What are you listening 2 now?

[pi2000]

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli , Sergiu Celibidache
from here:
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and here (for the first time a good image !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rgfENaK3A&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1qsQpqgaUIP3jhOtiMT25pjvYEIp3Ny-cMsQPLk7oN9rFc7wUAaIIAdvw

[André]

CD 8 of the Schuricht box, with Schumann symphonies 2 and 3 played by the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra:



Once again the orchestra has highly individual instrumental timbres to offer - the oboe has not only a highly nasal sound, but a very 'vocal' delivery - as far as could be from the smooth, even, dullish english oboe sound for example. It makes for very striking utterances in, for example, the opening of the slow movement of the second symphony (almost an oboe concerto). Horns and trumpets are also quite idiosyncratic when compared to their continental counterparts.

But for the most part it's Schuricht who provides the thrills with taut rythms, driven codas and other speedy devices. The Rhenish for example is dispatched in 29 minutes something, a full 10 minutes faster than Klemperer, 7 minutes faster than Giulini LAPO (my favourite), and faster than Haitink and Karajan, whose speeds are certainly not sluggish - except in the Cologne Cathedral movement, where Herbie is slower than all of the competition (7:30 to Schuricht's 4:30). In the second symphony, Schuricht is certain to give a heart attack to listeners used to Bernstein's WP indulgent, treacly version (8:47 vs 13:44 in the slow movement).

While I enjoyed this bracing, dynamic view, I found it hard to feel more than superficial excitement and the occasional wonderment at the instrumental solos. As they say, too much is no better than not enough.

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Thank ypu, I see it's on you-tube and will check it out ...

Great!

[Todd]

Opp 74 & 95.

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As You Like It Suite



Stunning!

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As You Like It Suite



Stunning!

Woohoo!
It's such an inspiriting work and that CD is fabulous. I think that I will play it myself before bedtime 
Now playing:
Glazunov: Symphony No.8 - the only one of the cycle which has a tragic feel to it. Unsurprisingly it is my favourite, although I like the fragment of Symphony No.9:

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Woohoo!
It's such an inspiriting work and that CD is fabulous.
Now playing:
Glazunov: Symphony No.8 - the only one of the cycle which has a tragic feel to it. Unsurprisingly it is my favourite although I like the fragment of Symphony No.9:

Indeed, Jeffrey and a big thumbs for the Glazunov.

[vandermolen]

Indeed, Jeffrey and a big thumbs for the Glazunov.

I know that Polyansky doesn't always get a good press but I think that his performance of Symphony No.8 is a fine one and very well recorded.
Now playing: Walton 'As You Like It' Suite (arr. Carl Davis)

[Todd]

First ever listen to Bruno Walter conducting Haydn. 

[Karl Henning]

Tuba Concerto

VW succeeded to express so much in its 13 minutes long. I don't know many tuba concertos, but I'm pretty sure this stands out.

It was a groundbreaker.

[Karl Henning]

Nice set!  I have that one too (on EMI).   

Best wishes,

PD

I need to spend more time with that set

[Karl Henning]

Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1-4

Love that album, John!

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Love that album, John!

Me too, Karl. I highly recommend the other Weinberg Kremer set as well (if you don't own/heard it already):

[Karl Henning]

Borrowing

[Karl Henning]

Me too, Karl. I highly recommend the other Weinberg Kremer set as well (if you don't own/heard it already):

I do.

[Karl Henning]

Shostakovich
Symphony no. 6 in b minor, Op.54
Barshai

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Shostakovich
Symphony no. 6 in b minor, Op.54
Barshai

I do.

+2

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Not to forget Sauguet's magnificent (IMO) Symphony No.1 'Expiatoire'.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NDeNm6oSOY

Ah yes. I have forgotten about Sauguet. I need to revisit those Marco Polo discs.

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Guitar Concerto

[Irons]

Vaughan Williams: Job.

Rubbra: Sonata for Cello & Piano.



Job is morphing from being my least to most favourite RVW work. Disparate parts making a glorious whole.

Sitting on the fence with Rubbra's Cello Sonata. Not the music itself, but the form is odd. The finale, which is as long as the first two movements, is complex and requires repeated hearings I think.