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[Florestan]

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I could no longer resist --- just bought:

I really enjoy the Koechlin disc John. Looking forward to hearing what you make of it.

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I could no longer resist --- just bought:

I really enjoy the Koechlin disc John. Looking forward to hearing what you make of it.

I know, off topic, but I can't get over how poorly that shirt fits him. It looks like it is way too baggy on one side, but not the other.

Hilarious. You sound like my wife talking about my dress sense 

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For me Antheil is a great B level composer.

The following has some interesting music.



Contents
Antheil: Violin Sonatina

Duo Odéon
Recorded: July 31-August 4 2017
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Allegro molto

Antheil: Violin Concerto (Version for Violin & Piano)

Duo Odéon
Recorded: July 31-August 4 2017
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia

I. Moderato assai

II. Andante

III. Presto capriccioso

Antheil: Valses from Specter of the Rose

Duo Odéon
Recorded: July 31-August 4 2017
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia

I. Maestoso

II. Poco allegretto

III. Più vivo - À la valse

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I really enjoy the Koechlin disc John. Looking forward to hearing what you make of it.

Thanks, Jeffrey. I listened to the symphony last night and, honestly, it didn't do much for me. I prefer the work in its original incarnation --- for SQ. I'll definitely go back and give it another listen, though and see if I get more out of it. I love Koechlin's music as you know, but he's definitely hit/miss for me like, for example, I'm no fan of the Seven Stars' Symphony, but there are some listeners who enjoy it.

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Contents

Balada: Sinfonía en Negro, Homage to Martin Luther King, "Symphony No. 1"

I. OpresióWn

II. Cadenas

III. Visión

IV. Triunfo

Balada: Concerto for Oboe. Clarinet & Orchestra

Balada: Columbus

I. En el Puerto de Palos

II. ¡Almirante! ¡Almirante!

III. ¿En donde está la voluntad de Dios?

IV. Amanecer en las Indias

My favorite work on the CD is the Concerto for Oboe. Clarinet & Orchestra

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Contents

Balada: Sinfonía en Negro, Homage to Martin Luther King, "Symphony No. 1"

I. OpresióWn

II. Cadenas

III. Visión

IV. Triunfo

Balada: Concerto for Oboe. Clarinet & Orchestra

Balada: Columbus

I. En el Puerto de Palos

II. ¡Almirante! ¡Almirante!

III. ¿En donde está la voluntad de Dios?

IV. Amanecer en las Indias

My favorite work on the CD is the Concerto for Oboe. Clarinet & Orchestra

I recall that @Symphonic Addict did a traversal of Balada not too long ago and he found it an immensely satisfying listening experience. Hopefully, I'm remembering correctly.

[SonicMan46]

Hi Andrei - very interested in that Mozart box above - a good price for me on JPC in the attachment - just curious about the packaging (hope simple sleeves?) and the performances?  Appears to be in the early 2000s mostly?  Please advise - Dave 

[Daverz]

Thanks, Jeffrey. I listened to the symphony last night and, honestly, it didn't do much for me. I prefer the work in its original incarnation --- for SQ. I'll definitely go back and give it another listen, though and see if I get more out of it. I love Koechlin's music as you know, but he's definitely hit/miss for me like, for example, I'm no fan of the Seven Stars' Symphony, but there are some listeners who enjoy it.

Amusingly, even the producer of the record found the music sleepy.  Koechlin's orchestration is so beautiful that I forgive the rather low voltage parts.

[Florestan]

Hi Andrei - very interested in that Mozart box above - a good price for me on JPC in the attachment - just curious about the packaging (hope simple sleeves?) and the performances?  Appears to be in the early 2000s mostly?  Please advise - Dave 

Hi, Dave! Sorry, I can't comment on the packaging, I went the download route.

As for performances, I believe they are those in the Briliant Classics Complete Mozart Edition.

Haven't listened yet.

[SonicMan46]

Hi, Dave! Sorry, I can't comment on the packaging, I went the download route.

As for performances, I believe they are those in the Briliant Classics Complete Mozart Edition.

Haven't listened yet.

Thanks - found an off center pic below + Amazon quotes the dimensions as '5.12 x 5.51 x 0.39 inches', so at less that a half inch in depth the 7 enclosed CDs are likely in sleeves - now, are the performances good?  Dave

[DavidW]

Hi, Dave! Sorry, I can't comment on the packaging, I went the download route.

As for performances, I believe they are those in the Briliant Classics Complete Mozart Edition.

Haven't listened yet.

