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Shostakovich: Symphony #6


Enjoying this work a lot more than usual this week...

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[Karl Henning]

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Shostakovich: Symphony #6


Enjoying this work a lot more than usual this week...

Excellent!

[Symphonic Addict]

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Shostakovich: Symphony #6


Enjoying this work a lot more than usual this week...

Some Shostakovich here too:

It's not a popular recording among listeners, but I do love it. I'm very fond of its heavy pacing. Sometimes you just want to taste all the power with detail and without hurry, and Haitink and the LPO offer that in a smashing interpretation. The brass section is powerful when reaches the closing section, so are the timpani. Shostakovich wanted to express the feeling of winning a too suffered battle (and, eventually, the war), and he succeded at it. I've never had any problem with this work.

[Karl Henning]

Some Shostakovich here too:

It's not a popular recording among listeners, but I do love it. I'm very fond of its heavy pacing. Sometimes you just want to taste all the power with detail and without hurry, and Haitink and the LPO offer that in a smashing interpretation. The brass section is powerful when reaches the closing section, so are the timpani. Shostakovich wanted to express the feeling of winning a too suffered battle (and, eventually, the war), and he succeded at it. I've never had any problem with this work.

I like Haitink's Leningrad, too.

[Symphonic Addict]

I like Haitink's Leningrad, too.

Fabulous!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jordi Savall - recordings below for the afternoon - needed a 'change of pace' -    Dave

   

Nice !!

[JBS]

Suggested to me in a Twitter discussion

Her dates are 1882-1955. She was Nadia Boulanger's first American student, wrote reviews and books, was a member of NYU's music faculty, also taught at Juilliard, was active in several professional organizations. The Naxos liner notes say "In all these positions she was the first or only woman".
Full contents:
A Lament on an African Theme Op 20a (1927)
Concertino for Oboe Clarinet and Strings Op 32b (1939-43)
Trio Sonata Number 1 for Flute Cello and Piano Op 40
Symphonic Suite for Strings Op 33 (1940)
Duo for Oboe and Clarinet Op 25 (1932)
American Youth Concerto Op 36 (1943)

[Karl Henning]

Suggested to me in a Twitter discussion

Her dates are 1882-1955. She was Nadia Boulanger's first American student, wrote reviews and books, was a member of NYU's music faculty, also taught at Juilliard, was active in several professional organizations. The Naxos liner notes say "In all these positions she was the first or only woman".
Full contents:
A Lament on an African Theme Op 20a (1927)
Concertino for Oboe Clarinet and Strings Op 32b (1939-43)
Trio Sonata Number 1 for Flute Cello and Piano Op 40
Symphonic Suite for Strings Op 33 (1940)
Duo for Oboe and Clarinet Op 25 (1932)
American Youth Concerto Op 36 (1943)

My curiosity is piqued, too:

https://www.youtube.com/v/gwYNu6vNJdU

[Madiel]

Dvorak Symphony No.1 again.



Via streaming. One day I might decide I really need to own a copy of the early symphonies. But today is not yet that day. It's not horrible, it's current rating is "nice but not really that interesting". Sometime soon I'll see if the 2nd or 3rd convinces me.

[JBS]

My curiosity is piqued, too:

https://www.youtube.com/v/gwYNu6vNJdU

That of course is the Naxos recording.
The Symphonic Suite reminded me for no obvious reason of RVW.
The American Youth Concerto is a 15 minute piano concerto which sounds like it was intended for a Pops concert and has a jazzy finale that includes a quasi-quote from Stephen Foster.

NP
Synchronous with Madiel, but from The Boxset

[Symphonic Addict]

Hurwitz's video about this composer, Kurt Graunke, was rather funny, and judging by how this work sounds, I think he's spot on.

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

[Mirror Image]

Cool! I need to revisit this work.

[Mirror Image]

Some Shostakovich here too:

It's not a popular recording among listeners, but I do love it. I'm very fond of its heavy pacing. Sometimes you just want to taste all the power with detail and without hurry, and Haitink and the LPO offer that in a smashing interpretation. The brass section is powerful when reaches the closing section, so are the timpani. Shostakovich wanted to express the feeling of winning a too suffered battle (and, eventually, the war), and he succeded at it. I've never had any problem with this work.

Very nice, Cesar. I'll have to revisit that Leningrad. I have some firm favorites already: Rozhdestvensky, Kondrashin, Bernstein (CSO) and Svetlanov, but I don't recall thinking negatively of the Haitink performance.

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Maurice Ravel: Sérénade grotesque; Jeux d'eau; Valses nobles et sentimentales. Louis Lortie

Probably the best performance of the Sérénade I've ever heard, which is probably my least favorite Ravel piano work. Really enjoying this cycle overall though.

I don't own that set, but Lortie is a fabulous pianist.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Górecki
Quasi Una Fantasia, Op. 64 ("String Quartet No. 2")
Royal String Quartet

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Hanson: Bold Island Suite

Hanson has a style where his works sometimes sound like Sibelius but in a more cinematic way, and nothing wrong with that, of course. His music is inspiring, and this work is not an exception.




Kurtág: Stele

This is the first work ever I hear by this composer, and it's fantastic. There is a timeless feeling to it that intrigues me.

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Kurtág: Stele

This is the first work ever I hear by this composer, and it's fantastic. There is a timeless feeling to it that intrigues me.

I LOVE this piece and glad you enjoyed it, too.

[Symphonic Addict]

I LOVE this piece and glad you enjoyed it, too.

If he composed similar works to this one, I want to hear more.

[Mirror Image]

If he composed similar works to this one, I want to hear more.

I think this one is pretty unique to his oeuvre. He's composed some concerti that are quite good, but do check out his SQs, which are probably my favorite works of his that I've heard so far. The Keller Quartet on ECM is rather recommendable I'd say.