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[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams: 'A London Symphony' (1920 version)
Eugen Goossens Cincinnati SO (1941 recording - possibly a tribute to beleaguered London)
This CD was an absolute revelation to me when it first appeared as I'd never heard that beautiful passage in the Epilogue which the composer jettisoned in 1936 (a big mistake as far as I'm concerned). He said that it sounded like 'a bad hymn tune' nevertheless it remains one of the most beautiful and poignant things that he wrote:

[vandermolen]

Per Norgard: Sinfonia Austera
In Memoriam Per Norgard:

[Traverso]

Bach


Vol.8  CD 1

[foxandpeng]

Per Norgard: Sinfonia Austera
In Memoriam Per Norgard:

Norgards 3 Nocturnal Movements, Lysning, and Symphony 8, here!

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Vivaldi

L'Estro Armonico, Op.3

Concertos 1-6

[Harry]

Gottfried Finger (c.1655–1730)
Music for European Courts and Concerts.
See back cover for details.
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen, Robert Rawson.
Recorded in July, 2018 at St Mary the Virgin, Bishopsbourne, Kent, UK.
Cover: Sundial, Paris, eighteenth century.

The fiery, sometimes snappy playing of the 'violin-tickling gentlemen' is invigorating, and added the very pointed playing of the Oboe's results in an energizing performance. Finger's music is fun and very well composed. Sound is optima forma.

[Que]

Revisiting is more rewarding than I had expected.

[Que]

Gottfried Finger (c.1655–1730)
Music for European Courts and Concerts.

The fiery, sometimes snappy playing of the 'violin-tickling gentlemen' is invigorating, and added the very pointed playing of the Oboe's results in an energizing performance. Finger's music is fun and very well composed. Sound is optima forma.

I recently enjoyed some snippets from this recording:

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Locatelli

CD 15

[Harry]

I recently enjoyed some snippets from this recording:

Thank you @Que, already bookmarked it, and will of course listen soon.

[DavidW]

Per Norgard: Sinfonia Austera
In Memoriam Per Norgard:

I have the third conducted by Segerstam queued up for today.

[Harry]

AMANDUS IVANSCHIZ (1727-1758).
Chamber music at the Abbey of Lambach.
Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor Violin.
Recording: Benediktinerstift Lambach, 2022.

To me an unknown composer, sounds very much like Haydn, and melodically doing as well. Not earth shattering music but pleasant enough, and well played and superb recorded. Even the tiniest details are noticeable. Letzbor's tone is steady and clear as a bell.

Amandus Ivanschiz was baptized Matthias Leopold Ivanschiz on December 24, 1727, in the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt. As early as 1742, at the age of fifteen, Matthias decided to enter the Pauline Order and took the name Amandus. On December 25, 1743, Amandus took his vows and was then sent to Mariatrost and Wiener Neustadt to study for the priesthood. The extensive œuvre of this master, who lived to be only 31 years old, is astonishing. In total, more than 300 copies of his works can be found in Central and Eastern Europe. His modern style and great compositional mastery probably explain the wide dissemination of his music.

[JBS]

Before going into work, the first CD of this

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A special relationship.

I didn't know that Krauss knew Strauss. The album cover looks great!

[Harry]

FASTES DE LA GRANDE ÉCURIE.
See back cover for details.
SYNTAGMA AMICI & GIOURDINA, Jérémie Papasergio.
Recording: Auditorium du Conservatoire de Caen, June 2021.
Cover illustration: Anonymus after a drawing of Henri de Gissey (1621-1673), Carrousel donné par
Louis XIV dans la cour du Palais des Tuileries (Paris, 5 juillet 1661), . Versailles, Château et Trianons.

A varied program through two centuries shows how pompous and at the same time thoughtful it was at the royal court. The ensemble shows the various occasions on which this music was performed. One of my favourite recordings, well performed and recorded. A lot of instruments, lots of detail and colour. Some amazing musicians at work here. Do try!

[Szykneij]

Concerning Dmitri Tiomkin's song from High Noon, from @Karl Henning's Composing topic:

There is a local radio station here in the Boston area that frequently plays the Tex Ritter version. The contrast in sections is more jarring in his rendition.

[ritter]

I didn't know that Krauss knew Strauss. The album cover looks great!

Krauss even coauthored the libretto of Strauss' last opera Capriccio, of which he conducted the world première. He also conducted the first performances of Friedenstag (dedicated by the composer to him) and of Die Liebe der Danae in Salzburg (dress rehearsal only in 1944, posthumous première in 1952).

The other conductor with whom Strauss had a close relationship was Karl Böhm.

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Beethoven

Diabelli Variations

[Karl Henning]

The Concerto Gregoriano is one of my favorite Respighi works. While I like that Mordkovitch/Downes recording, I like this one even more:

Tangentially:

[ritter]

First listen to this recent purchase of piano music by Darius Milhaud performed by Alexandre Tharaud (with Madeleine Milhaud making a cameo appearance, reciting —in English— the titles of the pieces that compose La Muse mènagere):



EDIT: I now realise that Mme. Milhaud also reads short excerpts from the Flaubert novel before each of the pieces of L'Album de Madame Bovary.

Perhaps you have the alternate cover, with Madame Milhaud in more conjugal pose instead of with a rakish young artist?

I believe that is the cover of the version in which Mme. Milhaud makes her contribution in French (the picture is on the back cover of the booklet of the version I bought).

Your next challenge is to find this Juilliard Quartet recording, although I think it appears on CD only as part of a Juilliard Quartet Recordings set (which is how I have it).

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I got the Sony set (very attractively priced) for the Milhaud, which —as you say— is unavailable elsewhere on CD, even if that meant duplicating the 2nd Viennese School and Bartók recordings, which I had in a West Hill Radio Archives set. Fortunately, I found a new, welcoming home for the latter.