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[Symphonic Addict]

Brandenburg Concertos for piano duo




The two string quartets

I can't explain myself why I disliked the 2nd quartet before. That's an assured masterpiece. Very personal, dense, chromatic, with struggle and lots of attractive gestures. Without doubts my kind of music. The 1st SQ has traces of Dvorak, but it already shows a personal stamp. The Adagio (which is not much so, actually, rather an Allegretto) has an attractive form and harmony.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Greatly enjoying these Sauguet SQs courtesy of Youtube! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU98fzEvq2w&t=722s.  They seem to be most personal documents, particularly the second, dedicated to the composer's Mom.   

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Franz Schmidt: Symphony No.4 Vienna PO/Mehta

[MusicTurner]

First disc. Enjoyable, well written, but nothing particular to make them stand out.

I own that set too & have quite enjoyed it. Somehow, I've begun thinking of it as at times Brahms-like music, of a certain ambition and seriousness!

[MusicTurner]

Kurtág

That looks like a very nice set ... and extremely expensive nowadays. It's 1030 Euros now on the Fnac page, for example  ...

[Irons]

Arnold: 2nd Symphony.



After advocacy on the Arnold thread by Jeffrey of the BBC MM disc of the 2nd Symphony I took myself to the local WH Smiths and purchased a copy of the magazine and enclosed CD. For the last two weeks or so Barry Wordsworth's rendition with the BBC Concert Orchestra has become an obsession. Moving on to LP and Sir Charles Groves I thought Groves may suffer from first love syndrome, but no, I enjoyed the work equally under his baton.

[Karl Henning]

Mahler
Adagio from Symphony № 10
Mendelssohn
Symphony № 3 in a minor, Op.65 « Scottish »
NY Phil
Lenny

[Karl Henning]

First-listen Friday!

Flagello
Symphony № 2, Op.63 « Symphony of the Winds »
Univ of Houston Wind Ensemble
David Bertman

[Traverso]

That looks like a very nice set ... and extremely expensive nowadays. It's 1030 Euros now on the Fnac page, for example  ...

Luckily I bought my set in time, now that it is sold out prices are skyrocketing and the hungry sellers can cash in on their loot. Buy multiple sets and put them up for sale when sold out. These are not music lovers, they just want to cash .  Search well is the message, you sometimes find second-hand CDs more expensive than new ones. This set was mainly made for the Dutch market with a book with the complete text in the Dutch and English language. It took quite a while before  it was oop.

[Que]

[Daverz]

Lyatoshinksy Symphony No. 4

[Symphonic Addict]

I own that set too & have quite enjoyed it. Somehow, I've begun thinking of it as at times Brahms-like music, of a certain ambition and seriousness!

I think the opposite. They're pleasant enough but lack strong development and ambition. They're too light to my tastes overall.

[SimonNZ]

[Daverz]

Röntgen: Piano Concerto No. 7
Ruders: Piano Concerto No. 2
Schumann: Piano Concerto - Fleisher/Szell





The Röntgen is neo-Baroque -- under the influence of Hindemith and Stravinsky -- unlike his big Romantic early concertos. 

The Ruders is of the plink-plank-plunk school -- perhaps modeled on Bartok 2? -- but it's very entertaining plink-plank-plunk until the middle of the 2nd movement where it briefly becomes (parodically?) obnoxious plink-plank-plunk.

Fleisher/Szell is certainly one of the very best recordings of the Schumann, if not quite as magical as Moravec/Neumann.

[Karl Henning]

Luckily I bought my set in time, now that it is sold out prices are skyrocketing and the hungry sellers can cash in on their loot. Buy multiple sets and put them up for sale when sold out. These are not music lovers, they just want to cash .  Search well is the message, you sometimes find second-hand CDs more expensive than new ones. This set was mainly made for the Dutch market with a book with the complete text in the Dutch and English language. It took quite a while before  it was oop.

Sorry to have missed it, but miss it I did.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bartók
Violin Sonata No. 1, BB 87, Sz 75
Leila Josefowicz, John Novacek

From this set -

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Stravinsky
Scènes de ballet
Israel Phil.
Bernstein

From this set:

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Kullervo:

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Symphony 'Vigil'

Modern yet approachable and somber.

He's an interesting composer. I like the 4th and 5th symphonies.

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Lyatoshinksy Symphony No. 4

Pounds the table!