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[jlaurson]

Next up:


Delalande: Complete Symphonies for the Supper of the King

Q

Woot woot! Good stuff, this!

[Que]

Woot woot! Good stuff, this!

Absolutely agree! My previous comments:

As expected from Delalande, the music is superb! The French equivalent of Handel's Water Music...
Why this had to be OOP for such a long time?

Music written for entertainment but Delalande scores full points with me: stylish, imaginative and colourfull - particularly by out of the ordinary intrumentations.
Not just entertaining but very witty. In French Baroque music of this kind, this is hard to match.

[aligreto]

Next up:

[asin]B00YT9IRDU[/asin]

Q

Oh, I would be interested in that one!

[aligreto]

JS Bach: Cantata BWV 108 for the Fourth Sunday after Easter [Gardiner]....

[The new erato]

Fine and pleasant music, very finely played and recorded:

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[king ubu]

digging into this box:



Hob. XVI:40-42 and 48-52

[Karl Henning]

Bartok: MSPC. Neville Marriner and the ASMIF. This clocks in at 4 minutes above Bartok's specified work duration (31 minutes vs 27) but it's tight-coiled and never loses steam in the process. Well detailed, widely spread stereo.

Agreed.

[Sergeant Rock]

Alwyn Symphony No.1, Lloyd-Jones conducting the RLPO




Sarge

[Drasko]

No.2

[Sergeant Rock]

Alwyn Symphony No.3, Lloyd-Jones conducting the RLPO




Sarge

[Madiel]

Having listened to Nikolayeva on Hyperion, I'm sampling other Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues via the snippets on iTunes. Scherbakov on Naxos, followed by Ashkenazy on Decca.

It takes quite a while, with 30 seconds for the short pieces and 90 seconds for the longer ones!

[The new erato]

Fabulous disc:

[asin]B01BZ2ITEK[/asin]

Those Neapolitans really knew how to write colorful and jubilant passions! 

[Sergeant Rock]

Alwyn Symphony Nos.2 & 5, the composer conducting the LPO




Sarge

[king ubu]

Fabulous disc:

[asin]B01BZ2ITEK[/asin]

Those Neapolitans really knew how to write colorful and jubilant passions! 

good to hear - have it on order from the on-going Glossa sales at presto's (but for half the discs they have shipping dates sometime in June, which sucks ... still trying my luck though, where the price is right - many of these seem to be OOP really, at least checking other vendors has me think so)

[Que]

Fabulous disc:

[asin]B01BZ2ITEK[/asin]

Those Neapolitans really knew how to write colorful and jubilant passions! 

Thanks, one for the wishlist. 
Would be a nice follow up to the passion by Francesco Feo.

Q

[North Star]

Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, Symphonie dramatique avec chœurs, Op. 17
Patricia Kern (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
John Alldis Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
[asin]B00DMUOKGK[/asin]

Earlier:

Sibelius
The Tempest, Op. 109 (1925), music to the play by Shakespeare, Finnish tr. Hannu Heikkilä
Lilli Paasikivi (Ariel), Kirsi Tiihonen (Juno), Anssi Hirvonen (Stephano), Heikki Keinonen (Caliban), Paavo Kerola (Trinculo)
Ilkka Sivonen (harmonium)
Lahti Opera Chorus & Anna-Clara Grounstroem
Sinfonia Lahti
Vänskä
[asin]B001AX69C4[/asin]

[Drasko]

Schumann - Piano Concerto
Concertgebouw / Mengelberg

[Brian]

Alwyn Symphony Nos.2 & 5, the composer conducting the LPO

Sarge

Sarge, I'm not sure I've heard the Alwyn cycle yet. Might have heard the violin concerto, though. What do you think of 'em?

Thread duty:



Sunday morning PARTY TIME!!!

[aligreto]

Josquin Desprez: Missa Gaudeamus [A Sei Voci]....

[ritter]

Berlioz
Roméo et Juliette, Symphonie dramatique avec chœurs, Op. 17
Patricia Kern (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
John Alldis Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis
[asin]B00DMUOKGK[/asin]

Good day, Karlo!

I too am joining the Shakesperean celebrations with Roméo et Juliette:

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Charles Münch's first (mono) recording from 1953, with Margaret Roggero, Leslie Chabay and Yu-Kwei Sze. The choruses (the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society) badly needed a language coach in those days...