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Emil Tabakov
Complete Symphonies Volume 1
Symphony #8
Bulgarian NRSO
Toccata

Outstanding. I have been revisiting all of Tabakov's symphonies released via Toccata this week, after being mightily impressed with his threatening, fraught, ominous, creepy, and dare I say Petterssonesque sound world over the last few months. I don't think he puts a foot wrong in these brooding, taut compositions. Apparently, I have a preferred and favourite Bulgarian composer. Not that I know any other Bulgarian composers to my knowledge, but still. He is it.

Highly recommended. Increasingly so, the more I hear him. 

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NP:

Schulhoff
String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Petersen Quartett

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Jacques Ibert, Diane de Poitiers.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I don't lack for repertoire, but I'm generally a Dorati fan, mostly his old Mercury recordings. I have a couple of discs with symphonies, one Sinaisky, another with the Polish Radio National Orchestra.





Plus I've got various recordings of the string quartets, violin concerti, piano music, etc.

I have the Sinaisky disc and the EMI 2 disc set of the same recording. They are nice recordings. Yes, I love Dorati's (and others') old Mercury recordings.

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Berlioz
La damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Thomas Moser (tenor), José van Dam (baritone), Frédéric Caton (bass), José van Dam (bass), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Anton Kholodenko (viola), Patrick Roger (cor anglais)
Choeur de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, Maîtrise de l'Opéra de Lyon
Kent Nagano

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Emil Tabakov
Complete Symphonies Volume 1
Symphony #8
Bulgarian NRSO
Toccata

Outstanding. I have been revisiting all of Tabakov's symphonies released via Toccata this week, after being mightily impressed with his threatening, fraught, ominous, creepy, and dare I say Petterssonesque sound world over the last few months. I don't think he puts a foot wrong in these brooding, taut compositions. Apparently, I have a preferred and favourite Bulgarian composer. Not that I know any other Bulgarian composers to my knowledge, but still. He is it.

Highly recommended. Increasingly so, the more I hear him.

I recall enjoying this CD as well.

[Mandryka]

M. Fortuna Desperata. I'd forgotten how good this is. Que - try it now!

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Having returned last night from the beautiful city of Stockholm I thought that I would play one of my favourite Swedish symphonies in, what is for me, its greatest recording:

Welcome back, Jeffrey. Glad everything went well. Oh and I love that Stenhammar symphony. It's certainly one of the great Swedish symphonies.

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Bruckner

I really enjoyed the Strauss recording,especially the Don Quixote with Zubin Metha,romantic and full of a sensual warmth.


Symphony No.5

[ritter]

First listen to the two Szymanwski SQs, in this recording:

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First listen to the two Szymanowski SQs, in this recording:

Nice, Rafael! A good day to you.

[kyjo]

Chandos has to be one of my most beloved labels. I love almost everything what they have given us. There are many misses, but as a serious and attractive company in quality it is.

+1 Although I'd say there have been only a few misses with Chandos rather than "many"!

[SonicMan46]

Dowland, John (1563-1626) - Lachrimae (Seven Teares) w/ Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX - gloomy music for a rainy day - 

Well, a cull and replacement - decided that my old Jacob Lindberg recording of this work was just too gloomy and lackluster, so arriving yesterday, a replacement w/ Savall and Gang - yes, still gloomy music but for me better performances and sound - reviews attached for those interested.  Dave

 

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Nice, Rafael! A good day to you.

Good day to you as well, John.

This was the recording of the SQs you recommended, wasn't it? I was on business near the shop here in Madrid that stocks OOP CDs, popped in for a minute, and there it was, priced at 12 €. 

I'm liking SQ No. 2 more than No. 1 (but both works will require repeated listening, I'm afraid, to get a better grasp of them). I am liking these SQs more than Szymanowski's piano music I started to explore in early August.

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Good day to you as well, John.

This was the recording of the SQs you recommended, wasn't it? I was on business near the shop here in Madrid that stocks OOP CDs, popped in for a minute, and there it was, priced at 12 €. 

I'm liking SQ No. 2 more than No. 1 (but both works will require repeated listening, I'm afraid, to get a better grasp of them). I am liking these SQs more than Szymanowski's piano music I started to explore in early August.

Excellent to read. I love a lot of Szymanowski's music, but he isn't the easiest to get into. Like you, I had difficulty getting into the solo piano works, but I do enjoy them a lot more now. The chamber music, in general, is great stuff. I tend to avoid the earlier works as they sound too derivative of Strauss, but his mid-period works are where he found his compositional voice.

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Two 6th symphonies:

Kancheli
Symphony No. 6
Tbilisi SO
Kakhidze



Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
Concertgebouw
Haitink

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Selim Palmgren: Piano Concerto No.1

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Beethoven

Symphony No.3 "Eroïca"  (1963)

[Que]

M. Fortuna Desperata. I'd forgotten how good this is. Que - try it now!

I will, don't think I tried this one before. 

[Que]

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