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[Mirror Image]

Nice!

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[Irons]

Armstrong Gibbs: Three Pieces.



Nothing ground-breaking but no matter. A most enjoyable CD and a pleasure to return.

[kyjo]

String Quartets 10 and 11

This guy doesn't cease to amaze me with these utterly substantial creations. He had a special gift to write extremely well-crafted music for string quartet, I have no doubts in that regard. I've listened to these works with sheer awe and pleasure.

The Adagio molto of the No. 10 has struck me powerfully, it's just heart-wrenching, a favorite slow movement from now on. Schubert, Mahler and Bruckner would have been proud of this poignant music.

I'm not exaggerating when I say these works have been truly revelatory, or at least to me they have been.

Okay, I will most definitely need to hear these!!

[Papy Oli]

Geirr Tveitt
Prillar
Sun God Symphony

[kyjo]

A few first-listens



The very opening bars had me on the edge of the seat and after the final chord I stooped to pick up my jaw which must have dropped on the floor some time during the 3rd movement. Such a ravishing experience! The sweeping power of this music took me to planes and places where I'd never been before. An absolute masterpiece.



A different, but no less exhilarating and powerful, experience. That a 15yo could write music exhibiting such complete mastery of form and such expressive depths is nothing short of a miracle, just like in Mozart's case. These quartets are full of passion and tenderness, life-affirming and gorgeously tuneful. The big surprise is a piano quartet which Felix wrote at the teder age of 12 (sic!) and which is sheer delight from start to end, a masterpiece of elegance and a feast of memorable melodies. The inclusion of this work makes this twofer the only genuinely complete on the market, all others known to me don't feature it. Mendelssohn was a genius and I should spend much more time with his music than I used to.

Great stuff, Andrei. Mendelssohn's piano quartets are astonishingly great works for a 15-year-old. They're filled with boundless energy and unpredictable harmonies. I was particularly struck by no. 3 - a most substantial work. Mendelssohn's mastery of craftsmanship, especially in chamber music, never ceases to amaze and delight me.

[Traverso]

Desprez

It's about time to listen to these fine music that is sung so well.

[Papy Oli]

Back for another couple of those:

Oboe concertos by Albinoni.

[steve ridgway]

Boulez - Livre Pour Cordes.

[steve ridgway]

Birtwistle - Nomos.

[steve ridgway]

Xenakis - Nuits.

[steve ridgway]

Scelsi - Okanagon for harp, double bass and tam-tam. Love it.

[Traverso]

Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake (highlights)

I do not know a recording with music of Tchaikovsky that gives me so much pleasure as this one.

[Carlo Gesualdo]

Hello, it's warm summer day here 

I am Listening to the Gombert on Beauty Farm ensemble, pretty good job, the Motets vol 1-2 and now the Masses, very darn good, on Fra Bernardo, worth your precious money.

P.s On a non-classical parenthesis Had press two vinyl LP of my work the delay are long, but there no minimun pressing, I will have to wait in July or August to received them, I'm all exited wow my best works on analogue LP, this is the good news the bad news it's expensive and now I'm almost broke $, crap. 

[Florestan]

Great stuff, Andrei. Mendelssohn's piano quartets are astonishingly great works for a 15-year-old. They're filled with boundless energy and unpredictable harmonies. I was particularly struck by no. 3 - a most substantial work. Mendelssohn's mastery of craftsmanship, especially in chamber music, never ceases to amaze and delight me.

My thoughts exactly, Kyle. Felix was a genius, no doubt.

TD



Mind-blowing, desert island stuff as well.

[Florestan]

Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake (highlights)

I do not know a recording with music of Tchaikovsky that gives me so much pleasure as this one.

Maybe a complete Swan Lake would do the trick? Like Previn / LSO, for instance

[Traverso]

Maybe a complete Swan Lake would do the trick? Like Previn / LSO, for instance

Ahem....I have that recording and Dorati,Ansermet and Bonynge,all complete 

[Florestan]

Ahem....I have that recording and Dorati,Ansermet and Bonynge,all complete 

Great!

Honestly, Jan, it's been a long time since I wouldn't take anything except the whole thing in the case of Tchaikovsky's ballets or Grieg's Peer Gynt. It's my firm conviction that in all instances the suites don't even begin to do full justice to the beauty and power and full meaning of the music. At least in Peer Gynt's case, I vividly recall my experience: I had liked the suites very much but no more than that --- when I first heard the whole melodrama in full, I had tears in my eyes all throughout, and I still have them flowing every time I listen to it.

[Traverso]

Great!

Honestly, Jan, it's been a long time since I wouldn't take anything except the whole thing in the case of Tchaikovsky's ballets or Grieg's Peer Gynt. It's my firm conviction that in all instances the suites don't even begin to do full justice to the beauty and power and full meaning of the music. At least in Peer Gynt's case, i vividly recall my experience: I had liked the suites very much but no more than that --- when I first heard the whole melodrama in full, I had tears in my eyes all throughout, and I still have them flowing every time I listen to it.

I'm looking for this one quite some time for an affordable price

[Florestan]

I'm looking for this one quite some time for an affordable price

Can't see it properly apart from London SO.  Who conducts and who are the soloists?

[Traverso]

Can't see it properly apart from London SO.  Who conducts?

Per Dreier