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[vandermolen]

Holst: 'The Perfect Fool' Ballet Suite and now..
Bax: Tintagel
LSO George Weldon

I enjoy every work on this CD and all the performances. George Weldon seems to have had a somewhat troubled life and IMO deserves more appreciation:

[Spotted Horses]

That opened the door for solo keyboard Bach for me.  Even when I had eliminated my cd collection thinking I would stream only... I actually still kept that box set!  I also have her in the chamber music, Art of the Fugue and some arrangements.  All exquisite!

And now she is doing it all a second time, creating the dilemma, "which version is better?"! I find no clear answer.

Her Faure disc is also great!

[steve ridgway]

Messiaen: Le Loriot; Yvonne Loriod (1st recording)

Note that the words Loriot and Loriod in French sound much the same, since the final consonant is not sounded.  And this music, which must have been in Messiaen's mind for over 10 years since he first encountered the young pianist, is probably as much about the person as it is about the bird.

The bird itself is pictured on the original LP cover image (below).  Now picture the scene at the premiere performance of the complete Catalogue in 1959, which Loriod/Loriot performed entirely from memory as was her habit - seated at the piano wearing a yellow gown with black sleeves ...


Messiaen, Catalogue d'Oiseaux, Loriod, Vega

Wow, doing all that from memory is most impressive  .

[Traverso]

Nikhil Banerjee

It was a great loss for all those who care about Indian classical music when the Chhanda Dhara label ceased to exist.
The result is that these recordings are now often offered for very high prices.
Banerjee believed that music was not just an art form, but an alternative path to spirituality.
No compromises about the length or duration of the raga, as in ancient India these concerts at the various courts often lasted even much longer.In this case the duration of this raga is 57 minutes.

CD 1

[Florestan]

And now she is doing it all a second time, creating the dilemma, "which version is better?"! I find no clear answer.

Her Faure disc is also great!

Her Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti too.

[AnotherSpin]

Nikhil Banerjee

It was a great loss for all those who care about Indian classical music when the Chhanda Dhara label ceased to exist.
The result is that these recordings are now often offered for very high prices.
Banerjee believed that music was not just an art form, but an alternative path to spirituality.
No compromises about the length or duration of the raga, as in ancient India these concerts at the various courts often lasted even much longer.In this case the duration of this raga is 57 minutes.

CD 1

I love Nikhil Banerjee's playing since the days of vinyls, i.e. from the 70s-80s. In the USSR it was possible to buy Indian made LPs of Indian classical music. In my perception, Banerjee is on the top place among all sitar players, even more so than Ravi Shankar or Vilayat Khan. Qobuz has some of his albums, many of those recorded during his tours to the West.

[Traverso]

I love Nikhil Banerjee's playing since the days of vinyls, i.e. from the 70s-80s. In the USSR it was possible to buy Indian made LPs of Indian classical music. In my perception, Banerjee is on the top place among all sitar players, even more so than Ravi Shankar or Vilayat Khan. Qobuz has some of his albums, many of those recorded during his tours to the West.

Good to see that there are more fans of this music. Unfortunately, Banerjee died of a heart attack at a relatively young age.

[Brian]

Saw this posted a few days ago and decided to join in! William Mathias' Piano Concerto No. 1 is "harder," more jagged, and more modern than his No. 2, which has a more laid-back pastoral English feel. The youthful Vaughan Williams is last on the disc, so it does rather feel like the CD is a program slowly taking you backwards in musical time, from a Bartok-influenced era to one influenced by R. Strauss' Burleske or early Elgar.

[Brian]

Next winter, the Dallas Symphony is doing an enticing program that combines Sibelius' Symphony No. 6 and Durufle's Requiem, conducted by Matthew Halls. Streaming the Requiem now to see if this is one I want tickets to. Certainly will be a lot of achingly beautiful melancholy for one night!



Chose the Andrew Davis recording based on a ClassicsToday rec and it being the recently deceased Andrew Davis in one of his finest moments.

[Mapman]

Next winter, the Dallas Symphony is doing an enticing program that combines Sibelius' Symphony No. 6 and Durufle's Requiem, conducted by Matthew Halls. Streaming the Requiem now to see if this is one I want tickets to. Certainly will be a lot of achingly beautiful melancholy for one night!

That concert sounds great! (6 might be my favorite Sibelius symphony.) I played Durufle's Requiem in college; I particularly like the Lux Aeterna with its wonderful oboe melody.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No, 4 in E Flat Major, 1878/80 Version (1880 with Bruckner's 1886 revisions) - Ed. Leopold Nowak, Hallé Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski

[brewski]

Coming up in about ten minutes, Quatuor Danel, live from Wigmore Hall, in Weinberg and Shostakovich.

Weinberg: String Quartet No. 5 Op. 27
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6 Op. 35

-Bruce

[Linz]

Paul Dukas The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op. 28
Felix Mendessohn Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, MWV R20:
Camille Saint-Saens Danse Macabre
Igor Stravinsky  Scherzo fantastique, Scherzo à la russe and Petrouchka: Russian Dance
Zoltán Kodály II. Viennese Musical Clock and VI. Entrance of the Emperor and his Court
William Steinberg, Boston Symphony Orchestra

[JBS]

So far a mostly 20th century day
First

Then

And now selections from Norwegian composers. The CD title comes from one of the Tveitt pieces.

Alternate cover from a budget reissue

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde, act 1^ & 2^

Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Eberhard Waechter
Karl Böhm & Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

[brewski]

Coming up in about ten minutes, Quatuor Danel, live from Wigmore Hall, in Weinberg and Shostakovich.

Weinberg: String Quartet No. 5 Op. 27
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6 Op. 35

-Bruce

Not only superb, but an encore: the Elegy from Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. As violinist Marc Danel introduced it, "When we do two Shostakovich and one Weinberg, we do a Weinberg encore. When we do two Weinberg's, we play Shostakovich." Lovely symmetry.

I had never heard either of the Weinberg quartets, and as great as the Shostakovich was, they might have surpassed it on this occasion. You can see the entire concert on the link above.

-Bruce

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony in D Minor,'Nullte', 1869 Ed. Leopold Nowak, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Theodor Guschlbauer

[JBS]

Continuing on the 20th Century Express

[Linz]

Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 4 in C Major "Requiem für meine Tochter"Vienna Symphony Orchestra Rudolf Moralt and  Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln, Julius Patzak; Otto Wiener; Hanny Steffek; Hertha Töpper; Erich Majkut; Frederick Guthrie; Franz Illenberger; Graz Cathedral Choir; Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Anton Lippe

[Symphonic Addict]

Rautavaara: Clarinet Concerto (Richard Stoltzman, Leif Segerstam, Helsinki P.O.)

Sheer magic.