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[listener]

JOLIVET:  Piano Concerto       Pascal Gallet. piano
RAVEL orch. Constant   Gaspard de la Nuit
DEBUSSY orch. Molinari  L'Île joyeuse
Duisburg Philharmonic     Jonathan Darlington, cond.
The Jolivet is rather jazzy and clangorous.  The orchestrations are as necessary as a colourized Casablanca.
Saturday night finish Johann STRAUSS II  vol 14 including the Romance no.1 for cello and orch.
CSSR State Philharmonic, Kosice       Alfred Walter, cond.

[Ken B]

JOLIVET:  Piano Concerto       Pascal Gallet. piano
RAVEL orch. Constant   Gaspard de la Nuit
DEBUSSY orch. Molinari  L'Île joyeuse
Duisburg Philharmonic     Jonathan Darlington, cond.

The Jolivet is rather jazzy and clangorous.  The orchestrations are as necessary as a colourized Casablanca.

Here's lookin' at your preternaturally red lips and blue eyes kid.

[Mookalafalas]

Different version, with awesome bonus material, in the Decca analogue box. 

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[Mandryka]

Yvonne Loriod plays Alberia.

No sentimentality, no kitchiness, no spanish folklore. Instead she makes the music sound modern, forward looking rather than just vapid colouristic trash.  Some people might say this is an Iberia with the Albeniz taken out, but I think doing that improves the music.

[Octave]

For some reason this surprises me Octave. I didn't think you were a fan of the classicals.
Might be the avatar

Naw man, the av's a memento mori, just like yours....oops, it changed.  I was thinking of the chipmunk.  Actually, your new one could be a memento mori as well.  Or maybe yours are more worldly cautionaries, for the BRO berks.  But I do love the Classical era stuff; it's a new pleasure and it's growing.  I am still hung up mainly on big names and unsystematic listening.  Big batches by genre.
Glad to hear you think the Hanover Beethoven is good nuff.  I do not have much in the way of HIP Beethoven symphs, just the first Norrington (LCP) cycle and Immerseel's.

Duty:

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Mozart: FLUTE QUARTETS + CLARINET QUINTET [Oxalys] (Fuga Libera)
there is another product page for this disc as well

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Mozart: PIANO QUARTETS [Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, et al] (Archiv)

[listener]

Some Sunday selections
LASSUS:  Missa Entre vous filles, Missa Susanne un jour,
Infelix ego
Oxford Camerata      Jeremy Summerly, cond.
And some Psalms by Heinrich SCHÜTZ, including 137: By the Waters of Babylon from the Musikalischen Exequien
Windsbacher Knabenchor,  Karl-Friedrich Beringer, cond.

[Que]

Thread duty ~

Telemann - Tafelmusik Part III
Ensemble Il Fondamento
Paul Dombrecht

*A recent BRO purchase - and like all Dombrect/Il Fondamento releases I've heard, this one is a winner in all regards.

Worth having as a supplement to a complete set of the Tablemusic (Que, please take note!  ).

Grazie, signore!

Speaking of which - disc 2:

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Q

[Wakefield]

Not feelin' much love for this so far

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Too bad! I was glad when you purchased this disk for such a convenient price. But who knows if  finally Bilson simply isn't your performer. What I can decidedly say, it's that this particular disk isn't subpar in regards the complete series. All the best Bilson's features are here: great use of the tonal qualities of the fortepiano chosen, careful searching of the affects involved and so... I would like to upload the superb "Andantino" from D. 959 to make clear what I'm talking about... 

[Wakefield]

It has been a lot of time since the last time when I heard this beautiful disk:

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[Wakefield]

Just in. In a on line comparative listening that I did, this set came convincingly on top:

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Q

Congratulations! I believe you did a wise decision, as this is probably the standard for this Telemann's collection.

BTW, this recalls me the best collection of Telemann's music, I have acquired the last years:

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It would be a 5-star box, even if it had only included Der getreue Music-Meister.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn Symphony No.100 "Military" Karajan conducting the Berlin Phil




Sarge

[EigenUser]

JOLIVET:  Piano Concerto       Pascal Gallet. piano
RAVEL orch. Constant   Gaspard de la Nuit
DEBUSSY orch. Molinari  L'Île joyeuse
Duisburg Philharmonic     Jonathan Darlington, cond.
The Jolivet is rather jazzy and clangorous.  The orchestrations are as necessary as a colourized Casablanca.
Saturday night finish Johann STRAUSS II  vol 14 including the Romance no.1 for cello and orch.
CSSR State Philharmonic, Kosice       Alfred Walter, cond.

I really like the orchestration of "Gaspard...". I know that some people here didn't like it, but I think that Constant did a nice job of approximating what Ravel would have done.

[Lisztianwagner]

Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No.7

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[EigenUser]

Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony No. 1". Again. As I said in the Schoenberg thread, I feel like this has been the kind of hyper-romantic music that I've been looking for my entire musical life (among other things, of course). The constantly searching tonality, the hugely-expressive string writing, the stacked fourths... And it's short!
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[Sergeant Rock]

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Missa Salisburgensis

Baroque bombast at its best 




Sarge

[Todd]

Yvonne Loriod plays Alberia.

Never heard Alberia before. 

Your description of Loriod's playing makes me think of Querol's, which is really not what I'm after.  I guess I may like my Albeniz trashier.

[Wanderer]

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[Sergeant Rock]

Smetana String Quartet No.1 E minor "From My Life" played by the Gabrieli Quartet




Sarge

[EigenUser]

Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony No. 2". First time listening to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raHAFEJO1l0

[Todd]