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[Irons]

Today he'd be elected President!   There are some good recordings of his orchestral music on Chandos and a set from Tod Handley and various Australian orchestras.  They are persuasive advocates all but you'd be hard pressed to argue he's a major "missing" composer.

Yes, better known as a conductor. He recorded the best version of Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings I have heard along with Peter Pears and Dennis Brain. Beats the composer's own IMO.

[Ciaccona]

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[arpeggio]

I am a big fan of the contemporary composer Donald Grantham.  The following is a collection of some his band works.  As happens with so many of my band CD's I end up getting duplicate recordings of work.  In this there are two works that I have no recordings of in my library: Court Music and Don't You See.  I was checking out the availability of his work and his Fantasy Variations on George Gershwin Second Prelude is permanently our of print.  I wonder why?

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The following sound track is from a mediocre film: Taras Bulba.  This is a film you watch for the music.  With this CD I do not have to watch the film.

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[JBS]

From Arkivmusic


And separately--because Arkivmusic doesn't seem to have it--from Amazon MP, the second volume of the Monteverdi 1650 collection, and--because it was cheaper--the Sixteen's Eton Choir Book Collection.

[Karl Henning]

Latest puchase:

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I do thoroughly like this box.

[Karl Henning]

From Arkivmusic

Love it.

[North Star]

I do thoroughly like this box.

+1

[JBS]

I do thoroughly like this box.

I have just enough of it that it does not tempt me, even at this price.  Rattle is at his best here, and so is Bostridge.

[Cato]

The following sound track is from a mediocre film: Taras Bulba.  This is a film you watch for the music.  With this CD I do not have to watch the film.

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AMEN!  I just mentioned watching Taras Bulba over the weekend...mainly for the music, although I did like watching Yul Brynner as a Cossack!   

[North Star]

I have just enough of it that it does not tempt me, even at this price.  Rattle is at his best here, and so is Bostridge.

Actually it's Heather Harper & Marriner in Les Illuminations, Neil Mackie, Barry Tuckwell & Steuart Bedford in the Serenade, and Robert Tear & Jeffrey Tate in the Nocturne. All terrific readings, too, as are the Bostridge/Rattle.

[JBS]

Actually it's Heather Harper & Marriner in Les Illuminations, Neil Mackie, Barry Tuckwell & Steuart Bedford in the Serenade, and Robert Tear & Jeffrey Tate in the Nocturne. All terrific readings, too, as are the Bostridge/Rattle.

Oh dear!  I would have to see what I have, but I like Bostridge so much in those works that the temptation from that box for me just lessened.

[North Star]

Oh dear!  I would have to see what I have, but I like Bostridge so much in those works that the temptation from that box for me just lessened.

Hah!

[André]

Every Haendel performance is like a spiritual experience. She is one of the greatest musicians - of any instrument - I have heard.

[JBS]

Every Haendel performance is like a spiritual experience. She is one of the greatest musicians - of any instrument - I have heard.

I know its a real town but I always giggle when I see Chelm as a placename

http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wise_Men_of_Chelm
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-sages-of-chelm/

[André]

 

I like the one with the melamed and the rabbi !

[André]

Box set of 7 cds and a dvd.



Glenn Dicterow was concertmaster of the NYPO from 1980 to 2012. The disc includes the violin sonatas of Corigliano and Bernstein.

[JBS]

Pre-ordered these three from Amazon
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[JBS]

And this from Amazon MP
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[San Antone]

Pre-ordered these three from Amazon
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That entire series looks very interesting.  The Jerusalem Quartet doing the string quartet (w/ the Ravel) I've wishlisted to remind me of the others.

[Karl Henning]

And this from Amazon MP

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That's a passel o' Hummel!