What are you listening 2 now?

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Great film; I'll look for the music.  Yes, the Violin Concerto is a really lovely work.

Now playing;

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Yes, if you like Alwyn you must hear the 'Odd Man Out' CD on Chandos. I rate it along with the Violin Concerto and symphonies 1 and 2 as my favourite works by Alwyn, although I actually enjoy all the symphonies. A thumbs up for the RCA Piston disc as well.

[Irons]

Bloch: Poems of the Sea
An epic work in twelve minutes which I hardly know. Had to play it through several times. A marvellous CD which also features the Violin Concerto and 'Voice in the Wilderness' which I find very moving:

I have not heard "Poem of the Sea" Jeffrey, but a big fan of Bloch and his violin concerto I like very much.

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RVW
A London Symphony
Boult

Which recording Karl?

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I have not heard "Poem of the Sea" Jeffrey, but a big fan of Bloch and his violin concerto I like very much.

Good morning Lol!
The Poems of the Sea is a lovely work IMO. Coincidentally I'm playing it at the moment. I hadn't realised that it was conducted by Jurowski, a conductor I've had the pleasure (and it was a real pleasure) of discussing Miaskovsky with.

[Irons]

RVW
A London Symphony
Boult

Perhaps I am just plain lucky but I have yet to hear a recording of "London" I don't like.

[Irons]

Good morning Lol!
The Poems of the Sea is a lovely work IMO. Coincidentally I'm playing it at the moment. I hadn't realised that it was conducted by Jurowski, a conductor I've had the pleasure (and it was a real pleasure) of discussing Miaskovsky with.

Good morning to you too, Jeffrey.

Trust you asked Jurowski why he hadn't recorded the Miaskovsky 6th.

Which label is the Bloch recording on?

[Christo]

Jurowski, a conductor I've had the pleasure (and it was a real pleasure) of discussing Miaskovsky with.

Hope you did the talking, he should learn. Now playing a Dutch-Danish-St. Petersburg (trading family) composer I'd never heard of before, but certainly well worth investigating:

[Tsaraslondon]

Recorded in the early 1990s, this was apparently Julian Bream's fifth recording of the Rodrigo concerto. I don't know the others, but this performance is wonderfully poetic and Rattle and the CBSO add to its attractions with a marvellously lucid rendering of the orchestral part.

The team are equally at home in the charming Arnold concerto and in Takemitsu's To the Edge of Dream. An excellent disc, well worth discovering.

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Good morning to you too, Jeffrey.

Trust you asked Jurowski why he hadn't recorded the Miaskovsky 6th.

Which label is the Bloch recording on?

Well I spoke to him at a rehearsal for a performance of that very same work Lol! So, I can't complain. I think he said that his grandfather was in Miaskovsky's composition class along with Khachaturian. The Bloch is on the Capriccio label and is part of a very nice programme of works.
Now playing: Symphony in C sharp minor:

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Hope you did the talking, he should learn. Now playing a Dutch-Danish-St. Petersburg (trading family) composer I'd never heard of before, but certainly well worth investigating:

Interesting! When was the symphony written and what is it like?

[Harry]

Dieterich Buxtehude.
Opera Omnia XII.
Chamber music.
Sonatas from Manuscript sources.
CD 28.

Catherine Manson, David Rabinovich, Violin.
Jonathan Manson, Viola da Gamba.
Ton Koopman, Harpsichord and Organ.
Mike Fentross, Lute.
Christine Sticher, Violone.

I find these performances near to the core of what this composer has to say. It has an interpretation that moves the heart as well as the mind. The musicians are dedicated to the music and it unfolds unrushed, with much attention to detail. There is poetry be it with a gentle narrative. Elegant without exuberance.  The freshness of the performances is appealing.  There is even some playful sensuousness, but courtly and dignified. The lyricism and grace in the Sonata in G, opus 1, No. 2 is infectious, and permeates the performance.  The nice spine of the violins, ornately but delicately embellished, is a real thrill. Koopman's Harpsichord/Organ playing throughout is a joy too.
Good sound.

[Harry]

Interesting! When was the symphony written and what is it like?

Leopold van der Pals is in my to listen pile. What I heard of it is melodious and inventive music. His Symphony was premiere in 1909 by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, under the conductor Heinrich Schulz, and was very well received in the press

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Symphony No.3 by Robert Simpson. Another candidate for 'epic' I think:

[Maestro267]

Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Aimard (piano), Kim (ondes Martenot)
Berlin PO/Nagano

[Madiel]

More Dutoit/Ravel.



The opening few minutes of Bolero are most attractive. That's as far as I have got at the time of writing.

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Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde [Walter]





This is a version that I really like as it strikes the right tone for me in this work. It is intense but not overly dramatic. Ferrier's earthy contralto voice is very apt and is absolutely glorious in the "Der Abschied" section.

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Iwan Rebroff, did you like it? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YC2H63DZao&lc=z22cjrywfte2u55yd04t1aokgoe1tvdhoa1l30yguftpbk0h00410

Yes I did and thank you for the link; I enjoyed it also.

[aligreto]

on the radio: Requiem

don't think I've heard this recording before

How did you like it?

[Tsaraslondon]

Symphony no 6 in D major

All round this is an excellet set of Dvorak's last four symphonies and quite a bargain.

Maybe not the best version of the 6th you will hear, but still competitive at the price.

[Florestan]