What are you listening 2 now?

[North Star]

Test-drive Tuesday
Guarnieri
Chôro for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
Chôro for Violin and Orchestra
Claudia Nascimento (fl), Davi Graton (vn)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Karabtchevsky

[Karl Henning]

I cannot recommend this enough: Alexander Nemtin's orchestration of later Scriabin piano works, which Nemtin titled Nuances.

The orchestration for XI. is a presage of the Apocalypse!


https://www.youtube.com/v/mOa1oDDbgeg

A presage of the Apocalypse scarcely seems a nuance

[Brian]

Have you heard the Guarnieri and Santoro discs from Bis?  Mignone is good, but I'd rate those two higher.

Played Guarnieri's Fourth Symphony just before that and will probably try all the others at some point. So far in the series, Mignone seems to have the most "pops"/concert potential, which of course doesn't always mean that he has the most craft.

Is this a serious question or simply rhetorical?

Alas, we all know the answers...

[Karl Henning]

Zemlinsky
String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 4  (1896)
Maiblumen blühten überall (Dehmel), for soprano & string sextet*
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1913-15)
Schoenberg Quartet
Susan Narucki (S)*, Jan Erik van Regteren Altena (va)*, Taco Kooistra (vc)*

Very nice, Karlo!

[Wanderer]

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[Florestan]

 Via Spotify:



Ameriques

[Cato]

A presage of the Apocalypse scarcely seems a nuance

  There are a few others which are not particularly subtle as to their emotional expression! 

[Florestan]

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Ameriques

Okay, here's my assessment:

1. At no time did I feel the need to turn it off. Nice background music.

2. There's no way I could be moved by it like I am by even the shortest piano piece of Mozart, Schubert, Chopin or Rachmaninoff.

3. I'm an incurable, hopeless romantic.

[North Star]

Very nice, Karlo!

Yes indeed, Karl - and so is the Guarnieri

[North Star]

Test-drive Tuesday
Guarnieri
Piano Concerto no. 1
Max Barros
Warsaw Phil
Thomas Conlin



Zemlinsky
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 (1924)
Schoenberg Quartet

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NP:

Janáček
String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Talich Quartet



Smoking!

[vandermolen]

NP:

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
Moscow Philharmonics Symphony Orchestra
Kondrashin



Yikes! One does have to admire the sheer visceral quality of this music. The music goes for the throat.

Great recording of a great symphony.

Kalnins: Symphony No.6 (2001)
My favourite recent musical discovery:

[Mirror Image]

Great recording of a great symphony.

Yeah, it was fantastic, Jeffrey. Unfortunately, there was a glitch (probably tape issue) in the performance, but, thankfully, it came at the very end of the last movement when there was completely silence (last 8-10 seconds). It wasn't bad --- just a little popping sound, but I checked online sources like Spotify and YouTube and played the very last 10 or so seconds and all of them had that little pop. I believe this set is remastered, so it could've been something to do with the tape or something. I'm rather sensitive to any kind of glitch/defect, so I became rather curious to see if I have a bad copy and more times than not, it's the actual recording or something that happened during the transfer itself.

[JBS]

Test-drive Tuesday
Guarnieri
Chôro for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
Chôro for Violin and Orchestra
Claudia Nascimento (fl), Davi Graton (vn)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Isaac Karabtchevsky

I like that CD and look forward to the rest of the series.

[North Star]

I like that CD and look forward to the rest of the series.

Ditto, there's apparently six Chôros in total, would be nice if they record more Guarnieri as well.

[vandermolen]

Yeah, it was fantastic, Jeffrey. Unfortunately, there was a glitch (probably tape issue) in the performance, but, thankfully, it came at the very end of the last movement when there was completely silence (last 8-10 seconds). It wasn't bad --- just a little popping sound, but I checked online sources like Spotify and YouTube and played the very last 10 or so seconds and all of them had that little pop. I believe this set is remastered, so it could've been something to do with the tape or something. I'm rather sensitive to any kind of glitch/defect, so I became rather curious to see if I have a bad copy and more times than not, it's the actual recording or something that happened during the transfer itself.

I remember John that when I discovered Hilding Rosenberg's great Third Symphony, in the days of LP, there was a most annoying 'click' which ran through all of the moving final movement. I exchanged the LP only to discover that it was a pressing fault to be found on every copy of the LP. The 'annoying click' even got a mention in one of the record guides. In the end I learnt to live with it. Fortunately the problem was resolved for the eventual CD release.

[Mirror Image]

I remember John that when I discovered Hilding Rosenberg's great Third Symphony, in the days of LP, there was a most annoying 'click' which ran through all of the moving final movement. I exchanged the LP only to discover that it was a pressing fault to be found on every copy of the LP. The 'annoying click' even got a mention in one of the record guides. In the end I learnt to live with it. Fortunately the problem was resolved for the eventual CD release.

Yeah, now that would be annoying, indeed. If you have this particular Shostakovich Kondrashin set and have time, could you do me a favor? In the last 5-6 seconds of the last movement of the 4th symphony, does your recording have this little pop at the very end? I'd appreciate your feedback here.

[Madiel]

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Ameriques

I'm always startled when I see the name Christopher Lyndon-Gee on an album around here. His wife was my first piano teacher.

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NP:

K. A. Hartmann
Burleske Musik
SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern
Paul Goodwin



A fun little piece --- a jazzy excursion that has some traces of Hindemith and Stravinsky.

[vers la flamme]

Mozart: Piano Concert No 20 in D minor, K 466 - Daniel Barenboim soloist & conductor with the English Chamber Orchestra

What do you think of the Barenboim set? I would love a Mozart concertos set with the ECO, and there are three I'm interested in: Perahia, Uchida, and the aforementioned.