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Maestro267

#52220
September 23, 2015, 05:20:24 AM
Dvorák: Mass in D major (orchestral version)
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Polyansky

Sadko

#52221
September 23, 2015, 05:44:17 AM
Quote from: listener on September 23, 2015, 05:07:50 AM
... while I try to set up a new computer acquired some months ago using 'points' since the one currently in use is showing probable hard drive damage.

You have my sympathy. I experienced the same a few months ago. I planned to make the transition carefully and taking my time, but just before the new computer arrived my old one failed (luckily not the discs, so I could get all the data by reading the old discs with an external device).

Maestro267

#52222
September 23, 2015, 05:47:33 AM
Joining in now with the others listening to Arnold's 9th Symphony, on the 9th anniversary of his passing.

ZauberdrachenNr.7

#52223
September 23, 2015, 06:00:50 AM
Quote from: Mookalafalas on September 22, 2015, 07:04:36 AM
  I hope  you could still play it loudly.  That disc rocks; it deserves volume 8)


rocks, indeed.  Hardly ever do 8  ??? as I go to some lengths to protect hearing (wear ear protection when using food processor, hammering, vacuuming, lawn mowing, etc.) but loud it was (by my standards!).  This recording is brilliant, prob. merits a Z7 Magic Dragon Egg Award.

ZauberdrachenNr.7

#52224
September 23, 2015, 06:04:31 AM
From this :

[asin] B00EC0VWEM[/asin]

Szymanowski's Symphony #4 for piano and orchestra

North Star

#52225
September 23, 2015, 08:00:04 AM
Brahms
Symphony no. 4
Berliner Phil
Rattle
[asin]B002AGIEYG[/asin]
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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Harry

#52226
September 23, 2015, 08:04:06 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

#52227
September 23, 2015, 08:08:25 AM
The second disc of the day, and a good one it proved to be!

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/gade-niels-wilhelm-1817-1890-complete.html?spref=tw
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

#52228
September 23, 2015, 08:13:20 AM
Third disc of today, a Dutch composer which was unknown to me. This is quite a revelation.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/verhulst-johannes-1816-1891-string.html?spref=tw
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

#52229
September 23, 2015, 08:18:07 AM
The fourth and last disc of today. Wind serenades in a state of the art recording.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/hoffmeister-franz-anton-1754-1812-wind.html?spref=tw
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"

North Star

#52230
September 23, 2015, 08:26:33 AM
Berg
Violin Concerto
Mutter
Chicago SO
Levine
[asin]B0000B09Z4[/asin]
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Gurn Blanston

#52231
September 23, 2015, 08:28:08 AM
Quote from: Harry's corner on September 23, 2015, 08:13:20 AM
Third disc of today, a Dutch composer which was unknown to me. This is quite a revelation.


http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2015/09/verhulst-johannes-1816-1891-string.html?spref=tw

Harry,

I read your blog piece on the quartets, nice!  I confess to be surprised for some reason that you never seem to have run across this disk, which I have had for 10 years or so. I thought we had talked about it before, guess I was wrong:



I's really very good, I would expect it to be to your taste.

8)
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Haydn: that genius of vulgar music who induces an inordinate thirst for beer - Mily Balakirev (1860)

Harry

#52232
September 23, 2015, 09:28:55 AM Last Edit: September 23, 2015, 09:33:27 AM by Harry's corner
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on September 23, 2015, 08:28:08 AM
Harry,

I read your blog piece on the quartets, nice!  I confess to be surprised for some reason that you never seem to have run across this disk, which I have had for 10 years or so. I thought we had talked about it before, guess I was wrong:



I's really very good, I would expect it to be to your taste.

8)

No, dear me, I never saw that one. How I could have missed it is beyond me, but thank you for bringing it to my attention. It goes on the order list.
Thank you my friend!

[Edit] My wife firmly but resolutely tells me that I bought this disc in 2004. So I rushed to my CD room, and found it in 20 seconds. I blame it on the fact that I had my 59 birthday yesterday, I seem to forget what I have in my collection. :laugh:
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"

Lisztianwagner

#52233
September 23, 2015, 09:45:20 AM
Edward Elgar
Falstaff

[asin]B0001EMM3S[/asin]
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

North Star

#52234
September 23, 2015, 09:57:08 AM
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

SonicMan46

#52235
September 23, 2015, 09:58:27 AM
Hi Harry - belated Happy Birthday!  :)

Mozart, WA - Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin w/ Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - newly released 8-disc box set (at a good price on the Amazon MP) - for the first 7 CDs (just on #3 @ the moment), Cooper plays a fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna 1795 - copy by Derek Adlam, 1987) - on disc 8, he is on a harpsichord (Jacob Kirckman, 1766) for the KV10-15 works. Podger plays on a 1739 violin made by Pesarinius (Genoa), a student of Stradivari (a little more history quoted below - Source) - Dave

QuoteRachel plays on a 1739 violin made by Pesarinius, a student of Stradivari. The violin had been modernized when she found it at a London violin shop about 17 years ago, so she had to have it "Baroqued" -- the neck was replaced, the bass bar shortened, the fingerboard shortened, a new bridge made, etc. She uses a Baroque-style bow by the late modern French maker, René-William Groppe, who made a number of different styles of period bows for her.

Gurn Blanston

#52236
September 23, 2015, 10:05:48 AM
Quote from: Harry's corner on September 23, 2015, 09:28:55 AM
No, dear me, I never saw that one. How I could have missed it is beyond me, but thank you for bringing it to my attention. It goes on the order list.
Thank you my friend!

[Edit] My wife firmly but resolutely tells me that I bought this disc in 2004. So I rushed to my CD room, and found it in 20 seconds. I blame it on the fact that I had my 59 birthday yesterday, I seem to forget what I have in my collection. :laugh:

Yes, bt it doesn't sound as though you need your own memory, you have a spare! Yes, right at 10 years ago, as I thought. Enjoy it! Call it a birthday present from me.   ;D

8)
Visit my Haydn blog: HaydnSeek

Haydn: that genius of vulgar music who induces an inordinate thirst for beer - Mily Balakirev (1860)

Gurn Blanston

#52237
September 23, 2015, 10:11:16 AM
Quote from: SonicMan46 on September 23, 2015, 09:58:27 AM
Hi Harry - belated Happy Birthday!  :)

Mozart, WA - Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin w/ Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper - newly released 8-disc box set (at a good price on the Amazon MP) - for the first 7 CDs (just on #3 @ the moment), Cooper plays a fortepiano (Anton Walter, Vienna 1795 - copy by Derek Adlam, 1987) - on disc 8, he is on a harpsichord (Jacob Kirckman, 1766) for the KV10-15 works. Podger plays on a 1739 violin made by Pesarinius (Genoa), a student of Stradivari (a little more history quoted below - Source) - Dave



Thanks, Dave, somehow I missed the release of the box, which I had been waiting to see. Put it on the list!

8)
Visit my Haydn blog: HaydnSeek

Haydn: that genius of vulgar music who induces an inordinate thirst for beer - Mily Balakirev (1860)

North Star

#52238
September 23, 2015, 10:42:57 AM
Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Olga Kern
https://www.youtube.com/v/yGLiPAXDbS4
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Sergeant Rock

#52239
September 23, 2015, 12:26:38 PM Last Edit: September 23, 2015, 12:48:51 PM by Sergeant Rock
On a long-ish drive to dinner and back: Haydn The Day Trilogy, Fischer conducting the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra




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"
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