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[Que]

Welcome back Que!

Thank you Harry, and a very good morning.

[Traverso]

Chopin

Préludes

[Irons]

Moeran: Cello Sonata.



A deep work with more behind the notes then the notes themselves and with the added poignancy of the performer being the composer's widow. He wrote this and the cello concerto for Coetmore. Unusually for Moeran little folk influence if at all. In fact I detected a Russian flavour.   

[Traverso]

Haydn

Trompet Concerto

Håkan Hardenberger

[Traverso]

Mozart

Cosi Fan Tutte  1955

[Florestan]

[cilgwyn]

I thought I'd have another go at Lambert's magnum opus! I remember a revival of this work sparked a flurry if interest in the music press. Reviews followed in national newspapers. Then back to obscurity;albeit,these days you can judge for yourself, by bunging on this recording! I quite like some of Lambert's music. Of course he was famous once! Even my father,who has never been particularly interested in music,has heard of Music Ho! The famous recording of him performing Facade,with Edith Sitwell,is my favourite! And does The Rio Grande deserve to be popular again?!

[Roasted Swan]

I thought I'd have another go at Lambert's magnum opus! I remember a revival of this work sparked a flurry if interest in the music press. Reviews followed in national newspapers. Then back to obscurity;albeit,these days you can judge for yourself, by bunging on this recording! I quite like some of Lambert's music. Of course he was famous once! Even my father,who has never been particularly interested in music,has heard of Music Ho! The famous recording of him performing Facade,with Edith Sitwell,is my favourite! And does The Rio Grande deserve to be popular again?!

I dug this out a week or so ago.  I like the orchestral scherzo and some parts of it but it is an uneven piece.  Rio Grande gets a decent performance but overall this isn't a hugely compelling disc.  I remember being a bit disappointed when originally released and that's my feeling this time too.....

[Harry]

I thought I'd have another go at Lambert's magnum opus! I remember a revival of this work sparked a flurry if interest in the music press. Reviews followed in national newspapers. Then back to obscurity;albeit,these days you can judge for yourself, by bunging on this recording! I quite like some of Lambert's music. Of course he was famous once! Even my father,who has never been particularly interested in music,has heard of Music Ho! The famous recording of him performing Facade,with Edith Sitwell,is my favourite! And does The Rio Grande deserve to be popular again?!

Constant Lambert is a very important composer to me. I adore his ballet music, and in general all he composed for orchestra, solo and chamber music. To my ears he was a genius, and he fully deserves all the attention he gets. But the English adore some of their composers excessively, but Constant and for that matter Lloyd are seriously neglected, while both belong to the very best England produced. 

[Mandryka]

Dominique Vellard/ Emmanual Bonardot, Veritas Mea, chants from a 9th century manuscript in Albi, informed by Dom  Eugene Cardine's ideas, the singers go without introduction, the interpretation in its day was bold, people say "revolutionary". I saw a comment by someone who said he listened to it with Mary Berry when it first came out, she was moved to comment that she felt "in her bones" that this way of singing is right.  If anyone wants my transfer they can PM me.

[Madiel]

Holmboe, Trombone Concerto



Not that familiar to me, as far as my Holmboe collection goes. I like it!

[Madiel]

Scriabin, 24 Preludes op.11

[Florestan]

Schoenberg was as much a Romantic as Brahms or Tchaikovsky.

He was a much truer Romantic than both of them, actually. 

[vandermolen]

Constant Lambert is a very important composer to me. I adore his ballet music, and in general all he composed for orchestra, solo and chamber music. To my ears he was a genius, and he fully deserves all the attention he gets. But the English adore some of their composers excessively, but Constant and for that matter Lloyd are seriously neglected, while both belong to the very best England produced.

I enjoy the Rio Grande but find it a bit 'precious', although not nearly as much as Walton's 'Facade' which I can't stand (especially if the performance involves Edith Sitwell). Like Harry, however, I rather like Lambert's ballet music, especially Horoscope and think that he was a very fine conductor.

[cilgwyn]

I dug this out a week or so ago.  I like the orchestral scherzo and some parts of it but it is an uneven piece.  Rio Grande gets a decent performance but overall this isn't a hugely compelling disc.  I remember being a bit disappointed when originally released and that's my feeling this time too.....

I remember having a similar reaction,to you,actually! There were some good bits;and it was,indeed,the orchestral scherzo,and remembering part of it (particularly a rather noisy climax) that led me to buying the s/h cd,which arrived today. (I sold my original copy!). I did wonder whether Lambert had bitten off a bit more than he could chew,with this one?! I do like some of his music,though. I tend to feel,that he was more at home in ballet music and,some of those pieces,where he was assimilating popular idioms of the day. A sort of British counterpart to Les Six,I suppose? Although,I'd give them the edge ! Lord Berner's is another one. (I like his Triumph of Neptune,ballet). I feel Lambert's music is very much of it's day;and I like it when I'm in the mood for that sort of thing. Anyway,I'll see what I make of it this time around!! I remember reading the review by Fiona Maddocks,in the Guardian,by the way! I taped the performance,at the time. Maybe,it was better than the one on the cd? I can't remember!! But it's (was) a thumbs-up from the Grauniad,anyway!! How the mighty fall,eh?!!

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/1999/oct/03/featuresreview.review7

[Sergeant Rock]

Bax Symphony No.1 (1921-22), Handley conducting the BBC Phil




Sarge

[cilgwyn]

Beginning,now! Summers Last Will and Testament! I must admit,I actually stopped listening to the cd,for a while,to listen to a phone in on a local radio station!! Lots of stuff about jobs people had when they were kids,before health and safety! You know,like,newspaper rounds and sweeping chimneys! I remember doing that when I was a water baby!!

[Sergeant Rock]

Bax Symphony No.1 (1921-22), Thomson conducting the LPO




Sarge

[Biffo]

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony - Bryden Thomson conducting the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with Yvonne Kenny (soprano) and Brian Rayner Cook (baritone). Fine conclusion to Thomson's RVW cycle (I have listened to it out of sequence and over several months).

[cilgwyn]

Summers Last Will and Testament! Well,I never! It looks like I'm with Harry! I think I'm enjoying it this time around. I'm listening to the finale now. I find this powerful and moving! I'll need to listen to it again,though.