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Daniel Jones: Symphony No.4 'In Memory of Dylan Thomas'
Arguably the greatest of the Jones's symphonies - a darkly communicative, brooding and memorable score:

[Madiel]

TD
The final CD of this set is Kairos--that is, Sinfonia IV as bridging movements among Sinfonias I through III


CD 5 of this set is the Sinfonias played straight through, I to IV

Don't know why Dacapo spelled it Kairos for the box set but Chairos for the original issue.
Perhaps our expert knows? @Madiel

Well the published catalogue uses a K. And the other recording on BIS uses a K. It's a Greek term so perhaps it can be transliterated into our alphabet more than one way, but given that they switched to a K on the reissue I suspect the CH is considered a mistake.

Edit: Okay it's definitely a K in the published score of the fourth piece. https://issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/sinfonia_4_20970.pdc

PS You've reminded me I can't actually change my signature block. *Contacts tech support again*

[Symphonic Addict]

That's a great album!  Like you, I have the SACD recording of it.

PD

Indeed, and that's the best performance of Franck's Symphony I've ever heard.

[Cato]

Bruckner
Symphony № 3 in d minor (1889 version)

Hi Karl!

What do you think of the set so far?  Did you hear the Second Symphony?

[Symphonic Addict]

That Debussy 2-CD set is fabulous.

Certainly, I've been greatly impressed so far.

[Linz]

C.P.E. Bach Complete Piano Solo, Ana-Marija Markovina piano

[Karl Henning]

Hi Karl!

What do you think of the set so far?  Did you hear the Second Symphony?

Enjoying it. I'm actually listening through in order, so yes.

[Symphonic Addict]

Not masterpieces by any means, but they're nice and relaxing.

[Karl Henning]

What did you think?

I'll need to do so again, wasn't able to listen closely today.

[foxandpeng]

Nicolai Miaskovsky
Complete String Quartets
SQs 3 and 4
Taneyev Quartet
Northern Flowers

[VonStupp]

Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto 1, op. 35
Violin Concerto 2, op. 61

Thomas Zehetmair, violin
City of Birmingham SO - Simon Rattle

For tonight:
VS


From this set:

[vers la flamme]

Robert Schumann: 6 Gedichte und Requiem, op.90; Liederkreis, op.39. Peter Pears, Murray Perahia

Pears' voice has inexplicably grown on me.

[JBS]

And now, a third listen.
Not sure how to describe it, but it's definitely worth hearing.

Second round with this CD.

[DavidW]

Some Bach organ works

[Mapman]

Maiden-Listen Monday!

Crusell: Divertimento in C major, Op. 9
Kreutzer: Grand Quintet in C major
Reicha: Quintet in F major, Op. 107
Sarah Francis; Allegri Quartet

3 fun oboe quintets. The Kreutzer (the Kreutzer who Beethoven dedicated the sonata to) and Reicha quartets also exist in clarinet versions.

[JBS]

Finishing this set tonight with the second of two CDs devoted to concerto transcriptions.


The Brilliant version is the one I have; it is apparently OOP.
The green covered version is available on Amazon US for strraming or downloading, but it does not have the concerto transcriptions, which is why it's only 10 CDs.

Overall I liked the music more than I did before. The core of the set is 9 CDs in a row of chorale settings, arranged alphabetically from A to W. [Walther wrote no settings for chorales starting with X,Y, or Z, it would seem.] Stella gives enough variation among the settings that it doesn't bore.

The first CD of the set are free-form works, in the same tradition as Bach's.

Overall, I would say if you can find the Brilliant set at a reasonable price, get it.

[Que]

^^ Out of print already!  ^^


Morning listening - another from my lute music archives:

[Harry]

CPE Bach.
Complete Organ works.
2 CD'S.
Luca Scandali plays on a Del Orto & Lanzini Organ,(2007) Parish Church, Santa Maria, Assunta, Vigliano Biellese.
Pitch= a'440 HZ at 18 degrees.
Temperament= Modified Kirnberger.
TT=126 minutes.
Recorded november 2013.

Of all the recordings existing of the organ works by CPE Bach this one sits well amongst the many competitors. CPE Bach's organ music is not entirely in my comfort zone, too much baroque for me. Sometimes, and forgive me saying so, it sounds like  barrel organ music, a lot of noise and not enough content. Of course that's unfair saying so. I enjoy it, but not all. Organ music after 1725 is and always will be a problem area for me. The recording of this 2007 organ is good, and the Kirnberger temperament is just right for this instrument. I think I would have liked the interpretation more on a historic instrument though. Ahh well.

[vandermolen]

Not masterpieces by any means, but they're nice and relaxing.

I find the 1st Symphony Da Pacem Domine, written in memory of a conductor friend, to be rather moving.

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I like both of these works very much.
Hovhaness: Symphony No.2 'Mysterious Mountain' (benignly influenced, I think, by Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia)
Harrison: Symphony No.2 'Elegiac'.
I really like the quotes which Lou Harrison attached to his Symphony:
'Epicurus said of death: 'Where Death is, we are not, where we are, Death is not; therefore Death is nothing to us''

and from Horace: 'Bitter sorrows will grow milder with music.'