What are you listening 2 now?

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Arvydas Malcys (b.1957)
'Hyacinth of the Snowfields' (great title!)
Am really enjoying this and thanks to 71dB for encouraging me to listen to these works again:

[Irons]

Lennox Berkeley...conducts himself...

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The infectious Serenade is a personal favourite.

[Irons]

The Sarge suggested that the place the start in the big Szell box would be the Janacek Sinfonietta. Well, I got to it second (after the Barber Piano Concerto).



It is indeed splendid, perhaps lacking a bit of the swagger of the Mackerras/WPO recording. I went on to the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra. Also a very fine recording, in which brilliance is combined with clarity. There are passages which I only feel I've grasped properly after hearing this recording (for instance, the entrance of flutes during the introduction). I look forward to exploring this box set.

Is Walton's 2nd Symphony in your box? Szell is the best recorded advocacy of this underrated symphony.

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The infectious Serenade is a personal favourite.

+1 Yes, lovely work.

[Ratliff]

Is Walton's 2nd Symphony in your box? Szell is the best recorded advocacy of this underrated symphony.

Yes, the Walton is in there, and one of the things I am keen on hearing soon.

[Ratliff]

Arvydas Malcys (b.1957)
'Hyacinth of the Snowfields' (great title!)
Am really enjoying this and thanks to 71dB for encouraging me to listen to these works again:

Finding that took my best googling skills. It's not index under Vask on amazon.com, I had to find it on amazon.co.uk then search amazon.com for the ASIN code (B07YTD2VNL).

[Tsaraslondon]

Disc 2

Chanson Hébraïque
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée
Ronsard à son âme
Sainte
Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer
Un grand sommeil noir
Chanson italienne - José Van Dam (baritone), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Troise poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmeé - Felicty Lott (soprano), Ensemble de Chambre de L'Orchestre de Paris
Noël des jouets
Deux épigrammes de Clément Marot
Chanson écossaise - Felicity Lott (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

Chansons madécasses - Jessye Norman (soprano), Michel Debost (flute), Renaud Faontanarosa (cello), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
Chanson du rouet
Si morne - Jessye Norman (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)

The second disc of this set is just as good as the first. What a treasure trove this set is.

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Finding that took my best googling skills. It's not index under Vask on amazon.com, I had to find it on amazon.co.uk then search amazon.com for the ASIN code (B07YTD2VNL).

Excellent detective skills!

Did you listen to it?

[Tsaraslondon]

Some find Barbirolli's heart-on-the-sleeve emtionalism a bit too much, whilst others really like it. I'm in the latter camp.

[Madiel]

Beethoven opp. 78 and 79



Op.78 is good. The first movement of op.79 was a real highlight, but then the 2nd movement Andante is far too slow. The sense of 9/8 time and barcarolle rhythm just isn't there, it sounds like it's in 3/4. One of the few times so far that Goode has genuinely disappointed me.

[aligreto]

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie [Solti]





Solti offers up all of the glories and excitement of the work with typical Solti relish.

[aligreto]

Some find Barbirolli's heart-on-the-sleeve emtionalism a bit too much, whilst others really like it. I'm in the latter camp.

Another long term fan of Barbirolli here. At this moment I cannot remember any performance under his direction that I did not like.

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Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.43. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra.

[vers la flamme]

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.43. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra.

Does anyone know if the following set is remastered?



I have no complaints with the sound, but I'm wondering if the early '80s digital sound might have been improved upon in the decades since.

[Florestan]

I guess. The sound isn't as good as some - I'd agree. But it doesn't sound like mono to me either. I don't know how these were recorded compared to the Chopin. At least the music's good!

Well, I exaggerated with mono, but the sound of the Chopin box is more spacious and wide.

This has been a favorite set of mine for years.  It might have been the first set I had for investigating Schumann's piano works, I don't remember. But I do know that I have valued it for a long time. As far as the "sound" that kind of issue rarely registers with me, but I don't remember anything sticking out in a bad way regarding the sound.

I am listening again on Spotify.  Sound is fine, IMO - and the music is magical.

See above.

The performance in itself is excellent.

[Biffo]

Does anyone know if the following set is remastered?



I have no complaints with the sound, but I'm wondering if the early '80s digital sound might have been improved upon in the decades since.

The recordings mostly date from 1978 -  1984 and first appeared on LP. The box set seems to date from 2003 and there are no details of remastering. I have a CD of the some of the shorter pieces (recorded 1981-85) but it makes no mention of any remastering.

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Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica, Andrew Davis, Bergen PO.
This and Symphony No.9 were the two left unrecorded when Richard Hickox died unexpectedly, so Andrew Davis completed that cycle. I like the programme with the Concerto for Two Pianos which I prefer to the original version:

[Madiel]

Does anyone know if the following set is remastered?



I have no complaints with the sound, but I'm wondering if the early '80s digital sound might have been improved upon in the decades since.

I have much the same recordings in this format:

 

This was the 1997 version of them. There's no indication that anything special was done to them, it seems a straightforward issue. But I've always felt it sounds excellent (not least some seriously searing brass).

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Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.43. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra.

Did you like the performance? I find that Ashkenazy brings something different to Sibelius.

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Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 [Schiff/Shostakovich]





This is a work that I have always liked for its intensity and forward momentum and this performance ensures that both of these aspects are well produced in a driven, assertive performance.