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[North Star]

Dad got this, and a signature, after yesterday's concert.
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[AnthonyAthletic]

Bruch/Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
Beethoven: Romances/Philippe Quint (vn)

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Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs [CD]
Janowski/Isokoski/Berlin RSO

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Philippe Quint is a violinst I am none too familiar with, love his tone and crispness in the two concerti, and his control and phrasing in the beautiful Beethoven Romances (awesome sound).  Also I have been totally lost in the Strauss songs, the 4 Last hit me everytime.  A cd packed full of beauty. 'Morgen', another one of those Strauss masterpieces of sheer beauty.

[North Star]

Isokoski & Janowski's Strauss is excellent, Tony!

[not edward]

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Gavin Bryars: AFTER THE REQUIEM (ECM)
I was actually iffy about this when I listened to it in its entirety several years ago (and this in spite of being a huge, pathologically-devoted Evan Parker fan); but some samples recently make me wonder if I'd like it now.  I managed to get a very cheap used copy.

Hope it goes down better seccond time around... if I were allowed only one Bryars disc, this one would be a no-brainer.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Isokoski & Janowski's Strauss is excellent, Tony!

Totally agree, its a marvellous cd all round.  Isokoski's Four Last Songs are right up there with my favourites, Popp, Norman, Janowitz, Schwarzkopf and Christine Brewer.  I would put the four last at the top of my most listened to and loved of all orchestral song cycles.

[The new erato]

Totally agree, its a marvellous cd all round.  Isokoski's Four Last Songs are right up there with my favourites, Popp, Norman, Janowitz, Schwarzkopf and Christine Brewer.  I would put the four last at the top of my most listened to and loved of all orchestral song cycles.

You forgot della Casa, my clear favorite. 

[AnthonyAthletic]

You forgot della Casa, my clear favorite. 

Is that 1953 with Bohm, Decca Legends?  And a few other transfers "Alto" "Regis" to name two?

I didn't forget Della Casa, I haven't heard her version and from the Amazon reviews quite a few people say (Callas/Tosca, Sutherland/Norma, Della Casa/Strauss 4 Last), I get where the reviewer is coming from....tantamount to definitive? 

I feel a sale coming on 

[Karl Henning]

Just bought:



I've been waiting on this recording in like new condition to come along for many years and I'm glad I snatched it up for a good price ($7).

I'm so accustomed to the full ballet, I don't know how I should like a suite taken from The Miraculous Mandarin . . . .

[Mirror Image]

I'm so accustomed to the full ballet, I don't know how I should like a suite taken from The Miraculous Mandarin . . . .

Me too, Karl. But the excerpts sounded so nice and I do like Martinon's conducting a lot.

[springrite]

I'm so accustomed to the full ballet, I don't know how I should like a suite taken from The Miraculous Mandarin . . . .

Agree. For me, the full ballet is almost uncuttable.

[Mirror Image]

Personally, I don't know why a suite would even be culled from The Miraculous Mandarin. It's not that long of a work to begin with.

[The new erato]

Is that 1953 with Bohm, Decca Legends?  And a few other transfers "Alto" "Regis" to name two?

Yes it is.

[ritter]

Personally, I don't know why a suite would even be culled from The Miraculous Mandarin. It's not that long of a work to begin with.

I suppose it's for it to be performable sans chorus, which would have permitted more widesread circulation (a bit like the Daphnis et Chloé suites)...What really has me intrigued is a suite from Arcana  ...but I suppose that is just a result of too clever a cover layout by the graphic designers 

[springrite]

Personally, I don't know why a suite would even be culled from The Miraculous Mandarin. It's not that long of a work to begin with.

Well, it is longer than most of Webern's works...

[Mirror Image]

I suppose it's for it to be performable sans chorus, which would have permitted more widesread circulation (a bit like the Daphnis et Chloé suites)...What really has me intrigued is a suite from Arcana  ...but I suppose that is just a result of too clever a cover layout by the graphic designers 

I seriously doubt Arcana exists in some kind of suite. I believe Martinon conducts the whole work.

[Mirror Image]

Well, it is longer than most of Webern's works...

That's true, Paul.

[springrite]

That's true, Paul.

I listen to the abridged version of 4:33 often.

[Karl Henning]

Personally, I don't know why a suite would even be culled from The Miraculous Mandarin. It's not that long of a work to begin with.

Oh, it's a good half-hour.  And in the era it was written, ballets were not typically performed complete in a concert setting, i.e., Suites of select extracts were the norm (IIRC).

[Mirror Image]

Oh, it's a good half-hour.  And in the era it was written, ballets were not typically performed complete in a concert setting, i.e., Suites of select extracts were the norm (IIRC).

I believe you're absolutely right here. It would have been easier in a concert performance to just perform the suite, but, like you and Paul, just give me the complete ballet. I just couldn't imagine listening to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe without the chorus. It would feel so...naked.

[springrite]

I just couldn't imagine listening to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe without the chorus. It would feel so...naked.

No, not naked. It would be like a super model's bikinis, minus the body.