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[San Antone]

Schubert : Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat
Tanja Tetzlaff | Christian Tetzlaff | Lars Vogt

[aligreto]

Thank you for your very detailed report, aligreto! 

I suppose I may (will?) purchase La Venexiana's set at some point. The beauty you describe would be the major selling point for me.  My criticism of of Concerto Italiano's madrigals is that they could do with a smidge of beauty throughout.  The Rooley set is attractive to me basically because I suspect it is quite different from Alessandrini's approach - that and also the fact that it is available quite cheaply on the used marketplace. 

Thanks again! I appreciate it.

You are most welcome. I hope that I have helped in some small way 
I must say though that I would not be without my Alessandrini editions. They offer, as I say, a different insight into the music.
I do not have enough exposure overall on the Rooley versions to make amy meaning full comment really. However, at the right price, I perhaps would purchase a Rooley set.

[aligreto]

Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Complete
Arpad Joo, Budapest Symphony Orchestra



Tasso

Following my recent odyssey through my collection of Liszt Symphonic Poems that set looks interesting. I have not heard of Árpád Joó. I would be interested in your thoughts.

[aligreto]

Takemitsu: Toward the Sea....





A short work but I really like the writing for the guitar in this piece.

[Brian]

Well, damn. This is officially certified as The Good Stuff.

[Karl Henning]

First-Listen Fridays!

Wolpe
Symphony № 1 (2^nd concert version of 4 June 1994)
NDR Symphony
Kalitzke

Is this great music?  It might be.  I sure like listening to it.

[San Antone]

Following my recent odyssey through my collection of Liszt Symphonic Poems that set looks interesting. I have not heard of Árpád Joó. I would be interested in your thoughts.

I'd never heard of Árpád Joó either, and I couldn't find much in the way of critical notice about the recording.  But, it is a complete set of all the orchestral music, except the concerti (but that is preferable, imo, since those recordings abound in the catalog). The performance of Tasso was very good to my ears.  I don't know if having a Hungarian orchestra and conductor on a Hungarian label gives an added flavor to Liszt, but I'd say it is a reliable set.

Downside, it appears to be out of print and existing copies are priced fairly high.  I found it in Spotify.

[NikF]

Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (1913) - Hickox/LSO.

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e: and I don't know if he'll see this, but a belated happy birthday to Harry.

[San Antone]

Follow-up to my spin of the Schubert E-flat Piano Trio earlier.



Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 & Piano Quintet, Op. 44
Quatuor Schumann



Been reading a chapter in this book that gives the history of composition and analysis of Schumann's debt to Schubert for his Piano Quartet, Op. 47 and Quintet, Op. 44, both in E-Flat:

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Much of the chapter concerns an unpublished early quartet in C Minor but there are echos of Schumann's earlier work in the later mature works as well.

[André]

Edison Denisov:

- Partita for violin and orchestra, after J.S. Bach's BWV 1004 (1981). Alain Moglia, Toulouse Chamber Orchestra
- Variations on a theme of J.S. Bach's chorale "Es ist genug" (1984-86). Nobuko Imai, viola, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Lev Markiz.
- "Tod ist ein langer Schlaf", Variations for cello and orchestra, based on a chorale by Joseph Haydn (1982). Peter Bruns, cello, Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.

[Karl Henning]

Korngold
Pf Quintet in E, Op.15

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[kishnevi]

Well, damn. This is officially certified as The Good Stuff.

Double Yes.
Especially the Franck comes across as AGreatPieceofMusic

TD
Borodin
Prince Igor
A bunch of Bulgarians as found in Brilliant's Borodin Edition.

[Spineur]

In the introduction thread visions fugitives admiration for Prokofiev music which many of us share prompted me in getting this remastered melodyia disk of live performances (1961&1973) of Sviatoslav Richter in Moscow.

Amazing and deep presentations of Prokofiev piano works.  Complements very nicely the other recordings of Prokofiev piano sonatas which I had.

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[HIPster]

Spending some time with this three disc set of D'India's vocal music:

CD 1 (Secular Duets)
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[Spineur]

just checked in Italy the MP for that jewel is €9,500  .
Hope you will use it for old music as well...

I would be curious to hear a side by side comparison with one of those 50€ made in china CD players.  Is it 200 times better ?

[Monsieur Croche]

Germaine Taillefaire ~ Partita, 'Hommage a Rameau' for two pianos and four percussionists.

Lento - allegro
https://www.youtube.com/v/KbWV4pVmAiA
Andante cantabile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOWb7EIsY_w
Allegro spiritoso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAbsKTaXWo

[Brian]

Brand-new release

[NikF]

Tansman: Six Etudes for Orchestra - Antonio de Almeida/Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

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[listener]

some misc. vinyl
Songs of the Schumann adherents: Robert FRANZ, Anton RUBINSTEIN, Edvard GRIEG, F.T. KIRCHNER, Ferdinand HILLER, Adolf JENSEN, Edvard GRIEG
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar.  Aribert Reimann, piano
SHOSTAKOVICH:  Piano Quintet op 57   String Quartet 4 op. 83
The Janacek Quartet with Eva Bernathova, piano
and  because it's Friday, VIERNE's Symphony for Organ #1in d and Legende op. 31/13
David Sanger, organ of La Chiesa Italiana di San Pietro, London

[ritter]

Earlier today, some vintage Beethoven recordings, under the baton of Clemens Krauss:

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I hadn't herad the Cantata (composed by Beethoven when he was 19) for many, many years. This time around, I was struck by how execrable the text is  . The music is by no means top-drawer Beethoven IMHO, but there are some moments where the composer's personality shines through, particularly an aria that pre-echoes Fidelio.

I've always found the Choral Fantasy a really fun piece, and this perfromance by Krauss and the hitherto unkonwn to me pianist Friedrich Wuehrer is rather impressive.