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[Mirror Image]

................I prefer to be able to understand it.............

In most booklets, the Hungarian is translated into English for us. I like the sound of Hungarian and since this is the opera's original language, I'll always prefer it over anything else. For me, a part of the experience of Bluebeard is being able to hear it sung in Hungarian and thankfully there are many recordings that exist that stick to that kind of outlook.

[Que]

Schubert: Fantasie in F minor and other works for piano 4 hands



Andreas Steier, Alexander Melnikov

A new acquisition. I've never heard before the Fantasie in F minor played on a fortepiano.
Disappointed 
Much better the rest of the album.

Ouch.... Would still be interested to hear that disc   

Q

[Que]

Morning listening:



Q

[ludwigii]

J.S.BACH
Piano Concertos

Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Andras Schiff

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A performance that I admire every time more, as those classics that increase their value in time.
Although I am not a fan of Schiff, I like a lot ! 
Perhaps my favorite, although Perahia is very good, but Schiff is more passionate and dramatic, while maintaining the same degree of virtuosity. Gould is the best in slow movements but the fast ones are too heavy for my taste.

[cilgwyn]

Raff gets some flak in some quarters. He composed so much music,and his output is undeniably uneven. However,these two are Raff at his best,imo (along with Symphonies 3,4 & 5). The orchestration in No 11 is particularly attractive. I am really suprised at how delightful a listen this one is. Some really,seriously delectable sounds here to tickle the old ear drums. Great artwork,too,from Tudor!

[Harry]

Raff gets some flak in some quarters. He composed so much music,and his output is undeniably uneven. However,these two are Raff at his best,imo (along with Symphonies 3,4 & 5). The orchestration in No 11 is particularly attractive. I am really suprised at how delightful a listen this one is. Some really,seriously delectable sounds here to tickle the old ear drums. Great artwork,too,from Tudor!

I would not say that his oeuvre is  undeniably uneven. There is not much that I have not of this composer, and what I have shows a constant in quality. Raff is a composer that has to get under your skin, and it is very important to keep your ears firmly to the score at hand.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Raff's first symphony is the only one I have sat down and listened to with the score. My perspective on it was that it really sounded like a satire of overly nationalistic music. I don't remember exactly which movement it was, but the movement which stood out to me the most was the one which sounded like an imitation of a banal, patriotic anthem. This really seemed to complement the superfluously virtuosic first movement and due to its placement in the whole symphony it actually made me laugh my head off. I really should listen to more Raff....I find that I seem to hear the same humour in that particular symphony as Mozart's musical joke, although with Raff it sounds as if he is satirising the superficiality of patriotic music like military marches, anthems etc.

TD: Trevor Wishart: Imago

[Autumn Leaves]

Tonight's listening:



Dudamel/Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra performing.



The Soldiers Tale
Pastorale
Concertino

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

[Madiel]

But it's not like I don't have the original language version but operas are hard enough to make sense of anyway 

You can't change the language without affecting the music. The stresses and rhythms of different languages aren't alike.

[Wanderer]

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[Karl Henning]

I like this one, too.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

#morninglistening to #VincenzoGalilei on @hyperionRecords:http://a-fwd.to/GSu32rO
"Tamensi... http://ift.tt/2ntlWYL

And, because I'm a little proud of it: A link to my just-now-finished Mozart Piano Sonata Survey.

[GioCar]

Ouch.... Would still be interested to hear that disc   

Q

Well, of course just my opinion, but I felt as if Steier & Melnikov were a bit flat and heavy in their playing...but I'd like to hear your opinion as well, as soon as you have the chance to listen to that album 

[Todd]

Disc five, Debussy and Francois Couperin.  The disc opens with a fine, late 50s set of the Images, with Meyer's usually light touch, though she plays with some heft as needed.  There are then some excerpts from Images and Preludes from the 40s, all well done.  But the best stuff here is the Couperin, played with elegance and refinement and perfectly judged rhythm.  The last couple tracks have some data errors, either from the original pressing or the rip, but even so, it's superb.

[HIPster]

Morning listening ~

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[TheGSMoeller]

The second disc of Hindemith's music recorded by Blomstedt/SFS. Great performances of Der Schwanendreher and Nobilissima Visione. And I love the artwork of the original three releases on London, which I own, so I needed to post that as well. 

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[Florestan]

[Karl Henning]

Maiden-Listen Mondays!

http://www.youtube.com/v/1uRaj7oDkgI

Stravinsky scores The Great Escape . . . .

[Wanderer]

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