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[EigenUser]

Ligeti: Cello Concerto (Queyras, Boulez). First listen.

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Hmmm.

I'm not a fan of the Ligeti cello concerto. I'm actually seeing it live in a couple of weeks, so that should be interesting.

[Obradovic]

Sounding (especially the 4rth act) like a Russian Parsifal

[The new erato]

Sounding (especially the 4rth act) like a Russian Parsifal

A gorgeous opera unfortunately in need of a state of the art, studio recording.

[stingo]

A gorgeous opera unfortunately in need of a state of the art, studio recording.

Maybe it would stand a better chance if it was called The Legend of the Invisible City of Kittehs. Youtube at least would go nuts over it.

[Todd]

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Introducing myself to the Oboe Concerto today.

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The extremely moody opening is certainly ear-catching.

That's a great disc, orfeo. I especially like Beatus Parvo. Such a great work.

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - continuing from yesterday - some more chamber works from Felix - Dave

 

[Mandryka]

Don´t you mean his first Froberger CD for DHM (ca 1965) ??

I meant this one, which is really magical



He manages to make the music sound timeless, eternal,  beyond human emotions.

Recorded in 1970, on the Christian Muller organ at the Protestant Church in Amsterdam and on a modern Italian sounding harpsichord  by Martin Skowroneck. If it's OOP and you want it, I can upload it for you.

The downside is that it has less that an hour of music on it.

In contrast to Que I am one of those finding Vartolos rhetorical approach to Frescobaldi very convincing, but generally I prefer some more momentum.

I think his forward drive is a major strength, there's never a second of undirected aimless music making. I can't see a problem with his tempos, on the contrary.

By the way I've started to listen to the Fiori Musicali by Aymes and his mates. I bet you'll like it - the chant and the variety of instruments make it pretty special - completely different from Alsessandrini. More Italian maybe - colours, bright sunshine, religion and wine and dance.



I didn't enjoy the rest of Aymes's Frescobaldi CDs.

[Drasko]

Ten etudes on aksak (irregular) rhythms op.38

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

I interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast of my traversal of the Wagner Sony Box for this important public service announcement : 

Yesterday, I was at Goodwill (no, I don't live there) and picked-up for an embarrassingly low, low price Heino Eller's (Estonian, 1887-1970) Preludes.  Forgive, please, my rabid enthusiasm; these are intensely brilliant works I know many of you will enjoy, the Kenster, I think, and Vandermolen, Sarge, John, Karlo und der Eigenuser, likely, among others.  There's a coupla mentions of him on GMG.  He was a teacher of Tubin and Pärt, et al.; has a VC I'm salivating to hear.  Imagine Chopin, Scriabin, Rach, and Medtner commingled into one bright flaming genius, that's Eller, at least in the Preludes which is all I know at this point. Muscularly, compellingly performed here by Vardo Rumessen.  The commies accused Eller of "stifling technical modernism."  I can hardly wait to be stifled further.

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[Obradovic]

A gorgeous opera unfortunately in need of a state of the art, studio recording.

Yes, Gergiev's is a weak recording. No much stage noise but in rather uninvolving and indifferent sound. Mariinsky's Orchestra though plays magnificently

[Robert]

Aaron Jay Kernis

Meditation   (in memory of John Lennon)

[ritter]

Ce soir chez Ritter:

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Such a majestic opera!

[Mookalafalas]

Some really lovely Schutze--actually, the first that has really "hit" me.
now available from this:
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although mine is from this:
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[André]

Bruckner: symphony no. 9. The Orchestre métopolitain du Grand Montréal conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. One of the few slow performances that plows, furloughs and harvests this score to my contentment. Like experiencing a full four seasons in the course of a single performance of the work. Recorded in the vast expanses of the Holy-Name-of-Jesus church, Montreal. I was present at the concert/recording some 7 years ago and am happy to report that the disc lives up to those memories.

[Moonfish]

Rameau: Works              Marcelle Meyer

Gorgeous! Her Rameau feels like drops of rain slowly falling from the sky! 

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Now:



Listening to the Violin Concerto. A completely committed performance from Little/A. Davis. My favorite recording of this masterwork.

[Ken B]

Ligeti: Cello Concerto (Queyras, Boulez). First listen.

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Hmmm.

Not even Nate can pretend this is good. 

[kishnevi]

Rameau: Works              Marcelle Meyer

Gorgeous! Her Rameau feels like drops of rain slowly falling from the sky! 

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You have a gold mine there.  Did you see the Amazon MP prices?

TD
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[listener]

OFFENBACH: Un mari à la porte
soloists, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orch.    Petrenko, cond.
and then the soloists with Nikolai Krügel sing The Fables of La Fontaine