What are you listening to now?

[Florestan]

G'day, Andrei!

Cheers, maestro!

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

And I love the Deneuve pic. What film is it from?


Sarge

Deneuve never looked so spoiled.

The picture is actually of my female analogue: the spoiled, clueless, beauty queen Blair Warner from the American sitcom The Facts of Life.

[Karl Henning]

Дмитрий Дмитриевич [ Dmitri Dmitriyevich (Shostakovich) ]
Симфония № 9 ми-бемоль мажор, соч. 70 [ Symphony № 9 in E^b, Opus 70 ] (1945)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Lenny

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Vanska's Kullervo is so slow that it makes my epinephrine level go sky-high!

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

Yeah, though the conventional wisdom would deny it- Vanska's Sibelius is just completely flaccid and tanks.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Spine-tingling is right. Has ever singer unleashed such powerful ferocity, whilst exercising such precise control of her instrument? I doubt it.

I do too.

Callas' singing in the Florence Medea is sui generis in every way- kind of like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon or the Great Pyramid of Giza. . . only its more imposing.

[Brahmsian]

Deneuve never looked so spoiled.

The picture is actually of my female analogue: the spoiled, clueless, beauty queen Blair Warner from the American sitcom The Facts of Life.

Wow, I had been wanting to comment that I thought she looked like Blair from The Facts of Life. 

[North Star]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

Yeah, though the conventional wisdom would deny it- Vanska's Sibelius is just completely flaccid and tanks.

Thread duty

Rakhmaninov
Songs, Disc 1
Elisabeth Söderström
Vladimir Ashkenazy
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[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Returning to this for a 2nd helping.... Couldn't help myself...

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This disc makes actually more of an impact than I expected.
These are top drawer Romantic tone poems, aided by perfect, atmospheric rendefings by Svetlanov.

Q

Duly noted, Que.

- I'm a-orderin'-it.

[Sergeant Rock]

The picture is actually of my female analogue: the spoiled, clueless, beauty queen Blair Warner from the American sitcom The Facts of Life.

Ah, I see. But Blair in your original image (that particular angle) does look remarkably like Deneuve.




Sarge

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Thread duty

Rakhmaninov
Songs, Disc 1
Elisabeth Söderström
Vladimir Ashkenazy
[asin]B00KZ73VDG[/asin]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

One Vanska to fool them all,
One Vanska to thrall them,
One Vanska to string them all,
And with his artlessness bind them.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Ah, I see. But Blair in your original image (that particular angle) does look remarkably like Deneuve.




Sarge

Eagles don't flock together, Sarge- but sometimes Divas do.

- Great 'separated at birth' likenesses.

I like Deneuve.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

Wow, I had been wanting to comment that I thought she looked like Blair from The Facts of Life.

You can always tell a Blair- but never too much.

[Marsch MacFiercesome]

I know a great many of the performances in the new Warner Schwarzkopf box, but this two disc set of Brahms' Deutshce Volkslieder is completely new to me, and what a delight it turns out to be. Some might think the approach too sophisticated for these essentially simple, strophic songs, but, with magical accompaniments by Gerald Moore, the approach works just fine for me.

You're so far ahead of me in all things Schwarzkopf.

I can't wait to hear this.

But this is even new to 'Greg Mitchell'- so I don't feel 'that guilty.' Ha.  Ha.  Ha. Ha.

[Mirror Image]

Duly noted, Que.

- I'm a-orderin'-it.

Have you heard the Sinaisky recording on Chandos, Blair? My vote for the all-around best Liadov orchestral recording.

[North Star]

Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.  Ha.

One Vanska to fool them all,
One Vanska to thrall them,
One Vanska to string them all,
And with his artlessness bind them.

You stick to those cocktail interpretations, and I'll have my pure cold water Sibelius from Vänskä. 

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: La verita in cimento [highlights]....

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

VW Symphony # 7.  Freezing my buttuski off listening to this.  Unfortunately, recently finished reading Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness several days ago; that's not helping.

[Que]

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A "guilty pleasure", as the Amazon review aptly point out....
But a highly delectable one!

Q

[North Star]

Sibelius
Tapiola, Op. 112
Oceanides, Op. 73
Berglund & Helsinki Phil

[mc ukrneal]

You're so far ahead of me in all things Schwarzkopf.

I can't wait to hear this.

But this is even new to 'Greg Mitchell'- so I don't feel 'that guilty.' Ha.  Ha.  Ha. Ha.

I can second these - excellent performances. Schwarzkopf is sublime. DFD strikes me as a bit more declamatory (yet, always polished and sings with great warmth). They can be had in a separate double disc: