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First-Listen Mondays!

Reger
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 5
Ulf Wallin (violin), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

[aligreto]

This is turning into a site for vinyl nuts! 

Maybe I'll get an old 8-track player off ebay and start posting pictures of cartridges! 

Please do and enlighten me. I never did own an 8-track player. Did I miss out on something? I do recall that they made something of a small comeback some years ago. Probably a nostalgia thing.

[aligreto]

Greatest performance of No.6 IMO and another nostalgia trip.

I do quite like it myself I must admit.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Please do and enlighten me. I never did own an 8-track player. Did I miss out on something? I do recall that they made something of a small comeback some years ago. Probably a nostalgia thing.

Just pulling your leg, they were awful. But I remember when I was in 7th grade another kid has this one and I was very jealous.



It was modeled on the detonators you would see villains employ in cartoons. You press the plunger to increment the track.

[aligreto]

Just pulling your leg, they were awful. But I remember when I was in 7th grade another kid has this one and I was very jealous.



It was modeled on the detonators you would see villains employ in cartoons. You press the plunger to increment the track.

Yes, I get the leg pulling and that is allowed but I genuinely never did own one. I took a deliberate decision not to invest just like years later I never invested in the Mini-Disc technology.
I can see why someone in the 7th grade would be envious of the above 

[André]

[SymphonicAddict]

The work that attracted my attention on this disc was the Suite from Le Mille e Una Notte by the conductor/composer Victor de Sabata. I'm glad I discovered this ultra wonderful piece! Think of something like Gershwin meets Respighi. Simply delightful, fun, spirituous, uplifting, with a superb orchestration, featuring the environment of that time (the 1930s). I didn't know that this conductor was also a composer. There is a disc on Hyperion label with some tone poems by him which I'll be investigating later.

[SonicMan46]

Babell, William (c. 1690-1723) - Concertos Op. 3 w/ Anna Stegmann on recorder and the Ensemble Odyssee, a period instrument group based in Amsterdam - my second listen to this new acquisition - just delightful music (if you're a recorder fan) - well performed and recorded - review attached.  A keeper for me - Dave

 

[cilgwyn]

Playing,now! Cd 1,at the moment! A wonderful cast. And,a favourite of mine! Anneliese Rothenberger!

[listener]

Some BOCCHERINI  (including La casa del diavolo and a Cello Concerto)
Aner Bylsma with Tafelmusik
and an assortment of short pieces for piano by MOSZKOWSKI including his transcription of Isoldes Tod
Seta Tanyel, piano               originally issued on the Collins label

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Enescu
Quintet in A minor, Op. 29
Gidon Kremer (violin), Ula Ulijona (viola), Marta Sudraba (cello), Andrius Zlabys (piano), Dzeraldas Bidva (violin)



Absolutely incredible work and after hearing a good bit of Reger, I realize how much Reger's music does nothing for me. Enescu's music speaks to my very soul the way only a few composers can.

[Daverz]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 [Klemperer]





This work contains some very lyrical music and there is drama there too. I find that it is not unlike Mahler's music, but Mahler at peace.

Is that actually the pressing you have?  If so, congrats!

[Karl Henning]

Although only MIDI:

https://www.youtube.com/v/31b5Ur3pimQ

[Kontrapunctus]

Another excellent release from this label.

[SymphonicAddict]

Reinecke has been an underrated composer, mainly in the concert halls, but for our fortune many works of his have been recorded, chiefly by Chandos, cpo and Naxos labels. The 3 symphonies fulfill the goal of entertaining and giving enjoyment. Some find a parallel between Mendelssohn and Brahms, and certainly it's kind of accurate, above all the Mendelssohn comparison. His greatest symphony, in my view, is the 2nd, often called Hakon Jarl. The use of the motifs, the development and the magical atmosphere it evokes make it a fascinating work from the very beginning, with that dark and gothic-like introduction, very effective in my opinion.



Finishing this quite consistent cycle. These symphonies sounded more different than the previous ones, but always gripping my attention. The 8th is rather similar to the Honegger's 3rd, evoking a disquieting and threatening atmosphere, even it shares some titles of its movements (In principio, Dies irae, De profundis clamavi, Laudate Dominum). There was not even a bad work, making this listening project very rewarding.




Symphonie [No. 1] Française, Symphonie [No. 2] en si mineur

Every work I've listened to by this composer has been pleasant, and these symphonies weren't an exception. They show how an exceptional composer Dubois was still at his 70s and 80s. Two well-crafted works with interesting ideas, rather in the way of Franck, Saint-Saëns and to some extent Wagner. The beginning of the 2nd Symphony inevitably brings to memory the beginning of a very well-known Russian work.

Now I wish there was a recording of the 3rd Symphony.

[SymphonicAddict]

Can't stop playing Scherbachov's moving, epic, war-time 5th Symphony. Oddly at one brief point it reminded me of John Kinsella:

Sounds intriguing to say the least!

[Madiel]

Babell, William (c. 1690-1723) - Concertos Op. 3 w/ Anna Stegmann on recorder and the Ensemble Odyssee, a period instrument group based in Amsterdam - my second listen to this new acquisition - just delightful music (if you're a recorder fan) - well performed and recorded - review attached.  A keeper for me - Dave

 

Okay, but... why the bathtub?

[springrite]

Loved it, so I turned around and ordered Volume 1.
In fact, this entire series is wonderful!

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This entire recording:

[Daverz]

Dvorak: Sonata for Flute, Viola & Harp [Storck/Schwegler/Ruf]

For a moment I got excited about a Dvorak piece I'd never heard before.