's no relation as far as I know, have to ask her when we meet for the Buchbinder recital on Monday.

[Ken B]

Virgil Thomson
The Feast of Love
Mason/Mann

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Wow...that's all I'll say right now.

[Mirror Image]

Now:



Listening to Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Rhenish," Op. 97. Sounds great!