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[AnotherSpin]

The recordings to find are from Schola Gregoriana Cambridge -- but there's nothing streaming unfortunately.  Neither is the excellent Missa in Gallicantu from PThe Tallis Scholars.  Fortunately Ensemble Venance Fortunat/ Anne Marie Deschamps has some things on Spotify -- very rewarding IMO.

Thank you! Both Missa in Gallicantu, The Tallis Scholars and several albums of Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Anne Marie Deschamps are on Qobuz, will listen.

[Karl Henning]

Earlier today, Beethoven op.1/1 (Stern, Rose and Istomin)

Classic!

[Spotted Horses]

I'm not usually attracted to "anthology" releases, with selections from different composers, but this one has proven to be a valuable resource. French Music for Winds from Les Vents Francais



I came to it for the Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik (how is that French?). But have found other diminutive gems. Today La chemise du roi Rene, by Milhaud. A charming suite of brief movements, gentle with some meltingly poignant dissonances sprinkled in. Lovely playing.

[San Antone]

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Mary Berry: Schola Gregoriana Of Cambridge



Among my favorite recordings of this work.

[Todd]

[Lisztianwagner]

Maurice Ravel
L'enfant et les sortilèges

Sophie Koch (soprano), Jean Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Annick Massis (soprano)
Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker

[Linz]

Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 "Sinfonia Espansiva"
Symphony No 4, Op. 19 "The Inextingguishable"
Royal Danish Orchestra,  Paavo Berglund

[Karl Henning]

[Linz]

Franz Liszt Khatia Buniatishvili

[ritter]

First listen to Sylvano Bussotti's Nuovo scenario a Lorenzaccio (a recent purchase - used via Discogs, as the CD is long OOP).

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A hitherto unknown to me iteration of Bussotti's Loenzaccio (based on Alfred de Musset). Initially there was the "danced opera" from 1972 (extracts from the world première are available on a CD included in Daniela Lotti's book L'aura ritrovata, published by LIM in 2014), The Lorenzaccio-Symphonie was recorded by Giuseppe Sinopoli for DG), and now I find this 40" work for "soprano, tenor, actor with solo guitar, and large symphony orchestra, recited in French, sung in Italian and German". The enterprising Arturo Tamayo conducts this Austrian Radio production. ...

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C Minor,  1891 Vienna Revision by Bruckner himself. Ed. Guenter Brosche
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann

[Mister Sharpe]

I'm not usually attracted to "anthology" releases, with selections from different composers, but this one has proven to be a valuable resource. French Music for Winds from Les Vents Francais



I came to it for the Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik (how is that French?). But have found other diminutive gems. Today La chemise du roi Rene, by Milhaud. A charming suite of brief movements, gentle with some meltingly poignant dissonances sprinkled in. Lovely playing.

I wonder how Milhaud would have musically described King René's shirt, Spotted Horses, but surely you mean cheminée. Still, I love this work (glad you do, too!) so much that if you do find one so-titled, please let me know immediately because I MUST hear it!  BTW, BBC loves it so much they use a few bars of it as an interlude.

[Linz]

Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in d Minor, 1894 Original Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,  Carlo Maria Giulini

[Florestan]

I wonder how Milhaud would have musically described King René's shirt, Spotted Horses, but surely you mean cheminée.

Is it easier to describe musically a cheminée than a chemise? Richard Strauss would have strongly disagreed. 

[Mister Sharpe]

From 1981, on mint LP, globetrotting, Austrian-born guitarist Terrence Farrell's second album featuring works of one of his teachers, Guy Horn:  Prelude, Vaux Le Vicomte, Vals De Luz, Prelude no. 8, Prelude No. 1, Estampas Del Sur:        Zamba, Tonada, Pasillo, Gavotte En Rondeau, Sarabande, Allemande, Mazurka, Romanza, Seranata Espagnola; Bach: Gavotte en rondeau, Sarabande, Allemande; Llobet: Mazurka, Estila Popular, Romanza; Malats: Seranata Espagnola. On the cover of my copy is a sticker that fascinates: "Fabricated on German Vinyl."  I didn't know it was to be preferred! 

[Mister Sharpe]

Is it easier to describe musically a cheminée than a chemise? Richard Strauss would have strongly disagreed. 

Ha-ha  , perhaps, but don't forget Strauss's interlude, "Dreaming by the Fireside," from Intermezzo.

[Madiel]

Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante



Perfectly good music, and no complaints at all about the performance - Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano are amongst the most dependable performers in this series. But the text of La Senna Festeggiante is extremely old-fashioned. Two characters called "The Golden Age" and "Virtue" have a love-in with the River Seine, in a sycophantic celebration of King Louis XV of France.

It's definitely what you would call an occasional piece, and the relevant occasion has long since passed!

[Florestan]

Ha-ha  , perhaps, but don't forget Strauss's interlude, "Dreaming by the Fireside," from Intermezzo.

I was thinking rather about his statement that he could compose a tea-spoon. 

[Linz]

b]Anton Bruckner[/b] Overture in G Minor
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, 1893 edition [Doblinger] of 1891 version. Supervised by Cyrill Hynais
Wiener Symphoniker, Charles Adler

[Karl Henning]

I wonder how Milhaud would have musically described King René's shirt, Spotted Horses, but surely you mean cheminée. Still, I love this work (glad you do, too!) so much that if you do find one so-titled, please let me know immediately because I MUST hear it!  BTW, BBC loves it so much they use a few bars of it as an interlude.

"Autocorrect" ... it's a thing of bowtie.