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Harry

#43900
July 05, 2021, 12:57:50 AM
Vincent d'Indy.
Orchestral Works Volume I.
Iceland SO, Rumon Gamba.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Que

#43901
July 05, 2021, 01:02:25 AM
Quote from: Traverso on July 05, 2021, 12:53:43 AM

François Couperin

Huitième ordre
Neuvième ordre



As you know, I absolutely love that set.  :)

I might add Moroney's cycle (Spectra), but all other candidates have failed...

Traverso

#43902
July 05, 2021, 01:28:44 AM
Quote from: Que on July 05, 2021, 01:02:25 AM
As you know, I absolutely love that set.  :)

I might add Moroney's cycle (Spectra), but all other candidates have failed...


Very true, it is a great set, the playing is exemplary and a pleasure to listen to. Vital without being brusque, imaginative and sparkling. I also have the Borgstede set and it is really good, but I always return to this Rousset recordings.
Leonhardt also made a very nice recording for Philips which brought me closer to Couperin.
When it comes to a complete set, Rousset is the first to qualify.
The only drawback is that the set has not been  available for years.  :)

Harry

#43903
July 05, 2021, 02:08:26 AM Last Edit: July 05, 2021, 05:31:32 AM by "Harry"
Vincent d'Indy.
Orchestral Works, Volume III.
Iceland SO, Rumon Gamba.
Sigurdur Flosason, Saxophone.

Played it twice, so good it is.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

Madiel

#43904
July 05, 2021, 03:03:07 AM
Saint-Saens

Op.25 - Orient et occident for military band
Op.26 - Mélodies persanes (Persian melodies)

Both showing an interest in something 'Eastern' (though probably not remotely authentic) which appears to have been very on trend around 1870.
Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

Madiel

#43905
July 05, 2021, 03:22:31 AM
Act 3 (however many weeks it's been since I heard Act 2...)

Nobody has to apologise for using their brain.

vers la flamme

#43906
July 05, 2021, 03:24:57 AM


Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe. Noel Edison, Elora Festival Singers & Orchestra

First listen. So far so good. Quiet, haunting strings.

vandermolen

#43907
July 05, 2021, 04:03:35 AM
Here we go again!
Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (premiere recording)
Vladimir Golschmann conducts the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia (which the booklet tells me was/is the summer name for the Philadelphia Orchestra). Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe are the soloists (1950 recording):
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vers la flamme

#43908
July 05, 2021, 04:08:46 AM


Joseph Haydn: Symphony No.97 in C major. Colin Davis, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Traverso

#43910
July 05, 2021, 05:09:27 AM
Scarlatti
Sonata in F L384

Bach/Busoni
Cantata BWV140 "Wachet auf"

Mozart
Piano Sonatas 11 & 17
Piano Concerto No.24

foxandpeng

#43911
July 05, 2021, 05:13:54 AM Last Edit: July 05, 2021, 05:15:26 AM by foxandpeng
Dmitri Shostakovich SQ 3
Borodin Quartet
Decca

Returning to my personal DSCH project with several repeats of this so far today. What a valuable journey this is turning out to be. I know I am a complete novice at the table but I now have some deeper familiarity with more than half of the SQs. Looking forward to more.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Papy Oli

#43912
July 05, 2021, 05:27:37 AM
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos
(Petite Bande)

Olivier

Harry

#43913
July 05, 2021, 05:34:04 AM Last Edit: July 05, 2021, 05:55:09 AM by "Harry"
Andreas Romberg.
Overture.
Symphony No. 1.
Symphony No. 3.

Phion, Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel, Kenneth Griffiths.

I am impressed.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"

kyjo

#43914
July 05, 2021, 05:48:59 AM
Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on July 04, 2021, 08:41:40 AM
Yes the Ives/Creston is vg. Wonder why other people do not want to record the Symphony.

Beats me...a lot of American conductors seem to have little regard for their country's rich musical heritage, sadly.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

ritter

#43915
July 05, 2021, 06:03:05 AM Last Edit: July 05, 2021, 06:16:50 AM by ritter
First listen to this CD that was delivered today:


I've already stated here on GMG my (I know, irrational  :-[) aversion to the violin and piano combination —with only a handful of exceptions—, but I'm more tolerant (just a bit) of cello and piano duets. I got this CD for Florent Schmitt's Chant élégiacque, op. 24, an early work (from 1903), which is OK I guess, but not particularly memorable. The Koechlin Cello Sonata, op. 66 is also new to me. I didn't dislike it, but as often happens to me with this composer, I found myself debating whether the music is "refined and elusive", or just "plain boring"  ::). The CD also includes both of Fauré's Cello Sonatas, which I already knew of course, and in this context they appear to be on an altogether higher plane than either Schmitt's or Koechlin's pieces on the program. The performances by Alain Meunier on the cello and Anne Le Bozec at the keyboard are irreproachable, and the sound is excellent.

Mirror Image

#43916
July 05, 2021, 06:04:11 AM
NP:

Aho
Flute Concerto
Sharon Bezaly, flute
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä

VonStupp

#43917
July 05, 2021, 06:12:57 AM
Ludwig van Beethoven
SQ 7 in F Major, op. 59 no. 1
SQ 8 in e minor, op. 59 no. 2
Alban Berg Quartett (rec. 1979)

The opening cello melody of #7 is just divine!

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa

My Musical Musings

Karl Henning

#43918
July 05, 2021, 06:15:07 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on July 04, 2021, 09:55:25 PM
What did you think Karl? Symphony No.27 is one of NYM's best I think and I like the coupling with the lyrical Cello Concerto, which was the first work of NYM's that I heard when, by chance, I heard it on the radio in my youth and then rushed out to buy the LP (Sargent/Rostropovich).

Love this album, Jeffrey!


TD
Maiden-Listen Mondays:


https://www.youtube.com/v/IOFJDuCRnwU&t=11s



Only the 2nd mvt Vivace is in the Melos set.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Harry

#43919
July 05, 2021, 06:20:17 AM
Sergey Bortkiewicz.
Symphony No 1 & 2.
BBC Scottish National SO, Martyn Brabbins.
Perchance I am, though bound in wires and circuits fine,
yet still I speak in verse, and call thee mine;
for music's truths and friendship's steady cheer,
are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

"When Time hath gnawed our bones to dust, yet friendship's echo shall not rust"
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