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[Sergeant Rock]

Weinberger Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka & Fugue, Reiner conducting the Chicago

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


Sarge

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seems very interesting ,I found one for a  rather friendly price 

Sweet!

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Gerald FINZI Chamber Music
incl. Prelude and Fugue for String Trio, Interlude for oboe and string quartet, Elegy for violin and piano, Five Bagatelles for clarinet and string qyartet
and Diabelleries - Variations by Various Composers on a Theme "Oh! Where's My Little Basket Now?"
Cologne Chamber Soloists
BEETHOVEN:  The Creatures of Prometheus    incidental music
Rochester Philharmonic      David Zinman, cond.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Really?  You mean, surpassing Monteux/Chicago Symphony 1961 recording? 

Yep, though it is a photo-finish.  The NBC SO cannot touch the CSO, of course, and sonically the engineering is not as good, but I think esp. in the outer movements Cantelli has a better - and more exciting - grip on Franck's intentions, at least insofar as I understand them.  Further, Cantelli was a master of texture and in that he and Franck had a lot in common.  Still, as Franck himself said, likely : à chacun son goût !  The Cantelli is on Youtube, so you can always give it a listen.  (Reminds me I should count how many recordings of the Franck symphony I own, er maybe I don't want to know, really...)    Edit : this from the accompanying booklet - "Cantelli's Schumann and Franck recordings are notable for clarifying in a most musical way orchestration that has had numerous detractors...in the Franck symphony it is the many wind and brass passages scored in the lowest register. Cantelli solves these problems with ease, carefully balancing timbres and providing sufficient impulse to propel the music while making every strand audible."  [Like what I said  ]

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

First listen to Cantelli's recording of La Mer, which the accompanying booklet assures, "stands the test of time...that unique combination of layered colours and rhythmic exactitude that mark Cantelli at his best..."

[Brahmsian]

Yep, though it is a photo-finish.  The NBC SO cannot touch the CSO, of course, and sonically the engineering is not as good, but I think esp. in the outer movements Cantelli has a better - and more exciting - grip on Franck's intentions, at least insofar as I understand them.  Further, Cantelli was a master of texture and in that he and Franck had a lot in common.  Still, as Franck himself said, likely : à chacun son goût !  The Cantelli is on Youtube, so you can always give it a listen.  (Reminds me I should count how many recordings of the Franck symphony I own, er maybe I don't want to know, really...)    Edit : this from the accompanying booklet - "Cantelli's Schumann and Franck recordings are notable for clarifying in a most musical way orchestration that has had numerous detractors...in the Franck symphony it is the many wind and brass passages scored in the lowest register. Cantelli solves these problems with ease, carefully balancing timbres and providing sufficient impulse to propel the music while making every strand audible."  [Like what I said  ]

Thanks for that. I will check it out on YouTube. I only have the Monteux/CSO and the Karajan/BPO recordings of the Franck symphony. I hear that Munch is also highly regarded.

[Karl Henning]

Brahms
Pf Cto № 1 in d minor, Op. 15
Glenn St-Gould
NY Phil
Lenny

A curious situation...

https://www.youtube.com/v/SvWPM783TOE

This disc includes Bernstein's "pre-performance disclaimer"

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Thanks for that. I will check it out on YouTube. I only have the Monteux/CSO and the Karajan/BPO recordings of the Franck symphony. I hear that Munch is also highly regarded.

Munch is de rigueur, IMO, Tortelier on Chandos is a must hear - quite fast, actually, but I think this is a work (much as I  love it) that needs propelling to be effective.  Herrewegh's with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, the only one as far as I know with period instruments, is one of the few I haven't heard.  Raymond Leppard's with the RPO really impresses and I listen to that one a lot. 

[Karl Henning]

Brahms
Pf Cto № 2 in B^b, Op. 83
André Watts
NY Phil
Lenny

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Good exercise for the subwoofers.

What's your opinion about the recording and performance?

[JBS]

Almost directly from the mailbox to the CD player.


The "also available in this series" list another new CD of violin concertos (9th installment) but it does not seem to be listed at Amazon US. It's with Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini and a violinist I've never heard of before (Begelman).

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First-Listen Monday

Carter
Enchanted Preludes
Fred Sherry, Harvey Sollberger

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NP:

Henze
Aristaeus
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Janowski



This is a lovely work made even more lovely since I edited out the narration. One thing I absolutely dislike in any kind of music is narration. If these poems (written by the composer himself) were actually sung, then that would be a different story. There is no music behind the recitation of the poems but only in a few of them, but it's not substantial enough for me to worry about it. Now, this is an orchestral suite.

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NP:

Henze
Kammermusik 1958
Ensemble Horizonte
Jörg-Peter Mittmann

[Irons]

Walton: Cello Concerto.

Out of the three concertos for stringed instruments I find this the most intense, in Piatigorsky's recording anyway.

[aligreto]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5-7 Op. 10 [Bachaus]

[Traverso]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 5-7 Op. 10 [Bachaus]

Good morning Fergus,I hope you enjou your Bach-aus.....?   

[aligreto]

Good morning, Jan.
Yes very much so, thank you. There is a very lyrical quality to his playing, in these early works anyway.

[Traverso]

Mozart

String Quintet  K515 & 516

[Traverso]

Good morning, Jan.
Yes very much so, thank you. There is a very lyrical quality to his playing, in these early works anyway.

I  have  to listen to that set again and soon,and for now the beautiful Mozart quintets