I believe the smaller boxes use the same sleeves that the big box does. I was going to give a listen this morning (since I have the big box), but I woke up with a migraine. My go to for these works and my introduction is this set:



Which I bet Dave already has.

[SonicMan46]

I believe the smaller boxes use the same sleeves that the big box does. I was going to give a listen this morning (since I have the big box), but I woke up with a migraine. My go to for these works and my introduction is this set:



Which I bet Dave already has.

Hi David - do not have the one above but see that it's going as a FLAC/WAV DL for $20 USD (5+ hrs of music); the one on Brilliant is available as an Amazon MP3 DL (256 kbps VBR) for only $9 USD - as for my own collection, have the recordings at the bottom and tabulated the works (list below) - 16 in all with 4 duplications.

Now looking at Wolfie's composition list, I count nearly 3 dozen divertimenti/serenades so I'm about half way there - plus, there are so many options just looking at Amazon and likely would end up with more duplications of the favorite ones?  Dave

Mozart - Divertimenti & Serenades Owned
Serenade - KV 100+
Divertimento - KV 131@
Divertimento No. 8 - KV 213*
Serenade Notturna - KV 239+/@
Divertimento No. 9 - KV 240*
Serenade (Haffner) - KV250+
Divertimento - KV 251@
Divertimento No.12 - KV 252*/@
Divertimento No.13 - KV 253*
Divertimento No.14 - KV 270*/@
Divertimento No.16 - KV 289*
Serenade (Posthorn) - KV 320
Serenade - KV 361@
Serenade - KV 375@
Serenade - KV 388@
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - KV 525+/@
*Octophorus (Accent 8856)
+Boskovsky (London 5272431)
@Orpheus Cham Orch (DG 471 435-2)

   

[André]

[DavidW]

That one is great!

[Daverz]

Lately I've been checking the eclassical daily deals for surround sound recordings to add to my collection, but this old stereo-only recording caught my eye



I looked up the Fanfare review, and it's a hoot, as John Wiser reviews often are:

A supremely convincing exponent of several Scandinavian symphonists, Sixten Ehrling unleashes upon both choral and ballet varieties of Stravinsky a level of craftsmanship that recognizes no bounds of musical ethnicity. This is a Rite that engulfs the listener, hefty in orchestral resource and in dynamic range, entirely consequent from section to section, if not quite so exactingly wound up as the two reissued Boulez recordings recently noted here. Those, and now this, are coeval only with the composer's penultimate recording as versions preferred by the dwindling fanciers of linearity in musical interpretation.

One does not expect broadcast orchestras to approach this degree of tonal richness, nor of well-wrought detail. Not even this Stockholm lot, which has also sounded well lately under Esa-Pekka Salonen. The major responsibility must in this case be assigned to conductor Ehrling. But BIS' engineering, much more markedly than usual, puts the listener quite in the midst of the tumult. It is transparent, pullulating with detail, thoroughly unnatural in perspective and really quite enjoyable.

The coupled Symphony of Psalms makes its fair impact even in this company, with clean, slightly germanized Latin emanating from a well-drilled chorus. If most of the kinetics of this pairing lie elsewhere, at least the choral work comes off with no rhythmic solecisms and comparable transparency. I have a feeling this performance will grow on one, if kept well away from the experience of its accompanying Rite. Strongly recommended.  -- John Wiser, Fanfare, Sep/Oct 1988

Robert von Bahr's comments:

Aaah! One of my absolute favourites. Sweden's perhaps most famous conductor, Sixten Ehrling (in whose lap I was sitting as a small boy, when he was invited to my Father's house) with his explosive temperament, finally agreed to record the work which was his international breakthrough - the Rite of Spring, which he conducted by heart all over the globe. We fought like cat and dog the first day, then it went fantastically. The great Swedish Radio Choir (Symphony of Psalms), the Swedish Radio SO and Sixten (I was one of the very few that was allowed to call him by his given name) really guarantee a wonderful recording.

Robert von Bahr

[JBS]

From Presto

[Peter Power Pop]

Bought in the past couple of weeks:

[Wanderer]

Souvenirs de Paris. 



Some of my Parisian purchases - I've posted others in the listening thread. No pictures for the Gastinel/Guy Beethoven and Brahms cello sonatas or for the piano albums by Kenny Broberg (Sonatas: Medtner "Night Wind", Rachmaninov 2, Scriabin 5), Anastasia Vorotnaya (Sonatas - Medtner "Night Wind", Rachmaninov 2 - and smaller works) and Hiroaki Takenouchi (Medtner Improvisation No. 2, Dupré, Grieg).

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This an unusual CD.  I particularly like his arrangement of the Clarinet Sonata for clarinet and orchestra.