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[Daverz]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Wunderlich/Ludwig/Klemperer



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[TheGSMoeller]

Faure: Piano Trio Op.120 - Version for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Kungsbacka Trio

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Listening to Symphony No. 4 conducted by Okko Kamu. This is my favorite performance of this masterwork. Absolutely exquisite.

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Carlos

Love that symphony. Great stuff.

[EigenUser]

Love that symphony. Great stuff.

Me, too! Oddly enough, the last movement sounds American to me -- like Copland or something like that.

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Me, too! Oddly enough, the last movement sounds American to me -- like Copland or something like that.

I haven't heard it in years, but I remember enjoying it. I don't listen to the Russian Romantics too often but when I do Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov get top billing. Lyadov is another favorite of mine from that mid to late Romantic period.

[SonicMan46]

Hi, Dave!

Well, these are actually works for strings and guitar, not guitar solo. They are some of the most beautiful chamber music I've ever heard. Intimate and lyrical, funny and humorous, they will charm you no end. Knowing your musical tastes (which by and large coincide with mine) I'd say it is right up your alley.

Based on Andrei's recommendation, I received the Paganini Guitar Quartets (i.e. violin, viola, cello, & guitar) today - now on the third of 5 CDs in the set and just wonderfully joyous recordings - nothing profound but charming w/ much wonderful string writing (as expected from the greatest violinist of his time) and also well integrated guitar (his second area of expertise) - certainly try to explore these works - thanks friend for the encouragement!  Dave

[Bogey]

I really enjoyed the Kleiber 4 I have, so I was not too surprised to be very pleased with this 3.  Mono sound for this '59 recording, but still packs a wallop in the sound department. 

[Todd]

Disc 1.  A couple data issues in the first movement of the Second aside, a most enjoyable recording.  Sound is very good, but is a bit veiled at lower volume.  The Moscow band's playing is well executed, but not especially lush.  Paik's playing is of a very high order, and the Second is lovely.  Not quite at the Kocsis or Zimerman or Richter or Ashkenazy level, but very high quality.

[Ken B]

Me, too! Oddly enough, the last movement sounds American to me -- like Copland or something like that.

Struggle with cause and effect do we Nathan? 

[Todd]

The Schumann and Grieg concertos paired.  Whoda thunk it?  Freire and Kempe give electric accounts of both.  The Grieg seems perhaps just a hair to focused on virtuosity and pizazz, though Freire delivers a good slow movement.  It doesn't match my big three (Andsnes 2, Michelangeli on BBC, Lupu), but it is high end.  The Schumann is better yet, with both soloist and orchestra seemingly more at home.  That written, this concerto has so many great recordings that this ends up being just another in a very crowded field of superb recordings.  So the weakest disc of the Freire set so far is merely superb.

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Listening to Violin Concerto No. 2. Great stuff. Love the orchestral fury in the last movement.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Tchaikovsky's first, Markevitch/London Symphony.



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[Mandryka]

Bengt Tribukait plays Art of Fugue. Makes me think of Isoir's. Cool organ. Cheerful, colourful, fast,  sometimes ecstatic (like Isoir)

[Brian]

Tchaikovsky's first, Markevitch/London Symphony.

Finally starting Igor Markevitch's Tchaikovsky cycle at the proper beginning: No. 1.

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[Moonfish]

I believe Wolfie's flute concertos are my favorite output by him.  Your wife has high tastes.  But you already knew that.

 

[Moonfish]

I really enjoyed the Kleiber 4 I have, so I was not too surprised to be very pleased with this 3.  Mono sound for this '59 recording, but still packs a wallop in the sound department.

I didn't know that you liked Beethoven, Bogey!   
Actually, I never heard Kleiber's version of Eroica so I need to redeem myself one of these days.....

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Listening to Piccolo Concerto. I absolutely love this work and it's quite uncharacteristic of Dallapiccola's music in general which was obviously more influenced by the Second Viennese School. I love that music as well.

Edit: Nate, you should definitely check out this work. I'm sure this recording is on Spotify (since this is the medium you use to listen to music).

[Moonfish]

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte              Gedda/Janowitz/Berry/Popp/Frick/Schwarzkopf/Ludwig/Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus/Klemperer  (1964)

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[Dancing Divertimentian]

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