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Beethoven

Symphony No.1 & 2

Concertgebouworkest   Eugen Jochum

[Biffo]

Get in while still available. Visiting Dutton's website I am surprised how low CD stock is.

Thanks for the tip, didn't think of looking at the Dutton website even though I am registered there. The disc was fairly pricey on other sites. Now ordered.

[VonStupp]

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird

Alexander Scriabin
Prometheus - The Poem of Fire
Alexander Toradze, piano

Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev

The Firebird is a rare instance where I think I prefer the concert suite over the complete ballet. Or maybe it is this light, gauzy read from Gergiev.

I did get to see a performance of Scriabin's Prometheus with the strange clavier à lumières in action; oddly in South Bend, Indiana of all places.

[Artem]

SQ1. Garcia studied for some time with Morton Feldman in the late 1980s and his 1st String Quartet is rather close to Feldman's later composition.

[Que]

Inspired by Dave's (SonicMan) recent Pleyel posts:



Very nice quartets, beautifully played. Pleyel was Haydn's pupil, you can tell!

[SonicMan46]

Inspired by Dave's (SonicMan) recent Pleyel posts:



Very nice quartets, beautifully played. Pleyel was Haydn's pupil, you can tell!

Hi Que - love the Authentic Quartet, so I checked my database to 'match' the Benton Catalogue numbers - now she puts his 'String Quartets' in the B. 301-370 group - trying to search for Benton numbers for the Op. 41/42 works brought up the discussion quoted below - these appear to be originally 'String Trios' that were transcribed for SQuartet w/ Op. 41 No. 1/2 being B. 443-444, and Op. 42 being B. 446-447 - let me know if the booklet has any of this information, since I'm assuming it is correct?  If so, these works are not in my collection and would like to add the CD.  Thanks - Dave

As many readers will know, the usual listing for Pleyel's works is under their Ben number (after their cataloguer Rita Benton). I was puzzled by the lack of any such identification on the present CD, leading me to further investigation. That opened up something of a can of worms, for it transpires that these 'quartets' are not in fact quartets at all, but rather keyboard trios whose correct listing should read Ben 443 in A (op. 41/1, Ben 444 in F (op. 41/2), Ben 446 in G (op. 42/1), and Ben 447 in B flat (op. 42/2), almost certainly composed around 1792, the year Pleyel came to London at the invitation of the Professional Concerts. The adaptation was probably made not by Pleyel himself, but the publisher of the quartets, Johann Andre, who issued them in 1793/4. (Source)

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Brahms: Symphony No. 4 [Walter]




This presentation of the Brahms Symphony No. 4 is very assertive and truly magnificent in the opening movement. It is a very expansive and powerful interpretation but yet still very lyrical. The second, slow, movement is well paced and really powerfully presented. The third movement is also a very powerful and very assertive yet lyrical presentation. The final movement is very well presented here. It is more restrained, musically and emotionally, than what has preceded it but it eventually builds up to a wonderfully powerful tour de force of a climax.
This must be one of the benchmarks for this symphony.

This set may well be sonically challenged but I do not care about that when I hear such magnificent performances.

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Beethoven

I really love listen to these Beethoven symphonies so well executed ,a truly honest interpretation in the great German tradition. There is less salt and pepper in these performances and this is very good for the result,  wich may speak for itself
  What I just heard in the first two symphonies was that there were moments of deep-felt joy that light up for a moment like the sun emerging from behind a heavy cloud.
No novelty or weird accentuations and tempo changes, just a Beethoven to love.

Symphony No.3 & 8

[Mirror Image]

Ah....Delius,good to see this set.

It's even better hearing it.

[Mirror Image]

+1 - one of my very favourite sets of Orchestral Variations - I love the violin solo one and the off-beat flute one soon after.  The old Neuman/Czech PO coupled with a searing "New World" has long been a favourite version - same coupling done by Macal with the LPO on a bargain CFP disc also excellent.....

I've got that Neumann performance (I think) and I haven't heard the Macal --- I bet it is quite good, indeed.

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NP:

Dvořák
String Quintet in E-flat, Op. 97, "American"
Pavel Haas Quartet with Pavel Nikl (viola)

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It's even better hearing it.

Illuminating words 

[Irons]

Thanks for the tip, didn't think of looking at the Dutton website even though I am registered there. The disc was fairly pricey on other sites. Now ordered.

Excellent.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Max Reger Piano Music, Jean Martin.

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NP:

Langgaard
Symphony No. 4, "Lovfald" (Fall of the Leaves)
Danish NSO
Dausgaard

[VonStupp]

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Petrouchka
Fireworks
Boston & Chicago Symphony Orchestras
Seiji Ozawa (1968/69)

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NP:

Langgaard
Symphony No. 4, "Lovfald" (Fall of the Leaves)
Danish NSO
Dausgaard

The greatest IMO of the Langgaard symphonies.

Now playing:
Kamran Ince: Symphony No.2 'Fall of Constantinople'
American minimalists meet the Whirling Dervishes meet Basil Poledouris's score for 'Conan the Barbarian'; terrific!
There's also a fine recording on Naxos with striking cover art:

[Karl Henning]

Max Reger Piano Music, Jean Martin.

Reger looks like an understudy for the role of Auric Goldfinger here ....

[Brian]

First listens to this disc of works by David Matthews, including the '80s variations on a Bach chorale and 2013-16 Ninth Symphony and Violin/Viola Concerto (inspired by Mozart, of course).

[Que]

Hi Que - love the Authentic Quartet, so I checked my database to 'match' the Benton Catalogue numbers - now she puts his 'String Quartets' in the B. 301-370 group - trying to search for Benton numbers for the Op. 41/42 works brought up the discussion quoted below - these appear to be originally 'String Trios' that were transcribed for SQuartet w/ Op. 41 No. 1/2 being B. 443-444, and Op. 42 being B. 446-447 - let me know if the booklet has any of this information, since I'm assuming it is correct?  If so, these works are not in my collection and would like to add the CD.  Thanks - Dave

No booklet, I'm afraid...Spotify. .. Sounded realy good though.