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[Daverz]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, 1877 version



I'm spoiled: this sounds a bit hard compared to the plush DSD and hi-res recordings I've been listening to lately. 

I was surprised to see that according to abruckner.com, Solti's Chicago recording also used the 1877 version.

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Now playing:

Mahler
Das klagende Lied
Susan Dunn (soprano), Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Markus Baur (boy soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Werner Hollweg (tenor)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stadtischer Musikverein, Dusseldorf
Riccardo Chailly

[Symphonic Addict]

Now playing:

Mahler
Das klagende Lied
Susan Dunn (soprano), Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Markus Baur (boy soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto), Werner Hollweg (tenor)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stadtischer Musikverein, Dusseldorf
Riccardo Chailly

This is a monumental work for a young composer. I was very impressed the first time I heard it. I really like it despite it's not Mahler in full display.

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This is a monumental work for a young composer. I was very impressed the first time I heard it. I really like it despite it's not Mahler in full display.

Impressive, indeed. The orchestration and vocal writing are incredibly strong and many a composer who are in their prime would be lucky enough to compose a work on this scale and of such mastery. I think Mahler was 19 when he composed this work, which is remarkable. The same thing apples to Langgaard and his first symphony. Didn't he compose it when he was 15 yrs. old? I think I recall reading that somewhere and he even had the good fortune of having it premiered by the Berliner Philharmoniker. Now that is no small feat!

[San Antone]

Bach - Cello Suites
Lucia Swarts

Played on a Baroque cello, but, uniquely, Suite no. 5 is played on a Basse de Violon, Lucia Swarts, pupil of Anner Bylsma, already recorded several discs for Challenge as a soloist. 

[j winter]

Debussy Preludes, Samson Francois.  Lovely way to end a long day....

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Selections from this recording:

[Ratliff]

Faure, Ballade for solo piano, Stott.



An extended piece which, according to some notes I read, started out as a suite of movements, until Faure decided to link them by using the primary theme from a movement as a secondary theme in a subsequent movement.

Didn't pay much attention to that, beautiful relatively early Faure, nicely performed by Stott. I think I'll listen through Stott's set then try another, maybe Collard or Doyen.

[SimonNZ]

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Schoenberg
A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46
Günter Reich (speaker)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus
Pierre Boulez

[Christo]

In my university days in the early 1970s  I picked the double LP up for 00.25p. Bomb damaged stock from a record shop in N.Ireland I was told.

Perhaps some music by IRA & GEORGE Gershwin had been shown in the window? 

[SimonNZ]

[steve ridgway]

Schnittke : Concerto grosso No. 6.

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[Que]

Hadn't seen that one before, thanks for posting! 

Q

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Perhaps some music by IRA & GEORGE Gershwin had been shown in the window? 

I picked up the Janacek DGG Double LP piano music, Sibelius Symphony 7 etc Beecham, a Phillips LP of Stravinsky's Firebird and a World Record Club LP of the first symphonies by Prokofiev and Shostakovich for a total of £1.00. Best bargain I ever had.

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Debussy Preludes, Samson Francois.  Lovely way to end a long day....

Looks like a great set.

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, 1877 version



I'm spoiled: this sounds a bit hard compared to the plush DSD and hi-res recordings I've been listening to lately. 

I was surprised to see that according to abruckner.com, Solti's Chicago recording also used the 1877 version.

Working my way through the new Eloquence boxed set of the Bruckner symphonies, by different conductors, I realised again how much Symphony No.3 is one of my favourites.

TD

I thought if have another go with Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, a work which I've never really got on with:

[Madiel]

Listening today to another disc of Uchida's Schubert.

Torn between the opposing camps, as it were: frequently thinking it's great and highly enjoyable, but then sometimes being distracted by just how much Uchida is prepared to bring the tempo to a halt in the name of expression.

All of her slowing downs make some kind of musical sense, but some of them just seem very overdone.

I'm yet to identify a perfect Schubert box set for me. Because the ones with the best repertoire selection might not quite have the performances. Uchida is pretty nigh well ideal in terms of repertoire, but can I live with these massive decelerations? I'm not sure.

[pjme]

Perhaps some music by IRA & GEORGE Gershwin had been shown in the window? 

And, "en hommage" to Andrei:

RVW Hymn tunes / Eventide: https://youtu.be/beVWo5kvv1w
                            Rhosymedre: https://youtu.be/kymJPJTUftY
                            On Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons: https://youtu.be/hFXSW9wM7_M


                     Thomas Canning - Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan: https://youtu.be/HL0AALDObOY
                     Guillaume Lekeu: Adagio pour quatuor d'orchestre: https://youtu.be/gdOMn468FN8
                     Frank Martin: Pavane couleur du temps: https://youtu.be/GfNz8iufO14
                     Arthur Honegger: J'avais un fidèle amant : https://youtu.be/Tpyu3AltVcM

[Irons]

NEW ARRIVAL.

46 years ago I bought with my hard earned money a LP with British music on it. I remember it was a DECCA recording made in the sixties with the ASMF under Neville Marriner. There was a piece from Holst on it, which grabbed me immediately, and haunted me for years. I was also going through a phase of listening to pop music, like Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates, Ashford and Simpson, Toto, Foreigner and so many more. But my mind was not satisfied by this diet, and one day I sold all my pop music and started buying classical music, and I do ever since. Anyway to come back to Holst, I bought some Lyrita recordings, recommended by Jeffrey, with music exclusively by Gustav Holst.

Walt Whitman Overture, opus 7.
Suite de Ballet, in E flat major, opus 10
Suite in E flat major, opus 28, No. 1.
A Hampshire Suite, opus 28, No. 2.
A Moorside Suite.

London PO, Nicholas Braithwaite.

A fine Lyrita recording, like Chandos they have their own unique sound, and this one is no exception, its superb. There is not a piece on this CD that I did not like. Pushed, I would say that the Suite de Ballet caused shivers down my spine, not to mention the thrill I felt with all three Suites, marvelously orchestrated by another great, Gordon Jacob. He surpassed himself in doing that, and made me rejoice listening to them.
The performance leaves no wishes open.

I would love more recommendations concerning Holst, but please no vocal compositions, my mind will not adapt to that. I tried 46 years to get around this genre, but to no avail.

Suite de Ballet is a work close to my heart. Pleased to read you like it too, Harry. The one Holst piece which I don't think has been mentioned is "Egdon Heath". I'm sure it would appeal to you.