What are you listening 2 now?

[vandermolen]

I certainly suffer no anxiety about enjoying this!

Me too 

[pjme]

A good day to you, Rafael. I'll probably stay away from that recording you linked for the simple fact that I think the voices add a bit more to the strangeness of the work.

https://www.youtube.com/v/dknb2DG3Cts

A fragment from Abravanel's  (still) excellent version of l'Homme et son désir.

propably still available (but less exiting as Abravanel) this Belgian recording:

[Mirror Image]

I certainly suffer no anxiety about enjoying this!

Nor can I, Karl.

[vandermolen]

Ooohhh!  That album looks particularly 'yummy'! 

Do you happen to know whether or not any of these recordings are the same as ones on that EMI "The Great EMI Recordings" set?

Best,

PD

p.s.  Up in a bit:  Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto with Kari Kriikku.  I heard it years ago on a BBC program (Radio 3).  The initial focus was on Sibelius but then they also talked about his music's influence on later contemporary composers.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?filter=programmes&q=sibelius+composer+of+the+week  I'm trying to find the one in which they talked about contemporary Finnish music.

It certainly is a particularly 'yummy' album PD.
The recordings come from 1946-56 and, I think, pre-date some of the releases that you mean although I think that Bax's 'The Garden of Fand' and the John Ireland works are the same as on 'Great EMI Recordings'. Elgar's Enigma Variations from 1947 has never been released in any format before! This is its first appearance. I find this extraordinary as I have never heard a better or more moving performance. I only heard it as I let the CD run on after the VW works as I was writing school reports. However, very soon I was concentrating exclusively on the performance, which in many ways has restored my enthusiasm for the work. I know that it is great music but it was so familiar to me from my late teens that I had become rather bored with it, terrible as that is to say. I can't understand why this performance was never released before. The booklet note author said it is a mystery. It was Barbirolli's first recording of it although he re-recorded it later the same year in a version that has been previously issued. The two VW works from 1946 and 48 have never been released on CD before. It is indeed a fine collection and brilliantly re-mastered.

[Mirror Image]

https://www.youtube.com/v/dknb2DG3Cts

A fragment from Abravanel's  (still) excellent version of l'Homme et son désir.

propably still available (but less exiting as Abravanel) this Belgian recording:

Thanks for the feedback, pjme.

[Karl Henning]

Ooohhh!  That album looks particularly 'yummy'! 

Do you happen to know whether or not any of these recordings are the same as ones on that EMI "The Great EMI Recordings" set?

Best,

PD

p.s.  Up in a bit:  Magnus Lindberg's Clarinet Concerto with Kari Kriikku.  I heard it years ago on a BBC program (Radio 3).  The initial focus was on Sibelius but then they also talked about his music's influence on later contemporary composers.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?filter=programmes&q=sibelius+composer+of+the+week  I'm trying to find the one in which they talked about contemporary Finnish music.

The Lindberg Cl Cto is dynamite!

[Karl Henning]

This set has not yet released me:

Shostakovich
Symphony # 6 in b minor, Op. 54
Symphony # 15 in A, Op. 141
Prague Symphony
Maxim Shostakovich

[pjme]

It is a fascinating score. Milhaud and Claudel traveled in Brazil and  this wonderful photograph shows how they did:



Audrey Parr and Claudel. She created the set designs and costumes for this ballet.

https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16555

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It certainly is a particularly 'yummy' album PD.
The recordings come from 1946-56 and, I think, pre-date some of the releases that you mean although I think that Bax's 'The Garden of Fand' and the John Ireland works are the same as on 'Great EMI Recordings'. Elgar's Enigma Variations from 1947 has never been released in any format before! This is its first appearance. I find this extraordinary as I have never heard a better or more moving performance. I only heard it as I let the CD run on after the VW works as I was writing school reports. However, very soon I was concentrating exclusively on the performance, which in many ways has restored my enthusiasm for the work. I know that it is great music but it was so familiar to me from my late teens that I had become rather bored with it, terrible as that is to say. I can't understand why this performance was never released before. The booklet note author said it is a mystery. It was Barbirolli's first recording of it although he re-recorded it later the same year in a version that has been previously issued. The two VW works from 1946 and 48 have never been released on CD before. It is indeed a fine collection and brilliantly re-mastered.

Thank you for the further information and reviews.     I had suspected that they were different recordings (and had also missed the dates next to the recordings in their wee print size too).

[vandermolen]

Thank you for the further information and reviews.     I had suspected that they were different recordings (and had also missed the dates next to the recordings in their wee print size too).

My pleasure 

[Karl Henning]

It is a fascinating score. Milhaud and Claudel traveled in Brazil and  this wonderful photograph shows how they did:



Audrey Parr and Claudel. She created the set designs and costumes for this ballet.

https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16555

Nice!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

The Lindberg Cl Cto is dynamite!

[Mirror Image]

Nice!

+1

[André]

Artur Schnabel: Zehn Lieder, op.11. Sibylle Kamphues, Irmela Roelcke, on CPO. Solid music. I have been interested this week in composers who are tangential at best to my "main" interests, but that I enjoyed at one time enough to have bought a CD. Rediscovering some interesting music as a result.

Love that set. I think the quintet is a great work.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Symphony # 7 in C, Op. 60, Leningrad
Prague Symphony
Maxim Shostakovich

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Milhaud
L'Homme et son désir, Op. 48
Tomoko Makuuchi (soprano), Jian Zhao (mezzo-soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Bernard Deletre (bass)
Orchestre National de Lille
Jean-Claude Casadesus

[staxomega]

https://www.youtube.com/v/QPv5OpJTWh0

This is Arrau playing Schumann's Nachtstucke, I've decided to explore the music a bit, so if anyone knows any good ones, please say. The Arrau (on CD) benefits from excellent sound of course, and a very refined control of the dynamics, the build up of the crescendos.

Herbert Schuch has an interesting recording of them. They aren't as "whole" or integrated as Arrau's approach, Schuch can sound a bit disconnected like in the third. Schuch is how I'd picture Horowitz playing them. Let me know if you want to hear them.

[Mirror Image]

Milhaud
Symphony No. 6, Op. 343
Francis
Basel RSO

[vers la flamme]

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, op.14. Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra.

[André]

Act I this morning. Act II tonight. Followed by: