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Moonfish

#39200
February 04, 2015, 08:59:45 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 04, 2015, 06:14:23 PM
I would go for the Handley set on Hyperion. Pure gold. Bantock was quite Straussian in many of his works. Right up your alley.

I hear you! Listening to the YouTube performance really made me perk up my ears!!!    :D    I cannot believe that I have never listened to him before. I suspect it was the alluring cover art of the sirens that led me astray......
"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Moonfish

#39201
February 04, 2015, 09:13:09 PM
Delius:
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
A Song of Summer
Irmelin Prelude
London SO/Barbirolli

Late Swallows             Halle Orchestra/Barbirolli

Appalachia            Jenkins/Ambrosian Singers/Halle Orchestra/Barbirolli

Plenty of tranquility and beauty in these pieces. Loved Walk to Paradise Garden and Song of Summer.

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"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Mirror Image

#39202
February 04, 2015, 09:30:10 PM
Quote from: Moonfish on February 04, 2015, 09:13:09 PM
Delius:
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
A Song of Summer
Irmelin Prelude
London SO/Barbirolli

Late Swallows             Halle Orchestra/Barbirolli

Appalachia            Jenkins/Ambrosian Singers/Halle Orchestra/Barbirolli

Plenty of tranquility and beauty in these pieces. Loved Walk to Paradise Garden and Song of Summer.

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Awesome, Peter! I didn't know you owned this set. It's certainly a good one. If you haven't heard Songs Of Sunset yet, please give it a listen.

Que

#39203
February 04, 2015, 10:00:24 PM
Back to this set - disc 8:

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Moonfish

#39204
February 04, 2015, 10:21:06 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 04, 2015, 09:30:10 PM
Awesome, Peter! I didn't know you owned this set. It's certainly a good one. If you haven't heard Songs Of Sunset yet, please give it a listen.

Yes, I had to dig it out from the towering piles after all these posts about Delius. Quite delightful actually. I will give Songs of Sunset a listen to tomorrow evening!  :)
"Every time you spend money you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want...."
Anna Lappé

Moonfish

#39205
February 04, 2015, 10:30:09 PM
Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3            Barenboim/Zukerman




Weiss: Lute Suites Nos 7, 23 & 45      Vol 6              Barto

These Naxos releases have been a staple in my home for more than ten years. Barto's performances are wonderful and Weiss' music is beautiful in its complexity. Great music! Still, I cannot wait to hear Cardin's performances! Did they get lost crossing the Atlantic Ocean?  :(

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Anna Lappé

Madiel

#39206
February 04, 2015, 11:41:50 PM
Volume 5 from the Bridge orchestral set.

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All very much lighter fare, but none the worse for that. Bridge really knew how to write engagingly for orchestra.
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

listener

#39207
February 05, 2015, 12:04:17 AM
BACH -  2 discs on the organ at Muri, the Orgelbuchlein BWV599-564 and an assorted set of P&F's and chorales, etc      Bernard Foccroulle, organist
and César FRANCK: 3 Chorals, Pièce Héroïque and Fantaisie-Idylle
François-Henri Houbart, Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris
"Keep your hand on the throttle and your eye on the rail as you walk through life's pathway."

amw

#39208
February 05, 2015, 12:30:31 AM


Insh'Allah Les Siècles finds some louder Wagner tubas, since they are the only thing holding this back from being one of the best Rites ever.

Harry

#39209
February 05, 2015, 01:30:46 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Harry

#39210
February 05, 2015, 02:00:52 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

RebLem

#39211
February 05, 2015, 02:33:27 AM Last Edit: February 05, 2015, 02:36:27 AM by RebLem
Since my last report, I have been listening to the following:

Vol. 34 of the RCA Complete Toscanini set, NBC Sym Orch., 2 CDs.

Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, Op. 17 (91:32)--Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano, John Garris, tenor, Nicola Moscona, bass.--rec. 8H, 9/16 FEB 1947 except for CD 1 Tr. 11 Queen Mab (8:13), rec. CH, 10 NOV 1951.

CD 1-- 57:04 Berlioz

Part 1.....Tr.1-4......(18:29)
Part 2.....Tr. 5-11...(38:35)
CD 2-- Part 3.....Tr. 1-9.....(34:28)

Tr. 10-14...Bizet: L"Arlesienne--5 excerpts from Suites 1 & 2 (22:43)--rec. 8H, 19 SEP 1943.

Tr. 15.........Bizet: Carmen Suite (12:31)--rec. CH 5 AUG 1952

These are excellent performances with all the usual Toscanini hallmarks--precise, cutting attacks, faithfulness to the composers' intentions, and a judicious choice of singers.  It also has the familiar Studio 8H deadness except for the two tracks, 11 on CD 1 and 15 on CD 2, which were recorded in Carnegie Hall.  However, there is no harshness of sound, and instruments and voices are clear and judiciously miked.  Highly recommended.

CD 10-11 of an 11 CD Sony set of Schoenberg vocal music conducted or supervised by Pierre Boulez:

Moses und Aron, Opera in 3 Acts (Act III not composed) (98:38)--BBC Sym. Orch., BBC Singers, BBC Singers, Orpheus Boys' Choir--Gunter Reich, Moses  |Richard Cassilly, Aron  |Felicity Palmer, young maiden, naked young woman  |Gillian Knight, sick, naked young woman, solo voice  |John Winfield, young man  |John Noble, another man  |Roland Hermann, Ephraimit  |Richard Angas, Priest  |Jane Manning, Helen Watts, naken young women solo voices  |Philip Landridge, Michael Rippon, Denis Wicks, solo voices--Rec. 30 NOV and 3, 5, 6 DEC 1974, West Ham Central Mission, London.

Chamber Sym. 2, Op. 38 (20:56)--Ensemble Intercontemporain--Rec. Ircam, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Again, Boulez displays, in Moses und Aron, his ability to transform 12-tone music into something that sounds much less radical and much more mainstream than most of us would ever have thought.  Voices are clear and forward, and the orchestral support has a Toscanini-like precision.  The Chamber Sym. seems a much more conservative work.  Highly recommended.
"Don't drink and drive; you might spill it."--J. Eugene Baker, aka my late father.

Sergeant Rock

#39212
February 05, 2015, 03:10:01 AM
Elgar Symphony No.1 A flat, Thomson conducting the LPO




Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Harry

#39213
February 05, 2015, 03:25:00 AM
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Wakefield

#39214
February 05, 2015, 04:17:32 AM
MMVII ABQ
Alban Berg Quartet
Hommage
EMI Classics, 5CD set

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I'm a long time admirer of the ABQ, especially its two Beethoven cycles and its Mozart cycle. So this set has been a wonderful addition towards repertory that I don't visit very frequently (or plainly unknown to me), as Smetana, Janáček, Bartók, Ravel, Berg, Stravinsky, Rhim, Lanner and J. Strauss.

Ridiculously cheap on the AMP.

Strongly recommended.  :)

Right now:

CD2
Beethoven: String Quartet No.7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1 "Rasumovsky"
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13
"Isn't it funny? The truth just sounds different."
- Almost Famous (2000)

North Star

#39215
February 05, 2015, 04:23:17 AM
On Spotify

Beethoven
Sonatas, Opp. 78, 81a, 90, 101
Penelope Crawford
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Florestan

#39216
February 05, 2015, 05:00:05 AM


"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

Obradovic

#39217
February 05, 2015, 05:03:43 AM

Florestan

#39218
February 05, 2015, 05:05:50 AM
"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part." - Claude Debussy

North Star

#39219
February 05, 2015, 05:07:24 AM
Look what the wind blew in

Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Dresden Philharmonic
Herbert Kegel

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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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