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[Daverz]

Chamber Suite

This is muuuch better. My admiration for this composer is growing more and more, this piece is just wonderful, so lyrical and lovely. Intermezzo possesses a tense quality I find engrossing. Shchedrin manages to create tension in a very effective way.

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[Florestan]

As Andrei, e.g., it is the local form of Andrew.

Yes, precisely.

[Harry]

Vincent d'Indy.
Orchestral Works.
CD V.

Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, opus 25.
(Symphony on a French Mountain Air) for Orchestra and Piano.

Prelude to act I of Fervaal, opus 40.

Saugefleurie, opus 21, Legend after Robert de Bonnieres.

Médée, opus 47, Orchestral Suite after the tragedy by Catulle Mendes.

Louis Lortie, Piano.
Iceland SO, Rumon Gamba.


To kick the morning into a relaxed state, this CD will do perfectly to realize it. I love my travail through the music of d'Indy, it brought me nothing but pleasure and admiration for his orchestrations, and the magical world he is creating. Count into the bargain the perfect performance and recording, and all is well that ends well, as our friend Shakespeare would say, in fact he did

[aligreto]

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 74 [Gewandhaus Quartet]





Ah, that melancholy and poignant music at the opening section of the first movement! Then we have a very different mood prevailing; one of levity and playfulness banishing the plaintive note. The forward momentum of the music is well driven here. The harmonic writing is wonderful, setting a glorious and very engaging tone; dark but never dull. The Scherzo-like Presto movement is a flurry of excitement in an exhilarating and gripping performance. The final, Allegretto, movement [theme and variations] feels somewhat measured in some of the variations by comparison with the presto movement.

[Harry]

Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Complete Symphonies and other Orchestral Works.
Volume IV.

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, opus 36.
Serenade for Strings in C major, opus 48.
Elegy in memory of I.V. Samarin, for String Orchestra.

Gothenburg SO, Neeme Järvi.

To be honest I did not find much inspiration in the Fourth as performed on this disc. In a technical sense all is there, but as to expression and tempi, crescendo and decrescendo,& accents, it leaves something to be desired. As if Järvi did not have his day, but there is no lift off, even in the beautiful brass which is so well recorded. So it left me a bit confused, not what I expected at all, after the first three discs in this box.
The Serenade is much better, a sunny work, light on its feet, with a maximum display of gaiety. The Elegy is a very moving piece, well dosed in detail and accentuation, very well played with just enough emotion to make it effective. Short but extremely moving!

[vandermolen]

Earlier - Miaskovsky Symphony 27 (Oslo PO/Petrenko) - a fine performance, beautifully played and recorded.

Now - Franz Schmidt Symphony No.1 (Frankfurt RSO/P. Jarvi) - never heard this enjoyable work before. This beautifully presented set just arrived:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

No. 4.

[aligreto]

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 [Walter]





I really like the first movement of this work. It was so long in the coming but Brahms nailed it. Walter delivers a terrific performance driving the music constantly but always managing the tension very well. The inner movements are calm, contemplative affairs but not in a melancholy or plaintive way. They are light and airy. The Final movement opens ominously. I really like that horn passage and the way it is taken up by the woodwinds and subsequently developed and transfers into his Beethoven homage. For me, it is some of the best of Brahms' writing. The central section is a flurry of excitement with the glorious Beethoven homage recurring. Walter's pacing is wonderful.

[vandermolen]

No. 4.

I love the inspiriting opening of No.4

Now playing - Rebecca Clarke - Sonata for Viola and Piano - a hauntingly atmospheric work:

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Mass in F Major  BWV 233 (Cantus Cölln)

[Mirror Image]

Chamber Suite

This is muuuch better. My admiration for this composer is growing more and more, this piece is just wonderful, so lyrical and lovely. Intermezzo possesses a tense quality I find engrossing. Shchedrin manages to create tension in a very effective way.

Glad you enjoyed this work, Cesar. I, too, find it a lovely piece. I especially love the Amoroso movement. Now, have you heard Anna Karenina? This should definitely be your next stop for Shchedrin.

[Papy Oli]

John Kinsella - the side works to the symphonies on this CD :

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Organ Works (Leonhardt)

[VonStupp]

Robert Schumann
Symphonies 1-4 & Manfred Overture
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
James Levine

After spending the morning with Kodály, my plan is to listen to all of James Levine's Schumann symphony cycle for the rest of the day. Have a good one everybody!

[aligreto]

Bach - Organ Works (Leonhardt)

Olivier 
Organ music 
Even if it is Leonhardt 
Perhaps he is playing organ works on a harpsichord?
Otherwise, are you OK mate? 

[SonicMan46]

Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831) - Prussian String Quartets (B.331-339) w/ Pleyel Quartetto Köln on period instruments and gut strings.  Pleyel wrote about 70 String Quartets w/ Benton numbers (Source), although others state a somewhat smaller quantity (at least 50+).  The name derives from their dedication to Frederick Wilhelm II, successor of Frederick the Great in 1787; of course, Haydn and Mozart had their own Prussian Quartets, but Pleyel wrote a total of 12, 9 of which are performed in the recordings below.  About a half dozen reviews are attached virtually all quite positive and laudatory except the sole one by Jerry Dubins who seemed to have hated the recording w/ Nos. 7-9, raking the performers and instruments 'over the coals'; I think he woke up on the wrong side of the bed w/ wax in his ears, but just my two cents.  My collection contains 5 more discs of his String Quartets & Quintets (total of 24 - might just stop there!  )  Dave

   

[Papy Oli]

Olivier 
Organ music 
Even if it is Leonhardt 
Perhaps he is playing organ works on a harpsichord?
Otherwise, are you OK mate? 

Yes, I am ok surprisingly    Half an hour was a good start and enough. I'll listen to the other half another time.

[aligreto]

Yes, I am ok surprisingly    Half an hour was a good start and enough. I'll listen to the other half another time.

I am delighted that you are still OK and sound of mind 

[listener]

MOZART: Piano Concertos 5 in D, 8 in C
Rondos in D, A  for piano and orchestra
Malcolm Bilson,  fortepiano   English Baroque Soloists    John Eliot Gardiner, cond.
BRAHMS: String Quartet in c op. 51/1   GERNSHEIM: String Quartet in a op. 31
Mandelring Quartet.

[SonicMan46]

Pleyel, Ignaz (1757-1831) - String Quartets, Op. 2, Nos.1-6 w/ Ensō Quartet - well, I thought of just continuing w/ the rest of the discs in my collection of Pleyel's SQs - in the mid-1770s, Pleyel studied w/ Haydn for several years; his Op. 2 works were written in 1784 and are early in Pleyel's String Quartet composing; from the Benton Catalogue, their numbers are B. 307-312.  Attached are a half dozen or so reviews for those interested - most are quite good except for some 'average' ratings by the All Music reviewers. Dave