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[Mirror Image]

A great selection Olivier!

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NP:

SQ No. 13 from this incredible set:

[Sergeant Rock]

Elgar Symphony No. 2 and Sospiri, Tate conducting the LSO




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra:

Pounds the table! My favorite Tippett work and one of the finest British pieces written for strings I've heard.

[Todd]

Downsizing to string trios.  The almost Kodaly Quartet does fine work, though the Jacques Thibaud Trio does better yet and in better sound.  The disc in the big box has an extra work tacked on.

[Mirror Image]

TD
Glazunov Symphony No.1 - an incredible achievement for a 16 year old:

I still haven't listened to the 1st, 3rd or 5th symphonies from Glazunov, but I have enjoyed every work I've heard from him thus far immensely. One of the last great Russian Late-Romantics (along with Rachmaninov).

[Mirror Image]

Absolutely. 
A while ago (might be 2 years already!) I picked up a whole bunch of this series with the decorative covers.
The Lyadov became one of my favourites.

Q

Ah yes, Que. I remember you speaking rather highly of this recording. I believe it was you who prompted me to investigate it in the first-place. A winner for sure.

[Florestan]

New arrival, first listen.

Alessandro Besozzi (1702-1793)
Sei Trio per Oboe, Violino e Fagotto.

Luca Vignali, Oboe.
Pavel Vernikov, Violino.
Paolo Carlini, Fagotto.

Recorded in 2000, Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, these concerti sound really good. Music produced by a master on the Bassoon, celebrated in his time, and forgotten totally. Music that flows easily without tumbling you in contemplative thought. Unassuming music, but will give pleasure from beginning to end, not a moment of boredom. Mozart enjoyed their music enormously, and that has some meaning.
Performance is excellent.

I have this and other discs of his music (also one with music of his nephew's son, Carlo) and I concur. Only he was oboist, not bassoonist.

[Harry]

I have this and other discs of his music (also one with music of his nephew's son, Carlo) and I concur. Only he was oboist, not bassoonist.

Yes my fault, you are right of course. Will correct that.

[bhodges]

This afternoon at 2:00 (EDT), an online recital by Jacob Greenberg (the superb pianist for the International Contemporary Ensemble) on quarantineconcerts.tv.

György Kurtág: Selections from Játékok
Haydn: Sonata in A-flat, Hob.XVI:46
J. S. Bach: Duet #1 in e minor, BWV 802; Prelude and Fugue in f# minor from WTC I, BWV 859
George Lewis: Endless Shout
Janáček: In the Mists

--Bruce

[Wakefield]

Released today:

https://youtu.be/ZIaiB9X2LGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIaiB9X2LGs

I particularly liked this reconstruction. I didn't know (or hadn't noticed) this oboist: Emma Black. She is Australian, she started with modern instruments, but in Switzerland, she switched to original instruments, for more than 20 years now. She is the main oboist for the Wiener Akademie (Martin Haselböck) and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble (Thomas Hengelbrock), two excellent ensembles, too. 

[Traverso]

Martha

Live From The Concertgebouw 1978 & 1979

Bach Partita No.2 & English SuiteNo.2
Chopin
Bela Bartók   Sonata 1926
Alberto Ginastera 
Sergei Prokofiev  sonata No.7
Domenico Scarlatti

[Christo]

Inspired by his own thread, now playing Mr. Newcastle-German's two guitar concertos again, after two or three decades. Fine, lively performances, bought in Prague in the early 1990s:

[steve ridgway]

Ligeti: Atmosphères etc. I enjoy everything on this album, will let it play through and get absorbed it in once more.

[Symphonic Addict]

What did you think, Cesar? I've been meaning to listen to that work.

Hope to learn Cesar's findings soon, but speaking for myself - I find it a perfect alternative for Fauré's, the tunes perhaps less catchy at first hearing but overall just as fine, surprising it isn't better known.

Christo is right about it. This is an austere and solemn Saint-Saëns what I hear on this work, so don't expect great tunes here. However, I did like it.

[Symphonic Addict]

More Saint-Saëns:



Hearing this for the first time as I'm a sort of newbie on this genre, and I have to say it's sounding supremely stunning. From the very beginning I was hooked.

[kyjo]

TD
Glazunov Symphony No.1 - an incredible achievement for a 16 year old:

A great work from a precocious young composer, indeed! I must say that Svetlanov's recording is a bit too slow for my liking; I prefer the fleeter, fresher, more "Dvorakian" approaches of Serebrier and Järvi. But one might argue that Svetlanov makes the music sound the most "Russian" out of all of them, so his approach is valid. Worst of all is Polyansky's lifeless drudgery of a performance IMHO...

[kyjo]

Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F major Pastoral - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg - the best performance yet in this cycle, also the best recorded. Former favourites in the Pastoral - Jochum, Bohm, Klemperer - now seem too slow while the HIPsters seem far too fast; Steinberg in 1965 gets it just right.

I'll have to check out these newly released recordings with Steinberg and my hometown band. Their recording of Beethoven 7 on EMI, coupled with Firkusny's recording of the Emperor Concerto, was one of my first "gateways" into the world of classical music when I was 7 or 8 years old:

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[kyjo]

Pounds the table! My favorite Tippett work and one of the finest British pieces written for strings I've heard.

+1 Such life-enhancing music!

[kyjo]

Christo is right about it. This is an austere and solemn Saint-Saëns what I hear on this work, so don't expect great tunes here. However, I did like it.

Thanks, Cesar. I think I'll investigate the Christmas Oratorio and Samson et Delila first.

[SonicMan46]

Villa-Lobos, Heitor - Cello Concertos w/ Antonio Meneses & Victor Pablo Perez - an MP3 DL from Amazon - Dave